Esther Liberman Cuenca
@estherlcuenca.bsky.social
Writer. Historian. Author of 'The Making of Urban Customary Law in Medieval and Reformation England' (Oxford University Press, 2025). On leave at the Huntington Library in Fall 2025.
Did a double feature: "Sentimental Value" and "Hamnet." Folks, I'm destroyed.
November 30, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Did a double feature: "Sentimental Value" and "Hamnet." Folks, I'm destroyed.
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My timeline is all pie and libraries. What kind of cozy-cottage-core parallel universe have I stepped into?
November 26, 2025 at 2:36 AM
My timeline is all pie and libraries. What kind of cozy-cottage-core parallel universe have I stepped into?
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Clearly many White people are unfamiliar with desis who are good with their elders, even when those elders are hateful, angry, disgusting and vicious people
Because at some level I can totally get this
Because at some level I can totally get this
Not only has he never looked at Don Jr. or Eric like this, he’s never been so happy to bask in JD Vance’s presence either.
He looks giddy. JOYFUL even.
Is Zohran a witch
He looks giddy. JOYFUL even.
Is Zohran a witch
the son he always wanted
November 21, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Clearly many White people are unfamiliar with desis who are good with their elders, even when those elders are hateful, angry, disgusting and vicious people
Because at some level I can totally get this
Because at some level I can totally get this
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I am hearing that following his meeting with Zohran Mamdani, Donald Trump received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahada. Truly there is no god but Allah, and Mohammad is his prophet!
November 22, 2025 at 5:08 AM
I am hearing that following his meeting with Zohran Mamdani, Donald Trump received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahada. Truly there is no god but Allah, and Mohammad is his prophet!
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I’ve spent my career at public colleges where my primary job is teaching. Harvard and the Ivy League is a million miles away. Still I find Lepore’s whining exhausting. I believe that historians like her, occupying cushy spots at a tiny sliver of institutions, have no clue what I do for a living.
Harvard's prosecutorial culture was "miserable," says Jill Lepore. Even so, she stayed, but has since come to regret her silence. https://chroni.cl/4ihof9O
Why Jill Lepore Nearly Quit Harvard
The prosecutorial culture was “miserable.” She stayed, but has come to regret her silence at the time.
www.chronicle.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I’ve spent my career at public colleges where my primary job is teaching. Harvard and the Ivy League is a million miles away. Still I find Lepore’s whining exhausting. I believe that historians like her, occupying cushy spots at a tiny sliver of institutions, have no clue what I do for a living.
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math textbook covers for some reason:
November 17, 2025 at 5:31 PM
math textbook covers for some reason:
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I am so close to asking students who complain about a professor's tone in an email or a grade that they have received to work it out in a remix with them, just like Charli xcx and Lorde.
October 14, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I am so close to asking students who complain about a professor's tone in an email or a grade that they have received to work it out in a remix with them, just like Charli xcx and Lorde.
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Bill Belichick is literally breaking the spirit of UNC students…
October 4, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Bill Belichick is literally breaking the spirit of UNC students…
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a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits
Bari Weiss is set to be named the editor in chief of CBS News, the New York Post reports
October 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits
I had a nightmare about incunabula. Woke up in a cold sweat. So I made an appointment with my doctor (aka the curator of medieval manuscripts here at the Huntington)
October 1, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I had a nightmare about incunabula. Woke up in a cold sweat. So I made an appointment with my doctor (aka the curator of medieval manuscripts here at the Huntington)
Thank you for this shoutout, @patrickhwillems.bsky.social. The paperback copies of my book are temporarily sold out on Amazon right now :)
September 24, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Thank you for this shoutout, @patrickhwillems.bsky.social. The paperback copies of my book are temporarily sold out on Amazon right now :)
Throwing the baby into the bathwater
September 16, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Throwing the baby into the bathwater
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1. At Charlie Kirk's vigil just now, DNI Tulsi Gabbard just invoked MLK Jr.'s line, "Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that." She insisted Kirk "lived" by that line.
Unclear how Kirk would've felt about that comparison, since he decried MLK as “awful” and "not a good person."
Unclear how Kirk would've felt about that comparison, since he decried MLK as “awful” and "not a good person."
September 15, 2025 at 12:04 AM
1. At Charlie Kirk's vigil just now, DNI Tulsi Gabbard just invoked MLK Jr.'s line, "Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that." She insisted Kirk "lived" by that line.
Unclear how Kirk would've felt about that comparison, since he decried MLK as “awful” and "not a good person."
Unclear how Kirk would've felt about that comparison, since he decried MLK as “awful” and "not a good person."
Is the what to the what?
September 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Is the what to the what?
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Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...
September 13, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...
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This is the person they are suspending people over btw
September 11, 2025 at 9:01 PM
This is the person they are suspending people over btw
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Charlie Kirk literally said that more deaths from shootings is the price he's comfortable paying and it seems like a lot of people think he didn't say or believe that
September 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Charlie Kirk literally said that more deaths from shootings is the price he's comfortable paying and it seems like a lot of people think he didn't say or believe that
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Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.
The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
September 10, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.
The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
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We have the brain processing power to be breathing right now
“Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person’s slot”.
-Charlie Kirk
-Charlie Kirk
September 11, 2025 at 2:12 AM
We have the brain processing power to be breathing right now
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"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational." — Charlie Kirk, 4/2023 www.newsweek.com/charlie-kirk...
Charlie Kirk says gun deaths "unfortunately" worth it to ...
The conservative founder of Turning Point USA made the comments following a mass shooting in Nashville last week that resulted in six deaths.
www.newsweek.com
September 11, 2025 at 12:20 AM
"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational." — Charlie Kirk, 4/2023 www.newsweek.com/charlie-kirk...
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When no laws are broken until the moment the trigger is pulled, that is a big problem.
September 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
When no laws are broken until the moment the trigger is pulled, that is a big problem.
i just watched "unknown number: the high school catfish" and holy shit what WAS that?!
September 10, 2025 at 9:11 AM
i just watched "unknown number: the high school catfish" and holy shit what WAS that?!
Watching "Manhunt" on Apple TV+ and you really want all these Confederates to die horrible ugly deaths so all in all it's well done I think
August 25, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Watching "Manhunt" on Apple TV+ and you really want all these Confederates to die horrible ugly deaths so all in all it's well done I think
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They're called "research fellowships"
August 15, 2025 at 8:20 PM
They're called "research fellowships"