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.
- Bill Cassidy Will Back Todd Blanche as Attorney General, Salvaging His Confirmation (Gift Article) 🔥🔥🔥🔥The Louisiana senator said that, despite reservations, he would back President Trump’s pick for attorney general, giving Republicans enough votes for a majority.
- Trump Restarts Battle to Fire Sitting Fed Governor Lisa Cook 🔥🔥🔥🔥The Trump administration, rebuffed by the Supreme Court in its first attempt to fire Lisa D. Cook, sent the Federal Reserve governor a letter saying it was “considering” removing her from the job.
- Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan sign defence agreement 🔥🔥🔥Pakistan says an attack on any of the three will amount to an attack against all, amid conflict in the Middle East.
- ‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley 🔥As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them ...
- Trump administration to pay German firm $1.22bn to cut offshore wind leases 🔥Agreement with RWE is fifth deal Trump team has made with energy companies, offering payouts to give up projects ...
- Trump’s top general foresees acute risks in an attack on Iran 🔥The Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman has said that a lack of munitions and allied support could mean greater danger for U.S. troops, people familiar with the talks say.
- Exclusive | U.S. Intel Finds Putin Could Test NATO’s Resolve With Limited Incursion 🔥The new assessment updates past forecasts that Russia’s leader wouldn’t provoke the alliance during the Ukraine war.
- US accused of meddling in British politics with $500,000 grant for ‘public education’ courses 🔥Documents published on US embassy’s website prompt claims of attempt to export Maga propaganda to UK ...
- How ideas of a vast censorship network moved from the online fringe to Trump policy 🔥Narratives about a “censorship-industrial complex” spread in right-wing circles for years; then they took hold of Washington. What—and who—is behind them?
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.
- 89 Day Until The Midterm Elections† 🔥🔥🔥And why it matters ...
- Important Friday Update: I Went to Mitch McConnell's House, Trump's Ballroom is Shut Down, Trump Voters Regret their Support 🔥Good evening, everyone.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 435. 8/7/26 🔥… After Sen.
- NEWS: Trump 'Detached' and 'Retreated into Denial' as Horrible Economic News is Released and Republicans see the 'Writing on the Wall' 🔥Good morning, everyone.
- The Attorney General as Prison Executive 🔥Why should the attorney general personally decide which federal prison any convict should be assigned to?
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.
- Amid Growing Fears of Rogue AI, Expert Urges Governments to “Bring This to a Grinding Halt”† 🔥🔥🔥Is AI superintelligence inevitable? AI safety researcher David Krueger says it doesn’t have to be. Krueger, an assistant professor at the University of Montreal and founder of the nonprofit Evitable, ...
- Please enact a two-year moratorium on the use of AI in NYC Public Schools 🔥🔥The use of AI in the NYC schools is expanding, despite the lack of rigorous protections and the growing evidence that it can undermine student privacy, cognitive skills, creativity, critical thinking,...
- Will AI Sycophancy Contaminate Law Enforcement?† 🔥🔥AI sycophancy in high risk domains like law enforcement are under-analyzed, argues Tech Policy Press fellow Jake Laperruque.
- ICE’s DNA Collection Increases, SpaceX’s Rocket Crashes Into the Moon, and the AI Backlash Grows† 🔥🔥In today’s episode of “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss how ICE has been collecting DNA samples of people with no criminal convictions, including children, which end up in an FBI database indefinitely.
- How AI is breaking the British state 🔥Equipped with models and agents, citizens could bring government to a halt ...
- Scientists Used AI to Create 16 New Viruses 🔥The use of AI systems to create viruses opens up new possibilities for combating bacterial resistance. It also raises concerns about the pace at which technology is outstripping regulation.
- Petition: Protect creators' rights: require AI firms to disclose training data 🔥We ask the Government to introduce a statutory duty requiring AI developers to disclose the copyrighted works used to train generative AI in enough detail for creators to identify use of their work, e...
- What to Know About China’s First AI Companion Rules 🔥China's new rules limiting the use of A.I. companion systems reveal a gap in how the United States regulates A.I. chatbots.
- Brazil's Electoral Court Wants Platform Compliance Plans. Can It Enforce Them? 🔥Platforms will have to provide comprehensive and structured information on various phenomena related to elections, writes Laís Martins.
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 Chadha Presidency† 🔥🔥🔥Where is Congress? Why hasn’t it reined in some of the worst abuses of the Trump Administration? This Article argues that a significant part of the ans ...
- Immigration is Not Invasion† In recent years, state governments and the second Trump Administration have increasingly advanced the argument that illegal migration and cross-border dr ...
- Letter to a 1L on the First Day of Law School (Excerpt from 'The Law of Law School')† Law school creates a challenging educational environment for all students. A “Letter to a 1L on the First Day of Law School” offers words of comfort and encour ...
- Amicus Brief of Antitrust Law, Economics, and Business Professors in Support of Plaintiffs - US v. Google D.C Circuit† Amici curiae are dozens of professors of law, economics, and business who have researched and published extensively on antitrust issue ...
- Supreme Court Impacts in Public Health Law: 2025-2026 In an increasingly contemptuous political environment as the nation prepares to celebrate its sesquicentennial on July 4, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court capped it ...
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.
- MDArena: Evaluating Coding Agents on Realistic Molecular Dynamics Workflows† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Accelerating scientific discovery is among the most consequential applications of AI, and computational biomolecular simulation stands out as a particularly promising target within this broader effort...
- Grounded world models in biological organisms and future embodied AI† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Recent advances in generative and embodied AI have been driven by large-scale predictive learning over multimodal data. However, the resulting systems remain largely based on passive training regimes ...
- Amicus Brief of Antitrust Law, Economics, and Business Professors in Support of Plaintiffs - US v. Google D.C Circuit† 🔥🔥🔥Amici curiae are dozens of professors of law, economics, and business who have researched and published extensively on antitrust issue ...
- An Early Warning of Emerging Biosecurity Risks in Frontier LLMs 🔥🔥Frontier large language models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into scientific workflows, yet their growing biological capabilities may outpace current safeguards. To assess the biological risks of...
- Marked Pedagogies: Examining Linguistic Biases in Personalized Automated Writing Feedback 🔥Effective personalized feedback is critical to students' literacy development. Though LLM-powered tools now promise to automate such feedback at scale, LLMs are not language-neutral: they privilege st...
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)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jess O'Thomson (@jessothomson.co.uk) (promoted)
- AG Andrea Joy Campbell (@massago.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael C. Dorf (@dorfonlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social)
- The Empty City (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- ❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ (@sababausa.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (promoted)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Courthouse News (@courthousenews.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social)
- Sam Brunson (@smbrnsn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Saideman (@smsaideman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagiragrant.com) (promoted)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Phillips OBrien (@phillipspobrien.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Parnas (@aaronparnas.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mitchell Epner (@mitchellepner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (relegated)
- Prof John O Brennan (@jobmaynooth.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joe Patrice (@joepatrice.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Florence Ashley (@floralashes.bsky.social) (relegated)
- evacide (@evacide.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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