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.
- Trump Removes Sanctions on Russia to Help Oil Flow Amid Iran Conflict 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Trump Administration Readies Plans to Dismantle Renowned Science Lab 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Opinion | The Justice Department Wants to Make It Safe for Government Lawyers to Lie 🔥🔥
- The U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It. 🔥🔥The Pentagon dismantled its civilian protection mission as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority and the Trump administration reorganized national security around two principl...
- Five Air Force Refueling Planes Hit in Iranian Strike on Saudi Arabia 🔥🔥Five U.S. Air Force refueling planes were struck and damaged on the ground at Prince Sultan air base in Saudi Arabia, according to two U.S. officials. The tankers were hit during an Iranian missile st...
- Hegseth’s Boasts of ‘Maximum’ Engagement Authorities Face Scrutiny After School Is Hit 🔥
- Trump Knew the Risk of Iran Blocking the Strait of Hormuz. He Still Went to War. 🔥The president told his White House team that Tehran would likely capitulate before closing the strait, the world’s most vital shipping lane.
- US judge temporarily blocks Trump from ending protections for 1,100 Somalis 🔥A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked U.S. President Donald Trump's administration from ending legal protections next week that have allowed nearly 1,100 Somalis to live and work in the Un...
- Lauren Halsey's monumental sculpture park opens in South-Central L.A., part of a 'Black renaissance' in art 🔥Lauren Halsey has finally realized her dream of creating a monumental work of installation art for — and about — her neighborhood. 'sister dreamer,' will be helmed by Halsey's nonprofit, Summaeverytha...
- More Marines and Warships Head to Middle East as Hormuz Mission Intensifies 🔥The Pentagon has also weighed sending more destroyers to the region to escort tankers through the strait.
- DOGE Deposition Videos Taken Down After Judge Order and Widespread Mockery 🔥The government asked a judge to stop the spread of the videos on YouTube. The judge agreed and ordered their immediate removal.
- Phillipson accuses lawyers of exploiting parents of children with special needs 🔥Education secretary claims lawyers’ criticisms of her department’s policy changes are motivated by profit ...
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.
- Important Update: Knives are Out as Vance Distances Himself from Trump on Iran, Trump Blacklists Noem, Significant New Epstein Developments 🔥🔥We have major developments tonight.
- Saturday Morning Coffee with Georgia Democrat Shawn Harris: He's Headed to Congress 🔥🔥Substack Live Saturday Morning at 9am ET ...
- The Myth of America First† 🔥How Donald Trump’s Retreat from Expertise Made the Iran Conflict Far More Dangerous ...
- A War Still in Search of a Mission 🔥Changing your mind about the goals of war after you’ve started one is never a good idea ...
- March 13, 2026 🔥Despite reports that Russia is providing Iran with intelligence that permits it to target U.S.
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.
- Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.
- Anthropic Sues the Administration† Here's why Trump wanted to bring firms to heel with his executive orders. Here's what can happen when he fails.
- Anthropic’s Lawsuit Should Absolutely Destroy the Pentagon in Court† But make no mistake: The company is not one of the good guys.
- Lawyer behind AI psychosis cases warns of mass casualty risks | TechCrunch AI chatbots have been linked to suicides for years. Now one lawyer says they are showing up in mass casualty cases too, and the technology is moving faster than the safeguards.
- Iranian school was on U.S. target list, may have been mistaken as military site† The strike on an Iranian elementary school killed at least 175, many of them children, raising questions as to whether the military’s use of AI-enabled targeting was a factor.
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 War on DEI as a Project of Constitutional Subversion 🔥🔥This Article examines how the second Trump Administration’s aggressive attacks on policies and speech associated with diversity, equity, and inclusi ...
- Known to Police: the Revival of Juvenile Curfews A few years ago, in response to an uptick in crime rates, many cities revived a familiar tool-juvenile curfews. Yet unlike prior iter ...
- The Neuroscience of Brain Injury in Criminal Cases: An International Scope Broadly interpreted, neuroscientific evidence encompasses all information about the brain and its functions, including various types of brain injury. In recent ...
- Birthright Citizenship Re-Examined In 2020, I argued in Originalism and Birthright Citizenship that the original meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment's Citizenship Clause guaranteed U.S. ci ...
- How Design Patent Law Lost Its Shape Under U.S. law, patents are available for “any new, original and ornamental design for an article of manufacture.” Today, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (
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.
- What We Don't C: Manifold Disentanglement for Structured Discovery† 🔥🔥🔥Accessing information in learned representations is critical for annotation, discovery, and data filtering in disciplines where high-dimensional datasets are common. We introduce What We Don't C, a no...
- A Labour of Harm: Artificial Intelligence and Biological Weapons Acquisition Discussions of artificial intelligence (AI) and biological weapons (BW) have largely focused on laboratory-facing capabilities, treating acquisition as ...
- Data-Driven Integration Kernels for Interpretable Nonlocal Operator Learning Machine learning models can represent climate processes that are nonlocal in horizontal space, height, and time, often by combining information across these dimensions in highly nonlinear ways. While ...
- Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy (short paper) The wording of natural language prompts has been shown to influence the performance of large language models (LLMs), yet the role of politeness and tone remains underexplored. In this study, we invest...
- Enabling Innovation and Protecting Consumers in the Agentic Economy: Why the Digital Fairness Act Should Regulate Agentic AI Agentic AI is widely seen as the next major evolution in the field of artificial intelligence. Unlike chatbots, AI agents are able to browse the web and autonom ...
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)
- Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jamal Greene (@jamalgreene.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dr. SkySkull (@drskyskull.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Eric Columbus (@ericcolumbus.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dan Kaszeta FRHistS (@dankaszeta.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Owen Barcala (@obarcala.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Maryam Jamshidi (@msjamshidi.bsky.social) (promoted)
- southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social)
- National Security Counselors 🕵 (@nationalsecuritylaw.org) (promoted)
- Paul Gowder (@gowder.io) (promoted)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (relegated)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (relegated)
- Nate Raymond (@nateraymond.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (relegated)
- Shanlon Wu (@shanlonwu.com) (relegated)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (relegated)
- Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- The Questionable Authority (@questauthority.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 (@joshuafoust.com) (relegated)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org) (relegated)
- David Colarusso (@davidcolarusso.com) (relegated)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joe Stieb (@joestieb.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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