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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@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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They like Trump and want to help him
“Biden Asylum Cases” is NYT’s framing for a story pegged to a man who got asylum 3 months into the Trump administration
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
November 27, 2025 at 11:32 PM
They like Trump and want to help him
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Yeah, we are at the precipice of barbarism. One party believes that good governance is masked men with guns flooding our streets and terrorizing any person the state considers a threat while demolishing the state as we know it and selling off pieces of its carcass to oligarchs and regional barons.
it's hard to get your mind around how irredeemably broken this country has become. no one in charge at this time seems to understand even the basics of our system of government as written or our stated set of values as a secular society
Pirro: "These Guardsmen and all who are here to protect the District are the line that separates a civilized society from a barbaric one."
November 27, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Yeah, we are at the precipice of barbarism. One party believes that good governance is masked men with guns flooding our streets and terrorizing any person the state considers a threat while demolishing the state as we know it and selling off pieces of its carcass to oligarchs and regional barons.
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Never forget how these people behave when they've got power, and contrast it with their bleating about "muh anti-conservative discrimination" when they don't...
19-year-old college student deported despite judge's order blocking her removal: Lawyer - ABC News abcnews.go.com/US/19-year-c...
19-year-old college student deported despite judge's order blocking her removal: Lawyer - ABC News abcnews.go.com/US/19-year-c...
19-year-old college student deported despite judge's order blocking her removal: Lawyer
A 19-year-old college student who was on her way to surprise her family for Thanksgiving break was detained at a Boston airport and later deported.
abcnews.go.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Never forget how these people behave when they've got power, and contrast it with their bleating about "muh anti-conservative discrimination" when they don't...
19-year-old college student deported despite judge's order blocking her removal: Lawyer - ABC News abcnews.go.com/US/19-year-c...
19-year-old college student deported despite judge's order blocking her removal: Lawyer - ABC News abcnews.go.com/US/19-year-c...
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Marilyn Whirlwind. ICE accosted Marilyn Whirlwind.
They've got to go.
They've got to go.
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Marilyn Whirlwind. ICE accosted Marilyn Whirlwind.
They've got to go.
They've got to go.
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Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!
November 26, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!
I am really, REALLY curious what exactly Sarah Hurwitz thinks the lesson of the Holocaust is supposed to be if it's not "fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people"???
November 26, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I am really, REALLY curious what exactly Sarah Hurwitz thinks the lesson of the Holocaust is supposed to be if it's not "fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people"???
> Moshe
> Yosef
> Chaya
> Chaim
> Yosef
> Yitzchok
> Yaakov
> Rivka
So funny how Republicans really believe Jews are breaking Right because they personally know like three Modern Orthodoxers and keep pumping College Panic articles, but then you look at actual data and... nope. We still lib as fuck.
> Yosef
> Chaya
> Chaim
> Yosef
> Yitzchok
> Yaakov
> Rivka
So funny how Republicans really believe Jews are breaking Right because they personally know like three Modern Orthodoxers and keep pumping College Panic articles, but then you look at actual data and... nope. We still lib as fuck.
To zoom in on the partisan names, here, we're looking only at names used >100 times (in 2023) and only 50 names on the outskirts of the partisan divide, labelling the 5 outliers on each side and the 5 most commonly used on each side. inequalitybyinteriordesign.wordpress.com/2025/04/03/p...
November 26, 2025 at 1:28 AM
> Moshe
> Yosef
> Chaya
> Chaim
> Yosef
> Yitzchok
> Yaakov
> Rivka
So funny how Republicans really believe Jews are breaking Right because they personally know like three Modern Orthodoxers and keep pumping College Panic articles, but then you look at actual data and... nope. We still lib as fuck.
> Yosef
> Chaya
> Chaim
> Yosef
> Yitzchok
> Yaakov
> Rivka
So funny how Republicans really believe Jews are breaking Right because they personally know like three Modern Orthodoxers and keep pumping College Panic articles, but then you look at actual data and... nope. We still lib as fuck.
Genuinely horrific to see influential Jewish groups in America openly saying that their TOP TWO priorities in the year 2025 is to facilitate the fascist take over of social media and to weaken teacher's unions.
Tikkun Olam is dead; our people embracing full-on Olam haTohu. Real Klippot Hours here.
Tikkun Olam is dead; our people embracing full-on Olam haTohu. Real Klippot Hours here.
![At [Jewish Federations of North America]'s 2025 annual conference, CEO Eric Fingerhut said the organization's top two priorities were facilitating the sale of Tiktok from Chinese ownership to Larry Ellison and countering the influence of the National Education Association. According to The Forward, a common refrain at the conference was a greater emphasis on Jewish education, Zionist identity, and Torah learning strength the Jewish community.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:p46u7sxb3cjesbus3rt4zndl/bafkreicczkqn4adew3ftmmadzf4suppsub5evwgvyj6dwzghsmlqktqxwu@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Genuinely horrific to see influential Jewish groups in America openly saying that their TOP TWO priorities in the year 2025 is to facilitate the fascist take over of social media and to weaken teacher's unions.
Tikkun Olam is dead; our people embracing full-on Olam haTohu. Real Klippot Hours here.
Tikkun Olam is dead; our people embracing full-on Olam haTohu. Real Klippot Hours here.
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The full time job of the modal person with the title of "city planner" in the US is to be a steward of segregation.
November 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
The full time job of the modal person with the title of "city planner" in the US is to be a steward of segregation.
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this is because people want to turn their cities into museums of their own past. they don't want the future. they want to turn into dust reflecting on how awesome they used to be
It’s really incredible how we decided that cities should no longer be physically shaped by the industries that carry them. I wrote this about the tech industry’s lack of a built legacy in Manhattan over a decade ago, but it could be written 10x over in the Bay Area newyorkyimby.com/2014/12/how-...
How New York City is Robbing Itself of the Tech Industry's Built Legacy - New York YIMBY
With strict limits on growth in Midtown South and on the Brooklyn waterfront, tech giants are leaving little architecture behind for future generations.
newyorkyimby.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
this is because people want to turn their cities into museums of their own past. they don't want the future. they want to turn into dust reflecting on how awesome they used to be
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Like, this is a regime entirely built out of conspiracy theories, did we think that building and normalizing a conspiracy theory that countries invading each other for oil is just a normal thing that happens wasn’t gonna lead to some particularly monstrous idiots going “guess it is haha hell yeah”
November 25, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Like, this is a regime entirely built out of conspiracy theories, did we think that building and normalizing a conspiracy theory that countries invading each other for oil is just a normal thing that happens wasn’t gonna lead to some particularly monstrous idiots going “guess it is haha hell yeah”
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Okay so we are aware that those allegations exist almost entirely because a spectrum-wide alliance of populist grifters needed a post hoc way to absolve The People of supporting the Iraq War for racist panic reasons and the right realized it was more socially acceptable than the alternative, right
Not beating the “America invades countries to grab their oil” allegations
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 25, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Okay so we are aware that those allegations exist almost entirely because a spectrum-wide alliance of populist grifters needed a post hoc way to absolve The People of supporting the Iraq War for racist panic reasons and the right realized it was more socially acceptable than the alternative, right
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This one seems especially appropriate
November 24, 2025 at 10:09 PM
This one seems especially appropriate
Ultimately, I'd still rather Brandon Sanderson stop paying tithes to the LDS, BUT reading his essay where he said "If I'm gonna believe in hell, why wouldn't I choose to believe in the version where people can still be saved after death?" DID increase my respect for liberal Mormons at least a little
And a small shout out to c) the Mormon position of "yeah, you can baptize people posthumously and save them from hell." Which admittably causes a fuckton of problems, but those problems are WAY WAY WAY better than the ones entailed by alternative afterlife theologies.
November 25, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Ultimately, I'd still rather Brandon Sanderson stop paying tithes to the LDS, BUT reading his essay where he said "If I'm gonna believe in hell, why wouldn't I choose to believe in the version where people can still be saved after death?" DID increase my respect for liberal Mormons at least a little
One of my favorite IO insights is that, at the highest levels, advertising isn't about maximizing outreach (who *doesn't* know what Coke is?); it's about inflating the cost-to-compete for potential rivals, keeping them out of the market
Campaigning is JUST marketing; making this problem even worse
Campaigning is JUST marketing; making this problem even worse
Politicians are sellers trying to get you to sell your vote to them. The way they do so is by maximizing outreach. When the number of people they need to reach out to is in the tens of thousands (at least!) and there is no remaining accessible public forum, that creates a natural barrier-to-entry.
November 25, 2025 at 5:12 AM
One of my favorite IO insights is that, at the highest levels, advertising isn't about maximizing outreach (who *doesn't* know what Coke is?); it's about inflating the cost-to-compete for potential rivals, keeping them out of the market
Campaigning is JUST marketing; making this problem even worse
Campaigning is JUST marketing; making this problem even worse
RCV is good. But it takes an economic analysis to get why the two party system exists and why RCV ain't enough.
We have an oligopoly of the Red and Blue Parties for largely the same reasons we have an oligopoly of the Red and Blue Soda Companies.
Political parties benefit from economies of scale.
We have an oligopoly of the Red and Blue Parties for largely the same reasons we have an oligopoly of the Red and Blue Soda Companies.
Political parties benefit from economies of scale.
Ranked-choice voting didn't *mathematically* change much in Portland, mostly the same people won who would have with FTTP. But it sure did lower the level of rancor a bunch, letting voters have more "expressive power" without worrying about spoilers
i am...skeptical about implementation here state-by-state but it could absolutely strengthen coalition unity and decrease alienation of the primary electorate.
November 25, 2025 at 4:58 AM
RCV is good. But it takes an economic analysis to get why the two party system exists and why RCV ain't enough.
We have an oligopoly of the Red and Blue Parties for largely the same reasons we have an oligopoly of the Red and Blue Soda Companies.
Political parties benefit from economies of scale.
We have an oligopoly of the Red and Blue Parties for largely the same reasons we have an oligopoly of the Red and Blue Soda Companies.
Political parties benefit from economies of scale.
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This is something I’ve said before, but propaganda is extremely corrosive because eventually your own elites buy into it as well, with disastrous consequences.
Mitch McConnell of course had no foresight and only chose to chase short term gains. Now his myopic approach ruined his beloved party.
Mitch McConnell of course had no foresight and only chose to chase short term gains. Now his myopic approach ruined his beloved party.
Mitch genuinely thought Republicans could go on forever maintaining kayfabe re:the debt limit. He thought Republican senators would always be ~in~ on the strategy.
He did not account for the idea that future Republican electeds would ACTUALLY listen to Republican media and rhetoric.
He did not account for the idea that future Republican electeds would ACTUALLY listen to Republican media and rhetoric.
November 25, 2025 at 4:43 AM
This is something I’ve said before, but propaganda is extremely corrosive because eventually your own elites buy into it as well, with disastrous consequences.
Mitch McConnell of course had no foresight and only chose to chase short term gains. Now his myopic approach ruined his beloved party.
Mitch McConnell of course had no foresight and only chose to chase short term gains. Now his myopic approach ruined his beloved party.
The sad thing is that if you did this with the linguistic subfields of syntax and semantics, you would genuinely get more empirically reliable theoretical research, with fewer hallucinations, than what we've got so far in the literature.
Ok so.
"The Genesis Mission will build an integrated AI platform to harness Federal scientific datasets — the world’s largest collection ... — to train scientific foundation models and create AI agents to test new hypotheses, automate research workflows, and accelerate scientific breakthroughs."
"The Genesis Mission will build an integrated AI platform to harness Federal scientific datasets — the world’s largest collection ... — to train scientific foundation models and create AI agents to test new hypotheses, automate research workflows, and accelerate scientific breakthroughs."
"the president has directed the Department of Energy to launch an AI project called the genesis mission" sounds like something out of a technothriller
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
November 25, 2025 at 4:45 AM
The sad thing is that if you did this with the linguistic subfields of syntax and semantics, you would genuinely get more empirically reliable theoretical research, with fewer hallucinations, than what we've got so far in the literature.
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really excited for 60 Minutes to just be a show about what Alan Dershowitz thinks the age of consent should be
November 25, 2025 at 4:10 AM
really excited for 60 Minutes to just be a show about what Alan Dershowitz thinks the age of consent should be
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Mitch genuinely thought Republicans could go on forever maintaining kayfabe re:the debt limit. He thought Republican senators would always be ~in~ on the strategy.
He did not account for the idea that future Republican electeds would ACTUALLY listen to Republican media and rhetoric.
He did not account for the idea that future Republican electeds would ACTUALLY listen to Republican media and rhetoric.
November 25, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Mitch genuinely thought Republicans could go on forever maintaining kayfabe re:the debt limit. He thought Republican senators would always be ~in~ on the strategy.
He did not account for the idea that future Republican electeds would ACTUALLY listen to Republican media and rhetoric.
He did not account for the idea that future Republican electeds would ACTUALLY listen to Republican media and rhetoric.
2000s Republicans were incubated in the elite info-environment of finance, who created a parallel media to rhetorically rationalize [lit. lie about] Republican policy and energize low-info reactionaries.
2020s Republicans were incubated in *that* environment their predecessors built for them.
2020s Republicans were incubated in *that* environment their predecessors built for them.
2000s Republicans believed that Iraq was actually about [insert neocon apologetics], and that "we went to war for oil" is just something uninformed know-nothing liberal media celebs parrot.
2020s Republicans believe we went to war in Iraq for oil and racism and that that was good actually.
2020s Republicans believe we went to war in Iraq for oil and racism and that that was good actually.
November 25, 2025 at 4:09 AM
2000s Republicans were incubated in the elite info-environment of finance, who created a parallel media to rhetorically rationalize [lit. lie about] Republican policy and energize low-info reactionaries.
2020s Republicans were incubated in *that* environment their predecessors built for them.
2020s Republicans were incubated in *that* environment their predecessors built for them.
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The whole facade of rule of law is infuriating here.
" The president can't attack that guy unless he's a terrorist! Checks and balances!"
"Who designates him a terrorist?"
"Well...the president"
" The president can't attack that guy unless he's a terrorist! Checks and balances!"
"Who designates him a terrorist?"
"Well...the president"
🇻🇪🇺🇸 The Trump administration could have expanded authority to take action against Venezuela starting Monday, as the US designates Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his government allies as members of a foreign terrorist organization, - CNN
November 24, 2025 at 10:07 PM
The whole facade of rule of law is infuriating here.
" The president can't attack that guy unless he's a terrorist! Checks and balances!"
"Who designates him a terrorist?"
"Well...the president"
" The president can't attack that guy unless he's a terrorist! Checks and balances!"
"Who designates him a terrorist?"
"Well...the president"
> "Lord Ravenloft"
Rolling on the floor imagining Strahd fucking with some random-ass adventurers at dinner by just throwing this statement into the conversation like it's a live hand grenade.
It especially adds to it that the person he's responding to here is Japanese. Peak Strahd behavior.
Rolling on the floor imagining Strahd fucking with some random-ass adventurers at dinner by just throwing this statement into the conversation like it's a live hand grenade.
It especially adds to it that the person he's responding to here is Japanese. Peak Strahd behavior.
November 25, 2025 at 1:34 AM
> "Lord Ravenloft"
Rolling on the floor imagining Strahd fucking with some random-ass adventurers at dinner by just throwing this statement into the conversation like it's a live hand grenade.
It especially adds to it that the person he's responding to here is Japanese. Peak Strahd behavior.
Rolling on the floor imagining Strahd fucking with some random-ass adventurers at dinner by just throwing this statement into the conversation like it's a live hand grenade.
It especially adds to it that the person he's responding to here is Japanese. Peak Strahd behavior.
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Left YIMBYism is the future. 🎊 🏠 🏗️
Our Executive Director @AnnemarieGray.bsky.social on joining @ZohranKMamdani.bsky.social's transition:
"Bringing down the cost of living, especially the soaring cost of rent for working New Yorkers, has been the core of your campaign and the heart of my career in housing."
"Bringing down the cost of living, especially the soaring cost of rent for working New Yorkers, has been the core of your campaign and the heart of my career in housing."
November 25, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Left YIMBYism is the future. 🎊 🏠 🏗️