Reposted by Julien GrayerAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18/10/2025Don't engage. Just block. They want to push their rage bait on here. Don't give them the satisfaction. bsky.app/profile/did:... 17056042628
Reposted by Julien GrayerBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/10/2025theonion.com/ice-raids-my... 109136693474
Reposted by Julien GrayerGenie Lauren @moreandagain.me · 12/09/2025The idea of white people watching the news and praying the perp is not one of them is SENDING ME 😂 319435
Reposted by Julien GrayerLeon “Lee” Grayhare @grayharetherabbit.bsky.social · 12/09/2025As batshit as this is, this is also how racists "wait for more information" in the aftermath of police shootings. They really aren't waiting for more information, they're waiting to hear that all the things they believe about the "Other" is true. Cox is just more blatant about it.. 022
Reposted by Julien GrayerRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 12/09/2025the computer is good, continue being on the computer all the time. 431379126
Reposted by Julien GrayerSami Schalk @drsamischalk.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Turning Point USA made a literal watch list of professors, primarily women, queer folks and people of color, and made us targets of political violence. I’ve received hate mail and harassment and death threats off and on for nearly a decade in part due to that man’s organization so 🤷🏽♀️ 5687322823
Reposted by Julien GrayerTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 06/08/2025When I was young, people adultified me to assign me all tesponsibiiity. Now that I am old, people talk to me like I’m a child, granting me no autonomy. I do believe the colonial brain will make whatever true that it needs to be true, I swear. 551240
Reposted by Julien GrayerDave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 02/09/2025I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable 6864064310794
Reposted by Julien GrayerVictor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 09/07/2025For what it's worth, this is precisely the reason the Klan wore hoods when they terrorized communities and disappeared unfavored minorities. Historically, it wasn't called doxxing it was just recognizing a fascist community member. 342652839
Reposted by Julien GrayerTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 09/06/2025The city of Glendale, in Los Angeles County, announced today that they're quitting an agreement with ICE thad allowed ICE to house its detainees at the Glendale police department. mynewsla.com/crime/2025/0...mynewsla.comGlendale to Stop Housing ICE Detainees - MyNewsLA.comGlendale city officials Sunday stated they were terminating an agreement with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security to house federal immigration detainees at the Glendale ... 252177394110
Reposted by Julien GrayerRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/05/2025There’s a lot of nonsense about George Floyd out there this weekend. If you’re looking for a place to send people who need a correction, here’s my (very long) series addressing all the false claims about his death. open.substack.com/pub/radleyba...open.substack.comThe retconning of George Floyd, part three: the great flatteningThe revisionist campaign to exonerate Derek Chauvin is about one thing: preserving police impunity 13567195
Reposted by Julien Grayerfull slack @fullslack.bsky.social · 16/05/2025you’re laughing. the largest antebellum plantation house burned down & there are brides who will not get to spiritually absorb the poisoned spectral energy of the land for their big day, & you’re laughing. 328116842075
Reposted by Julien GrayerJohn Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 07/05/2025This is wild. Where by “wild” I mean “the sort of humiliating display of racist arrogance that will harm the US’s world-wide reputation in ways that will be impossible to fully repair in my lifetime.” 20918204
Reposted by Julien GrayerJess Hardie @jesshardie.bsky.social · 24/04/2025The brilliant @ranitaray1.bsky.social has a new book out. Her first informed my own work so much, and I can’t wait to read this one! Preorder: us.macmillan.com/books/978125... 183
Reposted by Julien GrayerMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Hey there! Just circling back 30189891055
Reposted by Julien GrayerMr. Antifascism @mrantifascism.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Unbelievable pictures from May Day protest in NYC today! 111735
Reposted by Julien GrayerAnne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Trump take toy. 1164
Reposted by Julien GrayerLeon “Lee” Grayhare @grayharetherabbit.bsky.social · 24/04/2025The canard of "anti-white discrimination" & "special preference" has been a bog standard argument of white supremacists and anti-civil rights reactionaries going back over 100 years (see Andrew Johnson's rationale for vetoing the CRA of 1866). 1186
Reposted by Julien GrayerW. Carson Byrd @wcbyrdphd.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Can’t say there’s disparate impact if you prevent analyses of data from happening or being considered at all. Without data & analysis, you can’t hold people accountable for perpetuating inequalities. 0164
Reposted by Julien GrayerKaryn Lacy @karynlacy.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Saddened by the passing of legendary sociologist Herb Gans. Ethnographer extraordinaire and so generous with his time. Quick to pose penetrating questions about my drafts. Thinking through the answers made my work better. He will be deeply missed. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/b...nytimes.comHerbert J. Gans, 97, Dies; Upended Myths on Urban and Suburban LifeA leading sociologist, he explored American society up close — living in a Levittown at one point — to gain insight into issues of race, class, the media and even the Yankees. 0496
Reposted by Julien GrayerJoshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 22/04/2025NEW: A Democratic congressional delegation visited Mahmoud Khalil and Rümeysa Öztürk at ICE facilities in Louisiana today, to demand their release and observe conditions there. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/22/n... 6884258
Julien Grayer @wasabifunyuns.bsky.social · 22/04/2025I just want to thank @k-till.bsky.social for being able to zoom into my Minorities in the CJ System class to talk about his article on coercive benevolence and carceral liberalism. I think students took away a lot! 010
Reposted by Julien GrayerVictor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 18/04/2025We on the left supposedly look down on Trump voters, but nobody has more disdain for Trump voters than Trump. He hates them and supports policies that will make their lives more difficult. 251057232
Reposted by Julien GrayerMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 13/04/2025If I were an editor at a prestigious national publication I would simply ask writers to define what they mean by words like "forced" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... 5108646878
Reposted by Julien GrayerAshton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 13/04/2025THREAD: The Trump administration's DOJ has removed a study from the NIJ website that found that immigrants, and particularly undocumented immigrants, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than U.S. citizens. The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1) 13580363950
Reposted by Julien GrayerMekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 13/04/2025Start putting it together: 1) 👴🏻"DEI has gone too far!" 2) 👴🏻"We should have more people working in factories and mines!" 3) 👴🏻"Not me though!🤣" They ain't slick. 08420
Reposted by Julien Grayerbobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 09/04/2025happy confederate surrender day to all 116121022617
Reposted by Julien GrayerProf. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 09/04/2025I see that bitch blinked 1667875
Reposted by Julien GrayerVictor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 06/04/2025my daily reminder that “pro-segregation” is better framing (and more accurate) than “anti-DEI” Also, the folks pushing for these changes are ghouls www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...washingtonpost.comAmid anti-DEI push, National Park Service rewrites history of Underground RailroadSince Trump took office, the park service, an agency charged with preserving American history, has changed how its website describes key moments from slavery to Jim Crow 524999
Reposted by Julien GrayerEd Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 02/04/202530 years ago a professor explained tariffs to me as “economic sanctions a country puts on itself” and that stuck with me. 4554241128
Reposted by Julien GrayerSteve Chamraz @tmj4steve.com · 02/04/2025:: BREAKING NOW: Multiple polling places across Milwaukee are running low or have run out of ballots as turnout is at record levels. MKE Election Commission is aware and sending out fresh ballots. If you are in line -- or know someone who is -- ballots are on the way. 165165894288
Reposted by Julien GrayerVictor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 02/04/2025@booker.senate.gov dismantles a Confederate monument. 83111901807
Reposted by Julien GrayerAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Senator Cory Booker has now broken the record for the longest Senate Floor speech, previously held by Strom Thurmond (24 hours 18 minutes). 300160892175
Reposted by Julien GrayerPatrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 31/03/2025as students are being thrown into vans and deported for school paper op eds I can’t help but think about the years many of the most well compensated and secure intellectuals in the US had the courage to sign so many letters about the dangerous climate of left wing censoriousness 193418771
Julien Grayer @wasabifunyuns.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Congratulations to you and @profince.bsky.social on this great work! You’re absolutely right about mainstream limitations and I’d love to see this in conversation with @shaonta.bsky.social’s article on the omission of liberation narratives in sociology! 131
Reposted by Julien Grayer Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 26/03/2025I just remembered the first time I heard of Pete Hegseth www.bbc.com/news/world-u...bbc.comFox host says he 'hasn't washed hands in 10 years'Harvard and Princeton graduate Pete Hegseth says germs don't exist because he can't see them. 34045031084
Reposted by Julien GrayerLeilani (she/her) @glittergremlei.bsky.social · 26/03/2025I was raised by @levarburton.bsky.social, Fred Rogers, Ms. Frizzle, & Viewers Like You. PBS & NPR are vital infrastructure, providing education, news, artistic engagement, & more to Americans - including in the 5 occupied US Territories. They are equalizers for children & a connector for adults. 48431
Julien Grayer @wasabifunyuns.bsky.social · 24/03/2025I wonder if the Association of Black Sociologists and/or SRE journal has a Bluesky yet… 000
Reposted by Julien GrayerLupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 24/03/2025The WH being so incompetent that they can’t even do malevolent group texts right, on the backdrop of all of this Aggressive Meritocracy reminds me that this country’s ethos was formed by people so incompetent they couldn’t even grow rice & whose only exceptional quality was propensity for brutality. 328276
Reposted by Julien GrayerCorey J. Miles @coreyjmiles.bsky.social · 17/03/2025To be an academic is to acquire an excuse for not owning the pain you see. ~Danielle Allen this is one of my favorite quotes pushing back against the belief that research should be objective and neutral. 011
Julien Grayer @wasabifunyuns.bsky.social · 17/03/2025This Midwest Sociological Society in Chicago was a phenomenal time and reinforced why I love the community of my field! 010
Reposted by Julien GrayerCrystal Fleming is on sabbatical @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 12/03/2025I can't imagine what it must be like to live as James Baldwin, "die" and then come right back to this place. I really hope he was reincarnated in another dimension. It only seems fair.. 0181
Reposted by Julien Grayermattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 12/03/2025american society has been at “TV Interstitial from ROBOCOP” for a while but “president does a car commercial on the white house lawn” is really pushin it 31128722017
Reposted by Julien GrayerPhilip Bump @pbump.com · 09/03/2025Setting aside the incredibly dangerous and fascist aspect of this, is there actual evidence that Khalil was a “Hamas supporter”? Or is the standard for a green-card holder being sent to a secret location and possibly deported just “critical of Israel”? 24879271712