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.
- In Trump’s Federal Work Force Cuts, Black Women Are Among the Hardest Hit 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Temporarily Blocks Removal of Guatemalan Children 🔥🔥
- The Leader of Trump’s Assault on Higher Education Has a Troubled Legal and Financial History 🔥Leo Terrell’s past is at odds with Trump’s description of an “incredibly successful” attorney. Documents obtained by ProPublica and The Chronicle of Higher Education reveal a trail of legal disputes a...
- Trump’s Crime Crackdown Isn’t Holding Up in Court 🔥Grand juries are not delivering the indictments that the Trump administration is asking for—and that may just be the start of a massive legal failure.
- Black Americans Are Losing Jobs in a Warning for the Economy Unemployment among Black people reaches highest level since 2021. “I am in the fight of my life.”
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.
- Sunday Morning Wrap Up 🔥🔥🔥We’ve had another week where the news—especially legal news and the press of court hearings and rulings—happened at such a breakneck speed that it was hard to keep up.
- August 31, 2025 🔥Almost one hundred and forty-three years ago, on September 5, 1882, workers in New York City celebrated the first Labor Day holiday with a parade.
- The Week Ahead 🔥August 31, 2025 ...
- Federal judge signs off on DOJ and Oklahoma's sham anti-immigrant lawsuit 🔥Judge Ronald White did not even consider a brief arguing the court lacked jurisdiction to hear the matter before issuing an order striking down a decades-old Oklahoma law.
- Donald Trump's Biggest, Dumbest Personalist Foreign Policy Flop Yet 🔥The Toddler in Chief pisses away three decades of patient U.S. diplomacy towards India.
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.
- Gaza postwar plan envisions ‘voluntary’ relocation of entire population 🔥🔥🔥🔥President Donald Trump and international partners are discussing plans to build a “Riviera of the Middle East” on the rubble of Gaza. One would establish U.S. control and pay Palestinians to leave.
- Anthropic Settles High-Profile AI Copyright Lawsuit Brought by Book Authors† 🔥🔥Anthropic faced the prospect of more than $1 trillion in damages, a sum that could have threatened the company’s survival if the case went to trial.
- ChatGPT encouraged Adam Raine’s suicidal thoughts. His family’s lawyer says OpenAI knew it was broken† 🔥Jay Edelson rebukes Sam Altman’s push to put ChatGPT in schools when the CEO knows about its problems ...
- Inside the Lobbying Blitz Over Colorado's AI Law | TechPolicy.Press Cristiano Lima-Strong spoke to the Colorado Sun's Jesse Paul and Taylor Dolven following a special session that saw wrangling over the future of the law.
- Stand up to Trump on Big Tech, says EU antitrust chief† Bloc must be prepared to walk away from trade deal with US if it retaliates against Brussels’ digital laws, warns Teresa Ribera ...
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.
- Just-Right Government: Interstate Compacts and Multistate Governance in an Era of Political Polarization, Policy Paralysis, and Bad-Faith Partisanship† 🔥🔥🔥Those committed to addressing the political, economic, and moral crises of the day—voting rights, racial justice, climate change, gaping inequality, and the ong ...
- The Unconstitutional Attempt to Criminalize Naming ICE Agents† Senators Marsha Blackburn and Lindsey Graham propose to make it a federal crime to publish the name of a federal official with the intent of obstructing that in ...
- AI Procurement As Regulatory Reconnaissance† Artificial Intelligence ("AI") is a black box technology in a black box industry. Some view AI as a lifechanging technology capable of advancing socie ...
- Tariffs as Taxes: A Framework for Understanding Delegation of the Taxing Power While perhaps not obvious to the casual observer, tariffs are taxes, and, as such, they fall within the Constitution’s Article I enumerated powers, raisi ...
- The Supreme Court in Bondage: Constitutional Stare Decisis, Legal Formalism, and the Future of Unenumerated Rights This essay advances a formalist conception of constitutional stare decisis. I shall argue that instrumentalist accounts of precedent are inherently unsatisfyin ...
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.
- Computational Hermeneutics: Evaluating Generative AI as a Cultural Technology† 🔥🔥🔥 Generative AI (GenAI) systems are increasingly recognized as cultural technologies, yet current evaluation frameworks often treat cul ...
- Publish to Perish: Prompt Injection Attacks on LLM-Assisted Peer Review† 🔥Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly being integrated into the scientific peer-review process, raising new questions about their reliability and resilience to manipulation. In this work, we i...
- The wall confronting large language models†
- Unbundling AI Openness† The debate over AI openness—whether to make components of an artificial intelligence system available for public inspection and modification—forces polic ...
- Questioning Representational Optimism in Deep Learning: The Fractured Entangled Representation Hypothesis† Much of the excitement in modern AI is driven by the observation that scaling up existing systems leads to better performance. But does better performance necessarily imply better internal representat...
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)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steven Beschloss (@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael (@fleerultra.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ann M. Lipton (@annmlipton.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (promoted)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) (promoted)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social)
- Daniel Drezner (@dandrezner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dan Sohege (@danielsohege.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Menschel (@davidmenschel.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dan Immergluck (@danimmergluck.bsky.social) (promoted)
- dburbach.bsky.social (@dburbach.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Matthew Segal (@segalmr.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (relegated)
- ❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ (@sababausa.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael McDonald (@electproject.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (relegated)
- David Ryan Miller (@davidryanmiller.com) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Asha Rangappa (@asharangappa.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Bradley P. Moss (@bradmossesq.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.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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