Pasuth Thothaveesansuk
@pasuth.info
PhD candidate at UNC-Chapel Hill studying international history (UN, internationalism, decolonization, pandas)
Also: running, iced coffee
Also: running, iced coffee
All aboard the Democrat comeback train! 🚂
December 15, 2025 at 7:15 AM
All aboard the Democrat comeback train! 🚂
With the discourse about the US National Security Strategy this morning, I figured I should familiarize myself with Thailand's National Security Strategy if I want to be able to come up with some educated commentary.
Friends, it is 169 pages long... and yet somehow there is no strategy to show for!
Friends, it is 169 pages long... and yet somehow there is no strategy to show for!
December 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
With the discourse about the US National Security Strategy this morning, I figured I should familiarize myself with Thailand's National Security Strategy if I want to be able to come up with some educated commentary.
Friends, it is 169 pages long... and yet somehow there is no strategy to show for!
Friends, it is 169 pages long... and yet somehow there is no strategy to show for!
Interesting that the new US NSS talks of "denying aggression" in the First Island Chain instead of explicit commitments to "defend" it. Treaty allies mentioned only to demand for more defense spending without assurances. Can you blame Japan or South Korea if they seriously consider nuclearization?
December 5, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Interesting that the new US NSS talks of "denying aggression" in the First Island Chain instead of explicit commitments to "defend" it. Treaty allies mentioned only to demand for more defense spending without assurances. Can you blame Japan or South Korea if they seriously consider nuclearization?
Xi invoking US-China cooperation during WW2 to make a point about Taiwan is really salient here especially after he recognized an ROC/KMT veteran at the 80th Anniversary of Victory over Japan celebrations earlier this year. Memory about the War continues to play a big role in East Asian geopolitics.
November 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Xi invoking US-China cooperation during WW2 to make a point about Taiwan is really salient here especially after he recognized an ROC/KMT veteran at the 80th Anniversary of Victory over Japan celebrations earlier this year. Memory about the War continues to play a big role in East Asian geopolitics.
Hey @wmatagm.bsky.social, I appreciate @wmata.com opening early for the marathon today, but the crowd situation needs to be managed better. We had an overflowing platform at Pentagon this morning and now at Rosslyn post-race no one can get into the station, leaving runners standing on tired legs.
October 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Hey @wmatagm.bsky.social, I appreciate @wmata.com opening early for the marathon today, but the crowd situation needs to be managed better. We had an overflowing platform at Pentagon this morning and now at Rosslyn post-race no one can get into the station, leaving runners standing on tired legs.
Here’s to the past eighty years of the hot mess doing its best and perhaps—if we are lucky enough—another eighty more! 🥳🥂🇺🇳
Happy UN Day to all who celebrate! I was happy to chat with @erikvoeten.bsky.social at @goodauth.bsky.social about this 80th birthday for a hot mess doing its best goodauthority.org/news/united-...
As the United Nations turns 80, what’s next?
A Good Chat with Anjali Dayal on the challenges and the promises ahead for the U.N.
goodauthority.org
October 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Here’s to the past eighty years of the hot mess doing its best and perhaps—if we are lucky enough—another eighty more! 🥳🥂🇺🇳
Always worth remembering that Thomas Jefferson chose to have these three of his accomplishments listed on his gravestone:
- a list of grievances and declaration of war against a King
- this quoted statute of religious freedom
- the founding of a public, politically independent, secular university
- a list of grievances and declaration of war against a King
- this quoted statute of religious freedom
- the founding of a public, politically independent, secular university
And from Thomas Jefferson:
"We the General Assembly of Virginia do enact [Be it enacted by the General Assembly] that no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested,/
"We the General Assembly of Virginia do enact [Be it enacted by the General Assembly] that no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested,/
Thinking to Founders, Framers, so much against any established religion, representing numerous views & beliefs w/little unity. Thus, examples like Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli (1797): "As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion"🗃️
October 20, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Always worth remembering that Thomas Jefferson chose to have these three of his accomplishments listed on his gravestone:
- a list of grievances and declaration of war against a King
- this quoted statute of religious freedom
- the founding of a public, politically independent, secular university
- a list of grievances and declaration of war against a King
- this quoted statute of religious freedom
- the founding of a public, politically independent, secular university
I am glad today turned out to be a day that I can proudly say, "I have worn the honors of Honor. I graduated from Virginia."
October 17, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I am glad today turned out to be a day that I can proudly say, "I have worn the honors of Honor. I graduated from Virginia."
We should start a club of people with easy phonetic yet slightly “ethnic” last names that scare the living daylight out of the WASPs somehow. I learned how to pronounce Worcestershire.
“Mamdani” is perfectly phonetic so I’d say these guys must be willfully mispronouncing except mine is perfectly phonetic too and it’s never stopped anyone from going on a dipthong sidequest
October 16, 2025 at 11:47 PM
We should start a club of people with easy phonetic yet slightly “ethnic” last names that scare the living daylight out of the WASPs somehow. I learned how to pronounce Worcestershire.
And just as I thought this whole business could not get any sillier…
From our @brendanmarks.bsky.social, UNC confirmed that GM Michael Lombardi visited Saudi Arabia for a fundraising trip after being invited. www.nytimes.com/athletic/672...
UNC football GM Michael Lombardi met with Saudi Arabia about potential investment
www.nytimes.com
October 16, 2025 at 10:42 PM
And just as I thought this whole business could not get any sillier…
have people already forgotten about korea this past winter? fun policing was definitely not part of it
not to be trite and live laugh love but also: protest can be fun and antiauthoritarianism can be playful because you’re only going to get the one life—these are the structural conditions in which you find yourself, so why not make joy where you can
October 16, 2025 at 3:20 PM
have people already forgotten about korea this past winter? fun policing was definitely not part of it
the triangle’s blog blog of record
if you have any other tips and would like your friendly gang of civic enthusiasts to file foia requests, confirm information with multiple, trusted sources, and/or dig into financial records, reach out. this is our strange hobby and we actually enjoy it quite a lot.
October 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
the triangle’s blog blog of record
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.
October 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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.
respect for ranked virginia
October 4, 2025 at 11:15 PM
respect for ranked virginia
official review: all bangers no skips album of the decade goodnight
October 3, 2025 at 4:46 AM
official review: all bangers no skips album of the decade goodnight
ladies and gentlemen taylor swift has done it again
October 3, 2025 at 4:09 AM
ladies and gentlemen taylor swift has done it again
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
October 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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
I am happy to report that there is still hope for journalism in this country.
September 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I am happy to report that there is still hope for journalism in this country.
I hereby dare all brave and honorable AP poll voters to rank Virginia.
September 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I hereby dare all brave and honorable AP poll voters to rank Virginia.
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!
September 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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!
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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
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Fellowship Info: www.shafr.org/fellowships-...
September 22, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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-...
Event Registration: bit.ly/SHAFRgrants
Fellowship Info: www.shafr.org/fellowships-...
You no longer need a prescription to get the updated 2025-26 COVID vaccine in North Carolina! governor.nc.gov/news/press-r...
September 12, 2025 at 9:50 PM
You no longer need a prescription to get the updated 2025-26 COVID vaccine in North Carolina! governor.nc.gov/news/press-r...
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.
they think liberalism is a set of rules for a discourse game, and not a fighting faith and a vision of the good
September 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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.
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.
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.
nyti.ms
September 12, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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.