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.
- 60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department (Gift Article) 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.
- Justice Department official told prosecutors that U.S. should 'just sink' drug boats 🔥🔥NPR interviews with current and former officials reveal more of the backstory around the military's strikes in the Caribbean.
- Anglican bishop shaken ‘to the core’ by home secretary’s asylum seeker comments 🔥Bishop of Edmonton says people coming to UK are being ‘scapegoated’ for years of policy failures ...
- C.D.C. Links Measles Outbreaks in Multiple States for the First Time 🔥
- Preservationists sue Trump over plans to paint Eisenhower building 🔥The complaint alleges Trump’s plan would ‘permanently alter one of the most architecturally significant and historic structures in the Nation’s Capital’
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.
- What Happens When The Government Loses Its Credibility: The Comey Prosecution 🔥🔥🔥This is one of those long posts we occasionally have when a judge files a highly significant order.
- The Week Ahead 🔥🔥November 16, 2025 ...
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 252. 11/17/25 🔥… Judge William Fitzpatrick issued a scathing ruling today against former Trump personal attorney, now interim US Attorney, Lindsay Halligan for her conduct in front of the grand jury that indicted fo...
- What I wrote in the New York Times about Trump's authoritarian plans The stakes are high, and so are the odds ...
- NEWS: Republicans Poised to Conduct Major Break From Trump in Both the House and the Senate Senate and House Republicans prepare to conduct major break from Trump, Kash Patel gives his girlfriend a SWAT security detail, Indiana Republican gets swatted after Trump threat, and more ...
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.
- A16z-backed super PAC is targeting Alex Bores, sponsor of New York’s AI safety bill. He says bring it on. | TechCrunch 🔥🔥🔥A super PAC backed by Andreessen Horowitz, OpenAI and other tech leaders has targeted New York Assembly member Alex Bores' congressional campaign, marking its first attack against a lawmaker supporting AI regulation.
- AI industry-backed super PAC targets New York Democrat in opening shot of midterms 🔥🔥The AI-friendly Trump administration was reportedly frustrated with the super PAC, Leading the Future, over its affiliation with Democratic operatives.
- Libellous chatbots could be AI’s next big legal headache† 🔥🔥Companies from Google and Meta to OpenAI are getting sued for defamation ...
- Student cheating dominates talk of generative AI in higher ed, but universities and tech companies face ethical issues too 🔥A sociologist who researches AI’s impact on work and education argues there are ethical dimensions to generative AI that institutions are not considering.
- Judge Orders OpenAI To Give Lawyers 20 Million Private Chats, Thinks ‘Anonymization’ Can Keep Them Private† 🔥A federal magistrate judge just ordered that the private ChatGPT conversations of 20 million users be handed over to the lawyers for dozens of plaintiffs, including news organizations. Those 20 mil…
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 Legality of Omnibus Legislation Under EU Law: A Preliminary Analysis of Omnibus I Simplification Directive of CSRD and CSDD and its Legal Consequences on the EU Legal Order † 🔥This paper provides a preliminary analysis of the legal issues arising from the European Union's use of the Omnibus as the privileged legislative technique to '
- Voids of Constitutional Law† Although the U.S. Constitution has long been held out as a model for a particular type of constitutionalism, recent developments have drawn attention t ...
- Fabricating the Crime of Undocumented Presence In 2025, the Trump Administration’s Office of Legal Counsel declared that it is a federal crime simply to be an undocumented immigrant. But Congress has enac ...
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.
- Physics of Language Models: Part 3.1, Knowledge Storage and Extraction† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Large language models (LLMs) can store a vast amount of world knowledge, often extractable via question-answering (e.g., "What is Abraham Lincoln's birthday?"). However, do they answer such questions ...
- Does AI-Assisted Coding Deliver? A Difference-in-Differences Study of Cursor's Impact on Software Projects Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated the promise to revolutionize the field of software engineering. Among other things, LLM agents are rapidly gaining momentum in their application to…
- Approximating the Mathematical Structure of Psychodynamics† The complexity of human cognition has meant that psychology makes more use of theory and conceptual models than perhaps any other biomedical field. To enable precise quantitative study of the full bre...
- BadScientist: Can a Research Agent Write Convincing but Unsound Papers that Fool LLM Reviewers?† The convergence of LLM-powered research assistants and AI-based peer review systems creates a critical vulnerability: fully automated publication loops where AI-generated research is evaluated by AI r...
- Algorithms Trained on Normal Chest X-rays Can Predict Health Insurance Types ArXiv link for Algorithms Trained on Normal Chest X-rays Can Predict Health Insurance Types ...
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)
- Sheryl Weikal, still saying Free Palestine (@leftistlawyer.com)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Asha Rangappa (@asharangappa.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Ho (@davidho.bsky.social) (promoted)
- DO NOT REPEAT THIS POPEHAT (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sam Brunson (@smbrnsn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden (@sandraduffy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (promoted)
- southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social)
- Dan Kennedy (@dankennedy.net) (promoted)
- Dan Sohege (@danielsohege.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social)
- Jameel Jaffer (@jameeljaffer.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Brandi Buchman (@brandibuchman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jen Taub (@jentaub.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 (@chanda.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Elizabeth Joh (@elizabethjoh.bsky.social) (relegated)
- post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Brad Heath (@bradheath.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.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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