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.
- DOJ announces plans to prioritize cases to revoke citizenship 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Denaturalization is a tactic heavily used during the McCarthy era and one that was expanded during the Obama administration and grew further during President Trump's first term. It's a tool usually us...
- Bush, Obama and Bono Commend USAID Staff Members on Their Last Day 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- In Sudan, where children clung to life, doctors say USAID cuts have been fatal 🔥The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID had an immediate and deadly impact in war-ravaged Sudan, according to civilians, doctors and aid officials.
- Victim of Boulder Firebombing Attack Dies of Wounds 🔥
- The Dollar Has Its Worst Start to a Year Since 1973 (Gift Article) 🔥It has continued to slide even as President Trump has backed down from his tariff threats and the U.S. stock market has recovered from its losses.
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.
- "A Zone of Lawlessness" 🔥🔥🔥One year after the Supreme Court’s reckless immunity ruling, the Roberts-led supermajority has further expanded Trump’s power to violate the law ...
- John Roberts puts off deciding where he stands on fascism 🔥Has the "conservative institutionalist" gone full MAGA? He won't say, but his votes suggest he's at least willing to let the Supreme Court flirt with going there.
- June 30, 2025 🔥"This is the most deeply immoral piece of legislation I have ever voted on in my entire time in Congress,” said Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT).
- NEWS: Third Republican Senator is now Leaning No as Republicans Scramble to Pass Budget Bill I just got off the phone with Senator Amy Klobuchar, who gave me a critical update on where things stand with the Senate Republican budget bill.
- This is the paper I gave to historians about “AI” last week. I was at Queen Mary University in London last week at a charming conference that turned out to be mainly about modern British history. I…
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.
- Stop State AI Regulation Ban in the "One Big Beautiful Bill" Act (UPDATED 6/26) ⭑ 5 Calls 🔥🔥🔥Updates June 26, 2025: The Senate Parliamentarian has allowed Republicans to keep the provision in H.R. 1 that forces states to pause AI relegation in …
- I-MED now asking to use patients' scans to train AI — after already handing over 100,000s of chest x-rays without consent† 🔥🔥A law firm is investigating launching a class action against Australia's largest radiology provider, which Crikey revealed had provided 100,000s of scans to train AI without patient permission.
- Early Edition: June 30, 2025 A curated guide to major news and developments over the weekend.
- In a wild time for copyright law, the US Copyright Office has no leader Rudderless Copyright Office has taken on new prominence during the AI boom.
- US Senate strikes AI regulation ban from Trump megabill The Republican-led U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to remove a 10-year federal moratorium on state regulation of artificial intelligence from President Trump's sweeping tax-cut and spending bill.
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.
- NetChoice and Telecom Law's First Amendment† 🔥Over the past quarter-century, industrial speech law and policy have converged on novel First Amendment questions about the regulation of the dominant Internet ...
- The Inherent Powers of Federal Courts and the Structural Constitution† The Supreme Court has long defined "inherent powers" as those which "cannot be dispensed with . . . because they are necessary to the exercise of ...
- Legislative Design and the Controllable Costs of Special Legislation Legislation that singles out an identifiable individual for benefits or harms that do not apply to the rest of the population is called “special legislation.” I ...
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.
- The Mirage of Artificial Intelligence Terms of Use Restrictions† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Artificial intelligence (AI) model creators commonly attach restrictive terms of use to both their models and their outputs. These terms typically prohibit acti ...
- Empirical evidence of Large Language Model's influence on human spoken communication 🔥From the invention of writing and the printing press, to television and social media, human history is punctuated by major innovations in communication technology, which fundamentally altered how idea...
- Model Organisms for Emergent Misalignment† 🔥Recent work discovered Emergent Misalignment (EM): fine-tuning large language models on narrowly harmful datasets can lead them to become broadly misaligned. A survey of experts prior to publication r...
- A Common Pool of Privacy Problems: Legal and Technical Lessons from a Large-Scale Web-Scraped Machine Learning Dataset 🔥We investigate the contents of web-scraped data for training AI systems, at sizes where human dataset curators and compilers no longer manually annotate every sample. Building off of prior privacy con...
- Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task† This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...
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)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- ICYMI (Law) (@icymilaw.org) (promoted)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social)
- Leah Litman (@leahlitman.bsky.social)
- Barred and Boujee and NEWLYWED aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael Li (李之樸) (@mcpli.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dan Izzo (@izzos.us) (promoted)
- Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jacob T. Levy (@jacobtlevy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Siva (@sivav.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Burbach (@dburbach.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Menschel (@davidmenschel.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joe Dunman (@joedunman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Bad Popehat With Evil Intentions (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (relegated)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adil Haque (@adhaque.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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