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Note, the number of fire emoji represent how many standard deviations more popular a link is than the average link observed in its category.
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.
- 'I'm not greedy': January 6 rioters and Trump allies eye $1.8 billion 'weaponization' fund 🔥🔥🔥🔥Enrique Tarrio, the Proud Boys leader sentenced to 22 years, said he planned to apply to the fund, assuming he could get between $2 and $5 million.
- Burnham to back Shabana Mahmood’s immigration changes, allies say 🔥🔥🔥Exclusive: Greater Manchester mayor understood to support home secretary’s push to limit legal and illegal migration ...
- Barney Frank, Gay Pioneer and Liberal Stalwart in Congress, Dies at 86 🔥🔥🔥
- The President Who Sued Himself 🔥🔥🔥The Trump administration settles Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS with $1.776 billion for his allies and blanket immunity from civil actions.
- Trump’s $1.8 Billion Anti-Weaponization Fund Is a Sham 🔥President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the Department of the Treasury and Internal Revenue Service has ended under the shadow of corruption: In exchange for dropping the case over leaked tax returns...
- The Justice Department gives Trump an unprecedented settlement 🔥D.O.J. gave Trump and his family immunity from tax audits and set up a $1.8 billion fund for victims of "government weaponization." Former government lawyer Andrew Weissmann explains the settlement.
- UK loosens Russian oil sanctions as fuel prices rise 🔥The waiver reflects increasing supply concerns over certain fuels due to the effective blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
- We reviewed 48 ‘low carbon’ projects and found they were becoming part of the fossil fuel problem 🔥These projects amplify the green credentials of fossil fuel firms while leaving their core business model untouched.
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.
- Trump's Insurrectionist Payout Scheme Violates the 14th Amendment 🔥🔥🔥“But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States….”
- Shame and the Supreme Court 🔥The Hypocrisy of the Purcell Principle ...
- Major Update: Trump's Ballroom Funding is Dead and Deep Dive into How the "Weaponization Fund" is Likely Next 🔥Good evening, everyone.
- May 20, 2026 🔥Metropolitan Police Department officer Daniel Hodges and former U.S.
- NEWS: Capitol Police Officers Work to Block Trump's $1.8 Billion Fund, GOP Concerned Massie's Loss Will Backfire, Gas Prices Soar 🔥Good morning, everyone.
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.
- Lawyer for Guy Who Sued Women Who Called Him ‘Psycho’ Caught Using AI† 🔥🔥🔥🔥The attorney for Nikko D’Ambrosio, who tried and failed to sue women for posting about him in an “Are We Dating the Same Guy” Facebook group, has apparently been using AI to file non-existent citation...
- China Wants A.I. to Flourish, but Not at the Expense of Jobs 🔥🔥🔥
- Musk Vows Appeal After Losing $150 Billion OpenAI Lawsuit 🔥🔥A jury dismissed the billionaire’s claims that OpenAI improperly transitioned from a nonprofit to a for-profit entity, saying Musk was too late in filing the suit.
- SpaceX Listed Grok's ‘Spicy’ Mode as a Risk in Its IPO Filing The rocket company has set aside more than $500 million for potential litigation losses, in part to account for complaints alleging Grok created sexualized images.
- Jury throws out Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman A federal judge in California dismissed a lawsuit from Elon Musk against the maker of ChatGPT after a jury found that he exceeded the statute of limitations. Musk had claimed that OpenAI betrayed its ...
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.
- Never Send to Know on Whom the Boot Stomps; it Stomps on Thee† 🔥🔥This Essay was originally prepared as a lecture for the 2026 Alabama Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Law Review Symposium,
- Federal Hiring Dysfunction and the Self-Shrinking Skew† 🔥 A half-century of remodeling agency workforces against corporate blueprints has hollowed out the civil service, enervated oversight, and facilitated the ...
- FREE SPEECH AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT'S EFFICACY INQUIRY† 🔥First Amendment doctrine requires courts to assess whether a speech restriction is content-based, whether a government interest supports that restriction,
- Head-of-State Immunity in U.S. Courts: When Law Trumps Facts In March 2020, then-Attorney General William Barr announced criminal charges against Nicolás Maduro and fourteen alleged co-conspirators for narco-terrorism,
- ‘This Is Our Hemisphere’: Trump and the Transformation of Intervention in the Americas This article argues that the second Donald Trump administration is transforming inter-American relations by openly claiming and exercising a right to intervene ...
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.
- LLM hallucinations in the wild: Large-scale evidence from non-existent citations† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Large language models (LLMs) are known to generate plausible but false information across a wide range of contexts, yet the real-world magnitude and consequences of this hallucination problem remain p...
- Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence 🔥🔥🔥Both the general public and academic communities have raised concerns about sycophancy, the phenomenon of artificial intelligence (AI) excessively agreeing with or flattering users. Yet, beyond isolat...
- All Circuits Lead to Rome: Rethinking Functional Anisotropy in Circuit and Sheaf Discovery for LLMs 🔥🔥
- ArXiv preprint server clamps down on AI slop† 🔥🔥First-time posters to venerable platform now need an endorsement from an established author ...
- AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights† 🔥As artificial intelligence (AI) tools become widely adopted, large language models (LLMs) are increasingly involved on both sides of decision-making processes, ranging from hiring to content moderatio...
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)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org) (promoted)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (promoted)
- Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE (@leftistlawyer.com) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- The Empty City (@davidallengreen.bsky.social)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (promoted)
- Kelly (@justkelly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jameel Jaffer (@jameeljaffer.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sam Bagenstos (@sbagen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (promoted)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (promoted)
- John Scalzi (@scalzi.com) (promoted)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (relegated)
- AG Andrea Joy Campbell (@massago.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jacob T. Levy (@jacobtlevy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mike Masnick (@masnick.com) (relegated)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (relegated)
- 21,465 words (@legalminimum.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mike Sacks (@mikesacks.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Patrick De Klotz (@patdeklotz.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Liz Dye (@lizdye.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Popehat Likes The Triangles (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jakub Jaraczewski (@jakubjaraczewski.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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