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.
- The Race to Find a Measles Treatment as Infections Surge 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The measles vaccine was so effective the disease was considered eliminated in the U.S., but a resurgence of outbreaks is spurring a need for drugs.
- U.S. Air Force to deny early retirement benefits to some transgender service members 🔥🔥🔥🔥The U.S. Air Force said Thursday it would deny all transgender service members who have served between 15 and 18 years the option to retire early and would instead separate them without retirement ben...
- Treasury Secretary Admits Trump's Tariffs Are Paid by Americans 🔥🔥🔥Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent acknowledged that U.S. importers, or American consumers, pay for Donald Trump's tariffs.
- JD Vance’s team had water level of Ohio river raised for family’s boating trip 🔥🔥Exclusive: Incident raises questions of exploitation of public services, but Secret Service says it was requested for ‘safe navigation’
- New executive order puts all grants under political control 🔥All new funding on hold until Trump administration can cancel any previously funded grants.
- Fourth court blocks Trump's birthright citizenship order nationwide 🔥U.S. President Donald Trump's order restricting birthright citizenship was blocked nationwide by a fourth court on Thursday, after a judge issued an injunction in a class action covering children born anywhere in the United States who would be affected by it.
- Trump Plans to Send Immigrant Detainees to Notorious Louisiana Prison 🔥Once known as the bloodiest prison in the country, Angola is a maximum security facility with a dark history—and a popular prison rodeo.
- Opinion | I’ve Seen How Russia Is Torturing Prisoners of War, and It’s Horrifying 🔥
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.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 188. 8/8/25 🔥🔥🔥… Trump fired his IRS Commissioner Billy Long just two months after he was confirmed as commissioner.
- Despicable: Very Effectively Done 🔥Trump Hands Putin A Win-Win Scenario, Which Was Always The Plan ...
- Pam Bondi taps Ed Martin as 'special attorney' to investigate Letitia James and Sen. Adam Schiff for alleged mortgage fraud 🔥U.S.
- BREAKING: Texas Democrats Once Again Block Quorum as Republican Frustration Grows Today, I spoke with Elizabeth Booker Houston on her last day in the federal government in an exclusive interview. She is torching Trump and RFK Jr. on her way out. Watch it now.
- Do Legal Checks on a President’s Power “Diminish the Votes of the Citizens Who Elected Him”? The administration is arguing that when courts restrain Donald Trump’s actions in the name of the law, they “diminish the votes of the citizens who elected him” as a “representative of the people” wie...
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 industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified 🔥🔥🔥🔥Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.
- Memories of deadly winter blackouts haunt the Texas data center boom 🔥🔥🔥A newly passed law in Texas requires emergency shutoff switches for data centers, including the massive $500 billion AI supercomputer backed by President Trump.
- HMRC must disclose whether it used AI in tax credit decisions, court rules Revenue had rejected transparency request from tax adviser who believed it used technology to reject R&D applications ...
- States take the lead in AI regulation as federal government steers clear All 50 states have introduced AI-related legislation this year.
- How states are placing guardrails around AI in the absence of strong federal regulation† With a potential ban of state regulation of AI soundly defeated, states are continuing to take the lead on protecting people from the technology’s potential harms – for now.
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.
- The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 🔥🔥For the first time since World War II-and the first time ever outside a formally declared war-an American president has invoked the Alien Enemies Act to detain ...
- Your First Case Brief: Stratton Oakmont v. Prodigy as a Guide† I've edited this classic Internet Law case for an orientation course at the University of Akron School of Law. It’s designed to help incoming students learn how ...
- The Bizarro First Amendment† Welcome to the Second Lochner Era. Once again, the Supreme Court wields a great guarantee of liberty to nullify progressive governance. But this time its weapon ...
- AI-Enabled Decision-Support Systems in the Joint Targeting Cycle: Legal Challenges, Risks, and the Human(e) Dimension† As artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled technologies become increasingly integrated into military targeting operations, the legal, ethical, and operati ...
- If You Give an LLM a Legal Practice Guide Large language models struggle to answer legal questions that require applying detailed, jurisdiction-specific legal rules. Lawyers also find these types of que ...
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.
- A Generative AI Primer for Law Students† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Generative artificial intelligence tools are permitted and encouraged in my classes. Legal professionals are already using them, and the expectation is that AI ...
- Innovation or Infringement? Generative AI and the Potential for Exclusionary Abuse under Article 102 TFEU† Key Points: • The integration of generative AI powered features into large online platforms raises novel questions pertaining to abuse ...
- Thinking Machines: Mathematical Reasoning in the Age of LLMs† Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable abilities in structured reasoning and symbolic tasks, with coding emerging as a particular area of strength. This success has sparked growing interes...
- Can Performant LLMs Be Ethical? Quantifying the Impact of Web Crawling Opt-Outs The increasing adoption of web crawling opt-outs by copyright holders of online content raises critical questions about the impact of data compliance on large language model (LLM) performance. However...
- If You Give an LLM a Legal Practice Guide Large language models struggle to answer legal questions that require applying detailed, jurisdiction-specific legal rules. Lawyers also find these types of que ...
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)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social)
- Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jess Miers 🦝 (@jmiers230.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- John Q. Barrett (@johnqbarrett.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joe Dunman (@joedunman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mike Boylan-Kolchin (@mbkplus.bsky.social)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Neil Lewis, Jr. (@neillewisjr.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Leon English (@leonenglish.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Zoe Tillman (@zoetillman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Paul Gowder (@gowder.io) (relegated)
- Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Asha Rangappa (@asharangappa.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sheryl Weikal says Free Palestine and Protect Trans Kids (@leftistlawyer.com) (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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