My take, both contemporary and historical, on US polarization. bsky.app/profile/lsei...

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.

Great wealth engenders great influence. Democracy wilts.

Here, I illustrated our essay with a picture of Trump trying to demolish a statue upon the shoulder of which stands a scientist.

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...

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Resist

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...

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/...

A giant, who wrote that the poor pay more.

“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...

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

Sunday thought open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

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

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.

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-...

Sign up, stand up. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Waiting for Liberal Democracy in the American South www.thebulwark.com/p/liberal-de...

Great analysis of privatizing the federal government by Nate Meyers. This is a fifty year trend on steriods this month. theconversation.com/trumps-doge-...

This is my household too, babies, children, grandparents,fear and exhaustion. Big discussions of is it Putin? Oligarchy? White masculinity? I think a trifecta.

Went for the DEI, left with 24 eggs for $8.89. All is not lost.

Expect the worst, unless we RESIST

The institution of American science is on the front lines in the fight against fascism. This is more than just indirect cost caps. On March 7th, we stand for the freedom of thought, the power of knowledge, and, ultimately, democracy. #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall Please share widely!

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

Victor Ray on diversity futures youtu.be/-frLRDS0XOY?...

I am working with some lawyers to sue Trump over taking down data from govt websites. Any ideas on professional science organizations that might be plaintiffs. Names and websites appreciated.

At a London bus stop. The Brits are telling it like it is.

Resist in the ways you can. substack.com/@jaykuo/note...

So far umass' response has been quiet law suits around funding. Lawyers have tools, but we need social Scientists of resistance at the table. @vinthagen.bsky.social

While most firms stayed silent DEI staff prominent in the global DEI network did motivate among the Fortune 500 strong racial justice responses to Black Lives Matter. Is this what scares them?

We must preserve the data! www.amstat.org/docs/default...

Preemptive compliance in higher Ed?

This is the repression avenue to fascism, the direct route is to support fascist parties.

We count what we care about.

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And then they came for the universities...but the university presidents had publicly committed to political "neutrality” which set the stage for their own demise.

Ok, lots of whining that the resistance is too slow. The resistance is us, you, me. What are your skills, networks, institutions? Mobilize them and stop your winjaing.

Last night I spent hours downloading data from the EEOC website. Just in case.....