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Erich DeLang

@erichdelang.bsky.social

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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:

A screen capture of Dave Roberts quote-skeeting Will Stancil and saying that he’s fundamentally right but being overly dramatic. Neither Dave’s specific nuances are repeated, nor is any of Will’s quoted skeet preserved, because the formulation “Will Stancil is 100% correct in the shrillest presentation imaginable” is evergreen and always applicable.

Erich DeLang @erichdelang.bsky.social · 16h

I’d say that’s a matter of opinion. My opinion is that the biggest failure of the Obama Admin was failing to go after the Bush Admin team for their war crimes and other associated criminal behavior.

If you’d say the big stimulus to stave off a second Great Recession, I’d agree it’s a close second.

Erich DeLang @erichdelang.bsky.social · 18h

Doesn’t have to be this way. But it is.

Erich DeLang @erichdelang.bsky.social · 18h

Don’t disagree with this. I myself tend toward Do Something centrism, rather than being what anyone on the left would consider left (check out the lists I’m on).

But the WelcomePAC caucus is also the “we need to move on / stand FOR stuff not just against stuff” caucus, so I stand by my comment.

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Erich DeLang @erichdelang.bsky.social · 18h

So in my view Theo’s statement is equivalent to saying “I am extremely confident that the Do Something Dems will wrest control of the party from the WelcomePAC Dems” and I genuinely wonder where that confidence comes from.

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Erich DeLang @erichdelang.bsky.social · 18h

Seconded. Like I *hope* it’s true, and it *should* be true, and there are some elected Dems for whom it *is* true, but not the WelcomePAC Dems and they run the party and hold all the leadership spots and command all the donor money and spend it doing whatever it takes to keep those better Dems out.

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Erich DeLang @erichdelang.bsky.social · 1d

Well, like so many other things this is partisan in flavor.

We have a parliament now because we have a GOP government but there’s a Dem president we hear an awful lot about the “first branch among equals,” always from the GOP, but often from Dems eager to kick the admin’s legs out from under it.

Erich DeLang @erichdelang.bsky.social · 1d

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 2d

i think it's very weird that seemingly the entire elite media has decided that it's going to be a strategy consultant for the democratic party — AND that it's going to base its opinions about politics and the world on what is essentially a PR campaign from a single aggressively ideological super PAC

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Erich DeLang @erichdelang.bsky.social · 1d

Welp, looks like The Fed is down to a single mandate of “whatever it takes to help Republicans.”

Erich DeLang @erichdelang.bsky.social · 2d

Seems pretty unethical to put a thumb as heavily on the scale for Abughazaleh in the primary as this effectively does, but since she’s my fav I’ve got a hard time arguing.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Six people, including congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh, have been indicted on charges of "Assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or employees" and "Conspiracy to impede or injure officer," in connection w ICE protests at the Broadview ICE facility outside Chicago.

Case: 1:25-cr-00693 Document #: 1 Filed: 10/23/25 Page 1 of 11 PagelD #:17
FILED
10/23/2025
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS
EASTERN DIVISION
CLERK, OM.&TRUT&OURT
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
1:25-cr-00693
Judge April M. Perry
v.
Case No.
Magistrate Judge Heather K. McShain
RANDOM / Cat. 3
MICHAEL RABBITT,
Violations: Title 18, United States
KATHERINE MARIE ABUGHAZALEH,
Code, Sections 111(a)(1), 372 and 2
ANDRE MARTIN,
CATHERINE SHARP, BRIAN STRAW, and
UNDER SEAL
JOSELYN WALSH
COUNT ONE
The SPECIAL JUNE 2024 GRAND JURY charges:

Erich DeLang @erichdelang.bsky.social · 2d

Really puts a fine point on “you have to date me / debate me / employ me / invite me to Thanksgiving dinner even if I’m a swastika wearing Nazi,” huh?

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 2d

Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do

Erich DeLang @erichdelang.bsky.social · 2d

Nope, it’s real. He’s Jewish.

As for “low even for him,” well, in case you’d forgotten, this was his trolling response to Uvalde when they were still pulling bodies out of the classroom.

He’s as low as it gets before you cross into Trumpy.

Erich DeLang @erichdelang.bsky.social · 2d

GOP policy porno vs. Democratic erotica or Skinemax is a construction we’ll want to keep handy. Nice work.

Erich DeLang @erichdelang.bsky.social · 2d

That’s like the MattY brand.

Erich DeLang @erichdelang.bsky.social · 2d

Yep. Noticed *exactly* the same thing.

Erich DeLang @erichdelang.bsky.social · 9d

Man, kinda seems that like a certain kind of person on here only got solidly behind Platner *after* Totenkopfgate.

Less than ideal.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2d

I'd like you to show me ANY U.S. journalism coverage of this report that mentions the electorate's beliefs (especially what dems stand for) are primarily being shaped by a massive and hugely effective right wing propaganda campaign across AM radio, local broadcast TV, cable, and the internet

The far left have taken control of the Democratic party platform, and it’s turning voters off

Research reveals a disconnect between Democratic elites and voters, and recommends that the party shift away from far-left issues and focus on affordability and public safety.

www.foxnews.com

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Erich DeLang @erichdelang.bsky.social · 2d

I appreciate it. It’s a steep hill to climb, but it’s one that can be clearly identified. I hate magical solutions, and am glad you explained the path you see.

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Matt Strabone @mattstrabone.bsky.social · 2d

Not gonna run for higher office but if I did I'd say:

We're just gonna make spam calls illegal. They'll go to jail if they call you. And those random fees you pay for no reason? We're gonna send those guys to jail too. Banks, utilities, landlords, health insurers, whoever. Fuck those guys.

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Erich DeLang @erichdelang.bsky.social · 2d

But simply getting on board with the unthinkable for political expedience isn’t moral, and fails on its own terms anyway. Public opinion is not fixed, and as long as Democrats *can* still win power, dragging it back towards us and towards the shining city on the hill is the only viable path. <>

Erich DeLang @erichdelang.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve got thoughts on this, thoughts related to Musk and Twitter, Ellison and CBS, Bezos and the Post, Murdoch and Fox (and the other Post), Dash and the Times, Soon-Shiong and the other Times, and billionaires buying public opinion in general. Others may have different thoughts. 10/

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Erich DeLang @erichdelang.bsky.social · 2d

I think we need to acknowledge that the public is too right-wing, talk about how and why this came to be, and when thermostatic public opinion once again puts us in power, exercise it in such a way as to make the public more left-wing. 9/

Erich DeLang @erichdelang.bsky.social · 2d

So no, I don’t think that even Dem centrists are too left-wing. I think the American public, as it stands, is too right-wing, and I think that it’s on us as Democrats not to just enable that to ensure that those of us *not* currently in the crosshairs can elect enough Dems to live comfortably. 8/

Erich DeLang @erichdelang.bsky.social · 2d

And while no one (today) is talking about trans genocide, experts sure seem to think that Israel (with GOP backing) is committing genocide in Palestine, & the GOP rhetoric on immigration at this point is unquestionably genocidal. This is Hutu Power FM. This is inyenzi. There’s no outflanking it. 7/

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Erich DeLang @erichdelang.bsky.social · 2d

The fact that most people have an opinion on trans kids playing sports even though they’ve never encountered one and think that Democrats spend too much time talking about this even when they avoid it like the plague is pretty solid evidence that public opinion is NOT fixed and CAN be shifted. 6/

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Erich DeLang @erichdelang.bsky.social · 2d

But the point is that Matt and Welcome PAC’s whole case is that since the electorate is what it is, all you can do is move the party to where the electorate is regardless of how morally awful that might be, but of course this is only necessary if you believe the electorate is fixed and unmovable. 5/