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.
- Protester Is Struck by Driver Outside Immigration Detention Center 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- ‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison† 🔥🔥Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility ...
- American police killings are rising, even as murder rates fall 🔥🔥More aggressive cops are less restrained ...
- A Look Inside the Welcome Bags Planned for White South African Refugees 🔥🔥
- European heatwave is worst ever and impossible without climate crisis, scientists say 🔥Study also finds high humidity means people in hundreds of cities are enduring their worst ever heat stress ...
- Here’s the latest. 🔥
- Exclusive | Top DOJ Official Tells Staff He Wants to Avoid Antitrust Trials 🔥Trump appointee Stanley Woodward’s push for settlements upends how the government handles antitrust enforcement.
- Support Builds on the Right for Prosecuting Women Who Get Abortions 🔥
- Royal Mail boss’s pay package triples to £6.9m despite profits slide 🔥Martin Seidenberg, chief executive of parent company IDS, handed payouts after takeover of UK postal service ...
- Opinion | This Decision Is a Slap in the Face to Immigrants Who Followed the Law 🔥
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 Executive Order To Restrict Vote By Mail 🔥🔥🔥Trump is still trying to suppress your vote ...
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 405. 6/25/26 🔥… 5 major court decisions today - 4 from SCOTUS and 2 from the US District Courts.
- Thursday was Sam Alito's big decision day. Was it his last? 🔥Justice Alito had two decisions backing restrictive immigration policies and a ruling striking down a Hawaii concealed carry restriction. Is a retirement announcement coming next week?
- Major Update: Court Orders Immediate Release of More Epstein Files, MAHA Blasts Trump as "Treasonous," RFK Jr. Caught on Tape Bribing 🔥Good afternoon, everyone.
- Amee Vanderpool (@shero) 🔥A federal judge on Thursday said a https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/29/trump-doj-fund-lawfare-blocked-judge.htmlchallenging the https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-anti-weaponizati...
- June 25, 2026 🔥Today marks the 150th anniversary of the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, when Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, who led the 7th Cavalry, lost his entire command to Lakota warriors afte...
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.
- Exclusive: Polls: Voters favor federal oversight of prediction markets† 🔥🔥Forty-eight percent of Republicans favor federal oversight, per the Republican poll.
- 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 by AI software, to raise prices.
- 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...
- Nearly 400 local newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft over alleged copyright theft - New Jersey Globe The massive coalition of local newspaper publishers filed a federal lawsuit today against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the technology companies ...
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 Chadha Presidency† 🔥🔥🔥Where is Congress? Why hasn’t it reined in some of the worst abuses of the Trump Administration? This Article argues that a significant part of the ans ...
- Equivalent Should Mean Equivalent: Closing the Loophole in State Generic Substitution Laws† 🔥Pharmaceutical patent owners often seek to avoid the expiration of their patents by engaging in “product hopping” – swapping from one product to another just ...
- 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 ...
- Conflicting Values in Judicial Valuations† Do courts employ finance neutrally and consistently, or do different courts fashion financial tools in court-specific ways? I assemble 20 years (52,000 pages) o ...
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.
- AI Fiction in the Wild† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Some professional authors are beginning to use AI tools to help produce their fiction writing. Are readers using AI to generate fiction, too? Drawing on over 500,000 anonymized, English-language ChatG...
- 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 ...
- Sexualised synthetic personas encode and amplify gendered power asymmetries through voice† This work examines sexualised AI-generated English-speaking voices offered by a popular commercial platform. New technologies may enable sexual empowerment and greater diversity in gender expression, ...
- Informing AI Policy Assessment using Large-Scale Simulation of Interventions† As the rapid proliferation of AI systems and harms spurs efforts in AI governance around the world, prioritizing among competing policy options has become increasingly challenging for policymakers and...
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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