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 Orders Nearly 30 U.S. Ambassadors to Leave Their Posts 🔥🔥🔥
- ICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses 🔥🔥🔥The Trump administration wants to build seven large-scale deportation hubs to speed up deportations, internal ICE documents show.
- ‘They tricked me’: Migrants were promised $1,000 to voluntarily leave the US. Some never received it 🔥🔥🔥People who signed up for a US ‘self-deportation’ scheme say their payoffs were delayed, misdirected or never arrived – leaving them empty-handed in their home countries ...
- A Million More Epstein Documents Have Been Found, Justice Dept. Says 🔥🔥
- 19 States Sue to Block White House Plan to End Gender-Related Care for Minors 🔥
- Ministers raise inheritance tax threshold for farms after backlash 🔥U-turn lifts limit from £1m to £2.5m after protests and warnings that family farms were at risk ...
- US targets former EU commissioner, activists with visa bans over alleged censorship 🔥The Trump administration on Tuesday imposed visa bans on a former European Union commissioner and anti-disinformation campaigners it says were involved in censoring U.S. social media platforms, in the...
- Chasing an Economic Boom, White House Dismisses Risks of A.I. 🔥
- Get Ready to Start Hearing About Aileen Cannon Again 🔥The Florida-based judge is likely to once again play a central role in politics in the new year.
- Meet the man hunting the spies in your smartphone 🔥Ronald Deibert and his research group, the Citizen Lab, have rigorously worked to unveil alarming digital threats for the past two decades. Now, he warns, this kind of work is under threat.
- Former EU commissioner and activists barred from US in attack on European tech regulators† 🔥State department accuses group of pressuring tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints through regulation of disinformation ...
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 24, 2025 🔥🔥🔥Happy holidays to you all, however you celebrate...or don’t.
- NEWS: White House Sidelines Justice Department Over Epstein Public Relations as Chaos Mars Trump Administration 🔥Good morning everyone, and Merry Christmas Eve.
- The inhuman assault on Christmas 🔥On Christmas Carols, 1/2 ...
- Breaking: Federal judge in Pittsburgh blocks DOJ's invasive trans care subpoena The latest loss for DOJ, regarding the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's patients, also brings news that DOJ has started scaling back its requests following its many losses.
- The Amateurism of Bari Weiss No explanation of Bari Weiss' behavior speaks well of her recent job performance.
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.
- 'I Loved That AI:' Judge Moved by AI-Generated Avatar of Man Killed in Road Rage Incident† 🔥🔥🔥🔥How the sister of Christopher Pelkey made an avatar of him to testify in court.
- 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.
- The Age of the All-Access AI Agent Is Here 🔥Big AI companies courted controversy by scraping wide swaths of the public internet. With the rise of AI agents, the next data grab is far more private.
- Her daughter was unraveling, and she didn’t know why. Then she found the AI chat logs. A majority of teens are interacting with AI companions, and many of their parents have no idea.
- John Carreyrou and other authors bring new lawsuit against six major AI companies | TechCrunch These authors rejected Anthropic's class action settlement, arguing that "LLM companies should not be able to so easily extinguish thousands upon thousands of high-value claims at bargain-basement rates."
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.
- Government Repression of the Public Majority: Things are Objectively Bad, 83 Bench & Bar of Minnesota __ (Jan-Feb 2026) (forthcoming)† 🔥How civically bad are things in the United States? This bar journal essay grapples with this question that is getting constant discussion and tho ...
- THE SUPREME COURT AS DEATH PANEL: THE NECROPOLITICS OF BRUEN AND DOBBS† 🔥Two decisions in 2022, issued only a day apart, represent a dramatic and deadly escalation of the Supreme Court's politicized jurisprudence. In New York State R ...
- Teaching Torture at the School of the Americas† A few years ago, the author of this article visited the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Old women carrying large photographs of their dead children ma ...
- Foreign Affairs Prosecutions and Cybercrime In his article Contested Criminalization, Professor Steven Koh advances a theory of how the United States sets its global criminal justice policy, in which it u ...
- Scripting Expertise: The History of Handwriting Identification Evidence and the Judicial Construction of Reliability Expert evidence in handwriting identification - the claim to be able to identify an author from an examination of written documents - has, after a century of us ...
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.
- Controllable Probabilistic Forecasting with Stochastic Decomposition Layers† 🔥🔥🔥AI weather prediction ensembles with latent noise injection and optimized with the continuous ranked probability score (CRPS) have produced both accurate and well-calibrated predictions with far less ...
- 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...
- Extremal descendant integrals on moduli spaces of curves: An inequality discovered and proved in collaboration with AI For the pure $ψ$-class intersection numbers $D(\textbf{e})=\langle τ_{e_1} \cdots τ_{e_n} \rangle_g$ on the moduli space $\overline{\mathcal{M}}_{g,n}$ of stable curves, we determine for which choices...
- Graph Transformers: A Survey ArXiv link for Graph Transformers: A Survey ...
- Machine Learning meets Algebraic Combinatorics: A Suite of Datasets Capturing Research-level Conjecturing Ability in Pure Mathematics With recent dramatic increases in AI system capabilities, there has been growing interest in utilizing machine learning for reasoning-heavy, quantitative tasks, particularly mathematics. While there a...
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)
- Joe Dudek (@joedudekjd.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- Jolyon Maugham KC (@goodlawproject.org) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael McDonald (@electproject.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Brody (@dbrody.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Burbach 🇺🇸🌹 (@dburbach.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social)
- Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 (@joshuafoust.com) (promoted)
- Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don’t Have To Apologize For Being Popehat Anymore (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (promoted)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- The Questionable Authority (@questauthority.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joshua Erlich (@joshuaerlich.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Deborah Pearlstein (@debpearlstein.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mike Sacks (@mikesacks.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonathanmladd.com) (relegated)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (relegated)
- Dan Sohege (@danielsohege.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden (@sandraduffy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sam Bagenstos (@sbagen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- ❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ (@sababausa.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael Clemens (@mclem.org) (relegated)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.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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