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.
- Senate passes bill to block further military action in Venezuela 🔥🔥🔥🔥Though largely symbolic, the vote was a rare assertion of Congress’s role in using lethal force after the stunning raid to capture Nicolás Maduro.
- “I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime 🔥🔥🔥Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
- We Pressed Trump on His Conclusion About the ICE Shooting. Here’s What He Said. 🔥🔥🔥
- House passes bill extending health care subsidies, bucking GOP leaders 🔥🔥🔥Prospects for passage in the Senate are unclear. The enhanced subsidies expired at the end of 2025, driving costs up for millions.
- Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis 🔥🔥🔥An analysis of footage from three camera angles show that the vehicle appears to be turning away from a federal officer as he opened fire.
- OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, encouraging users to connect their medical records 🔥🔥But it’s ‘not intended for diagnosis or treatment.’
- Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods 🔥404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or t...
- Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery 🔥X to limit editing function to paying subscribers after platform threatened with fines and regulatory action ...
- Minn. Officials Say They’re Being Blocked From Investigating Fatal ICE Shooting 🔥
- Musk’s Grok AI Generated Thousands of Undressed Images Per Hour on X 🔥Elon Musk’s X has become a top site for images of people that have been non-consensually undressed by AI, according to a third-party analysis, with thousands of instances each hour over a day earlier ...
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.
- Following Wednesday's ICE killing, D.C. residents take to the streets, chanting "ICE out now" 🔥🔥A protest at 14 and U streets in Washington, D.C., stopped traffic for roughly an hour on the evening after an ICE agent killed Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis.
- BREAKING: Senate Votes to Block Trump's Ability to Strike Venezuela as the FBI Prohibits Investigators Access to Minnesota Evidence 🔥🔥Good morning everyone.
- About That Stephen Miller Interview… 🔥🔥On Monday, Stephen Miller did an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper.
- A Killing, a Cover‑Up, and the Country We’re Becoming 🔥What we tolerate now will define us.
- 92% of ICE Detention Growth in FY 2026 Driven by Immigrants with No Criminal Convictions 🔥ICE published new detention data today that brings the current population to a record-high of 68,990. Get the full breakdown below. Plus: ICE records first detention death of 2026.
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.
- Elon Musk’s Deepfake Factory - The American Prospect† 🔥🔥🔥Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, has apparently been trained to digitally undress people, and a huge population of perverts on Twitter/X are taking full advantage.
- X thinks a Texas law against bathroom photography infringes on free speech 🔥🔥The platform is backing a Texas Republican party chair and calling it an issue of free speech.
- Atty Apologizes For ChatGPT-Hallucinated Citations In Briefs - Law360 🔥A patent attorney has apologized to a Kansas federal judge for submitting a court filing with case citations hallucinated by ChatGPT, calling the experience "shameful and embarrassing" and saying he w...
- Will Musk’s Grok Be Held Accountable for Flood of Sexualized, Fake Images of Women and Children? 🔥This story was originally reported by Mariel Padilla of The 19th. Meet...
- X users tell Grok to undress women and girls in photos. It’s saying yes. 🔥The site is filling with AI-generated nonconsensual sexualized images of women and children. Owner Elon Musk responded with laughing emojis.
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.
- Of Guilty Property and Civil/Remedial Punishment: The Implications and Perils of "History" for the Excessive Fines Clause and Beyond 🔥In 1998, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in United States v. Bajakajian, in which it held that a criminal forfeiture violated the Eighth Am ...
- A Lost Opportunity to Protect Democracy Against Itself: What the Supreme Court Got Wrong in Trump v. Anderson In Trump v. Anderson, a divided Supreme Court achieved unusual unanimity in an important case. All nine Justices agreed that state governments could n ...
- Congress's Article III Power and the Process of Constitutional Change† Text in Article III of the U.S. Constitution appears to give to Congress authority to make incursions into judicial supremacy, by restricting (or, less neutrall ...
- Presidents, Opinions, and Independent Officers The Opinions in Writing Clause is a persistent textual problem for the claim that Article II implies an indefeasible removal power: If the Framers believed they ...
- Look What You Made Me Do We have understood for centuries that crime is both the product of social forces and individual choice. We know now that crime is affected by economic depriv ...
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.
- DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning† 🔥🔥🔥General reasoning represents a long-standing and formidable challenge in artificial intelligence. Recent breakthroughs, exemplified by large language models (LLMs) and chain-of-thought prompting, have...
- EnvBench: A Benchmark for Automated Environment Setup 🔥Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled researchers to focus on practical repository-level tasks in software engineering domain. In this work, we consider a cornerstone task for a...
- Extracting books from production language models 🔥Many unresolved legal questions over LLMs and copyright center on memorization: whether specific training data have been encoded in the model's weights during training, and whether those memorized dat...
- Resummation of the C-Parameter Sudakov Shoulder Using Effective Field Theory The C-parameter distribution in $e^+e^-$ annihilation exhibits a kinematic shoulder at $C = 3/4$, where three-parton final states reach their maximum and a fourth parton is required to exceed it. This...
- Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task† ArXiv link for Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task ...
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)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (promoted)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) (promoted)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis (@jeffjarvis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH (@rmcarpiano.medsky.social) (promoted)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagiragrant.com) (promoted)
- Glenn Kirschner (@glennkirschner.bsky.social)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social)
- The Questionable Authority (@questauthority.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social)
- Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 (@joshuafoust.com) (promoted)
- Ordinary Rendition (@renderjudgment.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (relegated)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (relegated)
- T. Greg Doucette (@gregdoucette.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Florence Ashley (@floralashes.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Bob Mann (@robertmannbooks.com) (relegated)
- southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dr Emma L Briant (@emma-briant.co.uk) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- We’re Going To Keep The Popehat (@kenwhite.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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