Law professors, here's a sterling example to share with your students of the Presumption of Regularity being shredded in the eyes of a federal judge who was desperately trying to hold onto it. As DOJ continues to disregard court orders and offer falsehoods, will federal judges keep falling for it?

Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian in DC, it's National Indigenous people day!

Some say early 2030s. Others say 2028. But the math says it already happened in February, 2026. The Climate 8-Ball says there will not be a year in the next 100 years with a temperature anomaly less than 1.5°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline.

Ilhan Omar’s home was raided today, weeks after border czar Tom Homan cited an “ongoing criminal investigation.” It reportedly involves immigration paperwork when she was a child. There is NOT an ongoing investigation of Homan taking $50,000 in an FBI bribery sting because Trump killed that probe.

The tiny enclave of Beaux Arts Village (pop. 310) is on the cusp of triggering the Builder's Remedy next week, unless the town council approves interim zoning changes that get the city into compliance with the Growth Management Act.

"In the United States, thousands of families—predominantly Latino—have been living confined to their homes for over a year and a half, terrified of being arrested by ICE."

Vital insight. Thank you!

An incredibly well sourced thread about what’s going on in India right now. A comprehensive account!

Felipe VI’s first visit to Ceuta and Melilla as king brings Spain’s territorial dispute with Morocco back into focus.

On Monday, I will be honoured to walk into Parliament as the first woman in the UK to do so as a British-Somali MP.

All these accounts of Black and Brown authors being accused of using AI is throwing me back to Bhabha on mimicry. And the earlier case of Yambo Ouologuem. (Whose work might have been labeled postmodern experimentation, but racism.)

October 11, 2026

Harrisburg-St. Louis-Madison! Next week on the book tour for HOW BRIGHT THE PATH GROWS is giving Midwest energy.