Tomasz Drabowicz
@tomdrabowicz.bsky.social
PhD from @eui-eu.bsky.social (Digital) inequality, social class, economic sociology, aging, quality of life, sustainable development, quantitative methods, history, LGBTQ issues. Personal account & private opinions
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Thank you @andreasstadler.bsky.social for providing us Polish #EUI alumni with a space where we could have thoughtfully deliberated with President Patrizia Nanz about the challenges facing our societies and the ways in which we academics can help democratic decision-makers to tackle these challenges
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Swietna nowa ksiazka mlodego polskiego badacza o Uniwersytecie Oksfordzkim: polecam!
us.edu.pl/wydawnictwo/...
us.edu.pl/wydawnictwo/...
August 5, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Swietna nowa ksiazka mlodego polskiego badacza o Uniwersytecie Oksfordzkim: polecam!
us.edu.pl/wydawnictwo/...
us.edu.pl/wydawnictwo/...
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Just finished the final draft of my latest book chapter:
"Haredi Geographies: Jewish Cemeteries in Poland and Czechoslovakia"
It's for an edited volume that I'm putting together with @rkpejsova.bsky.social on Jewish contact across Cold War boundaries. (Purdue, forthcoming).
"Haredi Geographies: Jewish Cemeteries in Poland and Czechoslovakia"
It's for an edited volume that I'm putting together with @rkpejsova.bsky.social on Jewish contact across Cold War boundaries. (Purdue, forthcoming).
June 21, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Just finished the final draft of my latest book chapter:
"Haredi Geographies: Jewish Cemeteries in Poland and Czechoslovakia"
It's for an edited volume that I'm putting together with @rkpejsova.bsky.social on Jewish contact across Cold War boundaries. (Purdue, forthcoming).
"Haredi Geographies: Jewish Cemeteries in Poland and Czechoslovakia"
It's for an edited volume that I'm putting together with @rkpejsova.bsky.social on Jewish contact across Cold War boundaries. (Purdue, forthcoming).
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Trump’s just trolling Vance now, right?
June 22, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Trump’s just trolling Vance now, right?
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New Fukuyama just dropped
June 22, 2025 at 4:13 AM
New Fukuyama just dropped
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Manulife Centre at Toronto, Canada r/brutalism
June 22, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Manulife Centre at Toronto, Canada r/brutalism
My plans for the afternoon this holy Sunday 👇
June 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
My plans for the afternoon this holy Sunday 👇
My evening plans for tonight 👇
June 21, 2025 at 5:48 PM
My evening plans for tonight 👇
I recommend this 👇 place wholeheartadely. It's away from Florence city centre, but it's 5 minutes on foot from the tram 2 stop on Piazza della Libertà or from the Parterre final stop of C1 bus you can catch in the city centre. Food & service are excellent. Bonus for (Fiorentina) soccer fans
June 20, 2025 at 10:16 AM
I recommend this 👇 place wholeheartadely. It's away from Florence city centre, but it's 5 minutes on foot from the tram 2 stop on Piazza della Libertà or from the Parterre final stop of C1 bus you can catch in the city centre. Food & service are excellent. Bonus for (Fiorentina) soccer fans
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been rereading Paxton's Anatomy of Fascism and this would fit in well with early 20s Italy www.amny.com/news/brad-la...
BREAKING | Comptroller Brad Lander arrested at ICE court hearing | amNewYork
City Comptroller Brad Lander was arrested and accosted by masked federal agents at immigration court in Lower Manhattan.
www.amny.com
June 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
been rereading Paxton's Anatomy of Fascism and this would fit in well with early 20s Italy www.amny.com/news/brad-la...
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As the warning signs of U.S. fiscal instability multiply, the question is no longer if the U.S. dollar’s privileged position will end, but how—through careful preparation or catastrophic crisis?
Nicholas Creel (@prof-peacock.bsky.social) writes:
Nicholas Creel (@prof-peacock.bsky.social) writes:
De-Dollarization Is Inevitable. The World Isn’t Prepared
The question is no longer if the U.S. dollar’s privileged position will end, but if it happens through careful preparation or catastrophic crisis.
www.worldpoliticsreview.com
June 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
As the warning signs of U.S. fiscal instability multiply, the question is no longer if the U.S. dollar’s privileged position will end, but how—through careful preparation or catastrophic crisis?
Nicholas Creel (@prof-peacock.bsky.social) writes:
Nicholas Creel (@prof-peacock.bsky.social) writes:
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A viral account on X tracking pizza shop activity around the Pentagon predicted something was underway before Israel attacked Iran.
Pentagon pizza account reported high activity before Israel's attack on Iran
A viral account on X tracking pizza shop activity around the Pentagon predicted something was underway before Israel attacked Iran.
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June 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
A viral account on X tracking pizza shop activity around the Pentagon predicted something was underway before Israel attacked Iran.
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🔺 EXCLUSIVE: The peer whose report recommends a public inquiry into grooming gangs says nobody is learning the lessons of the scandal
Baroness Casey: I feel rage on behalf of the abused girls
www.thetimes.com
June 16, 2025 at 5:47 PM
🔺 EXCLUSIVE: The peer whose report recommends a public inquiry into grooming gangs says nobody is learning the lessons of the scandal
Ok, Caffé Lietta, where negroni was invented, is a really nice place on Piazza della Libertà in Florence, but you have to be willing to experience Hitchcock's Birds LIVE
June 16, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Ok, Caffé Lietta, where negroni was invented, is a really nice place on Piazza della Libertà in Florence, but you have to be willing to experience Hitchcock's Birds LIVE
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I will repeat myself: there is a persistent belief that popular government should be based on convincing people by argumentative debate, when its true basis is the negotiation of rational compromises between people of different beliefs.
100% this: "'debating' people — particularly in live or quasi-live forms — is a bad epistemic practice. It essentially rewards people for being dogmatic, incurious, and willfully slippery with rhetoric." www.slowboring.com/p/a-rawlsian...
June 15, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I will repeat myself: there is a persistent belief that popular government should be based on convincing people by argumentative debate, when its true basis is the negotiation of rational compromises between people of different beliefs.
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From a new interview with @chenoweth.bsky.social, who coined the "3.5% rule":
"Most of the movements in our database never got to that threshold and still won with like 1.8% or something like that." podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
"Most of the movements in our database never got to that threshold and still won with like 1.8% or something like that." podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop!
Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels
Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels
"No Kings Day" protests turn out millions
Our unofficial estimate is that around 4 million people attended a protest event yesterday. Anti-Trump resistance is outpacing 2017.
www.gelliottmorris.com
June 15, 2025 at 5:04 PM
From a new interview with @chenoweth.bsky.social, who coined the "3.5% rule":
"Most of the movements in our database never got to that threshold and still won with like 1.8% or something like that." podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
"Most of the movements in our database never got to that threshold and still won with like 1.8% or something like that." podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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New story this morning from me and Sara Randazzo @wsj.com
The Trump administration froze Northwestern’s research funding. It hasn’t offered the school a way to get it back. https://on.wsj.com/440ZN5L
How Trump Blew Up Northwestern’s Business Model
The federal government froze the university’s research funding. It hasn’t offered the school a way to get it back.
on.wsj.com
June 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
New story this morning from me and Sara Randazzo @wsj.com
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This trope about stern patriarchal parenting is absolutely central to the religious culture that Hegseth comes from.
June 15, 2025 at 12:16 PM
This trope about stern patriarchal parenting is absolutely central to the religious culture that Hegseth comes from.
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“There ain’t no devil—there’s just God when he’s drunk.”
June 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
“There ain’t no devil—there’s just God when he’s drunk.”
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The abusive aspect is text, not subtext.
June 15, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The abusive aspect is text, not subtext.
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Daddy is home drunk and angry
June 15, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Daddy is home drunk and angry
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In other words, as always with Trump (but not just), it's always gender overlaid with race, or race overlaid with gender.
June 15, 2025 at 11:36 AM
In other words, as always with Trump (but not just), it's always gender overlaid with race, or race overlaid with gender.
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But Hegseth and Trump's obsession with lethality must be seen more broadly as a disavowal of soft power in favor of hard power.
And that in turn can be seen as a critique of a purportedly laxist style of parenting coded as feminine, in favor of a more disciplinarian approach, i.e., daddy is home.
And that in turn can be seen as a critique of a purportedly laxist style of parenting coded as feminine, in favor of a more disciplinarian approach, i.e., daddy is home.
June 15, 2025 at 11:36 AM
But Hegseth and Trump's obsession with lethality must be seen more broadly as a disavowal of soft power in favor of hard power.
And that in turn can be seen as a critique of a purportedly laxist style of parenting coded as feminine, in favor of a more disciplinarian approach, i.e., daddy is home.
And that in turn can be seen as a critique of a purportedly laxist style of parenting coded as feminine, in favor of a more disciplinarian approach, i.e., daddy is home.
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Peeling this one off to a new thread.
This also underscores how disconnected Hegseth's fixation on "lethality" is from the political, socio-cultural and societal roles that militaries have played throughout history.
Case in point: If your only objective is lethality, why hold a parade?
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This also underscores how disconnected Hegseth's fixation on "lethality" is from the political, socio-cultural and societal roles that militaries have played throughout history.
Case in point: If your only objective is lethality, why hold a parade?
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Addendum: The US Army and its WWII legacy has also been a major factor, if a very problematic one, in the advancement of Black Americans, minorities, immigrants and women, both within the institution as well as directly and indirectly outside of it.
Another way it's incompatible with Trump.
Another way it's incompatible with Trump.
June 15, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Peeling this one off to a new thread.
This also underscores how disconnected Hegseth's fixation on "lethality" is from the political, socio-cultural and societal roles that militaries have played throughout history.
Case in point: If your only objective is lethality, why hold a parade?
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This also underscores how disconnected Hegseth's fixation on "lethality" is from the political, socio-cultural and societal roles that militaries have played throughout history.
Case in point: If your only objective is lethality, why hold a parade?
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