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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I feel exactly the same way about AOC today that I did about Obama in 2006, in that their candidacy feels like a longshot, yet at the same time the most natural & correct thing in the world
anybody currently raging about Newsom needs to be stopped better get on board or I might think your outrage is a tad performative
February 12, 2026 at 10:19 PM
I feel exactly the same way about AOC today that I did about Obama in 2006, in that their candidacy feels like a longshot, yet at the same time the most natural & correct thing in the world
Not picking on Mr. Hobbes here but I think it’s important to remember the primary schedule.
Of the first four states (yeah, they threaten to shake it up every year, but they’re Democrats, so they’ll get worried about blowback and bail) the four largest cities are all in NV, believe it or not. 1/
Of the first four states (yeah, they threaten to shake it up every year, but they’re Democrats, so they’ll get worried about blowback and bail) the four largest cities are all in NV, believe it or not. 1/
The public values authenticity in public figures above almost everything else.
The fact that Newsom was a standard center-left politician and is now shifting to the right will alienate him from both his old constituency and his new one.
Have Democrats really not learned their lesson on this?
The fact that Newsom was a standard center-left politician and is now shifting to the right will alienate him from both his old constituency and his new one.
Have Democrats really not learned their lesson on this?
A major reason that Gavin Newsom will not be the Democratic nominee is that it's very clear that he read the same stuff we all did last year about swing voters not liking orthodox social liberals and is "pivoting" on certain issues to try and pretend that he didn't have an entire career being one
February 14, 2026 at 1:12 AM
Not picking on Mr. Hobbes here but I think it’s important to remember the primary schedule.
Of the first four states (yeah, they threaten to shake it up every year, but they’re Democrats, so they’ll get worried about blowback and bail) the four largest cities are all in NV, believe it or not. 1/
Of the first four states (yeah, they threaten to shake it up every year, but they’re Democrats, so they’ll get worried about blowback and bail) the four largest cities are all in NV, believe it or not. 1/
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Democrats should promise, today, that Melania Trump, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel will be stripped of citizenship and deported if the administration advances this effort
cool, cool. so we are sort of like citizens, but not really?
February 12, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Democrats should promise, today, that Melania Trump, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel will be stripped of citizenship and deported if the administration advances this effort
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"Can the American electorate have a genuine change in preferences or are we stuck in a thermostatic enshitification ratchet" is the question to define our future
Good news: there's no durable majority for fascism
Bad news: we are locked in a life or death struggle against fascism and our victory depends on people with less understanding of how the world functions than my 14-month old
Bad news: we are locked in a life or death struggle against fascism and our victory depends on people with less understanding of how the world functions than my 14-month old
New poll: In 2024, low-engagement voters went for Trump over Harris by 11 percentage points. But now they disapprove of the way he's handling the presidency by 13. They have moved 25 points against Trump — 2x as large as the shift for high-knowledge voters www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-lost...
February 12, 2026 at 4:36 PM
"Can the American electorate have a genuine change in preferences or are we stuck in a thermostatic enshitification ratchet" is the question to define our future
“They’re ready to burn the fucking house down because their ten-figure assets aren’t turning into eleven and twelve-figure assets as quickly as they’d like” is basically the whole story of roughly 1994-2026 and the reason we have little choice but to burn their fucking houses to the ground.
February 12, 2026 at 3:08 PM
“They’re ready to burn the fucking house down because their ten-figure assets aren’t turning into eleven and twelve-figure assets as quickly as they’d like” is basically the whole story of roughly 1994-2026 and the reason we have little choice but to burn their fucking houses to the ground.
Michelle Williams (Destiny’s Child)
Who's the most famous alum of your high school?
I'll go first: David Draiman of Disturbed
I'll go first: David Draiman of Disturbed
guys i just found out i went to the same high school as howard lutnick. please respect my privacy at this time.
February 12, 2026 at 8:48 AM
Michelle Williams (Destiny’s Child)
I think the analysis here is right but the reasoning wrong.
Snap your fingers - now there’s a 40-seat Dem House majority and 60 Dems in the Senate with a Dem president and cabinet.
Given what we’ve seen the last 20 years, what does Bondi have to fear except boredom at her 7-figure TPUSA sinecure?
Snap your fingers - now there’s a 40-seat Dem House majority and 60 Dems in the Senate with a Dem president and cabinet.
Given what we’ve seen the last 20 years, what does Bondi have to fear except boredom at her 7-figure TPUSA sinecure?
You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.
February 12, 2026 at 1:37 AM
I think the analysis here is right but the reasoning wrong.
Snap your fingers - now there’s a 40-seat Dem House majority and 60 Dems in the Senate with a Dem president and cabinet.
Given what we’ve seen the last 20 years, what does Bondi have to fear except boredom at her 7-figure TPUSA sinecure?
Snap your fingers - now there’s a 40-seat Dem House majority and 60 Dems in the Senate with a Dem president and cabinet.
Given what we’ve seen the last 20 years, what does Bondi have to fear except boredom at her 7-figure TPUSA sinecure?
Does she think she’s the Commerce Secretary? Federal Reserve Chair? Why would Congress ask the Attorney General about the stock market outside of something like an insider trading scandal?
Bondi crashes out over Epstein: "The Dow is over 50,000 dollars! I don't know why you're laughing. You're a great stock trader as I hear, Raskin. The Dow is over 50,000 right now. The S&P at almost 7,000, and the Nasdaq smashing records. That's what we should be talking about."
February 11, 2026 at 6:52 PM
Does she think she’s the Commerce Secretary? Federal Reserve Chair? Why would Congress ask the Attorney General about the stock market outside of something like an insider trading scandal?
Un jour je serai de retour près de toi…
Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.
February 11, 2026 at 1:55 AM
Un jour je serai de retour près de toi…
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i mean it’s both. there’s a real burden on voters to deliver the opposition to power but then there’s a burden on the opposition to use that power appropriately for the task at hand. we are where we are in part because voters delivered them to power in 2020 and they catastrophically flubbed it.
okay but like the burden is literally on us
February 10, 2026 at 4:59 PM
i mean it’s both. there’s a real burden on voters to deliver the opposition to power but then there’s a burden on the opposition to use that power appropriately for the task at hand. we are where we are in part because voters delivered them to power in 2020 and they catastrophically flubbed it.
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If there's ever been a time to NOT be incrementalist, this is it. The most political capital you're gonna have is right now. And we got Gestapo death squads in MSP and TB spreading through concentration camps in Texas. If you can't find a win there, get out of politics. The Epstein Class, baby
February 8, 2026 at 4:29 AM
If there's ever been a time to NOT be incrementalist, this is it. The most political capital you're gonna have is right now. And we got Gestapo death squads in MSP and TB spreading through concentration camps in Texas. If you can't find a win there, get out of politics. The Epstein Class, baby
Hell, they’ve tried murder and *that* hasn’t worked, not because the commuters aren’t afraid of death, but because their fear of living in a country where ICE wins by fear is greater than their fear of death.
That’s it, exactly. ICE is trying to figure out how to make us scared. They tried following us home, didn’t work. Tried threatening us with arrest, didn’t work. Tried arresting us, didn’t work. Tried tear-gassing us, didn’t work. People just keep not being afraid of them and following them around.
DHS went into this quagmire with a blank playbook and in the subsequent weeks they’ve done nothing but flail around waiting for people to be afraid of them. Or, in other words:
any federal agencies born after 2001 can’t cook. all they know is wear mask, drive badly, make martyrs, do racism and lie
any federal agencies born after 2001 can’t cook. all they know is wear mask, drive badly, make martyrs, do racism and lie
February 6, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Hell, they’ve tried murder and *that* hasn’t worked, not because the commuters aren’t afraid of death, but because their fear of living in a country where ICE wins by fear is greater than their fear of death.
[deep breath]
6 Grammys
17 Latin Grammys
16 Billboard Music Awards
54 Billboard Latin Music Awards
Spotify’s most-streamed artist 4 times (2020-2022, 2025)
1st non-English language artist to top Spotify's year-end most-streamed list.
And a natural born American citizen.
6 Grammys
17 Latin Grammys
16 Billboard Music Awards
54 Billboard Latin Music Awards
Spotify’s most-streamed artist 4 times (2020-2022, 2025)
1st non-English language artist to top Spotify's year-end most-streamed list.
And a natural born American citizen.
February 6, 2026 at 3:48 AM
[deep breath]
6 Grammys
17 Latin Grammys
16 Billboard Music Awards
54 Billboard Latin Music Awards
Spotify’s most-streamed artist 4 times (2020-2022, 2025)
1st non-English language artist to top Spotify's year-end most-streamed list.
And a natural born American citizen.
6 Grammys
17 Latin Grammys
16 Billboard Music Awards
54 Billboard Latin Music Awards
Spotify’s most-streamed artist 4 times (2020-2022, 2025)
1st non-English language artist to top Spotify's year-end most-streamed list.
And a natural born American citizen.
It’s important to understand:
1. *Why* these people have started voting.
2. How to make them stop.
I’m not being coy - I don’t have answers - but I think we need them.
1. *Why* these people have started voting.
2. How to make them stop.
I’m not being coy - I don’t have answers - but I think we need them.
I think people don't really understand what the bottom half of the American electorate looks like in terms of political knowledge. What has happened in the extreme-turnout elections of recent years is that decisive numbers of these people have started voted in presidential cycles
February 6, 2026 at 12:33 AM
It’s important to understand:
1. *Why* these people have started voting.
2. How to make them stop.
I’m not being coy - I don’t have answers - but I think we need them.
1. *Why* these people have started voting.
2. How to make them stop.
I’m not being coy - I don’t have answers - but I think we need them.
This is, I think, the most transparently craven these people have ever been.
If they actually believed this there was plenty of time to mention it during the QAnon/Pizzagate era when people were shooting up pizzerias and digging through John Podesta’s hacked emails looking for secret codes. 1/3
If they actually believed this there was plenty of time to mention it during the QAnon/Pizzagate era when people were shooting up pizzerias and digging through John Podesta’s hacked emails looking for secret codes. 1/3
February 5, 2026 at 8:42 PM
This is, I think, the most transparently craven these people have ever been.
If they actually believed this there was plenty of time to mention it during the QAnon/Pizzagate era when people were shooting up pizzerias and digging through John Podesta’s hacked emails looking for secret codes. 1/3
If they actually believed this there was plenty of time to mention it during the QAnon/Pizzagate era when people were shooting up pizzerias and digging through John Podesta’s hacked emails looking for secret codes. 1/3
Yep, this is better than the first version.
We’re going with Strong Accountability Option, folks, unless It Happens first.
The capitals are the giveaway, the very CAPITAL giveaway.
We’re going with Strong Accountability Option, folks, unless It Happens first.
The capitals are the giveaway, the very CAPITAL giveaway.
We have a couple years to ease the Strong Accountability Option into the Overton window, goal is to get into the debate and then polling 50%+ by 2027
February 5, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Yep, this is better than the first version.
We’re going with Strong Accountability Option, folks, unless It Happens first.
The capitals are the giveaway, the very CAPITAL giveaway.
We’re going with Strong Accountability Option, folks, unless It Happens first.
The capitals are the giveaway, the very CAPITAL giveaway.
About number one billion on the list of what’s wrong and depraved about this, but funding a shrimp treadmill would be a better use of tax dollars than flying these folks around the country from filthy cell to filthy cell trying to bore them into leaving.
‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." …
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
February 5, 2026 at 1:37 PM
About number one billion on the list of what’s wrong and depraved about this, but funding a shrimp treadmill would be a better use of tax dollars than flying these folks around the country from filthy cell to filthy cell trying to bore them into leaving.
So, uh, this is insane and needless in a year barely a month old and already chock full of both.
Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell - CIA
www.cia.gov
February 4, 2026 at 11:49 PM
So, uh, this is insane and needless in a year barely a month old and already chock full of both.
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Gavin Newsom is so cool. Pure ambition, no values or even loosely held beliefs, assesses the current situation looking for a lane and instantly settles on People Are Into Evil Guys Now and sticks the pivot. Perfect clarity of purpose. He would be a danger to all those around him in any job he had.
March 12, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Gavin Newsom is so cool. Pure ambition, no values or even loosely held beliefs, assesses the current situation looking for a lane and instantly settles on People Are Into Evil Guys Now and sticks the pivot. Perfect clarity of purpose. He would be a danger to all those around him in any job he had.
This is a good, important thread, and a difficult subject to broach, so kudos to Robert for doing it.
We need to focus on behavior and actions and not stigmatize preferences, especially those that, if we’re actually being honest, are not really as deviant as is often claimed.
We need to focus on behavior and actions and not stigmatize preferences, especially those that, if we’re actually being honest, are not really as deviant as is often claimed.
What's happening here, I feel like, is a conflating of two separate things
One is "pedophilia" as, like, an abnormal sexuality. And, yes, being attracted to 16-year-olds is not that. Plenty of 16-year-olds are hot in about the same way adults are hot.
The other thing is the abuse
One is "pedophilia" as, like, an abnormal sexuality. And, yes, being attracted to 16-year-olds is not that. Plenty of 16-year-olds are hot in about the same way adults are hot.
The other thing is the abuse
Yes, @mattyglesias.bsky.social has also argued, in The Atlantic (of course), that older men pursuing sexual relationships with sixteen year olds is not pedophilia.
February 4, 2026 at 12:00 AM
This is a good, important thread, and a difficult subject to broach, so kudos to Robert for doing it.
We need to focus on behavior and actions and not stigmatize preferences, especially those that, if we’re actually being honest, are not really as deviant as is often claimed.
We need to focus on behavior and actions and not stigmatize preferences, especially those that, if we’re actually being honest, are not really as deviant as is often claimed.
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Yeah I was trying to be charitable but I stopped being able to somewhere between "you owe us deference based on time we put into activism toward completely different goals" and "if you don't let black bloc pricks light fires in your neighborhood you deserve the consequences"
February 3, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Yeah I was trying to be charitable but I stopped being able to somewhere between "you owe us deference based on time we put into activism toward completely different goals" and "if you don't let black bloc pricks light fires in your neighborhood you deserve the consequences"
Is someone collecting the best of these mock Choitner interview posts (thinking of the tacos here) and saving them for later? Is there a single-serving account? Or are they just tears in the rain?
February 3, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Is someone collecting the best of these mock Choitner interview posts (thinking of the tacos here) and saving them for later? Is there a single-serving account? Or are they just tears in the rain?
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Anyway the real heroes of Minnesota are the countless volunteers doing boring shifts where nothing happens. The mom of three delivering food to 40 families in her kids’ school. The dad standing at the door of an elementary with a whistle for hours. The drivers endlessly looping, seeing nothing.
February 3, 2026 at 3:44 AM
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Can’t wait until “Trump being corrupt isn’t news / is baked in” goes away and in the first couple months of the Newsom administration we learn from the Republicans and press that it’s an OUTRAGEOUS scandal that the assistant press secretary signed her financial disclosures with an autopen.
This is now without question the biggest politico-financial scandal in United States history. Teapot Dome was trivial in comparison.
I was a little late to catch up with this WSJ kleptocracy story. We already knew Sheikh Tahnoon dropped $2b on World Liberty Financial to get Trump to let UAE import advanced chips. Now we learn Tahnoon also purchased 49 percent of World Liberty Financial.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
February 2, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Can’t wait until “Trump being corrupt isn’t news / is baked in” goes away and in the first couple months of the Newsom administration we learn from the Republicans and press that it’s an OUTRAGEOUS scandal that the assistant press secretary signed her financial disclosures with an autopen.