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.
- Exclusive: UAE to unlock billions of dollars for Iran, sources say 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The United Arab Emirates has agreed to unlock billions of dollars for Iran, four sources said, in a tactical shift after weeks of Iranian attacks on the wealthy Gulf Arab state during the U.S.-Israel...
- U.S. Plan Is Said to Pull a Third of Fighter Jets It Provides NATO for Europe 🔥🔥🔥
- Opinion | This Could Be the Winning Issue for Democrats 🔥🔥
- Autistic children being injected with unapproved stem cell treatments supported by RFK Jr 🔥🔥Desperate US parents paying up to $20,000 a session for a procedure scientists say could be bogus ...
- Antarctica’s west coast missing an area of sea ice the size of France as temperatures peak 20C above average 🔥🔥A vast area of the Bellingshausen Sea should be covered by sea ice by now, with one expert calling the loss of ice ‘depressing’
- 'I spent uni savings on getting my teeth fixed' - the real cost of NHS dentist shortage 🔥People tell BBC Your Voice the rising cost of private dentistry is putting them in a difficult position.
- ‘Autistic kids are being experimented on’: inside America’s booming market for unproven stem cell infusions 🔥Feeling abandoned and overwhelmed, families are turning to controversial new therapies backed by the US health secretary ...
- DOE head says agency didn’t punish blue states. His lawyers admit it did. 🔥A federal judge ordered the Energy Department to restore another 11 grants after its lawyers acknowledged it aimed to punish Democrats.
- Judge orders Trump administration to restore national park signage on climate change, slavery 🔥A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore signs related to topics such as climate change, slavery and Indigenous and LGBTQ+ history that were removed under an executive order to ...
- Trump administration must restore history, science materials at parks, US judge rules 🔥A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Friday to reinstall exhibits and signs on topics like slavery and climate change that it had removed from parks and monuments nationwide because t...
- Trump Pardons Former Congressman Convicted of Insider Trading 🔥
- This Company Will Add Phone, AirPod, and Smartwatch Trackers to License Plate Readers 🔥SignalTrace “links devices that regularly travel together, correlating them to license plate.” It is a surveillance product that will sweep up and add all sorts of Bluetooth and other data to license ...
- The world’s first trillionaire is a killer 🔥Elon Musk’s empire of wealth is built on suffering.
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.
- When the Impossible Becomes Possible 🔥🔥🔥Democrats can learn from the New York Knicks: Fight hard. Never give up.
- Growing Cracks in Putin’s Dictatorship 🔥Predictions of Putin’s demise have been wrong many times before, but something is happening in Russia now that deserves more attention.
- NEWS: Congress Demands JD Vance's Testimony, Epstein Criminal Investigation Heats Up, Trump Fears Impeachment, Iran 'Deal' Unraveling Again Good morning, everyone.
- June 12, 2026 Today was the deadline set by Judge Christopher R.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 399. 6/12/26 … It is unclear whether Trump’s name is being removed from the Kennedy Center by court order tonight.
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: Democrats unveil plan to protect elections from Trump, AI† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥“The ballot box is the beating heart of democracy, and we must use every tool at our disposal to protect it,” Sen. Merkley said.
- A German Court Has Ruled That Google Is Liable for False Statements Generated by AI Overviews 🔥The ruling holds that a company that designs, trains, operates, and manages an AI system must assume legal liability for any damages caused by the responses it generates.
- The Real Cost Of Cooling GPUs In Space Might Shock You Shedding heat will require ingenious new designs ...
- Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google† Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry.
- Massive Effigy of Elon Musk Raised Over Times Square to Protest Grok Activists raised a 40-foot-tall inflatable Elon Musk in Manhattan to draw attention to the risk he allegedly poses to investors.
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.
- Data Privacy Federalism 3.0 🔥🔥Federalism is a bedrock concept in the political organization of the United States. It is also a topic of intensive scholarly attention. Yet, compared to oth ...
- State-Mediated Structural Injustice This piece examines the role of the law in relation to structural injustice. It argues that by examining legal rules closely when considering certain i ...
- What Copyright Can’t Do† Copyright has become a powerful regulatory regime for modern American life. Copyrighted works, including text, images, video, sounds, music, and so ...
- Moody v. NetChoice and Telecom Law's First Amendment† Over the past quarter-century, industrial speech law and policy have converged on novel First Amendment questions about the regulation of the domin ...
- The Fixed-Term Presidency, Revisited† A four-year presidential term offers plenty of time for a rogue president to inflict significant damage. Despite this truism, over the history of the United ...
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.
- A case study of evaluating AI agents on a neuroscience data-to-discovery pipeline† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Agentic AI tools offer a promising path to automating software development bottlenecks in scientific research pipelines, particularly for stages that take domain experts days to months to build, where...
- SatLM: Satisfiability-Aided Language Models Using Declarative Prompting 🔥Prior work has combined chain-of-thought prompting in large language models (LLMs) with programmatic representations to perform effective and transparent reasoning. While such an approach works well f...
- An Ocean Model Ported by a Large Language Model: Experience and Lessons from FESOM2 (Fortran to C to C++/Kokkos)† Large language models (LLMs) can translate and modify source code, and have been shown to do so for codes of different complexity. Whether they can port a complete, production geophysical model to a d...
- Bayesian Causal Machine Learning for Cure Models In survival studies, treatments can benefit patients through different mechanisms: a treatment may increase the probability of being cured or delay failure among patients who are not cured. Quantifyin...
- ClinicalBench: Can LLMs Beat Traditional ML Models in Clinical Prediction? ArXiv link for ClinicalBench: Can LLMs Beat Traditional ML Models in Clinical Prediction?
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) (promoted)
- ICYMI (Law) (@icymilaw.org)
- Steve Herman (@newsguy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jolyon Maugham KC (@jolyon.goodlawproject.org)
- Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE (@leftistlawyer.com) (promoted)
- Deborah Pearlstein (@debpearlstein.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anna O. Law (@unlawfulentries.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (promoted)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org) (promoted)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jakub Jaraczewski (@jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Omri Marian (@omrimarian.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (relegated)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jenn (@jennburrill.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Robert Black (@hurricanexyz.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jacob T. Levy (@jacobtlevy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jameel Jaffer (@jameeljaffer.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Eric Columbus (@ericcolumbus.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.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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