Greetings, my name is David Colarusso. I'm the co-director of Suffolk University Law School's Legal Innovation & Technology (LIT) Lab. With one foot in law and the other in tech, I really want the open web to thrive. So I created a bot (@icymilaw.org) and this site to help folks discover great law-themed content while showing off what one can do with sufficiently open protocols. Note, the number of fire emoji represent how many standard deviations more popular a link is than the average link observed in its category.
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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.
- ICE detention staff reported death of restrained man as a suicide 🔥🔥🔥🔥The statements to 911 operators the night Geraldo Lunas Campos died appear to conflict with autopsy’s later finding of ‘homicide.’
- Read Bondi’s Letter to Minnesota’s Governor 🔥🔥🔥🔥Attorney General Pam Bondi sent a letter to Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota on Saturday that blamed him and other Democratic officials for allowing “lawlessness” in the state. It was not immediately clear ...
- Pentagon readies 1,500 troops for potential Minnesota deployment, US officials say 🔥🔥🔥The army placed units in Alaska on prepare-to-deploy orders in case violence in the midwestern state escalates.
- Genetic Data From Over 20,000 U.S. Children Misused for ‘Race Science’ 🔥🔥
- Videos Show Moments in Which Agents Killed a Man in Minneapolis 🔥
- Nigel Farage’s trip to Davos hosted and paid for by family trust of billionaire 🔥Trust says Reform UK leader was invited to WEF event by London-based venture capitalist as an honorary adviser ...
- Live Updates: Federal Agents Kill a 37-Year-Old Minneapolis Man 🔥
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.
- Congress Must Act Now 🔥🔥🔥More constitutional outrage in Minnesota.
- January 24, 2026 🔥This morning, on a street in Minneapolis, at least seven federal agents tackled and then shot and killed Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse for the local VA hospital.
- The ICE killing of Alex Pretti, the second in Minneapolis, prompts quick legal responses 🔥After ICE agents killed the nurse on Saturday, lawyers took quick action in cases challenging the Trump administration's increasingly deadly efforts.
- Major Minneapolis Update: The Dam Breaks as Democrats Uniformly Reject ICE Funding and Trump Privately Defends ICE Agent Good evening everyone.
- States can step into the breach Just because Pam Bondi won't hold Trump's thugs accountable doesn't mean they're above all laws.
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.
- X shows why stricter tech regulation is necessary† 🔥🔥🔥🔥We need comprehensive rules on social media far more than age limits ...
- White House pushes manipulated image of arrest of Minnesota civil rights attorney† 🔥As one prominent political scientist summarized, “We are at Stalinesque levels of propaganda.”
- Asking Grok to delete fake nudes may force victims to sue in Musk's chosen court† Millions likely harmed by Grok-edited sex images as X advertisers shrugged.
- Experts warn of threat to democracy from ‘AI bot swarms’ infesting social media Misinformation technology could be deployed at scale to disrupt 2028 US presidential election, AI researchers say ...
- Which Patent Case Matters Most?† We study how often Supreme Court patent cases are cited in law review articles, and compare our findings to our prior work that discussed how often the same ...
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.
- Which Patent Case Matters Most?† 🔥🔥We study how often Supreme Court patent cases are cited in law review articles, and compare our findings to our prior work that discussed how often the same ...
- The Part IV Problem in Legal Scholarship 🔥This essay is a call to eliminate the de facto requirement that a law review article conclude with a list of actionable and feasible prescriptions, usually law ...
- Birthright Citizenship, Unwritten Constitutionalism, and the Nature of the Union† 🔥Many of Jonathan Gienapp’s core arguments in his outstanding new book, Against Constitutional Originalism, are well-taken, and they represent imp ...
- Youth Privacy's Constitutional Reckoning 🔥Youth privacy law today shares the logics and pathologies of the U.S. Supreme Court's jurisprudence about parental rights over children. We argue that this reli ...
- Aspirational Attribution: A Response to Lemley & Ouellette, Plagiarism, Copyright, and AI† 🔥This essay is a short response to Mark A. Lemley and Lisa Larrimore Ouellette's article "Plagiarism, Copyright, and AI" (forthcoming University of Chi ...
- Legalizing Cannabis: Implications for Child Maltreatment 🔥Cannabis is the most used illicit drug in the United States. Though cannabis possession and consumption are prohibited federally, states are increasingly implem ...
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.
- Beyond Tokens: Concept-Level Training Objectives for LLMs 🔥ArXiv link for Beyond Tokens: Concept-Level Training Objectives for LLMs ...
- Securing LLM-as-a-Service for Small Businesses: An Industry Case Study of a Distributed Chatbot Deployment Platform 🔥ArXiv link for Securing LLM-as-a-Service for Small Businesses: An Industry Case Study of a Distributed Chatbot Deployment Platform ...
- Cosmos Policy: Fine-Tuning Video Models for Visuomotor Control and Planning ArXiv link for Cosmos Policy: Fine-Tuning Video Models for Visuomotor Control and Planning ...
- What Patients Really Ask: Exploring the Effect of False Assumptions in Patient Information Seeking ArXiv link for What Patients Really Ask: Exploring the Effect of False Assumptions in Patient Information Seeking ...
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." ;)
- ICYMI (Law) (@icymilaw.org)
- Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Colin Murray (@colinmurray.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jakub Jaraczewski (@jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social) (promoted)
- This Hat Celebrates Alex Pretti (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (promoted)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social)
- David Noll (@david.noll.org) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (promoted)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Darin Self (@darinself.com) (relegated)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Josh Chafetz (@joshchafetz.bsky.social) (relegated)
- southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Burbach 🇺🇸🌹 (@dburbach.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jess O'Thomson (@jessothomson.co.uk) (relegated)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (relegated)
- AG Andrea Joy Campbell (@massago.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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