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Donald Tomaskovic-Devey

@dont-d.bsky.social
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Sociologist of organizations, inequality, and hope

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Jill McCorkel @jillmccorkel.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
We Can’t Know Our A.I. Future if We Don’t Study It www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/o...
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Opinion | We Can’t Know Our A.I. Future if We Don’t Study It
Just as A.I. is poised to change the world, we’re losing our best ways of studying what that change will look like.
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Donald Tomaskovic-Devey @dont-d.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Florida now dictates sociology curriculum. First they come for the sociologists, and next for you....
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Donald Tomaskovic-Devey @dont-d.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...
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The New York Times’ “Moderation Advantage” Is a Statistical Illusion
After accounting for money and incumbency the supposed electoral bonus for moderate candidates vanishes entirely.
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Donald Tomaskovic-Devey @dont-d.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
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The New York Times’ “Moderation Advantage” Is a Statistical Illusion
After accounting for money and incumbency the supposed electoral bonus for moderate candidates vanishes entirely.
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Donald Tomaskovic-Devey @dont-d.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Preserve EEOC data collection | Science www.science.org/eprint/HYMMK...
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Preserve EEOC data collection
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Donald Tomaskovic-Devey @dont-d.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
I'm reading Nancy Folbre on Arin Dube this afternoon. You should too prospect.org/2026/04/17/f...
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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.
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Donald Tomaskovic-Devey @dont-d.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
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. theconversation.com/white-men-fi...
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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.
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Donald Tomaskovic-Devey @dont-d.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
My take, both contemporary and historical, on US polarization. bsky.app/profile/lsei...
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Kate-Eviva @kate-eviva.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
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
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Donald Tomaskovic-Devey @dont-d.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
This is a hard book. Both familiar and unusually clear. Plutocrats+disinformation+attacks on science=climate and pandemic holocausts.
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Donald Tomaskovic-Devey @dont-d.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Great wealth engenders great influence. Democracy wilts.
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Donald Tomaskovic-Devey @dont-d.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
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The Family Business: An Open Letter (satire/opinion)
Things have changed, Jennifer Lundquist writes (satirically).
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 26/07/2025
Here, I illustrated our essay with a picture of Trump trying to demolish a statue upon the shoulder of which stands a scientist.
trump swinging a golf club at The Thinker while a cartoon scientist stands on its shoulder.
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Donald Tomaskovic-Devey @dont-d.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
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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.
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Donald Tomaskovic-Devey @dont-d.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
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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.
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Work In Progress @wipsociology.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
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:
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Recapitalizing America Redux – Work in Progress
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Donald Tomaskovic-Devey @dont-d.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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
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Donald Tomaskovic-Devey @dont-d.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
This
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Donald Tomaskovic-Devey @dont-d.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
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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.
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Donald Tomaskovic-Devey @dont-d.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Resist
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
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.
Infographic titled “Judges reject Trump at an accelerating pace” with subtitle “Federal district court rulings against the administration.”

The first bar chart, labeled “By month, %”, shows the percentage of federal district court rulings against the Trump administration:
	•	February: 53.8% (7 out of 13)
	•	March: 74.3% (26 out of 35)
	•	April: 76.1% (51 out of 67)
	•	May: 96.3% (26 out of 27)

The second bar chart, labeled “By appointing party, %”, shows rulings against the Trump administration by the party of the judge’s appointing president:
	•	Republican-appointed judges: 72.2% (26 out of 36)
	•	Democratic-appointed judges: 80.4% (74 out of 92)

Source: Bonica, Adam; Sen, Maya, 2025, “Common-space Measures of Judicial Ideology for Federal Judges (2024 update),” https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/CK3EEL
Note: Coding scheme details available at data4democracy.substack.com/p/when-judges-become-targets-judicial
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Donald Tomaskovic-Devey @dont-d.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Sunday thought open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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Sunday thought
A new phase of Trump neofascism
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Dustin Avent-Holt @daventholt.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
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/...
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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.
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Donald Tomaskovic-Devey @dont-d.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
A giant, who wrote that the poor pay more.
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
“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...
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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.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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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Donald Tomaskovic-Devey @dont-d.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Sunday thought open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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The contagion of courage
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 18/04/2025
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.
Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
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Donald Tomaskovic-Devey @dont-d.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Trending hope, thanks Rutgers
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Vintage Jerseys & Hats @polyesterunis.com · 31/03/2025
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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Donald Tomaskovic-Devey @dont-d.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
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-...
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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.
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Donald Tomaskovic-Devey @dont-d.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Sign up, stand up. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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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...
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Donald Tomaskovic-Devey @dont-d.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Waiting for Liberal Democracy in the American South www.thebulwark.com/p/liberal-de...
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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.
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Donald Tomaskovic-Devey @dont-d.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Great analysis of privatizing the federal government by Nate Meyers. This is a fifty year trend on steriods this month. theconversation.com/trumps-doge-...
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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.
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Donald Tomaskovic-Devey @dont-d.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
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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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Went for the DEI, left with 24 eggs for $8.89. All is not lost.
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Donald Tomaskovic-Devey @dont-d.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Expect the worst, unless we RESIST
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
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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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/03/2025
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 @skiles.blue · 01/03/2025
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
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We're not done yet | 18F
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Donald Tomaskovic-Devey @dont-d.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Victor Ray on diversity futures youtu.be/-frLRDS0XOY?...
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The Future of Diversity in Business: Insights from BiGS Visiting Fellow Victor Ray
YouTube video by Harvard Business School
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Donald Tomaskovic-Devey @dont-d.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
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.
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
At a London bus stop. The Brits are telling it like it is.
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Donald Tomaskovic-Devey @dont-d.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Resist in the ways you can. substack.com/@jaykuo/note...
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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 ...
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Donald Tomaskovic-Devey @dont-d.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
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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Donald Tomaskovic-Devey @dont-d.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
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?
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Donald Tomaskovic-Devey @dont-d.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
We must preserve the data! www.amstat.org/docs/default...
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Donald Tomaskovic-Devey @dont-d.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Preemptive compliance in higher Ed?
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Donald Tomaskovic-Devey @dont-d.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
This is the repression avenue to fascism, the direct route is to support fascist parties.
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