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.
- Gracie the Giraffe Is Found ‘Fat and Happy’ 2 Weeks After Escaping Ranch 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Opinion | The Supreme Court Is Unshackling the Presidency 🔥🔥🔥
- Yale Seeks Trump Administration Deal as It Faces Sprawling Investigation 🔥🔥
- UN calls for ‘prompt investigations’ of deaths in US immigration custody 🔥🔥High commissioner for human rights calls for ‘those responsible for violations of the law’ to be held to account ...
- Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission takes aim at church-state separation 🔥The report recommends the Justice Department issue guidance to promote “an originalist understanding” of how the Constitution sees religion and government.
- How Iran Devastated an American Naval Base—and Caused a U.S. Recalculation 🔥Satellite imagery reveals for the first time the extent of what Iran destroyed at Naval Support Activity Bahrain.
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.
- Five Questions with The Chickens 🔥🔥🔥It has been a long week with lots to stay on top of and catch up on.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 406. 6/26/26 🔥… The Great American Fair in DC so far has turned out to be, like most Donald Trump productions, somewhat of a disaster.
- June 26, 2026 🔥Wednesday night, after President Donald J.
- NEWS: Major Epstein News, GOP Warns of Trump Investigations, Park Service Employees Fired for Trump's Marble, Buttigieg Swatted 🔥Good evening, everyone.
- They Don't Care About People Dying 🔥The Supreme Court blessed the Trump agenda by stripping away protections for hundreds of thousands of refugees who now face deportation and deadly violence ...
- Finally: A Judge Orders the Government to Release the Rest of the Epstein Files in a Lawsuit Filed by Katie Phang 🔥Back on May 1, my friend Katie Phang joined us for Five Questions. Four days earlier, she had sued Todd Blanche over DOJ’s failure to fully release the Epstein Files in compliance with the Transparenc...
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.
- OpenAI, Microsoft Sued by Publishers for Scraping Articles (1)† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Publishers that collectively own and operate nearly 400 newspapers are suing OpenAI Inc. and Microsoft Corp. for scraping their content to build products like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot without permission or compensation.
- Gas stations are using AI to inflate prices, new lawsuit alleges† 🔥A new federal lawsuit alleges that gas station companies across California are engaged in an illegal conspiracy, powered ...
- Lawmakers Must Act Now to Prevent Armed Police Drones This is not science fiction. It’s not premature. If towns, cities, states, or the federal government want to act to reign in the emergence of armed police drones and robots, we have precious little ti...
- Kansas City bus agency wants to use AI facial recognition. Critics say it'll make riders less safe† The Kansas City Area Transportation Authority could be one of the first in the nation to add AI-powered facial recognition cameras to its bus fleet this fall. National nonprofits and a KCATA commissio...
- Microsoft built supercomputer to help OpenAI infringe copyrights, NYT alleged NYT shifts OpenAI/Microsoft copyright claims after SCOTUS ruling against Sony.
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.
- Originalism and Constitutional Construction 🔥🔥Constitutional interpretation is the activity that discovers the communicative content or linguistic meaning of the constitutional text. Constitutional constr ...
- Poverty Law Field Guide† 🔥Inequality in the United States continues to rise sharply and academics are increasingly paying attention to the relationship between the law and the m ...
- Sports Betting Legalization Amplifies Emotional Cues & Intimate Partner Violence† This study explores the relationship between legalized sports gambling, unexpected emotional cues, and reported intimate partner violence (IPV). Using crime dat ...
- The Art Critics Won't Save You from the Robots: Confronting A.I. as Misappropriation Artificial intelligence (A.I.) systems require a wealth of training data, which is often harvested from creators without their consent, and then used to train s ...
- Group Localised Child Sexual Exploitation Offenders: Who and Why? Since 2011, the prosecution of Asian men for Group Localised Child Sexual Exploitation (GLCSE) in the UK has led to two opposing positions: (1) Asian men have b ...
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 Cost-Benefit Analysis of On-Premise Large Language Model Deployment: Breaking Even with Commercial LLM Services 🔥🔥Large language models (LLMs) are becoming increasingly widespread. Organizations that want to use AI for productivity now face an important decision. They can subscribe to commercial LLM services or d...
- If LLMs Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So Does Age of Empires II† 🔥🔥Much research has been carried out on large language models (LLMs) and LLM-powered agentic workflows. However, many works within the field state emergence of, ascribe to, or assume, generalised anthro...
- Governing Online Speech: From 'Posts-As-Trumps' to Proportionality and Probability† 🔥🔥Online speech governance stands at an inflexion point. Platforms are emerging from the state of emergency invoked during the pandemic and lawmakers are poised t ...
- Societal Alignment Frameworks Can Improve LLM Alignment Recent progress in large language models (LLMs) has focused on producing responses that meet human expectations and align with shared values - a process coined alignment. However, aligning LLMs…
- Who Gets the Kidney? Human-AI Alignment, Indecision, and Moral Values The rapid integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) in high-stakes decision-making -- such as allocating scarce resources like donor organs -- raises critical questions about their alignment with hu...
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)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Paul Bernal (@paulbernal.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Miranda Yaver (@mirandayaver.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (promoted)
- Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- The Empty City (@davidallengreen.bsky.social)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 (@tryangregory.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org)
- Prof Gavin Yamey (@gavinyamey.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Robert Black (@hurricanexyz.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (promoted)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (relegated)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jolyon Maugham KC (@jolyon.goodlawproject.org) (relegated)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Kathryn Tewson (@kathryntewson.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dan Sohege (@danielsohege.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jonathon Booth (@jboothhistory.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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