Keanu Heydari
@keanuheydari.bsky.social
History Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Michigan | PC(USA) Deacon | Modern Europe & Iran | Apocalyptic & New Testament Studies
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me: I'm actually loving the cold Michigan weather!
also me: *dipping each hand in a vat of Bag Balm*
also me: *dipping each hand in a vat of Bag Balm*
November 20, 2025 at 1:09 AM
me: I'm actually loving the cold Michigan weather!
also me: *dipping each hand in a vat of Bag Balm*
also me: *dipping each hand in a vat of Bag Balm*
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Sick take bro. We should destroy the lives of millions of immigrants so we can accelerate the creation of a Peter Thiel Bladerunner techno-dystopia.
Fascinating mind at work.
Fascinating mind at work.
In defense of @jd-vance-1.bsky.social's pro-robot, anti-immigration stance.
As long as firms can exploit cheap migrant labor, they have few incentives to invest in labor-saving technology.
unherd.com/newsroom/in-...
As long as firms can exploit cheap migrant labor, they have few incentives to invest in labor-saving technology.
unherd.com/newsroom/in-...
In defence of JD Vance’s pro-robot, anti-immigration stance
Is it inconsistent for JD Vance to embrace industrial automation while opposing low-wage migration? Yes, it is, according to a number of his critics in response to the Vice President’s remarks on robo...
unherd.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Sick take bro. We should destroy the lives of millions of immigrants so we can accelerate the creation of a Peter Thiel Bladerunner techno-dystopia.
Fascinating mind at work.
Fascinating mind at work.
A prominent church official recently said, “We have to learn to live with different views and with different understandings of what the Bible says to us.” Taken at face value, this sounds unobjectionable.
November 19, 2025 at 8:20 PM
A prominent church official recently said, “We have to learn to live with different views and with different understandings of what the Bible says to us.” Taken at face value, this sounds unobjectionable.
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Highlights in @alybatt.bsky.social's latest: the anthropocentrism of the wage; pregnancy as ecosystem service; "Critics of commodification have misidentified the problem afflicting the biosphere: not that capital has absorbed all of life, but that it has abdicated responsibility for so much of it."
Free Gifts
A timely new critique of capitalism’s persistent failure to value nature
press.princeton.edu
November 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Highlights in @alybatt.bsky.social's latest: the anthropocentrism of the wage; pregnancy as ecosystem service; "Critics of commodification have misidentified the problem afflicting the biosphere: not that capital has absorbed all of life, but that it has abdicated responsibility for so much of it."
Want to start a new trend where you post there books you’re working through carefully. Show me what you’re reading, folks!
November 19, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Want to start a new trend where you post there books you’re working through carefully. Show me what you’re reading, folks!
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"Things happen" sometimes, like when you walk into an embassy to apply for your marriage license while your bride-to-be waits outside, but then you get bonesawed to pieces for having exercised freedom of speech as an US-based journalist and have to be carried out in a series of suitcases.
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 11:18 PM
"Things happen" sometimes, like when you walk into an embassy to apply for your marriage license while your bride-to-be waits outside, but then you get bonesawed to pieces for having exercised freedom of speech as an US-based journalist and have to be carried out in a series of suitcases.
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NEW: US airlines (Delta, United, American, etc) will shut down a program in which it sold hundreds of millions of your flight records to government agencies, including ICE, FBI, ATF, more. Comes after intense lawmaker-pressure and 404 Media's months-long reporting
www.404media.co/airlines-wil...
www.404media.co/airlines-wil...
Airlines Will Shut Down Program That Sold Your Flights Records to Government
The move comes after intense pressure from lawmakers and 404 Media’s months-long reporting about the airline industry's data selling practices.
www.404media.co
November 18, 2025 at 6:45 PM
NEW: US airlines (Delta, United, American, etc) will shut down a program in which it sold hundreds of millions of your flight records to government agencies, including ICE, FBI, ATF, more. Comes after intense lawmaker-pressure and 404 Media's months-long reporting
www.404media.co/airlines-wil...
www.404media.co/airlines-wil...
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J'espère que la collaboration entre ces trois auteurs s'est bien passée
November 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Nine years ago I met Prof. Charles Taylor. His work hasn’t ceased to influence me since.
November 18, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Nine years ago I met Prof. Charles Taylor. His work hasn’t ceased to influence me since.
Yeah yeah yeah, whatever. It’s already Advent in the Celtic tradition so sue me. Let us prepare for the Christ-child.
Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella (feat. Ben & Vesper)
YouTube video by Bifrost Arts - Topic
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November 18, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Yeah yeah yeah, whatever. It’s already Advent in the Celtic tradition so sue me. Let us prepare for the Christ-child.
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Virgin Mary, wood engraving, orig. 1921 (from "Songs to Our Lady of Silence" by Mary Elise Woellwarth.
Not an Annunciation scene. Actually from the section of the book on Mary in Ephesus.
Not an Annunciation scene. Actually from the section of the book on Mary in Ephesus.
November 18, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Virgin Mary, wood engraving, orig. 1921 (from "Songs to Our Lady of Silence" by Mary Elise Woellwarth.
Not an Annunciation scene. Actually from the section of the book on Mary in Ephesus.
Not an Annunciation scene. Actually from the section of the book on Mary in Ephesus.
The proverbial horse I’ve beaten to death concerns the famous (non)debate between Žižek and Habermas. The latter sees good faith under assault from “systematically distorted communication.” The former reminds us that we “know very well, but nevertheless.” You decide who is right.
There is no batshit far-right idea that the NYT's "reasonable" conservatives will not launder into polite discourse.
November 18, 2025 at 9:10 PM
The proverbial horse I’ve beaten to death concerns the famous (non)debate between Žižek and Habermas. The latter sees good faith under assault from “systematically distorted communication.” The former reminds us that we “know very well, but nevertheless.” You decide who is right.
Anti-Blackness is the historical engine that propels basically every form of prejudice since the late fifteenth century. The tendency towards “abstract” (i.e., non-historical) forms of analysis obscures how violence against Black people is the organizing principle of the Western world.
And it's like wow how are Black people existing on bluesky if there's so much antiblackness here. So lesson one of being Black is that everywhere is antiblack. So you just pick your flavor of antiblack & the heat level of the antiblackness.
November 18, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Anti-Blackness is the historical engine that propels basically every form of prejudice since the late fifteenth century. The tendency towards “abstract” (i.e., non-historical) forms of analysis obscures how violence against Black people is the organizing principle of the Western world.
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How concentrated economic and political power in America protects elites and fosters violence of all kinds.
Crime and No Punishment by Marie Gottschalk is out now (13 Jan UK pub).
Learn more and order yours: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#PoliticalScience #PoliSci
Crime and No Punishment by Marie Gottschalk is out now (13 Jan UK pub).
Learn more and order yours: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#PoliticalScience #PoliSci
November 18, 2025 at 6:22 PM
How concentrated economic and political power in America protects elites and fosters violence of all kinds.
Crime and No Punishment by Marie Gottschalk is out now (13 Jan UK pub).
Learn more and order yours: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#PoliticalScience #PoliSci
Crime and No Punishment by Marie Gottschalk is out now (13 Jan UK pub).
Learn more and order yours: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#PoliticalScience #PoliSci
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Eight men jailed in France over 2023 Channel migrant-boat deaths
Eight men jailed in France over 2023 Channel migrant-boat deaths
A French court on Tuesday handed prison terms of three to 15 years to members of a smuggling ring after seven Afghans died when their boat capsized in the Channel.
www.lemonde.fr
November 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Eight men jailed in France over 2023 Channel migrant-boat deaths
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Planned operations in Venezuela justified by the activities of a mythical drug cartel that the administration insists covertly runs the country. Echoes of the Iraq war.
Trump Team Calls Maduro a ‘Cartel’ Boss. That Word Doesn’t Mean What You Think.
Venezuelans coined a figure of speech for the phenomenon of generals corrupted by drug money: “Cartel de los Soles.” Then the US started talking about it as a literal organization.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
Venezuelans coined a figure of speech for the phenomenon of generals corrupted by drug money: “Cartel de los Soles.” Then the US started talking about it as a literal organization.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
Trump Team Calls Maduro a ‘Cartel’ Boss. That Word Doesn’t Mean What You Think.
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Planned operations in Venezuela justified by the activities of a mythical drug cartel that the administration insists covertly runs the country. Echoes of the Iraq war.
Ironic that Chomsky’s strongest “criticism” of Foucault was that he was “totally amoral.” Every accusation is also a confession.
November 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Ironic that Chomsky’s strongest “criticism” of Foucault was that he was “totally amoral.” Every accusation is also a confession.
British liberal institutions helped to build and fund Christianities in the Global South that combined evangelical zeal with Victorian moral codes and racial hierarchies. Today those same institutions disavow the colonial genealogy of these churches by treating them as “backwards,” which
November 18, 2025 at 2:33 PM
British liberal institutions helped to build and fund Christianities in the Global South that combined evangelical zeal with Victorian moral codes and racial hierarchies. Today those same institutions disavow the colonial genealogy of these churches by treating them as “backwards,” which
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To advocate a policy making refugees lives harder on the basis that it is a way to deal with the "anger" from the vocal racists in our country is bizarre.
Next up - reducing women's wages to appease misogynists and making gay people stay indoors to avoid homophobic thugs who like to beat them up.
Next up - reducing women's wages to appease misogynists and making gay people stay indoors to avoid homophobic thugs who like to beat them up.
November 17, 2025 at 11:22 PM
To advocate a policy making refugees lives harder on the basis that it is a way to deal with the "anger" from the vocal racists in our country is bizarre.
Next up - reducing women's wages to appease misogynists and making gay people stay indoors to avoid homophobic thugs who like to beat them up.
Next up - reducing women's wages to appease misogynists and making gay people stay indoors to avoid homophobic thugs who like to beat them up.
The Beaune Altarpiece.
November 18, 2025 at 1:35 AM
The Beaune Altarpiece.
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I've been thinking a lot about how this period will be written about, 20, 50 years from now, and the level of governmental collapse is pretty hard to fathom in the moment, but will be crystal clear from that future vantage point.
November 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I've been thinking a lot about how this period will be written about, 20, 50 years from now, and the level of governmental collapse is pretty hard to fathom in the moment, but will be crystal clear from that future vantage point.
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i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate
This whole NYT account about the weaponization of DOJ is beyond disturbing. Kinda feels like the US government fell in January.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
November 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate
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Watching people pour through the released Epstein files and just thinking how much better things would be if reputible, responsible, morally centered journalists had been fully engaged with the Epstein story from the beginning.
November 16, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Watching people pour through the released Epstein files and just thinking how much better things would be if reputible, responsible, morally centered journalists had been fully engaged with the Epstein story from the beginning.
From a prayer of confession in the Book of Common Worship.
November 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
From a prayer of confession in the Book of Common Worship.