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.
- The U.S. Said It Helped Bomb a Drug Camp. It Was a Dairy Farm. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- The ugly history behind Trump’s birthright citizenship case in the Supreme Court 🔥🔥The peculiar legal argument behind Trump’s attack on citizenship was invented by 19th-century anti-Chinese racists.
- LaGuardia pilots raised safety alarms months before deadly runway crash 🔥Nasa reports show repeated warnings of close calls before crash that killed two pilots and injured 41 others ...
- T.S.A. Tipped Off ICE Agents Before Arrests at San Francisco Airport
- Wicked Stepmother No Longer, a Female Pharaoh Gets a Reputational Makeover
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.
- Why I Just Resigned From The Los Angeles Times 🔥🔥🔥By Harry Litman ...
- What Was Actually in the Mueller Report 🔥🔥There is an enormous amount of misinformation circulating about former Special Counsel Bob Mueller’s investigation into Russian attempts to influence the 2016 U.S.
- The End of the Poll Tax 🔥And, mark your calendars: Substack Live with Andrew Weissmann, Wednesday morning at 9am ET ...
- Farage's fossil fuel donors profit from Iran war Democracy for Sale analysis finds 'war premium' driving up energy costs is also boosting the portfolios of some of Reform's biggest backers ...
- March 24, 2026 This morning, economist Paul Krugman came right out and said it: “People close to Trump are trading based on national secrets.” Another word for that, he said, is “treason.” The evidence for such a cl...
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 Set to Discontinue Sora Video Platform App 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The app, released last year, allowed people to insert themselves into famous movie scenes, among other functions.
- Judge seems to doubt Pentagon's attempt to 'cripple' Anthropic is legal 🔥As a hearing began, Judge Lin called Hegseth's actions toward Anthopic "troubling," though perhaps short of "corporate murder."
- Tonight in Your Rights: The bots of war 🔥Anthropic sues to block Pete Hegseth's efforts to "destroy" the company's value because it insisted upon AI safety in warfare.
- Palantir extends reach into British state as it gets access to sensitive FCA data Exclusive: Allowing US tech firm to analyse intelligence in name of tackling fraud raises fresh concerns over privacy ...
- Order – #118 in Anthropic PBC v. U.S. Department of War (N.D. Cal., 3:26-cv-01996) – CourtListener.com NOTICE OF QUESTIONS FOR HEARING. Signed by Judge Rita F. Lin on 3/23/2026. (afm, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 3/23/2026) (Entered: 03/23/2026)
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.
- "Mere Machines": Why Originalism Requires Robotic Judging† 🔥🔥In 1776, Thomas Jefferson stated that a judge should be a “mere machine.” This statement captures the founding generation’s conception of the judicial ...
- Sports Betting Legalization Amplifies Emotional Cues & Intimate Partner Violence 🔥This study explores the relationship between legalized sports gambling, unexpected emotional cues, and reported intimate partner violence (IPV). Using crime dat ...
- Drafting Regulatory Preambles (Draft Report to the Administrative Conference of the United States)† This is a draft report to the Administrative Conference of the United States on best practices for drafting regulatory preambles in light of recent developments ...
- Democratic Sovereignty and the Prerogative to Make Money: The Case of the Federal Reserve† The surge of executive power unleashed by the Supreme Court has reached the Federal Reserve, provoking a crisis that the justices seem suddenly anxious to avoid ...
- Parker Immunity as a Wellspring of Democratic Governance† The antitrust laws establish foundational marketplace rules, embodying the principle that citizens, acting through their elected representatives, shoul ...
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.
- Terms of (Ab)Use: An Analysis of GenAI Services† 🔥🔥🔥Generative AI services like ChatGPT and Gemini are some of the fastest-growing consumer services. Individuals using such services must accept their terms of use before access, and conform to these ter...
- Thinking—Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender† 🔥🔥🔥People increasingly consult generative artificial intelligence (AI) while reasoning. As AI becomes embedded in daily thought, what becomes of human judgment? We ...
- How LLMs Distort Our Written Language† Large language models (LLMs) are used by over a billion people globally, most often to assist with writing. In this work, we demonstrate that LLMs not only alter the voice and tone of human writing, b...
- Nonstandard Errors in AI Agents We study whether state-of-the-art AI coding agents, given the same data and research question, produce the same empirical results. Deploying 150 autonomous Clau ...
- Author Page for Courtney M. Cox :: SSRN† Total downloads of all papers by Courtney M. Cox ...
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)
- ICYMI (Law) (@icymilaw.org)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net)
- Mike Godwin (@mnemonic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (promoted)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (promoted)
- Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 (@joshuafoust.com) (promoted)
- Sean Marotta (@smmarotta.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dorit Reiss (@doritreiss.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Noll (@david.noll.org) (promoted)
- Steve Herman (@newsguy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (promoted)
- Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joel S. (@joelhs.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (relegated)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Colarusso (@davidcolarusso.com) (relegated)
- National Security Counselors 🕵 (@nationalsecuritylaw.org) (relegated)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (relegated)
- Jolyon Maugham KC (@jolyon.goodlawproject.org) (relegated)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.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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