Keanu Heydari
@keanuheydari.bsky.social
History Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Michigan | PC(USA) Deacon | Modern Europe & Iran | Apocalyptic & New Testament Studies
Just in time for Advent!
White Christmas
YouTube video by Sandra McCracken - Topic
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November 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Just in time for Advent!
The Confession of 1967, Book of Confessions PC(USA), 9.17
*With apologies for not sharing from the inclusive language version
*With apologies for not sharing from the inclusive language version
November 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The Confession of 1967, Book of Confessions PC(USA), 9.17
*With apologies for not sharing from the inclusive language version
*With apologies for not sharing from the inclusive language version
A sad but very reasonable French take on what’s going on now: “From what I can see right now, the left has no chance in the next elections. The media has turned…opinion against LFI, the Socialists have [been discredited], and Glucksman is a Macronist. Nothing remains except a clear path for the RN.”
De ce que je vois actuellement, la gauche n'a aucune chance aux prochaines élections. Les médias ont retourné l'opinion générale contre LFI, les socialistes se sont décrédibilisé tout seuls, et Glucksman est Macroniste. Il ne reste rien, sinon un boulevard pour le RN.
November 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
A sad but very reasonable French take on what’s going on now: “From what I can see right now, the left has no chance in the next elections. The media has turned…opinion against LFI, the Socialists have [been discredited], and Glucksman is a Macronist. Nothing remains except a clear path for the RN.”
The Confession of 1967, Book of Confessions PC(USA), 9.08
*With apologies for not sharing from the inclusive language version
*With apologies for not sharing from the inclusive language version
November 26, 2025 at 12:56 AM
The Confession of 1967, Book of Confessions PC(USA), 9.08
*With apologies for not sharing from the inclusive language version
*With apologies for not sharing from the inclusive language version
![“‘God’, I've just said. Yes, it’s true, isn’t it, that when we come to church, whether it’s to the Cathedral or to this chapel of ours, we hear this word ‘God’ over and over again. Who is God? What is he like, where is he, what is he? One or other of you may be wondering at this moment. What is meant by the word, what does it say to me, what am I supposed to do about it? Didn’t a great philosopher who lived here in Basel say that God was dead? Well, things are probably not as bad as that. Even if God were in fact a dead God for many people and sometimes for all of us, that is very far from saying that he is dead. But there is something in it; while the word ‘God’ is certainly not dead, it is ailing, ailing badly, because it has been wrongly used and abused so often, because it has become something of a worn coin. Now, however, the very word God does not appear in our text [Isaiah 54:10] at all. Instead we are told here very clearly who and what God is: he is ‘the Lord who has mercy on you.’” – Karl Barth, “The Lord Who Has Mercy on You,” 27 December 1959, in “Call for God”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bblrvbttqkzjsnrj265n5dmp/bafkreifx5r2guekw6h3rxuuikbvff5f4bzmha4lychu7n66jagx2arftq4@jpeg)
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The US-backed GHF is halting operations after more than 2,000 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces and foreign contractors in and around its distribution sites, according to UN figures aje.io/7jd82r
US-backed GHF ‘aid mission’ in Gaza ends – a timeline of violence
GHF is halting operations after more than 2,000 Palestinians were killed in and around its distribution sites.
aje.io
November 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
The US-backed GHF is halting operations after more than 2,000 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces and foreign contractors in and around its distribution sites, according to UN figures aje.io/7jd82r
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The part in my book where French officers decided their programs worked despite all evidence to the contrary and it was actually just their subordinates' fault if thing didn't turn out right really only started to make sense to me when I began working more closely with the university administration
November 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The part in my book where French officers decided their programs worked despite all evidence to the contrary and it was actually just their subordinates' fault if thing didn't turn out right really only started to make sense to me when I began working more closely with the university administration
The World Council of Churches unequivocally states: “Any proposals or plans that entail re-occupation, displacement, or external control of Gaza are unacceptable and contrary to international law.”
WCC Statement Seeking Hope For a Just Peace in Palestine and Israel
Statement on Hope For a Just Peace in Palestine and Israel by the WCC Executive Committee meeting in Hangzhou, China, 20-25 November 2025
www.oikoumene.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The World Council of Churches unequivocally states: “Any proposals or plans that entail re-occupation, displacement, or external control of Gaza are unacceptable and contrary to international law.”
Sharing something more personal: a short memoir on my early grad school years, when theory outpaced my grasp of the archive. It tracks how questions about secularism and exile drew me toward Iranian student activism in France and my own family history.
Learning to Think Slowly: An Intellectual Memoir of Early Graduate School — Keanu Heydari
In this post I look back on my early graduate years as a time when my enthusiasm for theory and big questions outpaced my ability to build clear, grounded arguments from the archive. I describe how wo...
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November 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Sharing something more personal: a short memoir on my early grad school years, when theory outpaced my grasp of the archive. It tracks how questions about secularism and exile drew me toward Iranian student activism in France and my own family history.
You know you’re gonna get your butt kicked when Asad asks “Is this account persuasive?”
November 23, 2025 at 11:58 PM
You know you’re gonna get your butt kicked when Asad asks “Is this account persuasive?”
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Intéressante homélie ce matin qui rappelle que la royauté, en Israël (et donc ailleurs) n'est *pas du tout* un don de Dieu mais une concession de Dieu à un peuple qui réclame un roi pour être comme tout le monde. "C'est moi qu'ils rejettent". 1/
November 23, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Intéressante homélie ce matin qui rappelle que la royauté, en Israël (et donc ailleurs) n'est *pas du tout* un don de Dieu mais une concession de Dieu à un peuple qui réclame un roi pour être comme tout le monde. "C'est moi qu'ils rejettent". 1/
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You can now preview the book, which means you can look and search inside, and I think read the acknowledgements (the most personal part of it by far) and the preface - there's a 'preview book' button below the cover:
Epistemic Injustice: An Introduction
Epistemic injustice is one of the most important yet complex subjects to have emerged in philosophy in recent years. It refers to the idea that a person can be wronged when they are not properly belie...
www.routledge.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:24 PM
You can now preview the book, which means you can look and search inside, and I think read the acknowledgements (the most personal part of it by far) and the preface - there's a 'preview book' button below the cover:
iykyk… thanks to @nhold.bsky.social for bringing this classic back to mind.
![A page from Raymond Williams’ “Marxism and Literature,” which reads as follows:
9. Structures of Feeling
In most description and analysis, culture and society are expressed in an habitual past tense. The strongest barrier to the recognition of human cultural activity is this immediate and regular conversion of experience into finished products. What is defensible as a procedure in conscious history, where on certain assumptions many actions can be definitively taken as having ended, is habitually projected, not only into the always moving substance of the past, but into contemporary life, in which relationships, institutions and formations in which we are still actively involved are converted, by this procedural mode, into formed wholes rather than forming and formative processes.
Analysis is then centred on relations between these produced institutions, formations, and experiences, so that now, as in that produced past, only the fixed explicit forms exist, and living presence is always, by definition, receding.
When we begin to grasp the dominance of this procedure, to look into its centre and if possible past its edges, we can under-stand, in new ways, that separation of the social from the personal which is so powerful and directive a cultural mode. If the social is always past, in the sense that it is always formed, we have indeed to find other terms for the undeniable experience of the present: not only the temporal present, the realization of this and this instant, but the specificity of present being, the inalien-ably physical, within which we may indeed discern and acknowledge institutions, formations, positions, but not always as fixed products, defining products. […]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bblrvbttqkzjsnrj265n5dmp/bafkreihpbvtlemxx2cwsxxiot4ec46s7re3qrh5exl5hyaswbhepntyzta@jpeg)
November 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
iykyk… thanks to @nhold.bsky.social for bringing this classic back to mind.
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Just saw someone described as an "ontologist" and now I want Clinical Ontologist to be a job title.
Welcome to the Department of Clinical Ontology. Let's go over your chart. I see that you are. Are you still as you were or are you otherwise? For your case of being, I prescribe becoming.
Welcome to the Department of Clinical Ontology. Let's go over your chart. I see that you are. Are you still as you were or are you otherwise? For your case of being, I prescribe becoming.
November 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Just saw someone described as an "ontologist" and now I want Clinical Ontologist to be a job title.
Welcome to the Department of Clinical Ontology. Let's go over your chart. I see that you are. Are you still as you were or are you otherwise? For your case of being, I prescribe becoming.
Welcome to the Department of Clinical Ontology. Let's go over your chart. I see that you are. Are you still as you were or are you otherwise? For your case of being, I prescribe becoming.
Senida Poenariu reviews “Intellectual History and the Problem of Conceptual Change” by Elías J. Palti.
Critical Inquiry
A journal of Art, Culture and Politics, Published by the University of Chicago
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November 22, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Senida Poenariu reviews “Intellectual History and the Problem of Conceptual Change” by Elías J. Palti.
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She’s resigning on J5. What comes after J5?
November 22, 2025 at 1:59 AM
She’s resigning on J5. What comes after J5?
We’re gonna have a demented Reagan 2.0 (really a bargain store George Wallace) implementing FDR-style programs to avoid being thrown in jail for being a sex pest by the end of the term, aren’t we?
November 22, 2025 at 1:52 AM
We’re gonna have a demented Reagan 2.0 (really a bargain store George Wallace) implementing FDR-style programs to avoid being thrown in jail for being a sex pest by the end of the term, aren’t we?
Does anyone know anyone who was raised in the New Apostolic Church (NAC)? Anyone still a part of it?
November 22, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Does anyone know anyone who was raised in the New Apostolic Church (NAC)? Anyone still a part of it?
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Zohran's basic linguistic competence and commitment to a non-neoliberal economic platform makes Democratic Party leadership look so incredibly bad. And they hate him for it.
November 21, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Zohran's basic linguistic competence and commitment to a non-neoliberal economic platform makes Democratic Party leadership look so incredibly bad. And they hate him for it.
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Mamdani's rise and power suggests something in this essay might have been right after all.
jacobin.com/2024/10/deat...
jacobin.com/2024/10/deat...
Confronting the Death Drive in Trump’s America
Liberalism cannot beat back threats of political violence, nihilism, or fascism by appealing to reason alone.
jacobin.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Mamdani's rise and power suggests something in this essay might have been right after all.
jacobin.com/2024/10/deat...
jacobin.com/2024/10/deat...
I’m trying to figure out more efficient ways to cut through bullshit on any number of topics. I have received emails from people asking if I can clarify points they come across while asking LLMs questions about Iran. I don’t mind responding to each one with care, given some time.
November 21, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I’m trying to figure out more efficient ways to cut through bullshit on any number of topics. I have received emails from people asking if I can clarify points they come across while asking LLMs questions about Iran. I don’t mind responding to each one with care, given some time.
“A central element of Iran’s position is the longstanding allegation that IAEA-sourced information was leaked to Israel, enabling attacks on Iranian nuclear centers and contributing to the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists.” If Iran’s claims are true, what further mediation process exists?
Iran Formally Ends Cairo Agreement After IAEA Resolution Presses Iran for Transparency
The International Atomic Energy Agency’s Board of Governors has adopted a new resolution pressing Iran to provide immediate clarity on the status of its enriched uranium stockpile.
insights.niacouncil.org
November 21, 2025 at 8:52 PM
“A central element of Iran’s position is the longstanding allegation that IAEA-sourced information was leaked to Israel, enabling attacks on Iranian nuclear centers and contributing to the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists.” If Iran’s claims are true, what further mediation process exists?
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Thinking a lot lately about the simple fact that college allows people to spend about 15 weeks immersed in a disciplinary conversation with an expert in that field. And what a special thing that is.
November 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Thinking a lot lately about the simple fact that college allows people to spend about 15 weeks immersed in a disciplinary conversation with an expert in that field. And what a special thing that is.
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'My mother carried me on her back, under fire': Life in the outskirts of Haiti's gang-squeezed capital
'My mother carried me on her back, under fire': Life in the outskirts of Haiti's gang-squeezed capital
Haiti has 1.4 million displaced people who are victims of the criminal gangs that control much of the greater Port-au-Prince area. Recently, law enforcement and militias have appeared to halt their progress.
www.lemonde.fr
November 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
'My mother carried me on her back, under fire': Life in the outskirts of Haiti's gang-squeezed capital