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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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Julien Grayer @wasabifunyuns.bsky.social · Feb 27

Whitewater's been one of the cities that's singled out during the moral panics surrounding immigration (it was named in an EO!). My colleagues and I did some public sociology in Madison's Capital Times where we put facts to paper about immigration and crime in our town.

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Opinion | Whitewater shows how moral panic distorts immigrant debate

Julien Grayer and others: Despite worry about immigrant crime, we discovered that immigrants have a 60% lower chance of being incarcerated.

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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.social · 28d

The idea of white people watching the news and praying the perp is not one of them is SENDING ME 😂

Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 28d

Governor of Utah, Spencer Cox: “For 33 hours, I was praying that if this had to happen here that it wouldn’t be one of us. Somebody from another state, somebody that came from another country. Sadly that prayer wasn’t answered the way I hoped for.”

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Leon “Lee” Grayhare @grayharetherabbit.bsky.social · 28d

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..

jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 28d

incredible

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 28d

the computer is good, continue being on the computer all the time.

Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 28d

Each alleged mass shooter is even more On the Computer All the Time than the previous one. Probably nothing to worry about there

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Sami Schalk @drsamischalk.bsky.social · Sep 10

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 · Aug 6

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 · Sep 2

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 · Jul 9

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.

Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · Jul 9

A land of contrasts

(CNN)
The masks frequently worn by agents make ICE seem like the type of secret police that operates in authoritarian regimes. But they are apparently meant to protect agents from doxxing.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · Jun 9

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...

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 · May 25

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...

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 · May 16

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.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · May 7

Jesus.

NPR @npr.org · May 7

BREAKING NEWS: A jury finds three former Memphis police officers not guilty of all charges in the death of Tyre Nichols, including the most serious charge of second degree murder.

Three Memphis police officers found not guilty in the death of Tyre Nichols

A jury found three former Memphis police officers not guilty of all charges in the death of Tyre Nichols, including the most serious charge of second degree murder.

www.npr.org

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · May 7

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.”

ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · May 7

1/ The US government has ordered the Swedish city of Stockholm to end its diversity, inclusivity and equality (DEI) programmes within 10 days. The city authorities say the demand is "bizarre" and they won't be complying. ⬇️

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Jess Hardie @jesshardie.bsky.social · Apr 24

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 · May 4

*opens door*
*MF Doom plays*

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · May 1

Hey there! Just circling back

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Mr. Antifascism @mrantifascism.com · May 1

Unbelievable pictures from May Day protest in NYC today!

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · Apr 30

Trump take toy.

Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · Apr 30

The two toy policy is the great leader’s year zero plan for forcibly tightening your belt so tight that everything that was ever in your pockets pops out into his and his sponsors’.

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Leon “Lee” Grayhare @grayharetherabbit.bsky.social · Apr 24

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).

Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · Apr 24

They are segregationist and this will be open season for discrimination.

“the Attorney General shall initiate appropriate action to repeal or amend the implementing regulations for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for all agencies to the extent they contemplate disparate-impact liability”

achukilissa @achukilissa.bsky.social · Apr 23

My god. He’s gone after the Civil Rights Act!!!!

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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W. Carson Byrd @wcbyrdphd.bsky.social · Apr 24

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.

Chalkbeat @chalkbeat.org · Apr 23

Trump signs orders to promote stricter school discipline, end analysis of racial disparities
https://www.chalkbeat.org/2025/04/24/trump-orders-stricter-school-discipline-less-focus-on-racial-disparities/

Trump moves to keep schools from examining racial disparities in school discipline — again

The Trump administration said the orders promoting stricter school discipline and a reduced focus on racial disparities in suspensions and expulsions would make schools safer and give teachers more tools to maintain classroom behavior.

www.chalkbeat.org

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Karyn Lacy @karynlacy.bsky.social · Apr 23

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...

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 · Apr 22

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 · Apr 22

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 · Apr 18

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.

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · Apr 18

"46% of Head Start funding goes to rural areas, often in places without any other child care option..."

www.axios.com/2025/04/16/h...

Advocates worry over possible cuts to Head Start

The decades-old federal program provides childcare, nutrition assistance and other services to the nation's poorest families.

www.axios.com

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Apr 13

If I were an editor at a prestigious national publication I would simply ask writers to define what they mean by words like "forced"
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“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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