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

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..

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

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 🤷🏽‍♀️

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.

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

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.

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...

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...

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.

Jesus.

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.”

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...

*opens door* *MF Doom plays*

Unbelievable pictures from May Day protest in NYC today!

Trump take toy.

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).

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.

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...

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...

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!

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.

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...

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)

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.

happy confederate surrender day to all

I see that bitch blinked

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...

30 years ago a professor explained tariffs to me as “economic sanctions a country puts on itself” and that stuck with me.

lmao eat shit loser

:: 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.

@booker.senate.gov dismantles a Confederate monument.

Senator Cory Booker has now broken the record for the longest Senate Floor speech, previously held by Strom Thurmond (24 hours 18 minutes).

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

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!

I just remembered the first time I heard of Pete Hegseth www.bbc.com/news/world-u...

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.

I wonder if the Association of Black Sociologists and/or SRE journal has a Bluesky yet…

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.

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.

This Midwest Sociological Society in Chicago was a phenomenal time and reinforced why I love the community of my field!

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..

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

Aww yee

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”?

Consent manufacturing machine go brrrrrr

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. captimes.com/opinion/gues...