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.
- ICE can't make warrantless arrests in Oregon unless there's risk of escape, judge rules 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥U.S. immigration agents in Oregon must stop arresting people without warrants unless there's a likelihood of escape, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
- ‘Don Colossus,’ a Golden Statue of President Trump, Waits for Its Home 🔥🔥
- Congress Receives Redacted Version of Whistleblower Complaint Against Gabbard 🔥🔥Significant portions of the document had been blacked out for executive privilege.
- Brad Karp Resigns as Paul Weiss Chairman Amid Epstein Fallout 🔥
- “You’re Not Going to Investigate a Federal Officer” 🔥It doesn’t happen often, but local law enforcement can arrest and charge federal agents. Legal experts say there’s a moral obligation to at least try to hold federal immigration officers accountable w...
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.
- 150 days of Kavanaugh stops, and it just keeps getting worse 🔥🔥🔥Kavanaugh stops would always be bad. As a tool in the Trump administration's authoritarianism arsenal, they are worse. The consequences are everywhere.
- Major Update: Fallout Explodes After Epstein Files Drop as Clintons Demand to Testify Publicly, People Lose Their Jobs, and World Leaders Issue Apologies 🔥We woke up to major developments this morning, and it’s no exaggeration to say the dam is breaking after the release of the Epstein files.
- Important News Update: New Significant Epstein Documents Revealed as White House Struggles to Shift the Public Narrative 🔥Good evening, everyone.
- February 5, 2026 🔥The past two days have seen a growing struggle between Democrats, who are demanding accountability from the Trump administration, and Republicans trying to hide what the administration is up to.
- The Shuttered Stage: Why Trump Is Really Closing the Kennedy Center Behind the two-year "revitalization" is a strategic retreat from a historic cultural rejection—and a calculated attempt to overwrite the American story.
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.
- The Most Dangerous Corporation in America?† 🔥🔥🔥🔥The AI surveillance state is real — and it's being built by Palantir.
- Trump Administration Official Says Quiet Part Out Loud on AI-in-Government Plans A ProPublica report on plans to use AI to write regulations at the US Department of Transportation should be a warning signal, writes Jordan Ascher.
- AI-generated text is overwhelming institutions – setting off a no-win ‘arms race’ with AI detectors People are using generative AI to flood courts with filings, legislatures with constituent letters and publications with submissions. AI detectors are no silver bullet.
- The Missing Fair Use Argument in the Copyright Battle Over AI Summaries Robert Diab walks through litigation over AI overviews and the unresolved questions they raise over copyright and fair use.
- a man with glasses and a ring on his finger says " yeah that 's gonna be a no from me dawg " ALT: a man with glasses and a ring on his finger says " yeah that 's gonna be a no from me dawg "
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 ...
- Paying For The Crime And The Time: Pay-To-Stay Laws And Constitutional Limits Pay-to-stay laws allow states to seek reimbursement from currently or formerly incarcerated people for the costs of their incarceration. These statutes impose s ...
- Skrmetti, Trump, and the Coming Sex Equality Realignment† This Essay considers the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Skrmetti alongside the Trump Administration’s recent actions. In Skrmetti, w ...
- Collective Coverage: How Group Homeowners Insurance Could Promote Climate Adaptation and Resilience† Property insurers have long been heralded as potential leaders in driving adaptation and resilience to the accelerating impacts of climate change. In practice,
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.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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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