Partisan
@partpartisan.bsky.social
Whatever the opposite of an enlightened centrist is.
Citizen of the Greatest Nation in This or Any Age (Washington State).
Counter-Zionist.
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Citizen of the Greatest Nation in This or Any Age (Washington State).
Counter-Zionist.
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Partisan
@partpartisan.bsky.social
· Oct 17
Hey. Nice to see ya.
I'm Partisan. I'm an Econ//Linguistics student in the PNW.
Foreign Policy|Developmental Econ|Urbanism|Politics|D&D (4E)|Magic (CEDH)|40k (Ynnari)|Stormlight|日本語ok(ちょっと)|And likely some other stuff.
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I'm Partisan. I'm an Econ//Linguistics student in the PNW.
Foreign Policy|Developmental Econ|Urbanism|Politics|D&D (4E)|Magic (CEDH)|40k (Ynnari)|Stormlight|日本語ok(ちょっと)|And likely some other stuff.
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Don't know how we'll manage to continue like this, but I am increasingly interested in ~how we got here structurally~
It's easy to get away with demagoguery when voters who elect you only spend a fraction of their time engaged in political content and won't even remember your name post-election.
It's easy to get away with demagoguery when voters who elect you only spend a fraction of their time engaged in political content and won't even remember your name post-election.
I really struggle to understand how we can exist as a country as long as these people are willing to demagogue and lie, make bad faith arguments and simply be full of shit with no pushback.
What evidence is there that Republicans care about American citizens?
What evidence is there that Republicans care about American citizens?
Van Orden: "You gotta understand that average Americans do not care about these narcoterrorists at all. They care about the fact that their brothers & sisters and mothers and husbands have died of fentanyl overdoses. That's what we really truly care about. We care about our fellow American citizens"
December 2, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Don't know how we'll manage to continue like this, but I am increasingly interested in ~how we got here structurally~
It's easy to get away with demagoguery when voters who elect you only spend a fraction of their time engaged in political content and won't even remember your name post-election.
It's easy to get away with demagoguery when voters who elect you only spend a fraction of their time engaged in political content and won't even remember your name post-election.
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I wrote much of this several months ago, about Ezra Klein's response to the Kirk assassination, and then never ended up publishing it, but I think this UO "controversy" is a such a perfect example of how TPUSA et al actually advance conservative power that I decided to revive and rewrite it.
What Liberals Can Learn from Charlie Kirk
Over the last few days, if you’re active on political media, you have probably seen references to the “controversy” over a student’s failing grade on an essay at Oklahoma Un…
nathangoldwag.wordpress.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I wrote much of this several months ago, about Ezra Klein's response to the Kirk assassination, and then never ended up publishing it, but I think this UO "controversy" is a such a perfect example of how TPUSA et al actually advance conservative power that I decided to revive and rewrite it.
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The only people who endlessly complain about color revolutions are dipshit leftie campists and Q-pilled right-wingers and the thing they have in common is they're both huffing Russian propaganda
Sen. Eric Schmitt: "This is the language of a color revolution where you're calling on military men and women to disobey orders."
December 1, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The only people who endlessly complain about color revolutions are dipshit leftie campists and Q-pilled right-wingers and the thing they have in common is they're both huffing Russian propaganda
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It sucks that meeting a new class now involves not just going over the syllabus, setting expectations, and trying to establish a rapport, but also trying to deduce whether any of your new students are vigilante right wing operatives out to seek viral controversy at the expense of your job
If you are a chair of a department or supervise grad students, it might be important to collaborate with your colleagues on ways to strategize when a "problem essay" comes down the pike. It's one small way of protecting each other.
December 1, 2025 at 8:38 PM
It sucks that meeting a new class now involves not just going over the syllabus, setting expectations, and trying to establish a rapport, but also trying to deduce whether any of your new students are vigilante right wing operatives out to seek viral controversy at the expense of your job
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For no reason at all I'm thinking of the MAGA guy in my town who wanted to change our zoning by-laws to "preserve the town's demographics."
Leavitt: "Leaders have a duty to preserve the integrity and character of our nation's national identity."
December 1, 2025 at 7:43 PM
For no reason at all I'm thinking of the MAGA guy in my town who wanted to change our zoning by-laws to "preserve the town's demographics."
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MAGA are afraid that normal people will laugh at them, normal people are afraid that MAGA will murder them.
I think the thing that disturbs me the most is that you've got *more* than one person in here admitting they don't talk about politics because The Community will sanction them.
How life changed in a rural town in Virginia that lost its sole health clinic after the passage of Trump’s megabill. The residents voted overwhelmingly for Trump in 2024, and now they’re suffering for it.
December 1, 2025 at 4:01 AM
MAGA are afraid that normal people will laugh at them, normal people are afraid that MAGA will murder them.
Elon Musk performed multiple seig heils on live tv.
the fact that nick fuentes isn’t here but ms rachel is illustrates perfectly that groups like this don’t actually care about antisemitism at all
December 1, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Elon Musk performed multiple seig heils on live tv.
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At some point you just run out of things to say, right? There’s no argument to make. There’s nothing to discuss. The executive branch is saying “We make our own law and obey no one” and either you say “Okay, I guess you do” or you put down the whole administration and salt the earth where it stood
KARL: Did you know about the judge's order when you issued your order for the planes to continue?
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
November 30, 2025 at 6:46 PM
At some point you just run out of things to say, right? There’s no argument to make. There’s nothing to discuss. The executive branch is saying “We make our own law and obey no one” and either you say “Okay, I guess you do” or you put down the whole administration and salt the earth where it stood
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Typically people have been allowed to stay when they have a “change of status” pending in the system. In fact, it can screw things up if they leave.
If you are married to a US spouse, your temporary visa (usually for 3 months) will lapse before your case is processed. The government allowed you could stay in the US while awaiting case processing. Now the Trump admin is saying that is a visa overstay and arresting the spouses.
November 30, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Typically people have been allowed to stay when they have a “change of status” pending in the system. In fact, it can screw things up if they leave.
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At the end of the first Trump administration @pamherd.bsky.social and I wrote about the weaponization of burdens to target immigrants. It has gotten so much worse since then.
academic.oup.com/ppmg/article...
academic.oup.com/ppmg/article...
Kafka’s Bureaucracy: Immigration Administrative Burdens in the Trump Era
Abstract. What does a government do when it decides to make a public service as burdensome as possible? We consider this question in the context of immigra
academic.oup.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:18 PM
At the end of the first Trump administration @pamherd.bsky.social and I wrote about the weaponization of burdens to target immigrants. It has gotten so much worse since then.
academic.oup.com/ppmg/article...
academic.oup.com/ppmg/article...
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We have both a Congress and a Supreme Court that is deeply skeptical of the administrative state, but unwilling to lift a finger to stop the weaponization of administrative systems to destroy the lives of immigrants.
November 30, 2025 at 10:22 PM
We have both a Congress and a Supreme Court that is deeply skeptical of the administrative state, but unwilling to lift a finger to stop the weaponization of administrative systems to destroy the lives of immigrants.
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this is like reclaiming the flag - these people want to lay claim to the very concept of America as an explicit white supremacist place with no place for anyone but themselves
we do not have to accept their framing, we can be better than that and better than them
“give me your tired, your poor…”
we do not have to accept their framing, we can be better than that and better than them
“give me your tired, your poor…”
Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."
November 30, 2025 at 6:09 PM
this is like reclaiming the flag - these people want to lay claim to the very concept of America as an explicit white supremacist place with no place for anyone but themselves
we do not have to accept their framing, we can be better than that and better than them
“give me your tired, your poor…”
we do not have to accept their framing, we can be better than that and better than them
“give me your tired, your poor…”
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Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Once saw a reddit thread where a guy got really, really, really missed over the word "chauvinistic" showing up in one of the Stormlight books because "I don't think Nicholas Chauvin ever lived on Roshar."
I had to ask him if he had similar issues with the word "guy" being used in the same book.
I had to ask him if he had similar issues with the word "guy" being used in the same book.
One of the best worldbuilding guides you can read is Tolkien's notes on translation, where he talks about the fact that *everything* you write is in practice being translated into English; is is no more anachronistic to use the word "September" than it is use the word "sword" or "house" or "hello".
Not sure how I feel when a book tells me that instead of "12 months" they have "10 arcs," which are each 40 days long, and they all have names like Blossomarc, Flamearc Snowarc,.... I appreciate the world building, but couldnt we have just kept the calendar the same?
November 30, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Once saw a reddit thread where a guy got really, really, really missed over the word "chauvinistic" showing up in one of the Stormlight books because "I don't think Nicholas Chauvin ever lived on Roshar."
I had to ask him if he had similar issues with the word "guy" being used in the same book.
I had to ask him if he had similar issues with the word "guy" being used in the same book.
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What happened is precisely what the world's leading macroeconomists predicted would happen.
November 29, 2025 at 8:05 PM
What happened is precisely what the world's leading macroeconomists predicted would happen.
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This is our Tiananmen Square. In 30 years, your kids are going to ask you which side were you on?
Did you stand up and fight back for your community, or did you sit back and watch as families were ripped apart by the American Gestapo?
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed.
Did you stand up and fight back for your community, or did you sit back and watch as families were ripped apart by the American Gestapo?
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed.
Around two dozen car/vans have sped out of the garage, with NYPD officers clearing the path. One guys tries to stop them, NYPD officers come chasing.
November 29, 2025 at 6:37 PM
This is our Tiananmen Square. In 30 years, your kids are going to ask you which side were you on?
Did you stand up and fight back for your community, or did you sit back and watch as families were ripped apart by the American Gestapo?
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed.
Did you stand up and fight back for your community, or did you sit back and watch as families were ripped apart by the American Gestapo?
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed.
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It is surprising how many people don’t seem to get that the American Constitution is already dead.
November 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
It is surprising how many people don’t seem to get that the American Constitution is already dead.
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it's interesting because right wingers won't shut up about triggering the libs, liberal tears, etc etc but on a deep level what they want isn't for us to be angry, what they want is for us to apologize and admit they were right all along
Like 30% of the country is absolutely enraged because they thought they were going to be able to be utter shitbirds without anyone being allowed to call them shitbirds, but here we are, calling them shitbirds.
November 29, 2025 at 6:26 PM
it's interesting because right wingers won't shut up about triggering the libs, liberal tears, etc etc but on a deep level what they want isn't for us to be angry, what they want is for us to apologize and admit they were right all along
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Right, the answer to the question “can the president issue a valid pardon for the assassins he sent to successfully kill the Congress that was impeaching him” has to be no or the underlying structure of the Constitution makes no sense
i think that we should charge even people who have been pardoned, because there is no conceivable way the founders intended the pardon power to permit the executive to order people to commit crimes and then pardon them for them
November 28, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Right, the answer to the question “can the president issue a valid pardon for the assassins he sent to successfully kill the Congress that was impeaching him” has to be no or the underlying structure of the Constitution makes no sense
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The only way to stop this for state govts to start going after the universities that do this and then for the next democratic admin to go after universities again too.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:59 AM
The only way to stop this for state govts to start going after the universities that do this and then for the next democratic admin to go after universities again too.
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i think that we should charge even people who have been pardoned, because there is no conceivable way the founders intended the pardon power to permit the executive to order people to commit crimes and then pardon them for them
November 28, 2025 at 11:08 PM
i think that we should charge even people who have been pardoned, because there is no conceivable way the founders intended the pardon power to permit the executive to order people to commit crimes and then pardon them for them
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the gop has fox news, newsmaxxx, onn, podcasters, and they own both twitter and sinclair. dems have... aoc's social media accounts
how the media torched biden on the economy, aka the one thing he was actually pretty good at, should have been a wake up call to dems that they need their own media apparatus like the gop has with... everything
biden had learned that too-small stimulus was a mistake, demonstrated keynesianism can make a robust, rapid, high-employment recovery…and reaped a corporate media freak out of colossal proportions b/c workers suddenly had an ounce of leverage. they treated his economy like a disaster.
November 29, 2025 at 3:50 AM
the gop has fox news, newsmaxxx, onn, podcasters, and they own both twitter and sinclair. dems have... aoc's social media accounts
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Trumpism: an approach to governing that dismisses collective matters as issues of individual responsibility (e.g. vaccines), while also punishing individual actions by imposing collective responsibility (see below).
NEW: The New York Times got a State Dept. cable telling diplomats to destroy visas that had been approved and printed to give to Afghans. And diplomats are told to do scheduled interviews but not grant visas. US shuts all legal entry routes for Afghans. Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/u...
Trump Pauses All Asylum Applications and Halts Visas for Afghans
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Trumpism: an approach to governing that dismisses collective matters as issues of individual responsibility (e.g. vaccines), while also punishing individual actions by imposing collective responsibility (see below).
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the people who claim all their racism is just irony dont realize they more than likely would call Lincoln a "race traitor" (at best) for freeing the slaves
The federal government is making open threats of genocidal violence now from its social media platforms.
This is a literal turner diary or siege level Neo Nazi call to action and is an attempt to foment violence against anyone who is not white, male and Christian.
This is a literal turner diary or siege level Neo Nazi call to action and is an attempt to foment violence against anyone who is not white, male and Christian.
November 29, 2025 at 6:18 AM
the people who claim all their racism is just irony dont realize they more than likely would call Lincoln a "race traitor" (at best) for freeing the slaves
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When Brando first exploded onto the scene, he appealed mostly to young people. Very like James Dean. Establishment critics accused him of mumbling through all his lines. I think that's the analogy the reviewer is drawing. Between Brando's performance, and mumblecore.
November 29, 2025 at 6:22 AM
When Brando first exploded onto the scene, he appealed mostly to young people. Very like James Dean. Establishment critics accused him of mumbling through all his lines. I think that's the analogy the reviewer is drawing. Between Brando's performance, and mumblecore.