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Cory Smith @rcorysmith.bsky.social · 4d

Bill Belichick is literally breaking the spirit of UNC students…

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6d

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

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 6d

Bari Weiss is set to be named the editor in chief of CBS News, the New York Post reports

Paramount Skydance is poised to name Bari Weiss as editor in chief of CBS News in the coming days — giving the hard-charging journalist unusual clout to revamp the struggling network as it also acquires her scrappy news site the Free Press, The Post has learned.

Weiss — a 41-year-old former New York Times opinion writer who has built the Free Press into a buzzworthy site with a contrarian bent — is expected to be named to the top post in a Monday announcement, although the talks are in flux and the timing could change, a source close to the situation said.

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Esther Liberman Cuenca @estherlcuenca.bsky.social · 7d

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)

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Esther Liberman Cuenca @estherlcuenca.bsky.social · 14d

Also, my monograph 'The Making of Urban Customary Law in Medieval and Reformation England' is about 50% off now, for algorithmically mysterious reasons. www.amazon.com/Making-Custo...

The Making of Urban Customary Law in Medieval and Reformation England

The Making of Urban Customary Law in Medieval and Reformation England [Cuenca, Esther Liberman] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Making of Urban Customary Law in Medieval and Reformation England

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Esther Liberman Cuenca @estherlcuenca.bsky.social · 14d

It is, however, available on kindle! www.amazon.com/Law-Justice-...

Law, Justice, and Society in the Medieval World: An Introduction through Film (Fordham Series in Medieval Studies)

Amazon.com: Law, Justice, and Society in the Medieval World: An Introduction through Film (Fordham Series in Medieval Studies): 9781531510138: Cuenca, Esther Liberman, Bruno, M. Christina, Perron, Anthony, Americo, Maria, Armenti, Daniel, Barnhouse, Lucy C., Bonura, Christopher, Bruno, M. Christina, Chamberlin, Julie K., Chazelle, Celia, Clark, Rachel Ellen, Cuenca, Esther Liberman, Ireland, Casey, Kelly, Henry Ansgar, Luginbill, Sarah C., Lumbley, Coral, McDougall, Sara, Melson, Nathan, Otaño Gracia, Nahir I., Perron, Anthony, Perry, David M., Siddiqi, Asif A., Smelyansky, Eugene, Stock, Lorraine Kochanske, Strub, Spencer: Books

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Esther Liberman Cuenca @estherlcuenca.bsky.social · 14d

Thank you for this shoutout, @patrickhwillems.bsky.social. The paperback copies of my book are temporarily sold out on Amazon right now :)

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Esther Liberman Cuenca @estherlcuenca.bsky.social · 22d

Throwing the baby into the bathwater

Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 22d

You’re not the boss of me

A restroom sign shows a stick figure standing next to a toilet, holding a small rounded object over it. The image is crossed with a red prohibition circle. Below, text in Indonesian reads “TIDAK MEMBUANG APAPUN KE DALAM TOILET,” and in English, “DON’T DUMP ANYTHING IN THE TOILET.” The illustration is oddly ambiguous, making it look like the person might be about to drop a baby into the toilet, which adds a darkly humorous or unsettling effect.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 23d

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."

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Esther Liberman Cuenca @estherlcuenca.bsky.social · 24d

Is the what to the what?

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 25d

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 27d

This is the person they are suspending people over btw

Charlie Kirk: "god's perfect law says gay people should be stoned to death"
REGISTER AT
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ARLIE KIRK & JACK POSOBIEC
MS. RACHEL'S PRIDE MONT *

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 27d

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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Sean Fay-Wolfe | Diamond Axe Studios @seanfaywolfe.bsky.social · 27d

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.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 27d

We have the brain processing power to be breathing right now

Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 27d

“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

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S.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social · 27d

"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.

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Bailey Poletti @baileypoletti.bsky.social · 28d

When no laws are broken until the moment the trigger is pulled, that is a big problem.

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Esther Liberman Cuenca @estherlcuenca.bsky.social · 28d

i just watched "unknown number: the high school catfish" and holy shit what WAS that?!

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Esther Liberman Cuenca @estherlcuenca.bsky.social · Aug 25

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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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · Aug 15

They're called "research fellowships"

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Esther Liberman Cuenca @estherlcuenca.bsky.social · Aug 10

Student complains about a 75 for a paper that did not meet my dept colleague's standards for citation or length, and is almost certainly AI-generated. Demands that his work be regraded to receive an 80. Non-compliance will prompt him to take his grievances to the media. I wish him well. #ChairLife

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · Aug 5

The answer to “how to use AI responsibly” is “don’t.”

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Esther Liberman Cuenca @estherlcuenca.bsky.social · Aug 5

Gonna try to get this sentence-- “Elsewhere in his risāla, Ibn Fadlan is famously critical of the manners and hygiene of the Rus, going so far as to report that one of the men shot a snot rocket from his nose“-- to pass peer review.

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Esther Liberman Cuenca @estherlcuenca.bsky.social · Jul 29

Am spending the end of the summer and the fall semester here (Huntington Library in California). The air smells wonderful 🌹💐🌻🌳

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · Jul 20

Accurate because Trump’s economy caters only to morally bankrupt CEOs who screw over American workers leaving them ashamed and embarrassed.

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Esther Liberman Cuenca @estherlcuenca.bsky.social · Jul 16

Clarification: it’s a monograph series for full length books, not individual essays.

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