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.
- Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥xAI accused of training Grok on real and AI-generated child pornography.
- ICE agent Christian Castro Released From Texas Jail After Minnesota Loses Court Fight (Gift Article) 🔥🔥🔥🔥The state had sought to have the agent extradited from Texas to answer charges in Minneapolis related to an on-duty shooting that wounded an immigrant.
- A Republican Attack Ad Used a Family’s Tragedy. Now They’re Furious. (Gift Article) 🔥Relatives of a family killed by a semi truck say they were not consulted about the ad, which connected the crash to illegal immigration.
- Fired Journalists From Stars and Stripes Sue Pentagon 🔥Three journalists dismissed from Stars and Stripes accused the government of violating their First Amendment rights, asking the courts to stop their termination.
- Canada Hires U.S. Scholars From Harvard and Other Top Universities 🔥A crackdown on American academia by the Trump administration has handed Canadian universities a rare opportunity to lure some top researchers north.
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.
- Confronting the Rich and Powerful Epstein Class 🔥🔥🔥🔥‘Six Questions’ with legal journalist Katie Phang ...
- Revisiting: Can Federal Troops Be Stationed At The Polls In 2026? On September 2, 2025, as Trump continued to deploy National Guard troops in American cities and openly blustered about militarizing American streets, I wrote an explainer about the law prohibiting fed...
- How was Mass Killing Possible? Lesson seven in my new lecture series ...
- Important Update: Trump Furious With White House Social Media Team, Big Epstein Developments, RFK Jr. Lied Under Oath Good morning.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 449. 8/27/26 … The federal judge handling the mail-in ballot case has scheduled motion hearings and deadlines to move forward with an eventual ruling on the merits of the case with several states mailing out ballo...
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.
- Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥xAI accused of training Grok on real and AI-generated child pornography.
- Meta doesn't want to be a social media company anymore† 🔥Despite an $18 billion settlement to end a nationwide child endangerment lawsuit, the firm clearly no longer sees social media as its main product—or its future.
- Judge Rules Trump Administration’s Blacklisting of Anthropic Was Illegal The government unlawfully retaliated against the A.I. start-up “for constitutionally protected expressive activities,” a federal judge in California wrote.
- Police are spending opioid settlement funds on Flock cameras Historic opioid settlements were supposed to be a lifeline for underserved communities. But much of that money is flowing to law enforcement.
- As Meta Agrees to $17B Settlement, Now Is the Time to Regulate AI Before It's Too Late: Amba Kak Prosecutors across 47 states, Washington, D.C., and U.S. territories have announced a groundbreaking legal settlement with technology giant Meta over accusations that the social media company deliberately designed addictive products they knew to be harm...
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.
- When Is the Best Reading of A Statute That It Delegates Discretion?† 🔥🔥The Supreme Court’s decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo to end Chevron deference has at least temporarily unsettled the fiel ...
- The Uninvestigable President: Executive Accountability after Trump V. United States and Trump V. Slaughter† Presidential accountability depends on information. Elections, impeachment, prosecution, and public judgment all require facts. And t ...
- Pride in the Police, but the Police in Pride…?† When it comes to judicial review, courts have long been resistant to challenges which involve an allegation that a public body has acted irrationally. For good ...
- Negligence Law as Antidomination in the Second Gilded Age Negligence is often cast as mere accident law, the crass, prosaic way we seek compensation for injuries inadvertently caused. It seems especially unconnected to ...
- Technical transparency and trust in AI regulation As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies become more common in our lives and societies, their technical complexity creates various obstacles to legal scruti ...
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.
- An Inverse Lyth Bound for Non-Attractor Inflation 🔥🔥🔥🔥I present a novel physics result generated entirely autonomously by ChatGPT 5.6 Sol. The Lyth bound relates an observable primordial tensor amplitude to a lower limit on the field excursion during sin...
- Large Language Models Generate Harmful Responses Using a Distinct Mechanism, Shared Across Harm Types† 🔥🔥ArXiv link for Large Language Models Generate Harmful Responses Using a Distinct Mechanism, Shared Across Harm Types ...
- ECG Foundation Models and Medical LLMs for Agentic Cardiovascular Intelligence at the Edge: A Review and Outlook† 🔥Electrocardiogram (ECG) foundation models represent a paradigm shift from task-specific pipelines to generalizable architectures pre-trained on large-scale unlabeled waveform data. This survey present...
- AI Agents Push Humans Out of the Loop† 🔥AI agents pose significant risks as they are granted increasing autonomy. A commonly proposed solution is human oversight and keeping a ''human in the loop'', but this is not a simple solution: Not on...
- Training Proactive and Personalized LLM Agents† 🔥ArXiv link for Training Proactive and Personalized LLM Agents ...
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." ;)
- icymilaw.org (@icymilaw.org)
- Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (promoted)
- Tech Policy Press (@techpolicypress.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (promoted)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dan Kennedy (@dankennedy.net) (promoted)
- Paolo Sandro (@paolosandro.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joel S. (@joelhs.bsky.social) (promoted)
- John Scalzi (@scalzi.com) (promoted)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Chance the Lawyer (@chancethelawyer.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (promoted)
- Fionna O’Leary (@fascinatorfun.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jess O'Thomson (@jessothomson.co.uk) (relegated)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Legal AF (@legalafmtn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anna O. Law (@unlawfulentries.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- folukeifejola (@folukeifejola.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dan Kaszeta FRHistS (@dankaszeta.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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