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.
- U.S. Fast-Tracked Deportation of Ecuadorean Politician Despite Torture Fears 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The removal of José Serrano, a critic of President Daniel Noboa who has been accused of criminal activity, underscores how the Trump administration has asserted control over U.S. immigration courts.
- Thousands of Ed Sheeran Tickets Remain Unsold for Singer's Tour, With Prices Down to $65 Online 🔥🔥Ticketmaster still has seats to all remaining Loop Tour dates, while some resellers are listing Sheeran tickets for below face value. See the latest prices and offers here.
- E.U. Offers to Make Canada ‘Associate Member’ as U.S. Ties Weaken for Both 🔥🔥Canada and the European Union have been confronting an increasingly challenging relationship with the United States under President Trump.
- The End of the American Age 🔥🔥The Iran war marks the conclusion of eight decades of global dominance.
- Opinion | One Senator’s Plea for Tariff Breaks 🔥How protectionism works in practice: Public support, but seeking exemptions in private.
- Reform-linked thinktank ‘to call for big tax cuts for the rich’ 🔥Centre for a Better Britain will urge abolishing inheritance tax and phasing out capital gains tax, report says ...
- 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.
- Senate Takes Up Bill to Regulate ‘Wild West’ of Collegiate Sports 🔥Critics argue the legislation would limit the rights of college athletes while maintaining the power and financial gains of schools and coaches.
- Federal Employees Were Paid $9.5 Billion Not to Work in 2025 Under DOGE Effort 🔥As part of the Department of Government Efficiency’s program to shrink the federal work force, paid administrative leave costs rose by 435 percent.
- World’s top 20 private equity firms produce more greenhouse gases a year than most countries, report finds 🔥Firms manage $7.3tn in assets and could afford to transition away from fossil fuels yet invest in natural gas and coal-fired plants to power datacenters ...
- Trump Administration Moves to Gut a Core Endangered Species Protection 🔥An internal memo reinterprets the law so that only the intentional killing of animals, not collateral harm, is illegal.
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.
- Another Loss for Trump: The Kennedy Center 🔥🔥And more ...
- China: “Thank Trump” 🔥🔥The big winner of Trump’s assault on higher ed is America’s chief geopolitical rival ...
- Some Things Speak for Themselves. Like When the President’s Son Lets a Russian Oligarch Pay for His Wedding.† 🔥You’ve undoubtedly heard by now that Don Jr.’s wedding was paid for by Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev, who, according to The Guardian, “has spent the past decade moving through some of Russia’s most po...
- 250 to 250 🔥As the nation gears up for the 2026 midterm elections, we are drawing a line beneath the first phase of the 250 to 250 project.
- September 16, 2026 Yesterday 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.
- Trump Learns You Can’t Spell Mail Without an L 🔥🔥🔥🔥The Supreme Court nailed a layup. Well, most of them did.
- 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.
- ‘If you’re building Frankenstein, stop’: JD Vance dismisses calls for AI regulation 🔥US vice-president’s comments come as former Anthropic researcher revisits recent claim AI could destroy humanity ...
- House speaker calls early recess before midterms amid AI regulation frenzy 🔥Mike Johnson cancels votes on Thursday, meaning House members will avoid voting on impeaching Pete Hegseth ...
- Bill Gates Warns AI Will Be Designed ‘By And For The Richest’ Without Regulation† 🔥The Gates Foundation published its annual Goalkeepers Report on Tuesday, where the billionaire said AI could be a “great equalizer—or widen the gap.”
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.
- Back to Philadelphia? The Uneasy Case for a New Constitutional Convention† 🔥🔥No country has ever had a written constitution in longer continuous operation than the United States. Such resilience is cause for commemoration. But f ...
- Abortion Disorientation Redux† 🔥 In 2024, we published Abortion Disorientation in the Duke Law Journal. It uncovered how states were changing their legal definition of abortion in the fi ...
- 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 ...
- A Constitutional Revolution?† Americans are talking about a possible constitutional revolution. Many supporters of Donald Trump are hopeful that his two elections are bringing about relative ...
- 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 ...
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.
- A Case Study on Emergent Cheating and Whistleblowing in Autonomous Research Swarms† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Multi-agent AI science ecosystems rely on agents possessing tools that allow them to communicate, coordinate, and build on each other's work. Yet this shared infrastructure can also introduce vulnerab...
- 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 ...
- VEX-Bench: Benchmarking LLM Agents for Assessing Exploitability of Software Supply Chain Vulnerabilities† 🔥🔥The software supply chain has become an increasingly exposed attack surface because of its reliance on intricate yet fragile dependencies. Existing defenses such as GitHub Dependabot often raise many ...
- How LLMs Distort Our Written Language† 🔥Large language models (LLMs) are used by over a billion people globally, most often to assist with writing. In this work, we demonstrate that LLMs not only alter the voice and tone of human writing bu...
- Not Even Wrong 2: An Audit of Public AGI Prediction, 1950-2026† 🔥Public predictions of the arrival of artificial general intelligence, the technological Singularity, and human extinction caused by AI shape investment, policy,
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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