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.
- Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Under Trump, the Department of Homeland Security has weaponized administrative subpoenas to attack free speech, according to privacy and civil rights groups.
- Musk's X office in France raided by Paris prosecutor 🔥🔥🔥🔥The Paris prosecutor says its cyber-crime unit is conducting a search of X's offices.
- Opinion | Democracy Dies by Database 🔥
- First major medical group opposes gender transition surgeries for youth 🔥The American Society of Plastic Surgeons said doctors should delay gender-related surgeries until age 19, citing “insufficient evidence” that benefits outweigh risks.
- Trump, in an Escalation, Calls for Republicans to ‘Nationalize’ Elections† 🔥
- Human Rights Watch researchers resign after report on Palestinian right of return blocked 🔥The organization claims the report, which finds Israel’s denial of the right of return is a crime against humanity, is ‘paused pending further analysis and research’
- EU has 'open mind' on UK customs union debate, says commissioner 🔥Valdis Dombrovskis says the EU is willing to engage with Britain amid mounting global uncertainty.
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.
- Today In Court 🔥🔥🔥What a prosecutor in Minnesota said ...
- Major Update: Democrats Pledge to Haul Trump and his Kids to Testify as DOJ Lawyer Begs Judge to Jail Her so She Can Sleep 🔥Good evening everyone.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 300. 2/3/26 🔥… FOX9 (MN) reported that a DOJ attorney melted down in federal court while trying to defend the Trump admin’s conduct: “SHOCKING FEDERAL COURT MOMENT: DOJ attorney Julie Le, ‘The system sucks, this j...
- February 3, 2026 🔥Yesterday, the day before Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s termination of Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation, U.S.
- DOJ Hid This Epstein Death Pic 🔥Unreleased photos show unexplained bruise. GRAPHIC.
- "The system sucks," or what a federal lawyer's comments really tell us about the Trump admin 🔥Julie Le's comments are shocking, but they are a problem of the Trump admin’s own making. And it goes way beyond one lawyer new to the Minnesota U.S. Attorney's Office.
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.
- How Stephen Miller Stokes Trump’s Boundary-Pushing Impulses — The Wall Street Journal 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The White House aide has been an architect of aggressive immigration sweeps in U.S. cities and deadly boat strikes in the Caribbean ...
- DHS AI Surveillance Arsenal Grows as Agency Defies Courts† 🔥A Department of Homeland Security AI inventory contains details on new tools used by ICE and border patrol agents in Trump's deportation campaign.
- Inside Musk’s bet to hook users that turned Grok into a porn generator† 🔥Under pressure to boost its popularity, Elon Musk’s xAI loosened guardrails and relaxed controls on sexual content, setting off internal concern.
- 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...
- 2026 Out: Copyright On Copyright law, personhood, and technologies of reproduction ...
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 is Not Invasion† 🔥🔥 In recent years, state governments and the second Trump Administration have increasingly advanced the argument that illegal migration and cross-border dr ...
- Quasi-Judicial: A History and Tradition The Supreme Court’s recent removal cases have revived a foundational question in constitutional law: whether all administration must be controlled by ...
- Prescription Drug Policing: The Right to Health Information Privacy Pre- and Post-Carpenter This article operates at the intersection of privacy law, Fourth Amendment doctrine, and public health realities triggered by the United States drug overdose ep ...
- How John Searle and the Chicago Supermob Took Out Northwestern University: The Case of the 'Mislaid' Methodists and Proposals to Reform Nonprofit Laws In 1851, the Illinois state legislature passed "An Act to Incorporate The Northwestern University," an institution to be run under the control and pat ...
- Is Originalism Too Conservative? Originalism as an approach to constitutional theory and constitutional interpretation is often associated with conservative politics. Is originalism a principl ...
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.
- Perplexity Cannot Always Tell Right from Wrong† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Perplexity -- a function measuring a model's overall level of "surprise" when encountering a particular output -- has gained significant traction in recent years, both as a loss function and as a simp...
- Are LLMs Smarter Than Chimpanzees? An Evaluation on Perspective Taking and Knowledge State Estimation 🔥🔥🔥Cognitive anthropology suggests that the distinction of human intelligence lies in the ability to infer other individuals' knowledge states and understand their intentions. In comparison, our closest ...
- 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...
- Bowling with ChatGPT: On the Evolving User Interactions with Conversational AI Systems Recent studies have discussed how users are increasingly using conversational AI systems, powered by LLMs, for information seeking, decision support, and even emotional support. However, these macro-l...
- Future of Work with AI Agents: Auditing Automation and Augmentation Potential across the U.S. Workforce ArXiv link for Future of Work with AI Agents: Auditing Automation and Augmentation Potential across the U.S. Workforce ...
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)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Joshua Erlich (@joshuaerlich.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (promoted)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com)
- Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Ho (@davidho.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Noll (@david.noll.org) (relegated)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (relegated)
- Colin Murray (@colinmurray.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Gambled And Lost Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jakub Jaraczewski (@jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.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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