Maggie Fritz-Morkin

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

An oval-shaped vinyl sticker with a dark purple background and two cartoon labubu characters. The left monster is red with lavender face and hands. His bunny ears droop forward, he stands pigeon-toed, and his face is crumpled with fright. At right, a pale gray monster with a ghostly white face extends a reassuring hand to the fearful one. He wears a laurel crown and carries a golden book in his other hand. Since designing the sticker I have learned that labubus have 9 teeth, so these monsters with 6 and 8 teeth are technically lafufus. Who are they??

I made a vinyl sticker bonus question for my #Dante midterm. Everyone got it right and now there are 70 stickers floating around campus marking our community 👹👹🥹

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.

or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

This is great. The absurdity of this moment captured. Make it go viral.

An illustration of a fox dressed in the ribcage of a human, the eyes white with death or transfiguration, surrounded by red and blue-green leaves. The image has a large San serif bold N superimposed, with the image clear inside the letter and faintly colored by a rust orange fade otherwise, the trademark of the house, NN Editore. The text in white reads ALEXANDER CHEE Edimburgo NNE

The Italian edition of my first novel, translated by the wonderful Chiara Buffa, is available later this week, 10/10/25, from NN Editore in Milan. And this cover makes my old teen witch heart glad.

www.nneditore.it/libro/979125...

MAGA Congresswoman: Bad Bunnys super bowl halftime show a demonic sexual performance

Some advertising you just can't buy

Manuscript illustration of a long-haired woman arguing in court that as long as she has satisfied her husband’s sexual needs, and the feeble chump sitting in the hot seat testifies that indeed she has, she has every right to do what she pleases with her surplus of sexual capacity. The woman is hot and many people have gathered to see if she’ll get away with adultery. Boccaccio’s Decameron 6.7, BnF Ms. It. 63, f. 202r.

“What am I supposed to do with the leftovers??”

Madonna Filippa (Decameron 6.7) walking so Nicole could run

The funniest thing about this is how legit terrified ICE looks.

This sem co-op shareholder supports the union 😎

This is not the most pressing UNC problem but I am once again obliged to share the state of things in a humanities building. Can we get some Belichik bathrooms over in Dey Hall

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated' The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

I am outraged by the news of ICE raids in Chicago that indiscriminately targeted people of color, including unnecessary harm to American citizens and children.

These inhumane and unlawful attacks on our communities are abhorrent and cannot be tolerated.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated' The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

I can’t shake the anger and dismay. Naked children dragged away from parents?? in uhauls??? Around the corner from a friend’s old house. Down the block from my parks&rec tennis matches. Helicopters I would have heard from my old apt. HANDS OFF OUR NEIGHBORS
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post, and the Cost of Speaking Out As Saudi Arabia hosts comedians and courts gamers, the silenced voice of Jamal Khashoggi still echoes.

Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory.

They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth.

But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi.

RIP, Jamal.

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A tiny photo album open to two very similar compositions. Left: a baby sitting on a couch next to a plush orangutan bigger than himself. The baby meets the gaze of the plushie with wonder. At right, Jane Goodall sits with her back to the wall next to a female gorilla. Goodall turns to look at her face and they seem to be in peaceful conversation.

Jane Goodall woven into our family lore ❤️

University of California Berkeley, Assistant Professor of Italian Renaissance Literature | MEMOs Assistant Professor -- Italian Renaissance Literature -- Department of Italian Studies

University of California Berkeley, Assistant Professor of Italian Renaissance Literature:

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cal sense of the present affectively as immanence, emanation, atmosphere, or emergence. Perturbation is Deleuze's word for disturbances in the atmosphere that constitute situations whose shape can only be forged by continuous reaction and transversal movement, releasing subjects from the norma-tivity of intuition and making them available for alternative ordinaries.® The situation is therefore a genre of social time and practice in which a relation of persons and worlds is sensed to be changing but the rules for habitation and the genres of storytelling about it are unstable, in chaos. Chapter 5, "Nearly Utopian, Nearly Normal," argues that the precarious public sphere has generated a new popular variation, the "situation tragedy." In the situation comedy, the subject whose world is not too destabilized by a "situation" that arises performs a slapstick maladjustment that turns out absurdly and laughably, without destroying very much. In the situation tragedy, the subject's world is fragile beyond repair, one gesture away from losing all access to sustaining its fantasies: the situation threatens utter, abject unraveling.

Lauren Berlant’s intro to Cruel Optimism (Duke, 2011) is in the neighborhood 😕

Sharing. Because we need to know. Also because “John Brown Gun Club”.

'I want his name to be known': Wife of immigrant injured at ICE facility shooting speaks out Stephany Gauffeny says she wants the world to know that her husband, Miguel Angel Garcia-Hernandez, is more than "just an immigrant or a detainee, or a criminal."

A victim of the shooting at the ICE facility is UNCONSCIOUS, in critical care, may not survive, his wife is about to give birth, and ICE IS KEEPING HIM SHACKLED TO HIS HOSPITAL BED:

I just unlocked a new level of rage.

www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

I brought my kid a labubu from Chicago last week and he didn’t know what it was. Then we saw the South Park episode and now he’s strutting around school with it like a little lord

Everything is terrible but Chicago is great, South Park is great, labubus are great

The cinematography!

What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed

If you read nothing else today, I pray that you will read every word of this necessary, powerful, and much-needed piece by @nhannahjones.bsky.social.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...

betrayed by admin pumping school (often public) $ into grifter bubble corporate welfare, disgusted by colleagues shamelessly cheating - BUT buoyed by the students, who still want to learn, with their own big brains

Impish tween boy with a red mop of hair ducking behind a pint glass of milk, which reads Peace & Love & Purple Rain in three different shades of purple

The kids are alright

Postcard-size coloring book page with a floral pattern. Eight big flowers are colored with red, pink, purple, yellow marker (major tasks completed). Five green leaves (more big tasks). Seven little pink flowers (assignments graded). Lots of little flowers left to color, tell me you’re not a completionist

Serenity farming with this new checklist format

Dave Matthews has the opportunity to do the funniest thing.

Hooray 🎉 hcommons running!! Goodbye academia dot edu.

works.hcommons.org/records/rqmc...

#earlymodern
#medievalsky
#Boccaccio
#Augustine

Oh no! Perhaps because they are overwhelmed with new traffic?

Antifaminophen.