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. Note, the number of fire emoji represent how many standard deviations more popular a link is than the average link observed in its category.
If you like these, you'll ❤️ this open source client-side algorithmically-driven RSS reader. You might also enjoy this post: How and why I (still) use social media. It includes tips on how to make your own custom social media algo(s).
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.
- A Pilot Fired Over Kristi Noem’s Missing Blanket and the Constant Chaos Inside DHS 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Secretary faces fire for confrontational immigration crackdown and self-promotional style; White House to wind down Minnesota operations.
- Here’s the latest. 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Epstein Built Ties to U.S. Customs Officers, Prompting Criminal Investigation 🔥🔥🔥
- Labor Secretary’s Husband Barred From the Department After Sexual Assault Reports 🔥🔥
- Exclusive: A palace in Marrakesh: How Schwab moved $27.7 million in payments for Epstein days before his arrest 🔥Charles Schwab wired about $27.7 million on behalf of Jeffrey Epstein to a realtor in Morocco as the disgraced financier tried to purchase a palace in the 10 days before his 2019 arrest, including one...
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.
- Trump admin issues new policy aimed at ending transgender-related care in federal prisons 🔥🔥🔥"It's a really dangerous policy,” an ACLU lawyer representing trans people in federal prison suing the Trump administration tells Law Dork of the new Bureau of Prisons policy.
- Exclusive: Senior DHS officials double down on arresting and detaining refugees in new memo† 🔥Hours after DOJ filed the new memo in court in Minnesota, a magistrate judge denied Law Dork's request for greater public access in the case — including remote electronic docket access.
- February 19, 2026 🔥In the United Kingdom this morning, Thames Valley Police arrested Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew, on suspicion that he committed misconduct in public office.
- NEWS: Trump Falsely Claims he Has Been "Totally Exonerated" While Confirming he Will Funnel Billions of Taxpayer Dollars to 'Board of Peace' Good evening everyone.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 311. 2/19/26 … RFK Jr’s MAHA disciples were fuming today after the Trump admin announced that it was ramping up production of glyphosate.
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.
- Grok Exposed a Porn Performer’s Legal Name and Birthdate—Without Even Being Asked 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥In the latest in a string of privacy abuses from the chatbot, Grok provided porn performer Siri Dahl's full legal name and birthdate to the public, information she'd protected until now.
- As Musk’s xAI Data Centers Encroach on Southaven, North Mississippi Residents Push Back† As Elon Musk’s xAI expands its data centers into Southaven, Mississippi, residents are decrying noise pollution and raising concerns over emissions.
- Meta patented an AI that lets you keep posting after you die† Meta was recently granted a patent for tech to keep your social media accounts running using AI if you take a break or die.
- Zuckerberg testifies at trial accusing social media firms of addicting kids to their platforms† Mark Zuckerberg and opposing lawyers dueled in a Los Angeles courtroom Wednesday, where the Meta CEO answered questions about young people’s use of Instagram, his congressional testimony and internal advice he’s received to be “authentic” and not “robotic.”
- Judge scolds Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial A Los Angeles judge ordered Meta officials to remove their AI glasses at a trial over the impact of social media on users.
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.
- Why Are Executions Becoming Crueler?† Since the modern death penalty era, this country’s six execution methods have become crueler over time.
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.
- LLMs Get Lost In Multi-Turn Conversation† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Large Language Models (LLMs) are conversational interfaces. As such, LLMs have the potential to assist their users not only when they can fully specify the task at hand, but also to help them define, ...
- Remote Labor Index: Measuring AI Automation of Remote Work AIs have made rapid progress on research-oriented benchmarks of knowledge and reasoning, but it remains unclear how these gains translate into economic value and automation. To measure this, we introd...
- Human-like Affective Cognition in Foundation Models† ArXiv link for Human-like Affective Cognition in Foundation Models ...
- Algorithms Trained on Normal Chest X-rays Can Predict Health Insurance Types ArXiv link for Algorithms Trained on Normal Chest X-rays Can Predict Health Insurance Types ...
- Long Grounded Thoughts: Synthesizing Visual Problems and Reasoning Chains at Scale ArXiv link for Long Grounded Thoughts: Synthesizing Visual Problems and Reasoning Chains at Scale ...
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)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Omri Marian (@omrimarian.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Andrew Weinstein (@andrewjweinstein.com) (promoted)
- Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) (promoted)
- ElieNYC (@elienyc.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (promoted)
- DrDinD.bsky.social (@drdind.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (promoted)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (promoted)
- Jolyon Maugham KC (@goodlawproject.org) (relegated)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (relegated)
- Owen Barcala (@obarcala.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Paul Gowder (@gowder.io) (relegated)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonathanmladd.com) (relegated)
- Ms. Rosenberg (@msrosenberg.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Okay Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Paul Bernal (@paulbernal.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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