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 House Has a New Democrat — and a Shrinking GOP Margin 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥But Speaker Johnson appears to be in no rush to swear in Arizona’s Adelita Grijalva.
- DNA testing links dead man to Texas ‘yogurt shop’ killings, police say 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Robert Eugene Brashers has been named by police as a suspect in the 1991 killings of four teenage girls in Austin - the subject of “The Yogurt Shop Murders” miniseries.
- Trump deploys troops to Portland, authorizing ‘full force’ if necessary 🔥🔥The action escalates a campaign to use the U.S. military against Americans that has little modern precedent.
- China Bought $12.6 Billion in U.S. Soybeans Last Year. Now, It’s $0. 🔥🔥
- Des Moines schools superintendent, a former Olympian, arrested by ICE ICE arrested Des Moines Schools Superintendent Ian Roberts, citing an outstanding immigration removal order and a lack of work authorization.
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.
- Sunday Morning Coffee with Katie Phang 🔥🔥🔥Make sure you leave your questions for us in the comments!
- Trump is spiraling. We face the consequences. Where are the other branches? 🔥James Madison expected more from the other "departments," as he referred to them. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.
- Trump’s terror memo (audio) It is about regime change ...
- Trump the tyrant is on full display — but his acting out highlights how weak he is Trump got his Comey indictment Thursday and issued a memo directing "domestic terrorism" investigations. And yet, both provided more evidence that Trump is losing.
- September 27, 2025 Yesterday, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released items from a third batch of documents associated with the criminal investigation of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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.
- Peter Thiel: strict AI regulation will summon the antichrist† 🔥🔥🔥🔥This is a real thing Peter Thiel told a group of tech professionals recently.
- Exclusive: Meta launches super PAC to fight AI regulation† 🔥🔥🔥Meta is targeting what it sees as onerous AI and tech policy bills across the country.
- If A.I. Can Diagnose Patients, What Are Doctors For?† 🔥Large language models are transforming medicine—but the technology comes with side effects.
- Settlement of AI lawsuit gets tentative approval; some writers will get paid, but mostly only if they make claims | NWU 🔥On September 25, 2025, Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California gave preliminary (tentative) approval to a proposed $1.5 billion settlement of some of the...
- AI safety tool sparks student backlash after flagging art as porn, deleting emails† The tool, called Gaggle, uses artificial intelligence to search student documents for signs of unsafe behavior, such as substance abuse or threats of violence.
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 Fed, Offices as Property, and the Meaning of "Cause"† 🔥🔥The Federal Reserve Act states that "each member shall hold office for a term of fourteen years from the expiration of the term of his predecessor, unless ...
- Free Exercise Uncertainty: Original Meaning? History and Tradition? Pragmatic Nuance? When a law not targeted at religion nonetheless has the incidental effect of substantially burdening a religious practice, does the Free Exercise Clause of the ...
- Preserving Rural School Districts from the Threat of Vouchers and Charters† School vouchers and charter schools are primed to grow at a time when public school systems are experiencing a precipitous decline in enrollment. Unfortunately,
- An International Study on Coral Reef Litigation: The Fiction of Ecological Remedy Ship groundings and oil spills continue to destroy coral ecosystems with impunity, despite growing global attention to reef degradation. Yet, the complex task o ...
- Enforcing the First Amendment in an Era of Jawboning† First Amendment law tends to focus on the exercise of formal government power. Nevertheless, for over six decades now, it has been black letter law that informa ...
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.
- AI Testing Should Account for Sophisticated Strategic Behaviour† 🔥This position paper argues for two claims regarding AI testing and evaluation. First, to remain informative about deployment behaviour, evaluations need account for the possibility that AI systems und...
- Smooth markets: A basic mechanism for organizing gradient-based learners 🔥With the success of modern machine learning, it is becoming increasingly important to understand and control how learning algorithms interact. Unfortunately, negative results from game theory show the...
- Bit is all we need: binary normalized neural networks†
- What Does Your Benchmark Really Measure? A Framework for Robust Inference of AI Capabilities† ArXiv link for What Does Your Benchmark Really Measure? A Framework for Robust Inference of AI Capabilities ...
- HoT: Highlighted Chain of Thought for Referencing Supporting Facts from Inputs ArXiv link for HoT: Highlighted Chain of Thought for Referencing Supporting Facts from Inputs ...
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)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- Leah Litman (@leahlitman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Walter Olson (@walterolson.bsky.social)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals (@leftistlawyer.com)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (promoted)
- Simon Cox (@simonfrcox.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Fatal Funnel Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.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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