Jonathan Heaps

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I feel like someday I am going to learn what this was a metaphor for

Got a splinter in my foot tonight that was at once so small for an object in general but so very big for a splinter

Dear Ms. Wolfe, Petitioner-Appellee Rümeysa Öztürk submits this Rule 28(j) letter to advise the Court that on January 29, 2026, the immigration court held that the Department of Homeland Security had not met its burden of proving removability, and the immigration court thereby terminated removal proceedings against Ms. Öztürk.' This development underscores the dangers of the government's interpretation of the Immigration and Nationality Act. Under the government's view, it could punitively detain any noncitizen in retaliation for her speech for many months, so long as it simultaneously institutes removal proceedings—no matter how unmeritorious—all without any federal court review of the lawfulness of detention at any time. To be clear, the termination of Ms. Öztürk's removal proceedings does not moot her habeas case. (By contrast, as Ms. Öztürk has argued, this appeal is moot. Br. 18-20.) Without habeas jurisdiction and the bail order that is currently in place, any government appeal to the Board of Immigration Appeals would again subject Ms. Öztürk to re-detention. See 8 C.F.R. § 1003.6(a). For that reason, she continues to suffer the threat of continuing "now-or-never" First and Fifth Amendment harms. Br. in Opp. 55-57.

NEW: An immigration court has terminated removal proceedings against Tufts doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk, finding that DHS did not meet its burden of establishing that she was removable, her lawyers tell the Second Circuit. live-awp-vermont.pantheonsite.io/app/uploads/...

…yes?

Yyyyyyyyeah…. An appropriate cold weather tobacco delivery system, I’ve decided

Baptist pastor arrested in Chicago.

evangelical pastor protesting immigration raids in MN

Element of a Catholic liturgy held before an ICE detention center in Chicago.

Candles and crosses memorializing Alex Pretti and Renee Good in MN.

If y'all wouldn't mind: share some of your favorite (and least favorite!) protest photos featuring Christianity in reply to this post. I'm hunting around to make a little slideshow for students to talk about some of the different religious stakes as interpreted by the various Christians.

Selfie of me walking to work on a sunny day in a gray hat and scarf with a corn cob pipe clenched in my teeth

Apple weather app showing current temperature of 23°F and a high of 30°F

Late start walk to work is significantly improved by the fact that it’s finally warming up a smidge here in New Jersey

Just use "I'm trying to understand Bad Bunny songs" as motivation to learn a second language. I guarantee you there's a community college nearby with a human spanish prof who just wants to teach you how to conjugate tener properly.

This one gets that RT every time.

I’m having a colleague give a series of guest lectures about the history of Roman city life this semester and so, naturally, I’ve called it “Professor Cantelmo’s eras tour”

Crazy that, in the nations divorce, conservatives got *actual divorce*

You’ve heard of “The Catholic Both/And,” but I’m here to tell you about “The Catholic ‘Por Que No Los Dos’”

“Suspected” lol

Nothing more American than the tailgate

The word of the day is Wepa

The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante

This is the sexiest national anthem performance I’ve ever seen

Annie & I’ve been trying to have more date nights this year, but were off to a rough start bc work/illnesses.

But last night she took me on a mystery date to Manhattan that turned out to be a nice dinner & then tickets to see “Oh, Mary!” at the Lyceum.

I’m a lucky dude.

ethics professor here, can confirm

My favorite annual pun

In paragraph 4, we learn that this is somehow caused by nominalism.

Oskar (10), coming thru the door from his tween writers workshop: "Dad! It's a curse! It's a curse being so *utterly* humorous!"

Somehow this virus returned

“They’re basically torturing people into signing off on their own deportation,” said one attorney.

Superb, deeply reported story, via @charpentier.bsky.social

Things Will Get Better Before They Get Worse For Bernard Lonergan, the drama of human history is—even right now, even in the United States—in the process of being redeemed by God through grace.

"Lonergan’s philosophy of history anticipates that, in situations like ours, things will get better before they get worse."

@jonathanrheaps.bsky.social on how Bernard Lonergan can help us make sense of our chaotic present:
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a woman in a white feathered dress is standing next to a pink piggy doll ALT: a woman in a white feathered dress is standing next to a pink piggy doll

Hanna (5), seeing the new Muppet thing on Disney: “Agh! That frog is so creepy! But the girl is very pretty.”

The gold statue shit is so on the nose, if Trump was Gen X, I’d think he was being ironic.

We are excited to share the CFP for next year's annual meeting in New Orleans, from January 7 through January 10! We are accepting proposals on any topic relevant to Catholic studies. To submit a proposal or visit our collaboration Google Sheet, visit achahistory.org/neworleans20....

Incredible art of gritty playing fiddle on the roof of a west Philadelphia row home. In Yiddish it says Fidler Oyfn Fakh פֿידלער אױפֿן דאַך)

We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was