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Pasuth Thothaveesansuk

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PhD candidate at UNC-Chapel Hill studying international history (UN, internationalism, decolonization) Also: running, iced coffee

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Pasuth Thothaveesansuk @pasuth.info · 1d

If I wanted to hop and skip my way through an obstacle course I would have purposefully gone to one.

Pasuth Thothaveesansuk @pasuth.info · 1d

PSA: dog owners, if walking/running with your animal in public please hold the leash tightly enough so that it does not dash across you such that the leash threatens to trip an innocent runner just trying to get a workout in not sprain his hamstring three weeks out from a marathon.

Pasuth Thothaveesansuk @pasuth.info · 4d

respect for ranked virginia

Pasuth Thothaveesansuk @pasuth.info · 5d

official review: all bangers no skips album of the decade goodnight

Pasuth Thothaveesansuk @pasuth.info · 5d

my sincerest condolences to all the haters the queen of pop has triumphantly returned to reclaim her crown

Pasuth Thothaveesansuk @pasuth.info · 5d

she is so in love!

Pasuth Thothaveesansuk @pasuth.info · 5d

she remains the music industry

Pasuth Thothaveesansuk @pasuth.info · 5d

ladies and gentlemen taylor swift has done it again

Pasuth Thothaveesansuk @pasuth.info · 6d

is the red sox infield also furloughed due to the government shutdown?

Pasuth Thothaveesansuk @pasuth.info · 6d

calling out drinking matcha and listening to laufey as “performative male” traits reflect a perverse normalization of anti-asian hate in the online progressive discourse, in this essay I will

Pasuth Thothaveesansuk @pasuth.info · 8d

wild to also think about that book chastising the "humane" conduct of war while listening to what secdef and potus had to say today...

Pasuth Thothaveesansuk @pasuth.info · 8d

Do you think comm expanding to a three-year program has made this worse? I had a few friends who changed their minds during their two-year "pre-comm" purgatory, but I wonder if the application now happening in your first-year has made pre-comm students more myopic.

Pasuth Thothaveesansuk @pasuth.info · 10d

Joe Biden tried to do a New Deal and the voters said "no, thank you." Olaf Scholz tried classic social democracy and his voters also said "no, thank you." The Danish social democrats are doing okay, but we all know the compromise they had to make. Not sure if that is the antifascist antidote though.

Marsanges @marsanges.bsky.social · 10d

If last time around America was saved from the fascist wave by Roosevelt's New Deal. But this time it is succumbing. Can we in Europe then not accept the role reversal and pacify ourselves with a modernized New Deal? Adopt Roosevelt's Four Freedoms as a program, and Eleanor's standard of decency?

Pasuth Thothaveesansuk @pasuth.info · 10d

I am happy to report that there is still hope for journalism in this country.

Pasuth Thothaveesansuk @pasuth.info · 10d

finally one day I will be able to cash in on my german studies stocks when it comes time to drop the “schmitt this clausewitz than actually hegel was right” post

Pasuth Thothaveesansuk @pasuth.info · 10d

I hereby dare all brave and honorable AP poll voters to rank Virginia.

Pasuth Thothaveesansuk @pasuth.info · 11d

football???

Pasuth Thothaveesansuk @pasuth.info · 15d

The German foreign minister seems rather annoyed that Trump is appropriating the CDU pastime of Green-bashing. Meanwhile Annalena Baerbock crossed an entire ocean, took on a new job, and yet still cannot seem to catch a break from Green-bashing!

Pasuth Thothaveesansuk @pasuth.info · 15d

did trump bash the german greens because of the unga president? that seemed pretty random even in his rambling

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GETSEA @getsea.bsky.social · 16d

SHAFR (@shafrhistorians.bsky.social) offers grants for grads w/ a broad focus on the U.S. & the World (including SEA). This Wed is a webinar on how to write grant apps, useful for those applying elsewhere as well!

Event Registration: bit.ly/SHAFRgrants
Fellowship Info: www.shafr.org/fellowships-...

Pasuth Thothaveesansuk @pasuth.info · 26d

You no longer need a prescription to get the updated 2025-26 COVID vaccine in North Carolina! governor.nc.gov/news/press-r...

Pasuth Thothaveesansuk @pasuth.info · 26d

It is no easy feat, but these American liberals are giving Weimar liberals quite the run for the money on proving that Carl Schmitt might have indeed been right about liberalism all along.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26d

they think liberalism is a set of rules for a discourse game, and not a fighting faith and a vision of the good

Pasuth Thothaveesansuk @pasuth.info · 26d

that sternzeichen! the horror!

Pasuth Thothaveesansuk @pasuth.info · 26d

It is hard to read this and not feel despair. Thailand has endured two lost decades. Everything circles back to the same problems and nothing has changed. At the same time, there is now a new democratic consensus and the voices for progress have only gotten louder and louder. Something is different.

New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 27d

The question for Thailand’s new prime minister and government “is not only whether they can survive, but whether Thais can summon the courage to break the nation’s cycle of engineered fragility,” writes Pita Limjaroenrat, who was victorious in 2023 elections but blocked from forming a government.

Opinion | I’d Be Thailand’s Leader Now if the System Wasn’t Rigged

Unless its democratic decay is reversed, Thailand will continue to spiral downward until the next generation decides enough is enough.

Pasuth Thothaveesansuk @pasuth.info · 27d

By declaring that parliament could not establish a directly elected constitutional drafting assembly, the Court exceeded the request for legal interpretation and fully stepped into making a political decision—one with the sole intention of maintaining its own power and limiting democracy.