Esther Liberman Cuenca

He's very litigious, I hear, so that's why it's not received much attention.

There's a tendency online for people to black out the names and email addresses of people who send them notes like this but I'm all for making it public.

Yes. I met and had lunch with Rubenstein in 2022 at the Institute for Advanced Study, where he is a big donor and board member. He's very serious about history and the arts and storied American institutions.

What’s to become of my medieval women class now that TAMU has eliminated the women’s studies program? I don’t know. The audit of my syllabus is not done but it’ll probably be flagged because it has J Bennett’s “lesbian-like” article. Students are aware that free speech is a thing of the past in TX.

This is correct. Also, I took 12 years and my heart was into it but …stuff happens. Also, lots of adjuncting

vance has to stay on the good sign of the teen nazis that are his primary constituency

Good piece by Adam Serwer. Love this part in particular. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Do you know who’s the new editor?

Little Liam Ramos stood facing an ICE vehicle with his cartoon blue wooly hat. A state-sponsored terrorist ICE agent is holding him by his rucksack.

A reminder that Liam Ramos, the son of legal residents in Minnesota, is still being held in a Texas prison.

A five year old little boy - and America’s global reputation - now scarred for life.

(📸 Ali Daniel’s/AP)

"Good tsar, bad boyars" has been a recurring theme of Trumpism every year the dude's been office. It's wild.

screenshot of a reddit post in r/nursing Photo of a hospital hallway where staff in scrubs stand with their hands clasped and heads bowed

As seen on r/nursing

Alex Pretti's coworkers taking a moment of silence to honor him

when I talk about how this is truly the only show to have a romance novel structure, this is what I mean: every other romance adaptation turns the fundamentally, crucially narrow focus of a romance novel into a broader tv world. this show feels different because it does not.

The Internet Medieval Sourcebook is 30 year old today. with an inception date of 26th January 1996.

It turns out that although not in any sense breaking new scholarship, it remains my most longstanding contribution to the republic of letters.

sourcebooks.fordham.edu/sbook.asp

From the Independent: "ICE is rumored to be heading for Philadelphia. Everyone is saying the same thing' Reaction from ben doyle (@thewheatgerm): "this is the equivalent of hitler sending you to stalingrad"

imgaine getting sent packing with your ass in your own two hands by some of the nicest people in the world and then showing up in a city that is famous for booing santa claus

until recently, i was a dumbass. but no longer.

During the Soviet era, at times of govt instability, the state broadcaster would typically preempt scheduled broadcasts by airing performances of Swan Lake

ICE delenda est

what do you mean 🧍🏽‍♀️

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdami advises New Yorkers to stay home and read ‘Heated Rivalry’ during the winter storm

via hearts530

Now requires a disambiguation page

How many January 6 insurrectionists were armed? Is the position now that Capitol police could have shot them all? Just trying to keep up

Something I needed to write to a prospective author: "Let me contact you next week. There might be a hiccup: TX is expected to freeze this weekend. My hope is that the electric grid holds up. It didn’t in 2021 and it was traumatic (no water, electricity, etc.). So fingers crossed I don’t die? haha."

Had to bring this over for "rinses his ass" 🤌

“Look: Rome wasn’t burned in a day.”

I had a dream that an article I submitted to the "Journal of Reassessing the Passion Narrative" got a good response from readers and that its publication was imminent. Paging Dr. Freud...?

I Would Start A War In Your Arms A Heated Rivalry Notebook

This essay by @alexanderchee.bsky.social about Heated Rivalry is so great and I have a lot of thoughts about it I should not publish on Al Gore's internet: querent.substack.com/p/i-would-st...

Had a prelim job interview today with an a.i. chatbot