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.
- The Congresswoman Criminalized for Visiting ICE Detainees 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥LaMonica McIver went to tour an immigration jail in her district. Now she faces seventeen years in prison.
- ‘My hands were really shaky’: high-school journalist documents ICE raids 🔥🔥🔥🔥Lila Dominguez was working on an article as agents came on to school grounds – their presence has jolted Minneapolis’s young people ...
- Americans Are the Ones Paying for Tariffs, Study Finds 🔥🔥New research contradicts President Trump’s claim that foreigners are footing the bill.
- Justice Department weighs rollback of gun regulations 🔥The Justice Department is considering loosening a slate of gun regulations as it seeks to bolster support from ardent Second Amendment advocates.
- ‘Brazen’ political influence of rich laid bare as wealth of billionaires reaches $18.3tn, says Oxfam 🔥Governments opting for oligarchy while brutally repressing protests over austerity and lack of jobs, charity report says ...
- Trump Links Greenland Threats to Nobel Peace Prize Snub 🔥Donald Trump linked his claims on Greenland to not being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in a letter the US president sent to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store.
- Trump’s Letter to Norway Should Be the Last Straw 🔥Will Republicans in Congress ever step in?
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.
- It's King Day! 🔥🔥Don't Allow Them to Memory Hole What It Means ...
- Trump, Vance, and the Mainstreaming of Far-Right Hate 🔥🔥The betrayal behind the rhetoric of safety ...
- Bull Connor's Ghost 🔥Theophilus Eugene Connor, better known by his nickname, Bull, was the Commissioner of Public Safety in Birmingham, Alabama—the head of the police—for the better part of three decades, until he was for...
- January 19, 2026 🔥Late last night, Nick Schifrin of PBS NewsHour posted on social media that the staff of the U.S.
- Important Monday Night Update: Trump Amplifies Calls to Imprison Journalist as ICE Drags Elderly U.S. Citizen, Unclothed, Into Freezing Minnesota Cold 🔥Good afternoon, everyone.
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.
- ICE error meant some recruits were sent into field offices without proper training, sources say† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥An AI tool used to help ICE identify potential new recruits with law enforcement experience wrongly categorized some potential new officers, sources say.
- How Trump's AI Policy Promotes Ethnonationalism 🔥A conversation with George Washington University Law School scholar Spencer Overton about his forthcoming paper, "Ethnonationalism by Algorithm."
- A.I. Has Arrived in Gmail. Here’s What to Know.† Google’s A.I. assistant, Gemini, can create a to-do list based on recent emails, among other new tricks. There are implications for your privacy.
- Musk seeks up to $134 billion from OpenAI and Microsoft in 'wrongful gains'† Musk seeks up to $134 billion from OpenAI and Microsoft, saying he deserves "wrongful gains" they received from his early support, according to a court filing.
- Grok Supercharges the Nonconsensual Pornography Epidemic† Without meaningful pushback from regulators and users, Grok’s example risks setting a dangerously permissive precedent that, writes Kaylee Williams.
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 Jurisprudence of Constitutional Entitlement† Lawyers are accustomed to thinking of constitutional law as a familiar binary: Either a given governmental policy or practice is constitutional and therefore pe ...
- The Return of Neutrality Neutrality is caught in an inherent contradiction: On the one hand, it has been legally irrelevant for almost 100 years-the general prohibition of war and (late ...
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.
- Exploring Large Language Models Through a Neurodivergent Lens: Use, Challenges, Community-Driven Workarounds, and Concerns† 🔥🔥Despite the increasing use of large language models (LLMs) in everyday life among neurodivergent individuals, our knowledge of how they engage with, and perceive LLMs remains limited. In this study, w...
- How AI Destroys Institutions† 🔥Civic institutions—the rule of law, universities, and a free press—are the backbone of democratic life. They are the mechanisms through which complex societies ...
- AI as Entertainment 🔥Generative AI systems are predominantly designed, evaluated, and marketed as intelligent systems which will benefit society by augmenting or automating human cognitive labor, promising to increase per...
- Reasoning Models Generate Societies of Thought Large language models have achieved remarkable capabilities across domains, yet mechanisms underlying sophisticated reasoning remain elusive. Recent reasoning models outperform comparable instruction-...
- Prompt Repetition Improves Non-Reasoning LLMs When not using reasoning, repeating the input prompt improves performance for popular models (Gemini, GPT, Claude, and Deepseek) without increasing the number of generated tokens or latency.
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)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jess O'Thomson (@jessothomson.co.uk) (promoted)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Darin Self (@darinself.com) (promoted)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Burbach 🇺🇸🌹 (@dburbach.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (promoted)
- southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Josh Chafetz (@joshchafetz.bsky.social) (promoted)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- AG Andrea Joy Campbell (@massago.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (relegated)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (relegated)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Bradley P. Moss (@bradmossesq.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Justin (@justinlawguy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joe Stieb (@joestieb.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Elizabeth N. Saunders (@profsaunders.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jenny Cohn (@jennycohn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) (@shengokai.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.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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