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.
- Trump Administration Live Updates: Johnson Shutting Down House Until September to Block Epstein Vote 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Big Law Firms Bowed to Trump. A Corps of ‘Little Guys’ Jumped in to Fight Him. 🔥
- Bypassing Habba, Judges in New Jersey Name New Top Federal Prosecutor 🔥
- Military Says It Will ‘Continuously’ Monitor Bathrooms to Comply With Anti-Trans Order 🔥An internal memo obtained by 404 Media also shows the military ordered a review hold on "questionable content" at Stars and Stripes, the military's 'editorially independent' newspaper.
- Trump Says Japan Deal Reached With Tariff Rate Set at 15% President Donald Trump reached a trade deal with Japan that will impose 15% tariffs on US imports from the country, including its auto sector, while creating a $550 billion fund backed by the Japanese...
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.
- NEWS: DOJ Rushes to Meet Ghislaine Maxwell as Colbert Tells Trump to Go F*ck Himself 🔥🔥DOJ rushes to meet Ghislaine Maxwell to find out what she knows, Colbert tells Trump to go f*ck himself, MLK's family demands release of Epstein files, Coca Cola set to launch new recipe this fall ...
- Billionaire Cowardice and Free Speech 🔥🔥Let's not pretend the canceling of Stephen Colbert and "The Late Show" was not surrendering to Donald Trump and his desire to silence dissent ...
- It’s All Fun and Games Until Trump Has Obama Arrested 🔥🔥Then it’s authoritarianism.
- Friday Round Up! 7/18/25 🔥Epstein, Epstein, Epstein! It's always Epstein!
- July 22, 2025 🔥First thing this morning, Attorney General Pam Bondi posted on X a statement from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche saying that under Bondi’s direction, he had talked to the lawyers for Ghislaine M...
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 176. 7/22/25 🔥… Speaker Mike Johnson shut down the House today to avoid a vote on the Epstein Files. Johnson sent the House home early for summer recess and canceled all scheduled votes and business to prevent a vo...
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.
- AI guzzled millions of books without permission. Authors are fighting back.† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Authors are appealing for help from Congress and the courts after Meta and Anthropic used millions of books to create AI technology, without seeking consent.
- It’s “frighteningly likely” many US courts will overlook AI errors, expert says† Judges pushed to bone up on AI or risk destroying their court’s authority.
- Analysis | Trump’s ‘Artificial Intelligence Action Plan’ is already stirring debate Critics unveiled their own “People’s AI Action Plan” ahead of new executive orders expected to address energy and “woke” AI.
- Tell POLITICO Management: AI should work with journalists, not against us!† Last year, PEN Guild members ratified a groundbreaking first contract that included some of the strongest provisions in the industry around artificial intelligence. These protections not only gave uni...
- California A.B. 412 Stalls Out—A Win for Innovation and Fair Use† A.B. 412, the flawed California bill that threatened small developers in the name of AI “transparency,” has been delayed and turned into a two-year bill. That means it won’t move forward in 2025—a sig...
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.
- Settlements of Adhesion in Eviction Court† Eviction cases make up over a quarter of all cases filed in the federal and state civil courts and have enormous consequences for tenants, who are nearly alw ...
- The Decline & Fall of the US News Rankings Have the U.S. News & World Report law school rankings become irrelevant? The ostensible purpose of the US News law school rankings is to give prospective la ...
- Trait Empathy Predicts Purposivist Rule Application: Nationally Representative Survey Evidence† People often disagree about whether a rule’s text or its spirit should govern its application. To what extent is this disagreement explained by personality trai ...
- Thayerian Deference and Constitutional Interpretation† In this essay, I briefly introduce James Bradley Thayer’s theory of judicial deference and its place in historical debates over judicial review and consti ...
- State Constitutional Law Teaching Materials for 1L Constitutional Law Classes (Supplement, 2d Ed. 2024)† This set of materials, intended for use in a 1L Constitutional Law course, offers a concise introduction to state constitutions and state constitutional princip ...
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.
- Just Put a Human in the Loop? Investigating LLM-Assisted Annotation for Subjective Tasks† 🔥🔥🔥🔥LLM use in annotation is becoming widespread, and given LLMs' overall promising performance and speed, simply "reviewing" LLM annotations in interpretive tasks can be tempting. In subjective annotatio...
- AI-guided digital intervention with physiological monitoring reduces intrusive memories after experimental trauma† 🔥Trauma prevalence is vast globally. Evidence-based digital treatments can help, but most require human guidance. Human guides provide tailored instructions and responsiveness to internal cognitive sta...
- Understanding Generative AI Risks for Youth: A Taxonomy Based on Empirical Data†
- The Pragmatic Mind of Machines: Tracing the Emergence of Pragmatic Competence in Large Language Models† Current large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated emerging capabilities in social intelligence tasks, including implicature resolution (Sravanthi et al. (2024)) and theory-of-mind reasoning (Shap...
- MoVieS: Motion-Aware 4D Dynamic View Synthesis in One Second We present MoVieS, a novel feed-forward model that synthesizes 4D dynamic novel views from monocular videos in one second. MoVieS represents dynamic 3D scenes using pixel-aligned grids of Gaussian…
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)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org)
- Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social)
- Ann M. Lipton (@annmlipton.bsky.social)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social)
- Aaron Sojourner (@aaronsojourner.org)
- emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social)
- Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social)
- post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Maria Popova (@popovaprof.bsky.social) (promoted)
- The Questionable Authority (@questauthority.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Randall Eliason (@rdeliason.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jamal Greene (@jamalgreene.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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