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.
- Poorest Americans Dealt Biggest Blow Under Senate Republican Tax Package 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Goodbye to All That 🔥🔥🔥🔥My resignation from the FBI.
- E.P.A. Suspends 144 Employees After They Signed a Letter Criticizing Trump 🔥
- Trump Claims Sweeping Power to Nullify Laws, Letters on TikTok Ban Show
- Trump goes ‘woke’ in report on antisemitism at Harvard - The Boston Globe What is most striking is the brazen hypocrisy — one might even say chutzpah — of the Trump lawyers’ arguments.
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.
- Update: Abrego Garcia's Civil & Criminal Cases 🔥🔥🔥The Civil Case ...
- SCOTUS allows Trump admin to send eight men to South Sudan with no process 🔥🔥Sotomayor, joined by Jackson, dissented, calling their colleagues' actions in the case "indefensible." It was one of several alarming signs for the nation on the Third of July.
- July 3, 2025 And on July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, declaring: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed...
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 164. 7/3/25 … House Republicans adopted the Senate’s budget bill today after a marathon voting and debate session that concluded with a record-long speech from Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries. A couple dozen me...
- Katie Phang | Substack Truth-Teller | Independent Journalist and Legal Analyst | Trial Lawyer | Fighting for OUR Democracy | "Though She Be But Little, She Is Fierce"
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.
- Senate Removes Tax Bill Provision Limiting State AI Regulation 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The Senate killed a controversial effort to prevent US states from regulating artificial intelligence, marking a loss for the Silicon Valley leaders and White House officials who pushed the measure.
- In dramatic reversal, Senate votes to kill AI-law moratorium† 🔥🔥A GOP-led bid to stop states from regulating AI collapsed after a deal to save it fell through.
- Ted Cruz gives up on AI law moratorium, joins 99-1 vote against his own plan† The one vote backing moratorium on state AI laws came from Thom Tillis, not Cruz.
- Slow Vote-a-Rama to Nowhere† Little progress and much confusion as the Senate slogs it out through the night.
- Representatives | house.gov†
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.
- Introduction to Intellectual Property Law† 🔥🔥This one-day teaching module provides an introduction to U.S. intellectual property law, including trade secrets, utility patents, design patents, copyrights, a ...
- Executive Summary: Administrative Decision-Making in Patent Proceedings: Expert Testimony Effectiveness and Institutional Patterns† When Google challenged Singular Computing's Low Precision High Dynamic Range patents across six Inter Partes Review proceedings, the lit ...
- What Hath Obergefell Wrought† Ten years have passed since the United States Supreme Court decided Obergefell v. Hodges. According to Justice Kennedy’s majority opinion—and the Court’s i ...
- Democracy and the Intersection of Prisons, Racism, and Capital Rutgers University History Professor David Oshinsky's book entitled "'Worse Than Slavery': Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice" provides ...
- Defining 'Woman': Biological Sex and Gender The current debate about the meaning of the term “woman” has become a proxy for the culture wars over the rights of sexual and gender minorities, with social co ...
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.
- When AI Co-Scientists Fail: SPOT-a Benchmark for Automated Verification of Scientific Research† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have fueled the vision of automated scientific discovery, often called AI Co-Scientists. To date, prior work casts these systems as generative co-author...
- The time course of visuo-semantic representations in the human brain is captured by combining vision and language models† 🔥🔥🔥The human visual system provides us with a rich and meaningful percept of the world, transforming retinal signals into visuo-semantic representations. For a model of these representations, here we lev...
- Estimating Correctness Without Oracles in LLM-Based Code Generation† 🔥Generating code from natural language specifications is one of the most successful applications of Large Language Models (LLMs). Yet, they hallucinate: LLMs produce outputs that may be grammatically c...
- Empirical evidence of Large Language Model's influence on human spoken communication† 🔥From the invention of writing and the printing press, to television and social media, human history is punctuated by major innovations in communication technology, which fundamentally altered how idea...
- Small Language Models are the Future of Agentic AI† 🔥Large language models (LLMs) are often praised for exhibiting near-human performance on a wide range of tasks and valued for their ability to hold a general conversation. The rise of agentic AI system...
- Sequential Diagnosis with Language Models† 🔥Artificial intelligence holds great promise for expanding access to expert medical knowledge and reasoning. However, most evaluations of language models rely on static vignettes and multiple-choice qu...
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)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- ICYMI (Law) (@icymilaw.org) (promoted)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social)
- Leah Litman (@leahlitman.bsky.social)
- Barred and Boujee and NEWLYWED aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael Li (李之樸) (@mcpli.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dan Izzo (@izzos.us) (promoted)
- Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jacob T. Levy (@jacobtlevy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Siva (@sivav.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Burbach (@dburbach.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Menschel (@davidmenschel.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joe Dunman (@joedunman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Popehat’s Interests First (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (relegated)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adil Haque (@adhaque.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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