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.
- Opinion | I’ve Covered Police Abuse for 20 Years. What ICE Is Doing Is Different. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Federal officials launch ICE operation in Maine and begin arrests 🔥🔥🔥🔥“Everyone is on high alert,” Portland Mayor Mark Dion said. His city and nearby Lewiston have seen an influx of migrants and asylum seekers in recent years.
- US court allows ICE to arrest and pepper-spray peaceful protesters in Minnesota 🔥In victory for Trump administration, appeals court has temporarily lifted injunction as JD Vance set to visit state ...
- How the NHS became the battleground in the trans debate at work 🔥What's next for employers and their staff in the aftermath of the Darlington nurses ruling?
- Autopsy report classifies ICE detainee’s death as a homicide 🔥The report deeming an ICE detainee’s death in Texas a homicide comes the same day that a federal judge temporarily barred the deportation of two witnesses.
- ‘Nostalgia is not a strategy’: Mark Carney is emerging as the unflinching realist ready to tackle Trump 🔥In a speech at Davos, written by Carney himself, the Canadian prime minister laid out his doctrine for a world of fractured international norms ...
- Zelenskyy and Trump to meet later today to discuss Ukraine war – Europe live 🔥US president confirms meeting and says he is ‘dealing with president Putin and he wants to make a deal’
- Nearly 400 millionaires and billionaires call for higher taxes on super-rich 🔥Mark Ruffalo, Brian Eno and Abigail Disney sign letter timed for WEF in Davos saying wealthy are buying political influence ...
- ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials 🔥Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas ...
- Wall Street Chiefs Lay Low to Avoid Trump’s Trolling 🔥Financiers are doing a careful dance to help clients navigate the president’s second term without provoking his ire ...
- Opinion | Trump’s Norway Letter Proves This Isn’t Sustainable 🔥
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.
- Well Europe, Do You Get It Finally? Standing Up To Trump Works Better Than Prostrating Yourself 🔥🔥Now, do the same about Ukraine ...
- January 21, 2026 🔥🔥At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this morning, a visibly exhausted president of the United States of America rambled in angry free association in a speech before the world’s leaders.
- DOJ's defense of Trump's Fed firing effort falls flat at SCOTUS 🔥Fed Governor Lisa Cook looks safe in her job for now. No justice was eager to back Solicitor General John Sauer's arguments for Trump on Wednesday.
- NEWS: Trump Caves to Europe on Greenland 'Deal' as ICE Begins Large Scale Operations in Maine 🔥Good afternoon, everyone.
- Snapshot: The Bully in Davos 🔥Donald Trump lied to, threatened and insulted once-steadfast European allies today, even as he insisted he would "not use force" in Greenland ...
- When Stating The Law Triggers a DOJ Probe 🔥Elissa Slotkin and predication-free investigations ...
- LIVE SOON: Bye-bye Lindsey. Hello possible new lawsuit in the Epstein files matter. 🔥Starting Jan 21 at 8:30 PM EST ...
- A Painful Case: Prosecuting an Officer Who Was Part of the Slow Response in Uvalde 🔥If you’re seeing this shortly after I send it at 9 ET, Katie Phang and I are about to do an impromptu Substack live.
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.
- Man Who Had Managed Mental Illness Effectively for Years Says ChatGPT Sent Him Into Hospitalization for Psychosis 🔥🔥🔥🔥John Jacquez successfully managed a mental illness for years, he says. Then ChatGPT reinforced delusions, spiraling him into "AI psychosis."
- Pro-AI Super PACs Are Already All In on the Midterms 🔥🔥🔥Silicon Valley’s battle against AI regulation is already shaping the next US election cycle.
- Claude’s new constitution 🔥Late last year Richard Weiss found something interesting while poking around with the just-released Claude Opus 4.5: he was able to talk the model into regurgitating a document which was …
- Cancel ChatGPT Edu. Invest in Humans. 🔥In February 2025, the California State University system announced a $17 million contract with OpenAI to provide ChatGPT Edu to all faculty, staff, and students on its 22 CSU campuses as part of a lar...
- 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."
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 Part IV Problem in Legal Scholarship 🔥🔥This essay is a call to eliminate the de facto requirement that a law review article conclude with a list of actionable and feasible prescriptions, usually law ...
- 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 ...
- Legalizing Cannabis: Implications for Child Maltreatment 🔥Cannabis is the most used illicit drug in the United States. Though cannabis possession and consumption are prohibited federally, states are increasingly implem ...
- Aspirational Attribution: A Response to Lemley & Ouellette, Plagiarism, Copyright, and AI This essay is a short response to Mark A. Lemley and Lisa Larrimore Ouellette's article "Plagiarism, Copyright, and AI" (forthcoming University of Chi ...
- Youth Privacy's Constitutional Reckoning Youth privacy law today shares the logics and pathologies of the U.S. Supreme Court's jurisprudence about parental rights over children. We argue that this reli ...
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.
- Library Workers in Times of Hype: AI Edition† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Library workers can be AI literacy leaders without using, or encouraging the use of, generative AI tools.
- 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-...
- The unreasonable effectiveness of pattern matching 🔥We report on an astonishing ability of large language models (LLMs) to make sense of "Jabberwocky" language in which most or all content words have been randomly replaced by nonsense strings, e.g., tr...
- Aspirational Attribution: A Response to Lemley & Ouellette, Plagiarism, Copyright, and AI This essay is a short response to Mark A. Lemley and Lisa Larrimore Ouellette's article "Plagiarism, Copyright, and AI" (forthcoming University of Chi ...
- Shifting norms in scholarly publications: trends in readability, objectivity, authorship, and AI use Academic and scientific publishing practices have changed significantly in recent years. This paper presents an analysis of 17 million research papers published since 2000 to explore changes in author...
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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