Patrick Jones

Jose is The Truth! Most under-appreciate great player in baseball…

Love seeing national headlines like this about our little blue dot out here on the edge of the Great Plains…

My hand holding a letter addressed to Zora from Billie Eilish, whose name and address is in the return spot. In the upper right of the card is a Betty White stamp.

A few weeks back, Zora (13) got on a little run of writing very authentic & heart-felt hand-written letters to some of the artists that touch her. Last evening, when I came home from a poetry reading, collected the mail that had stacked up in the chute over a couple of days, I found THIS waiting...

Read this. Stare into the abyss of cruelty and injustice. This is America.

National DEI Defense Coalition - USC Race and Equity Center

We have to organize and be more active in the face of this malevolent, reactionary movement, particularly when it comes to assaults on diversity, equity and inclusion and education, more broadly.

Here is one possible avenue. Check it out…

“relevant education,” an enduring struggle…

from San Francisco State University “Third World Liberation” Strike in 1968-1969, the biggest student strike in American campus history. The protest resulted in the creation of the first Ethnic Studies program in the country.

Artist: Saichi Kawahara

Human dignity and basic rights for ALL…

Human dignity and basic rights for ALL…

Human dignity and basic rights for ALL…

Thank you!

In 2025, Martin Luther King Jr.’s Economic Populism Is More Relevant Than Ever The political media calls Trump a “populist.” But as Dr. King made clear in a 1965 speech, American populism was a movement against everything Trump stands for.

“King wasn’t committed to integration solely to win equal treatment for Black Americans. He recognized the power of multiracial, working-class solidarity to combat the elite, wealthy interests that dominate American society.”

What resources do you use with students on the mutual aid side of the story?

Don’t waste time today watching the inaug. Rather, spend some quality time studying - more deeply than a meme, or decontextualized quote from a speech or book you’ve never actually read, or as a virtue-signal - the complex life, thought and lessons of MLK. Put in a little work…

Great community-based graphic novel about WV folks who have been a part of struggles for justice, like Freedom Rider, Joan Browning. There are a whole bunch of fascinating and important threads in this one. Lots of potential teaching opportunities out of a book like this. Check it out!

TikTok video by Sky Bear

… a little something for your Reagan-admiring conservative friends and family: Reagan roasting tariffs.