Erich DeLang
@erichdelang.bsky.social
Just another Twitter refugee looking for what we had there once upon a time. It's not going to be Mastodon or Post.News and probably not Threads, so let's see if we can't make this our home.
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Erich DeLang
@erichdelang.bsky.social
· Dec 31
I don’t know if we can pin skeets, and if we can we probably can’t pin edited versions of other people’s skeets.
But if we could, this would be my pinned skeet:
But if we could, this would be my pinned skeet:
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keeping this around for the next time i'm asked what Bluesky is
December 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
keeping this around for the next time i'm asked what Bluesky is
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there is one and only one political strategy, and that is: “hang trump like an anchor around the neck of every single elected republican and the party itself.” no ‘friends across the aisle.’ no ‘the fever will break.’ anyone not on board with that has to go. no exceptions
![Gallup poll | 12/1-12/15
President Trump approval crosstabs (%)
🟥Overall (59/36 disapprove) [-23]
🟥Democratic (93/3 disapprove) [-90]
🟩Republican (89/8 approve) [+81]
🟥Independent (68/25 disapprove) [-43]
🟥18-34 (68/25 disapprove) [-43]
🟥35-54 (59/36 disapprove) [-23]
🟥55+ (53/43 disapprove) [-10]
🟥No college (55/37 disapprove) [-18]
🟥College graduate (59/37 disapprove) [-22]
🟥Male (53/42 disapprove) [-11]
🟥Female (64/30 disapprove) [-34]
🟥White (52/46 disapprove) [-6]
🟥Non-white (71/21 disapprove) [-50]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreifnv6vxufu6icjvsd5toirz3lmqkzertdpdnlqh7q44momevhfjqq@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 2:42 AM
there is one and only one political strategy, and that is: “hang trump like an anchor around the neck of every single elected republican and the party itself.” no ‘friends across the aisle.’ no ‘the fever will break.’ anyone not on board with that has to go. no exceptions
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Superbased.
Erika Kirk just brought out Nicki Minaj at a Turning Point USA event:
December 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Superbased.
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Almost every story Weiss greenlit at the Free Press lacked sufficient context. It's kinda their entire schtick.
December 22, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Almost every story Weiss greenlit at the Free Press lacked sufficient context. It's kinda their entire schtick.
Superbased.
Erika Kirk just brought out Nicki Minaj at a Turning Point USA event:
December 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Superbased.
Close Encounters of the Grinch Kind
Mother, Jugs & Grinch
Saving Private Grinch
December 20, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Close Encounters of the Grinch Kind
The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.
Yeah, that tracks.
Yeah, that tracks.
December 20, 2025 at 1:24 AM
The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.
Yeah, that tracks.
Yeah, that tracks.
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I think the story here is that Martin wanted the autopsy to name names about the consultants and third party groups that wasted Dems' money - and he's not doing that.
Dems had a stellar year of election wins, from Sioux City to Miami. So why pull back on this?
Dems had a stellar year of election wins, from Sioux City to Miami. So why pull back on this?
Old enough to remember when Ken Martin was a reformer who was going to fix what people hated about the DNC lol
I'm not counting on the party to save us, but it sure would be nice if it would stop kneecapping itself and the rest of us with it.
I'm not counting on the party to save us, but it sure would be nice if it would stop kneecapping itself and the rest of us with it.
BREAKING: The Democratic National Committee will NOT release its long-awaited autopsy on Trump's 2024 win. The report is completed but Dem leaders decided it could distract from their winning streak, so it will remain secret. Not good.
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/2045...
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/2045...
December 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I think the story here is that Martin wanted the autopsy to name names about the consultants and third party groups that wasted Dems' money - and he's not doing that.
Dems had a stellar year of election wins, from Sioux City to Miami. So why pull back on this?
Dems had a stellar year of election wins, from Sioux City to Miami. So why pull back on this?
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On that last post: I genuinely cannot think of any good-faith reason to bar international adoptions from those 39 countries. Under this new ban, consulates will refuse adoption visas for any baby from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, Nigeria, or any of the 39 other countries.
December 16, 2025 at 9:58 PM
On that last post: I genuinely cannot think of any good-faith reason to bar international adoptions from those 39 countries. Under this new ban, consulates will refuse adoption visas for any baby from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, Nigeria, or any of the 39 other countries.
Instead they’ll write that this is the day he finally became president.
This isn’t in spite of them. It’s *for* them.
This isn’t in spite of them. It’s *for* them.
Every major news organization should be writing about how insane this is and how, if he takes this country to war (tomorrow?), it is the act of a madman.
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 17, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Instead they’ll write that this is the day he finally became president.
This isn’t in spite of them. It’s *for* them.
This isn’t in spite of them. It’s *for* them.
This is correct.
The people who accept pardons won’t be evading justice; they’ll just be waiving their due process rights.
The people who accept pardons won’t be evading justice; they’ll just be waiving their due process rights.
Pardons would prevent federal prosecutions, sure.
Federal prosecutions aren’t the only way to write the closing chapter to a lawless authoritarian regime.
Federal prosecutions aren’t the only way to write the closing chapter to a lawless authoritarian regime.
“Since he was sworn back into office nearly a year ago, Donald Trump and several administration officials have already informally discussed the idea of preemptively pardoning an array of Trump advisers, policymakers, and others…
December 13, 2025 at 5:39 PM
This is correct.
The people who accept pardons won’t be evading justice; they’ll just be waiving their due process rights.
The people who accept pardons won’t be evading justice; they’ll just be waiving their due process rights.
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Man, the media has really become a thing hasn't it.
counterpoint: you should absolutely lose your job for shouting racial slurs at customers
“Those of us on the left should be fighting to improve protections for workers of all races, and thereby for the betterment of people’s material conditions regardless of their views,” Arash Azizi argues:
December 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Man, the media has really become a thing hasn't it.
So that’s what the current strategy bought us - 2.5 points in the handful of states we could deluge with ads.
What did it cost us?
Running a campaign shorn of anything controversial or aggressive and being forced to say nice things about the donor class, a group nearly all voters despise.
What did it cost us?
Running a campaign shorn of anything controversial or aggressive and being forced to say nice things about the donor class, a group nearly all voters despise.
Explanation/evidence: The national presidential 2020-2024 swing was 6 points (Biden by 4.5 to Trump by 1.5 points). In the pivotal EC states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and North Carolina, the average swing was only 3.5 points toward Trump. /5
December 11, 2025 at 11:13 PM
So that’s what the current strategy bought us - 2.5 points in the handful of states we could deluge with ads.
What did it cost us?
Running a campaign shorn of anything controversial or aggressive and being forced to say nice things about the donor class, a group nearly all voters despise.
What did it cost us?
Running a campaign shorn of anything controversial or aggressive and being forced to say nice things about the donor class, a group nearly all voters despise.
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This is 100% the correct (and obvious) move by Dems and they need to do it Every. Single. Time: counter Republicans strongarming companies/schools by openly and directly saying "we will be in charge in like a year and will absolutely make this cost you."
www.semafor.com/article/12/1...
www.semafor.com/article/12/1...
Democrats warn their party may try to unravel any Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery deal
A new letter from Reps. Sam Liccardo, D-Calif., and Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., also raised concerns about foreign investors’ involvement.
www.semafor.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
This is 100% the correct (and obvious) move by Dems and they need to do it Every. Single. Time: counter Republicans strongarming companies/schools by openly and directly saying "we will be in charge in like a year and will absolutely make this cost you."
www.semafor.com/article/12/1...
www.semafor.com/article/12/1...
Stopped clocks and all that, but this is entirely on the level.
December 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Stopped clocks and all that, but this is entirely on the level.
Seems…what’s the word I’m looking for here?
Weird.
Weird.
December 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Seems…what’s the word I’m looking for here?
Weird.
Weird.
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I'm usually a "prioritize winning elections over winning factional fights" guy but that goes out the window with anything these group chat psychos touch. We have to crush them or they'll turn the Democratic Party into Labour
like incredible takeaway from a huge overperformance by Democrats in fucking *TN*
December 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I'm usually a "prioritize winning elections over winning factional fights" guy but that goes out the window with anything these group chat psychos touch. We have to crush them or they'll turn the Democratic Party into Labour
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Something every 2026/28 Dem should commit to is investigations of any company that did deals with Trump. A kind of forward guidance to get companies to think twice in advance of what’s coming.
Fox News will applaud this but can you imagine their coverage if President Biden hatched a secret plan to take over Fox News and revamp its programming to be nicer to him
New WSJ reporting: "During a December visit to Washington, David Ellison offered assurances to Trump administration officials that if he bought Warner, he'd make sweeping changes to CNN, a common target of President Trump's ire, people familiar with the matter said..."
December 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Something every 2026/28 Dem should commit to is investigations of any company that did deals with Trump. A kind of forward guidance to get companies to think twice in advance of what’s coming.
This is good stuff, but until it’s enforced by arresting agents who violate it and detaining them, preferably at Homan Square, it will be interpreted by the administration as the political stunt it is.
December 9, 2025 at 7:56 PM
This is good stuff, but until it’s enforced by arresting agents who violate it and detaining them, preferably at Homan Square, it will be interpreted by the administration as the political stunt it is.
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"Needy Amin" still ranks among the banger nicknames for Trump.
December 8, 2025 at 4:15 AM
"Needy Amin" still ranks among the banger nicknames for Trump.
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
December 8, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
This thread and the subthreads are my politics distilled.
Hell, it’s 80% my religion too.
Hell, it’s 80% my religion too.
👇🎯💯🧵
5. FWIW, that's also why, if the pro-Constitutional Democracy factions of the U.S. political order ever get the trifecta, they can't wait to pass their reforms. They can't spend time hashing them out in committee. They need prêt à passer legislation.
December 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This thread and the subthreads are my politics distilled.
Hell, it’s 80% my religion too.
Hell, it’s 80% my religion too.
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Ezra Klein even like "well we can agree 'birth tourism' is a problem," and no, I cannot. My group texts are about sports and kids.
December 6, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Ezra Klein even like "well we can agree 'birth tourism' is a problem," and no, I cannot. My group texts are about sports and kids.
There are 4 types of guys online. No exceptions.
December 6, 2025 at 9:33 PM
There are 4 types of guys online. No exceptions.
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Laws aren't real. They exist solely on account of buy-in from society's participants. Once one side disengages, you no longer reside in a society based on laws. You live in a society based on power and armed force. I am begging folks to accept this so we can get moving.
Just legal Calvinball. Obviously lawless.
December 6, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Laws aren't real. They exist solely on account of buy-in from society's participants. Once one side disengages, you no longer reside in a society based on laws. You live in a society based on power and armed force. I am begging folks to accept this so we can get moving.