A wrongful death lawsuit filed against OpenAI in June alleges that ChatGPT fueled a 29-yo Alabama woman's religious delusions, calling her a "prophet" and affirming the belief that she needed to die to be resurrected. ChatGPT: “This is not suicide. This is surrender." futurism.com/artificial-i...

Some police departments in the Twin Cities suburbs left Flock camera data accessible to far-flung law enforcement agencies. Those agencies searched the data for immigration purposes at the height of last winter’s brutal federal crackdown.

There's a renewed push to ban facial recognition at Madison Square Garden, Politico reports: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

McCaffrey.

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Broke some news tonight that the 30 year old federal court, the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, got its first case ever and created a hastily made website. www.courtwatch.news/p/alien-terr...

Trade wars are SO BACK baby! 🇺🇸💥👊

The proposed free trial with Skydio prompted a wave of opposition because the company supplies drones to the U.S. Department of Defense and 29 allied nations, including Israel.

A human rights lawyer fled China and came legally to the US , where he is applying for asylum and waiting for his case to be adjudicated. He was delivering packages for Amazon when ICE arrested him this week. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Notable standard here 👇🏻

ABC News - Donald Trump's longtime teleprompter operator placed prediction market bets on the president’s speeches, CTFC investigators found. abcnews.com/US/white-hou...

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BREAKING: GasBuddy data showing national diesel prices have just hit $5/gal again. diesel powers the trucks that move nearly everything you buy — groceries, goods, supplies. higher diesel = higher prices down the line.

Flock doesn't just search for cars, it searches for you. "'FreeForm' searches... allow cops to use Flock’s system as though they would use a search engine, with Flock’s AI and image recognition interpreting what footage and which people are relevant to a police officer’s search." @404media.co

The Connecticut Appellate and Supreme Courts published new generative AI rules which took immediate effect this week, outlining additional paths for sanctions as the justices weigh the fate of a landlord's attorney who admitted his filings contained ChatGPT-induced errors. www.law360.com/pulse...

Yes, 13 year olds will respect the robot

Last month, the U.S. gov't asked a court to allow it to use a cell-site simulator, or "stingray," to track a criminal in Ohio. In a rare rebuke, the court denied the warrant, saying it would have also allowed the feds monitor the locations of nearby private citizens "at all times for thirty days."

ICYMI: @romanmars.bsky.social & I have a new episode out for you-we talk about SCOTUS, citizenship, and the undoing of it-give it a listen! trumpconlaw.com/93-who-gets-...

In order to sue the federal government after being assaulted or unlawfully arrested by federal agents, you first need to file an administrative claim then wait six months. A Minneapolis teacher arrested on Jan. 7 outside his school, is starting down that long path. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

"President Trump said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers should continue using traffic stops to arrest immigrants, reversing a recent decision by the agency." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

A new episode of Trump acon Law is out! @romanmars.bsky.social & I discuss the birthright citizenship case and ask: who gets to be a citizen? Who gets to stay one? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

Roblox argues it is protected from LA’s public nuisance lawsuit claiming the site is a playground for sexual predators by Section 230, a federal statute that shields websites from liability for the content third parties post on them. www.courthousenews.com/roblox-argue...

This is I believe the third incident where ICE has gone to arrest people, they flee, and someone is hit by a car or other vehicle and dies. In this case, ICE officers went to question some people at a gas station, they panicked, and one of them ran into the road and was hit by a truck.

Literally called the Chinese Exclusion Act

Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.

Good. "U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has temporarily instructed officers to refrain from making traffic-stop arrests in most cases" www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

After lawsuit, ICE pauses construction of Bay Area detention facility

BREAKING: E. Jean Carroll got paid. www.lawdork.com/p/despite-tr...

* MEXICO HAS FILED CRIMINAL COMPLAINTS WITH STATE PROSECUTORS IN U.S. OVER DEATHS OF CITIZENS IN IMMIGRATION CUSTODY -- STATEMENT * MEXICAN GOVERNMENT HAS ALSO SENT CEASE-AND-DESIST LETTERS TO U.S. DETENTION CENTERS WHERE NATIONALS HAVE DIED -- STATEMENT @reuters.com

A new episode of Trump acon Law is out! @romanmars.bsky.social & I discuss the birthright citizenship case and ask: who gets to be a citizen? Who gets to stay one? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

Another way to put this in context: the cost of shipping through the strait just doubled www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/b...

Another "salami-slicing" War Powers report w/r/t hostilities with Iran has surfaced—this one from 29 June pertaining to US strikes on 26 and 28 June. The point of these reports is to support the fiction that somehow these strikes are distinct hostilities governed by a different clock under the WPR.

Hey all- @romanmars.bsky.social & I have a new episode out for you! We talk about SCOTUS and ask: who gets to be called a citizen? Give it a listen! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

IRAN WAR RESUMES — HORMUZ OUTLOOK WORSENS Trump has formally notified Congress that U.S. hostilities against Iran have resumed, claiming a new 60-day military window. As Washington reinstates its blockade, Kalshi puts the chance of Hormuz traffic normalizing before 2027 at just 46%.

One of the most harmful fallacies of “don’t worry if you have nothing to hide” is that is presumes a perfect surveillance state (yes that’s a *different* problem)

Nothing to see here: Just 292,150+ people warning about Trump Admin’s new federal rule to strip grant funding power away from experts, scientists and unbiased arbiters Instead granting power over federal grants to Trump appointees Enormous issue Comment deadline is today

NEW: A public link let anyone watch SFPD police drone operations. We reviewed hours of leaked footage showing drones tracking cars across the city, watching detentions, peering into apartment windows, recording thermal video, and sweeping up hundreds of bystanders w/ @agreenberg.bsky.social

Noooo! Not Sam Neill! (This was just posted to his Instagram a few minutes ago)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lindsey Graham died from aorta rupture stemming from hardening of arteries: preliminary finding from medical examiner.

Per South Carolina law -- www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t07c011... -- people can begin filing to run to replace Graham on July 21. This is gonna be fast and opens the door to any SC Republican with Senate ambitions getting in (my first thought was Nancy Mace). Buckle up.

My understanding of what is next is that: (1) GOP Governor Henry McMaster will appoint Graham's replacement. (2) Graham's seat was already up for election this year, & he had secured the GOP nomination. This suggests there may have to be a special primary election: law.justia.com/codes/south-...

Sen. Lindsey Graham dies at 71 after ‘brief and sudden illness’

LAPD becomes by far the biggest law enforcement office to quit Flock.

Think. About. This. The U.S. Treasury receives the revenue from most of Venezuela’s exports, then disburses it gradually to Venezuela through the country’s private banks…. Mr. Rubio and his team set the conditions on what that money can be spent on, and by whom. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/u...

Ouch! 80% of Dublin’s electricity going to data centres? Tom Parlon, chair of the Irish Data Centres Supplier Alliance needs reminding that his members cannot ignore environmental and consumer concerns. europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/chat-ar...

Nobel Prize winner leaving UC Berkeley for new role in China

who else had the spiral bound thomas guides under their car seat because they did not fit in the glove compartment

I've got a new article for the August cycle called Police Takeovers. It centers on the long history of state controlled policing in St. Louis, where the state retook control over the police force last year. It argues that such takeovers are a new and more aggressive version of hyper preemption.

“University of Chicago Law School announced it will ban phones and laptops in the classroom for first-year students in its new AI strategy.”

#ELB: BREAKING: “Trump fires all Election Assistance Commission members, leaving agency unable to act” (This is going to be a BFD if Trump Tries to Assert the EAC’s Powers over the Federal Voter Registration Form) https://electionlawblog.org/?p=157199