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Jonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 4m

This was extremely fun, but then I had to get up and teach an 8 AM class this morning, which was less fun. Getting up itself was less fun, I mean. The class was still pretty fun.

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Jonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 1h

A student who doesn't understand, knows they don't understand, and *wants* to understand is a student who is ready to learn and it's a beautiful thing.

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Jonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 1h

In Honors, I spent the morning guiding students thru pre-Socratic philosophical problematics. Tough stuff. They did not fail to notice my glee at their mounting puzzlement at Heraclitus and Parmenides, however.

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"le mec à McCabe là", un truc comme ça @socfrimphmcc.bsky.social · 2h

Aha that's exactly what I wrote in my little notebook yesterday : "Thomas and Aristotle mention relatively rarely sausages, rillettes, folk dances and ancestral forests. Their view of the city isn't ethnical, but relies on the needs of humans in general."

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Jonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 1h

should be a nonsense question, like "is that the bachelor's wife?", but here we are...

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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 20h

UPDATE: After deciding this weekend to block Politico from riding on Air Force One, White House staffers called numerous outlets to ask one to fill the primary print slot for the out-of-town pool rotation. Each of those outlets declined to step in. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

washingtonpost.com

White House blocks Politico from Air Force One trip, cannot secure replacement

President Donald Trump will travel without a primary print pool reporter for the first time in recent memory.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 05/10/2026

The SPEAKER implies. The LISTENER infers. The DUDE abides.

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you live in the following states, TODAY is the last day to register to vote before the midterm elections: Arizona Arkansas Florida Georgia Indiana Kentucky Mississippi Ohio Tennessee Texas find your state's info at IWillVote.com

iwillvote.com

I Will Vote

Be a voter. Find everything you need to vote in your state’s next election.

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Jonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I wasn’t sure if I was remembering this right and in my hasty googling found out that he released a kind of “directors cut” edition of the latter in 2012. That’d be interesting to check out…

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Jonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And that’s not even getting into the fact that Palahniuk wrote the book Fight Club as a semi-cynical engagement with masculinity after he couldn’t get Invisible Monsters, very much re: (trans & cis) femininity, published.

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Jonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I haven’t had the heart to rewatch it, but I also always have a fleeting thought re: how blinkered American Beauty was by comparison

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Jonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Everytime I re-watch it post-Jan 6, I’m more struck by its prescience

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Jonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“They vainly purify themselves with blood when defiled with it, as if a man who had stepped into mud were to wash it off with mud.” Heraclitus, as reported in Origen’s *Against Celsus*

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Jonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My best friend in junior high got this when it came out and we obsessed over it

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Jonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

How many car dealership owners on their state legislature?

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Jonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My kingdom for a 4/2 condo within 2-4 blocks of a park and a train station

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Jonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“Pope John’s Intention” re Vatican II might be good

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Jonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Headed to a professional cocktail party networking thing tonight and grateful for all those coffee/cookie breaks between church services I endured as a young person. I’ve done my 10k hrs of mingling.

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Jonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It would depend on their questions of course, but “theology in its new context” maybe?

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Jonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The flip side of this coin, as laid out by Lonergan in a late-1950s lecture:

"A religious background, for one example, is a great help in bringing one's Welt into harmony with the universe of being. It enables one to accept a reality that is not seen or felt—immortality, soul, God, and so on-giving reality to what otherwise would not be 'real for me.' But while it confers an inestimable aid in the process of development, it can in the concrete work out as a hindrance: namely, if religion does not keep pace with other development. Thus, the faith of a child requires development into the theology of an adult. If development remains childish—on the level of 'Sister told me'—this can be dangerous in the life of the cultured adult, who will decide, not only that such faith is outmoded, but also that religion itself is childish. At best, religion will cease to have much influence in adult life. History gives us material to ponder in this connection: The church in Europe lost the workers in the nineteenth century; but would the church have lost the workers in the nineteenth century if she had not lost the intellectuals in the eighteenth?"
Bernard Lonergan, Understanding and Being: The Halifax Lectures on Insight, p. 183-4.

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I’ve resisted calling ICE arrests/detention “disappearances.” But now ICE’s apparent policy is that in some cases, you might not even know if your loved one is still in the US. IDK what else to call that. documentedny.com/2026/10/02/i...

documentedny.com

The Throughline: Is ICE “Disappearing” Detainees?

ICE is deliberately withholding the locations of some detainees from lawyers and loved ones. At what point does that amount to “disappearing” them?

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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Searl’s Chinese Water Torture Room

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Jonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You made today a special day, just by being you. There’s no one else in the whole world just like you. People can like you (& God loves you) just the way you are.

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Jonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ok. We’ve talked about AI enough.

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Jonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I quote Gaudium et spes a lot, so that may help

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Jonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I have a piece coming out in commonweal soon in which I argue that my certainty that God exists actually isn’t religious and that’s good, bc we need more irreligious theism. So I will be very curious how it lands with you!

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Jonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It feels unfortunately timely to observe that much of this could have been resolved already if it weren’t for the American public’s expectation that this must end with executions.

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Jonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is my most “post into the abyss” topic

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Jonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The American public hasn’t been paying sufficient attention to the train wreck of the 9/11 military commissions, but this makes it that much harder for them to start again if they so choose

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