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.
- Judge in Minnesota Says ICE Has Violated Nearly 100 Court Orders 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- In her screams, the desperation of a community under siege by ICE - The Boston Globe 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥When ICE arrested of Fátima Lucas Henrique, the video of her screaming as agents pulled her from her vehicle resonated across the state.
- FBI searches Atlanta election office, chasing Trump 2020 vote fraud claims 🔥🔥🔥The FBI searched an election office in Georgia's Fulton County outside Atlanta on Wednesday, pursuing U.S. President Donald Trump's false claims that his 2020 election defeat was the result of widespr...
- ICE’s No. 1 Ally 🔥🔥The Department of Justice has rushed to shield federal agents from accountability and launched needless criminal investigations into Minnesota officials and residents.
- Trump Administration Live Updates: F.B.I. Search in Georgia Tied to Criminal Inquiry Over 2020 Election 🔥
- In six violent encounters, evidence contradicts Trump immigration officials' narratives 🔥Incidents in recent months collectively show a pattern in which officials rushed to defend immigration officers without waiting for key facts to emerge – in what former immigration officials called a ...
- Outcry in Italy as U.S. Says ICE Agents Will Join Olympics Delegation 🔥
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 investigation is the coverup 🔥🔥Trump's "pivot" on Pretti is just a head fake.
- The Battle of the Bulge Episode 4: The St. Vith Resistance 🔥I think this is my favorite of our short videos about the Battle of the Bulge.
- Major Update: White House Officials Throw Each Other Under the Bus as FBI Raids Georgia Election Office and DHS Walks Back Pretti Claims 🔥The knives are out in the Trump Administration this afternoon.
- Talking with Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty about Trump, Operation Metro Surge — and FAFO 🔥Watch now (47 mins) | "[T]he people of Minneapolis are looking around, and this is what they’re saying to their electeds too, is, ‘Who is here protecting us?’”
- Important Update: Trump Faces Internal Chaos as Republicans Break From White House While ICE Causes International Incident 🔥Good morning everyone.
- January 28, 2026 🔥Federal agents continue to rain terror on Minneapolis, Minnesota, and other U.S.
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.
- Class Action Suit Filed Against xAI Over Grok 'Undressing' Controversy A new lawsuit against xAI alleges negligence, public nuisance, privacy violations, defamation, and unfair business practices, among other claims.
- 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.
- 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 file...
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 ...
- Trademarks Without Confusion: Can Brand Rights Rescue Trademark Law? We have two very different trademark systems in this country. The traditional one protects consumers against be ...
- Antisubjugation and the Equal Protection of the Laws This Article challenges 150 years of conventional wisdom regarding whether the Fourteenth Amendment protects people against “private” violence and secures “posi ...
- 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 ...
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.
- "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...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Teaching Models to Teach Themselves: Reasoning at the Edge of Learnability 🔥ArXiv link for Teaching Models to Teach Themselves: Reasoning at the Edge of Learnability ...
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)
- Everything At The Direction of Popehat (@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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