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Paul Kelleher

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Associate Professor of English @ Emory | Author: *Making Love* | Work: 18th- and 19th-Century British Lit, the Novel, Philosophy and Aesthetics, Sexuality, and Disability | Play: National Parks, Yoga, Criterion Channel, and roughly one billion TV shows

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Since Trump has claimed Elon doesn’t run DOGE, we wanted to make sure you know who is running our government. This list has been updated with 15 names.

23.02.2025 15:25 β€” πŸ‘ 10805    πŸ” 2630    πŸ’¬ 173    πŸ“Œ 167

we have a president with a tenuous grip on small legislative majorities who is out of the gate with a flurry of dramatically unpopular orders and who has just demonstrated his weakness on the international stage. if i were an elected member of his domestic opposition, i might try to draw real blood.

27.01.2025 16:55 β€” πŸ‘ 54378    πŸ” 7861    πŸ’¬ 1670    πŸ“Œ 559

Omg amazing!

24.12.2024 15:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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Favorite Xmas Movie??

πŸ˜‚ WRONG Answers Only! πŸ˜‚

24.12.2024 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for this share!

14.12.2024 17:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

At least 75% of American punditry at this point is packaging the least challenging ideas imaginable as forbidden truths.

14.12.2024 14:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2829    πŸ” 397    πŸ’¬ 33    πŸ“Œ 8

imagine a country so furious about drag performers that it voted for polio

13.12.2024 22:15 β€” πŸ‘ 52829    πŸ” 10813    πŸ’¬ 1037    πŸ“Œ 387

"One of my teachers at Columbia was Joseph Brodsky...and he said 'look,' he said, 'you Americans, you are so naΓ―ve. You think evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots. It doesn’t come like that. Look at the language. It begins in the language.'"

05.12.2024 22:28 β€” πŸ‘ 5649    πŸ” 1636    πŸ’¬ 77    πŸ“Œ 35

Look bringing back polio sounds bad. But it’s a small price to pay to get rid of pronouns in email signatures and black women in star wars.

13.12.2024 17:45 β€” πŸ‘ 43317    πŸ” 8231    πŸ’¬ 864    πŸ“Œ 318

This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.

11.12.2024 22:43 β€” πŸ‘ 7301    πŸ” 2296    πŸ’¬ 153    πŸ“Œ 288

Writing is thinking.

It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.

12.12.2024 15:08 β€” πŸ‘ 6835    πŸ” 1792    πŸ’¬ 158    πŸ“Œ 150

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

-Joan Didion

12.12.2024 23:06 β€” πŸ‘ 221    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Should someone check on Tulsi?

#Assad #TulsiGabbard

08.12.2024 14:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Bashar al-Assad’s biggest mistake? Not going on Joe Rogan.

07.12.2024 20:13 β€” πŸ‘ 34614    πŸ” 4727    πŸ’¬ 453    πŸ“Œ 253

πŸ’―

07.12.2024 16:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The old schtick, clearly, gets us nowhere. I’m glad Hunter got pardoned.

02.12.2024 15:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Wow, the Bad Place is making it SO hard to leave πŸ˜‚πŸ€’

29.11.2024 23:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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So…

Trump 2.0 = Pandemic 2.0?

History has a grim sense of humor πŸ¦β€β¬›πŸ˜·

27.11.2024 13:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And MAGA excludes many, many people. Have you noticed how almost entirely white his cabinet picks and other nominations are?

25.11.2024 17:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you think that MAGA is not grounded in 24/7 grievance, then…facts and the evidence of our ears and eyes no longer matter πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

25.11.2024 17:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ˜‚ you’re hilarious

25.11.2024 03:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The (as always premature) hot take that is taking hold is that liberals are abandoning MSNBC and CNN. However, common sense tells us that folks are just really TIRED and are taking a mental break. Only a 24-hour news cycle needs to immediately β€œdiagnose” ratings, day by day. Folks will tune back in

24.11.2024 17:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Unquestionably, MAGA is itself WHITE (and white adjacent) male identity politics on steroids. We in the β€œfaculty lounge” have been saying for years that white bros are no less an identity group than so-called minority identities. History bears this out πŸ’―

24.11.2024 17:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Per SCOTUS, the President has, more or less, absolute immunity. Soβ€¦πŸ€”β€¦maybe do some stuff, Uncle Joe?

20.11.2024 17:09 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Despite a massive head start, BlueSky has now overtaken Threads in the US πŸ‘‡

19.11.2024 21:22 β€” πŸ‘ 17141    πŸ” 3716    πŸ’¬ 396    πŸ“Œ 1254

The Times never ever learns. Trump IS the establishment, FFS!!

19.11.2024 03:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Congrats, β€œProud American”! You’re my first disinformation block πŸ†

17.11.2024 18:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Behold!

β€œPopulism” circa 2024:

Dumbass rich white fake-β€œalpha” men eating McDonald’s on a private jet

17.11.2024 17:04 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

So glad you’re here!

17.11.2024 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Atlanta/New York

17.11.2024 16:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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