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.
- Trump’s Erratic Behavior and Extreme Comments Revive Mental Health Debate 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Harmeet Dhillon Is Not Wasting Any Time 🔥🔥🔥She arrived at the Department of Justice with radical changes in mind. One year later, she has completely reshaped the Civil Rights Division.
- Amid War, G.O.P. Puts Off Testimony From Senior Pentagon Commanders 🔥🔥
- Pride Flag Can Fly at Stonewall After Trump Administration Reversal 🔥🔥
- Private firms providing services to NHS made £1.6bn profit in two years, research finds† 🔥🔥Exclusive: MPs say profit-making levels in England are ‘scandalous’ and call for cap on amount private companies can make from NHS ...
- How Trump Took the U.S. to War With Iran 🔥🔥
- Coco Gauff responds to criticism of natural hair in Miu Miu shoot: ‘The girls who get it, get it’ 🔥🔥Gauff posted a video on social media in response to comments about a shoot she did for Miu Miu.
- Mahmood’s migration changes will deliver fraction of claimed savings, data suggests 🔥🔥Exclusive: Analysis of government figures indicates public finances will gain £600m not £10bn if migrants’ access to benefits is reduced ...
- Canadian mother held by ICE with daughter, 7, speaks out on families ‘suffering greatly’ in detention 🔥Tania Warner and her daughter were detained in Texas facilities deemed ‘unsafe and degrading’
- The Real Story Behind the Midnight Immigration Raid on a Chicago Apartment Building 🔥The Trump administration has claimed the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. But new documents make no mention of the gang and reveal federal agents had information about “ille...
- The Return of Family Detention 🔥Under the Trump Administration, thousands of immigrant children have been detained, and many have suffered from medical neglect.
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.
- Big Bird’s Obituary: Greatly Exaggerated 🔥🔥🔥With apologies, tonight’s column runs a little longer than I like them to.
- What the death of Direct File tells us about state capacity 🔥🔥We CAN have nice things - if we want them ...
- Are We the Nazis Now? 🔥How do we meet this moment?
- NEWS: Trump Deletes Jesus Photo as Supporters Label Him the Antichrist, NATO Allies Reject Trump's Demands, Trump Loses in Court 🔥We have major developments this afternoon involving President Donald Trump.
- NEWS: White House Faces Major Blowback After Door Dash Stunt Goes Wrong, Trump Says he Was a Doctor, Not Jesus, More Resistance from NATO Good evening 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.
- Sam Altman's sister amends lawsuit accusing OpenAI CEO of sexual abuse 🔥🔥🔥🔥Sam Altman's sister amended her civil lawsuit accusing the OpenAI chief executive of sexually abusing her more than two decades ago, after the judge said she could try pursuing her case under Missou...
- OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths or Financial Disasters† 🔥🔥🔥The ChatGPT-maker testified in favor of an Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable—even in cases where their products cause “critical harm.”
- Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia 🔥🔥
- New disclosures reveal how DOGE actually worked 🔥🔥Depositions offer insight into what Elon Musk’s group was up to. Members describe a club-like atmosphere in which they slashed agencies with little oversight.
- Exclusive | Vile AI photos of KKK-hooded cops and cuffed gorillas passed around by elite NYPD unit — sparking discrimination suit† 🔥The chat group used by the Major Case Squad was titled “Major case – team building,” with the offensive images showing up in 2025 and 2026, according to a lawsuit.
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.
- Anti-majoritarianism and Democracy: Effects of Judicial Review on Rights, Economic Growth, and Inequality * 🔥We examine the effect of the most important anti-majoritarian institution-judicial review of constitutionality which empowers some courts to invalidate laws alr ...
- Lessons Learned From Global Responses To Criminal Abortion Laws 🔥This Essay responds to After Dobbs: How the Supreme Court Ended Roe but Not Abortion and abortion care in the United States by taking a ...
- Research Paper (preprint): “Ads in AI Chatbots? An Analysis of How Large Language Models Navigate Conflicts of Interest” The preprint linked below was recently shared on arXiv. Title Ads in AI Chatbots? An Analysis of How Large Language Models Navigate Conflicts of Interest Authors Addison J. Wu Princeton University Ryan Liu Princeton University Shuyue Stella Li University of Washington Yulia Tsvetkov University of Washington Thomas L. Griffiths Princeton University Source via arXiv DOI: […]
- Trump v. Barbara: Temporal Territorial Bubbles Barbara revealed a Court genuinely wrestling with a constitutional question that existing doctrine has not cleanly resolved: what does "subject to the juri ...
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.
- Can LLMs Produce Original Astronomy Research in a Semester? A Graduate Class Experiment† 🔥🔥🔥🔥We discuss the results of using large language models (LLMs) to conduct original scientific research in an unfamiliar subject area during the Fall 2025 semester. Students in a graduate astronomy and a...
- Generative AI Practices, Literacy, and Divides: An Empirical Analysis in the Italian Context† 🔥The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) language technologies, particularly generative AI (GenAI) chatbots accessible via conversational interfaces, is transforming digital interactions. While these ...
- The Divided States of Work Law: Regulating US Workplaces in the Age of AI United States labor policy is notable for how little it constrains most employers: unlike many jurisdictions represented in this volume, “atwill” empl ...
- The Shrinking Lifespan of LLMs in Science† ArXiv link for The Shrinking Lifespan of LLMs in Science ...
- A mathematical theory of evolution for self-designing AIs As artificial intelligence systems (AIs) become increasingly produced by recursive self-improvement, a form of evolution may emerge, with the traits of AI systems shaped by the success of earlier AIs ...
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)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagiragrant.com) (promoted)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (promoted)
- Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social)
- Walter Olson (@walterolson.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Weak On Nuclear Weapons Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- AG Andrea Joy Campbell (@massago.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social)
- Marty Lederman (@martylederman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steven Beschloss (@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Slack (@slack2thefuture.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Deborah Pearlstein (@debpearlstein.bsky.social) (relegated)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (relegated)
- Deb Golden (@debgoldendc.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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