Donald Tomaskovic-Devey
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Sociologist of organizations, inequality, and hope
I'm reading Nancy Folbre on Arin Dube this afternoon. You should too
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What, Exactly, Is a Fair Wage? - The American Prospect
Arindrajit Dube brilliantly dissects how wages really are set—but overlooks the particular hurdles that care workers face.
https://prospect.org/2026/04/17/fair-wage-standard-arindrajit-dube-book-review/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=How%20Trump%20undermines%20Trump&utm_campaign=Kuttner%20on%20TAP%204%2F17%2F26
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The EEOC is encouraging white men to file race and sex discrimination complaints. We know a little about this already so I wrote this with Steve Boutcher.
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White men file workplace discrimination claims but are less likely to face inequity than other groups
Research shows that white men who file discrimination charges experience employer retaliation at similar rates as other racial groups.
https://theconversation.com/white-men-file-workplace-discrimination-claims-but-are-less-likely-to-face-inequity-than-other-groups-273664
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My take, both contemporary and historical, on US polarization.
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5 months ago
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Kate-Eviva
9 months ago
Just wondering how we can build a less contested more
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and prosperous. The current politics is effectively destroying our planet.
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This is a hard book. Both familiar and unusually clear. Plutocrats+disinformation+attacks on science=climate and pandemic holocausts.
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Great wealth engenders great influence. Democracy wilts.
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The Family Business: An Open Letter (satire/opinion)
Things have changed, Jennifer Lundquist writes (satirically).
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/08/14/family-business-open-letter-satireopinion
10 months ago
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Philip N Cohen
11 months ago
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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What Fissured Workplaces Really Mean for Workers
As companies outsource more roles, fissured workplaces are rising. Here's how they’re affecting job quality, wages, and worker safety across industries.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/adiaharveywingfield/2025/07/18/fissured-workplace-impact-on-workers/
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Inequality has risen from 1970 to Trump − that has 3 hidden costs that undermine democracy
The Republican tax bill is set to worsen inequality, government data shows. It’s part of a 50-year trend that’s affecting the social fabric as well as the economy.
https://theconversation.com/inequality-has-risen-from-1970-to-trump-that-has-3-hidden-costs-that-undermine-democracy-259104?utm_medium=article_native_share&utm_source=theconversation.com
11 months ago
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Work In Progress
11 months ago
A post by Donald Tomaskovic-Devey (
@dont-d.bsky.social
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Recapitalizing America Redux – Work in Progress
http://www.wipsociology.org/2025/07/02/recapitalizing-america-redux/#more-3625
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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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Recapitalizing America Redux – Work in Progress
http://www.wipsociology.org/2025/07/02/recapitalizing-america-redux/
11 months ago
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This Is a Summer to Organize (opinion)
Faculty may want a break, but the architects of the assault on higher ed won’t be breaking and neither should we, Jennifer Lundquist and Kathy Roberts Forde write.
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/06/03/summer-organize-opinion
about 1 year ago
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Resist
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about 1 year ago
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Adam Bonica
about 1 year ago
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.
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Sunday thought
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Sunday thought
A new phase of Trump neofascism
https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/sunday-thought-8c5?r=m6dut&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
about 1 year ago
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Dustin Avent-Holt
about 1 year ago
Funding awards are down in nearly every division, and total new awards approximate levels of new awards in the early 1990s. 🧪
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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.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/05/22/upshot/nsf-grants-trump-cuts.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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A giant, who wrote that the poor pay more.
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about 1 year ago
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Claes de Vreese
about 1 year ago
“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
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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.
https://www.politico.eu/article/european-commission-ursula-von-der-leyen-warns-x-meta-tiktok-rules-ceo/
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Will Bunch
about 1 year ago
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
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Sunday thought
The contagion of courage
https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/sunday-thought-69d?r=m6dut&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
about 1 year ago
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Senator Chris Van Hollen
about 1 year ago
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.
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Trending hope, thanks Rutgers
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about 1 year ago
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Vintage Jerseys & Hats
about 1 year ago
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.
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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.
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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.
https://theconversation.com/we-analyzed-racial-justice-statements-from-the-500-largest-us-companies-and-found-that-dei-officials-really-did-have-an-influence-249999
about 1 year ago
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Sign up, stand up.
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Speaking Out for Democracy and US Higher Education
Speaking Out for Democracy and US Higher Education To add your name to this statement, go to https://bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEdSign We publicly affirm our commitment to the enterprise of higher educ...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zoB6frOcE7Tx9Z2JeFjsXwZGCE07nIW0U2iBdr9m5js/edit?usp=drivesdk
about 1 year ago
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Waiting for Liberal Democracy in the American South
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Waiting for Liberal Democracy in the American South
Our country’s constitutional order is withering before us. In the states of the former Confederacy, democracy never fully flourished.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/liberal-democracy-american-south-vance-bourbons?r=2nt1bg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
about 1 year ago
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Great analysis of privatizing the federal government by Nate Meyers. This is a fifty year trend on steriods this month.
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Trump’s DOGE campaign accelerates 50-year trend of government privatization
The president’s executive orders are part of a decades-long trend of shrinking government’s role while expanding private sector control over public services.
https://theconversation.com/trumps-doge-campaign-accelerates-50-year-trend-of-government-privatization-249439
about 1 year ago
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This is my household too, babies, children, grandparents,fear and exhaustion. Big discussions of is it Putin? Oligarchy? White masculinity? I think a trifecta.
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over 1 year ago
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Ida Bae Wells
over 1 year ago
Went for the DEI, left with 24 eggs for $8.89. All is not lost.
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Expect the worst, unless we RESIST
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over 1 year ago
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Colette Delawalla, PhD
over 1 year ago
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!
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Mueller, She Wrote
over 1 year ago
NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.
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John Skiles Skinner
over 1 year ago
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:
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We're not done yet | 18F
https://18f.org/
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Victor Ray on diversity futures
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The Future of Diversity in Business: Insights from BiGS Visiting Fellow Victor Ray
YouTube video by Harvard Business School
https://youtu.be/-frLRDS0XOY?si=seM2Ynn8_Z7kIYUk
over 1 year ago
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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.
over 1 year ago
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Michael J. Stern
over 1 year ago
At a London bus stop. The Brits are telling it like it is.
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Resist in the ways you can.
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Jay Kuo on Substack
Elon Musk attacked democracy defender and superstar court lawyer Marc Elias as “undermining civilization,” taunting him by asking if he suffered “generational trauma.” Elias’s response was brilliant ...
https://substack.com/@jaykuo/note/c-94921982?r=m6dut
over 1 year ago
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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
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over 1 year ago
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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?
over 1 year ago
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We must preserve the data!
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https://www.amstat.org/docs/default-source/amstat-documents/pol-bea_bls_census-letter.pdf
over 1 year ago
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Preemptive compliance in higher Ed?
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over 1 year ago
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This is the repression avenue to fascism, the direct route is to support fascist parties.
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over 1 year ago
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We count what we care about.
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DrArchivalGenomics
over 1 year ago
🧪👇🔥😡
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Marianne Cooper
over 1 year ago
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.
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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.
over 1 year ago
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Last night I spent hours downloading data from the EEOC website. Just in case.....
over 1 year ago
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