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David Hochfelder

@dphochfelder.bsky.social
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Telegraph in America, 1832-1920 (JHUP 2013). Now working on a book (with Ann Pfau and Stacy Sewell) on urban renewal on the Upper West Side. For a history and records inventory of urban renewal around NYS: nyheritage.org/exhibits/urban-renew…

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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 7h
@CethanLeahy

Me: oh wow, this shop has everything my heart desires!

Spooky shopkeeper: yes, I will warn you... every item comes with a price.

Me: yes, I know how shops work

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Spooky Shopkeeper: The price may be more than you expect to pay.

Me: Yes, I know how US taxes work, too.

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Shopkeeper, increasingly exasperated: I'm trying to tell you that I'm evil and offering these wares with no regard for the harm they will do!

Me, also increasingly exasperated: I know what capitalism is too goddammit
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Lana Swartz @lanalanalana.bsky.social · 12h
Come to MOSAICS Symposium, October 15–16, Online, Charles Babbage Institute @justcode.bsky.social Keynotes from @cyberlyra.bsky.social, @disruptionlab.bsky.social, Paula Chakravartty and Roderic Crooks cse.umn.edu/cbi/mosaics-...
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MOSAICS Symposium
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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 12h
New Annals! GEs: David Theodore, @theodoravardouli.bsky.social.Authors-Aaron Tobey; Philip Steadman, Theodora Vardouli; Janno Martens; Laura Niebling, Hydar Saharudin, Beatriz Moya & Hallam Stevens; Julie Cohn, Daniel Molzahn & Sairaj Dhople; Ksenia Tatarchenko ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIs...
Graphical depiction of a neighborhood with rowhouses, other buildings and a grid of streets, bright colors.
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David Hochfelder @dphochfelder.bsky.social · 6h
This looks like an awesome conference! Of course as luck has it, I'm at SACRPH that same weekend.
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David Hochfelder @dphochfelder.bsky.social · 6h
Anton Cermak: "It's true I didn't come over on the Mayflower, but I got here as soon as I could."
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David Hochfelder @dphochfelder.bsky.social · 6h
Hi everyone, here's our Substack on the four-panel traveling exhibit and digital exhibit on urban renewal in NY State. Please enjoy. urbanrenewal.substack.com/p/digital-an...
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Digital and Physical Traveling Exhibits on Urban Renewal in NY State
In the summer of 2025, I collaborated with Heidi Ziemer, digital and outreach coordinator for the Western New York Library Resources Council, on a four panel exhibit on urban renewal around the state.
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 10h
Historian here even Andrew Johnson did not threaten to level Boston New York Philadelphia and Chicago.
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David Hochfelder @dphochfelder.bsky.social · 9h
Particularly the Finns
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 17h
I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically.
The Trump administration says none of this is happening. 

"DHS is NOT arresting U.S. citizens by mistake." "There are no 'indiscriminate' stops." Allegations of "racial profiling are disgusting, reckless and categorically FALSE." "The pattern is NOT of law enforcement using force." "ICE does not zip tie or restrain children." 

But that is precisely what is happening, and at a far larger scale than previously reported.
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 17h
🪖 MILITARY DEPORTATION 😲⛓️ 🛫 An Air Force C-130J (tail: 10-5700) from Dyess Air Force Base near Abilene TX prepares to depart Tuesday morning from the ICE hub in Harlingen, trafficking humans in chains to Honduras 🇭🇳
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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Notice the absence of the traditional olive branch? The olive branch symbolized America prioritizing peace with war as a last resort. It has been part of the Great Seal of the United States since 1782 and was part of the original seal of the Department of Defense.
Notice the absence of the traditional olive branch? The olive branch symbolized America prioritizing peace with war as a last resort. It has been part of the Great Seal of the United States since 1782 and was part of the original seal of the Department of Defense.
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David Hochfelder @dphochfelder.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
You mean the city with a major naval base?
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Found the perfect screengrab to use the next time someone tries to tell me I’m missing out on important discourse by not using Elon Musk’s mircoblog site
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We murdered four more people in a boat today
U.S. southern Command: On October 4, under the direction of #SOUTHCOM, Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere executed a lethal, kinetic strike on a go-fast vessel operating along established narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean. Confirmed intelligence revealed the vessel's active involvement in narco-trafficking. The operation killed four narco-terrorists. @DeptofWar
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David Hochfelder @dphochfelder.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I mean, why deny such a dedicated public servant a few creature comforts like a manta ray skin table
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🚨NEW by me: New ICE facility for unaccompanied migrant kids is about to open in Louisiana. While ICE is sanitizing optics, calling it the "Alexandria Family Staging Center," lawmakers and child advocates are raising the roof warning of child trafficking risks. www.thequeenzone.com/new-ice-faci...
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New ICE Facility for Migrant Children Raises Alarm Over Trafficking Risks
A new ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) facility for unaccompanied children, families, and single women is set to...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
As Trump and Republicans strip health coverage from millions (for tax cuts for the rich), Dems plan to expand Medicare. #MedicareForAllNOW www.newsweek.com/medicare-upd...
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🧊✈️ GUATEMALA 🌎⛓️ 😲 A GlobalX jet (tail: N628VA) departs Louisiana, trafficking humans in chains to Guatemala City 🇬🇹
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David Hochfelder @dphochfelder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You could be a Cubs fan. That would make me emo, I guess.
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David Hochfelder @dphochfelder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Goddamnit Cubs.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Correct. Concentration camps.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We don’t spend enough time talking about just how WEIRD all these people are. This is just an incredibly weird and insecure thing to say. Imagine any other SecDef ever being this weird and insecure?!
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David Hochfelder @dphochfelder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Beardos? Um...
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🧊✈️ These are all ICE flights 👀
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🧊✈️ BOYS ARE BACK IN YOUNGSTOWN 🧐 The first two ICE flights depart out of YNG Wednesday morning after the completion of summer runway reconstruction: 🛫 8:55am — Eastern N808TJ ➡️ AEX ➡️ VSA 🇲🇽 🛫 10:30am – Eastern N804TJ ➡️ IND ➡️ AEX
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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David Hochfelder @dphochfelder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Fucking Cubs. Here we go again.
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🧊✈️ MEXICO 😲⛓️ 👉 A GlobalX jet (tail: N530FL) departs Louisiana, trafficking humans in chains to Villahermosa 🇲🇽
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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 29/09/2026
I will forever maintain that that left must not let the right claim patriotism as their own and dope things like this are a big part of why
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
The ICE agent who shot Araujo in a Houston is named GREGORY FEATHERS. Make sure everyone knows.
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David Hochfelder @dphochfelder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The shear audacity of it.
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David Hochfelder @dphochfelder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I had to learn it in HS German class, along with a lot of other Bertold Brecht. I suspect my German teacher was a communist
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God @thegodshow.com · 27/09/2026
Thou shalt not use tax dollars to pay for fascist commercials.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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David Hochfelder @dphochfelder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Probably stats is better so you can tell when someone is bullshitting you
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David Hochfelder @dphochfelder.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Personally I think a well rounded education requires math up to multivariate integration and at least one laboratory science course
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David Hochfelder @dphochfelder.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I have BS/MS in electrical engg and PhD in history. I agree that's the assumption. I had a business prof tell me that he loves history and was going to do history after he retired. I said I'd do marketing research after I retired. The look he gave me...
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Indivisible Albany ❌👑 #AbolishICE @indivisiblealbany.org · 27/09/2026
“Cornell has failed to protect its students. Cornell has failed to address the growing issue of sexual assault on campus with its pathetic task force. Cornell has failed the student allegedly raped by those seven men at Chi Phi in October 2024. Cornell has failed her. Cornell has failed us.”
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 27/09/2026
Remarkable piece here.
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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David Hochfelder @dphochfelder.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My universe. I have a BS and MS in electrical engineering and took every history course I could that fit my schedule
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 27/09/2026
They're independent from Cornell.
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Larry J. Simon @larryjsimon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring … and it blossoms in the summer … and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall all alone … just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops." mason.gmu.edu/~rmatz/giama...
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
🧊🛩️ ONE DAY LATER, an Air Wisconsin jet (N455AW), dispatched overnight from Texas to replace the broken down ICE plane, departs Seattle with a load of humans who may been shackled for almost 24 hours 👀
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Katiesaurus @katiesaurusseven.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"What happened next, Adamson said, was a nearly six-hour-long process — where she went through secondary inspection just after 9 p.m., was interrogated until after 2 a.m. and signed documents before being admitted into the U.S."
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is what Trump, Vought and RFK Jr have done. It imperils us all. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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Michael Corey @mikejcorey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Big big Mapping Prejudice data update today: We have updated our Washington DC racial covenants data to include 20,000+ covenants that were previously identified by our collaborators at Mapping Segregation DC. The combined DC dataset is now at 27,600 covenanted parcels (and counting!).
A map of racial covenants in Washington DC. Covenants, marked as green polygons, cover wide swaths of the District outside the central city, most densely to the north and northeast. Other large patches are present in the southwest and southeast portions of the district.
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I am not a lawyer I am just a dumb bear on the Internet, but the repeated incidents of ices refusal to render aid or even call an ambulance before leaving the scene without identifying themselves would appear to be a growing pattern of behavior courts may want to take notice of
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?
Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?
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