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.
- RFK Jr announces moves to cut off gender-affirming care for children – US politics live 🔥🔥🔥🔥Donald Trump’s health secretary announces rules designed to effectively ban gender-affirming care for minors ...
- Stephen Miller’s hard-line Mexico strategy morphed into deadly boat strikes 🔥🔥🔥🔥President Donald Trump’s homeland security adviser, Stephen Miller, had a plan to target Mexican drug cartels. That strategy morphed into lethal boat strikes.
- A warning for Keir Starmer: Brexit is falling apart, but if you are not bold on Europe, your Labour rivals will be | Tom Baldwin 🔥🔥Leave support is falling. That’s an opportunity the PM should seize before pro-Europe challengers for the Labour leadership do, says Tom Baldwin, author of Keir Starmer, The Biography ...
- The Year in Trump Cashing In 🔥🔥In 2025, the President’s family has been making bank in myriad ways, many of which involve crypto and foreign money.
- Yorkshire Water boss 'mistaken' to keep £1.3m payment secret 🔥🔥Nicola Shaw says she was wrong in ...
- Trump moves to dismantle a ‘global mothership’ of climate research : Here & Now Anytime 🔥🔥The Trump administration says it will dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research, a cornerstone for American climate and weather science. Katharine Hayhoe, chief scientist at the Nature Co...
- The Trump Family Business Empire Is Growing. We Mapped Out 268 Pieces of It. 🔥🔥A second-term boom in crypto and other areas has created billions in new wealth for the first family.
- We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars. 🔥🔥An AI agent ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI.
- ‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women 🔥
- The Most Powerful Politics Influencers Barely Post About Politics 🔥New research shows that social media creators have enormous influence over their audiences' politics—especially those who don't normally share political content.
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.
- December 18, 2025 🔥🔥“These are the times that try men’s souls.
- The risks of letting Trump become the military paymaster 🔥🔥Trump will demand their loyalty in return ...
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 273. 12/18/25 🔥… When Dan Bongino gave up his podcast to take over as Dep.
- Novorossiysk Was Russia’s Last Sanctuary. It Just Fell. 🔥The Black Sea Has No Safe Harbor Left for Russia ...
- Conventional Wisdom and "Popularity" 🔥And a weird debate I just had.
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.
- Trump’s AI Order Is More Bark than Bite† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥While the executive order has created uncertainty for the many states that have passed artificial intelligence policies to protect their residents, its impact falls short of its menacing rhetoric.
- AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals 🔥🔥Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
- Adobe hit with proposed class-action, accused of misusing authors' work in AI training | TechCrunch† 🔥🔥The lawsuit is just the latest in a string of copyright-related legal complaints aimed at the AI industry.
- Are Robots.txt Instructions Legally Binding?-Ziff Davis v. OpenAI - Technology & Marketing Law Blog 🔥Robots.txt files express a website’s preferences for robot access. Despite their venerability, there are not many cases discussing the legal implications of robots.txt files and robot exclusion header...
- AI companies tying their fates to Trump is ‘a gamble,’ says expert | CNN 🔥Bianna Golodryga speaks with former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Marietje Schaake about the need to regulate artificial intelligence.
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 Post-Legitimacy Court 🔥🔥🔥
For a long time, for both Justices and many observers, “legitimacy” was a focal criterion for assessing the Supreme Court’s performance.
- Legal Corpus Linguistics and the Half Empirical Attitude† Legal writers have recently turned to corpus linguistics to interpret legal texts. Corpus linguistics, a social-science methodology, provides a sophisticated wa ...
- The Special Solicitude of Stare Decisis in Civil Rights† This Article argues that the Supreme Court should apply heightened stare decisis protection to rights-conferring precedents—constitutiona ...
- Quasi-Judicial: A History and Tradition† In challenging the historical assumptions underlying the unitary executive theory, scholars have made several seemingly unrelated discoveries. F ...
- Robert Cover's Narrative Approach to Constitutionalism This paper aims to prove that Robert Cover’s theory of narrative might play an important role for contemporary constitutionalism. In particular, it purports to ...
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.
- Source framing triggers systematic evaluation bias in Large Language Models† 🔥🔥🔥Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used not only to generate text but also to evaluate it, raising urgent questions about whether their judgments are consistent, unbiased, and robust to fra...
- Generative AI in Sociological Research: State of the Discipline† 🔥Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has garnered considerable attention for its potential utility in research and scholarship. A growing body of work in sociology and related fields demonstrate...
- Evaluating Large Language Models in Scientific Discovery 🔥Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly applied to scientific research, yet prevailing science benchmarks probe decontextualized knowledge and overlook the iterative reasoning, hypothesis genera...
- Beyond MMD: Evaluating Graph Generative Models with Geometric Deep Learning† Graph generation is a crucial task in many fields, including network science and bioinformatics, as it enables the creation of synthetic graphs that mimic the properties of real-world networks for var...
- Confucius Code Agent: An Open-sourced AI Software Engineer at Industrial Scale† ArXiv link for Confucius Code Agent: An Open-sourced AI Software Engineer at Industrial Scale ...
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)
- Michael Clemens (@mclem.org) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- ❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ (@sababausa.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social)
- Sam Bagenstos (@sbagen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (promoted)
- Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden (@sandraduffy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dan Sohege (@danielsohege.bsky.social) (promoted)
- The Questionable Authority (@questauthority.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonathanmladd.com) (promoted)
- Mike Sacks (@mikesacks.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social)
- Deborah Pearlstein (@debpearlstein.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joshua Erlich (@joshuaerlich.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (relegated)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dan Izzo (@izzos.us) (relegated)
- Jolyon Maugham KC (@goodlawproject.org) (relegated)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Glenn Kirschner (@glennkirschner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Zoe Tillman (@zoetillman.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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