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

this is the vibe I imagine for Jesus’s entry into Jerusalem. Roman soldiers trying to look tough and the city residents ostentatiously having a good time

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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 7h

I think Portland has figured out how to make these guys look like complete idiots and I want all the cities to do this. Not telling you what to do… but. Everybody act like it’s the best wedding reception ever and/or a Thanksgiving Day parade.

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 12h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 7h

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Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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

this is the vibe I imagine for Jesus’s entry into Jerusalem. Roman soldiers trying to look tough and the city residents ostentatiously having a good time

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

that must have been… an experience

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🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 8h

Me, losing an argument at Faculty Senate: “I don’t care if they are marketing majors; they should be required to take a metaphysics class!”

A medical technology ad & the copy reads “from improbable to possible”

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 8h

The issue is important not only to Abrego's case, but also in the context of expected vindictive prosecution motions from James Comey and Letitia James.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 8h

Important discovery fight taking shape in Kilmar Abrego Garcia's criminal case.

The question: Can the government assert privilege to avoid handing over documents that may be relevant to a defendant's vindictive prosecution claim?

Abrego's counsel says no.

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 10h

Leftover university dining services baklava for dessert, btw.

Probably doesn’t even have real honey in it

🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 10h

I’m feeling a little under the weather tonight, so I’m stirring some left over baked sweet potato into some left over chili bc in this house we Kill It With Calories™️

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🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 10h

I’m feeling a little under the weather tonight, so I’m stirring some left over baked sweet potato into some left over chili bc in this house we Kill It With Calories™️

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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 11h

Everyone is an ultramontanist until the pope is bothering them about stuff and then it’s gallicanism all day.

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

In retrospect, the capitalization in that post is load bearing

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

I try not to afflict the timeline with it, but just know I’m never beating the Wife Guy™️ allegations

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 12h

typically you don't receive play by plays of what a grand jury is doing

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 12h

Per Fox News, a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia is currently weighing whether to charge NY AG Letitia James with mortgage fraud.

Fox News & @FoxNews
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BREAKING: A federal grand jury is meeting in the Eastern District of Virginia court, weighing charging NY AG Letitia James with mortgage fraud, two sources confirm to Fox News.

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🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 14h

"It remains, to be sure, that it is only by God’s grace and through that Word alone who is with God that we have some understanding of the unknown."

It's interesting that, for Clement of Alexandria (quoted above) negative theology is negative *philosophical* theology

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🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 14h

Student, doing some last minute review before quiz: "...and monotheism means 'not just one god, but that god is the kind of thing there can be only one of.'"

Me, overhearing them: "It warms my heart to hear you rehearse that."

Student: "Well, you did say it about a thousand times."

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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 14h

I can cafeteria Catholic with the best of them, and so do the rest of us until the eschaton, for the most part. But if we let Christian teaching increase the range of our interests and our deeds even a little bit, even unevenly, then over time that’s some amazing spiritual growth.

Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 14h

I think they’re genuinely perplexed about tradition and Christian teaching. I mean… everyone picks and chooses. I’m a very obedient Catholic except for when I’m not.

It’s their unwillingness to *be taught* that’s frustrating. It’s what a “magisterium” is for.

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🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 14h

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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Andy Sellars @sellars.bsky.social · 15h

The TRO in Chicago Headline Club v. Noem:
- (mostly) no targeting of journalists or ordering crowds to disperse
- restrictions on use of less-lethal munitions
- two warnings before use of riot control weapons
- must wear ID and uniform (or similar)

storage.courtlistener.com

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🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 16h

International Institute for Method in Theology's Spring Colloquium at Marquette University, March 6-7, 2026. Theme is "Belief: (Still) Today's Issue". CFP is below & you can email or DM me with any questions. Deadline is 12/1.

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🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 16h

Faith, Values and the Rule of Law: An Interdisciplinary Conference that will take place February 4-5, 2025 in-person at Seton Hall Law School located at One Newark Center, Newark, NJ 07102. More info here: law.shu.edu/events/faith...

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Tamara Cofman Wittes @tcwittes.bsky.social · 16h

Want to spend some time getting inspired about the future of democracy? Join me, @mcfaulmike.bsky.social and more at #TEDxMidAtlantic! My talk will be on “Democracy, Fast and Slow” — how we can make democracy work in our supercharged attention economy. Details: mailchi.mp/251bd014cc05...

🚀 Your Personal Invitation to TEDxMidAtlantic on November 1 in D.C.

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

Helluva performance from Hayley Williams on Fallon last night: youtu.be/sNNYei__joU

Hayley Williams: True Believer | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

YouTube video by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 18h

I will repost every portland frog joke

escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 1d

WWII "Friend" poster series from the Allied Forces, originally demonstrating the various Allied forces (British, Australian, Chinese, French, Dutch, etc.) and their appearances

It reads:

"This man is your FRIEND

He fights for FREEDOM"

The image is a sepia/black and white toned image of the Portland Frog protester, simply labelled FROG

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

I *just* published the second episode of the Lonergan Institute Podcast, this time a wide-ranging conversation with Lyle Enright of Street Psalms
www.podbean.com/eas/pb-bjc4i...

Episode 2: Art and Self-Presence with Lyle Enright | The Lonergan Institute Podcast

In this episode of the Lonergan Institute Podcast, we are joined by Lyle Enright. Lyle is an author, editor, and scholar who works in the design studio at Street Psalms, "a global network committed to...

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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 18h

Before the take-having begins, I always think of my old mentor Ralph Del Colle (RIP), who would say, “I try to let the documents take root in me.” Let’s try that today.

www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

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