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Keanu Heydari
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History Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Michigan | PC(USA) Deacon | Modern Europe & Iran | Apocalyptic & New Testament Studies
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Christians, there is an alternative.
But you have to make the choice.
Please choose wisely.
Screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) by Aaron Reichlin-Melnick. His tweet reads, “This is the kind of racism even Nixon kept to himself; just a level of sheer bigotry that would have been utterly disqualifying for higher office even a decade ago.” Embedded is a tweet by Aaron Rupar quoting a speech by Donald Trump in which Trump launches a racist attack on Somalis and Representative Ilhan Omar, saying that Somalis have “destroyed Minnesota” and should be thrown out of the country. Below the text is a paused video frame showing Trump seated at a desk in a dark suit and red tie, surrounded by people standing behind him, with X interface details (time, date, view count, and engagement icons) at the bottom. Graphic for the World Council of Churches’ “Sixteen Days against Gender-based Violence” campaign. On the right, a woman in a green patterned dress sits on the floor in a simple storage room, scooping rice or grain from a large sack into a clear plastic bag. On the left, a teal overlay carries a large quotation mark and white text reading, “The unholy trinity of globalisation, militarism, and fundamentalisms, continues to reinforce and perpetuate patriarchy.” The World Council of Churches logo appears in white at the bottom left.
December 4, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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“For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon’; the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds.” – Matthew 11:18–19 (NRSVue)
December 4, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Holiness is not ritual distance from ordinary good things.
December 4, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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jostavodebauge.bsky.social
Je signale le nouveau numéro de l'excellente revue "Marronages : les questions raciales au crible des sciences sociales" (lien dans le blousque suivant) 👀
Racime à l'université Marronnages
December 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Delighted to share the Call for Papers for a special issue of French Historical Studies on the theme "European-Indigenous Relations in the French Americas" (to be co-edited by Scott Berthelette and myself)

CFP and submission guidelines can be found here:
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Submission Guidelines | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press
Submission Guidelines | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press Submission Guidelines  CALL FOR PAPERS Special issue of French Historical Studies on European-Indigenous ...
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October 23, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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jostavodebauge.bsky.social
L'inhospitalité ordinaire mais systématique de l'Etat-nation 😒
December 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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I love it when people talk to me as if I neither am disabled nor actually study this in my own work. But let me pitch someone else's work here, Doron Dorfman's "Fear of the Disability Con."
Sharing it for everyone feeding the fear of the disability con right now:

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Fear of the Disability Con: Perceptions of Fraud and Special Rights Discourse Law & Society Review, Vol. 53, No. 4, 2019 41 Pages Posted: 18 Oct 2019 Last revised: 18 Dec 2019 Doron Dorfman Seton Hall Law School Date Written: October 3, 2019 Abstract This Article presents a new framework for analyzing the development and implementation of disability law: the prism of the fear of “the disability con” — popular perceptions of fraud and fakery. We all encounter disability rights and accommodations in everyday life. However, people with disabilities pay a price for the legal recognition of their rights. People who park in disabled parking spots, use service dogs, move to the front of lines, receive Social Security benefits, or request academic accommodations are often viewed as faking disabilities and abusing the law. This disability con stereotype thus serves as an important invisible barrier preventing Americans with disabilities from fully taking part in society, as it not only undermines the public legitimacy of rights but also restricts the design and implementation of the legal regime illustrating those. Nevertheless, this moral panic around disability con in American society and its manifestations has yet to be studied in a systematic-empirical way, nor has it been addressed in socio-legal scholarship. Using a mixed-methods approach composed of an original nationally representative survey along with in-depth interviews, this article fills this gap. The data suggest that the stereotype of disability con applies to multiple disability rights across venues and contexts; that nearly 60% of Americans with disabilities feel that others question their disability; that the stereotype of disability con extends to visible disabilities and to less apparent ones; and that, counterintuitively, the people most suspicious are nondisabled individuals with a personal connection to a disabled person and disabled people who experience suspicion themselves. Based on the richer un…
December 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Behn changed the story. Her speech is a victory speech, because she shows how you can lead, push ahead, with head held high.
December 3, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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Anyone want to do a Barth panel with me at AAR next year on Barth’s engagement(s) with natural theology in 1934?
Cover of Barth’s “Nein !”
December 3, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Are any of you Anglicans in New Zealand? If so, please get in touch with me! I have so many questions!
December 3, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Taizé service tonight at First Presbyterian Church of Ann Arbor.
A softly lit church sanctuary chapel (First Presbyterian Church, Ann Arbor) prepared for worship, with rows of empty padded chairs facing an altar area draped in deep blue fabric, surrounded by hanging glass votive candles, framed Christian icons arranged on and around the altar, and a tall blue-and-white patterned banner rising into a Gothic-style arch under a large round light fixture.
December 3, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Fascinating new piece in @newleftreview.bsky.social: “This conflict is about more than just competing ontologies of scarcity and abundance; it is about how state capacity and political-economic interests are shaping the future development paths open to global capitalism.”
Nicholas Mulder, Interludes of Abundance, NLR 155, September–October 2025
Nicholas Mulder on Arnaud Orain, Le monde confisqué. Reading of the current neo-mercantilist lurch as a return to the norm of long-run capitalist history.
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December 2, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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French journalist unions file legal case against Israel over lack of access to Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/french-journalists-unions-file-legal-case-against-israel-over-lack
French journalist unions file legal case against Israel over lack of access to Gaza
<article data-history-node-id="432218" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/french-journalists-unions-file-legal-case-against-israel-over-lack" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/french-journalists-unions-file-legal-case-against-israel-over-lack" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title"> French journalist unions file legal case against Israel over lack of access to Gaza</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Two French journalist unions filed a legal case against Israel for obstructing the work of their journalists in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, AFP reported on Tuesday.</p> <p>The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the French Journalists' Union filed the complaint with the Paris anti-terror prosecutor's office last week, accusing Israel of "obstructing the freedom to inform".</p> <p>The complaint mentioned a journalist being pursued by around 50 Israelis armed with "guns, cans of petrol and sticks" while reporting in the West Bank, all in the presence of the Israeli army.</p> <p>Israel has not allowed international journalists into the Gaza Strip since the start of the war in October 2023, except when embedded with Israeli forces.</p> <p>IFJ general secretary Anthony Bellanger said, "For more than two years, the IFJ has been calling for the borders to be opened to the foreign press so that they can relieve our colleagues who are exhausted by two years of war."</p> </div> </div> </article>
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December 2, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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It is fascinating that a genuinely intelligent person like Clinton cannot fathom people just disagreeing with her based on the evidence, clearly this is a racial (and ideological) blindspot on her part, but this is true for pretty much everyone of her generation and of her particular elite cohort.
December 2, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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A new piece from me about the spirituality of shared responsibility in Presbyterian polity.
Sharing the Burden
Presbyterian Polity as a Gift of the Spirit
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December 2, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Pope Leo urges US not to attempt military ouster of Venezuela's Maduro reut.rs/4rzUtB9
Pope Leo urges US not to attempt military ouster of Venezuela's Maduro
Pope Leo urged U.S. President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday not to try to oust Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro using military force.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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New arrival!
Cover of the new 12th edition of the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary. Page from the new 12th edition of the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary.
December 2, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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One of my go to examples of blatant neocolonialism when teaching or presenting on the topic, and woefully underresearched. Great book by a great scholar and journalist:
nanjala.bsky.social Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 2d
I would love for more French people to read “Africa’s Last Colonial Currency” by Fanny Pigaud and Ndongo Samba Sylla. Currently 50% off at Pluto Books.

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Africa's Last Colonial Currency - Pluto Press
How the CFA Franc enabled France to continue its colonies in Africa
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December 2, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Incredible things are happening in Lebanon.
pastures.myatproto.social Bluesky mods aid genocide by banning Palestinians @pastures.myatproto.social · 2d
That the Vatican's French account shared a pic of the Hezbollah-founded Imam Mahdi Boy Scouts celebrating his arrival (with a pic of Ayatollah Khomeini on their shirts) is too fun. Making the rounds among both Shia and Catholics with Shia friends
Vatican News @vaticannews fr Follow Translated from French Show original The #Pope in #Lebanon: a few images from his afternoon in Beirut. Below the post is four pictures, three of which are the pope and one of which is the Boy Scout photo in question Imam Mahdi Scout in uniform with a pic of the pope in hand and Ayatollah Khomeini on his shirt
December 2, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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“Dear young people, perhaps you regret inheriting a world torn apart by wars and disfigured by social injustice. Yet there is hope, and there is hope within you! […] You are the present, and the future is already taking shape in your hands!” – Pope Leo XIV
December 2, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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I love how the media just decided to memory-hole the vast, administrator & state-directed, violent suppression of student, faculty, and staff speech about genocide because it simply does not fit with the ingrained narrative of higher education as a woke indoctrination factory.
December 1, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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😢
jussiteronen.bsky.social Jussi T. Eronen @jussiteronen.bsky.social · 3d
First, the temperature/boreal forests turned to carbon source from sink, now the tropical forests are comfirmed to be sources also (instead of sinka what they used to be). That leaves oceans, which are heating up fast... this all is not good at all 1/n

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Africa’s forests transformed from carbon sink to carbon source, study finds
Alarming shift since 2010 means planet’s three main rainforest regions now contribute to climate breakdown
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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A photograph of the 2025 Bonne Maman Advent Calendar.
November 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Bjork standing next to a tv with the text "you shouldn't let poets lie to you"
November 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Quelles que soient les arguties procédurales, je trouve intéressant de demander une grâce avant même d’avoir été reconnu coupable de quoi que ce soit.
November 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM