yo new ship impoundment just dropped www.courtlistener.com/docket/73589...

Legal research... like a pirate!

Our co-founder and director, @michaeljaylissner.com and our AI developer, Nathan Dahlberg sat down with @bobambrogi.bsky.social for his podcast. They talked about the effort to bring good, solid legal research to everyone — not just lawyers. Everyone: www.lawnext.com/2026/07/on-l...

SHOUT IT FROM THE ROOFTOPS. Thank you @joepatrice.bsky.social for this great piece. abovethelaw.com/2026/06/thos...

A big surprise of Chatrie: Kavanaugh provides the 5th vote for a broad privacy-based reading of the Fourth Amendment, extending Carpenter. So we get a Kagan majority with Roberts, Kavanaugh, Sotomayor, and Jackson, taking a broad view of Carpenter. Gorsuch is a 6th vote, but on property grounds.

Breaching what was once considered the most heavily defended airspace in the world, a Ukrainian drone flew through downtown Moscow in broad daylight.

I made a very thin Python client for the EUIPO's #trademark search APIs in 90 minutes flat. github.com/anseljh/euip...

I have a wild idea. When we have factual disputes about possible misconduct by government officials, we pick a small group of random citizens, maybe 12, tell them what the rules are, and ask them to listen to the evidence and make a decision about who’s right.

And another video 😅😅😅

Mastcam mosaic captured by Curiosity on that same day and location Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk #Mars 🧪🔭

I made a weird thing! It's a small, incomplete LLM wiki about space law. You're welcome! github.com/anseljh/spac...

Update on our case law scanning project: 606 volumes and 655,631 pages are scanned. From here they go through our redaction system and get digitized for inclusion in CourtListener. Earlier blog post: free.law/2026/04/16/s...

Rebecca just keeps churning out cool itch-scratchers like this!

We and @facoalition.bsky.social fought an overbroad unconstitutional order telling the "public" at large to pull down a court record. With (copious and generous!) help from @volokhc.bsky.social and @megangray.bsky.social, we won. reason.com/volokh/2026/...

Don’t dehumanize the humanities. Words matter, and “content“ is a crappy word.

Ukraine officially opens the St Petersburg Economic Forum. Warm memories and hot impressions guaranteed.

TIL John Wick runs Linux

Is this better or worse than nothing?

decided my rss reader would function better w/ a winamp skin

Is this a lot for a side project? It seems like a lot for a side project.

New Ninth Circuit oral argument in everyone's favorite forever #trademark case, VIP Products, LLC v. Jack Daniel's Properties, Inc. 🔉 www.courtlistener.com/audio/105037...

Is this a lot for a side project? It seems like a lot for a side project.

I submitted a pull request to the Claude for Legal skills repo while listening to the Claude for Legal webinar today. Hey #trademarks people, this isn't so hard - chime in! github.com/anthropics/c...

Cope cages, but for submarines 👀

New paper in Nature. The more a government controls its domestic media, the more it dominates AI training data, the more pro-regime outputs we get from AI. By scraping the open web, LLMs are unwittingly laundering state-coordinated narratives into seemingly objective answers.

Finally our news is out. Legal research is changing today. It really is. This stuff is unreal.

I'm convinced every court, firm, and lawyer in the country should use our x-ray tool. It's a Python library now, but we'll make an API and pay to get SOC 2 compliance so y'all can send us your filings. If somebody sponsors this, we'll make it free for courts and pennies otherwise. How about that?

The mark consists of: "the stylized number "6" composed of a breaded appetizer bite . . . positioned above a yellow hand and the number "7" composed of a breaded appetizer bite . . . positioned above the other hand" tsdr.uspto.gov#caseNumber=9...

take's too hot, burning a hole in Earth's crust

The Dem governor debate was held at Pomona College's Bridges auditorium. I loved my time at Pomona! Chirp! I've been pulled over for driving while Black many times near Bridges. That I did not enjoy. And while I was at Pomona, a friend was killed by cops near there too. I didn't enjoy that either.

haha that’s so crazy (pulling out a giant feather quill and adding your name to a book labeled COLLABORATORS)

“Unpaid labor”, hm is there a pithier single word for that, I wonder

I am honored to share the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Best International Reporting with Dake Kang, Byron Tau, Aniruddha Ghosal and Garance Burke for our reporting revealing how Silicon Valley largely designed and built China's surveillance state and enabled human rights abuses.

There is so much going on in just this signature block.

I wish the United States was conducting a war with a strategy more complex than my seven year old responding to his older brother with "Oh yeah?!? Then I would..." -I'd block your shipping. -Then I'd block *your* shipping. -So what, I'll mine the strait. -Oh yeah?!? Then I would shoot your boats!

I spent half an hour tonight whipping up a pre-filing citation checker. I ran it on the Sullivan & Cromwell brief from this story, and it works. Time to raise the bar, folks.

While I was drinking my morning coffee, I got two legal MCP servers working together: FOLIO to identify which area of law a question is in, and then my own to do hybrid search on a collection of legal materials, scoped to that area. It works. ✨ FOLIO: openlegalstandard.org

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Our vision is coming true. Step 1: Make the data. Step 2: A thousand startups bloom. Step 3: Fairer access to the law. This article validates the work we and others have been doing for decades. This is why the legal space is blowing up. (It’s the data.) www.law.com/legaltechnew...

I'm excited to share that we've made a collection of historic Supreme Court Records and Briefs available via @archive.org I've written a blog post where I go into detail about the importance of this collection. blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u...

not like a great sign generally when "damnatio memoriae" and "lustration" are carving out space on the word cloud but i do like the general spirit of teambuilding and togetherness

tried Photoshop's new upscaler for a map that's getting printed and... it renamed all our streets and parks

WHATS UP YOU WET MOTHERFUCKERS

The Philz statement says “Every Pride flag that is up stays up, and any Pride flag that was previously removed can be put back up.” What about MORE Pride flags? Banned? Philz baristas, here is your new challenge: how many Pride flags can you fit into a Philz? 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

This just failed.

Voting on spy powers at 2am will definitely help with trust in the government!

Turing Test: PASS

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Serious programming