James
@jamesss26.bsky.social
he/him 🏳️⚧️ | a sociology undergrad at UW‐Eau Claire. loves fall out boy and nascar among other things
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No Kings includes Draft Kings
February 8, 2026 at 11:49 PM
No Kings includes Draft Kings
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34,000 signing up for this work AFTER seeing their fellow citizens gunned down by federal thugs in cold blood? I'm chugging whatever the opposite of doomerism is
More than 34,000 Minnesotans signed up to be trained as ICED observers with various activist groups in recent weeks, many of them since Jan. 7, when a federal agent shot and killed Renée Good.
Thousands of new ICE watchers hit the streets after two killings
Minnesotans outraged by the killings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti have signed up in large numbers to monitor and protest ICE with other activists.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 1, 2026 at 1:13 AM
34,000 signing up for this work AFTER seeing their fellow citizens gunned down by federal thugs in cold blood? I'm chugging whatever the opposite of doomerism is
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"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."
January 24, 2026 at 9:14 PM
"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."
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wow just woke up from a nap, i guess everyone else on Air Force One realized we aren't going to the right place
January 21, 2026 at 5:11 AM
wow just woke up from a nap, i guess everyone else on Air Force One realized we aren't going to the right place
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For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping.
Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.
www.ms.now
January 16, 2026 at 6:55 PM
For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
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damn what is wrong with me, i am having the hardest time concentrating on work, i lament as i compulsively refresh live feeds of unspeakable horrors
January 17, 2026 at 7:52 PM
damn what is wrong with me, i am having the hardest time concentrating on work, i lament as i compulsively refresh live feeds of unspeakable horrors
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The past few days have been heavy for many Americans.
I sat down and wrote about it.
Here’s Part I: open.substack.com/pub/ninaturn...
I sat down and wrote about it.
Here’s Part I: open.substack.com/pub/ninaturn...
This Is America, Now What? Part I: A Letter to White Americans
Over the past few days, like most Americans, I watched as federal agents have killed an American citizen on camera.
open.substack.com
January 11, 2026 at 6:53 PM
The past few days have been heavy for many Americans.
I sat down and wrote about it.
Here’s Part I: open.substack.com/pub/ninaturn...
I sat down and wrote about it.
Here’s Part I: open.substack.com/pub/ninaturn...
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A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter.
I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
January 10, 2026 at 3:24 PM
A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter.
I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
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Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.
January 7, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.
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November 6, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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good news folks the boys are woke again
Republicans thought they had a permanent hold over young men. They didn't.
Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.
Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.
November 5, 2025 at 3:37 AM
good news folks the boys are woke again
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Hey NASCAR fans, we want to hear from YOU! I’m a college student (and NASCAR fan) who's working on research with my professor about NASCAR's fans and their experiences.
Please take our anonymous & short 5-7 minute survey while it's open: uweauclaire.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
#NASCAR
Please take our anonymous & short 5-7 minute survey while it's open: uweauclaire.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
#NASCAR
October 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Hey NASCAR fans, we want to hear from YOU! I’m a college student (and NASCAR fan) who's working on research with my professor about NASCAR's fans and their experiences.
Please take our anonymous & short 5-7 minute survey while it's open: uweauclaire.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
#NASCAR
Please take our anonymous & short 5-7 minute survey while it's open: uweauclaire.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
#NASCAR
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We've got a running spreadsheet since 2019. The big story this year was Kit Kat's dramatic fall, after 6 years of dominance, to a lowly 4th place finish.
November 1, 2025 at 1:17 AM
We've got a running spreadsheet since 2019. The big story this year was Kit Kat's dramatic fall, after 6 years of dominance, to a lowly 4th place finish.
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We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
November 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
Happy championship weekend! I know I've got some NASCAR fans following me so it'd be really cool if you took & shared this survey I'm doing with my prof 👀 <3
Hey NASCAR fans, we want to hear from YOU! I’m a college student (and NASCAR fan) who's working on research with my professor about NASCAR's fans and their experiences.
Please take our anonymous & short 5-7 minute survey while it's open: uweauclaire.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
#NASCAR
Please take our anonymous & short 5-7 minute survey while it's open: uweauclaire.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
#NASCAR
October 31, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Happy championship weekend! I know I've got some NASCAR fans following me so it'd be really cool if you took & shared this survey I'm doing with my prof 👀 <3
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Lia Smith was a transgender rights advocate and athlete who spoke out forcefully against this administration's policies.
Rest in peace. Every trans suicide is a murder by those in power.
www.middleburycampus.com/article/2025...
Rest in peace. Every trans suicide is a murder by those in power.
www.middleburycampus.com/article/2025...
October 27, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Lia Smith was a transgender rights advocate and athlete who spoke out forcefully against this administration's policies.
Rest in peace. Every trans suicide is a murder by those in power.
www.middleburycampus.com/article/2025...
Rest in peace. Every trans suicide is a murder by those in power.
www.middleburycampus.com/article/2025...
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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
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The only king accepted in Grant Park is Shane van Gisbergen.
The #NoKings rally in Grant Park is impossibly huge. Tens of thousands of people here. Hundreds of folks are still streaming in.
October 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The only king accepted in Grant Park is Shane van Gisbergen.
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And Remember: spreading fascist bullshit around to dunk on it is still spreading fascist bullshit around.
October 17, 2025 at 11:37 PM
And Remember: spreading fascist bullshit around to dunk on it is still spreading fascist bullshit around.
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Did you know that a typhoon just hit Alaska & displaced over 1,000 people and washed away entire communities?
If your media isn't covering this, it's bc these are Indigenous communities.
If your media isn't covering this, it's bc these are Indigenous communities.
October 17, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Did you know that a typhoon just hit Alaska & displaced over 1,000 people and washed away entire communities?
If your media isn't covering this, it's bc these are Indigenous communities.
If your media isn't covering this, it's bc these are Indigenous communities.
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Sobbing at these Italians being happy to be stuck in traffic during a strike for Palestine
September 27, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Sobbing at these Italians being happy to be stuck in traffic during a strike for Palestine
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One of the key ways you refuse to comply with fascism is by becoming even louder and more fearless in supporting vulnerable people. You SHOW that you are unwilling to throw the "undesirables" under the bus if only for self-preservation because under fascism you will also become undesirable one day.
September 20, 2025 at 1:19 PM
One of the key ways you refuse to comply with fascism is by becoming even louder and more fearless in supporting vulnerable people. You SHOW that you are unwilling to throw the "undesirables" under the bus if only for self-preservation because under fascism you will also become undesirable one day.
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Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide.
As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.
End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.
End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
September 16, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide.
As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.
End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.
End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
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Get in, we're going to the round of 12 😁
Bubba has clinched!
Bubba has clinched!
September 14, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Get in, we're going to the round of 12 😁
Bubba has clinched!
Bubba has clinched!
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How can you not be romantic about NASCAR
August 24, 2025 at 3:14 AM
How can you not be romantic about NASCAR