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.
- Trump Boasts of Declassifying Secrets, but Withholds Key Election Files From Public 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Even as the White House claims to be focused on transparency, it has ignored a congressional requirement to disclose a report on foreign meddling in the 2024 election.
- Reform UK hates ‘Mickey Mouse’ degrees – apprenticeships in dodgy crypto, anyone? 🔥🔥🔥Dicky Tice recalls digging trenches with a JCB as a young man, omitting to say the firm he went on to run was founded by his grandfather ...
- Academic who accused Jason Arday of plagiarism suspended by his university 🔥🔥🔥Researcher Nathan Cofnas previously claimed Black people would hold few high-profile positions in a meritocracy ...
- Reform’s new economic adviser has called for end of pensioners’ triple lock 🔥🔥Exclusive: Mitchell Palmer has also argued for privatising the NHS and immigration as way of cutting poverty ...
- China tax crackdown forces wealthy investors to assess their offshore trusts 🔥🔥A growing campaign to tax offshore wealth is forcing wealthy Chinese people to rethink their trust structures and investment holdings, lawyers and advisors say, as Beijing sharpens its focus on capita...
- Inside ICE’s Largest Detention Center 🔥🔥On a military base in West Texas, where the government has built a sprawling tent complex to hold thousands of immigrants, deprivation and dire conditions are part of the design.
- Donald Trump Effectively Just Told Iran to Get a Nuclear Weapon 🔥🔥He may also have blurted out classified information about North Korea.
- ‘Biased’ Channel 4 programme on ADHD misrepresented my views, says expert 🔥Prof Katya Dubia withdraws support for The Great ADHD Myth? as other leading figures voice criticisms ...
- Aisha Wahab Wins California Special Election to Replace Eric Swalwell 🔥Aisha Wahab, a Democratic state senator in California, will fill out the term of Eric Swalwell, who resigned from the House amid accusations of sexual misconduct.
- Homeland Security Made a Big Claim About Noncitizen Voting. Now It Can’t Prove It. 🔥The Department of Homeland Security told Nevada election officials that it identified 185 “potential” noncitizens on the state’s voter rolls, not the nearly 16,000 it claimed last month.
- After Six Years, Harry and Meghan Are Coming Home. What Changed? 🔥Just last year, Prince Harry said he couldn’t imagine ever bringing his family back to Britain.
- Two men jailed for violent disorder at asylum hotel in Epping 🔥Jonathan Glover and Charlie Land receive custodial sentences following disorder in Epping.
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.
- They’re Building The Excuse Now 🔥🔥🔥On Tuesday, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced a Department of Commerce “report” that claims more than 24,000 noncitizens illegally voted in the 2020 election.
- Important: RFK Jr. Faces Growing Calls to Resign Over Recall Crisis, Hegseth's Wife Sat In on Classified Briefings, Melania Breaks Her Silence 🔥Good morning.
- NEWS: Alarm Bells as Trump's Closest Aide Lacked a Clearance for a Year, North Korea Fires Back, Iran's "Economic D-Day," and More 🔥Good morning.
- Racism and labor at Bates: the other side of the story 🔥Andrew Baker responds to Tyler Austin Harper ...
- August 20, 2026 On Saturday, August 15, the New York Times editorial board published an op-ed noting that the Republicans are trying to hide the cuts they have made to health care in the U.S.
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.
- Podcast: Amazon is Destroying Rare Books to Train AI† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Amazon buying and destroying rare books to train AI; a bunch of wild AI use in the courts; and Meta's new patent for its AI smart glasses.
- Oura Faces Lawsuit Over Alleged Innacurate AI Sleep Tracking - CNET 🔥🔥A proposed class-action lawsuit accuses the popular smart ring company of false advertisement.
- She told no one about her agony except ChatGPT. What her death reveals about AI risks† 🔥A 29-year-old woman confided her suicidal thoughts to an AI chatbot — not to her therapist, not to her parents, not to her best friend. What can AI learn from her death?
- The new kingmakers: Crypto, AI and betting firms fuel record spending on the 2026 midterms 🔥A handful of billionaires and companies are driving corporate spending in U.S. midterm elections this year, and they aren’t the usual power brokers who have sat atop the political food chain in Washin...
- Artificial Intelligence Policy† 🔥Effective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […]
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.
- Anti-Coercion Beyond the Spending Clause† 🔥NFIB v. Sebelius announced a constitutional anti-coercion principle: the federal government may neither directly commandeer state capacity, nor indirectly co ...
- The Legal Realism of W.E.B. Du Bois 🔥The great writer, activist, and scholar W.E.B. Du Bois saw his career unfold alongside the development of Legal Realism, an intellectual movement whose rapid ri ...
- Public Nuisance & The First Amendment: Free-Speech Defenses to an Expanding Tort Public nuisance—an ancient common-law tort traditionally limited to discrete, localized interferences with rights common to the public—has undergone a dramatic ...
- Bye-bye, Bluebook? Automating Legal Drudgery With AI-Augmented Rule Following† One of the central promises of legal AI is to automate drudgery—the formal, repetitive tasks of lawyers' work that consume time without calling for much discret ...
- The Misshapen Shadows of the 2000 Election† The election of 2000 catalyzed an entire field. A quarter-century on, with the benefit of a bit of time and distance, the anniversary presents an opportunity to ...
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.
- Mathematics in the age of AI† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥An essay, based on a public lecture delivered at the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians, on how the mathematical community might respond to the arrival of artificial intelligence tools that...
- The Generative AI Learning Penalty: Evidence from Chinese Secondary Education† 🔥🔥Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, we study how generative AI affects homework productivity and learning. The data combine ...
- Base Models Look Human To AI Detectors† 🔥As AI-generated text enters the real-world at scale, institutions increasingly use commercial AI-text detectors, especially in education and academic-integrity workflows. We report a surprising empiri...
- AI and the Doctrine of Speakerless Speech 🔥What makes speech “speech” for purposes of the First Amendment? Although the Supreme Court has developed elaborate doctrines governing when speech may be regula ...
- Dead Science Walking: Publication Bias and the AI Scientist Pipeline 🔥AI scientist systems are beginning to automate the production, evaluation, and iteration of scientific hypotheses. Their promise is speed; their risk is that speed also scales errors embedded in the s...
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)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- folukeifejola (@folukeifejola.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social)
- Anna O. Law (@unlawfulentries.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Legal AF (@legalafmtn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jess O'Thomson (@jessothomson.co.uk) (promoted)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dan Kaszeta FRHistS (@dankaszeta.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Parnas (@aaronparnas.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael Clemens (@mclem.org) (relegated)
- Mike Masnick (@masnick.com) (relegated)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org) (relegated)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (relegated)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (relegated)
- Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (relegated)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Republicans Against Trumpism (@rpsagainsttrump.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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