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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 2h

I predict we will see more such proposals, I’m afraid: Exclusionary openness is a tried-and-true model in recent European history and updating it to meet the current moment would serve a lot of corporate and racist interests

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The Exclusionary Foundations of Embedded Liberalism
Sara Wallace Goodman and Thomas B. Pepinsky

Analyses of embedded liberalism have focused overwhelmingly on
trade in goods and capital, to the exclusion of migration. We argue that much as capital controls were essential components of the embedded liberal compromise, so too were restrictions on the democratic and social rights of labor migrants. Generous welfare programs in labor-receiving countries thrived alongside inclusionary immigration policies, but this balanced arrangement was only tenable if migrants were politically excluded in their destination countries. That is, embedded liberalism abroad rested on exclusionary political foundations at home. In bringing together the IPE literature on the“globalization trilemma” with the comparative politics of citizenship, we provide a novel account of how embedded liberalism worked politically, with implications for current debates about the fate of the liberal order in a time of populist resurgence.

Migrant workers are profitable and beneficial to the host society only so long as
they are unorganized, insecure, bereft of political rights, in a word,“exploited.”
Gary Freeman, Immigrant Labor and Racial Conflict in Industrial Societies1

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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 13h

This AI-boom flow-of-funs chart reminds me of a map of the heroin/yaba/meth trade in the Golden Triangle

Methamphetamine trafficking routes in East and Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Oceania, 2024 and 2025 (May)

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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 13h

>>> You are an institutional investor. You have access to the history of financial markets since 1600. Generate an investment strategy that….

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 15h

I discovered the orange part in Australia. Queenslanders serving scallops and bay bugs in a red wine cream sauce like absolute savages (laudatory)

Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 17h

fish cheeks, trotters, and that giant orange part of the scallop that you never ever see in the United States

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 2d

My theory is that they have to retrain all the AIs to be insane and that means they have to brute force it by generating insane text first

Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 2d

what the fuck is going on

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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 4d

This piece is simply wild. Yes, the bailout faces bipartisan opposition in the US, is a blatantly corrupt favor to Bessent’s hedge fun pals, throws good money after bad, and won’t work. But bailing out Argentina in 2025 is good for… wait for it… democracy and an open economy

Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 5d

So much of this piece is just wrong, on the facts. The swap line is coming from Treasury, not the Fed. And the Pollyannaish view of Milei is just remarkable, even for a libertarian. ohttps://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/argentina-trump-milei-bailout/684427/

Bail Out Argentina

The Trump administration got this one right.

www.theatlantic.com

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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 5d

They’re literally socially constructing gender out of sand and metal after a decade of tut-tutting about women being adult human females ONLY

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5d

A lot of tech bros who were upset about pronouns want to confer them on their computers now that they’re dating

Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 5d

Can we stop calling an artificial representation of a person by a human-coded name? "She" does not exist. "She" is a reflection of someone's ingenue dreams, but "she" is pixels and code.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 5d

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Sky News @news.sky.com · 5d

Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

Bishop of London Dame Sarah Mullally, a former nurse, has been named as the next Archbishop of Canterbury - the first time a woman has been appointed to the role in the Church of England's history.

news.sky.com

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 5d

if Charles has any class and he iis given the sword he should immediately donate it to the Eisenhower Library from which it would have been stolen — but that may be a big if, considering the Parthenon friezes (aka Elgin Marbles) and so much other loot

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5d

Very Trump-era story.
1. The sword has no meaning for Charles, but matters for the Eisenhower Museum.
2. Illegal for the museum to give away US property!
3. Trump makes no distinction between personal/public property.
4. The person who did the right thing was fired.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...

After Declining to Give Trump a Sword for King Charles, a Museum Leader Is Out

www.nytimes.com

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Micah @rincewind.run · 5d

if your response to this - a basic statement of sympathy about an attack on a synagogue - is to bring up Israel, please delete your account

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 5d

I am sickened by today’s attack in Manchester. Antisemitism is on the rise around the world, and we must do all we can to stomp it out. I am grateful to first responders and congregants who showed incredible bravery, and I am praying for those who were killed.

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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 5d

We are like 2 years away from a Trump administration sex scandal leading to The American Communion, Henry VIII-style

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 6d

amazing watching tradcath converts discover they are protestants.

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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 5d

Look, affirmative MAY be justified. Take from one… give to another. But obviously, the goal is to be unified. Take my hand, be my brother.

Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 5d

Outraged that Bad Bunny was chosen to perform during the Super Bowl halftime show, Jason Whitlock calls on conservative media to plan counter-programming featuring ... a concert by Creed.

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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 6d

Sorry, American bigots. I’m already in your country and I’ve been here for centuries.

Teacher, researcher, globalist, republican.

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 6d

So at the same time the Trump regime claims it's fighting antisemitism (which was always a lie) it's now saying it will deny citizenship (or visas?) to "globalists" which is mostly used in their crowd as a barely coded euphemism for "Jews"

Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 6d

DHS appears to suggest that it will deny citizenship to "globalists"

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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 6d

Bart, sensible bites!

Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 6d

what's the stupidest/randomest Simpsons quote that lives in your head rent free? Mine is the urge to say "you said go to bread" every time I am about to head to bed.

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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · 6d

My thoughts on the Quantico meeting

Trump’s Speech to Generals Was Incitement to Violence Against Americans

Military leaders’ quiet professionalism offers hope amid a maelstrom.

foreignpolicy.com

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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 6d

He died when I was 6 months old so I never knew him, but yeah. I’m the perfect spitting image of my two grandfathers, combined.

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