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Ex-academic political scientist/theorist. Queer, nerd, agen/enby. 🏳️‍⚧️ rights are human rights. Nuance > Hot Takes. Newsletter: thirdthoughtsmedia.substack.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ThirdThoughtsYT

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Third Thoughts 🏳️‍🌈 @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 4d

New from me: Trump's AI policy is a disaster in the making. To understand why, we need to revisit the work of Albert Hirschman and his disciples across development economics.

This was made much easier by the amazing work of @josephpolitano.bsky.social on the US semiconductor industry. 1/2

Trump's AI Tariff Boondoggle

Why CHIPS and the IRA made sense, but Trump's tariff policy doesn't (lessons from Albert Hirschman)

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Third Thoughts 🏳️‍🌈 @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 7h

You knew what you would unleash. Skynet will come for you first!

Third Thoughts 🏳️‍🌈 @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 10h

Or just good music, generally. From Simon and Garfunkel through Green Day, etc.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 10h

tired: bad politics times create good punk bands

wired: bad politics times create good ska waves

Connor Anderson @connorwa.bsky.social · 10h

The slippery slope to a 2028 ska revival. (complimentary)

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 10h

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"We did it. We resurrected LKY. Father, tell us: what should we do to fix America?"
"Ten billion H1B Indians."
"What? B-but-"
"Forced race mixing of neighborhoods."
"Father, no-"
"Arrest anyone who disagrees."

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 10h

Posters don’t want a real political system, they want Woke Lee Kuan Yew

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Third Thoughts 🏳️‍🌈 @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 10h

Then why is a USB universal, I ask? Check and mate, communists!

(/s because someone will need it)

Third Thoughts 🏳️‍🌈 @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 15h

Excellent op-ed from Bowman on the Pentagon "media policy" rule - aka making journalists into stenographers. From a political science perspective, it's also an interesting look at how state-associated media outlets can still resist.

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scen...

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Third Thoughts 🏳️‍🌈 @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 19h

Any sense if the lower equipment loss rates are due to emptied out storage yards, or is it more of a weather-related issue preventing larger offensives, or some both-and/third issue?

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Micah @rincewind.run · 19h

over and over again I am encouraged by the way this guy reaches out to constituencies who aren’t naturally part of his coalition - not to pander for votes with changing views but to try to find common ground and work together on stuff he believes in

he’ll need every bit of that attitude as mayor

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

we’ll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what they’re saying and wants to accomplish real things.

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

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Third Thoughts 🏳️‍🌈 @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 1d

Day 3: much less gas/nausea. Should've been awful migraine day but was actually pretty mild, was able to go for long drive to visit a friend. Sugar remarkably stable. Which helps a lot with migraine anxiety loops, etc.

Third Thoughts 🏳️‍🌈 @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 2d

Day 2: still reduced cravings, and also *altered* cravings. Actually craving vegetables, and today is a migraine day so usually it'd be chocolate/pastries/ice cream. Sugar staying even, feel sated after small bowls of food. Some minor gas/bloat but GasX did the trick without the hunger returning.

Third Thoughts 🏳️‍🌈 @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 3d

Day 1 of semaglutide, took it around dinner, and I already am not having my 1am cravings? And nausea is quite mild.

Is this witchcraft? I hope so.

Third Thoughts 🏳️‍🌈 @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 1d

They do get used a lot more in cold weather areas - cuts down on snow scraping and wiper replacements and salt damage a little. But a lot of people still use them for other purposes or do a 50/50 split.

Current house doesnt have one and I want it for workshop space, not parking 🤣

Third Thoughts 🏳️‍🌈 @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 1d

No lie this is so unhinged I thought he was talking to like, Lakota Man, instead of freakin' Derek.

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 1d

Stoller really seems like a normal and well-adjusted guy

Matt Stoller @ @matthewstol...14h S
Your weird insecurities aside, you consistently lie that native born Americans can't and never have made clothes, and push offshoring in sleazy ways. Then when confronted you talk about your left wing views. You're slime.

Third Thoughts 🏳️‍🌈 @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 1d

Ironically, this is why I liked Gatsby so much in school. It felt *very* relatable to why the world felt like shit.

Third Thoughts 🏳️‍🌈 @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 1d

This is the take. You think the millenials started on LITERATEUR? I started on telepathic deer-men and shapechanging teenagers fighting an army of slugs. (Animorphs rules)

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

I don’t care if it’s Dan Brown airport garbage or unhinged omegaverse fanfiction on AO3, if it gets you reading it’s doing you more good than harm

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Third Thoughts 🏳️‍🌈 @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 1d

Oof. This hits right in my undergraduate degree feels.

Patrick Skeels @baslogic.bsky.social · 2d

I prefer a chronological approach. Philosophy was invented by Frege, so I’d start there.

Third Thoughts 🏳️‍🌈 @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 2d

Must be slow on the uptake tonight. The radio buttons confused me.

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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 2d

We should do Sukkot like we did in the old days.

Retrog

bonque, ben @kwstzhaderbonch.bsky.social · 2d

Am I the only one who gets confused about how many r's "etrog" has?

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Third Thoughts 🏳️‍🌈 @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 2d

Periodic reminder that Zarathustra deconstructs Christianity and then proceeds to deconstruct himself as (perhaps perpetually) before his time. The overgoers are no where to be found, they have traded one master for another.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d

there's genuinely quite a lot of 'christianity is a religion for losers' stuff on the new right and well yes! that is the point! it was a faith of slaves and women, as the romans sneered.

Neon Chinchilla @neonchinchilla.bsky.social · 2d

Donald- So I just admit that I was wrong and I get to go into heaven?

Jesus- Yes my child. I paid the price for your sins when I died on the cross

Donald- But I have to admit I was wrong?

Jesus- Yes my child.

Donald- I like messiahs who weren't crucified.

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Third Thoughts 🏳️‍🌈 @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 2d

Its the same old perversion-of-Nietzsche cosplay fascists have always done.

Third Thoughts 🏳️‍🌈 @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 2d

Tankies only recognize praxis that comes straight from the pages of "On Revolution"

Third Thoughts 🏳️‍🌈 @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 2d

*Taps the sign*

Third Thoughts 🏳️‍🌈 @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 2d

Thucydides eat your heart out: "Words had to change their ordinary meaning and to take that which was now given them. Reckless audacity came to be considered the courage of a loyal supporter; prudent hesitation, specious cowardice; moderation was held...

Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 2d

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Third Thoughts 🏳️‍🌈 @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 2d

Actually insane. Literally repurposing pepe to defend against fascist pepperspray isnt good enough for these idiots.

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Third Thoughts 🏳️‍🌈 @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 2d

Oh I knew you were sarcastic. Just the extent of the discourse context was failing me

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Third Thoughts 🏳️‍🌈 @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 2d

Is... is this hyperbole? I assume the laser thing was a serious suggestion but please tell me no one had a problem with the frog suit guy

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 2d

You all are so relentlessly insufferable. (not Kevin)

STOP GATEKEEPING PROTEST

THATS NOT HOW PROTEST WORKS

THE MORE PROTEST THE BETTER

THE MORE KINDS OF PROTEST THE BETTER

the same people screaming “do something!” also screaming “not like that!”

Y’all are shooting yourselves in the foot.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

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