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.
- Available to download Friday, some Epstein files no longer there Saturday afternoon 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥An NPR analysis of the Epstein files shows some documents, originally available on Friday, are no longer on the Department of Justice's "Epstein Library" website as the DOJ releases more files.
- US army lawyer fired as immigration judge after defying Trump deportation agenda 🔥🔥Christopher Day was fired barely a month into the job after granting asylum to migrants at a high rate ...
- 6 Takeaways From the First Batch of the Epstein Files 🔥🔥
- Epstein Files Photos Disappear From Government Website, Including One of Trump
- My lesson from 2025: Reform is much more vulnerable than it appears | Gaby Hinsliff The party’s astonishingly speedy growth disguised shallow roots – and its success has brought a level of scrutiny for which it simply isn’t ready, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff ...
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 Alarmingly Racist History of the Supreme Court’s Canceled 1947 Christmas Party 🔥🔥🔥The Court held its first-ever office Christmas party in 1946. The following year, the clerks suggested inviting Black employees. It did not go over well.
- Major Epstein Files Update: Articles of Impeachment for Pam Bondi Being Drafted 🔥🔥I have reviewed most of the files overnight. This was a failure on the DOJ's part.
- Redacted: Donald & Jeffrey 🔥Once again, I’m apologizing at the top of a longer-than-I’d-like-it-to-be Saturday night column.
- The Sixth Circuit jumps out ahead of SCOTUS to block Michigan's conversion therapy ban In doing so, the appeals court also shows how conveniently standing law is used. Also: SCOTUS rejects DOJ's stay request in a case about immigration judges' speech rights.
- December 20, 2025 On November 19, 2025, Congress passed H.R.
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’s AI Order Is More Bark than Bite† 🔥🔥🔥While the executive order has created uncertainty for the many states that have passed artificial intelligence policies to protect their residents, its impact falls short of its menacing rhetoric.
- AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals† 🔥🔥Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
- Press Release - December 19, 2025 - 2 - SFWA - The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association† 🔥🔥Guidance from the SFWA Board on the major questions in this year's Nebula Awards Review Process: for poetry, category minimums, and LLMs.
- How Trump’s AI Executive Order Gets It Wrong on Civil Rights | TechPolicy.Press 🔥Trump's AI executive order targeting civil rights protections relies on a distortion of AI models, AI regulation and federal laws, Leah Frazier writes.
- AI companies tying their fates to Trump is ‘a gamble,’ says expert | CNN† 🔥Bianna Golodryga speaks with former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Marietje Schaake about the need to regulate artificial intelligence.
- How Might Trump’s AI Executive Order Impact State Laws Regulating Nonconsensual Deepfakes? | TechPolicy.Press 🔥Tech Policy Press is a nonprofit media and community venture intended to provoke new ideas, debate and discussion at the intersection of technology and democracy. We publish opinion and analysis.
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.
- Government Religious Speech and the Establishment Clause† 🔥🔥🔥The government says religious things. From monuments and holiday displays to legislative prayers, religion saturates the government’s public voice.
- The Post-Legitimacy Court 🔥
For a long time, for both Justices and many observers, “legitimacy” was a focal criterion for assessing the Supreme Court’s performance.
- Laboratory of Autocracy: Texas' escalating assault on First Amendment values in the Abbott/Patrick/Paxton years† 🔥After more than three decades of one-party rule, Texas has proven to be a hotbed of First Amendment issues. Authors coded a decade of Texas Tribune art ...
- Equality and Protection: The Forgotten Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment At the heart of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause are two fundamental principles: equality and protection. Tragically, the Supreme Court ...
- Teaching Past Constitutional Crisis† Constitutional law is often values-driven. Constitutional law teachers must be upfront with their students about this fact, but should encourage their students ...
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.
- Evaluating Large Language Models in Scientific Discovery† 🔥🔥Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly applied to scientific research, yet prevailing science benchmarks probe decontextualized knowledge and overlook the iterative reasoning, hypothesis genera...
- NoveltyRank: Estimating Conceptual Novelty of AI Papers† ArXiv link for NoveltyRank: Estimating Conceptual Novelty of AI Papers ...
- Towards a Science of Scaling Agent Systems† ArXiv link for Towards a Science of Scaling Agent Systems ...
- DarkDiff: Advancing Low-Light Raw Enhancement by Retasking Diffusion Models for Camera ISP High-quality photography in extreme low-light conditions is challenging but impactful for digital cameras. With advanced computing hardware, traditional camera image signal processor (ISP) algorithms…
- Distributional AGI Safety† AI safety and alignment research has predominantly been focused on methods for safeguarding individual AI systems, resting on the assumption of an eventual emergence of a monolithic Artificial General...
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)
- Joe Dudek (@joedudekjd.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- Jolyon Maugham KC (@goodlawproject.org) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael McDonald (@electproject.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Brody (@dbrody.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Burbach 🇺🇸🌹 (@dburbach.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social)
- Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 (@joshuafoust.com) (promoted)
- Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Giraffe Or Possibly Popehat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (promoted)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- The Questionable Authority (@questauthority.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joshua Erlich (@joshuaerlich.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Deborah Pearlstein (@debpearlstein.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mike Sacks (@mikesacks.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonathanmladd.com) (relegated)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (relegated)
- Dan Sohege (@danielsohege.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden (@sandraduffy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sam Bagenstos (@sbagen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- ❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ (@sababausa.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael Clemens (@mclem.org) (relegated)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.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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