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Julien Grayer

@wasabifunyuns.bsky.social
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UW-Whitewater Asst. Professor of Sociology | Racial stigma, criminalization, interactionism| Posts are my own and not reflective of my institution so it goes

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18/10/2025
Don't engage. Just block. They want to push their rage bait on here. Don't give them the satisfaction. bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
theonion.com/ice-raids-my...
MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.
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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.me · 12/09/2025
The idea of white people watching the news and praying the perp is not one of them is SENDING ME 😂
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Leon “Lee” Grayhare @grayharetherabbit.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
As 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..
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
the computer is good, continue being on the computer all the time.
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Sami Schalk @drsamischalk.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Turning 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 🤷🏽‍♀️
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
When 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.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I 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
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
For 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.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
The 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...
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Glendale to Stop Housing ICE Detainees - MyNewsLA.com
Glendale 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 ...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
There’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...
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The retconning of George Floyd, part three: the great flattening
The revisionist campaign to exonerate Derek Chauvin is about one thing: preserving police impunity
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full slack @fullslack.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
you’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.
Nottoway Plantation burning RIP bozo !
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Jesus.
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
This 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.”
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Jess Hardie @jesshardie.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
The 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...
Image of book cover with a painterly image of a classroom with one student in the back, all green and blue colors. “Slow Violence” in large letters with subtitle “Confronting Dark Truths in the American Classroom” across the top and “Ranita Ray” at the bottom.
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Julien Grayer @wasabifunyuns.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
*opens door* *MF Doom plays*
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Hey there! Just circling back
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Mr. Antifascism @mrantifascism.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Unbelievable pictures from May Day protest in NYC today!
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Trump take toy.
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Leon “Lee” Grayhare @grayharetherabbit.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
The 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).
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W. Carson Byrd @wcbyrdphd.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Can’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.
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Karyn Lacy @karynlacy.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Saddened 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...
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Herbert J. Gans, 97, Dies; Upended Myths on Urban and Suburban Life
A 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.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 22/04/2025
NEW: 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...
Boston Globe online headline:

Massachusetts lawmakers visit detained Columbia, Tufts students
By Tal Kopan Globe Staff, Updated April 22, 2025,
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Julien Grayer @wasabifunyuns.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
I 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!
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
We 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.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
If 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...
“Wokeness,” as it’s known, introduced the asymmetrical capitalization of the letter b in Black but not the w in white. It forced Romance languages like Spanish to submit to gender-neutral constructions such as Latinx. It called for the display of pronouns in email signatures and social-media bios. It replaced a slew of traditional words and phrases: People were told to stop saying master bedroom, breastfeeding, manpower, and brown-bag lunch, and to start saying primary bedroom, chestfeeding, workforce, and sack lunch. At the extreme, it designated certain words—such as crazy—beyond redemption.
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
THREAD: 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)
Google search results says: National Institute of Justice (•gov)
https://nij.ojp.gov › topics › articles › undocumented-im..
immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than U.S. citizens.
No information is available for this page.
Learn why
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 13/04/2025
Start 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.
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bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
happy confederate surrender day to all
a cartoon of a union army soldier drinking a water machine jug of rebel tears, against a painting of union army troops marching past a burning atlanta
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Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I see that bitch blinked
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
my 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...
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Amid anti-DEI push, National Park Service rewrites history of Underground Railroad
Since 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
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
30 years ago a professor explained tariffs to me as “economic sanctions a country puts on itself” and that stuck with me.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 02/04/2025
lmao eat shit loser
Elon wearing a cheese hat
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Steve 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.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
@booker.senate.gov dismantles a Confederate monument.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Senator Cory Booker has now broken the record for the longest Senate Floor speech, previously held by Strom Thurmond (24 hours 18 minutes).
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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
as 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
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Julien Grayer @wasabifunyuns.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Congratulations 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!
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 26/03/2025
I just remembered the first time I heard of Pete Hegseth www.bbc.com/news/world-u...
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Fox 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.
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Leilani (she/her) @glittergremlei.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I 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.
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Julien Grayer @wasabifunyuns.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I wonder if the Association of Black Sociologists and/or SRE journal has a Bluesky yet…
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 24/03/2025
The 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.
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Corey J. Miles @coreyjmiles.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
To 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.
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Julien Grayer @wasabifunyuns.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
This Midwest Sociological Society in Chicago was a phenomenal time and reinforced why I love the community of my field!
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Crystal Fleming is on sabbatical @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I 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..
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 12/03/2025
american 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
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Julien Grayer @wasabifunyuns.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Aww yee
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 09/03/2025
Setting 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”?
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