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.
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Note, the number of fire emoji represent how many standard deviations more popular a link is than the average link observed in its category.
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.
- FBI Director Kash Patel sues The Atlantic claiming false reporting about drinking, absences 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥FBI Director Kash Patel filed a defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic and its reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick following the publication of an article on Friday alleging the director had a drinking probl...
- Justices to Hear Case on Catholic Preschools That Reject Children of Gay Parents 🔥🔥
- Man facing divorce kills 8 children, including 7 of his own, in shooting rampage 🔥The gunman is dead, and his brother-in-law said he was distraught in a recent conversation about his breakup. The Louisiana shooting was the country’s deadliest mass killing in two years.
- Phones to be banned in schools by law in England under government plans 🔥Education minister Jacqui Smith said the move would create ...
- The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency 🔥The BBC has found a pattern of spikes in trades ahead of public announcements by the US president.
- The ‘Weaponization Working Group’ Makes Its First Move 🔥A new DOJ report purports to show bias under the Biden administration—and fails spectacularly.
- Reform would review all asylum claims from the last five years 🔥The current Labour government has already announced major crackdowns on immigration, including disrupting gangs.
- Emails show Amazon colluding with other firms to raise prices, California authorities allege 🔥The previously redacted messages were unveiled as part of an antitrust battle with California attorney general Rob Bonta ...
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.
- Power without accountability: The Palantir manifesto 🔥🔥🔥🔥The problems with our tech philosopher kings ...
- Major News: Significant Conflict of Interest Concerns as Trump Family Enriches Itself With the War, Insider Trading Exposed, and More 🔥Good morning everyone.
- BREAKING: Trump's Labor Secretary Resigns, Veterans Launch Largest Protest Since War Began, Trump Lashes Out as War Progresses Good afternoon everyone.
- April 20, 2026 Late Saturday evening, Josh Dawsey and Annie Linskey of the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump was so unstable and angry after learning on April 3 that Iranians had shot down an American jet that...
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 353. 4/20/26 … Trump fired his Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer today.
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.
- Why Palantir's ImmigrationOS Endangers Democracy and the Rule of Law 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥A conversation with Fordham Law School's Chinmayi Sharma and Sam Adler, authors of a new law review article, "Immigration Enforcement Intermediaries."
- Peter Thiel is building a parallel justice system — Powered by AI - Coda Story 🔥His investment in Objection.ai points to a new model: private investigations, AI verdicts, and accountability mechanisms that operate outside democratic institutions.
- Scoop: NSA using Anthropic's Mythos despite Defense Department blacklist† The government's cybersecurity needs are outweighing the Pentagon's feud with Anthropic.
- Iran cargo ship seized by US could become ‘spoils of war’ | CNN The US made good on its threat to board and seize any vessel defying its blockade of Iran’s ports on Sunday, with footage released by the military showing a guided-missile destroyer firing on the Iran...
- Tarasoff Meets the AI Age Imposing a duty on AI firms to protect or warn users could bring valuable clarity to today’s uncertain AI liability landscape.
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.
- Immigration Enforcement Intermediaries† 🔥🔥Fingerprints, facial recognition scans, genetic data, social media content, benefits documentation and more fuel the federal government's new immigration enforc ...
- Reflecting on Human Rights in Higgs 🔥In this article, we reflect upon three distinct human rights dimensions present in the Court of Appeal's judgment in Higgs v Farmor's School [2025] EWCA Civ 109 ...
- Tackling the 'Fake' Without Harming the 'News': A Paper Series on Regulatory Responses to Misinformation† Around the world, an increasing number of governments are responding to the threat posed by misinformation by passing repressive criminal content restrictions p ...
- Brief of Amicus Curiae American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Florida, Inc., in Support of Respondent Brooke Lynette Girley In 2021, Florida civil rights lawyer Jerry Girley represented a Florida doctor in a racial discrimination lawsuit against AdventHealth of Orlando in a jury tria ...
- Between Recognition and Erasure: Scheduled Caste Jurisprudence, Religious Conversion, and the Intergenerational Afterlife of Caste Two recent Supreme Court developments concerning Scheduled Caste (SC) status illuminate a deep contradiction in Indian constitutionalism. In State of Punjab v.
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.
- Agents of Chaos 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥We report an exploratory red-teaming study of autonomous language-model-powered agents deployed in a live laboratory environment with persistent memory, email accounts, Discord access, file systems, a...
- The LLM Fallacy: Misattribution in AI-Assisted Cognitive Workflows 🔥The rapid integration of large language models (LLMs) into everyday workflows has transformed how individuals perform cognitive tasks such as writing, programming, analysis, and multilingual communica...
- Attention to Mamba: A Recipe for Cross-Architecture Distillation† 🔥State Space Models (SSMs) such as Mamba have become a popular alternative to Transformer models, due to their reduced memory consumption and higher throughput at generation compared to their Attention...
- CoopEval: Benchmarking Cooperation-Sustaining Mechanisms and LLM Agents in Social Dilemmas† 🔥It is increasingly important that LLM agents interact effectively and safely with other goal-pursuing agents, yet, recent works report the opposite trend: LLMs with stronger reasoning capabilities beh...
- MetFuse: Figurative Fusion between Metonymy and Metaphor† Metonymy and metaphor often co-occur in natural language, yet computational work has studied them largely in isolation. We introduce a framework that transforms a literal sentence into three figurativ...
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) (promoted)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (promoted)
- National Security Counselors 🕵 (@nationalsecuritylaw.org) (promoted)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (promoted)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- ElieNYC (@elienyc.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (promoted)
- Matt Ford (@mford.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (promoted)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (promoted)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joe Patrice (@joepatrice.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Daniel Gilmore (@gilmored85.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagiragrant.com)
- Walter Olson (@walterolson.bsky.social) (relegated)
- AG Andrea Joy Campbell (@massago.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (relegated)
- No More Mr. Nice Popehat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (relegated)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Marty Lederman (@martylederman.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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