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.
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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.
- Record number of homes in Great Britain turn to green energy as fuel prices soar 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Iran war drives demand for solar panels, heat pumps and EVs, with energy bills expected to rise 18% from July ...
- House defies Trump on immigration with move to shield Haitians 🔥🔥🔥🔥The vote to advance a bill extending protections for Haitians marks the first time Republican lawmakers have voted this term to oppose Trump’s immigration policy.
- Revealed: Mandelson failed vetting but Foreign Office overruled decision 🔥🔥Guardian investigation uncovers decision by UK security officials to deny clearance before Mandelson took up role as US ambassador ...
- Jared Kushner’s Mysterious Role in the Trump Administration 🔥🔥Is the president’s son-in-law carrying out the public’s business or pursuing his own private interests?
- Florida’s Billionaires Want More Private Schools. So They’re Building Their Own. 🔥🔥New schools founded by the financial elite feature flight simulators and sailboats, while serving up organic Thai food.
- Next chief Simon Wolfson paid record £7.4m – and could get far more this year 🔥🔥‘Sustained outperformance’ merits pay rise, says company after it ups profit guidance to £1.2bn for year to January 2027 ...
- $30m an hour: big oil reaping huge war windfall from consumers, analysis finds 🔥Exclusive: Climate action blockers including Saudi Arabia, Russia and major fossil fuel firms set to make extra $234bn by end of 2026 ...
- NPR Receives $113 Million From 2 Gifts 🔥
- Top Foreign Office official Olly Robbins to leave post after Mandelson vetting row 🔥Sir Olly Robbins has effectively been sacked after his department did not inform the prime minister that Lord Mandelson had failed security vetting.
- Rachel Reeves warns other budgets may be cut to lift defence spending 🔥Chancellor says she is ‘working through a range of options’ to boost the armed forces but does not want to put up taxes ...
- Court Rejects Trump Administration Climate Lawsuit Against Hawaii 🔥
- Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon is a lethality-maxxing wasps’ nest 🔥America’s armed forces are supremely capable and roiled by infighting ...
- Man used AI to make false statements to shut down London nightclub, police say 🔥Heaven club neighbour admits offences under Licensing Act, as Met says fictitious AI-generated complaints a growing issue ...
- Hegseth recites 'Pulp Fiction' speech at Pentagon prayer service 🔥Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recited dialogue drawn from the film "Pulp Fiction" at a Pentagon prayer service, using it to frame the war in Iran as an act of divine justice.
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.
- ICE And The Absence Of Accountability 🔥🔥🔥🔥Earlier this month, at the notorious state-run immigration detention facility in Florida dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” by state officials, there was another incident.
- April 16, 2026 🔥Congress is back in session, and there is a frantic feel in the air.
- BREAKING: Trump Escalates Attack on Church, Cuts Massive Funding, Hegseth Cites Fake Bible Quote From Pulp Fiction, Hegseth Labels the Press "Unpatriotic" Good morning everyone.
- Meet the New Boss; Worse than the Old Boss Blanche takes the DOJ to even lower depths.
- LIVE SOON: First Arrest on an ICE Agent for Violating State Law! Starting Apr 16 at 8:30 PM EDT ...
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.
- The Trump Administration is Using BEAD Funds as a Cudgel. Is that Legal?† 🔥🔥🔥The Trump Administration is threatening to withhold funds from states that lawfully regulate AI and broadband. Those threats are likely unlawful.
- New disclosures reveal how DOGE actually worked† 🔥🔥Depositions offer insight into what Elon Musk's group was up to. Members describe a club-like atmosphere in which they pushed for grant and contract cancellations with little oversight.
- Thiel-Backed Startup Wants AI to Judge Journalism 🔥🔥Objection lets users pay to challenge news stories with AI arbitration ...
- Call For Five-Year Pause on Gen AI in Schools 🔥🔥As generative AI tools are rapidly expanding in schools, often based on their hypothetical “potential” to enhance learning, these products are posing risks to children’s development, mental health, pr...
- AI ruling prompts warnings from US lawyers: Your chats could be used against you 🔥As people increasingly turn to artificial intelligence for advice, some U.S. lawyers are telling their clients not to treat AI chatbots like trusted confidants when their freedom or legal liability is...
- Anthropic Opposes the Extreme AI Liability Bill That OpenAI Backed 🔥Anthropic and OpenAI are clashing over a proposed Illinois law that would let AI labs largely off the hook for mass deaths and financial disasters.
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.
- Defendant Pinching & Pressing† 🔥🔥“Schedule A” cases, in which plaintiffs bring cookie-cutter complaints alleging IP infringement against groups of online sellers, continue to be filed ...
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: A Comparative Constitutional Analysis of Whistleblowing Speech, the Government's Managerial Doman, and the Imperatives of Democratic Self-Government 🔥Since issuing its 1968 landmark decision in Pickering, which first recognized that the First Amendment protects government employees’ speech about matters of pu ...
- Written Statement of Nikolas Bowie to the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, June 30, 2021 🔥This testimony to President Joe Biden's Commission on the Supreme Court makes two arguments against the U.S. Supreme Court's power to invalidate federal le ...
- Can Speech Policy Protect Public Health? Government speech shapes public health outcomes, yet political incentives often lead officials to either remain silent about emerging threats or subordinate ...
- Lessons Learned From Global Responses To Criminal Abortion Laws† This Essay responds to After Dobbs: How the Supreme Court Ended Roe but Not Abortion and abortion care in the United States by taking a ...
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.
- A mathematical theory of evolution for self-designing AIs† 🔥🔥🔥🔥As artificial intelligence systems (AIs) become increasingly produced by recursive self-improvement, a form of evolution may emerge, with the traits of AI systems shaped by the success of earlier AIs ...
- The AI Layoff Trap 🔥🔥If AI displaces human workers faster than the economy can reabsorb them, it risks eroding the very consumer demand firms depend on. We show that knowing this is not enough for firms to stop it. In a c...
- Structured Uncertainty guided Clarification for LLM Agents ArXiv link for Structured Uncertainty guided Clarification for LLM Agents ...
- S-JEA: Stacked Joint Embedding Architectures for Self-Supervised Visual Representation Learning The recent emergence of Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) as a fundamental paradigm for learning image representations has, and continues to, demonstrate high empirical success in a variety of tasks. How...
- The Long-Horizon Task Mirage? Diagnosing Where and Why Agentic Systems Break ArXiv link for The Long-Horizon Task Mirage? Diagnosing Where and Why Agentic Systems Break ...
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)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagiragrant.com) (promoted)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (promoted)
- Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social)
- Walter Olson (@walterolson.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Big Fat Popehat (@kenwhite.bsky.social)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- AG Andrea Joy Campbell (@massago.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social)
- Marty Lederman (@martylederman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steven Beschloss (@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Slack (@slack2thefuture.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Deborah Pearlstein (@debpearlstein.bsky.social) (relegated)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (relegated)
- Deb Golden (@debgoldendc.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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