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Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social · 3d

“There’s a big difference between a make and a miss.”

Thank you, Chris Collinsworth, for your continually incisive commentary. 🙄

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Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social · 3d

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Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks, Devin! And indeed they do.

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Devin DeVore @ddevore1295.bsky.social · 4d

Listening to Kevin Brown’s talk in General Conference reminded me of @ccjones.bsky.social’s excellent article on early Latter-day Saint missionary efforts in Jamaica. Early missionary attitudes towards Jamaicans juxtaposed with Brown’s conviction of the gospel leave much to reflect upon.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 4d

Look your nation right in the face

Screen shot from CNN article linked in the first comment “Across the country, US-born children have become collateral damage in the Trump administration's unprecedented crackdown on undocumented
immigrants. CNN identified more than
100 US citizen children, from newborns to teenagers, who have been left stranded without parents because of immigration actions this year, according to a review of verified crowdfunding campaigns, public records and interviews with families, friends, immigration attorneys and other advocates.”

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Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · 6d

Two things can be true: 1) Universities are not perfectly run. There are many problems that we should try to fix. 2) It's actually very hard to run a college or university. It's much much easier to perform worse than the status quo than better. www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

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Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social · 4d

“I asked ChatGPT what would happen if X did Y.”

“I asked ChatGPT how X would react if Y did that.”

Do people think AI can predict the future? That it can somehow factually reveal counterfactuals?

I genuinely do not understand these uses of generative AI.

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 6d

Attention! We are hiring in sociology/criminology. I would appreciate your help in spreading the word. I'm on the search committee and will do my best to answer any questions. Thanks! ulsltu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LATECH...

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Thank you for your interest in employment with Louisiana Tech University. Assistant Professor of Sociology. Tenure track, nine-month position. Review of applications begins immediately and will contin...

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Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social · 8d

This Aces-Fever game is the best basketball game I’ve watched this year. #WNBA

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Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social · 8d

“With its focus on global connections and local issues, the book offers a vital starting point for future studies on the impact of Christian missions in global history.”

A generous review of Missionary Interests from Fernando Pinheiro in @dialoguejournal.bsky.social. @cornellupress.bsky.social

Christian Laboratory: Mormon and Protestant Missions in Ideological and Geographical Peripheries

The book Missionary Interests: Protestant and Mormon Missions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, edited by David Golding and Christopher Cannon Jones, provides a significant contribution to th...

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Asschapel Roan @stochasticburrito.bsky.social · 20d

Meme from the Simpsons, Moe (labeled Francis Fukuyama) throws Barney (labeled History) out of the bar, only for us to see in the third panel Barney standing behind Moe inside the bar

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Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social · 10d

Multiple people of my faith community were murdered today, their church building set on fire, and first responders are now searching for the remains of unaccounted for individuals.

And here’s the president bragging about the tackiness of his office.

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10d

Can't we just get healthcare

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Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social · 10d

Today has been heavy and this video provided much needed comic relief.

The inexplicable zooming in and out, the calling a backpack a “popular knapsack,” the planting of weed on a baby doll, and him pointing a gun at himself — it’s unintentionally hilarious from start to end.

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 10d

In honor of Eric Adams dropping out, I'm now resharing my all-time favorite bit of Eric Adams content

for years, this thing was like my video from The Ring, where I had to get other people to watch it in order for me to stay alive

enjoy

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk2W...

Sen. Eric Adams: Combating Gun Violence

YouTube video by New York Daily News

www.youtube.com

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Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social · 10d

I rewound it three times to make sure I understood him correctly. Can’t wait to call my children’s backpacks “popular knapsacks” from now on.

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Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social · 10d

Also, it’s the guns. It’s the easy access to them. It’s the worship of them. It’s the immediate deadliness of them.

It’s the guns.

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Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social · 10d

Mourning with my coreligionists and their community in Grand Blanc, Michigan this morning.

This one hits close to home.

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 12d

They're doing the thing to the 14th that they did to the 2nd. It's offensive in many ways of course but it's specifically offensive as a historian because they invent historical evidence for it. They are afraid to say "we want to create a different country so we're going to change the rules"

Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 12d

There is no argument against birthright citizenship other than “I am incredibly racist and don’t like it”

It is clearly and simply spelled out in the 14th amendment - if you are born here, you are an American citizen.

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 12d

Trump asks Supreme Court to decide whether he can end birthright citizenship www.cnn.com/2025/09/26/p...

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 12d

There is no argument against birthright citizenship other than “I am incredibly racist and don’t like it”

It is clearly and simply spelled out in the 14th amendment - if you are born here, you are an American citizen.

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 12d

Trump asks Supreme Court to decide whether he can end birthright citizenship www.cnn.com/2025/09/26/p...

Trump asks Supreme Court to decide whether he can end birthright citizenship | CNN Politics

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to review the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship, pushing the issue back bef...

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Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social · 16d

I grew up in TX and remember this well. I also see friends/family who still live there working on these for their kids and am very glad I’m not there.

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Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social · 18d

Home.

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Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social · 19d

Honored to receive (with @davidgolding.bsky.social) the Best Anthology Award from the John Whitmer Historical Association for Missionary Interests: Protestant and Mormon Missions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (@cornellupress.bsky.social, 2024).

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Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social · 23d

That’s his whole m.o.

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Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social · 23d

This very, very good boy woke me this morning at 4 am. Turns out my T1D daughter’s blood sugar levels were dangerously low and her CGM wasn’t transmitting those numbers to our phones.

Don’t know if he sensed her low sugars or it was just a coincidence, but I’m very grateful right now.

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Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social · 28d

Just drove by UVU on my way home.

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Nate @ngs.bsky.social · 28d

Don't make me tap the sign...

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