Victor Ray
@victorerikray.bsky.social
Sociologist, UIowa Associate Professor and author of On Critical Race Theory. Vice-President American Sociological Association. Former BIGS Racial Equity Fellow at Harvard Business School.
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I have a question kind of tagging yesterday’s disability accommodations discourse:
Has anyone seen any analysis of the DOJ’s accessibility mandate for online content? this requirement is hitting universities as of April 2026 and I’ve heard several questions/hypotheses but not read any coverage.
Has anyone seen any analysis of the DOJ’s accessibility mandate for online content? this requirement is hitting universities as of April 2026 and I’ve heard several questions/hypotheses but not read any coverage.
December 4, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I have a question kind of tagging yesterday’s disability accommodations discourse:
Has anyone seen any analysis of the DOJ’s accessibility mandate for online content? this requirement is hitting universities as of April 2026 and I’ve heard several questions/hypotheses but not read any coverage.
Has anyone seen any analysis of the DOJ’s accessibility mandate for online content? this requirement is hitting universities as of April 2026 and I’ve heard several questions/hypotheses but not read any coverage.
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"Northwestern officials proudly noted that their pact with the WH explicitly declares that the agreement doesn’t allow the gov't to dictate “the content of academic speech and research” .... But the pact itself restricts speech and research at the university. Saying otherwise won’t change that."
Opinion | The Dishonesty of the Northwestern Deal
The university claims it preserved academic autonomy. It didn’t.
www.chronicle.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:55 PM
"Northwestern officials proudly noted that their pact with the WH explicitly declares that the agreement doesn’t allow the gov't to dictate “the content of academic speech and research” .... But the pact itself restricts speech and research at the university. Saying otherwise won’t change that."
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Maybe it's just me, but I don't think sociopaths should be running the government.
December 4, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Maybe it's just me, but I don't think sociopaths should be running the government.
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Utterly horrifying
December 4, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Utterly horrifying
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Like this is just some Madison Grant-level nonsense. Pure race science gobbledygook
December 3, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Like this is just some Madison Grant-level nonsense. Pure race science gobbledygook
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WaPo confirms my scoop: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
SCOOP: Sources tell me Donald Trump's name was added to the exterior of the US Institute of Peace building ahead of Thursday's peace agreement signing between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which will be held inside the building. Confirming if it's been officially renamed.
December 4, 2025 at 1:44 AM
WaPo confirms my scoop: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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in the 9th paragraph and didn’t credit me for the full scoop lol
December 4, 2025 at 1:59 AM
in the 9th paragraph and didn’t credit me for the full scoop lol
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Christopher Rufo is just a white supremacist, and I think it’s silly that we’re still doing news stories where he’s called a conservative activist or some other harmless sounding term.
December 3, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Christopher Rufo is just a white supremacist, and I think it’s silly that we’re still doing news stories where he’s called a conservative activist or some other harmless sounding term.
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Holy shit.
Scoop: FBI aims to escalate its inquiry into 6 Democrats who made video for troops by pressing domestic terrorism squad to launch a formal seditious conspiracy investigation. Washington Field Office leaders are pushing back b/c they don't see a crime. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
FBI Seeks ‘Seditious Conspiracy’ Probe of Democratic Lawmakers
The FBI is pressuring domestic terrorism agents to open a seditious conspiracy investigation into six Democratic lawmakers who advised military service members to defy unlawful orders, according to th...
news.bloomberglaw.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Holy shit.
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….. you know what you right. Some other things should happen but not taken serious is first
There are supposedly serious people who have argued that this *isn't* a white supremacist regime and they should not be taken seriously ever again.
Trump, continued: "What the Somalian people have done to Minnesota is not even believable. It’s not even believable. And a lot of it starts with the governor. A lot of it starts with Barack HUSSEIN Obama, because that’s when people started coming in... They want to kiss our country good night."
December 3, 2025 at 10:11 PM
….. you know what you right. Some other things should happen but not taken serious is first
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Really appreciate the clarity of the president saying black people are ruining the country and this entire room of groveling empty suits saying nothing bsky.app/profile/just...
Trump, continued: "What the Somalian people have done to Minnesota is not even believable. It’s not even believable. And a lot of it starts with the governor. A lot of it starts with Barack HUSSEIN Obama, because that’s when people started coming in... They want to kiss our country good night."
December 3, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Really appreciate the clarity of the president saying black people are ruining the country and this entire room of groveling empty suits saying nothing bsky.app/profile/just...
the alt-right won. this is their party.
Fox News' Will Cain: "I’m sure there are very honorable law-abiding upstanding citizens and contributors from the Somali community here in the United States, BUT..."
He goes on to say "we aren’t going to pretend here that all cultures are of equal value or the same."
He goes on to say "we aren’t going to pretend here that all cultures are of equal value or the same."
December 3, 2025 at 9:58 PM
the alt-right won. this is their party.
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jfc
Fox News' Will Cain: "I’m sure there are very honorable law-abiding upstanding citizens and contributors from the Somali community here in the United States, BUT..."
He goes on to say "we aren’t going to pretend here that all cultures are of equal value or the same."
He goes on to say "we aren’t going to pretend here that all cultures are of equal value or the same."
December 3, 2025 at 9:57 PM
jfc
There are supposedly serious people who have argued that this *isn't* a white supremacist regime and they should not be taken seriously ever again.
Trump, continued: "What the Somalian people have done to Minnesota is not even believable. It’s not even believable. And a lot of it starts with the governor. A lot of it starts with Barack HUSSEIN Obama, because that’s when people started coming in... They want to kiss our country good night."
December 3, 2025 at 9:57 PM
There are supposedly serious people who have argued that this *isn't* a white supremacist regime and they should not be taken seriously ever again.
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🚨New pub alert!🚨 Now available open-access in @journal-of-comm.bsky.social, we (w/ @dkreiss.bsky.social, @danlane.bsky.social, & @shannimcg.bsky.social) critique political communication's "Identity Turn" and offer instead a foundation for studying #polcomm from a *group* perspective. 🧵
December 3, 2025 at 6:04 PM
🚨New pub alert!🚨 Now available open-access in @journal-of-comm.bsky.social, we (w/ @dkreiss.bsky.social, @danlane.bsky.social, & @shannimcg.bsky.social) critique political communication's "Identity Turn" and offer instead a foundation for studying #polcomm from a *group* perspective. 🧵
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Another good one from our friend the flag enthusiast. Didn't you know that all claims of racial gerrymandering are just cynical attempts to gain a partisan edge??
December 3, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Another good one from our friend the flag enthusiast. Didn't you know that all claims of racial gerrymandering are just cynical attempts to gain a partisan edge??
My Order to Kill Everyone and Everything Was Taken Out of Context
My Order to Kill Everyone and Everything Was Taken Out of Context
“[Secretary of War] Hegseth ordered a lethal attack but not the killing of survivors, officials say… Amid talk of war crimes, the details and preci...
www.mcsweeneys.net
December 3, 2025 at 7:40 PM
My Order to Kill Everyone and Everything Was Taken Out of Context
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👇🏾 Yes, his obfuscation is lucrative.
I would just add that some of these folks, like Chatterton Williams, get paid not for their clarity but rather for their willingness to muddy the obvious. Some pundits entire job is to make things harder to understand.
one thing worth observing here is that so many of these pundits aren't earnestly trying to understand what happened in the world as much as they are shadowboxing with people they don't like on the internet. stringinamaze.net/p/the-pundit...
December 3, 2025 at 7:30 PM
👇🏾 Yes, his obfuscation is lucrative.
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NEW: Jim Jordan and House GOPers refused to let the American public hear directly from Jack Smith, per his attorney.
December 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
NEW: Jim Jordan and House GOPers refused to let the American public hear directly from Jack Smith, per his attorney.
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p.s. I'm not just picking on journalists -- this is also true of mainstream K-12 education, higher ed, & much of civil society. They hide the perpetrators, or launder them, & they try to ignore what drives inequity & harm on lots of dimensions.
Anything implicating privileged groups is minimized.
Anything implicating privileged groups is minimized.
December 3, 2025 at 7:21 PM
p.s. I'm not just picking on journalists -- this is also true of mainstream K-12 education, higher ed, & much of civil society. They hide the perpetrators, or launder them, & they try to ignore what drives inequity & harm on lots of dimensions.
Anything implicating privileged groups is minimized.
Anything implicating privileged groups is minimized.
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Making society & politics harder to understand is a primary function of mainstream news too.
I would just add that some of these folks, like Chatterton Williams, get paid not for their clarity but rather for their willingness to muddy the obvious. Some pundits entire job is to make things harder to understand.
one thing worth observing here is that so many of these pundits aren't earnestly trying to understand what happened in the world as much as they are shadowboxing with people they don't like on the internet. stringinamaze.net/p/the-pundit...
December 3, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Making society & politics harder to understand is a primary function of mainstream news too.
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Hal Phillip Walker, the unseen presidential candidate in "Nashville," explained this reality, referring to lawyers: "A lawyer is trained for two things and two things only. To clarify - that's one. And to confuse - that's the other thing. He does whichever is to his client's advantage."
December 3, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Hal Phillip Walker, the unseen presidential candidate in "Nashville," explained this reality, referring to lawyers: "A lawyer is trained for two things and two things only. To clarify - that's one. And to confuse - that's the other thing. He does whichever is to his client's advantage."
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It may be an even more lucrative business model than actually contributing something worthwhile to the conversation.
December 3, 2025 at 7:10 PM
It may be an even more lucrative business model than actually contributing something worthwhile to the conversation.
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Also can we just say their writing just sucks the more they’re paid to muddy the obvious? Which makes sense.
December 3, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Also can we just say their writing just sucks the more they’re paid to muddy the obvious? Which makes sense.
I would just add that some of these folks, like Chatterton Williams, get paid not for their clarity but rather for their willingness to muddy the obvious. Some pundits entire job is to make things harder to understand.
one thing worth observing here is that so many of these pundits aren't earnestly trying to understand what happened in the world as much as they are shadowboxing with people they don't like on the internet. stringinamaze.net/p/the-pundit...
December 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I would just add that some of these folks, like Chatterton Williams, get paid not for their clarity but rather for their willingness to muddy the obvious. Some pundits entire job is to make things harder to understand.