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.
- ICE Agent Who Pushed Activist to the Ground Near Chicago Pleads Guilty 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The agent, Adam Saracco, was charged with misdemeanor after the altercation at a gas station near Chicago last year during the Trump administration’s crackdown there.
- He Was Deported to Eswatini in Southern Africa. He May Never Go Free. 🔥🔥🔥As the Trump administration sends a growing number of immigrants to countries they have no connection to, some find themselves imprisoned with no way out.
- Pirro, in rare move, convenes special grand jury in Washington 🔥🔥Unlike typical grand juries, those designated as special focus on a single case or related cases and can issue a report following their investigation.
- Hong’s Defeat in Wisconsin Shows the Limits of the Progressive Movement 🔥Francesca Hong’s defeat in the Democratic primary for governor defied expectations and may have shown the democratic socialist wave cannot reach beyond urban centers.
- Greenland forces Trump-linked US oil firm to delay drilling 🔥US envoy had claimed Americans could be extracting crude by as early as next year ...
- Trump administration set to spend at least $900 million on White House construction 🔥The price tag is much larger than what has been previously reported, according to a Post review of confidential contracts, and taxpayers would cover most of it.
- CIA had ‘low confidence’ in Iranian threat before Trump switched planes in Turkey 🔥CIA had doubts about Israeli intelligence on a threat to Trump in Turkey that prompted an extraordinary secret flight.
- The FBI proved Comey’s innocence. The DOJ indicted anyway. 🔥In the seashells case, the FBI searched for proof that gangsters used “86” to mean “kill” and that Comey knew it. Now an expert says their theory is “preposterous.”
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.
- Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned 🔥🔥🔥🔥Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.
- NEWS: Trump Left Miller Behind for Natalie Harp, MyPillow Guy Humiliated, $900M Funneled to White House Renovation, ICE Buys Shock Gloves Good morning.
- Urgent Update: Service Members Jump Overboard as Horrific Conditions Expand, Leavitt Leaves, and Trump's Fitness to Lead Questioned Good evening, everyone.
- A Special Grand Jury Undoubtedly feeling pressure to perform after the debacle of the now-dismissed Reflecting Pool prosecution, Trump’s U.S.
- What is Ukraine? The fifth lecture in my new class, "Hitler and Stalin Today"
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.
- Echoing Palworld dev, video game lawyer says all her clients have anti-AI contracts because gamers hate it and it's a copyright landmine: "I think we're going to see lawsuits" 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥"Don't touch it. It's not worth the legal liability"
- Elon Musk is suing California over an AI law. Here’s why transparency matters 🔥OPINION: We cannot allow “compelled speech” arguments to dilute the value of truthful facts about tech we rely on for critical aspects of our lives. The health of our democracy depends on it.
- Chinese users of AI companions bereft after government tightens regulations† 🔥Li Linlin cried for days after losing her virtual boyfriend. She exchanged about 700,000 words with him over two years and never got to say goodbye when he was eliminated by ByteDance, the developer of TikTok.
- AI agents aren’t legally responsible for any harm that they cause, experts say. So who is? Following Australia’s first reported automated hacking accident, experts warn deployers – and possibly developers – of AI agents could be held liable for the actions of their bots ...
- I asked AI to write a novel. It’s not so bad. What does this tell us about the future of writing?
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 Vesting Clauses Are Not Law 🔥🔥Separation-of-powers formalists treat the Constitution’s Vesting Clauses—the first sentences of Articles I, II, and III—as sources of substantive law. Perhaps m ...
- The President's Duty to Commission Officers 🔥The Constitution contains an anti-unitary executive provision in the Commission Clause, which says that the President "shall Commission all the Officers of ...
- Trademark Law's View of the Image: A Computational and Empirical Analysis 🔥Trademark law maintains a remarkably primitive, incoherent, and unexamined approach to images, even as the number and importance of image marks has grown dramat ...
- No legal standards for adjudicating the proportionality of primary social security law: R (Jwanczuk) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2025] UKSC 42† Case note commenting on the UK Supreme Court's recent judgment in R (Jwanczuk) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2025]
- What is the Business of the Warren Court?† Today's Supreme Court is conservative whereas the Warren Court was liberal. Yet the substantive principles underlying these two Courts are more compatible than ...
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.
- People construct simplified mental representations to plan† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥One of the most striking features of human cognition is the capacity to plan. Two aspects of human planning stand out: its efficiency and flexibility. Efficiency is especially impressive because plans...
- Tracing Generative AI in Digital Art: A Longitudinal Study of Chinese Painters' Attitudes, Practices, and Identity Negotiation 🔥🔥🔥🔥This study presents a five-year longitudinal mixed-methods study of 17 Chinese digital painters, examining how their attitudes and practices evolved in response to generative AI. Our findings reveal a...
- Science Edge Evaluation: SEE the Missing Step Toward Real Scientific Discovery† ArXiv link for Science Edge Evaluation: SEE the Missing Step Toward Real Scientific Discovery ...
- Toward a Theory of Value in AI Alignment Can AI systems be aligned to human values? The popularization of large language models (LLMs) and multi-modal foundation models has seen a rise in harms spanning from toxic speech and hallucinations to AI agents executing unauthorized actions. Within the field of AI safety, these harmful instances …
- Alignment has a Fantasia Problem† ArXiv link for Alignment has a Fantasia Problem ...
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." ;)
- Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org)
- ICYMI (Law) (@icymilaw.org)
- Aaron Parnas (@aaronparnas.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael Clemens (@mclem.org) (promoted)
- Mike Masnick (@masnick.com) (promoted)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org) (promoted)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (promoted)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (promoted)
- Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Republicans Against Trumpism (@rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social) (promoted)
- ❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ (@sababausa.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Saideman (@smsaideman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sam Brunson (@smbrnsn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Courthouse News (@courthousenews.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (relegated)
- The Empty City (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael C. Dorf (@dorfonlaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- AG Andrea Joy Campbell (@massago.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jess O'Thomson (@jessothomson.co.uk) (relegated)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagiragrant.com) (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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