Christopher Jones

In case you missed the moment.

Art is powerful

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

The Champions League final in Germany last year opened with Linkin Park

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Bad Bunny holds a football that says Together, we are America.

Unidos somos América.

Somewhere between 51 + 60 million U.S. residents speak Spanish. Most of them (40-45 million) as their first language.

I’m one of many more who understand the language but don’t speak it.

And you certainly didn’t need to understand a single word to appreciate the artistry + joy on display.

The way we all cheered when he said “El Salvador.” 🇸🇻

Watching Bad Bunny in a room full of Latinos — including my partner, my MIL, and my children — dancing and singing along to every word. ❤️

France’s Olympic athletes definitely needed more pockets on their Opening Ceremony outfits.

Delighted to welcome one of my graduate advisors, the incomparable @kawulf.bsky.social, to BYU for a lecture tonight.

For-Profit School Opening in For-Profit ICE Family Prison - The American Prospect Stride, Inc., is hiring multiple teachers to run a new school at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley. But the establishment of a school is really an effort to sanitize the extended det...

Gramsci once observed "the old is dying and the new struggles to be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear," and I'm not sure there would be any better encapsulation of our society's comorbidities than this headline.

How the Supreme Court Secretly Made Itself Even More Secretive

The idea that the Court should operate entirely in secret is a modern phenomenon. The idea that the Court should be separated from the public is a modern phenomenon. Earlier generations did not accept a powerful, isolated & secretive Court and we shouldn't either 1/6

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Ayeeeeee! Happy Black History Month!

🚨New Episode Alert🚨

Kicking off Black History Month with Prof. Sara Gallagher (@sgallagher12.bsky.social) of Durham College and her book "Black Wests: Reshaping Race and Place in Popular Culture" (@oupress.bsky.social 2025).

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Episode 003: Writing About Your Own Family’s History with Blair L.M. Kelley and Kellie Carter Jackson In the red clay fields of Georgia, a man named Solicitor rose before dawn to tend the land he did not own. He was a sharecropper, a laborer, and a father. His name was passed down along with stories o...

Available on all streaming platforms now: reunion-a-podcast-about-family-histories.ghost.io/episode-003-...

Want to start #BlackHistoryMonth off on a good note? Come listen to @kcarterjackson.bsky.social + @profblmkelley.bsky.social talk about researching their own family histories.

This x1000.

I have a standing offer to students to come visit with me to learn how to read a history book.

To my delight, 3 have already come in this semester to meet. All 3 reported success reading through the next assigned book.

Family history work depends on the material lives of records: how they were created, used, marked, preserved, or repaired.

Come hang with me and @ccjones.bsky.social and Amy Harris and chat about archives, archival practice, and genealogy!!

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If you have not yet read @adamserwer.bsky.social on Minnesotans' heroics, you are going to feel way better when you do. He went there. He talked to the people doing the work. Then he thought about it and produced something rare. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... [gift link]

I know the world is going to hell, but Trinity Rodman is a sincere bright spot in my day to day life. Not just the on pitch performance, but the joy she plays (and celebrates) with. #USWNT

Indeed.

Did the Utah legislature just do something … good?

This is a new feeling.

Proud dad moment, receiving this message from my 14yo.

Opinion | State Terror Has Arrived

There we go:

“It should no longer be possible to say that the Trump administration seeks merely to govern this nation. It seeks to reduce us all to a state of constant fear… That is our new national reality. State terror has arrived.”

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I wish Democrats would start just speaking the truth:

“ICE is killing American citizens in public for exercising their freedom of speech because Donald Trump wants to be a king.

This isn’t about immigration—Trump wants to make it illegal to oppose him, and to stay in power until he dies.”

View of Heidelberg, Germany, showing the old town and river.

Germany is wonderful, and I may just not come home. #heidelberg

Reunion: a Podcast About Family Histories is a creation of my BYU History faculty colleagues @ccjones.bsky.social & @jstuart.bsky.social. Talk about hitting the ground running! The 1st 2 episodes have featured @kawulf.bsky.social & @agordonreed.bsky.social! WOW!

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Re: Sean McDermott getting fired, I ask once again: why are all these GMs keeping their jobs when they bear more responsibility for team failure?

The Last Steep Ascent New obstacles should not be deplored but welcomed because their presence proves we are closer to the ultimate decision.

From 1961 to 1966, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote an annual essay for us on the state of civil rights and race relations in America. In this piece from 1966, he wrote about economic justice as the next struggle for the civil rights movement. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Reunion 02: Family, Race, and Memoir with Annette Gordon-Reed Podcast Episode · Reunion: A Podcast About Family Histories · 19/01/2026 · 28m

Available now wherever you listen to podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/ye/podcast/r...