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.
- Read an Annotated Version of Trump’s Tariff Letter to Japan 🔥🔥🔥Letters to other nations were nearly identical, with varying rates depending on the country.
- Opinion | Lawrence Summers: This Law Made Me Ashamed of My Country 🔥🔥🔥
- Gabbard’s team has sought spy agency data to enforce Trump’s agenda 🔥🔥A team created by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has sought access to emails and chat logs of the largest U.S. spy agencies to root out “weaponization.”
- Opinion | The Ruthless Ambition of Stephen Miller 🔥🔥
- Supreme Court Clears Way for Mass Firings at Federal Agencies 🔥🔥
- Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations 🔥🔥A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...
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.
- BREAKING: Major Human Rights Abuses in Florida Facility as Supreme Court Allows Trump to Conduct Mass Firings 🔥🔥Major human rights abuses in a Florida detention center with maggot infested food and migrants denied access to Bibles, Supreme Court allows mass firings, and Trump freaks out over Epstein.
- Breaking: Supreme Court allows Trump admin to resume mass-firing plans 🔥"[T]his Court sees fit to step in now and release the President’s wrecking ball at the outset of this litigation," Justice Jackson wrote in dissent.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 167. 7/8/25 🔥… Trump held another insane Cabinet meeting today in front of the press where he and his most senior appointees took questions on a variety of questions, followed by a series of batshit crazy response...
- NEWS: Churches Can Now Make Political Endorsements Without Losing Tax Exemptions 🔥Churches can now make political endorsements without losing exemptions, travelers no longer have to remove shoes during TSA security, Epstein tape is missing one minute, and more ...
- July 8, 2025 🔥One hundred and eleven people are dead and more than 160 are still missing in Texas after Friday’s tragic flood.
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.
- Four senators bought AI stock while Senate considered deregulating AI - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington 🔥🔥🔥🔥Senators Capito, Moran, Fetterman and Boozman all reported purchases of Google, Nvidia, Meta or Amazon stock while considering AI regulation.
- The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger† 🔥🔥As generative artificial intelligence tools continue to proliferate, pushback against the technology and its negative impacts grows stronger.
- A Marco Rubio impostor is using AI voice to call high-level officials 🔥An imposter using AI to pose as Secretary of State Marco Rubio contacted three foreign ministers, a U.S. governor and a member of Congress, according to a State Department cable.
- Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust 🔥The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names.
- Mike Lindell’s lawyers fined after using AI in brief riddled with mistakes Lawyers fined $6,000, while Lindell lost $2.3 million defamation verdict.
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.
- Birthright Citizenship, Denaturalization, and the Specter of Statelessness† 🔥🔥Birthright citizenship is a right that has been enjoyed by nearly every person born on American soil for over 150 years. For those that dream and hope for Ameri ...
- Debates Over "Public Use" in the State Constitutional Conventions† 🔥Historians and legal scholars alike have previously noted that the meaning of "public use" began to change in the nineteenth century, continuing into ...
- 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 ...
- Beyond the Pharmaceutical Patent Arms Race Over forty years after the Hatch-Waxman Act created a patent-based framework for balancing pharmaceutical innovation with competition, the system it established ...
- DUTY TO PROTECT: UPDATING LAW ENFORCEMENT TORT LIABILITY TO ALIGN WITH CONTEMPORARY STANDARDS Can civil tort law make law enforcement services safer and more effective? The purpose of tort law is to protect the public by imposing an ...
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.
- Beyond Statistical Learning: Exact Learning Is Essential for General Intelligence† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Sound deductive reasoning -- the ability to derive new knowledge from existing facts and rules -- is an indisputably desirable aspect of general intelligence. Despite the major advances of AI systems ...
- Learning treatment effects while treating those in need 🔥Many social programs attempt to allocate scarce resources to people with the greatest need. Indeed, public services increasingly use algorithmic risk assessments motivated by this goal. However, targe...
- Limits of Safe AI Deployment: Differentiating Oversight and Control Oversight and control (collectively, supervision) are often invoked as key levers for ensuring that AI systems are accountable, reliable, and able to fulfill governance and management requirements. Ho...
- Bourbaki: Self-Generated and Goal-Conditioned MDPs for Theorem Proving Reasoning remains a challenging task for large language models (LLMs), especially within the logically constrained environment of automated theorem proving (ATP), due to sparse rewards and the vast sc...
- Disclosing Generative AI Use in Digital Humanities Research This survey study investigates how digital humanists perceive and approach generative AI disclosure in research. The results indicate that while digital humanities scholars acknowledge the importance ...
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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