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.
- Opinion | The White House Is a Lost Cause 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced | Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn 🔥🔥🔥🔥We need to remake the US high court so Americans don’t suffer future decades of oligarchy-facilitating rule ...
- Release the Jack Smith Deposition Transcript 🔥🔥This week, former special counsel Jack Smith finally had the chance to speak about the findings of his investigation into President Donald Trump. It’s a shame the public couldn't hear him.
- Under RFK Jr., U.S. plans to stop recommending most vaccines, defer to doctors 🔥🔥The plan, which is not finalized, suggests children get fewer shots and shifts to a model telling parents to consult doctors to make their own vaccine choices.
- AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals† 🔥Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
- Food becoming more calorific but less nutritious due to rising carbon dioxide 🔥Researchers noticed ‘dramatic’ changes in nutrients in crops, including drop in zinc and rise in lead ...
- Trump’s pardons wipe out payments to defrauded victims 🔥In addition to clearing prison sentences, the president’s clemency actions have erased millions in restitution payments.
- R.F.K. Jr. Likely to Swap U.S. Childhood Vaccine Schedule for Denmark’s 🔥
- Justice Department releases huge trove of Jeffrey Epstein documents 🔥The documents’ release would mark the culmination of a bipartisan push to force Trump and his administration to disclose more materials related to Epstein.
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.
- December 19, 2025 🔥🔥This past week feels like the final, chaotic days of a political era.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 274. 12/19/25 🔥🔥… Under federal law, DOJ was supposed to release ALL of the Epstein files today with minimal redactions just to protect the identity of victims.
- A brief Q&A with the guy slapping Trump’s name on the Kennedy Center 🔥“Matt, is this the first time that you’ve defaced a public building?“
- NEWS: Justice Department Will Break The Law, Not all Epstein Files Will be Released Today 🔥The Department of Justice is set to miss a congressionally mandated deadline to release all of its files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, raising fresh questions about transparency a...
- Trump Is Walloping Construction Businesses. The Industry Stays Quiet. 🔥Raids on work sites. Roofers under siege. But builders keep mum.
- Important Epstein Files Update: Today is the Day 🔥Today is the day the Epstein files will be released. Get ready. I will provide you with coverage throughout the day.
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.
- Trump’s AI Order Is More Bark than Bite† 🔥🔥🔥While the executive order has created uncertainty for the many states that have passed artificial intelligence policies to protect their residents, its impact falls short of its menacing rhetoric.
- AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals† 🔥🔥Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
- Press Release - December 19, 2025 - 2 - SFWA - The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association 🔥🔥Guidance from the SFWA Board on the major questions in this year's Nebula Awards Review Process: for poetry, category minimums, and LLMs.
- AI companies tying their fates to Trump is ‘a gamble,’ says expert | CNN† 🔥Bianna Golodryga speaks with former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Marietje Schaake about the need to regulate artificial intelligence.
- How Might Trump’s AI Executive Order Impact State Laws Regulating Nonconsensual Deepfakes? | TechPolicy.Press 🔥Tech Policy Press is a nonprofit media and community venture intended to provoke new ideas, debate and discussion at the intersection of technology and democracy. We publish opinion and analysis.
- Texas legislators oppose Trump order to block state AI laws 🔥Texas’ new law regulating AI is set to take effect Jan. 1, two months after Trump’s executive order threatening to cut off some federal money if states pass “onerous” AI laws.
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 Special Solicitude of Stare Decisis in Civil Rights† 🔥🔥🔥This Article argues that the Supreme Court should apply heightened stare decisis protection to rights-conferring precedents—constitutiona ...
- Government Religious Speech and the Establishment Clause 🔥The government says religious things. From monuments and holiday displays to legislative prayers, religion saturates the government’s public voice.
- The Originalist Case for the President's Power to Pardon State Offenses 🔥Recently, President Donald Trump purported to pardon Tina Peters, a former county clerk from Colorado, for state-level offenses. The overwhelming consensus amon ...
- Laboratory of Autocracy: Texas' escalating assault on First Amendment values in the Abbott/Patrick/Paxton years After more than three decades of one-party rule, Texas has proven to be a hotbed of First Amendment issues. Authors coded a decade of Texas Tribune art ...
- Teaching Past Constitutional Crisis Constitutional law is often values-driven. Constitutional law teachers must be upfront with their students about this fact, but should encourage their students ...
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.
- Evaluating Large Language Models in Scientific Discovery† 🔥🔥🔥Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly applied to scientific research, yet prevailing science benchmarks probe decontextualized knowledge and overlook the iterative reasoning, hypothesis genera...
- Safety-Tuned LLaMAs: Lessons From Improving the Safety of Large... 🔥Training large language models to follow instructions makes them perform better on a wide range of tasks and generally become more helpful. However, a perfectly helpful model will follow even the most...
- NoveltyRank: Estimating Conceptual Novelty of AI Papers ArXiv link for NoveltyRank: Estimating Conceptual Novelty of AI Papers ...
- Towards a Science of Scaling Agent Systems ArXiv link for Towards a Science of Scaling Agent Systems ...
- Distributional AGI Safety AI safety and alignment research has predominantly been focused on methods for safeguarding individual AI systems, resting on the assumption of an eventual emergence of a monolithic Artificial General...
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)
- Michael Clemens (@mclem.org) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- ❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ (@sababausa.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social)
- Sam Bagenstos (@sbagen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (promoted)
- Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden (@sandraduffy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dan Sohege (@danielsohege.bsky.social) (promoted)
- The Questionable Authority (@questauthority.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonathanmladd.com) (promoted)
- Mike Sacks (@mikesacks.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social)
- Deborah Pearlstein (@debpearlstein.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joshua Erlich (@joshuaerlich.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (relegated)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dan Izzo (@izzos.us) (relegated)
- Jolyon Maugham KC (@goodlawproject.org) (relegated)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Glenn Kirschner (@glennkirschner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Zoe Tillman (@zoetillman.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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