Donald Tomaskovic-Devey
@dont-d.bsky.social
Sociologist of organizations, inequality, and hope
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Just wondering how we can build a less contested more #consensus building way to #govern here that builds a sustainable #society that can also be #fair and prosperous. The current politics is effectively destroying our planet. #auspol
September 7, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Just wondering how we can build a less contested more #consensus building way to #govern here that builds a sustainable #society that can also be #fair and prosperous. The current politics is effectively destroying our planet. #auspol
This is a hard book. Both familiar and unusually clear. Plutocrats+disinformation+attacks on science=climate and pandemic holocausts.
“Mann and Hotez detail how bad actors continue to propagate misinformation, persecute scientists, undermine science-based decisions from policymakers and the public and threaten global health and safety”
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How did assaults on science become the norm — and what can we do?
An insightful book explores attacks on science from a historical and a personal perspective.
www.nature.com
September 25, 2025 at 2:34 AM
This is a hard book. Both familiar and unusually clear. Plutocrats+disinformation+attacks on science=climate and pandemic holocausts.
Great wealth engenders great influence. Democracy wilts.
The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
September 25, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Great wealth engenders great influence. Democracy wilts.
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Here, I illustrated our essay with a picture of Trump trying to demolish a statue upon the shoulder of which stands a scientist.
July 26, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Here, I illustrated our essay with a picture of Trump trying to demolish a statue upon the shoulder of which stands a scientist.
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A post by Donald Tomaskovic-Devey (@dont-d.bsky.social) on the newest edition of Recapitalizing America is now available on the Work In Progress blog:
Recapitalizing America Redux – Work in Progress
www.wipsociology.org
July 4, 2025 at 2:47 AM
A post by Donald Tomaskovic-Devey (@dont-d.bsky.social) on the newest edition of Recapitalizing America is now available on the Work In Progress blog:
My 40 year old book, Recapitalizing America was reissued. Here is my reflection today. www.wipsociology.org/2025/07/02/r...
Recapitalizing America Redux – Work in Progress
www.wipsociology.org
July 2, 2025 at 3:02 PM
My 40 year old book, Recapitalizing America was reissued. Here is my reflection today. www.wipsociology.org/2025/07/02/r...
This
June 25, 2025 at 11:11 AM
This
Resist
The authoritarian script:
1) Court rules against leader
2) Attack judges as biased/dangerous
3) Delegitimize judicial system
4) Create permission for threats
5) IF NO MASS RESISTANCE → Purge the courts
6) IF MASS RESISTANCE → Forced to retreat
1) Court rules against leader
2) Attack judges as biased/dangerous
3) Delegitimize judicial system
4) Create permission for threats
5) IF NO MASS RESISTANCE → Purge the courts
6) IF MASS RESISTANCE → Forced to retreat
May 28, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Resist
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Stunning. May was brutal for Trump in federal court: 96% loss rate ⚖️. Even GOP-appointed judges have ruled against the admin 72% of the time. District courts are doing their job defending the Constitution. Soon the Supreme Court may be the only court unwilling to defend the rule of law.
May 24, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Stunning. May was brutal for Trump in federal court: 96% loss rate ⚖️. Even GOP-appointed judges have ruled against the admin 72% of the time. District courts are doing their job defending the Constitution. Soon the Supreme Court may be the only court unwilling to defend the rule of law.
Sunday thought
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
Sunday thought
A new phase of Trump neofascism
open.substack.com
May 25, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Sunday thought
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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Funding awards are down in nearly every division, and total new awards approximate levels of new awards in the early 1990s. 🧪
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades
The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.
www.nytimes.com
May 24, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Funding awards are down in nearly every division, and total new awards approximate levels of new awards in the early 1990s. 🧪
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
A giant, who wrote that the poor pay more.
April 22, 2025 at 1:34 AM
A giant, who wrote that the poor pay more.
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“Big Tech companies including X, Meta, Apple and TikTok should be aware the bloc is ready to enforce its full digital rulebook no matter who is in charge of these firms or where they're located”
European Commission Prez
@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu on DSA enforcement
www.politico.eu/article/euro...
European Commission Prez
@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu on DSA enforcement
www.politico.eu/article/euro...
Von der Leyen warns X, Meta, TikTok to play by the rules in Europe — no matter who’s CEO
The European Commission will enforce its digital rulebook without fear, said Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
www.politico.eu
April 21, 2025 at 9:50 AM
“Big Tech companies including X, Meta, Apple and TikTok should be aware the bloc is ready to enforce its full digital rulebook no matter who is in charge of these firms or where they're located”
European Commission Prez
@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu on DSA enforcement
www.politico.eu/article/euro...
European Commission Prez
@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu on DSA enforcement
www.politico.eu/article/euro...
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Pete Hegseth is a pretty despicable human being, on top of the other, many deficits he brought to the Pentagon
But you should be even madder at the 50 senators who knew Hegseth was an alcoholic, a serial abuser of women, and a poser massively unqualified for the post and yet voted for him anyway
But you should be even madder at the 50 senators who knew Hegseth was an alcoholic, a serial abuser of women, and a poser massively unqualified for the post and yet voted for him anyway
April 21, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Pete Hegseth is a pretty despicable human being, on top of the other, many deficits he brought to the Pentagon
But you should be even madder at the 50 senators who knew Hegseth was an alcoholic, a serial abuser of women, and a poser massively unqualified for the post and yet voted for him anyway
But you should be even madder at the 50 senators who knew Hegseth was an alcoholic, a serial abuser of women, and a poser massively unqualified for the post and yet voted for him anyway
Sunday thought
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
Sunday thought
The contagion of courage
open.substack.com
April 20, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Sunday thought
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
April 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
Trending hope, thanks Rutgers
Hubs & I were talking at breakfast just today about the urgency for each sector of American society to stand firm as one. As the Legal community is finding out, flying solo makes it easier for a corrupt regime to pick you off, and capitulation wins you nothing. The power is in standing arm-in-arm.
This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.
March 31, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Trending hope, thanks Rutgers
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This is brilliant!... if all 18 schools actually step up to the plate.
This is academia's chance to take the lead on fighting back against the Idiocracy.
Please, University Presidents, have the courage to show the way.
This is academia's chance to take the lead on fighting back against the Idiocracy.
Please, University Presidents, have the courage to show the way.
This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.
March 30, 2025 at 11:32 PM
This is brilliant!... if all 18 schools actually step up to the plate.
This is academia's chance to take the lead on fighting back against the Idiocracy.
Please, University Presidents, have the courage to show the way.
This is academia's chance to take the lead on fighting back against the Idiocracy.
Please, University Presidents, have the courage to show the way.
PLEASE REPOST
Two colleagues and I have been looking at corporate racial justice responses to the George Floy murder/BLM protests. Top line finding is influential DEI staff mattered. I suspect that the current DEI backlash is at least in part a response.
theconversation.com/we-analyzed-...
Two colleagues and I have been looking at corporate racial justice responses to the George Floy murder/BLM protests. Top line finding is influential DEI staff mattered. I suspect that the current DEI backlash is at least in part a response.
theconversation.com/we-analyzed-...
We analyzed racial justice statements from the 500 largest US companies and found that DEI officials really did have an influence
Only 1 in 5 Fortune 500 companies made strong racial justice commitments in response to the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests. Those companies were more likely to have DEI staff.
theconversation.com
March 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
PLEASE REPOST
Two colleagues and I have been looking at corporate racial justice responses to the George Floy murder/BLM protests. Top line finding is influential DEI staff mattered. I suspect that the current DEI backlash is at least in part a response.
theconversation.com/we-analyzed-...
Two colleagues and I have been looking at corporate racial justice responses to the George Floy murder/BLM protests. Top line finding is influential DEI staff mattered. I suspect that the current DEI backlash is at least in part a response.
theconversation.com/we-analyzed-...
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