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.
- Trump Administration Aims to Strip More Foreign-Born Americans of Citizenship 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- The Pamphlet That Has Roused Americans to Action for 250 Years 🔥🔥🔥
- Opinion | The Man Who Rules the Country Presides Over Nothing 🔥🔥🔥
- DHS fast-tracked $1 billion contract to pro-Trump donor’s company 🔥🔥A DHS official leading the process previously worked at the America First Policy Institute, a pro-Trump nonprofit where the contractor’s CEO was a donor.
- Exclusive | Trump Told by Alan Dershowitz Constitutionality of Third Term Is Unclear 🔥Trump’s former lawyer presented him with his forthcoming book that concludes the Constitution is ambiguous on the question.
- UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme† 🔥Exclusive: British students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources say ...
- Trump administration to dismantle key climate research center 🔥Russell Vought, who directs the White House Office of Management and Budget, announced plans to split up the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, citing concerns about “clima...
- Dan Bongino Says He Will Step Down From F.B.I. in January 🔥
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.
- Jack Smith Testifies Before The House Judiciary Committee 🔥🔥🔥Making sense of the circus ...
- 100 days of Kavanaugh stops and the justices who silently allowed them — and a bill to change that 🔥The Shadow Docket Sunlight Act is being introduced on Wednesday. And, Justice Kavanaugh still isn't saying if he's having second thoughts on his September opinion.
- What a terrible thing it is Mass shootings as regime change ...
- BREAKING: Republicans Break From Mike Johnson and Force Vote to Extend ACA Subsidies Today is shaping up to be an extremely busy and consequential news day.
- December 17, 2025 This morning, four vulnerable Republicans signed onto the discharge petition all House Democrats have signed to force Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to bring a bill to extend the premium tax credits for ...
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 Pretends To Block State AI Laws; Media Pretends That’s Legal† 🔥🔥🔥🔥The mainstream media just failed a basic civics test so badly that you’d think their brains have been pickled by the kinds of folks who spend all their time on X (oh, wait…). Headlines across…
- Boost for artists in AI copyright battle as only 3% back UK active opt-out plan† 🔥🔥🔥Liz Kendall faces pressure from campaigners as she tells parliament there is no clear consensus on issue ...
- 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.
- 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.
- Judge fines law firm Hagens Berman over AI errors in OnlyFans case† 🔥A judge in California has fined plaintiffs’ law firm Hagens Berman, one of its partners, and another lawyer a combined $13,000 for the “misuse” of artificial intelligence in several court filings in a lawsuit against the parent company of adult content social media site OnlyFans.
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.
- 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 ...
- The Originalist Case for the President's Power to Pardon State Offenses Recently, President Donald Trump purported to pardon Tina Peters, a former county clerk from Colorado, for state-level offenses. The overwhelming consensus amon ...
- Equality and Protection: The Forgotten Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment At the heart of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause are two fundamental principles: equality and protection. Tragically, the Supreme Court ...
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...
- Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4† 🔥Artificial intelligence (AI) researchers have been developing and refining large language models (LLMs) that exhibit remarkable capabilities across a variety of domains and tasks, challenging our unde...
- 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...
- 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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