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.
- As Trump focuses the FBI on immigration, counterintelligence is falling behind 🔥🔥🔥🔥The cuts come as a consequence of President Trump and FBI Director Kash Patel's focus on violent crime and immigration, leaving other priorities understaffed.
- Royal Mail plans to cut 2,500 head office jobs 🔥🔥🔥The postal service firm wants to cut the head office and other jobs by the end of 2027.
- Exclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Wire $100,000 to Her Amex Account 🔥🔥🔥Text messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece.
- Exclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Pay Her $100,000 Amex Bill 🔥🔥Text messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece.
- Chancellor plans major intervention to help poorer UK households with rising energy bills 🔥🔥Exclusive: Officials working on further radical changes that would change how much energy companies could charge customers ...
- Sophie Cunningham appears to troll transgender community with hat at Missouri football game 🔥Indiana Fever player Sophie Cunningham appeared at Missouri’s homecoming game with a hat bearing a slogan that seemed to imply that transgender women are not actually women.
- Canada’s Weston family buys Boots for $8.9bn 🔥Former Selfridges owners buy UK high street institution from long-term backer Stefano Pessina ...
- Thatcherism via the Walkman: Stuart Hall’s British cultural studies preserved online 🔥Project lead says it celebrates ‘incredible contributions’ Jamaica-born sociologist made to Britain’s culture ...
- Kemi Badenoch says Tories would scrap inheritance tax on family homes 🔥Tory leader says her party is "coming back", as she aims to convince voters it has changed after 2024 election defeat.
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.
- Court: Judge ‘misled’ jury on biological sex 🔥🔥🔥Tennessee appellate court first to rule on gender identification ‘evidence’
- Pat Robertson Tried It While Campaigning. Will Trump Fare Any Better?† 🔥But he shouldn’t.
- NEWS: California Leaders Call Trump ‘Mentally Ill,’ Paxton Turns on Trump's War, Gold Star Families Snub Trump, Trump Eyes Golf Club Camp David 🔥Good morning, everyone.
- The Republic, Revisited 🔥Ten Essays for Right Now ...
- October 7, 2026 🔥On October 7, 2016, in the run-up to the 2016 election, the Washington Post broke the story of the so-called Access Hollywood tape, a video from 2005 in which Donald Trump told television host Billy B...
- NEWS: Trump Threatens ‘Very Bad’ Things for Obama, Armed Guards Deployed to Post Offices for Election, ICE Spies on Voting Groups 🔥Good evening, “I can do whatever I want, if I want.” That’s what Donald Trump said in the Oval Office today, moments after telling reporters he “could’ve done very bad things” to Barack Obama, Hillary...
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.
- AI training of copyrighted material not fair use: Third Circuit† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Using someone else's "creative spark" to start a competing business runs afoul of copyright law, the panel found.
- Here’s How To Reduce the Existential Risks † 🔥🔥If there’s no other way ...
- A Mysterious Nonprofit Run by SpaceXAI’s Top Lawyer Is Paying the Salaries of Government Workers The National Design Studio has been something of a successor agency to DOGE. A WIRED investigation finds some of its members are on loan from a nonprofit run by SpaceXAI’s general counsel.
- Her AI-Generated Video Swayed the Judge. The Court Said it Carried 'Undue Emotional Weight'† "Chris’ sentiment does not change," said the sister who created an AI avatar of her slain brother Christopher Pelkey to speak in court.
- McDonald's sued over AI tool that recommends prices to US franchisees McDonald’s is facing a federal lawsuit that alleges its AI-enhanced pricing tool violates antitrust laws because it shares nonpublic data with competing franchisees.
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.
- Poor People Lose: Gideon and the Critique of Rights† 🔥🔥A low income person is more likely to be prosecuted and imprisoned post-Gideon than pre-Gideon. Poor people lose in American criminal justice not ...
- Does AI Assistance Enhance or Erode Expertise? Evidence from a Three-Month Field Experiment in Patent Drafting† Whether AI assistance builds or erodes professional expertise is unsettled. In a pre-registered three-month randomized controlled trial, we gave 133 practicing ...
- Between Sanctions and Judicial Reasoning: Contemporary Perspectives on Gender Justice in Khalwat Cases in Aceh† Cases involving jarīmah khalwat in Aceh raise questions about the application of 'uqūbat and judicial reasoning toward male and female defendants. This study ex ...
- The Medicalization of Abortion Rights† In the decades between Roe v. Wade and Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, advocates brought numerous constitutional challenges ...
- The Union Gospel Mission Cases, Church Autonomy, and Co-Religionist Hiring: A Response to Professor Esbeck† Courts have increasingly applied a doctrine of church autonomy to resolve claims involving religious organizations. A recent decision of the Ninth Circuit ...
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.
- math/preprints at main · openai/math† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Contribute to openai/math development by creating an account on GitHub.
- Navier-Stokes lost in translation: Why Lean verification of AI autoformalisation does not guarantee correct natural language proofs 🔥🔥🔥Autoformalisation is increasingly used to verify mathematical texts, including those generated by AI, as in OpenAI's announced proof of blow-up of solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations. In this pro...
- Fair Moderation, Equitable Access, and AI: arXiv’s Updated Rate Limit Policy† 🔥🔥arXiv, and the scientific community at large, are facing a watershed moment. Scholarly publishing is currently changing at a rapid pace, and we are seeing a…
- math/preprints/A-Polynomial-Time-2-Approximation-for-Shortest-Common-Superstring-September-24-2026/paper.pdf at main · openai/math† Contribute to openai/math development by creating an account on GitHub.
- math/preprints/Entanglement-with-zero-distillable-secret-key-in-local-dimension-ten-September-27-2026/paper.pdf at main · openai/math† Contribute to openai/math development by creating an account on GitHub.
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)
- Jay Kuo (@nycjayjay.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Walter Olson (@walterolson.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social)
- Jen Taub (@jentaub.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagiragrant.com) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Kaye (@davidakaye.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Robert Black (@hurricanexyz.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (promoted)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jameel Jaffer (@jameeljaffer.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org) (relegated)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (relegated)
- Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (relegated)
- The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 (@professormusgrave.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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