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.
- ICE Took Half Their Work Force. What Do They Do Now? 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Opinion | You May Not Be Trump’s Target This Time. But You Could Be Next. 🔥🔥🔥
- Supreme Court Lets Trump Enact His Authoritarian Agenda on Its 'Shadow Docket' 🔥🔥The Supreme Court granted Trump’s emergency requests in 17 straight cases, reversing lower courts that temporarily blocked the admin’s overreach.
- Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97 🔥🔥
- Opinion | The Elite Panic at the Heart of Liberal Attacks on Mamdani 🔥
- What Will It Cost to Renovate the ‘Free’ Air Force One? Don’t Ask. 🔥
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.
- This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 179 🔥🔥🔥… OK’s MAGA schools’ chief Ryan Walters is under fire after porn images were playing on the screen in his office during a board meeting.
- July 27, 2025 🔥On July 23 the X account of the Department of Homeland Security posted an image of an 1872 oil painting by John Gast, titled American Progress. Gast represented the American East on the right side of ...
- NEWS: Donald Trump Ramps up Calls to Revoke Licenses of Major Media Companies 🔥Trump calls for prosecution of Vice President Harris, Trump ramps up attempt to revoke licenses of media companies, lifelong Republicans turn on Trump, Hegseth told to stop polygraph tests, and more ...
- A Brief Guide to “Supreme Court Beach,” a Painting That Portrays More of Sam Alito’s Nude Torso Than I’d Cared to Contemplate Answers to all your burning questions, like: Why does this exist? What is Shakespeare doing there? And which real-life Supreme Court justice bought the original to hang in his chambers?
- Weekend Update #143: A Week Which Demonstrates Why Ukraine Is So Important Ukraine's "Partners" Have Let It Down: The Fate of Graham-Blumenthal ...
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 warns there's no legal confidentiality when using ChatGPT as a therapist | TechCrunch 🔥🔥🔥In response to a question about how AI works with today's legal system, Altman said one of the problems of not yet having a legal or policy framework for AI is that there's no legal confidentiality for...
- DOGE builds AI tool to cut 50 percent of federal regulations 🔥🔥The U.S. DOGE Service is using a new AI tool to eliminate federal regulations, aiming to cut 50 percent of rules by the first anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
- Tesla Readies a Taxi Service in San Francisco—but Not With Robotaxis 🔥🔥The electric carmaker informed California that it will operate a limited public taxi service. But it’s not legally allowed to do this with self-driving cars.
- Judge sanctions lawyers defending Alabama’s prison system for using fake ChatGPT cases in filings 🔥A federal judge in Alabama reprimanded three lawyers for using ChatGPT to write court filings with “completely made up” case citations. U.S.
- Kagan Says She Was Impressed by AI Bot Claude’s Legal Analysis 🔥US Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan found AI chatbot Claude to have conducted an excellent analysis of a complicated Constitutional dispute.
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 ...
- Judicial Courage, Contrarianism, and Candor† Contemporary discussions of judicial courage are muddled. Despite a vast literature on virtue ethics, as well as a more specialized literature applying lessons ...
- Critical Curriculum Design: Teaching Law in an Age of Rising Authoritarianism Legal education in the United States stands at a critical juncture. As democracy faces mounting threats both at home and abroad, law schools must grapple with t ...
- Agentic Workflows in the Practice of Law—AI Agents as Ethics Counsel Generative AI is reshaping legal practice as law firms invest in AI technology and prepare for a future where AI agents operate alongside human lawyers. W ...
- The New Establishment Clause Hallmarks Test: Sources and Distortions† In the recent case of Kennedy v. Bremerton, the Supreme Court abandoned Lemon v. Kurtzman, the 50-year-old principal Establishment Clause test. Inst ...
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.
- Hidden in Plain Text: Emergence & Mitigation of Steganographic Collusion in LLMs† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The rapid proliferation of frontier model agents promises significant societal advances but also raises concerns about systemic risks arising from unsafe interactions. Collusion to the disadvantage of...
- Convergent transformations of visual representation in brains and models† 🔥A fundamental question in cognitive neuroscience is what shapes visual perception: the external world's structure or the brain's internal architecture. Although some perceptual variability can be trac...
- Regulatory Sandboxes: One Decade On† 🔥Regulatory sandboxes have spread like wildfire since the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority launched its sandbox for financial technology businesses (fintech) one ...
- Chain of Thought Monitorability: A New and Fragile Opportunity for AI Safety AI systems that "think" in human language offer a unique opportunity for AI safety: we can monitor their chains of thought (CoT) for the intent to misbehave. Like all other known AI oversight methods,...
- AlphaGo Moment for Model Architecture Discovery† While AI systems demonstrate exponentially improving capabilities, the pace of AI research itself remains linearly bounded by human cognitive capacity, creating an increasingly severe development bott...
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)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Asha Rangappa (@asharangappa.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social)
- Paul Gowder (@gowder.io) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social)
- emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social)
- Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Zoe Tillman (@zoetillman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Leon English (@leonenglish.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Neil Lewis, Jr. (@neillewisjr.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mike Boylan-Kolchin (@mbkplus.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sheryl Weikal says Free Alaa now (@leftistlawyer.com) (promoted)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (relegated)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ann M. Lipton (@annmlipton.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Sojourner (@aaronsojourner.org) (relegated)
- post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Maria Popova (@popovaprof.bsky.social) (relegated)
- The Questionable Authority (@questauthority.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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