Reposted by Maggie Fritz-MorkinBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16hGobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports. 250119041974
Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 29/09/202613yo walked in the front door, solemnly recited the pledge of allegiance in Spanish, and bitterly emended the ending: con libertad y justicia para... ALGUNAS personas 😡😤 "just trying to be accurate." he's not wrong 170
Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This cello is seriously distracting me from my emails, trainings, observations, and reports 010
Reposted by Maggie Fritz-MorkinSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 25/09/2026“She nearly lost her home to foreclosure and her teenage daughter was entrusted with running her household. Her college-age son left a football scholarship to return home and help with costs around the home. Mason has three children and also raised four of her brother’s children.” 13933349
Reposted by Maggie Fritz-MorkinOlivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 24/09/2026well and imagine if a former women’s studies and philosophy student became an investigative journalist who reported on lawmakers abusing the power of their office? better to simply cut all that curriculum www.statesman.com/news/educati...statesman.comUT cuts all women and gender classes from core curriculum, drops race classesThe provost’s office also eliminated dozens of courses on race from counting toward the core curriculum. 38217
Reposted by Maggie Fritz-MorkinMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house. 685248885497
Reposted by Maggie Fritz-MorkinJP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit 3460341474
Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Who else wants to show off their Planned Parenthood beads? @ppfa.org winning at swag #fitcheck 010
Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Diagramming the dolce stil novo: can you guess which sonnets my students read? Answer in alt text #medieval #dolcestilnovo #Italian 022
Reposted by Maggie Fritz-MorkinAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026two years gone, forever here 217819
Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Move over AI, my kid just offered to do my reading and write a lecture for my grad course tomorrow 2151
Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The only way to put it is that I’m getting absolutely fucked by Bach 220
Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Extar’s author headshot (she obviously writes Cold War spy thrillers) #caturday 0121
Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 17/09/20268 of the 9 undergrads who were in my 13th c. Italian Poetry class today are pumped to read Dante in Italian with the grad students in my spring seminar. #UNC #Tarheels #goated #Medieval 191
Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 15/09/2026If you like puzzles and hate money, philology might be right for you, I soberly counsel my young students 2449
Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 15/09/2026It’s not every day that they set up your special collections visit in the Fearrington ✨🤓💫 #UNC @unclibrary.bsky.social 191
Reposted by Maggie Fritz-MorkinDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Fine, I’ll do it 3515
Reposted by Maggie Fritz-MorkinCJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I would have blocked that guy 4765
Reposted by Maggie Fritz-MorkinOh No He Didn't @ohnohedidnt24.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Serena Williams could care less what this guy has to say lol 2416
Reposted by Maggie Fritz-MorkinEvan Prellberg @evanprellberg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Internet meme factory. ESPN just showed an image of some guy (he may be famous but he’s just some guy to me) talking to Serena and Serena looking wholly uninterested. Someone needs to make it the new version of this: 131
Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Everyone in this interaction is a petty bitch but at least I’m not a pedophile warlord #IRS 271
Reposted by Maggie Fritz-Morkintante @tante.cc · 08/09/2026The most surprising realization I had in the last years was how important it is to be public about your refusal to participate in harmful acts therefore giving others "permission" to do so as well. It really matters. 4397123
Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Oh no I went to an algorithm site and learned about bird checking. Xennials saw a toxic courting behavior and put a bird on it 010
Reposted by Maggie Fritz-MorkinMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/09/2026🚨BREAKING: Supreme Court DENIES Missouri’s emergency stay application leaving the 2022 congressional map protecting Black voters in Kansas City in place for the midterms. A victory for Elias Law Group, its client and voters of Missouri! www.democracydocket.com/cases/missou...democracydocket.com🚨 von Glahn v. HoskinsLearn more here. 606218785085
Reposted by Maggie Fritz-MorkinMonica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Highly significant that this news about one of the country's top historians, Lonnie Bunch, should immediately shoot to the top of Bluesky's "Trending" list. 0183
Reposted by Maggie Fritz-MorkinMonica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 08/09/2026#MedievalSky That "1300" includes you, too! 2169
Reposted by Maggie Fritz-MorkinAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026happy labor day from your local bsky unionist! in one another there is power, in one another there is smarts, in one another there is joy, in one another we win 110118
Reposted by Maggie Fritz-MorkinMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 04/09/2026*Slams dictionary shut til Tuesday* 311828205
Reposted by Maggie Fritz-MorkinMark Histed @markhisted.org · 04/09/2026On the diversion of several billion dollars from #NIH to the Department of Defense (NYT today reports it’s up to “one third of the NIAID budget” and that Trump NIH director Bhattacharya signed the deal.) The big question I have: Is this is an end run around peer review? 1/ 36723
Reposted by Maggie Fritz-MorkinMonica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 04/09/2026"Codicological genomes". Not a term I expected to hear, but I guess it will become part of the medievalist vocabulary now. Great summary of an intriguing study. (And no, fellow codicologists, you still do not have to wear gloves. The DNA in your books is too degraded to do any damage.) #MedievalSky 36426
Reposted by Maggie Fritz-MorkinAlexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I am sad for all the talented students who assured me it was a clear path to a better life for them as they discarded study plans they loved and studied coding instead. 28955112
Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 03/09/2026According to the collective wisdom of my charming students and one medieval Italian poet (Bonagiunta Orbicciani), “Tutto lo mondo si mantien per…” A) pasta B) Aperol C) sesso D) fiore E) Tinder F) gatti [All the world depends on… pasta/ Aperol/ sex/ a flower/ Tinder/ cats] 151
Reposted by Maggie Fritz-MorkinJimmy Two Hands (summerjimbo era) @jimmytwohands.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I know exactly why, poindexter. It’s because it looks cool as fuck 13498201832
Reposted by Maggie Fritz-MorkinAda Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Incredibly honored to receive the Best Related Hugo, and so proud to be recognized by the Worldcon community that means so much to me! I've uploaded my acceptance speech video here, for those who weren't there to see it live!patreon.com2026 Hugo Acceptance Speech: Best Related Work for "Inventing the Renaissance" | Ada PalmerThe news broke in the wee hours of the morning Italy time, and late at night Los Angeles time, that Inventing the Renaissance has won the Hu 6368177
Reposted by Maggie Fritz-Morkinmischa🌻 @mischamouse.bsky.social · 30/08/2026I've never felt compelled to wear a Pope themed item until this Pope. I'm more of a t-shirt gal but this is pretty neat! Happy Sunday, fellow fans of Pope Leo.🕊 blockclubchicago.org/2026/08/27/p...blockclubchicago.orgPope Leo Given His Own White Sox 'Pope Hat' During Visit With South Side PriestThe world's most famous Sox fan was gifted a nicer version of the pope-style hats passed out to 40,000 fans at a game earlier this month. 643044399
Reposted by Maggie Fritz-MorkinLeah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026That *Rep. Jim Clyburn* is announcing his support for SCOTUS expansion is huge. 1395338945
Reposted by Maggie Fritz-MorkinTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Jackson State choir. And God. 9615139
Reposted by Maggie Fritz-MorkinJames Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 27/08/2026A 5-year-old Texan just spent the first day of school in an ICE detention center. ICE kidnapped Liam Tadeo on his way to a soccer game with his dad. Liam should be in kindergarten. Instead, our government has thrown him in a prison camp hundreds of miles from home. 357107054147
Reposted by Maggie Fritz-MorkinKaren K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 27/08/2026This gallery of ICE crop/seed art at this year's Minnesota State Fair is incredible, especially the one based on Pablo Picasso's Guernica by Jennifer Nelson, which features the last words of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Morse code: www.cropart.com/Resist.pdf 222204686
Reposted by Maggie Fritz-MorkinAlexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026the year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA 227147402817
Reposted by Maggie Fritz-MorkinI Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026Rolling out “academic freedom” as a rallying cry now, after the CRT panic led to a bunch of Black scholars and theory to be literally banned from classrooms, shit is too rich lol 313268679
Reposted by Maggie Fritz-MorkinKaren “the good kind” @kpsinging.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Ok I admit… this made me laugh out loud 172009339
Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Throttled public university: don’t drink it, there’s lead 000
Reposted by Maggie Fritz-MorkinAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 22/08/2026The vandalism and desecration of the White House isn't just vanity and it's not trivial. It's caesarism, as in literally what Julius Caesar did to the symbolic architecture of civic republicanism. Our national iconography matters and allowing the disfiguring of it to persist is a substantive harm. 13975921648