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.
- Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...
- UK Palestine Action ban ruled unlawful, in humiliating blow for ministers 🔥🔥🔥🔥Thousands of people arrested for supporting group since anti-terrorism proscription are in legal limbo as Mahmood says she will appeal ...
- Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott 🔥🔥Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why ...
- Kennedy Allies Target States to Overturn Vaccine Mandates for Schoolchildren 🔥
- Trump administration drops appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement 🔥The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. It will...
- Minnesota FACE Off: A Deep Dive Into the St. Paul Church Protest Case 🔥Unpacking the Don Lemon indictment, its factual allegations, the elements the government must prove to convict, and the potential defenses available to the accused.
- ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers 🔥ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion converting warehouses into detention centers, according to planning documents, more than the annual budgets of 22 states.
- NHS deal with AI firm Palantir called into question after officials’ concerns revealed† 🔥Exclusive: in 2025 briefing to Wes Streeting, officials warned reputation of tech firm behind US ICE operations would hinder rollout of data system in UK ...
- Consultants Offered Epstein Access to Top N.Y. Democrats if He Donated 🔥
- This Is How a Child Dies of Measles 🔥When your family becomes a data point in an outbreak ...
- US paid $32m to five countries to accept about 300 deportees, report shows 🔥Some of the world’s most corrupt countries have received huge payments in controversial third-country deportation scheme ...
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.
- Seven Billion Reasons for Facebook to Abandon its Face Recognition Plans 🔥🔥🔥Meta’s analysis that it can avoid scrutiny by releasing a privacy invasive product during a time of political crisis is craven and morally bankrupt. It is also dead wrong.
- Judge Boasberg’s Most Recent Decision 🔥The plaintiffs in J.G.G.
- Exclusive: DHS based its newest refugee attack on a Trump proclamation that stated it would not apply to refugees New documents filed in a key refugee case in Minnesota shed light on a broad, aggressive plan to review all refugees admitted since the start of the Biden administration.
- Major News: Epstein Fallout Explodes as World Leader Criminally Charged and Sultan Ousted, Kristi Noem Faces Bipartisan Resignation Calls Good morning everyone.
- February 13, 2026 At midnight tonight, most of the agencies and services in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will run out of funding, as popular fury over the violence and lawlessness of federal agents from Im...
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.
- ChatGPT cuts in action 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- ‘What Oligarchy Looks Like’: AI Giants Pledge to Pump $100 Million Into 2026 Midterms | Common Dreams† 🔥🔥Silicon Valley elites plan to spend big in 2026 to influence Congress for AI-friendly legislation. Leading the Future PAC pledges $100 million.
- Scoop: Disney sends cease and desist letter to ByteDance over Seedance 2.0 The letter includes a slew of examples of infringing Seedance videos that feature Disney's copyrighted characters.
- Welcome to On the Docket† YouTube video by On The Docket ...
- Supreme Court Dogs: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)† YouTube video by LastWeekTonight ...
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.
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.
- Why do we do astrophysics?† 🔥🔥🔥At time of writing, large language models (LLMs) are beginning to obtain the ability to design, execute, write up, and referee scientific projects on the data-science side of astrophysics. What implic...
- AI-PACE: A Framework for Integrating AI into Medical Education The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into healthcare is accelerating, yet medical education has not kept pace with these technological advancements. This paper synthesizes current…
- AutoDiscovery: Open-ended Scientific Discovery via Bayesian Surprise ArXiv link for AutoDiscovery: Open-ended Scientific Discovery via Bayesian Surprise ...
- Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task† This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...
- How AI Impacts Skill Formation AI assistance produces significant productivity gains across professional domains, particularly for novice workers. Yet how this assistance affects the development of skills required to effectively su...
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)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social)
- I Used To Snort Cocaine Off Of Popehats (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonathanmladd.com) (promoted)
- Ms. Rosenberg (@msrosenberg.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jolyon Maugham KC (@goodlawproject.org) (promoted)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Paul Gowder (@gowder.io) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Owen Barcala (@obarcala.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Paul Bernal (@paulbernal.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Ho (@davidho.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social) (relegated)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (relegated)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (relegated)
- Joshua Erlich (@joshuaerlich.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.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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