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 Trump’s Letter to Congress About D.C. Police Department 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Opinion | ‘Profound and Abiding Rage’: Canada’s Answer to America’s Abandonment 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Federal agents spread out across D.C. streets amid Trump vow to crackdown on crime 🔥🔥President Trump promised a weekend crackdown of Washington, D.C.'s homeless population and criminals. Trump activated federal agents to also be a show of force across the district.
- Exclusive: Medical journal rejects Kennedy's call for retraction of vaccine study 🔥An influential U.S. medical journal is rejecting a call from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to retract a large Danish study that found that aluminum ingredients in vaccines do not increase health risks for children, the journal's editor told Reuters.
- FBI dispatching agents to D.C. streets as Trump weighs calling National Guard† 🔥The unusual move comes as President Donald Trump threatens a federal takeover of the nation’s capital.
- AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified† 🔥Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.
- Australia to recognise Palestinian state in September 🔥It follows similar moves by the UK, France and Canada.
- RFK Jr has slashed vaccine research. You need to know how perilous that is for the world | Devi Sridhar 🔥The avian flu virus is now just one mutation away from easier transmission among humans. Trump’s health chief is a grave risk to world health, says Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at ...
- The U.S. Marches Toward State Capitalism With American Characteristics 🔥President Trump is imitating the Chinese Communist Party by extending political control ever deeper into the economy.
- The anti-sunscreen movement and what to know about its claims 🔥A growing anti-sunscreen movement on social media is causing concern among dermatologists, who warn that avoiding sunscreen increases long-term health risks.
- Trump readies federal moves on D.C. crime, takes over D.C. police 🔥The president is planning to flex his law enforcement power over Washington, declaring that he would clear the city of homeless people and crack down on crime.
- Israeli Strike Kills 4 Al Jazeera Journalists, Network Says 🔥
- Harvard and White House Move Toward Potential Landmark Settlement 🔥
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.
- Governors Can Not Remove Elected Legislators. Period. 🔥🔥🔥🔥A democracy must have an independent legislature. Only voters elect and unelect representatives.
- When The President Becomes The Police The Posse Comitatus Act reserves the police power to the states, prohibiting the federal government from using the military for domestic law enforcement absent truly compelling circumstances.
- August 11, 2025 President Donald J.
- Trump takes on D.C., sort of, in a rambling news conference full of lies It's bad. But there are limits to the steps Trump actually took on Monday — and reasons why he could take these steps — that are worth noting.
- BREAKING: D.C. Mayor Blasts Donald Trump and the Supreme Court is Asked to Reverse Same Sex Marriage D.C. Mayor is blasting Donald Trump, the National Guard is not yet deployed as I walk the streets of D.C., the Supreme Court is asked to reverse same sex marriage protections, and much more.
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.
- Boston Public Library aims to increase access to a vast historic archive using AI 🔥🔥🔥The library is launching a project in collaboration with Harvard Law School and OpenAI this summer to digitize the materials and make them more fully searchable.
- Meta makes conservative activist an AI bias advisor following lawsuit 🔥The move aligns with Trump’s broader “anti-woke” AI order.
- Meta, Robby Starbuck Settle AI Defamation Lawsuit The conservative activist will advise the company on removing political bias from its AI tools.
- Meet the early-adopter judges using AI As the line between helping and judging blurs, the cost of errors is steep.
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 ...
- History and Tradition in First Amendment Intellectual Property Cases: A Critique 🔥There are indications that the "history and tradition" approach the Supreme Court applied to gun rights and abortion restrictions may be comi ...
- The Chadha Presidency Where is Congress? Why hasn’t it reined in some of the worst abuses of the Trump Administration? This Article argues that a significant part of the answer to th ...
- The Disability Frame† This essay is the Foreword to the 2022 University of Pennsylvania Law Review symposium on “The Disability Frame.” “The disability frame” refers to the character ...
- 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.
- An analysis of AI Decision under Risk: Prospect theory emerges in Large Language Models 🔥🔥🔥🔥Judgment of risk is key to decision-making under uncertainty. As Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky famously discovered, humans do so in a distinctive way that departs from mathematical rationalism. Spe...
- R-Zero: Self-Evolving Reasoning LLM from Zero Data† 🔥Self-evolving Large Language Models (LLMs) offer a scalable path toward super-intelligence by autonomously generating, refining, and learning from their own experiences. However, existing methods for ...
- Use as Directed? A Comparison of Software Tools Intended to Check Rigor and Transparency of Published Work 🔥The causes of the reproducibility crisis include lack of standardization and transparency in scientific reporting. Checklists such as ARRIVE and CONSORT seek to improve transparency, but they are not ...
- arXiv.org e-Print archive†
- Probing Syntax in Large Language Models: Successes and Remaining Challenges† The syntactic structures of sentences can be readily read-out from the activations of large language models (LLMs). However, the ``structural probes'' that have been developed to reveal this phenomeno...
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." ;)
- Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org)
- ICYMI (Law) (@icymilaw.org)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Zaid, Esq (@markzaidesq.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (promoted)
- Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social)
- Sheryl Weikal, due process enjoyer (@leftistlawyer.com) (promoted)
- Walter Olson (@walterolson.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Matthew Segal (@segalmr.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Miriam Posner (@miriamposner.com) (promoted)
- Quinn Yeargain (@yeargain.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Heidi Kitrosser (@heidikitrosser.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- National Security Counselors 🕵 (@nationalsecuritylaw.org) (promoted)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mike Boylan-Kolchin (@mbkplus.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joe Dunman (@joedunman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Q. Barrett (@johnqbarrett.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jess Miers 🦝 (@jmiers230.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) (relegated)
- emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (relegated)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.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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