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.
- White House blew past legal concerns in deadly strikes on drug boats 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The Trump administration sidestepped skeptical lawyers across national security agencies as it pursued a military campaign against alleged narcotraffickers, officials say.
- A Battle with My Blood 🔥🔥When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
- Rachel Reeves is studiously ignoring the cause of Britain’s woes: the Brexit-shaped hole in its roof | Jonathan Freedland 🔥The autumn budget will mop up some damage, but the true source of the economic crisis is clear. The government should now fix it – tragically, it won’t, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland ...
- End of fossil fuel era inches closer as Cop30 deal agreed after bitter standoff 🔥Wealthy countries agree to triple funds for countries to tackle climate impacts, but deforestation and critical minerals blocked from final deal ...
- The ‘Danish model’ is the darling of centre-left parties like Labour. The problem is, it doesn’t even work in Denmark | Cas Mudde 🔥This week’s local elections are the latest reminder that when social democrats move rightwards, they’re making a mistake, says academic and author Cas Mudde ...
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.
- Sorry, George Washington Would Not Have Hanged Them.† 🔥🔥🔥This week, Donald Trump continues to use his claimed power to kill people who have received no due process, in international waters, based on his administration’s assertion that they are narcoterroris...
- NEWS: Lawmakers Receive Thousands of Death Threats and Bomb Threats After Trump Called for Their Execution 🔥Lawmakers receive thousands of threats, including bomb threats, because of Trump's call for their execution, Greene set to resign and shrink the GOP majority, Veterans turn on Trump over threats ...
- November 22, 2025 On Tuesday, six Democratic lawmakers, themselves veterans of the U.S.
- How Much is Wrong With the Comey Case? Andrew Weissmann Details the Laundry List "I think the technical legal term for what's going on is a shit show."
- The Long Con Comes To An End The Trump Administration Takes Off The Mask (Again)
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.
- White House Circulates Draft Executive Order Targeting State AI Laws | TechPolicy.Press† 🔥🔥🔥The draft order, titled "Eliminating State Law Obstruction of National AI Policy," followed a Truth Social post by President Donald Trump.
- Strengthen Colorado’s AI Act 🔥🔥🔥Powerful institutions are using automated decision-making against us. Fortunately, workers, patients, and renters are resisting. The Colorado AI Act is a good step in the right direction. Still, EFF ...
- A $100 Million AI Super PAC Targeted New York Democrat Alex Bores. He Thinks It Backfired 🔥🔥Leading the Future said it will spend millions to keep Alex Bores out of Congress. It might be helping him instead.
- The Time Is Right for Congress to Take on Tech 🔥🔥History teaches that new blood, economic upheaval, and executive overreach are the recipe for overcoming congressional paralysis.
- Americans Googling Obamacare Are Finding 'Junk Insurance' Instead 🔥During open enrollment, ads from telemarketers are crowding out official health exchanges.
- AI jury finds teen not guilty | UNC-Chapel Hill 🔥The experimental mock trial at the UNC School of Law raises profound questions about artificial intelligence’s role in criminal justice.
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 '
- The Use of State Discipline to Sanction Attorneys General and Other High-Ranking Legal Officers† The United States Attorney General, state attorneys general, and high-ranking officials in their offices, like all lawyers, are subject to rules of professional ...
- Amicus Brief of Prof. Andrew Kent, WMM v. Trump (5th Cir. 2025) (en banc)† This amicus brief draws on my research on the original meaning of the several parts of the the Alien Enemies Act. See Andrew Kent, The Alien Enemies Ac ...
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.
- Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models† 🔥🔥🔥🔥We present evidence that adversarial poetry functions as a universal single-turn jailbreak technique for Large Language Models (LLMs). Across 25 frontier proprietary and open-weight models, curated po...
- A Primer on Quantum Machine Learning† Quantum machine learning (QML) is a computational paradigm that seeks to apply quantum-mechanical resources to solve learning problems. As such, the goal of this framework is to leverage quantum proce...
- Auditing Google's AI Overviews and Featured Snippets: A Case Study on Baby Care and Pregnancy† Google Search increasingly surfaces AI-generated content through features like AI Overviews (AIO) and Featured Snippets (FS), which users frequently rely on despite having no control over their presen...
- DecNefLab: A Modular and Interpretable Simulation Framework for Decoded Neurofeedback†
- 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 softw...
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)
- Jenn Burrill (@jennburrill.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Noll (@david.noll.org) (promoted)
- Daniel A. Horwitz (@danielahorwitz.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (promoted)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (promoted)
- Sheryl Weikal, still saying Free Palestine (@leftistlawyer.com) (relegated)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Asha Rangappa (@asharangappa.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Ho (@davidho.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Insubordinate Piggy Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sam Brunson (@smbrnsn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden (@sandraduffy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (relegated)
- southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dan Kennedy (@dankennedy.net) (relegated)
- Dan Sohege (@danielsohege.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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