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.
- A private prison firm wants to detain immigrants in this Kansas town. Its residents are pushing back 🔥🔥🔥🔥Residents of Leavenworth are organizing against CoreCivic’s efforts to reopen a problematic prison ...
- As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas† 🔥🔥🔥
- Goodbye to All That† 🔥🔥My resignation from the FBI.
- Thirty-Two Short Stories About Death in Prison 🔥These stories don’t mention Jeffrey Epstein, but they are about him.
- The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world | Moustafa Bayoumi 🔥The rules of the institutions that define our lives bend like reeds when it comes to Israel – so much that the whole global order is on the verge of collapse ...
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.
- Critical Read About the BBB, Federalism and the Future of American Democracy† 🔥🔥🔥TPM Reader TS (Harvard sociologist/political scientist Theda Skocpol) and I often compared...
- This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 165 🔥🔥… NYT: “Crucial positions at the local offices of the National Weather Service were unfilled as severe rainfall inundated parts of Central Texas on Friday morning, prompting some experts to question w...
- BREAKING: Texas Weather Offices Understaffed Ahead of Floods Because of Trump Cuts 🔥Texas weather offices were understaffed ahead of the floods because of Trump cuts, a Trump voter feels betrayed after his wife was detained by ICE, and Elon Musk creates a new political party ...
- An Authority To License Illegal Conduct 🔥Bondi’s logic for ignoring the TikTok ban ...
- July 6, 2025 At least 80 people are dead and more than 40 are still missing in Central Texas after almost a foot (30 centimeters) of rain caused flash floods overnight on Friday.
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.
- Republican Budget Bill Signals New Era in Federal Surveillance | TechPolicy.Press† 🔥🔥To advance the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement priorities, the Republican budget bill is set to fund a major expansion of federal surveillance.
- Exclusive: Google's AI Overviews hit by EU antitrust complaint from independent publishers† Alphabet's Google has been hit by an EU antitrust complaint over its AI Overviews from a group of independent publishers, which has also asked for an interim measure to prevent allegedly irreparable harm to them, according to a document seen by Reuters.
- US Senate Drops Proposed Moratorium on State AI Laws in Budget Vote | TechPolicy.Press The 99-1 vote followed the collapse of a compromise between Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN).
- International Future of Law Association Conference 2025 | Future of Law Association
- Dr Kojo Koram — Birkbeck, University of London
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.
- Of State Remedies and Federal Rights 🔥🔥The Supreme Court has repudiated Bivens on the grounds that it arrogated legislative power to the federal judiciary. As the Court steps back, Congress is free t ...
- The Class Action After Trump v. CASA 73 UCLA L. Rev. Discourse ___ (forthcoming 2025) 🔥To every court to consider its merits, Donald Trump’s order purporting to end birthright citizenship for children born in the United States to undocume ...
- Why Senator John McCain Cannot Be President: Eleven Months and a Hundred Yards Short of Citizenship† Senator McCain was born in 1936 in the Canal Zone to U.S. citizen parents. The Canal Zone was territory controlled by the United States, but it was not incorpor ...
- Democracy and the Intersection of Prisons, Racism, and Capital Rutgers University History Professor David Oshinsky's book entitled "'Worse Than Slavery': Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice" provides ...
- Crypto and the Evolution of the Capital Markets† This paper argues that blockchain technology solves a problem the traditional securities markets still haven't fixed: the lack of a more direct, efficient, and ...
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.
- 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...
- Generalizing Verifiable Instruction Following† ArXiv link for Generalizing Verifiable Instruction Following ...
- LeanConjecturer: Automatic Generation of Mathematical Conjectures for Theorem Proving† We introduce LeanConjecturer, a pipeline for automatically generating university-level mathematical conjectures in Lean 4 using Large Language Models (LLMs). Our hybrid approach combines rule-based co...
- Cats Confuse Reasoning LLM: Query Agnostic Adversarial Triggers for Reasoning Models† We investigate the robustness of reasoning models trained for step-by-step problem solving by introducing query-agnostic adversarial triggers - short, irrelevant text that, when appended to math probl...
- LLM Hypnosis: Exploiting User Feedback for Unauthorized Knowledge Injection to All Users† ArXiv link for LLM Hypnosis: Exploiting User Feedback for Unauthorized Knowledge Injection to All Users ...
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)
- Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) (promoted)
- Barred and Boujee and NEWLYWED aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Imani Gandy (@angryblacklady.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social)
- Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis (@jeffjarvis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Leah Litman (@leahlitman.bsky.social)
- Nora Benavidez (@attorneynora.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Omri Marian (@omrimarian.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mike Sacks (@mikesacks.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Too Big to Fail (@toobigtofail.bsky.social) (promoted)
- National Security Counselors 🕵 (@nationalsecuritylaw.org) (promoted)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net)
- Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jacob T. Levy (@jacobtlevy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dan Izzo (@izzos.us) (relegated)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael Li (李之樸) (@mcpli.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Siva (@sivav.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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