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.
- Appeals Court Says Alina Habba Is Unlawful U.S. Attorney 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Trump Administration Fires 8 Immigration Judges in New York 🔥🔥🔥
- Suspect in National Guard attack struggled with 'dark isolation' as community raised concerns 🔥🔥🔥Emails obtained by the Associated Press show that the Afghan man accused of shooting two National Guard members near the White House had been unraveling for years.
- TSA Imposes $45 Fee for Travelers Without REAL ID Starting February 2026 (Gift Article) 🔥🔥As of February, passengers without the government-approved identity card will be required to pay for alternative screening at U.S. airports.
- Chris Mason: Why, in my judgement, Reeves was misleading on one specific point 🔥🔥The Chancellor chose not to share some information on tax receipts in an unusual press conference, given before the Budget.
- College Student Is Deported During Trip Home for Thanksgiving 🔥
- The mysterious black fungus from Chernobyl that may eat radiation 🔥Mould found at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster appears to be feeding off the radiation. Could we use it to shield space travellers from cosmic rays?
- Appeals Court Says Alina Habba, Former Trump Lawyer, Is Serving Unlawfully as U.S. Attorney 🔥The judges wrote that the Trump Administration appeared to have become frustrated by legal and political barriers that have prevented its preferred U.S. attorneys from leading federal prosecutors’…
- It’s under fire from left and right – but Labour’s workers' rights bill is a huge achievement | Polly Toynbee 🔥It makes no sense for union leaders to cry betrayal when it will be their members who benefit from these sorely needed reforms, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee ...
- David Byrne: Tiny Desk Concert 🔥In matching, brilliant blue suits, David Byrne and his band squeeze behind the Desk to perform four songs, including Talking Heads' "Life During Wartime."
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.
- The Civil Suit That Could Derail the Comey Prosecution (Again) 🔥🔥🔥Daniel Richman, a central figure in the now-dismissed criminal case against James Comey, files suit over the government's handling of his property.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 261. 12/1/25 🔥… Karoline Leavitt gave a bizarre press conference today where she directly contradicted Trump’s statement last night about the illegal double-strike attack which executed two survivors of an initial ...
- The Third Circuit Says "No" To Alina Habba as Interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey 🔥Monday morning, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Trump’s appointee to be U.S.
- Trump’s Pardons and the Mockery of the U.S. Justice System 🔥Trump's not even trying to hide the hypocrisy ...
- The Trump administration's lawlessness is front and center, on multiple fronts The response to the shooting of two National Guard troops, reporting on the boat-strike murders, and the continued contempt inquiry keep Trump's lawlessness in the news.
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.
- Big Tech's AI Power-Grab 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Robert Reich ...
- Hundreds of Chicago residents sign petition to pause robot delivery pilot program over safety concerns† 🔥There is a growing call for the City Council to hold a public hearing on the pilot program and publish accessibility data ...
- The ChatGPT Deaths: Part 1. Adam Raine’s Suicide. 🔥OpenAI now faces scrutiny from multiple lawsuits alleging its software responded inappropriately resulting in deaths by self-harm. In one case, a suit alleges a minor killed themselves directly as …
- Tech Titans Amass Multimillion-Dollar War Chests to Fight AI Regulation† Some are battling state AI laws and threatening to punish candidates who oppose rapid deployment of the technology.
- How China is using AI to extend censorship and surveillance China is expanding the use of AI throughout its criminal justice system and developing tools to deepen its monitoring of ethnic minorities, a new report finds.
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.
- Ever Closer Union: Ever Present But Often Overlooked 🔥The phrase "ever closer union" has been present in what are now the EU Treaties since 1957. This article presents a diagnosis of its role within the f ...
- One Decade, One Map: State Constitutional Limits on Mid-Decade Redistricting In 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court closed the federal courthouse doors to claims of partisan gerrymandering, effectively permitting states to engage in wh ...
- Knowing How to Know: Secondary Liability for Speech in Copyright Law Contributory copyright infringement has long been based on whether the defendant, “with knowledge of the infringing activity,” induced, caused, or materially co ...
- The Second Patent Bargain The title of the article—The Second Patent Bargain—references a maxim that many students are taught in introductory IP and patent law classes. I ...
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.
- Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models† 🔥🔥
- Large Language Models Require Curated Context for Reliable Political Fact-Checking -- Even with Reasoning and Web Search† 🔥🔥Large language models (LLMs) have raised hopes for automated end-to-end fact-checking, but prior studies report mixed results. As mainstream chatbots increasingly ship with reasoning capabilities and ...
- Generative Optimization: A Perspective on AI-Enhanced Problem Solving in Engineering ArXiv link for Generative Optimization: A Perspective on AI-Enhanced Problem Solving in Engineering ...
- Butter-Bench: Evaluating LLM Controlled Robots for Practical Intelligence† We present Butter-Bench, a benchmark evaluating large language model (LLM) controlled robots for practical intelligence, defined as the ability to navigate the messiness of the physical world. Current state-of-the-art robotic systems use a hierarchical architecture with LLMs in charge of high-level reasoning, and a Vision Language Action (VLA) model for low-level control. Butter-Bench evaluates the LLM part in isolation from the VLA. Although LLMs have repeatedly surpassed humans in evaluations requiring analytical intelligence, we find humans still outperform LLMs on Butter-Bench. The best LLMs score 40% on Butter-Bench, while the mean human score is 95%. LLMs struggled the most with multi-step spatial planning and social understanding. We also evaluate LLMs that are fine-tuned for embodied reasoning and conclude that this training does not improve their score on Butter-Bench.
- Designing Rules for Choosing a Winner in a Debate We consider settings where an uninformed principal must hear arguments from two better-informed agents, corresponding to two possible courses of action that they argue for. The arguments are verifiabl...
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)
- Jenny Cohn (@jennycohn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jolyon Maugham KC (@goodlawproject.org) (promoted)
- Ralph Janik (@ralphjanik.com) (promoted)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social)
- Steven Beschloss (@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social)
- David Burbach 🇺🇸🌹 (@dburbach.bsky.social) (promoted)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (promoted)
- Rebecca Williams (@rebeccawilliams.info) (promoted)
- Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden (@sandraduffy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (relegated)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (relegated)
- Daniel A. Horwitz (@danielahorwitz.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Noll (@david.noll.org) (relegated)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jenn Burrill (@jennburrill.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (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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