Colin D. Halloran
Poet, veteran, PhD candidate, dog dad, girl dad. Red Sox, Eagles, MUFC, UConn basketball
- So I’ve been getting crushed under the pressure of my dissertation word count the last couple weeks. Realized today I added an extra 100k words in my head and I’m actually almost done. #phdlife

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- This game is ridiculous. It wouldn’t let me put T-Rex on “Monarchs” even though we all know it’s king of the dinosaurs.
- Reposted by Colin D. HalloranRecall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy
- Reposted by Colin D. HalloranMinneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."
- I…I don’t think that’s what the song is called…
- Reposted by Colin D. Halloranbro there’s a gofundme to crowdfund attorney fees for a preschooler who was kidnapped by our federal government and shipped across state lines and his senator is posting about high school hockey while every other elected official is debating whether to give a zillion more dollars to the kidnappers
- Interlibrary loan might be the greatest thing we’ve achieved as a society #phdlife
- 40 today. An age my father never saw. Feels like a big one.
- Completely rearranged this chapter and it’s totally working. Love when that works.
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- It’s so validating when the books I bring to the #littlefreelibrary are gone the next time I visit.
- Reposted by Colin D. HalloranPew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.
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- Wearing a tie to fly in case I run into Sean Duffy going through DCA.
- Reposted by Colin D. HalloranFrey: "This notion of inflammatory comments -- c'mon guys. I dropped an F bomb, they killed someone. Which one of those is more inflammatory? I'm going with the killing somebody."
- I volunteered to serve this country try because I believed in what it could be. Not this. This is not what I signed up to enforce and protect.
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- Completely unsurprising from FoxNews here.
- Reposted by Colin D. HalloranDOJ use of force policy. He broke the law and murdered a US citizen. Full stop.
- Reposted by Colin D. Halloran“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"
- Reposted by Colin D. Halloran🚨 The White House is now actively covering up a murder.
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- Reposted by Colin D. HalloranPosts may be a bit more sporadic from me today as my kids are home from school because my city is being brutalized by the federal government to the extent that it's unsafe for schools to be open
- This is why we can’t let the oligarchs run the country.
- Spent the morning drinking black coffee and creating a playlist called Duets to Rip Your Heart Out. So yeah, 2026 is totally cool. Cool cool cool.
- Reposted by Colin D. Halloran“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.” In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.
- Sounds like the neighbors are trying to blow up 2025 instead of just waiting for it to end. The dogs and I are not happy.
- There are people on the other site who would be mad about this.
- As 2025 sets, 2026 rises.
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- Look, we have to say happy holidays. If we don’t water down Christmas now we lose the impetus to tell tales of the glories of Christmases long long ago.
- It’s Christmas Eve and I’m checking the job sites.
- I will NEVER teach in the Oklahoma university system.
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- Reposted by Colin D. HalloranThe older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
- When Dad’s a literary cartographer… Never been more proud!
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- This morning I came across a citation situation I’ve never encountered before. Don’t tell me research life isn’t exciting!
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- So far this year we've distributed nearly 30,000 diapers to over 1500 kids! That's over $15,000 - and sustained almost entirely by individual donors like you! This #GivingTuesday consider a gift to this #diaperbank. Select Give To Diapers at graceepiscopalpikeroad.breezechms.com/give/online
- Snow football is the best football. I don’t want a dome in Philly.
- The deadline to submit a paper for PCA 2026 in War & Armed Conflict Post-1945 has been extended to December 5th! Get this abstracts in to me so we can build an amazing panel! #popculture #warstudies #veteranstudies #pcaaca #cfp #warmovies pcaaca.org/page/submiss...
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- New poem out today in The Northeast Coast! #poetry #poets the-northeast-coast.squarespace.com/issue-ii-cha...
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- Reposted by Colin D. HalloranGood morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
- Reposted by Colin D. HalloranUnbelievable. Very few things piss me off more than anti-vax morons killing their children.
- I took a robot taxi today. SO weird.
- The Honolulu airport has its own theme song and I think other airports need to follow suit. Looking at you LaGuardia…
- I GOT TO SWIM WITH SEA TURTLES TODAY!!!!!!!
- Boom! All 50 states before 40! Hawaii was worth the wait.
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- It’s nice having friends in Europe because when I have an early morning waiting at the airport I have someone to text.
- It’s unboxing day! I’m so excited this big box of The Physics of Us arrived today. There’s no better feeling as an author. Thanks to everyone who’s already bought a copy and thanks to anyone who sees this and decides to! www.amazon.com/Physics-Us-C...
- Reposted by Colin D. HalloranYes, sadly it is real.
- Conference paper’s ready 🙄#pamla
- This week’s read. #fridayreads #amreading
- Reposted by Colin D. HalloranMore Military personnel are calling legal military non-profit agencies seeking advice for orders they received. The DOJ has issues a order that all orders are legal & the personnel are immune from prosecution. Right there is the red flag, the prosecution immunity. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
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- The best part of finishing a paper is the closing of the tabs.
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