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.
- Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right 🔥🔥🔥🔥Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders ...
- Opinion | Looks Like the Supreme Court Will Continue to Overturn the 20th Century 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- The WI and Girlguiding have been pressured to exclude trans women – yet the law is clear as mud | Jess O’Thomson 🔥🔥Since the supreme court decision, organisations have faced lobbying and legal threats. But trans people are protected by discrimination law too, says Jess O’Thomson of the Good Law Project ...
- We asked activists from authoritarian regimes what they wish they’d known sooner. Here’s what they said 🔥🔥Activists from Hungary, El Salvador and Turkey offer advice to the US about what they’ve learned about authoritarians ...
- Disabled people driving luxury cars on your dime? Just the latest rightwing lie peddled by Labour | Frances Ryan† 🔥🔥Starmer’s ailing government is happy to pursue ideas like cutting Motability, but all ministers will do is damage lives and themselves, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan ...
- Covid scheme fraud hit almost £11bn but much 'beyond recovery', report says 🔥🔥The response to the pandemic led to ...
- Trump had two mortgages he claimed were primary dwellings, records show 🔥President did same thing his administration is now calling ‘mortgage fraud’ in case against Fed governor Lisa Cook ...
- USAID Hired the Right-Wing Influencer Responsible for Its Decimation 🔥Mike Benz was brought aboard to find evidence for his claims that the agency is secretly a spy operation.
- Minimum wage should not go any higher, suggests Badenoch 🔥Badenoch claimed Labour had tipped the balance too far against workers and in favour of welfare.
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.
- At will? Whose will? 🔥🔥🔥Removing independent agency heads is part of a broader assault on a nonpartisan government ...
- BREAKING: Democrats Score a Stunning Upset and Elect a Democratic Miami Mayor for the First Time in 30 Years Miami’s first Democratic mayor in 30 years and Jasmine Crockett’s entrance into the Texas Senate race point to a growing Democratic push in states once written off as solidly red.
- Trump on Women The new Mayor of Miami, Florida, is a Democrat.
- I Interviewed American Citizens Detained by ICE. These are Their Stories. Andrea Velez and Javier Ramirez were born here. That didn’t stop federal agents from arresting them.
- NEWS: House Republican Women Revolt Against Mike Johnson and Republican Leadership Good afternoon everyone.
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.
- Trump Promises Executive Order to Block State A.I. Regulations† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- PEN Guild wins landmark arbitration on AI protections - Washington-Baltimore News Guild† This decision marks one of the first major labor-arbitration rulings on the impact of AI on journalists' work.
- Breaking Rust - Wikipedia†
- OpenAI Should Stop Naming Its Creations After Products That Already Exist† From “cameo” to “io,” OpenAI keeps trying to call its new and upcoming releases by names that resemble existing trademarks.
- Early Edition: December 9, 2025 A curated weekday guide to major news and developments over the last 24 hours.
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.
- Recent Developments in Patent Law 2025† 🔥🔥 A summary of the most significant court decisions in patent law in the past year, updated as of December 1, 2025.
- Representing Climate Wreckers 🔥🔥In recent years, lawyers have become increasingly aware of the implications of the climate crisis for legal practice. Amidst this context, United Nations Secret ...
- Presidential Removal as Article I, Not Article II† 🔥Article I's Necessary and Proper clause is the starting point for both Congress's power to create offices and the limits on that power. Many leg ...
- Quasi-Judicial: A History and Tradition† 🔥 In challenging the historical assumptions underlying the unitary executive theory, scholars have made several seemingly unrelated discoveries. F ...
- 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 ...
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.
- Are We Tripping? The Mirage of AI Hallucinations† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥There is a deep disorder in the discourse of generative artificial intelligence (AI). When AI seems to make things up or distort reality — adding extra fingers ...
- Different types of syntactic agreement recruit the same units within large language models Large language models (LLMs) can reliably distinguish grammatical from ungrammatical sentences, but how grammatical knowledge is represented within the models remains an open question. We investigate ...
- Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence† Both the general public and academic communities have raised concerns about sycophancy, the phenomenon of artificial intelligence (AI) excessively agreeing with or flattering users. Yet, beyond isolat...
- Quantum machine learning -- lecture notes† Lecture notes on quantum machine learning for computer scientists.
- Humanoid Robots and Humanoid AI: Review, Perspectives and Directions† In the approximately century-long journey of robotics, humanoid robots made their debut around six decades ago. While current humanoids bear human-like appearances, none have embodied true humaneness,...
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)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (promoted)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Glenn Kirschner (@glennkirschner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (promoted)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jolyon Maugham KC (@goodlawproject.org)
- Dan Izzo (@izzos.us) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Zoe Tillman (@zoetillman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Burbach 🇺🇸🌹 (@dburbach.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Rebecca Williams (@rebeccawilliams.info) (relegated)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (relegated)
- Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) (relegated)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steven Beschloss (@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ralph Janik (@ralphjanik.com) (relegated)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jenny Cohn (@jennycohn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden (@sandraduffy.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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