Dominik Vogel
@dominikvogel.bsky.social
Professor of HRM and organization in the public sector at the Harz University of Applied Sciences
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Talking to your family at Thanksgiving is hard. Let @lesdoggg.bsky.social handle it
November 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Talking to your family at Thanksgiving is hard. Let @lesdoggg.bsky.social handle it
Trendsetter Bundesverfassungsgericht
November 21, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Trendsetter Bundesverfassungsgericht
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What's happening in ICE also seems to go in the FBI.
The current US administration seeks to staff key security agencies with unprofessional careerists rather than skilled professionals. See 👇
🙏 for a great post and featuring our work/new book "Making a Career in Dictatorship", @donmoyn.bsky.social!
The current US administration seeks to staff key security agencies with unprofessional careerists rather than skilled professionals. See 👇
🙏 for a great post and featuring our work/new book "Making a Career in Dictatorship", @donmoyn.bsky.social!
New from me:
Kash Patel is engaged in purges, removal of real accountability, and impunity for loyalists at the FBI.
Researchers told me that these are the exact patterns that create abusive national security organizations under authoritarianism. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
Kash Patel is engaged in purges, removal of real accountability, and impunity for loyalists at the FBI.
Researchers told me that these are the exact patterns that create abusive national security organizations under authoritarianism. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
How the FBI Became the Face of Deprofessionalization
What research tells us about national security under authoritarianism
donmoynihan.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:53 PM
What's happening in ICE also seems to go in the FBI.
The current US administration seeks to staff key security agencies with unprofessional careerists rather than skilled professionals. See 👇
🙏 for a great post and featuring our work/new book "Making a Career in Dictatorship", @donmoyn.bsky.social!
The current US administration seeks to staff key security agencies with unprofessional careerists rather than skilled professionals. See 👇
🙏 for a great post and featuring our work/new book "Making a Career in Dictatorship", @donmoyn.bsky.social!
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New from me:
Kash Patel is engaged in purges, removal of real accountability, and impunity for loyalists at the FBI.
Researchers told me that these are the exact patterns that create abusive national security organizations under authoritarianism. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
Kash Patel is engaged in purges, removal of real accountability, and impunity for loyalists at the FBI.
Researchers told me that these are the exact patterns that create abusive national security organizations under authoritarianism. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
How the FBI Became the Face of Deprofessionalization
What research tells us about national security under authoritarianism
donmoynihan.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
New from me:
Kash Patel is engaged in purges, removal of real accountability, and impunity for loyalists at the FBI.
Researchers told me that these are the exact patterns that create abusive national security organizations under authoritarianism. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
Kash Patel is engaged in purges, removal of real accountability, and impunity for loyalists at the FBI.
Researchers told me that these are the exact patterns that create abusive national security organizations under authoritarianism. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
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What is really going on in this society that elected Donald Trump president a second time?
I wrote about three stubborn myths about Trump’s support – and why America has experienced a de-alignment rather than a rightward realignment.
My new piece for @zeit.de – and some thoughts in English:
I wrote about three stubborn myths about Trump’s support – and why America has experienced a de-alignment rather than a rightward realignment.
My new piece for @zeit.de – and some thoughts in English:
Unterstützung von Donald Trump: Die Irrtümer über Donald Trumps Rückhalt
Rechtsruck, multiethnische Koalition, Held einfacher Leute: Trump gilt als fest verankert. Doch diese Überzeugung beruht auf drei großen Missverständnissen.
www.zeit.de
November 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
What is really going on in this society that elected Donald Trump president a second time?
I wrote about three stubborn myths about Trump’s support – and why America has experienced a de-alignment rather than a rightward realignment.
My new piece for @zeit.de – and some thoughts in English:
I wrote about three stubborn myths about Trump’s support – and why America has experienced a de-alignment rather than a rightward realignment.
My new piece for @zeit.de – and some thoughts in English:
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Kein besserer Start in den Morgen als mit einem starken ZEIT-Artikel meines großartigen Hertie-Kollegen Christian Gläßel und @ascharpf.bsky.social: www.zeit.de/politik/ausl... (Freebie-Link)
Rekrutierung bei ICE: Repression als Karrierechance
Das Ziel: 3.000 Festnahmen pro Tag. Die US-Einwanderungsbehörde ICE geht nicht zimperlich vor, und den schmutzigen Job machen Leute mit fragwürdiger Eignung. Kein Zufall.
www.zeit.de
November 13, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Kein besserer Start in den Morgen als mit einem starken ZEIT-Artikel meines großartigen Hertie-Kollegen Christian Gläßel und @ascharpf.bsky.social: www.zeit.de/politik/ausl... (Freebie-Link)
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Die Zeit porträtiert eine „Whites Only“ Siedlung in Arkansas samt schicker Fotostrecke, und schreibt dazu in den Insta-Slides über den Gründer, einen Antisemiten und White Supremacist Überschriften wie „Orwoll, ein Rassist?“ (Sein Projekt wird auch von einem australischen Neo-Nazi unterstützt).
November 4, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Die Zeit porträtiert eine „Whites Only“ Siedlung in Arkansas samt schicker Fotostrecke, und schreibt dazu in den Insta-Slides über den Gründer, einen Antisemiten und White Supremacist Überschriften wie „Orwoll, ein Rassist?“ (Sein Projekt wird auch von einem australischen Neo-Nazi unterstützt).
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"Das Werk reiht sich ... in die unendliche Abfolge der “Warum alles so schlimm ist”-Bücher ein, sondern setzt noch einen Fehler obendrauf, welcher das ganze Büchlein in den Abgrund zieht: Es hat weder einen erkennbaren Zusammenhang noch einen Titel, welcher auch nur annähernd seinen Inhalt erfasst."
FAZ-Journalist Reinhard Müller hat ein Buch über "Deutsche Dogmen" verfasst. Geht's dort wie behauptet um "Irrtümer der deutschen Volksseele" oder nur um Fantasieprodukte des Autors? Lesen Sie, was LTO-Rezensent Thomas Fischer von dem Buch hält: www.lto.de/recht/meinun...
Fischer rezensiert: 'Deutsche Dogmen' von Reinhard Müller
Die Irrtümer der deutschen Volkseele erweisen sich als Müllers persönliche Fantasieprodukte. Fake, meint Thomas Fischer und senkt den Daumen.
www.lto.de
November 2, 2025 at 2:28 PM
"Das Werk reiht sich ... in die unendliche Abfolge der “Warum alles so schlimm ist”-Bücher ein, sondern setzt noch einen Fehler obendrauf, welcher das ganze Büchlein in den Abgrund zieht: Es hat weder einen erkennbaren Zusammenhang noch einen Titel, welcher auch nur annähernd seinen Inhalt erfasst."
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JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
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I re-launched Democracy Americana exactly one month ago, as I started my new life as a full-time writer.
Time for a quick rebrand.
No worries, nothing else changes. New look, same focus: The ongoing conflict over how much democracy, and for whom, there should be in America.
Time for a quick rebrand.
No worries, nothing else changes. New look, same focus: The ongoing conflict over how much democracy, and for whom, there should be in America.
Democracy Americana
A newsletter on U.S. politics and history - and the ongoing struggle over how much democracy, and for whom, there should be in America
democracyamericana.com
October 25, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I re-launched Democracy Americana exactly one month ago, as I started my new life as a full-time writer.
Time for a quick rebrand.
No worries, nothing else changes. New look, same focus: The ongoing conflict over how much democracy, and for whom, there should be in America.
Time for a quick rebrand.
No worries, nothing else changes. New look, same focus: The ongoing conflict over how much democracy, and for whom, there should be in America.
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🚨 New article out!
“Right-Wing Terror, Media Backlash, and Voting Preferences for the Far Right” in @bjpols.bsky.social
👉 doi.org/10.1017/S000...
We (Alex De Juan, @juvoss.bsky.social & I) examine how right-wing attacks shape support for the far-right in Germany.
Short summary thread below 👇
“Right-Wing Terror, Media Backlash, and Voting Preferences for the Far Right” in @bjpols.bsky.social
👉 doi.org/10.1017/S000...
We (Alex De Juan, @juvoss.bsky.social & I) examine how right-wing attacks shape support for the far-right in Germany.
Short summary thread below 👇
October 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM
🚨 New article out!
“Right-Wing Terror, Media Backlash, and Voting Preferences for the Far Right” in @bjpols.bsky.social
👉 doi.org/10.1017/S000...
We (Alex De Juan, @juvoss.bsky.social & I) examine how right-wing attacks shape support for the far-right in Germany.
Short summary thread below 👇
“Right-Wing Terror, Media Backlash, and Voting Preferences for the Far Right” in @bjpols.bsky.social
👉 doi.org/10.1017/S000...
We (Alex De Juan, @juvoss.bsky.social & I) examine how right-wing attacks shape support for the far-right in Germany.
Short summary thread below 👇
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This is a good post! I keep using 1234 or 12345, but only for visualization stuff like jittering. For real stuff, I go to random dot org (based on atmospheric noise) and create a random 8+ digit integer, generally one for each brms model I run in a project
We need to have a conversation about random seeds. Don't use 42.
blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/if-your-ra...
blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/if-your-ra...
If your random seed is 42 I will come to your office and set your computer on fire🔥
Figuratively. More likely you'll get a stern talking to.
blog.genesmindsmachines.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
This is a good post! I keep using 1234 or 12345, but only for visualization stuff like jittering. For real stuff, I go to random dot org (based on atmospheric noise) and create a random 8+ digit integer, generally one for each brms model I run in a project
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Today’s internet is one single gigantic fault domain.
October 21, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Today’s internet is one single gigantic fault domain.
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If you read German:
Für @table.media schreibe ich ab jetzt regelmäßig über Geschichte, Gegenwart und Zukunft des Angriffs auf Wissenschaft und Universitäten in den USA.
In meiner ersten Kolumne: Die Trumpisten haben der Universität den Krieg erklärt – aber warum eigentlich?
Für @table.media schreibe ich ab jetzt regelmäßig über Geschichte, Gegenwart und Zukunft des Angriffs auf Wissenschaft und Universitäten in den USA.
In meiner ersten Kolumne: Die Trumpisten haben der Universität den Krieg erklärt – aber warum eigentlich?
Die Trumpisten haben den #Universitäten den Krieg erklärt. Warum eigentlich? Und welche Lehren sollte Deutschland aus dieser Entwicklung ziehen? Darum geht es in der neuen Kolumne „Academia under Attack“ von @thomaszimmer.bsky.social für Research.Table: buff.ly/cJ9St91
October 16, 2025 at 7:11 AM
If you read German:
Für @table.media schreibe ich ab jetzt regelmäßig über Geschichte, Gegenwart und Zukunft des Angriffs auf Wissenschaft und Universitäten in den USA.
In meiner ersten Kolumne: Die Trumpisten haben der Universität den Krieg erklärt – aber warum eigentlich?
Für @table.media schreibe ich ab jetzt regelmäßig über Geschichte, Gegenwart und Zukunft des Angriffs auf Wissenschaft und Universitäten in den USA.
In meiner ersten Kolumne: Die Trumpisten haben der Universität den Krieg erklärt – aber warum eigentlich?
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ICYMI yesterday:
I wrote about Ezra Klein, Ta-Nehisi Coates, the struggle to define the boundaries of what is acceptable in America – and why democratic citizens have an obligation to hold the line on what we consider beyond the pale.
Some thoughts from my new piece:
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I wrote about Ezra Klein, Ta-Nehisi Coates, the struggle to define the boundaries of what is acceptable in America – and why democratic citizens have an obligation to hold the line on what we consider beyond the pale.
Some thoughts from my new piece:
🧵
Where Is the Line?
On Ezra Klein, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and the struggle to define the boundaries of what is acceptable in America
steady.page
October 6, 2025 at 1:34 PM
ICYMI yesterday:
I wrote about Ezra Klein, Ta-Nehisi Coates, the struggle to define the boundaries of what is acceptable in America – and why democratic citizens have an obligation to hold the line on what we consider beyond the pale.
Some thoughts from my new piece:
🧵
I wrote about Ezra Klein, Ta-Nehisi Coates, the struggle to define the boundaries of what is acceptable in America – and why democratic citizens have an obligation to hold the line on what we consider beyond the pale.
Some thoughts from my new piece:
🧵
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This is a regime at war: With large segments of the population, with pluralistic democracy and American society as it actually exists.
They are not looking to reform or compromise, they desire to destroy, conquer, and dominate.
They are not looking to reform or compromise, they desire to destroy, conquer, and dominate.
Trump: "The ones that are run by radical left Democrats -- what they've done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles. They're very unsafe places & we're gonna straighten them out one by one. This is gonna be a major part for some people in this room. That's a war too. It's war from within"
September 30, 2025 at 3:29 PM
This is a regime at war: With large segments of the population, with pluralistic democracy and American society as it actually exists.
They are not looking to reform or compromise, they desire to destroy, conquer, and dominate.
They are not looking to reform or compromise, they desire to destroy, conquer, and dominate.
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So many echoes from this article for US politics....
September 27, 2025 at 4:43 PM
So many echoes from this article for US politics....
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I had an extended conversation with the FAZ podcast (in German) - about Christian nationalism as the defining political identity on the American Right, about ideology and religion in Trumpism, and about why MAGA is at war with the very idea of pluralistic democracy.
Really enjoyed this one:
Really enjoyed this one:
Trumps evangelikale „Kreuzritter": „Kriegserklärung an die plurale Gesellschaft"
Der Historiker Thomas Zimmer, noch bis Sommer an der Universität Georgetown, berichtet über die „christlich-völkische" Bewegung der Evangelikalen in den USA, die immer mächtiger wird.
www.faz.net
September 27, 2025 at 9:14 AM
I had an extended conversation with the FAZ podcast (in German) - about Christian nationalism as the defining political identity on the American Right, about ideology and religion in Trumpism, and about why MAGA is at war with the very idea of pluralistic democracy.
Really enjoyed this one:
Really enjoyed this one:
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I'm getting tired of saying this but being extremely stupid is only bad if intelligence matters to your particular epistemic community and/or you are unable to externalize the costs of your stupidity. unfortunately for the rest of us, neither of these conditions is met in this case!
September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I'm getting tired of saying this but being extremely stupid is only bad if intelligence matters to your particular epistemic community and/or you are unable to externalize the costs of your stupidity. unfortunately for the rest of us, neither of these conditions is met in this case!
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I wrote about why we left America
I am starting my new life as a full-time writer focused on U.S. history and politics right after we left the United States. Life and work in America felt increasingly untenable for us.
We were in the privileged position to have the choice to leave.
I am starting my new life as a full-time writer focused on U.S. history and politics right after we left the United States. Life and work in America felt increasingly untenable for us.
We were in the privileged position to have the choice to leave.
Onward. Forward. Steady.
Things have really changed. Now I need your help.
steady.page
September 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I wrote about why we left America
I am starting my new life as a full-time writer focused on U.S. history and politics right after we left the United States. Life and work in America felt increasingly untenable for us.
We were in the privileged position to have the choice to leave.
I am starting my new life as a full-time writer focused on U.S. history and politics right after we left the United States. Life and work in America felt increasingly untenable for us.
We were in the privileged position to have the choice to leave.
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Must-read piece.
The past week has shown us something scary — the concrete and specific outlines of a durable authoritarian state in America.
Here's what this state would look like, and the precise policy levers Trump is pulling to get there from here.
www.vox.com/politics/462...
Here's what this state would look like, and the precise policy levers Trump is pulling to get there from here.
www.vox.com/politics/462...
This is how Trump ends democracy
The past week has revealed Trump’s policy road map to veto one-party rule. Will Americans let him follow it?
www.vox.com
September 21, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Must-read piece.
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We know that Putin and other dictators try to build a new world order. Soft power plays a crucial role in this.
Today, Russia hosts the Intervision 2025 – a competitor event to the Eurovision Song Contest.
Which regimes participate in this contest?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intervi...
Today, Russia hosts the Intervision 2025 – a competitor event to the Eurovision Song Contest.
Which regimes participate in this contest?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intervi...
Intervision 2025 - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
September 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
We know that Putin and other dictators try to build a new world order. Soft power plays a crucial role in this.
Today, Russia hosts the Intervision 2025 – a competitor event to the Eurovision Song Contest.
Which regimes participate in this contest?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intervi...
Today, Russia hosts the Intervision 2025 – a competitor event to the Eurovision Song Contest.
Which regimes participate in this contest?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intervi...
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Cancel Culture www.spiegel.de/kultur/tv/us...
US-Sender setzt »Jimmy Kimmel Live« wegen Aussagen zu Kirk-Attentäter vorerst ab
Jimmy Kimmel gilt als Kritiker der MAGA-Bewegung des US-Präsidenten. Zum Angriff auf Charlie Kirk äußerte er sich in seiner jüngsten Talkshow deutlich. Nun reagiert sein Sender ABC hart.
www.spiegel.de
September 18, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Cancel Culture www.spiegel.de/kultur/tv/us...
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Alle - ALLE - die weiter zu Charlie Kirk und allem drumherum schreiben wollen, lesen das jetzt.
Wer nichtmal im Ansatz versteht was das steht hat keine Berechtigtung mehr medial was dazu zu sagen und richtet Schaden ein.
Internetgeschichte ist genauso wichtig wie analoge Geschichte.
Wer nichtmal im Ansatz versteht was das steht hat keine Berechtigtung mehr medial was dazu zu sagen und richtet Schaden ein.
Internetgeschichte ist genauso wichtig wie analoge Geschichte.
So, weil das jetzt seit Tagen in mir wurlt. Leute, die behaupten, Charlie Kirk sei immerhin an Unis gegangen um die Diskussion mit der anderen Seite zu suchen, sagen damit nur eins:
"Ich habe keine Ahnung, wie Politaktivismus in den USA funktioniert."
Ein Thread.
1/X
"Ich habe keine Ahnung, wie Politaktivismus in den USA funktioniert."
Ein Thread.
1/X
September 14, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Alle - ALLE - die weiter zu Charlie Kirk und allem drumherum schreiben wollen, lesen das jetzt.
Wer nichtmal im Ansatz versteht was das steht hat keine Berechtigtung mehr medial was dazu zu sagen und richtet Schaden ein.
Internetgeschichte ist genauso wichtig wie analoge Geschichte.
Wer nichtmal im Ansatz versteht was das steht hat keine Berechtigtung mehr medial was dazu zu sagen und richtet Schaden ein.
Internetgeschichte ist genauso wichtig wie analoge Geschichte.