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.
- U.S. Installs a Trump Loyalist to Lead ‘Grand Conspiracy’ Case Into Trump Foes 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Pregnancy vaccine reduces baby hospital admissions for RSV by 80% 🔥🔥🔥🔥A study confirms the vaccine gives excellent protection for babies against life-threatening chest infections.
- Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? 🔥🔥Suspicious wagers on the US-Israel war in Iran are creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers ...
- D.C. police sought to arrest Rep. Cory Mills after assault call, records show 🔥A woman called 911 to report that the Florida congressman had assaulted her, then recanted the story after appearing to talk to Mills, body-camera footage shows.
- Behind Trump’s Public Bravado on the War, He Grapples With His Own Fears 🔥The president’s impulsive style has never been tested in a sustained military conflict, and he’s been ruminating on Jimmy Carter’s failure in Iran.
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 2016 Supreme Court memos and the mess that John Roberts has made of his court 🔥🔥The New York Times scoop about the Clean Power Plan case SCOTUS memos highlights the conservative justices' brazen disregard for their own rules — both then and now.
- A Bellwether Prosecution in Minnesota 🔥State assault charges against ICE agent can pave the way for charging killers of Good and Pretti. Plus, Friday's Lighter Fare.
- Thinking Live with Phillips O'Brien on War in Iran and Ukraine 🔥A recording from my conversation with Phillips O'Brien ...
- The Week Ahead 🔥We seem doomed to another week of war news.
- April 19, 2026 🔥On the evening of April 18, 1775, the people who lived in the British colony of Massachusetts had gone to bed with the sun, as usual.
- NEWS: Military Leaders Excluded Trump from Situation Room Over Concerns, Mass Shooting Kills 8 Children, Trump Threatens War Crimes 🔥Good afternoon everyone.
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.
- Why Palantir's ImmigrationOS Endangers Democracy and the Rule of Law 🔥🔥🔥🔥A conversation with Fordham Law School's Chinmayi Sharma and Sam Adler, authors of a new law review article, "Immigration Enforcement Intermediaries."
- A Family Feud at an Oregon Winery Turns to Vinegar Over A.I. Slop She wanted to pry her late mother’s vineyard from two of her brothers. Instead, her lawyers were fined nearly $110,000 for citing bogus case law generated by artificial intelligence.
- Scoop: NSA using Anthropic's Mythos despite Defense Department blacklist The government's cybersecurity needs are outweighing the Pentagon's feud with Anthropic.
- Anthropic Code Crisis Creates Copyright Contradiction† For publishers, authors, and other creators, the schadenfreude might feel well-earned, writes James Ball. But is it justified?
- Thousands of authors seek share of Anthropic copyright settlement† Nearly 120,000 authors and other copyright holders are seeking a share of a $1.5 billion class-action settlement with Anthropic over the company's unauthorized use of their books in artificial-intelligence training, according to a filing in California federal court.
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 Enforcement Intermediaries 🔥Fingerprints, facial recognition scans, genetic data, social media content, benefits documentation and more fuel the federal government's new immigration enforc ...
- Tackling the 'Fake' Without Harming the 'News': A Paper Series on Regulatory Responses to Misinformation Around the world, an increasing number of governments are responding to the threat posed by misinformation by passing repressive criminal content restrictions p ...
- Play Ball! The Stories of Hall of Fame Attorneys (book review essay)† Perhaps the greatest honor for a baseball player is induction to the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. Eleven of the in ...
- Article II Vests Executive Power, Not the Royal Prerogative† (This is Part 1 of a two-article series. The second installment — also available on SSRN — is called “The Executive Power Clause.”)Article II of the Uni ...
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.
- CoopEval: Benchmarking Cooperation-Sustaining Mechanisms and LLM Agents in Social Dilemmas† 🔥🔥🔥It is increasingly important that LLM agents interact effectively and safely with other goal-pursuing agents, yet, recent works report the opposite trend: LLMs with stronger reasoning capabilities beh...
- Attention to Mamba: A Recipe for Cross-Architecture Distillation† 🔥🔥🔥State Space Models (SSMs) such as Mamba have become a popular alternative to Transformer models, due to their reduced memory consumption and higher throughput at generation compared to their Attention...
- MetFuse: Figurative Fusion between Metonymy and Metaphor† 🔥🔥Metonymy and metaphor often co-occur in natural language, yet computational work has studied them largely in isolation. We introduce a framework that transforms a literal sentence into three figurativ...
- AI + 1A: Why the First Amendment Protects Artificial Intelligence† 🔥AI outputs are protected by the First Amendment. Two doctrines make this clear. First, the right to receive information, upheld in many Supreme Court decisions,
- Memp: Exploring Agent Procedural Memory ArXiv link for Memp: Exploring Agent Procedural Memory ...
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)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (promoted)
- National Security Counselors 🕵 (@nationalsecuritylaw.org) (promoted)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (promoted)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- ElieNYC (@elienyc.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (promoted)
- Matt Ford (@mford.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (promoted)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (promoted)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joe Patrice (@joepatrice.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Daniel Gilmore (@gilmored85.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagiragrant.com)
- Walter Olson (@walterolson.bsky.social) (relegated)
- AG Andrea Joy Campbell (@massago.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (relegated)
- No More Mr. Nice Popehat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (relegated)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Marty Lederman (@martylederman.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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