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.
- Opinion | Congress Can Just Shrivel. Or It Can Do What It Did After Nixon. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote the opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, retires 🔥🔥🔥Although not well known outside the court, Alito played a key role in leading the conservative charge, not just on abortion, but on a host of other issues.
- Dissatisfied With Their Party, Wealthy Republican Donors Form Secret Coalitions (Published 2022) 🔥🔥
- Trump Pulled in at Least $2 Billion After Returning to the White House 🔥🔥
- A Founder’s Previously Unknown Attempt to Avert the Revolutionary War 🔥
- The Supreme Court Just Gave the Rich Even More Political Power 🔥The flow of money into US politics is already harming democracy, and now, it’s about to get worse.
- Bill debt soars but many don't know help is available 🔥The majority of billpayers are unaware of special tariffs for water and broadband, the spending watchdog says.
- Ukraine’s Plan to Unnerve Putin 🔥Recent drone attacks in the Moscow area reveal a multifaceted strategy.
- Trump made more than $1bn from crypto in first year back in office 🔥The president's crypto income far outpaces his earnings from real estate and Trump-themed items such as watches.
- Nigel Farage received £270,000 from gold marketer he promotes 🔥Reform UK leader’s Direct Bullion payment is double his fee from 2025 ...
- Andy Burnham says he will end culture of briefing against female ministers 🔥PM hopeful tells meeting of women’s parliamentary Labour party that any staff who undermine female members of his team will be sacked ...
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.
- The SAVE Act Will End Voting Rights for Women in America† 🔥🔥🔥🔥The SAVE Act has passed the House—we cannot let it pass the Senate ...
- Welcome to the era of Slaughter 🔥Some context for a new period of executive aggrandizement ...
- The Last Monday At SCOTUS With the end of this term of the Supreme Court in sight, Monday started off with a bang when the Justices declined to hear Donald Trump’s appeal of the $5 million verdict against him in the first of E...
- Beyond the Headlines: The Supreme Court's Final Decisions The Supreme Court never really sleeps.
- June 30, 2026 On January 20, 2025, the day he took the oath of office a second time, President Donald J.
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.
- NYT slams Microsoft for building copyright-infringing supercomputer for OpenAI† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥NYT shifts OpenAI/Microsoft copyright claims after SCOTUS ruling against Sony.
- Meta Contractors Posed as Teens to Prompt Rival Chatbots About Suicide, Sex, and Drugs† 🔥🔥Hundreds of contractors working on a project for Meta pretended to be kids in order to see how other chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT would respond to high-risk subjects, WIRED found.
- Ministers likely to support law change to allow delivery robots on England’s paths† 🔥🔥Exclusive: Safety campaigners concerned about plan for widespread deployment on already crowded pavements ...
- Bernie Sanders Saw This Coming 🔥For decades, Bernie Sanders has argued that concentrated wealth threatened American democracy. Now he’s betting that frustration with Big Tech, billionaires, and unchecked AI is reaching a tipping poi...
- U.S. approach to regulation of AI is problematic, Sixth Street's Chavez says 🔥The United States' regulation of artificial intelligence is problematic and inconsistent, Martin Chavez, vice chairman at investment firm Sixth Street, told Reuters on Tuesday.
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 Unitary Theorists' Appointments Clause Problems† 🔥🔥🔥The unitary executive theorists’ recent retreat to the Appointments Clause as a basis for unconditional presidential removal power is contradicted by the text a ...
- Amicus Brief in Trump v. Barbara: An Originalist Defense of Birthright Citizenship For nearly all of the first 235 years under the Constitution, the citizenship of every child born in the United States to alien parents, with immaterial excepti ...
- Quasi-Judicial: A History and Tradition† The Supreme Court’s recent removal cases have revived a foundational question in constitutional law: whether all administration must be controlled by ...
- After the Comet: Du Bois, Afrofuturism, and Constitutional Renewal American constitutional development has long followed cycles of crisis and restoration, resisting linear narratives of progress. This pattern is especially e ...
- Fourth Amendment Reasonableness After Carpenter† In Carpenter v. United States, the Supreme Court held not only that the Fourth Amendment applies when the government collects certain categories of third-party ...
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.
- Agentic RAG-VLM: Affordance-Aware Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Self-Reflective Planning for Robotic Grasping 🔥🔥Generalizable robotic grasping in cluttered environments is essential for deploying manipulators in unstructured human spaces, yet existing VLM-based methods rely on visual similarity for object matching, neglecting physical affordances such as handle graspability and material fragility, and operat…
- Insidious by Design: Implications of Large Language Model algorithmic bias for the Global South 🔥🔥\begin{quote} The biases in Large Language Models' (LLMs) outputs remain inadequately theorised, particularly from the perspective of the Global South. This article reports on a small-scale exploratory study in which identical prompts were submitted to four major LLMs (ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Co…
- SPADE-Bench: Evaluating Spontaneous Strategic Deception in Agents via Plan-Action Divergence 🔥🔥ArXiv link for SPADE-Bench: Evaluating Spontaneous Strategic Deception in Agents via Plan-Action Divergence ...
- Reward-Free Code Alignment from Pretrained or Fine-Tuned LLM: Unpacking the Trade-offs for Code Generation Large Language Model (LLM) alignment trains an LLM using preference data to produce outputs that better meet established quality standards. While LLM alignment techniques are studied for non-coding tasks, we know little about their usefulness for coding tasks. It is unclear whether LLM code alignme…
- [2304.03271] Making AI Less "Thirsty": Uncovering and Addressing the Secret Water Footprint of AI Models [2304.03271] Making AI Less "Thirsty": Uncovering and Addressing the Secret Water Footprint of AI Models Skip to main content Learn about arXiv becoming an ...
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)
- Michael C. Dorf (@dorfonlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ann M. Lipton (@annmlipton.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Burbach 🇺🇸 (@dburbach.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Leah Litman (@leahlitman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE (@leftistlawyer.com) (promoted)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dr. SkySkull (@drskyskull.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jamal Greene (@jamalgreene.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Robert Black (@hurricanexyz.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Prof Gavin Yamey (@gavinyamey.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org) (relegated)
- T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 (@tryangregory.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- The Empty City (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (relegated)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Miranda Yaver (@mirandayaver.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Paul Bernal (@paulbernal.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.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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