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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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β€œHow can we sleep for grief?”

RIP, Sir Tom

30.11.2025 14:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I didn’t!!! Thanks for sharing!

30.11.2025 08:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Shouts-out? 🀷🏻 lol

28.11.2025 14:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Holiday rewatch of BBC *Pride and Prejudice* w/ Mom.

Since I can’t turn my nerd brain off, I’m thinking the whole time: omg, there are so many *Pamela* plot shout-outs! We gotta talk about this! πŸ€“πŸ€”

28.11.2025 14:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

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‘ 10784    πŸ” 2617    πŸ’¬ 172    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‘ 54262    πŸ” 7841    πŸ’¬ 1664    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‘ 2823    πŸ” 395    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‘ 52730    πŸ” 10790    πŸ’¬ 1031    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‘ 5641    πŸ” 1633    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‘ 43232    πŸ” 8211    πŸ’¬ 862    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‘ 7290    πŸ” 2292    πŸ’¬ 153    πŸ“Œ 287

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‘ 6823    πŸ” 1788    πŸ’¬ 157    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‘ 34565    πŸ” 4716    πŸ’¬ 452    πŸ“Œ 252

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‘ 17111    πŸ” 3703    πŸ’¬ 395    πŸ“Œ 1251

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

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