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Director, Lonergan Institute at Seton Hall University // *The Ambiguity of Being: Lonergan and the Problems of the Supernatural* (CUA Press)

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🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 6d

The Way to Nicaea Symposium on Oct 23 at @setonhall.bsky.social. A series of presentations on Lonergan's account of doctrinal development in honor of the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea. Use the QR code or visit here to register/find streaming info: events.shu.edu/event/42170-...

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🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 1h

Is this the tail of when used car prices went crazy during the height of COVID?

🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 3h

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 5h

If you read the precedents Abrego Garcia is citing in seeking release from detention, you begin to realize the unreported horrors Trump's DHS/ICE is quietly committing throughout the country. Take Zavvar v Scott, for instance. ...
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Zavvar v. Scott et al, No. 1:2025cv02104 - Document 28 (D. Md. 2025)

Zavvar v. Scott et al, No. 1:2025cv02104 - Document 28 (D. Md. 2025) case opinion from the District of Maryland U.S. Federal District Court

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Alan Rozenshtein @alanrozenshtein.com · 6h

This should obviously be the policy of any reputable news organization. And Hegseth is Secretary of Defense, not War.

Martin D.B. Brown @martindbbrown.bsky.social · 7h

Good

**Please note, as a matter of house style, War on the Rocks will not use a different name for the U.S. Department of Defense until and unless the name is changed by statute by the U.S. Congress.

@warontherocks.bsky.social

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🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 7h

Good morning

Photo of a gas street lamp with a pink & orange flecked sunrise behind it

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 18h

FREE THE IDS

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 18h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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should be scared by this blatant attack on someone
standing up for what's right," student Editors-ln-Chief
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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 18h

Well, sure, it’s ridiculous

🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 18h

The 20-something staffers write the posts, Jose; it’s fine.

Jose @jum.bsky.social · 19h

White Democrat senator born in 1973 wants to give me the tea

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

Senate is back in session today.

1/ So a quick 🧵on where things are at on the shutdown.

You get a lot of propaganda and spin thrown at you, so I want to give you the real, behind-the-scenes tea.

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🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 18h

Re-up-ing this question to @sranderson.bsky.social but I’ll put it to @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org and @stevevladeck.bsky.social while I’m at it.

🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 3d

Hi @sranderson.bsky.social!

Question re something you said on Rat’l Security. You don’t think anyone will be prosecuted for the Venezuelan boat murders &, sure, during this admin that seems obvious.

But do you think that holds true if Dems take back the White House?

🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 18h

Honestly, there is no amount of political capital too large to burn in making sure the next administration prosecutes everyone in the kill chain for murder. This is bed-rock state legitimacy stuff here.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 23h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21h

Remember when Stephen Miller claimed the Chicago apartment raid was on a building “filled with Tren de Aragua terrorists”?

Well, DHS has now dropped the number of alleged TdA members arrested in the building from 2 to 1.

Just one "verified" Tren de Aragua member and one U.S. citizen with an active warrant were among the 37, DHS said, without saying how it had verified that gang affiliation. Others taken that day, the agency said, were "illegal aliens."

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Not the Guy @notnotnuanced.bsky.social · 20h

these colors don’t run

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🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 20h

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Nine Inch Nails: "The Great Destroyer" stage visuals by Rob Sheridan 2007-2014, Year Zero glitch art

YouTube video by Rob Sheridan

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The Magnificast @themagnificast.bsky.social · 1d

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Enough is enough: degrowth, capitalism, and liberation theology

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 1d

"[A] possible Hatch Act violation appears on the very DOJ page advising workers that they’re subject to the Hatch Act." @mollyroberts.bsky.social on all those agency home pages blaming Dems for shutdown.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

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Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 1d

If you are planning on attending AAR /SBL this fall here are the sessions of the Vatican II Studies Unit- should be a good lineup!

Vatican 2 Studies Unit, cosponsored with Interreligious and Interfaith Studies Unit and Religions in Europe Unit. Nostra Aetate at 60. With Alaina Keller, Peter Thielen, Claire Maligot, Younus Mirza, and Jaisy Joseph.
Sunday, November 23, Hynes Convention Center, 209.

Vatican 2 Studies Unit: The Role of the Theologian at the Council and in a Synodal Church. With Timothy Perron, Edward Dunar, and Therese Lautua. Sunday, Nov 23, 5-6:30pm. Hynes Convention Center, 308.

Vatican 2 Studies Unit: The Conciliar Legacy of Freedom. With Michael McGravey, Mary Kate Holman, and Stephanie Wong. Saturday Nov 22 3-4:30pm, Sheraton Back Bay B.

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Steven Gnocchi @okeydoxy.com · 1d

If you're in the Hampton, VA area, I'll be speaking at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church on Vatican II and the lay apostolate in digital contexts on Friday, November 7th!

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🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 1d

Still thinking about this. Watching my son (10yo) reminds me, bc we’re similarly wired, at my core I’m someone who feels deeply & vibrantly, but I “insulate” that core most of the time.

I used to write not-for-work things more & that was a way to spend time w/ that core in a less insulated way.

🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 11d

Men on here: do you think of yourself a “sensitive”?

If so, what are some ways that you… accommodate, I guess, that trait in your life?

🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 1d

We’ve been having a parenting challenge & last week it was clear we needed to make a change.

Sunday, we gathered a handful of parents we admire & pooled their wisdom. We were grateful they made the time & they, I think, were gratified to support fellow parents a bit.

I’m glad we asked for help.

🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 1d

I almost don’t have the heart to say it but, “Belief: Still Today’s Issue”

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley.

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

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🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 1d

She has this stuff that’s called “snail mucin power essence” & I learned that snails only produce mucin when stressed, so now when I see it, I imagine snails studying for an exam.

🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 1d

I have to avoid eye contact with my wife’s cosmetics or else I see phrases like “pre-biotic thermal water” and perseverate about them

🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 1d

I have to avoid eye contact with my wife’s cosmetics or else I see phrases like “pre-biotic thermal water” and perseverate about them

🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 2d

The rendition of “Conga” at the end of this (starting ~2:20) is not to be missed: youtu.be/g3XYl7hdGPQ

Gloria Estefan: Tiny Desk Concert

YouTube video by NPR Music

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🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 2d

Watched Coppola’s Dracula this weekend and had the same thought

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

Ultimately, the death of US manufacturing is about this attitude. It's easy to say "buy american or stfu" because virtue signaling is free. But it's hard to actually sustain a business because many Americans simply don't want to pay what it costs to produce things ethically in this country

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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