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.
- Opinion | An Old Theory Helps Explain What Happened to Renee Good 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Abolishing ICE isn’t enough – it’s time to center people’s humanity | Heba Gowayed and Victor Ray 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥It’s far from radical to reject a system predicated on violence – despite what thinktanks might claim ...
- Opinion | For Trump, Justice Means Vengeance 🔥🔥
- Epstein survivors say financier lured them with promise of college education 🔥🔥Multiple survivors claim Epstein dangled admission to top universities to ensnare them in his sexual abuse network ...
- Trump threatens 25% tariff on European allies until Denmark sells Greenland to US† 🔥Heads of state across Europe respond in solidarity with Denmark and Greenland, and boycott of World Cup suggested ...
- HMRC taking more than a year to pay out tax rebates 🔥Taxpayers talk of having to borrow cash and wait for months amid ‘significant backlogs’ in processing of claims ...
- Renee Good Was Concerned About ICE, a Lawyer Says, but Wasn’t Following Agents 🔥
- ‘We’ll Sue’: White House’s Warning to CBS Is Sign of a New Media Status Quo 🔥
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.
- On heading into year two of the second Trump administration, and the necessity of pushback 🔥🔥The Minnesota pushback to "Operation Metro Surge" shows the power that the people maintain in the face of Trump's authoritarianism.
- January 18, 2026 🔥🔥You hear sometimes, now that we know the sordid details of the lives of some of our leading figures, that America has no heroes left.
- The Week Ahead 🔥🔥January 18, 2026 ...
- The Battle of the Bulge Episode 3: The Schnee Eifel Pocket 🔥Here is the third installment of the Battle of the Bulge series in Journey to American Democracy.
- This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 288. 🔥… WaPo: “The Pentagon has ordered about 1,500 active-duty soldiers to prepare for a possible deployment to Minnesota after Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act in response to unrest there.
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.
- ICE error meant some recruits were sent into field offices without proper training, sources say 🔥🔥🔥🔥An AI tool used to help ICE identify potential new recruits with law enforcement experience wrongly categorized some potential new officers, sources say.
- How Trump's AI Policy Promotes Ethnonationalism A conversation with George Washington University Law School scholar Spencer Overton about his forthcoming paper, "Ethnonationalism by Algorithm."
- A.I. Has Arrived in Gmail. Here’s What to Know.† Google’s A.I. assistant, Gemini, can create a to-do list based on recent emails, among other new tricks. There are implications for your privacy.
- Musk seeks up to $134 billion from OpenAI and Microsoft in 'wrongful gains'† Musk seeks up to $134 billion from OpenAI and Microsoft, saying he deserves "wrongful gains" they received from his early support, according to a court filing.
- Grok Supercharges the Nonconsensual Pornography Epidemic Without meaningful pushback from regulators and users, Grok’s example risks setting a dangerously permissive precedent that, writes Kaylee Williams.
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.
- The Jurisprudence of Constitutional Entitlement 🔥Lawyers are accustomed to thinking of constitutional law as a familiar binary: Either a given governmental policy or practice is constitutional and therefore pe ...
- The Ethics of AI in Games: Navigating Legal Responsibility and Creative Rights† Legal and ethical issues posed by AI in video games development are in point of those related to developer liability, creative rights and consumer protection. T ...
- The Autocratic Legal Playbook† This Article examines the development and rapid innovation of the autocratic legal playbook in America: the strategic blueprint used to destroy democracy throug ...
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.
- How AI Destroys Institutions† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Civic institutions—the rule of law, universities, and a free press—are the backbone of democratic life... Unfortunately, the affordances of AI systems extinguish these institutional features at every turn.
- Exploring Large Language Models Through a Neurodivergent Lens: Use, Challenges, Community-Driven Workarounds, and Concerns 🔥🔥Despite the increasing use of large language models (LLMs) in everyday life among neurodivergent individuals, our knowledge of how they engage with, and perceive LLMs remains limited. In this study, w...
- Difference-in-Differences with Time-varying Continuous Treatments using Double/Debiased Machine Learning† 🔥We propose a difference-in-differences (DiD) framework designed for time-varying continuous treatments across multiple periods. Specifically, we estimate the average treatment effect on the treated (A...
- The Promptware Kill Chain: How Prompt Injections Gradually Evolved Into a Multi-Step Malware
- Advancing AI Negotiations: A Large-Scale Autonomous Negotiation Competition† ArXiv link for Advancing AI Negotiations: A Large-Scale Autonomous Negotiation Competition ...
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)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jess O'Thomson (@jessothomson.co.uk) (promoted)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Darin Self (@darinself.com) (promoted)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Burbach 🇺🇸🌹 (@dburbach.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (promoted)
- southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Josh Chafetz (@joshchafetz.bsky.social) (promoted)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- AG Andrea Joy Campbell (@massago.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (relegated)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (relegated)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Bradley P. Moss (@bradmossesq.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Justin (@justinlawguy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joe Stieb (@joestieb.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Elizabeth N. Saunders (@profsaunders.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jenny Cohn (@jennycohn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) (@shengokai.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.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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