The old Hollywood joke goes: 1: “Good news & bad news, Mr Mayer.” 2: “What’s the good news?” 1: “We got the rights to the hottest new play on Broadway.” 2: “the bad news?” 1: “it’s about lesbians.” 2: “no problem; we’ll make them Mexicans.”
Jonathan Heaps
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Director, Lonergan Institute at Seton Hall University // *The Ambiguity of Being: Lonergan and the Problems of the Supernatural* (CUA Press)
From what I know of Hollywood production practices, it may well have started that way.
Lazear@lazear.bsky.social · 4h agoSee this would be way more interesting as crime thriller or a horror movie than it is as a rom-com.
CFP: Fundamental Theology/Method Topic Session of the 2027 @thectsa.bsky.social convention (Louisville, KY, June 10–13), "Listening for God amidst the Landscape of Cries." Proposal submissions due Sept. 1, 2026: www.ctsa-online.org/resources/Co...
Reflecting Pool defendant David Hearn, responding to Jeanine Pirro’s motion to dismiss, seeks dismissal *with prejudice.* Trump’s & Burghum’s conduct after dismissal show case’s political motivation & danger of harassment & re-prosecution. 1/2 www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
In an interview a while back, Chris Christie said that Trump explicitly said, "if you say things enough times, they become true" and Christie really emphasized that Trump didn't say "people will believe them" or "they are taken for the truth," but that he thinks "they *become* true".
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 8h agoIt's funny that Jeanine Pirro brought a box of evidence to WH to persuade Trump. He wants her to consciously *throw out* exculpatory facts and *knowingly* prosecute innocent people. So facts can't persuade him by definition. Me and @barbmcquade.bsky.social on this: newrepublic.com/article/2139...
What is truly "shocking" about the polling miss in Michigan is that it is completely average for a primary "The expected error on the margin between two primary candidates in a race for governor or U.S. Senate is a whopping 13.0 points." blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/2026-texas...
Do we really know who's leading the Texas Senate races?
Primary polls have historically been rather unreliable, and a surge in new primary voters means turnout assumptions matter more than usual
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|horses|@chemotaxis.bsky.social · 10h agoPolling is like really fucked. Strikes me as a huge problem honestly.
Judge Mehta's J6 Requiem "That book is now closed. Today’s epilogue diminishes the gravity of that day, denigrates the work of the prosecutors and ... officers who secured these convictions, and excuses criminal acts that caused a centuries-long pillar of our democracy ... to buckle."
German security authorities assess that Russian actors are the prime suspects behind the failed drone attack at Leipzig/Halle Airport, viewing the hub as an "obvious target" due to regular shipments of military aid to Ukraine. - RND
"The performance of control very often leads to precisely the sense in which things are out of control” Can we call this the ‘answered by my t-shirt’ principle?
Daniel Trilling@trillingual.bsky.social · 13h agoLike, however dumb & toxic “Amazon Presents Taylor Sheridan’s Tom Clancy’s The Bear and The Dragon” would be, it would still be better than what Amazon has done with the IP to date
Jonathan Heaps@jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · yesterdayI just had a cursed thought: Amazon should try to lure Taylor Sheridan away from Paramount with the promise that he can have unfettered access to the Clancy IP.
In fairness, the Blob seems to understand themselves as a courageous elite, willing where so few others dare to make the *hard* decisions about which stoves to touch.
terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉@kavi.bsky.social · 20h agoIt is kinda weird that the American public response to the Iraq war being kinda a disaster was "oh stove is hot! let's not do that again" but the blob's reaction was "oh stove is hot! this makes me very angry at the neighboring, larger, stove providing some of the heat, I will touch that one now"
Annie: “Hanna, don’t dance like that please.” Hanna (6): “Shakira danced like this.” Annie: “Shakira is *Shakira*! And also a grown woman.”
Obligatory: youtu.be/Kf_4LSvNrsc
April the Wine Connoisseur | Parks and Recreation
YouTube video by Parks and Recreation
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Jonathan Heaps@jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 21h agoI don’t have any basis to comment on the economics of this, but I will say that I am amazed by both a) how hard it was personally to develop literacy for discerning quality & thus b) how few people even seem to notice the differences in quality that are commonly correlated with prices.
I don’t have any basis to comment on the economics of this, but I will say that I am amazed by both a) how hard it was personally to develop literacy for discerning quality & thus b) how few people even seem to notice the differences in quality that are commonly correlated with prices.
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈@maxdubler.com · 3d agoI think my most genuinely unpopular take is that a widely held and genuine consumer preference for cheaper, lower-quality goods, not private equity, is driving the decline in quality of consumer goods like clothing and housewares.
It is inhuman for public authority to fall back on dictatorial systems or totalitarian methods which violate the rights of the person or social groups. —Gaudium et Spes §75
Clearly not just "another, bigger universe", or you could raise the same questions. So they must mean that the universe has a kind of analogical similarity to the higher reality from which it proceeds. Which I'm... not opposed to as a good Thomist ;)
My question for that crowd always is, “a simulation… of what?”
Maia@maiamindel.bsky.social · yesterdaycontinental philosophers most vindicated people in existence for having the basic decency to abide by the "we're not discussing made up questions" rule (phenomenology)
My town is launching a development plan & the block party listserv has chimed in. Reasonable questions re zoning, but also “4 stories will ruin neighborhood character” NIMBYism. Trying not to reply-all that every new building should be 5-over-1 w/ no parking mins & “neighborhood character” is fake
Jonathan Heaps@jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · yesterdayOne of my deepest hopes for my community is that we will make it easier to reside here, but harder to drive.
Josefine (9), holding up a tiny plastic fox toy: “Daddy! Jimmy Bob Jr. has a problem! His poop won’t come out all the way! Push, Jimmy Bob Jr! Push!”
the thing is we lived through a revolution: the repeal of taxation, reagan onward. that means there’s one easy trick for the core of reconstruction: fix the rates loud in the streets, power in the spreadsheets
Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 3mo agothese four sexy words again TOP MARGINAL TAX RATE "Restore the top marginal ordinary income tax rate to its pre-2017 level of 39.6% — which, but for Trump’s tax cuts, would have applied to income over $546K this year. Raise the (much lower) top capital-gains rate." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/o...
I'm not going to QT but there's a silicon valley NIMBY complaining about maintaining the historical character of Palo Alto and man that place should look like fucking singapore. Market cap of tech companies based in and around there is like $14 trillion and it's full of fucking bungalows? So broken
What are y’all grateful for today? Myself, I’m feeling thankful that I get to have this pack of beautiful weirdos for a family.
I find Talarico hard not to like, but however you feel about him, I can’t emphasize enough how important it is for Texans to go to the polls and keep Ken Paxton out of the Senate
Team Talarico@teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 2d agoJames Talarico: Since taking office, Ken Paxton has become a multi-millionaire — all while most Texans’ pay has remained stagnant for decades. He now owns 15 homes, while most Texans can't afford one. We can't afford Ken Paxton's corruption.
One of my deepest hopes for my community is that we will make it easier to reside here, but harder to drive.
Like, however dumb & toxic “Amazon Presents Taylor Sheridan’s Tom Clancy’s The Bear and The Dragon” would be, it would still be better than what Amazon has done with the IP to date
Jonathan Heaps@jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · yesterdayI just had a cursed thought: Amazon should try to lure Taylor Sheridan away from Paramount with the promise that he can have unfettered access to the Clancy IP.
I just had a cursed thought: Amazon should try to lure Taylor Sheridan away from Paramount with the promise that he can have unfettered access to the Clancy IP.
As far as I can tell, Sicario ended up being as good as it was bc Benicio del Toro just refused to say most of the dialogue.
Yapper John, A.G.@atomicgiant.bsky.social · 2d agoI watched 15 minutes of The Madison at my mother in law’s, and I’d like to retroactively offer an Academy Award to whoever put Taylor Sheridan in a headlock for as long as it took to make Hell or High Water a good script.
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