Lear Burton

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.

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.

Promoting a New Segregation The Trump administration wants to make anti-Black racism great again.

hitting 2026 running with @victorerikray.bsky.social @liberalcurrents.com

"Many of MAGA’s forebears—including the Heritage Foundation—laid the groundwork with decades of curated discourse that recast desegregation as anti-white racism."

www.liberalcurrents.com/promoting-a-...

*trying to ignore the concentration camps*

i just need to lock in

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Legendary one from the New York Times

Congrats Professor! I loved your classes, they motivated me to be a sociologist.

there really is no alternative to tearing up CBP and ICE root and branch

meanwhile, prominent pundits continue to deny that there the administration adheres to a segregationist ideology

We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again

Annnnnnd unchecked racism that gave them more than it should have at the expense of Black folks.

so is it the official view of the white house that race is a biological reality?

Goodbye social science research. Worst part is how this is just the beginning.

abundantly clear that this administration takes “discrimination” to mean “any regard for minority communities” and treats “merit” as a synonym for “white (and preferably male)”

Missed the standup for science protest to go to a department meeting about impending losses to research funds -- fun time!

This was my first bluesky like thank you