i have really come to the view that partisanship is to be embraced wholesale. partisanship and principle but not purity.
Woke 2 needs Democratic leaders to remember that the Federalists and anti-Federalists hated each other. Get that attitude toward Republicans and talk accordingly. They are your colleagues working against everything you stand for, not good-intentioned, misguided friends.
"What we need is to embrace power and to embrace responsibility for the exercise of that power. This includes everything from the sewer socialism of Zohran Mamdani to the constitutional hardball of Virginia's recent successful gerrymander."
www.liberalcurrents.com/what-is-woke...
www.liberalcurrents.com/what-is-woke...
April 23, 2026 at 1:37 PM
i have really come to the view that partisanship is to be embraced wholesale. partisanship and principle but not purity.
some guy: we need bipartisanship
me (nodding): bisexual partisanship
me (nodding): bisexual partisanship
September 28, 2026 at 2:49 PM
some guy: we need bipartisanship
me (nodding): bisexual partisanship
me (nodding): bisexual partisanship
the first and only impeachment proceeding against a supreme court justice was over excessive partisanship fyi
Via MS NOW: Emil Bove is in attendance at Trump’s speech in Pennsylvania tonight.
December 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
the first and only impeachment proceeding against a supreme court justice was over excessive partisanship fyi
Partisanship is a helluva drug.
February 22, 2026 at 9:06 PM
Partisanship is a helluva drug.
Trump has broken through partisanship to make everyone unhappy
April 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Trump has broken through partisanship to make everyone unhappy
kind of incredible that with the right affect, vicious partisanship can be read as magnanimous understanding
In his new book, Spencer Cox says he tried to persuade Biden to pardon Trump and to persuade Trump to become a more unifying figure—all part of what Cox frames as thwarted but worthwhile attempts at depolarization, @mckaycoppins.bsky.social reports.
A Republican Governor Tried to Heal American Politics. It Almost Broke Him.
Spencer Cox’s very hopeful, very quixotic crusade
bit.ly
August 28, 2026 at 11:27 AM
kind of incredible that with the right affect, vicious partisanship can be read as magnanimous understanding
why would a Democratic politician be expected to 'rise above partisanship'?
Gov. Tim Walz has succeeded in projecting an avuncular, affable, relentlessly normcore image to Minnesotans. But not all voters are convinced that he rose above partisanship or united the state.
What Minnesota Voters Think of Tim Walz
The governor succeeded in projecting an avuncular image. But not all voters are convinced that he rose above partisanship or united the state.
www.nytimes.com
August 7, 2024 at 12:01 AM
why would a Democratic politician be expected to 'rise above partisanship'?
Judge Smith pretty much wanted to hand Alito and Thomas a table of contents for how to shut it down — partisanship, partisanship, partisanship.
November 19, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Judge Smith pretty much wanted to hand Alito and Thomas a table of contents for how to shut it down — partisanship, partisanship, partisanship.
ironclad partisanship over ideology.
Our goal for the next 3 years should be to produce a simultaneous blue wave and a tea party election. We need it to be party doctrine by 2028 that lustration is possible, but the continued existence of MAGA officials & red state governance is not.
July 30, 2025 at 2:17 AM
ironclad partisanship over ideology.
It is just pure sophistry to insist that it is not racial gerrymandering when race tracks partisanship. Absolutely insulting in its reasoning.
April 29, 2026 at 8:34 PM
It is just pure sophistry to insist that it is not racial gerrymandering when race tracks partisanship. Absolutely insulting in its reasoning.
Partisanship is a hell of a drug
Democrats: Important to pick the precise dollar amount of minimum wage increase that’s most popular lest everyone get mad at us
Republicans: hahah yes, a Gatsby party at the president’s luxury resort at the exact moment benefits expire for millions!!
Voters: I like you roughly the same amount
Republicans: hahah yes, a Gatsby party at the president’s luxury resort at the exact moment benefits expire for millions!!
Voters: I like you roughly the same amount
Trump is holding a Great Gatsby/Roaring 20s-themed party at his private club in Palm Beach tonight as he tries to withhold SNAP and health care subsidies from millions of Americans. (via Kellie Meyer)
November 1, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Partisanship is a hell of a drug
This is such a stupid way to measure partisanship
May 31, 2025 at 4:13 PM
This is such a stupid way to measure partisanship
It’s worse on the right, but sadly this pathology transcends partisanship.
Conservatism is the deeply held belief that you, a random asshole parachuting into any conversation, are so unmatched in your genius that you instinctively know more than any expert could hope to.
Solar engineers forgot about sunsets until Doug arrived; they sob, now, as they realize the mistake.
Solar engineers forgot about sunsets until Doug arrived; they sob, now, as they realize the mistake.
Burgum: "When the sun goes down, you have a catastrophic failure called sunset and there's no solar energy produced, and yet we're subsidizing these things that are intermittent, unreliable, and expensive. We've gotta get back to base load."
July 31, 2025 at 9:58 PM
It’s worse on the right, but sadly this pathology transcends partisanship.
The definition of partisanship is when you can "finally say" what everyone knows only after you've fallen out with the leader.
June 5, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The definition of partisanship is when you can "finally say" what everyone knows only after you've fallen out with the leader.
Phenomenal idea in the era of growing media and public hyper-partisanship.
New idea. Next time we publish a report on a politician, I’ll keep the politician’s name blanked out for a week, and let everyone take positions before they find out who it is.
May 11, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Phenomenal idea in the era of growing media and public hyper-partisanship.
Partisanship is a hell of a drug
Absolutely wild to watch partisanship cook people's brains in real-time.🧠
www.economist.com/graphic-deta...
www.economist.com/graphic-deta...
April 2, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Partisanship is a hell of a drug
just from a senate perspective you don't want to lose a blowout election in the best of your classes by partisanship
yeah we’re in Fuck It Shit Gets Weird territory and talking about Kansas at this point, so
September 29, 2026 at 4:51 AM
just from a senate perspective you don't want to lose a blowout election in the best of your classes by partisanship
Many myths debunked in this paper. Paper finds that:
-faculty partisanship has no effect on students
-students ideologically sort into majors; majors don’t affect partisanship
-faculty partisanship is uncorrelated with how left/rightwing course content is
micah-baum.github.io/files/baum-e...
-faculty partisanship has no effect on students
-students ideologically sort into majors; majors don’t affect partisanship
-faculty partisanship is uncorrelated with how left/rightwing course content is
micah-baum.github.io/files/baum-e...
August 10, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Many myths debunked in this paper. Paper finds that:
-faculty partisanship has no effect on students
-students ideologically sort into majors; majors don’t affect partisanship
-faculty partisanship is uncorrelated with how left/rightwing course content is
micah-baum.github.io/files/baum-e...
-faculty partisanship has no effect on students
-students ideologically sort into majors; majors don’t affect partisanship
-faculty partisanship is uncorrelated with how left/rightwing course content is
micah-baum.github.io/files/baum-e...
Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.
Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."
October 8, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.
NTSB is the last exemplar of independent professionalism in federal government, because we used to think stopping plane crashes was a goal beyond partisanship
NTSB board member Inman says he was fired by White House reut.rs/3OVrV6p
NTSB board member Inman says he was fired by White House
A Republican member of the National Transportation Safety Board said on Sunday he was fired on Friday by the White House without any explanation.
reut.rs
March 9, 2026 at 1:47 AM
NTSB is the last exemplar of independent professionalism in federal government, because we used to think stopping plane crashes was a goal beyond partisanship
strong partisanship, weak parties is such a nightmare
March 7, 2025 at 8:11 PM
strong partisanship, weak parties is such a nightmare
Affective Partisanship is the river the cuts gorges into mountains
imagine explaining to someone in 2016 that Bill Kristol had united in a AOC/Bernie popular front against fascism
March 23, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Affective Partisanship is the river the cuts gorges into mountains
Partisanship and incompetence makes everything worse.
Yesterday Kash Patel spent his time tweet tough guy stuff without actually having a clue about what was happening, and probably damaging the investigation in the process. Now he's on his way to Utah, no doubt to take credit for whatever progress the real FBI agents have made.
September 11, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Partisanship and incompetence makes everything worse.
I will prioritize public service over partisanship, every time.
August 23, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I will prioritize public service over partisanship, every time.