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Jonathan Heaps

@jonathanrheaps.bsky.social
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Director, Lonergan Institute at Seton Hall University // Contributing Writer, Commonweal Magazine // *The Ambiguity of Being: Lonergan and the Problems of the Supernatural* (CUA Press)

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Heidi Schlumpf @heidischlumpf.bsky.social · 7h
Exciting news: I will be writing a free weekly newsletter that begins next Monday. Sign up below!
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Jonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 7h
Hear that graduate students? Dr. Carpenter demands you read my book.
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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 7h
I somehow have two copies of @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social's book. Which I think is the case because I keep demanding that graduate students read it.
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Jonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 7h
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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 8h
Belief: still today’s issue
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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 10h
Youth pastor voice
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 11h
Not a great sign when your 12-person private fundraiser includes someone who hates you enough to leak damaging audio
The audio of Mr. Paxton was shared with The Times by an attendee who recorded him speaking at a private fund-raiser in Washington attended by roughly a dozen people. The person, who opposes Mr. Paxton’s campaign and provided the recording to The Times, was granted anonymity because Mr. Paxton’s remarks were private.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Official monthly data is in, and US solar power generation hit a new record high, up 21% compared to this time last year!
a graph of US monthly solar generation
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Jonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 14h
To get more normies into Congress, you’d have to make a number of changes, but chief among them is you’d have to increase congressional pay significantly. And the people w/ the authority to do that are… Congress, so the optics are tough.
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Jonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Kierkegaard would have had a half-dozen alts arguing with each other in his own mentions
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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One weird trick to solve traffic congestion (price it).
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The Catholic Theological Society of America @thectsa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#CareerOpportunity #MoralTheology Position (Open Rank), @ St. Mary's Seminary & University, Baltimore. #Catholic #HigherEd See ctsa-online.org/CareerOpport...
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Catholic Theological Society of America - Career Opportunities
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The Catholic Theological Society of America @thectsa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#CareerOpportunity #PostdoctoralFellowship in #CatholicStudies, @ Lumen Christi Institute for Catholic Thought #Catholic #HigherEd See ctsa-online.org/CareerOpport...
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Catholic Theological Society of America - Career Opportunities
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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I do wish it was more of a big deal that Congress, as per its Constitutional powers, appropriated money for federal programs and the Trump administration refused to spend it until it lapsed www.newsfromthestates.com/article/trum...
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Trump administration revokes $810M approved by Congress for refugee aid and more
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has, once again, infuriated lawmakers from both political parties by using a controversial maneuver to cancel funding previously approved by Congress.
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The Catholic Theological Society of America @thectsa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#CareerOpportunity #MoralTheology Position (Open Rank), @ St. Mary's Seminary & University, Baltimore. #Catholic #HigherEd See ctsa-online.org/CareerOpport...
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Catholic Theological Society of America - Career Opportunities
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Jonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ah yes, the debate over whether Gojira’s performance was awesome or *really* awesome. I remember it well.
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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Matthew Shadle @matthewshadle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
An age-old story.
Men “panicked” when they saw woman
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Jonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Cardinal McElroy, btw, is the archbishop who oversees the canonical mission of the CUA pontifical faculty in theology from which Chad Pecknold has taken leave to serve in a public engagement role for DHS. www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...
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At Mass for Migrants, Washington’s Cardinal McElroy says public cannot ‘pass by’ plight of immigrants
“For the last year and a half,” Cardinal McElroy said, “the people of the United States have witnessed the suffering of the undocumented in our midst, purposely and strategically magnified by our gove...
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Commonweal @commonwealmagazine.org · 27/09/2026
How should the Church respond to theologian Chad Pecknold’s controversial decision to take a job in Trump’s DHS? Analysis by @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social: www.commonwealmagazine.org/heaps-peckno...
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Chad Pecknold’s New Job
How should the Church respond to theologian Chad Pecknold's controversial decision to take a job in Trump's DHS?
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Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ @kenhomansj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It's astounding how much of Catholic social media is:
Principal Skinner: Is loving immigrants part of my moral duty? 

No, it's the Pope who is wrong!
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Jonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This has always been my metaphysical quibble w/ @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org & @qjurecic.bsky.social’s “malevolence tempered by incompetence” line: it leaves itself open to the myth that there’s any such thing as competent malevolence.
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The ICE holding cells in NYC were designed to keep people no longer than 12 hrs. They had no showers, no beds, no cots, no windows. Nevertheless, by May 2025, ICE upped the duration cap to 72 hrs. Yet people were held longer: 5 days. 9.5 days. 10 days. 2/5
Hold Room 1 (820.78 sq. ft.)
With 87 people
(out of 193 people total)
All Sitting
Diagram showing the same with each detainee sitting down. PX303, Ex. 1.
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Jonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Can someone ask Chad Pecknold for me if this is the common good?
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Hendro Munsterman @hendrom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
During his address to President Macron and French authorities Leo XIV greeted not only the French people, but “all those who live in this country.” He referred to all its inhabitants as “one people” and said that the diversity of their origins “enriches the art of living together”.
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Jonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you’re in the Chicago Area or are willing to relocate for a year, UChicago’s Lumen Christi Institute just announced a postdoc: lumenchristi.submittable.com/submit/7a8c0...
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Lumen Christi Institute - 2026 Application for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Catholic Studies
The Lumen Christi Institute invites applications for a postdoctoral fellowship. The program offers funding to support the research and professional development of exceptional scholars in Catholic stud...
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Alexander Williams @floatinginwaves.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Do You now own or have you ever owned a fursuit?
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Jonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Nothing would surprise me less than to find out that Elizabeth Holmes is a Naked Mom™️
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
some pilots are part of the furry community
An illustration of the Ralph Lauren Polo bear dressed up as a pilot and standing in front of a red airplane. The text says "Polo Aviator by Ralph Lauren."
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Jonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reach out to me, Chad. Culturally.
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Jonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Is it too flatfooted to say that people should have to choose between accepting a pardon from Trump and ever working in the DC establishment again?
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John Krambuhl @johnkrambuhl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“The invitation always in any mission driven endeavor is to create a culture of affectionate awe, where each person, having received a palpable dose of attention and focus care, will choose to be that notice and care for others.“ – Greg Boyle, SJ 
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is a great catch from Chris, and a remarkably … suggestive … citation from Sauer—flagging the only two recent examples in which (we think) a circuit justice was overruled / preempted by the full Court. Here’s my post from November on this subject: www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-192-...
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Bonus 192: The Court vs. the Circuit Justice
Tuesday's ruling in the SNAP case appears to be the second example in seven months (and for quite some before that) of the full Supreme Court taking an application away from the circuit justice.
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Jonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In other words, the good/value is concrete, but our judgments about the good are abstract, which means they can differ in their abstractive viewpoint, while nevertheless being simultaneously true.
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DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#literacies folks-- New job posting alert! East TN State, Assistant English Professor and Director of English Ed. I can connect you to someone there and not on the search committee.
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Assistant Professor of Popular Literature and Director of English Secondary Education
Job Summary The Department of Literature and Language at East Tennessee State University invites applicants for the position of Assistant Professor of Popular Literature and Director of English Second...
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
And Judge Kelly orders govt to respond by 12:30pm
MINUTE ORDER: It is hereby ORDERED that Defendants shall respond to Plaintiffs' [25] Notice of Non-Compliance by 12:30 p.m. today, September 24, 2026. Signed by Judge Timothy J. Kelly on
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Judge Kelly's TRO will be a fascinating test for how much sway Solicitor General Sauer has with the White House. Trump is going to want to seek immediate, emergency relief from the D.C. Circuit + #SCOTUS, but Sauer has been savvy about doing that only in cases he might win. This isn't one of them.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
MS NOW reports that their White House reproter was denied access to the White House this morning despite a court order demanding she have access
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
On two fronts—WH press access and third-country removals—the administration appears to be ignoring court orders.
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Jonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I feel like, in principle, we could turn riding suburban public transit into the same kind of white liberal virtue signal as recycling or composting, right?
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 23/09/2026
this is a LOL on every level—EVERY LEVEL—including allowing the sitting vice president of the United States to speak on background. Like, I'm sorry if the VP wants to give an interview, he can put his name to it and say it with his chest.
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Marwood @marwoodlennox.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The same sort of mentality which led historians to dismiss claims that the Carthagianians practised child sacrifice as 'Roman propaganda' until they started finding the tiny bones.
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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I have struggled to wrap my head around the rank nihilism it takes for a group of people to write/champion books like “1 billion Americans” to saying liberals needed to concede on birthright citizenship inside of 5 years.
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 22/09/2024
One of my favorite poems since childhood, and a poem I share every #autumnequinox. By the 12thc warrior poet Xin Qiji 辛棄疾, sidelined during peacetime, demoted, drifting through a decade of minor posts in remote lands. Poetry, then, is that which is left unsaid. “My, what a cool and lovely autumn.”
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Danny Blinderman @dannyblinderman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"make AI companies financially/criminally liable for what their models do" seems like an underrated way to get them to take safety seriously that doesn't require much regulatory oversight from a shrunken and corrupt US government.
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 24/09/2026
plenty of people run llm based agents with powerful models and do not end up hacking anyone. this is not an ai alignment problem, it is an openai being routinely criminally negligent as a company problem
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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Even if the theologians were to conclude that there exists no genuine Christendom, we can assure them that there are many false ones. The history of our own time abounds in parodies of the City of God."
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
happy first (full) day of fall, bluesky
ina garten in a witch hat saying “If you can't summon the flames directly from hell, store-bought is fine.”
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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"We're not good at being equal. We're so bad at it actually. We did it wrong." (is so embarrassed) (conservatives) "AND SO EQUALITY IS THE PROBLEM." anyway that's America and it's not going well
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Taught the Fugitive Slave Act for the first time in a few years. Man, my head was spinning as I uttered my familiar refrain about how the FSA radicalized Northerners who maybe never thought much about slavery until they saw people being snatched off the street right in front of them...
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Euphoria Wait Is This Fucking Play About Us
Alt: Euphoria Wait Is This Fucking Play About Us
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