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News-like Links
A collection of links shared recently¹ by legal-type folks² with URLs that look like they point to news articles,³ sorted by popularity.
- 6 Takeaways From the Story of Trump’s Decision to Go to War With Iran 🔥🔥🔥
- Tucker Carlson Says Officials Should Say No to Trump Orders 🔥🔥🔥Influential right-wing podcaster Tucker Carlson, long a critic of U.S. military operations overseas, called on U.S. officials to resist any potential attempt by Trump to launch mass attacks that would...
- Trump threats cause dilemma for US officers: disobey orders or commit war crimes 🔥🔥🔥Legal experts say attacking Iran’s infrastructure would constitute a war crime – but would military officers be held responsible?
- Justice Dept.’s Civil Rights Division Is Investigating Star Witness Against Trump 🔥🔥
- Price of first class stamp rises to £1.80 🔥🔥The rise come as the postal service faces criticism over missing delivery targets.
- Exclusive: Russia supplies Iran with cyber support, spy imagery to hone attacks, Ukraine says 🔥🔥Russian satellites have made dozens of detailed imagery surveys of military facilities and critical sites across the Middle East to help Iran strike U.S. forces and other targets, according to a Ukra...
- Hegseth’s boastful claims about Iran war contradict reality, officials say 🔥🔥The defense secretary’s rosy portrayal of U.S. success in the conflict risks misinforming the public and the president, observers worry.
- This Prosecutor Was Floundering. Now He’s a Go-To Guy at Trump’s DOJ. 🔥🔥After Pam Bondi’s ouster, the administration will likely lean even more heavily on lawyers such as Robert Keenan.
- Global super-rich may have hidden $3.55tn from tax officials, says Oxfam 🔥Charity calls for a levy on the very richest and the closing of tax loopholes in its report on offshore wealth ...
- Trump Slashed Science Funding. Now the U.S. Could Face a Costly Brain Drain. 🔥
- JD Vance arrives in Hungary to back Orbán's re-election bid 🔥The US vice-president's visit is the latest show of White House support for the Hungarian leader.
- How Trump Took the U.S. to War With Iran 🔥
- Iran Cuts Off Direct Diplomacy With U.S. 🔥Iran has cut off direct communications with the U.S. over President Trump’s threat to destroy Iran’s “whole civilization” Monday morning, though talks with cease-fire mediators continue, Middle Easter...
Blog-like Links
A collection of links shared recently⁴ by legal-type folks⁵ with URLs that look like they point to blogs/newsletters,⁶ sorted by popularity.
- The president speaks genocide 🔥🔥🔥The words, the law, the future ...
- We have the Twenty-Fifth Amendment. Now is the time to use it. 🔥🔥It's past time for Trump to be removed from office. This is a global crisis. It's time for J.D. Vance and the Cabinet to invoke the Twenty-Fifth Amendment.
- The Law of War Tuesday morning, in a social media post, the President of the United States signaled his intent to violate the rules of war, which prohibit targeting civilians.
- BREAKING: Trump Caves on Threat and Agrees to Ceasefire, Impeachment Articles Filed, Dozens of Lawmakers Call for his Removal Good evening everyone.
- April 7, 2026 At 5:06 this morning, President Donald J.
AI & The Law Links
A collection of links shared recently⁷ on Bluesky that look like they talk about AI & the law,⁸ sorted by popularity.
- Take Mike Lee’s Deranged Posts Seriously 🔥🔥🔥The senator from Utah is the SAVE America Act’s most enthusiastic proponent in the upper chamber—and he could soon become our next attorney general. Uh-oh.
- Suno is a music copyright nightmare† 🔥🔥🔥Can’t stop the slop.
- Porn, dog poo and social media snaps: the ‘taskers’ scraping the internet for Meta-owned AI firm 🔥🔥Scale AI gig workers describe desperation of using people’s personal profiles and copyrighted work to train AI ...
- Counterpoint | People have free speech rights. AI doesn’t. 🔥"Do you want to live in a state where a tech billionaire can release an app that encourages your child to die by suicide and be protected from punishment by Minnesota’s Constitution?" state Sen. Erin ...
- Industrial policy for the Intelligence Age† 🔥Explore our ambitious, people-first industrial policy ideas for the AI era—focused on expanding opportunity, sharing prosperity, and building resilient institutions as advanced intelligence evolves.
- Himes Fact-Checked on ‘Misleading’ Claims About Warrantless Spying - The American Prospect† 🔥Jim Himes keeps telling his constituents that U.S. intelligence agencies don’t spy on them, and “have no reason” to buy Americans’ data. Advocates say that’s untrue.
- In One Day (Mar. 31), 17 U.S. Court Decisions Noting Suspected AI Hallucinations in Court Filings† 🔥So reports Damien Charlotin's AI Hallucination Cases Database. And recall that likely (1) many hallucinations aren't spotted; (2) many that…
Law Review-like Links
A collection of links shared recently⁹ on Bluesky that look like they point to papers in law journals or the like,¹⁰ sorted by popularity.
- The Brady Database 🔥🔥🔥The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Brady v. Maryland turns sixty this year. The Brady doctrine, which requires the government to disclose favorable and mate ...
- The Allegiance Reading of the Citizenship Clause and Its Critics: A Response† The Fourteenth Amendment establishes two requirements for natural born citizenship: First, one must be born in the United St ...
- Epistemic Discovery, Psychedelic Drugs, and the First Amendment In recent years, the concept of cognitive liberty has drawn support from scholars and activists worldwide. Proponents of cognitive libert ...
- Speech-Inputs and Their Constitutional Value† The Constitution, as is widely appreciated, commonly protects speech. Speech, however, does not occur in isolation from prior, and sometimes later ...
- Democratic Resilience and the Supreme Court's Democracy Problem† The Constitution creates a democracy that was intended to last through the generations—"to secure the blessings of liberty" for both the Framers and t ...
AI Paper-like Links
A collection of links shared recently¹¹ on Bluesky that look like they point to papers on AI,¹² sorted by popularity. Wondering why this section is on a site about the law? Well, I teach a course on AI & the Law, and it turns out that understanding this stuff is super important to figuring out what the law might have to say. So, I figured since I was sharing lists, I might as well share this one too.
- SlopCodeBench: Benchmarking How Coding Agents Degrade Over Long-Horizon Iterative Tasks† 🔥🔥🔥
- AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance 🔥🔥
- Researchers waste 80% of LLM annotation costs by classifying one text at a time Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being used for text classification across the social sciences, yet researchers overwhelmingly classify one text per variable per prompt. Coding 100,000 te...
- Authorship Attribution in Multilingual Machine-Generated Texts As Large Language Models (LLMs) have reached human-like fluency and coherence, distinguishing machine-generated text (MGT) from human-written content becomes increasingly difficult. While early effort...
- How Law Facilitates AI Capture of Democratic Information Networks This chapter explores the ways in which digital information technologies-information technologies involving some combination of the internet and use of AI-have ...
The High Score
The 20 accounts most reposted by @icymilaw.org over the past week¹³ (the list below is updated every Sunday). High Score, get it? One Score = 20, as in, "four score and seven years ago." ;)
- Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org)
- ICYMI (Law) (@icymilaw.org)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (promoted)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steven Beschloss (@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- David Slack (@slack2thefuture.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Radical Left Group Of Popehats (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social)
- Deborah Pearlstein (@debpearlstein.bsky.social) (promoted)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (promoted)
- Deb Golden (@debgoldendc.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE (@leftistlawyer.com) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Riana (@riana.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (relegated)
† This link was also in yesterday's digest. ¹ Approx. 1 day lookback. ² Attorneys, law profs, et al. ³ News-like links (law) ⁴ Supra note 1. ⁵ Supra note 2. ⁶ Blog-like links (law) ⁷ Approx. 3.5 days lookback. ⁸ AI & the Law ⁹ Approx. 1 week lookback. ¹⁰ Law Review-like ¹¹ Supra note 9. ¹² AI Papers et al. ¹³ High Score
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