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.
- How Jack Smith’s strongest case against Donald Trump collapsed 🔥🔥🔥🔥Seeking to get the classified documents case to a jury before the 2024 election, the special counsel made a fateful decision that some in his office saw as a misstep.
- Nation’s biggest law firms back off from challenging Trump policies 🔥🔥🔥The pace generated by more than 390 lawsuits challenging Trump administration actions has lawyers from many firms working around-the-clock.
- Racist incidents against UK nurses surge by 55% 🔥🔥Royal College of Nursing calls on government to stop using anti-migrant rhetoric, which it says emboldens racist behaviour ...
- World’s climate plans fall drastically short of action needed, analysis shows 🔥🔥Recent plans submitted to UN by more than 60 countries would cut carbon by only 10%, a sixth of what is needed ...
- Hurricanes are getting so intense, scientists propose a Category 6 🔥🔥The hypothetical new label could go to any tropical cyclone with sustained winds of at least 192 mph — an intensity that five storms have surpassed since 2013, the scientists said.
- Why Biden’s White House Press Secretary Is Leaving the Democratic Party 🔥🔥Karine Jean-Pierre feels that Democrats were so mean to Biden that she is becoming an Independent.
- Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows 🔥🔥Executives at world’s biggest datacentre owner grappled with disclosing information about water used to help power facilities ...
- Amazon to Lay Off Tens of Thousands of Corporate Workers 🔥🔥The cuts amount to roughly 10% of the online giant’s white-collar workforce.
- Keeping the House Absent, Johnson Marginalizes Congress and Himself 🔥
- Vaccine Skepticism Comes for Pet Owners, Too 🔥
- ICE detains British journalist after criticism of Israel on US tour 🔥Trump ally Laura Loomer took credit for Sami Hamdi’s detainment in move denounced as ‘affront to free speech’
- Man gets payout over portrayal in Steve Coogan Richard III film 🔥Richard Taylor sued Steve Coogan and two production companies over his portrayal in the movie.
- Prince Andrew hosted Epstein, Maxwell and Weinstein at Royal Lodge 🔥The trio were at Andrew's mansion in 2006 as part of his daughter Beatrice's 18th birthday celebrations.
- Former DOJ officials say Comey case is vindictive, call for dismissal 🔥The amicus brief signed by more than 100 former Justice Department officials urged a federal judge in Virginia to dismiss charges against the former FBI director.
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.
- It is So ‘Disconcerting’ that We Have No Congress 🔥🔥🔥Republicans refuse to do their jobs ...
- October 27, 2025 🔥🔥There is a lot going on tonight, but the world is going to have to turn without me: it’s been a long run without a break and I need to sleep.
- Today at 4pm ET: Substack Live with Heather Cox Richardson 🔥Heather Cox Richardson and I will get together at 4 pm ET (my apologies; I said 5 pm last night, the downfall of trying to convert from PT to ET on not enough sleep!) to discuss history, law, and the ...
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 237. 10/27/25 … Trump was asked on Air Force One on the way to South Korea whether he would do what Steve Bannon suggested and try to run for a 3rd term by running as a VP with a puppet candidate on the top of the ...
- BREAKING: Trump Refuses to Rule out Serving a Third Term and Publicly Discusses How he Could Trump refuses to rule out serving a third term, Trump discusses how he could serve a third term for the first time, Trump says he got an MRI but won't say for what, Rand Paul breaks from his party ...
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.
- Two federal judges say use of AI led to errors in US court rulings† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Two federal judges admitted in response to an inquiry by U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley that members of their staff used artificial intelligence to help prepare recent court orders that Grassley called "error-ridden."
- Perry: How can AI be used ethically when it’s been linked to suicide?† 🔥🔥🔥"It’s not on us, on you and me, to use AI ethically or responsibly. It’s on the companies to build safe, reliable, ethical products," David M. Perry writes.
- OpenAI Makes Bizarre Demand of Family Whose Son Was Allegedly Killed by ChatGPT† OpenAI is reportedly pushing the family of 16-year-old Adam Raine to provide information about his funeral, including a list of attendees.
- ‘Very clear’: Labor rules out exemption for AI giants to take content for free† The Albanese government has shot down a proposal from the Productivity Commission, which had tech company backing, that would exempt them from copyright laws.
- AI of a Thousand Faces What happens now that AI is everywhere and in everything? WIRED can’t tell the future, but we can try to make sense of it. Behold: 17 readings from the furthest reaches of the AI age.
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.
- Making the Most of VAPs and Fellowships: A Guide for Law Schools and Aspiring Legal Academics† 🔥🔥🔥This Article is intended for both (1) Visiting Assistant Professors and Fellows (collectively VAPs) who plan to go on the tenure-track legal-academic market, an ...
- Jurisdiction Stripping as a Tool for Democratic Reform of the Supreme Court: Written Testimony for The Presidential Commission On The Supreme Court of the United States† In this written testimony I will focus in depth on what I believe to be the most promising strategy for reducing the power of courts. That is for Congress to us ...
- The Wages of Adversity Boosting: A Theory of Law, Inequality, and the Stories We Tell† The ground-shaking enactment of President Donald Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" is just the latest instantiation of an enduring puzzle: Why are Ameri ...
- We the People of the United States: The Source of the Constitution's Authority† The Preamble is famous for its beauty and eloquence, but it is not just a rhetorical flourish at the beginning of the Constitution. It both establishes th ...
- Freedom of Peaceful Assembly Under Section 2(c) of the Charter: A Call for Action “A Call for Action” builds on the author’s previous work on s.2(c) for the Rouleau Commission (“Freedom of Assembly and Section 2(c) of the Charter<
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.
- Surface Reading LLMs: Synthetic Text and its Styles 🔥🔥🔥Despite a potential plateau in ML advancement, the societal impact of large language models lies not in approaching superintelligence but in generating text surfaces indistinguishable from human writi...
- AI-assisted Programming May Decrease the Productivity of Experienced Developers by Increasing Maintenance Burden 🔥
- Shifting 'AI Policy' Preprints and Citation Trends in the U.S., U.K and E.U., and South Korea (2015-2024)† 🔥This study of literature focusing on 'AI Policy' over the past decade, found that citations of preprints, publications on platforms such as arXiv, have increased from five percent to forty percent across three major regions: the U.S., U.K. & E.U., and South Korea. We compare regional responses of preprint citations across the global disruptions of COVID-19 and the release of ChatGPT. We discuss driving factors and risks of preprint normalization, which follows the trend in computer science.
- From the Brussels Effect to the Mar-a-Lago Effect? : AI Governance in the UK The UK has had a chequered and difficult history in determining its style of AI governance. Having historically seen itself in general regulatory terms ...
- Readers Prefer Outputs of AI Trained on Copyrighted Books over Expert Human Writers†
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)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (promoted)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Matthew Stiegler (@matthewstiegler.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (promoted)
- Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 (@chanda.blacksky.app) (promoted)
- Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonmladd.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jen Taub (@jentaub.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Julie DiCaro (@juliedicaro.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mayor of Halloween Town (@joshuajfriedman.com) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 (@angryblacklady.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Kathleen Bush-Joseph (@kathleenbush.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Steinbaugh (@adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dan Farbman (@danfarbman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) (relegated)
- Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals (@leftistlawyer.com) (relegated)
- Beau Baumann 🍏 (@beaubaumann.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael Clemens (@mclem.org) (relegated)
- David Colarusso (@davidcolarusso.com) (relegated)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.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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