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.
- Former ICE instructor testifies that agency slashed training for new officers 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥A former instructor for Immigration and Customs Enforcement told congressional Democrats the agency has cut “vital classes” from mandatory training for recruits.
- Reform would create ICE-style agency and end leave to remain, Zia Yusuf to say† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Nigel Farage’s party plans to deport up to 288,000 people a year on five flights a day and expand stop and search ...
- Lessons from the Minnesota’s Civil Contempt Case 🔥“The government’s understaffing and high case load is a problem of its own making,” a federal judge observed.
- This economic idea transfixed Wall Street and Washington. It may be a mirage. 🔥Massive investment in AI contributed “basically zero” to U.S. economic growth last year, Goldman Sachs has calculated.
- Reform promises agency to ensure illegal migrant removals 🔥The party's new home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf says it would be a ...
- UK is set to be among worst hit by Trump's 15% tariff, analysis suggests 🔥US allies will suffer the biggest hit from the president's latest announcement, think tank Global Trade Alert says.
- Lord Mandelson arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office 🔥The ex-US ambassador had been under investigation over allegations he shared market-sensitive government information with Jeffrey Epstein while a government minister.
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.
- The SAVE Act is Christian Nationalism in Action 🔥🔥🔥Gendered Burdens and the Right to Vote ...
- If DOJ Is Trump's Law Firm, Aileen Cannon Is His Judge 🔥🔥South District of Florida federal Judge Aileen Cannon has history with Donald Trump.
- Maine immigration observers sue over Trump admin "domestic terrorist watchlist" threats 🔥The First Amendment lawsuit will seek class-action relief. Also: The Supreme Court will be hearing an important climate case next term. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 314. 2/23/26 s3://substack-content/post/188905386/2026-02-23T23-01-16-893Z/16371328/3a0e7e250330fed832ea586a8bf29e3891026a6b ...
- Important Mid-Day Update: U.S. Women's Hockey Rejects Trump's Invite, Major New Arrest Made in Connection to Epstein, and Trump's Approval Tanks Good afternoon.
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.
- Exclusive | OpenAI Employees Raised Alarms About Canada Shooting Suspect Months Ago† 🔥🔥🔥🔥The ChatGPT maker opted against informing Canadian authorities about Jesse Van Rootselaar’s descriptions of violence last June.
- How the National Media Failed Minnesota 🔥🔥🔥🔥And how Trump mastered the omniscandal.
- As Musk’s xAI Data Centers Encroach on Southaven, North Mississippi Residents Push Back† As Elon Musk’s xAI expands its data centers into Southaven, Mississippi, residents are decrying noise pollution and raising concerns over emissions.
- Meta's AI Patent to Simulate Dead People Shows the Dangers of 'Spectral Labor' Researchers say Meta’s patent for simulating dead users could be a “turning point” in “AI resurrections.”
- Korea's top TV networks sue OpenAI for training ChatGPT with their news South Korea's three major terrestrial broadcasters KBS, MBC, and SBS filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, seeking an injunction to halt alleged copyright infringemen ...
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.
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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.
- Knowledge Editing for Large Language Models: A Survey† 🔥🔥Large language models (LLMs) have recently transformed both the academic and industrial landscapes due to their remarkable capacity to understand, analyze, and generate texts based on their vast knowl...
- Large Language Model Reasoning Failures 🔥Large Language Models (LLMs) have exhibited remarkable reasoning capabilities, achieving impressive results across a wide range of tasks. Despite these advances, significant reasoning failures persist...
- The Digital Divide in Generative AI: Evidence from Large Language Model Use in College Admissions Essays
- Alignment Pretraining: AI Discourse Causes Self-Fulfilling (Mis)alignment ArXiv link for Alignment Pretraining: AI Discourse Causes Self-Fulfilling (Mis)alignment ...
- The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity† Recent generations of language models have introduced Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) that generate detailed thinking processes before providing answers. While these models demonstrate improved performa...
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)
- Aaron Parnas (@aaronparnas.bsky.social) (promoted)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (promoted)
- Eric Segall (@espinsegall.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (promoted)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (promoted)
- David Ho (@davidho.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Kaye (@davidakaye.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (relegated)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (relegated)
- DrDinD.bsky.social (@drdind.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Andrew Weinstein (@andrewjweinstein.com) (relegated)
- ElieNYC (@elienyc.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) (relegated)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Omri Marian (@omrimarian.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (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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