In Case You Missed It (Law)
Digest for Sunday June 22, 2025

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.

1. Stephen Miller’s Fingerprints Are on Everything in Trump’s Second Term  🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
2. A White Nationalist Wrote a Law School Paper Promoting Racist Views. It Won Him an Award.  🔥🔥🔥🔥
3. Harvard and Trump Restart Talks to Potentially End Bitter Dispute  🔥
4. Truth Social Crashes as Trump Live-Posts Iran Bombing 
5. Administration to phase out NIH support of HIV clinical guidelines 

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.

1. The Democracy Index  🔥🔥
2. June 21, 2025 
3. When Small Men and Women Rule* 
4. Donald Trump Is Not Gonna Bomb Iran 
5. Donald Trump Is Going To Bomb Iran 

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.

1. Republicans want unregulated AI. What could go wrong?  🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
2. The Vatican Knows an ‘Industrial Revolution’ When It Sees One  🔥
3. ‘Wall-E With a Gun’: Midjourney Generates Videos of Disney Characters Amid Massive Copyright Lawsuit  🔥
4. BBC threatens legal action against AI startup over content scraping 
5. BBC threatens legal action against AI start-up Perplexity over content scraping 

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.

1. No links found

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 build this one too.

1. Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task  🔥🔥🔥🔥
2. Hype, Sustainability, and the Price of the Bigger-is-Better Paradigm in AI  🔥🔥
3. Institutional Books 1.0: A 242B token dataset from Harvard Library's collections, refined for accuracy and usability 
4. Small Language Models are the Future of Agentic AI 
5. OpenMaskDINO3D : Reasoning 3D Segmentation via Large Language Model 

The High Score

The 20 accounts most reposted by @icymilaw.org over the past week. High Score, get it? One Score = 20, as in four score and seven years ago. ;)

1. news.bot.suffolklitlab.org
2. chrisgeidner.bsky.social
3. reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
4. emptywheel.bsky.social
5. maxkennerly.bsky.social
6. bcfinucane.bsky.social
7. leahlitman.bsky.social
8. justinhendrix.bsky.social
9. lawfaremedia.org
10. lawrencehurley.bsky.social
11. coreyryung.bsky.social
12. kenwhite.bsky.social
13. johnpfaff.bsky.social
14. joedunman.bsky.social
15. davidmenschel.bsky.social
16. dburbach.bsky.social
17. evanbernick.bsky.social
18. nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
19. stevevladeck.bsky.social (promoted)
20. adhaque.bsky.social (promoted)
21. questauthority.bsky.social (relegated)
22. toobigtofail.bsky.social (relegated)

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.