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Historian of late medieval and early modern French women, author of books on royal mistresses, enthusiastic but terrible pianist, cat lover….

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Can we please stop calling it an immigration crackdown? Crackdown means following rules more rigorously. This is making up new and illegal rules as they go along!

17.02.2026 23:05 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

She obviously missed the actual news in whatever alternate reality she lives in. Glad it doesn’t matter in the real reality what she says.

29.01.2026 23:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Excited to read it!

05.11.2025 12:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Nobody denies CK’s right to go to college campuses and yell whatever he wanted. But that is not the RIGHT way to practice politics, Ezra. Repeating your unsupported opinions over and over without responding to rebuttal is not the right way to practice politics.

16.09.2025 08:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Weird, form versus content divide: for Ezra Klein’s version of the left only process matters: the debate FORM is good in itself (CK didn't debate, but pretended to); for the right only content matters (they cancel each other for insufficient fealty to Trump no matter the context).

16.09.2025 08:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What does wishing him dead have to do with whether he is or not?

31.08.2025 03:11 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Who could have seen that coming?

18.04.2025 03:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

At least Abrego Garcia knows now that people are on it. Can't even imagine what it must be like in there, no idea of what's going on in the outside world. Hope matters.

18.04.2025 03:22 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Maybe this is cosmic justice, karma, whatever. The US has done so many horrible things over the centuries, slavery and continued oppression, absence of decent health care, oligarchy, that we are finally being forced to look at the plain truth of who we have always been: Trump is unmasking us.

15.04.2025 21:08 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Yes to all of this. But the thing is it's easier to get public sympathy for someone who is manifestly innocent than for the general principle that due process is non-negotiable. So I'm glad that he is so innocent.

15.04.2025 20:57 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Genius. Definitely,

03.04.2025 09:11 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I can hardly wait to read your book, Sophie!!!!

03.04.2025 09:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This special brand of hubris—obsessive performance of righteousness and insane need to see themselves as incorruptible—it did us in. Thanx Comey, Mueller, Garland for destroying us with your politics while pretending NOT to play politics.

17.01.2025 01:38 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The world in which we now live.

01.01.2025 14:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Whatever else we still have sports! Ringing in 2025?with the Spurs! Happy New Year y‘all!

01.01.2025 01:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is really pretty funny.

31.12.2024 02:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Meme: I'm not making any resolutions.
I think it's time for the years to be better, not me.

Meme: I'm not making any resolutions. I think it's time for the years to be better, not me.

The energy I’m taking into 2025

26.12.2024 16:30 👍 3019 🔁 978 💬 21 📌 28
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I miss my sweetie pies!

28.12.2024 17:43 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Keep it up, everyone! Steady drumbeat. President Musk. President Musk? President Musk.

20.12.2024 19:45 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Why does it make me so happy to see a kitty snuggled up in the clean laundry?

07.12.2024 20:18 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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My beautiful boy….

05.12.2024 19:16 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Yes, but you actually have to know something about literature to be aware of that…..

05.12.2024 19:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A piece of fantasy literature *written by a university professor*...

04.12.2024 10:43 👍 36 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 0

If we couldn’t do it for the country we can at least try to do it here

04.12.2024 01:16 👍 12367 🔁 1745 💬 238 📌 61

Republicans to the Rule of Law: Drop Dead

03.12.2024 00:20 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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I Am a Passionate Mid-Level University Administrator, and I’m Gonna Administrate the Shit Out of This Place Look, this place needs to be administrated, and I’m the guy to do it. I know you’ve been doing your best, but you’ve been held back. You haven’t be...

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-a...

Yeah.

22.11.2024 19:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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‘Ma seulle mestres’: The Myth of the Coquettish Anne Boleyn In one of his love letters to Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII famously offers to make Anne his only mistress, his ‘seulle mestres’, if she will give herself ‘body and heart’ to him. In recent decades, hist...

It's official: I have become an early modernist!

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

22.11.2024 14:07 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Yikes the Butler-Fitzgerald feud and relationship of both to England is complicated! Feuds: a fixture of human social life.

21.11.2024 16:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Worry you say? Hoping like crazy.

18.11.2024 18:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Right? Not sure how they get around a constitutional amendment but they can probably figure something out.

18.11.2024 17:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0