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.
If you like these, you'll ❤️ The Finite Scroll, an 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).
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.
- The Iran war has pushed some countries away from oil and toward clean energy 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The new round of bombing in the Middle East has underscored the precarity of relying on fossil fuels. The war is speeding up the global transition to EVs, solar, and batteries, experts say.
- Police investigate £500,000 Reform donations from mother of fraudster who backed Farage 🔥George Cottrell’s mother, Fiona, at centre of criminal inquiry over potential evasion of restrictions on donations ...
- Migrants who saw man killed by ICE in Houston say he did not ram officers 🔥Three men who were in the vehicle alongside Lorenzo Salgado Araujo are contesting the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the fatal shooting.
- Man Killed by Federal Agent in Houston Was Not the Target of ICE Search 🔥
- ‘A Slow-Rolling Disaster’: Inside the Implosion of the Platner Campaign
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 Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows 🔥🔥Shenna Bellows is Maine’s 50th Secretary of State and the first woman to serve in that role.
- DOJ: Not Doing Justice 🔥🔥No one is safe ...
- When Corruption is a Family Affair 🔥Trump's Sons-in-Law are Part of a Pattern ...
- July 9, 2026 🔥Today marks the anniversary of a dramatic reworking of the U.S.
- NEWS: Trump Impedes Epstein Criminal Investigation, Mexico Seeks Criminal Charges for ICE, White House Tarp Goes Up, Outbreaks 🔥Good afternoon.
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.
- Lawsuit: Man used Grok to make 7K sex images of stepdaughter, then shot himself† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥More young girls sue X over Grok CSAM; X accused of shielding child predators.
- Class action suit against AI makers over deepfake child sexual abuse material expands 🔥New plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Elon Musk's SpaceXAI and Stability AI say the companies' AI tools were used to make sexually explicit images of them as children.
- AI software that generates ‘rage bait’ developed by Germany’s far-right AfD† 🔥Alternita platform uses Google Gemini, OpenAI and Claude to create provocative social media posts ...
- University of Chicago Law to ban phones, laptops in classroom for first-year students in new AI plan University of Chicago Law School announced it will ban phones and laptops in the classroom for first-year students in its new AI strategy.
- Lawsuit: Grok user made 7K child sex images; xAI only reported one gang rape prompt† More young girls sue X over Grok CSAM; X accused of shielding child predators.
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.
- One Decade, One Map: State Constitutional Limits on Re-Redistricting† 🔥In 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court closed the federal courthouse doors to claims of partisan gerrymandering, effectively permitting states to engage in wh ...
- "Abuse of Speechifying": Crafting the Politics/Law Divide in the Supreme Court's First Decade What actions are too "political" for a Supreme Court justice? This question has been the subject of intense debate since the beginning of the republic ...
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.
- The GDN-CC Dataset: Automatic Corpus Clarification for AI-enhanced Democratic Citizen Consultations 🔥🔥LLMs are ubiquitous in modern NLP, and while their applicability extends to texts produced for democratic activities such as online deliberations or large-scale citizen consultations, ethical question...
- LaViDa-R1: Advancing Reasoning for Unified Multimodal Diffusion Language Models† 🔥🔥ArXiv link for LaViDa-R1: Advancing Reasoning for Unified Multimodal Diffusion Language Models ...
- Auditing of Unlearning Algorithms 🔥ArXiv link for Auditing of Unlearning Algorithms ...
- LLM-powered reasoning in agent-based modeling 🔥Agent-based modeling (ABM) has the capability to model millions of individuals and their interactions, which is useful for policy making. However, ABMs have traditionally relied on static prior, which prevents the models from adapting to real-time changes. Our research provides a novel approach to …
- Operationalizing Individual Fairness via Gradient Descent and Bradley-Terry Models 🔥ArXiv link for Operationalizing Individual Fairness via Gradient Descent and Bradley-Terry Models ...
- Non-contact, Real-time, Heart-rate Measurement using Image Processing with Commodity Cameras and AI Agents 🔥ArXiv link for Non-contact, Real-time, Heart-rate Measurement using Image Processing with Commodity Cameras and AI Agents ...
- RubriQ : Synthèse de circuits quantiques pilotée par LLM avec des récompenses de rubrique programmatiques 🔥
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)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Asha Rangappa (@asharangappa.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonathanmladd.com) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anna O. Law (@unlawfulentries.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dan Kaszeta FRHistS (@dankaszeta.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dan Sohege (@danielsohege.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Heba Gowayed هبة جويد (@hebagowayed.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jenny Cohn (@jennycohn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jamal Greene (@jamalgreene.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dr. SkySkull (@drskyskull.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE (@leftistlawyer.com) (relegated)
- Leah Litman (@leahlitman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Burbach 🇺🇸 (@dburbach.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ann M. Lipton (@annmlipton.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael C. Dorf (@dorfonlaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (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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