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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the scramble for GOP hopefuls to distance themselves from Trump as the ship goes down is going to be crazy and the most important thing to do is sink all the lifeboats
none of them are allowed to escape his legacy
none of them are allowed to escape his legacy
November 15, 2025 at 3:05 AM
the scramble for GOP hopefuls to distance themselves from Trump as the ship goes down is going to be crazy and the most important thing to do is sink all the lifeboats
none of them are allowed to escape his legacy
none of them are allowed to escape his legacy
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8 years of "What is a woman?" and now it turns out that the comeback was "define a child"
November 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
8 years of "What is a woman?" and now it turns out that the comeback was "define a child"
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It’s been a year to the day we bought (and then didn’t, for reasons we still don’t fully know) InfoWars. We’re still trying. In the year since, we built The Onion into one of the biggest newspapers in the United States. I’m so proud of this place. I’m proud we do hard stuff. Thank you for caring.
November 15, 2025 at 12:12 AM
It’s been a year to the day we bought (and then didn’t, for reasons we still don’t fully know) InfoWars. We’re still trying. In the year since, we built The Onion into one of the biggest newspapers in the United States. I’m so proud of this place. I’m proud we do hard stuff. Thank you for caring.
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Olivia Nuzzi got sent in to do a profile but it turned out she wanted to fuck the subject so we sent in Jacob Bernstein to profile her and it turns out he also wants to fuck the subject
you can’t be putting this in the paper (gift link but i do not recommend you use it www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/s...)
November 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Olivia Nuzzi got sent in to do a profile but it turned out she wanted to fuck the subject so we sent in Jacob Bernstein to profile her and it turns out he also wants to fuck the subject
Same reason Dems fail when running GOP-lite candidates - who’s gonna vote for that when the Real McCoy is right there?
What self-respecting Groyper is going to follow Catturd2 when GassinHeebs1488 is just a click away?
What self-respecting Groyper is going to follow Catturd2 when GassinHeebs1488 is just a click away?
The funniest thing about Twitter these days is that right wing dipshits still think their content is being suppressed by some unseen liberal forces.
Elon Musk has owned the site for over three years now.
Elon Musk has owned the site for over three years now.
November 14, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Same reason Dems fail when running GOP-lite candidates - who’s gonna vote for that when the Real McCoy is right there?
What self-respecting Groyper is going to follow Catturd2 when GassinHeebs1488 is just a click away?
What self-respecting Groyper is going to follow Catturd2 when GassinHeebs1488 is just a click away?
At the mayoral/gubernatorial level? Absolutely.
It can also work at the senatorial level, but w/in limits. The senate caucus has to vote with the center of the *party* not their state, and not be contrarian iconoclasts like we’ve suffered. Collins, who has concerns she never acts on, is the target.
It can also work at the senatorial level, but w/in limits. The senate caucus has to vote with the center of the *party* not their state, and not be contrarian iconoclasts like we’ve suffered. Collins, who has concerns she never acts on, is the target.
democrats love all their moderate, progressive, and top-of-the-distribution leaders <3
they can all live in harmony together under a big diverse tent if they restore regional party identities and stop the circular firing squad on nationalized media <3
they can all live in harmony together under a big diverse tent if they restore regional party identities and stop the circular firing squad on nationalized media <3
November 13, 2025 at 11:49 PM
At the mayoral/gubernatorial level? Absolutely.
It can also work at the senatorial level, but w/in limits. The senate caucus has to vote with the center of the *party* not their state, and not be contrarian iconoclasts like we’ve suffered. Collins, who has concerns she never acts on, is the target.
It can also work at the senatorial level, but w/in limits. The senate caucus has to vote with the center of the *party* not their state, and not be contrarian iconoclasts like we’ve suffered. Collins, who has concerns she never acts on, is the target.
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Sure is funny how @vox.com under its current ownership/leadership seems committed to serving almost the exact opposite purpose from the one for which it was founded.
November 13, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Sure is funny how @vox.com under its current ownership/leadership seems committed to serving almost the exact opposite purpose from the one for which it was founded.
It’s not a self-own. They care more about defeating whatever you want to call that faction of the Democratic Party than they do about defeating the GOP.
They can live with Trumpism, even from the minority. What they can absolutely not countenance is progressivism/wokeism, even from the majority.
They can live with Trumpism, even from the minority. What they can absolutely not countenance is progressivism/wokeism, even from the majority.
Centrist Democratic strategists have probably done more to prime voters to think of the Party as a vehicle for wokeism than anyone other than Trump or Fox News. And on very thin data that's not causal or predictive out of sample. The extent of the self-own is remarkable substack.com/@gelliottmor...
G. Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris)
Yeah, centrist Democratic strategists have probably done more to prime voters to think of the Party as a vehicle for wokeism than anyone other than Trump or Fox News anchors. The extent of the self-ow...
substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:23 PM
It’s not a self-own. They care more about defeating whatever you want to call that faction of the Democratic Party than they do about defeating the GOP.
They can live with Trumpism, even from the minority. What they can absolutely not countenance is progressivism/wokeism, even from the majority.
They can live with Trumpism, even from the minority. What they can absolutely not countenance is progressivism/wokeism, even from the majority.
Don’t look now, here comes the New York Times wagon circle!
As a former member of NYT’s finance team & the co-author of this story exposing the relationship between Epstein & Bill Gates as well as one on Epstein & JPMorgan, I am really frustrated to see people claiming that NYT sat on publishable info about Trump and Epstein 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/b...
Bill Gates Met With Jeffrey Epstein Many Times, Despite His Past (Published 2019)
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Don’t look now, here comes the New York Times wagon circle!
The negativity is the skeleton key to the zeitgeist. Ever since Reagan Dems have tried to do the Happy Warrior schtick, hence the obsession on “we have to be for something not just against things” and “they want to hear what we’ll do for them.”
No. They want to hear who you’ll hurt on their behalf.
No. They want to hear who you’ll hurt on their behalf.
i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
November 13, 2025 at 3:05 PM
The negativity is the skeleton key to the zeitgeist. Ever since Reagan Dems have tried to do the Happy Warrior schtick, hence the obsession on “we have to be for something not just against things” and “they want to hear what we’ll do for them.”
No. They want to hear who you’ll hurt on their behalf.
No. They want to hear who you’ll hurt on their behalf.
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i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
November 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
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This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.
November 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.
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Gamer brained suggestion: Fontaineism.
“Rapture was a candy store for a guy like me. Guys who thought they knew it all. Dames who thought they'd seen it all. Give me a smart mark over a dumb one every time.”
“Rapture was a candy store for a guy like me. Guys who thought they knew it all. Dames who thought they'd seen it all. Give me a smart mark over a dumb one every time.”
November 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Gamer brained suggestion: Fontaineism.
“Rapture was a candy store for a guy like me. Guys who thought they knew it all. Dames who thought they'd seen it all. Give me a smart mark over a dumb one every time.”
“Rapture was a candy store for a guy like me. Guys who thought they knew it all. Dames who thought they'd seen it all. Give me a smart mark over a dumb one every time.”
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the biggest lesson from the emails today is that powerful people are so unafraid of consequences for crimes as bad as “raping children” that they will just talk about it openly in emails
the only path to a better society is one where that is no longer true
the only path to a better society is one where that is no longer true
November 12, 2025 at 10:51 PM
the biggest lesson from the emails today is that powerful people are so unafraid of consequences for crimes as bad as “raping children” that they will just talk about it openly in emails
the only path to a better society is one where that is no longer true
the only path to a better society is one where that is no longer true
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every company in 2025
November 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
every company in 2025
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I do think this is a real distinction
Part of the issue is that Good at Words people are generally inclined to accept that people are all different ways and to think that’s just fine. Good at Math people have been allowed too much room to think that only they have the thoughts that matter.
November 12, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I do think this is a real distinction
Again with the writers and the heavy heavy-handedness.
New WSJ: After flying an FBI jet to see his girlfriend sing at a wrestling match, FBI director Kash Patel took the jet to a private Texas hunting resort called the Boondoggle Ranch. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Kash Patel’s ‘Effin Wild’ Ride as FBI Director
In just one week in October, he ticked off his bosses with premature comments about a terror investigation squeezed in a trip to the ‘Boondoggle Ranch’ on the bureau jet.
www.wsj.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Again with the writers and the heavy heavy-handedness.
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We deserve a Democratic Party that is willing to fight as hard as we are.
We need new leadership in this moment and to get there, we need a chorus of support for change. Tell your Democratic senators to call on Senator Schumer to step aside as Minority Leader. It’s time for drastic action.
We need new leadership in this moment and to get there, we need a chorus of support for change. Tell your Democratic senators to call on Senator Schumer to step aside as Minority Leader. It’s time for drastic action.
CALL NOW: Tell Your Democratic Senator It's Time for Chuck Schumer to Step Aside
indivisible.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
We deserve a Democratic Party that is willing to fight as hard as we are.
We need new leadership in this moment and to get there, we need a chorus of support for change. Tell your Democratic senators to call on Senator Schumer to step aside as Minority Leader. It’s time for drastic action.
We need new leadership in this moment and to get there, we need a chorus of support for change. Tell your Democratic senators to call on Senator Schumer to step aside as Minority Leader. It’s time for drastic action.
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I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
In light of the latest capitulation, it is clear to me as a constituent that @durbin.senate.gov does not have the mettle to lead the Senate caucus through these fractious times.
I therefore call on him to resign his seat, effective immediately, and for @govpritzker.illinois.gov to replace him.
I therefore call on him to resign his seat, effective immediately, and for @govpritzker.illinois.gov to replace him.
November 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
In light of the latest capitulation, it is clear to me as a constituent that @durbin.senate.gov does not have the mettle to lead the Senate caucus through these fractious times.
I therefore call on him to resign his seat, effective immediately, and for @govpritzker.illinois.gov to replace him.
I therefore call on him to resign his seat, effective immediately, and for @govpritzker.illinois.gov to replace him.
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Okay, anyway gongshow of this aside, a very important note:
there is another cloture vote! 4 days, because Rand Paul is going to draw it out. The squishes have no spines, at all, and this goes two ways. Incandescent anger, especially at Kaine and CCM/Rosen.
there is another cloture vote! 4 days, because Rand Paul is going to draw it out. The squishes have no spines, at all, and this goes two ways. Incandescent anger, especially at Kaine and CCM/Rosen.
November 10, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Okay, anyway gongshow of this aside, a very important note:
there is another cloture vote! 4 days, because Rand Paul is going to draw it out. The squishes have no spines, at all, and this goes two ways. Incandescent anger, especially at Kaine and CCM/Rosen.
there is another cloture vote! 4 days, because Rand Paul is going to draw it out. The squishes have no spines, at all, and this goes two ways. Incandescent anger, especially at Kaine and CCM/Rosen.
This is why it’s important to not, in the primary, just vote for the person most likely to win the election.
It’s an important factor, no doubt. But so is doing something worth doing once you win.
I’ll vote blue no matter who in the general. But in the primary, electability is one factor of many.
It’s an important factor, no doubt. But so is doing something worth doing once you win.
I’ll vote blue no matter who in the general. But in the primary, electability is one factor of many.
If they’re going to roll over like this after an electoral blowout less than a week ago, why bother electing Democrats to Congress next year? What would they actually do?
Major concession from Democrats here is enhanced ACA funds aren’t extended. Preserving them was Dems’ central demand in this fight. They secured a promise of a vote (which Thune has been offering for weeks), but that could still fail. Even if it passes, Johnson has made no promise of a House vote.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 AM
This is why it’s important to not, in the primary, just vote for the person most likely to win the election.
It’s an important factor, no doubt. But so is doing something worth doing once you win.
I’ll vote blue no matter who in the general. But in the primary, electability is one factor of many.
It’s an important factor, no doubt. But so is doing something worth doing once you win.
I’ll vote blue no matter who in the general. But in the primary, electability is one factor of many.
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if the Democrats are willing to accept this deal, in particular, i don't think a single Senator should make it through their primary. this just makes health inequity worse and lets Trump send out checks with his name on them!
"A development that appeared to break the logjam: Republicans proposed that healthcare funding be provided directly to households rather than used to pay for a 1-year extension of ACA subsidies. That involves sending federal money into FSAs instead of insurance companies" www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Republicans Pitch Alternative to ACA Extension to End Government Shutdown
A proposal by GOP senators to send money directly to consumers’ health accounts rather than to insurance companies showed signs of breaking a stalemate on negotiations.
www.wsj.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:20 PM
if the Democrats are willing to accept this deal, in particular, i don't think a single Senator should make it through their primary. this just makes health inequity worse and lets Trump send out checks with his name on them!
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