Epolitics (Colin Delany)
@epolitics.bsky.social
Doing digital politics and advocacy since 1996. Writing about it at Epolitics.com since 2006. Digital consultant for nonprofit organizations and Democratic political groups. Campaigns & Elections columnist. Bass player for Manic Obsession.
YES: "The big lesson may be that Democrats’ best bet is to run candidates who effectively represent and speak to the places they’re running, rather than pursuing a single ideology." www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
The Anti-MAGA Majority Reemerges
Democrats won up and down the ballot yesterday, riding a backlash to Donald Trump’s second term.
www.theatlantic.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM
YES: "The big lesson may be that Democrats’ best bet is to run candidates who effectively represent and speak to the places they’re running, rather than pursuing a single ideology." www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Repeat after me: correlation is not causation. data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-new-yo...
The New York Times’ “Moderation Advantage” Is a Statistical Illusion
After accounting for money and incumbency the supposed electoral bonus for moderate candidates vanishes entirely.
data4democracy.substack.com
October 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Repeat after me: correlation is not causation. data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-new-yo...
A headline in which the word "dumps" does double dooty. nymag.com/intelligence...
Trump Dumps a Barrage of Trolling No Kings Protest Responses
Trump reacted to the protests by posting an AI poop video, denying he acts like a king, and threatening to assume “unquestioned power.”
nymag.com
October 20, 2025 at 11:01 PM
A headline in which the word "dumps" does double dooty. nymag.com/intelligence...
"With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypted."
www.wired.com/story/satell...
www.wired.com/story/satell...
Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data
With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...
www.wired.com
October 19, 2025 at 7:36 PM
"With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypted."
www.wired.com/story/satell...
www.wired.com/story/satell...
Somehow, even more repellent than I would have imagined. politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-chat-among-young-gop-club-members-00592146
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
politico.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Somehow, even more repellent than I would have imagined. politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-chat-among-young-gop-club-members-00592146
Autocrats CAN be voted out of office. If the opposition sticks together and offers a positive alternative, among other things.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
Opinion | This Is What Autocrats Dread
www.nytimes.com
October 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Autocrats CAN be voted out of office. If the opposition sticks together and offers a positive alternative, among other things.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
Furlowed workers' email auto-responders have been bulk-updated to blame Democrats. And these are civil servants, not political appointees.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Education Department employees surprised to find their email automatically changed to blame Democrats for shutdown
Five furloughed employees told NBC News they had put up nonpartisan out-of-office messages, only to see they were changed — without their permission — to partisan ones.
www.nbcnews.com
October 2, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Furlowed workers' email auto-responders have been bulk-updated to blame Democrats. And these are civil servants, not political appointees.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Social media posts showing the horrors in Gaza are changing minds in real time. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/b...
Americans’ Views of Israel-Gaza War Shift Alongside Changing Social Media Posts
www.nytimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Social media posts showing the horrors in Gaza are changing minds in real time. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/b...
Essential reading in a tense time: 40 good stories about digital politics & advocacy.
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Digital Politics Quick Hits: Forty Good Stories
Essential reading in a tense time
epolitics.substack.com
September 29, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Essential reading in a tense time: 40 good stories about digital politics & advocacy.
epolitics.substack.com/p/digital-po...
epolitics.substack.com/p/digital-po...
Essential reading in a tense time: Forty good stories about digital politics & advocacy.
epolitics.substack.com/p/digital-po...
epolitics.substack.com/p/digital-po...
Digital Politics Quick Hits: Forty Good Stories
Essential reading in a tense time
epolitics.substack.com
September 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Essential reading in a tense time: Forty good stories about digital politics & advocacy.
epolitics.substack.com/p/digital-po...
epolitics.substack.com/p/digital-po...
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Summary of Trump’s speech to the UN today:
1. Your countries all suck.
2. None of you know what you are doing.
3. The US is better at everything.
4. All because of me.
5. I’m right about everything.
6. You should listen to me & do what I say.
7. And give me lots of awards.
1. Your countries all suck.
2. None of you know what you are doing.
3. The US is better at everything.
4. All because of me.
5. I’m right about everything.
6. You should listen to me & do what I say.
7. And give me lots of awards.
September 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Summary of Trump’s speech to the UN today:
1. Your countries all suck.
2. None of you know what you are doing.
3. The US is better at everything.
4. All because of me.
5. I’m right about everything.
6. You should listen to me & do what I say.
7. And give me lots of awards.
1. Your countries all suck.
2. None of you know what you are doing.
3. The US is better at everything.
4. All because of me.
5. I’m right about everything.
6. You should listen to me & do what I say.
7. And give me lots of awards.
"Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact."
www.wired.com/story/silico...
www.wired.com/story/silico...
I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong
Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.
www.wired.com
September 22, 2025 at 6:43 PM
"Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact."
www.wired.com/story/silico...
www.wired.com/story/silico...
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Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.
September 18, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.
Because if you delete it, it's not true anymore.
www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing
Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.
www.404media.co
September 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Because if you delete it, it's not true anymore.
www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
No, Bluesky Isn’t Celebrating the Death of Charlie Kirk, despite breathless commentary to the contrary
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com/technology/2...
Was Bluesky Actually Celebrating the Death of Charlie Kirk?
Despite what right-wing influencers want you to believe, liberals actually hate political violence.
slate.com
September 11, 2025 at 5:22 PM
No, Bluesky Isn’t Celebrating the Death of Charlie Kirk, despite breathless commentary to the contrary
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com/technology/2...
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The amount of effort that went into getting the Roadless Rule was immense (I know; I worked on it).
Please stop them from destroying our forests.
You can comment here:
www.regulations.gov/docket/FS-20...
Please stop them from destroying our forests.
You can comment here:
www.regulations.gov/docket/FS-20...
September 9, 2025 at 1:15 AM
The amount of effort that went into getting the Roadless Rule was immense (I know; I worked on it).
Please stop them from destroying our forests.
You can comment here:
www.regulations.gov/docket/FS-20...
Please stop them from destroying our forests.
You can comment here:
www.regulations.gov/docket/FS-20...
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This. Times a thousand. Again and again.
rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words
September 11, 2025 at 1:33 AM
This. Times a thousand. Again and again.
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See: maybe wedging out the FBI’s lead agent in Utah, because woman (or south Asian descent, or both) wasn’t a fine idea? Perhaps?
Just last month the FBI forced out its top agent in Salt Lake City, a Pakistani American woman whom a former FBI agent describes as a “legendary case agent who was involved in some of the most significant national security cases of the last two decades.” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rc...
September 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
See: maybe wedging out the FBI’s lead agent in Utah, because woman (or south Asian descent, or both) wasn’t a fine idea? Perhaps?
Not a good omen: ‘War Is Here’: The Far-Right Responds to Charlie Kirk Shooting With Calls for Violence
www.wired.com/story/far-ri...
www.wired.com/story/far-ri...
‘War Is Here’: The Far-Right Responds to Charlie Kirk Shooting With Calls for Violence
Prominent far-right figures and elected officials have called for vengeance following the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
www.wired.com
September 11, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Not a good omen: ‘War Is Here’: The Far-Right Responds to Charlie Kirk Shooting With Calls for Violence
www.wired.com/story/far-ri...
www.wired.com/story/far-ri...
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My hot take for tonight:
Democratic voters might not be happy with the Democratic Party, but they will crawl over broken glass to vote for Democratic candidates.
Democratic voters might not be happy with the Democratic Party, but they will crawl over broken glass to vote for Democratic candidates.
September 10, 2025 at 12:27 AM
My hot take for tonight:
Democratic voters might not be happy with the Democratic Party, but they will crawl over broken glass to vote for Democratic candidates.
Democratic voters might not be happy with the Democratic Party, but they will crawl over broken glass to vote for Democratic candidates.
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If one wrote Trump’s second term as caricature, it’d be too on the nose: billionaires robbing the country blind while pointing at day laborers and shouting “look over there!”
Masked men kidnapping U.S. citizens off the streets based on their ethnicity vs. impunity for tax evasion by regime allies
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/b...
Trump Administration Halts I.R.S. Crackdown on Major Tax Shelters
www.nytimes.com
September 10, 2025 at 5:04 AM
If one wrote Trump’s second term as caricature, it’d be too on the nose: billionaires robbing the country blind while pointing at day laborers and shouting “look over there!”
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Sure seems like Big Pharma spent way way more energy, money and lobbying capital on fighting Dems on prescription drugs than doing anything about the Secretary of HHS casually, and without any real evidence, telling everyone their products kill kids and give them autism.
September 9, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Sure seems like Big Pharma spent way way more energy, money and lobbying capital on fighting Dems on prescription drugs than doing anything about the Secretary of HHS casually, and without any real evidence, telling everyone their products kill kids and give them autism.
Tuesday Tip: The One Good Way to Use Someone Else's Email List. Hint: dangle some bait and see who bites. epolitics.substack.com/p/tuesday-ti...
Tuesday Tip: The One Good Way to Use Someone Else's Email List
Instead of spamming, dangle bait and see who bites
epolitics.substack.com
September 10, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Tuesday Tip: The One Good Way to Use Someone Else's Email List. Hint: dangle some bait and see who bites. epolitics.substack.com/p/tuesday-ti...
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“If people really want Trump to suffer consequences for Epstein you’d have to give up Bill Clinton.”
Okay. Deal. Drag the whole fucking creep crew in. Let’s go.
Okay. Deal. Drag the whole fucking creep crew in. Let’s go.
September 9, 2025 at 1:04 AM
“If people really want Trump to suffer consequences for Epstein you’d have to give up Bill Clinton.”
Okay. Deal. Drag the whole fucking creep crew in. Let’s go.
Okay. Deal. Drag the whole fucking creep crew in. Let’s go.
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Vinay Prasad, who is making it harder to get the Covid vax, barely comes into the office: there's nothing wrong with working at home, but it's ironic - and he's getting special treatment while other workers cannot . www.motherjones.com/politics/202... via @motherjones.com @juliametraux.bsky.social
Vinay Prasad, who is making it harder to get the Covid vax, barely comes into the office.
The FDA Director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research has also criticized work-from-home policies.
www.motherjones.com
September 7, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Vinay Prasad, who is making it harder to get the Covid vax, barely comes into the office: there's nothing wrong with working at home, but it's ironic - and he's getting special treatment while other workers cannot . www.motherjones.com/politics/202... via @motherjones.com @juliametraux.bsky.social