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.
- Trump aides declared 16 DHS shootings since July justified before probes completed 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The Trump administration’s rush to defend the officers and accuse the victims of attacking them has sparked widespread outrage and demands for accountability.
- “The Homeland” Is War on America: The Blood-and-Soil Nationalism That Killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti 🔥🔥🔥In the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact: The culture war is an actual war.
- Opinion | Tim Walz: The Un-American Assault on Minnesota 🔥🔥🔥Federal officials are lying. My state’s Corrections Department honors all immigration detainers.
- Administration Social Media Posts Echo White Supremacist Messaging 🔥🔥
- Five-year-old deported to Honduras despite being US citizen is latest child victim of Trump crackdown 🔥🔥Mother whose visa application was pending says she will send girl back to US soon accompanied by another relative ...
- National park signs related to Native Americans, climate change to be removed 🔥Among the national parks targeted in the new removal orders are some of the country’s most iconic: Grand Canyon, Glacier, Big Bend and Zion.
- Trinidadian Families File Wrongful Death Lawsuit Over Boat Strike by U.S. Military 🔥
- National insurance hike and energy bills behind food price rise, say UK retailers 🔥Latest BRC figures show year-on-year rate of increase was 3.9% in January, up from 3.3% the month before ...
- The Guardian view on deepening poverty in the UK: a catastrophic Tory legacy has cut millions adrift | Editorial 🔥Editorial: A new Joseph Rowntree report underlines the corrosive impact of years of anti-welfare rhetoric. A reframing of the debate is urgently needed ...
- Number of people living in extreme heat to double by 2050 if 2C rise occurs, study finds 🔥Scientists expect 41% of the projected global population to face the extremes, with ‘no part of the world’ immune ...
- Philip Glass pulls world premiere from Kennedy Center 🔥The pioneering composer announced that “the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message” of his Symphony No. 15: “Lincoln.”
- ‘Abdication’: Trump formally takes US out of Paris climate agreement for a second time 🔥Experts are watching for how other countries will react as the ‘real economy’ shifts to cheaper, cleaner energy ...
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.
- ICE: Getting The Scrutiny It Deserves 🔥🔥But will it last?
- Important Update: Knives are Out as Kristi Noem Tries to Throw Stephen Miller Under the Bus and Trump Ignites Republican Rift 🔥🔥Good evening everyone.
- Another Killing on ICE 🔥🔥The right wing propaganda machine can’t spin the killing of Alex Pretti ...
- How Minnesota Can Convict 🔥Immunity Will Delay, But Should Not Deny, Successful Prosecutions of the Shooters of Good and Pretti ...
- January 27, 2026 The murder of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday morning at the hands of federal agents has put wind in the sails of those trying to rein in the Trump administration at the same time it has sent t...
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.
- The State-Led Crackdown on Grok and xAI Has Begun 🔥🔥🔥🔥At least 37 attorneys general for US states and territories are taking action against xAI after Grok generated a flood of nonconsensual sexual images of women and minors.
- How Silicon Valley built AI: Buying, scanning and destroying millions of books 🔥🔥Court filings reveal how AI companies raced to obtain more books to feed chatbots, including by buying, scanning and disposing of millions of titles.
- Meta CEO Zuckerberg blocked curbs on sex-talking chatbots for minors, court filing alleges 🔥Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg approved allowing minors to access AI chatbot companions that safety staffers warned were capable of sexual interactions, according to internal Meta documents filed in a New Mexico state court case and made public Monday.
- OpenAl Showed Up At My Door. Here’s Why They’re Targeting People Like Me YouTube video by More Perfect Union ...
- Inside one company’s secret plan to ‘destructively scan every book in the world’ Court filings reveal how AI companies raced to obtain more books to feed chatbots, including by buying, scanning and disposing of millions of titles.
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.
- TikTok v. Garland and the First Amendment Anticanon† 🔥🔥This essay argues that last term’s decision in TikTok v. Garland, which unanimously upheld the federal law that sought to ban TikTok in the Unit ...
- Veteran Disability Hierarchies† American disability law purports to operate on principles of equality, yet it consistently distinguishes between worthy and unworthy disabled individuals based ...
- Everything-Everywhere Searches and the Geofence Puzzle† Police surveillance technologies have outpaced Fourth Amendment doctrine. Arbitrary, generalized search powers stretching across entire cities and states now ex ...
- Democracy, Federalism, and the Guarantee Clause† The Guarantee Clause of the Constitution promises that “[t]he United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican form of Government . . . .
- Selective Pronatalism in Tort Law This Article examines how tort law undervalues harms that impede an individual’s ability to prevent pregnancy or have an abortion, and analyzes the ...
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.
- ArXiv preprint server clamps down on AI slop† 🔥🔥🔥First-time posters to venerable platform now need an endorsement from an established author ...
- "I use ChatGPT to humanize my words": Affordances and Risks of ChatGPT to Autistic Users† 🔥🔥Large Language Model (LLM) chatbots like ChatGPT have emerged as cognitive scaffolding for autistic users, yet the tension between their utility and risk remains under-articulated. Through an inductiv...
- Performance of AI agents based on reasoning language models on ALD process optimization tasks 🔥In this work we explore the performance and behavior of reasoning large language models to autonomously optimize atomic layer deposition (ALD) processes. In the ALD process optimization task, an agent...
- What Firms Actually Lose (and Gain) from Extreme Weather Event Impacts Climate change is increasing the severity of extreme weather events, posing substantial risks for firms, investors, and the economy. Although quantifying such r ...
- Reinforcement Learning in Strategy-Based and Atari Games: A Review of Google DeepMinds Innovations Reinforcement Learning (RL) has been widely used in many applications, particularly in gaming, which serves as an excellent training ground for AI models. Google DeepMind has pioneered innovations in ...
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)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Colin Murray (@colinmurray.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jakub Jaraczewski (@jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social) (promoted)
- You Can’t Have Popehats (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (promoted)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social)
- David Noll (@david.noll.org) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (promoted)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Darin Self (@darinself.com) (relegated)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Josh Chafetz (@joshchafetz.bsky.social) (relegated)
- southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Burbach 🇺🇸🌹 (@dburbach.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jess O'Thomson (@jessothomson.co.uk) (relegated)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (relegated)
- AG Andrea Joy Campbell (@massago.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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