Just sat down in a packed theater to see The Odyssey. To my left is a six-headed sea monster. To my right is a giant whirlpool. I hate navigating the problems of a middle seat.
Maggie Wittlin
@maggiewittlin.bsky.social
Professor at Fordham Law. Evidence, law teaching, crosswords, jokes.
It's officially June 28th, and you know what that means... 🎉 HAPPY 100th BIRTHDAY, MEL BROOKS! 🥳 @officialmelbrooks.bsky.social In the next post, I'll tell you my favorite joke cut from the Broadway production of Young Frankenstein...
It's officially June 28th, and you know what that means... 🎉 HAPPY 100th BIRTHDAY, MEL BROOKS! 🥳 @officialmelbrooks.bsky.social In the next post, I'll tell you my favorite joke cut from the Broadway production of Young Frankenstein...
In the Spring of 2020, while you and I were descending into madness, David Hockney went out with his truck and his iPad and documented the onset of spring in Normandy.
Where’s #watchsky at? Here are some beautiful dials at the Gotham Watch Fair today. @joedudekjd.bsky.social, @notalawyer.bsky.social
I haven’t watched any of the second half. My semi-solipsistic theory that I, personally, cause the Knicks to play badly gains increased support.
There are only two things you need to be a true New Yorker: 1. Presence 2. Intent to remain
I haven’t paid close attention to basketball since 1994, and I just really hope that my Knicks are prepared to take on David Robinson!
mike taddow@miketaddow.bsky.social · 2mo agoif the spurs end up facing the knicks in the finals in a 1999 rematch, we all have to post like it’s 1999
There's a lot of slop online these days, but I gotta say: nothing bothers me quite so much as obituary slop.
Nice short article about @fordhamlawnyc.bsky.social Dean Emeritus John Feerick and his role in drafting the Twenty-Fifth Amendment: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Is the Twenty-fifth Amendment Really an Option?
After J.F.K.’s assassination, a neophyte lawyer named John Feerick was summoned to Washington to draft the provision. Now everyone wants him to weigh in on booting Trump from office.
newyorker.com
Had a great time at the biggest Evidence Summer Workshop yet! What an awesome scholarly community. Thanks my co-organizers Ed Cheng, @alexnunn.bsky.social, and Julia Simon-Kerr. #ESW
Hey, sorry I’m late to work; my barista just got back from jury duty.
This is an excellent story. I laughed. I cried. I learned bread-related etymologies of common words. I got dirt on PR people who wronged the author. And I learned where to go for great free bread. My post-publication submission: the garlic knots at Villaggio Italiano on Central Ave in Hartsdale.
Caity Weaver@caity.bsky.social · 4mo agoMAJOR UPDATE: I found the best free restaurant bread in the United States www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
This is an excellent story. I laughed. I cried. I learned bread-related etymologies of common words. I got dirt on PR people who wronged the author. And I learned where to go for great free bread. My post-publication submission: the garlic knots at Villaggio Italiano on Central Ave in Hartsdale.
Caity Weaver@caity.bsky.social · 4mo agoMAJOR UPDATE: I found the best free restaurant bread in the United States www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Here's Siavash Shahshahani, pioneering Iranian math professor & father of @shahshahani.bsky.social, standing next to the ruins of the Data Center at Sharif U., reminiscing & expressing his conviction that it will be rebuilt. It's beautiful & powerful & sad, even though I don’t understand his words.
I'm excited for Tim's deeply researched book about Walter Jenkins, LBJ's friend and de facto Chief of Staff who resigned after he was arrested for soliciting sex with a man in a YMCA restroom. Pre-order your copy today!
Timothy Stewart-Winter@timothysw.bsky.social · 4mo agoVery excited to share the cover of my forthcoming book, OUTED: LBJ’S CONFIDANT AND THE ARREST THAT TRANSFORMED A PRESIDENCY. Coming October 13 from University of Chicago Press! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
I’m very excited that these three excellent profs will be joining the Fordham Law faculty!
Fordham Law School@fordhamlawnyc.bsky.social · 5mo ago🧵 / Fordham Law School welcomes three distinguished new faculty members to the faculty this fall. Joseph Fishman (@jpfishman.bsky.social) is an expert on intellectual property, particularly within the music industry.
Escape castle, obviously. Puzzles created by the greatest puzzling minds with an unlimited budget. Secret rooms galore. Ideally a full-weekend-long affair, at least.
Andrej@tepid.meme · 5mo agoIf you had $77bn you could squander without feeling any consequences whatsoever, what boondoggle would you throw it after?
As a teenager, I looked enough like the winner of the 1997 Scripps National Spelling Bee that well into college, strangers would semi-regularly come up to me on the street and ask if I’d won a spelling bee.
Kayla Cromer Official@kaylacromer.bsky.social · 5mo agoTell me a random fact about yourself that sounds fake but is 100% true.
The Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence is an invaluable resource, and political interference with its contents is a serious problem.
Scientists Decry ‘Political Attack’ on Reference Manual for Judges
nytimes.com
The conditions at our immigrant detention centers are a national crisis. @fordhamlawnyc.bsky.social's Feerick Center reports: - Insufficient, spoiled food - Insufficient, non-functional toilets - Calls for medical care unheeded - Court dates missed - Guards picking physical fights More here:
Opinion: We visited an El Paso ICE detention facility. We don’t recognize our country anymore
Volunteer attorneys and law students describe alarming treatment of people transported from across the country to an El Paso ICE detention facility.
elpasomatters.org
Center of the world or the ends of the earth? Central Park at the beginning of a blizzard.
“Roses are red, Violets are blue” Won’t qualify you as a botanical expert Under 702
Great launch event for @profadediran.bsky.social’s new book, Disclosureland: How Corporate Words Constrain Racial Progress, presented by @fordhamracelaw.bsky.social! Buy it here: www.amazon.com/Disclosurela...
I am extremely in favor of games being a larger part of law teaching. Fiss & Berger’s “Woburn: A Game of Discovery” is great (if outdated). Students have to dig through the rules to win! Maybe someday I’ll actually get on that Evidence computer game I started…
Richard Heppner 🤷🏼♂️@rlheppner.bsky.social · 6mo agoI finally got the latest version of my Civil Procedure Game! Now with a box, better cards, and individualized pawns and tokens..
Scientific Evidence Expert Named Next President of Columbia University! (I really wish the NYT would put the important info in the headline.) Congrats to all!
Ariela Gross@arielagross.bsky.social · 6mo agoColumbia Selects University of Wisconsin Chancellor as Its President www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/n... Congrats Jennifer!