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.
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In addition to the RSS feeds below, here's the legal tech feed 
powering @news.bot.suffolklitlab.org (another bot of mine).
Note, the number of fire emoji represent how many standard deviations more popular a link is than the average link observed in its category.
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’s Minnesota Surge Threatened Democracy, Judge Warns (Gift Article) 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥In a rare interview, Patrick Schiltz, who served as the federal court’s chief judge last winter, called the administration’s actions “a grave threat to the rule of law.”
- RFK Jr. Assures Vaccine Skeptics They Have a ‘Friend at the White House’ 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The health secretary spoke at a conference featuring misinformation about vaccines, including a claim that the success of the polio vaccines was a “fraud.”
- Former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson joins Palantir 🔥Peer takes full-time position at the controversial company as it fends off pressure from both Andy Burnham’s government and Sadiq Khan ...
- RFK Jr promises anti-vaxxers a ‘friend at the White House’ amid deadly measles outbreak 🔥The US health secretary added that he would’ve made sweeping changes ‘on day one’ but he had to follow the law ...
- Blanche’s Political Activity Breaks an Ethical Norm Going Back to Watergate (Gift Article) 🔥The attorney general’s campaign politicking for Republicans adds to the degradation of post-Watergate values at the Justice Department.
- Bad news this week for Trump – but Fox viewers might have missed it | Margaret Sullivan 🔥The network continues to cater to its presidential ‘audience of one’, downplaying his supreme court loss and more ...
- MPs urge ministers to break off Thames Water talks with US hedge funds 🔥Efra committee calls for emergency legislation enabling government to take public control of the company ...
- OpenAI Discloses Six New Incidents of ‘Concerning' A.I. Behavior (Gift Article) 🔥The artificial intelligence company also released a framework for reporting when its systems go wrong.
- Trump Administration Moves to Gut a Core Endangered Species Protection (Gift Article) 🔥An internal memo reinterprets the law so that only the intentional killing of animals, not collateral harm, is illegal.
- Microsoft exec called AI the ‘largest theft of labor’ in history, court records show 🔥The quote headlined an unsealed document in the New York Times’s copyright case against Microsoft and OpenAI.
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.
- Important Update: The GOP's McConnell Problem Just Got Worse, and So Did Its Trump Problem as Major Epstein Update Emerges 🔥🔥Good evening.
- There Are New Court Orders: Katie Phang Joins At 10am ET Friday to discuss Her Lawsuit Against Todd Blanche 🔥🔥Judge Sullivan entered two new orders last night in Katie Phang’s lawsuit against Todd Blanche.
- September 17, 2026 🔥In 1761, 55-year-old Benjamin Franklin attended the coronation of King George III and later wrote that he expected the young monarch’s reign would “be happy and truly glorious.” Fifteen years later, i...
- Amee Vanderpool (@shero) 🔥A Vermont Federal District Judge on Thursday sided with the state in a lawsuit over voter information, finding that the Vermont Secretary of State did not violate Title III of the Civil Rights Act whe...
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 461. 9/17/26 … As every indicator increasingly suggests a wipeout for Republicans in the midterms, their nominees in key races continue to attempt to distance themselves from Trump, including the ones who fully em...
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.
- Democratic advisers are warning their candidates not to go too hard at AI 🔥🔥🔥🔥Democratic consultants are warning their candidates in some key races not to lean into AI regulations out of fear that powerful tech groups could spend heavily against them.
- ‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft 🔥"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
- Corporate mercenary is a bipartisan profession† The AI industry tapped former Obama aide Jay Carney to rebuild ties with Democrats. He spent years at Amazon undermining privacy protections and fighting AI regulation.
- Microsoft exec called AI the ‘largest theft of labor’ in history, court records show The quote headlined an unsealed document in the New York Times’s copyright case against Microsoft and OpenAI.
- Microsoft AI CEO says AI threats are real, and Anthropic is making it worse Mustafa Suleyman on the AI safety debate, why AI isn’t consciousness, and how the industry pushes toward alignment.
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.
- Machine Learning, Social Learning and the Governance of Self-Driving Cars† 🔥🔥Self-driving cars, a quintessentially ‘smart’ technology, are not born smart. The algorithms that control their movements are learning as the technology emerges ...
- Tradition and the Federal Judicial Power Tradition is most well known today for starring in blockbuster Supreme Court cases about controversial social issues, notably abortion and firearms. Bu ...
- Sign Here, Please: The First Amendment Implications of Requiring Loyalty Oaths for Admission to Political Events The 2003-2004 presidential election cycle was the first to be significantly affected by a number of new forms of campaigning. Internet fundraising, blog journa ...
- Injunctions and Venture Capital: An Empirical Look at eBay's Effect on Startups† In the two decades that have passed since the Supreme Court raised the bar for awarding injunctive relief in eBay v. MercExchange, numerous descriptive s ...
- Een Grondwet die werkelijk beschermt: Voorstel tot wijziging van de Grondwet ter invoering van constitutionele toetsing, een Constitutionele Kamer en effectief rechtsherstel Dit werk onderzoekt hoe constitutionele toetsing van formele wetten in Nederland kan worden ingevoerd en welke rechtsgevolgen de rechter aan een vastgestelde ...
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.
- Does Empirical Finance Replicate? 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥An autonomous LLM pipeline rebuilds each result from the paper and available databases, with independent audits of every replication. I obtain 1,328 in-sample r ...
- Keeping AI in its Zone† 🔥🔥🔥🔥With zoning-reform fever sweeping local governments, state legislatures, and even Congress, there is an urgent push to understand exactly how zoning works. Unfo ...
- One Size Does Not Fit All! Dynamic Retriever and Generator Selection for RAG 🔥ArXiv link for One Size Does Not Fit All! Dynamic Retriever and Generator Selection for RAG ...
- When Does AI Augment Work? A Workflow-Level Framework for Human-Agent Collaboration 🔥ArXiv link for When Does AI Augment Work? A Workflow-Level Framework for Human-Agent Collaboration ...
- Potemkin Understanding in Large Language Models 🔥
- Harness or Model? Isolating the Harness Effect in Agentic Coding with a Contamination-Controlled Private Suite 🔥An agentic coding system couples a language model to a harness: the tools, prompts and control flow that turn a chat model into an autonomous software engineer. Vendors ship harnesses tuned to their o...
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)
- Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagiragrant.com) (promoted)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social)
- Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Patrick De Klotz (@patdeklotz.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Kevin (@reginageorgebush.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael McDonald (@electproject.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (relegated)
- The Empty City (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (relegated)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jess O'Thomson (@jessothomson.co.uk) (relegated)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael C. Dorf (@dorfonlaw.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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