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E. Hochman

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Historian of modern Germany/Austria, politics, nationalism. Views are my own.

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Steve Saidemonster 🧌🧛🦇⚰️👻👹 @smsaideman.bsky.social · 3h
Increasingly likely that if Texas does not go blue, it is because of stuff like this. This is the fundamental problem of American democracy at this moment--one party does not think that losing is normal and should be accepted. Democracy requires all parties accept electoral defeats.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 4h
New texas politics project poll has dems with small leads in almost all the statewide races texaspolitics.utexas.edu/blog/latest-...
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Latest UT/Texas Politics Poll Finds Historic Levels of Competition in Texas Midterm Elections
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 6h
Probably a bad thing that the right can come up with a totally nonsense conspiracy theory about James Talarico and journalists have to spend valuable time 3 weeks before the election debunking it instead of covering Paxton actually going to Dubai with his mistress on a trip paid for by a criminal
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Anna Clark @annaleighclark.bsky.social · 5h
Nearly five months ago, I got a tip that opened the door to a group of women locked up at North Lake, the largest immigration detention center in the Midwest -- and @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social + I quickly saw a pattern in how they got there.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23h
WOW. Kristi Noem and Elon Musk, among others, "chose to turn the power of the federal government against a singular employee with an impeccable record of public service. ... The attacks against Ms. Comans were based entirely on false information" and many officials "knew [they] were untrue."
In conducting this hearing, the Court is not called upon to resolve factual disputes between
the parties. The facts set forth in this Memorandum Opinion and Order were proposed by the
Plaintiff, unobjected to by the Government, and then deemed admitted by the Court. Dkts. 74, 75,
77.2 These facts establish that high-ranking government officials, including then Secretary of DHS
Kristi Noem and Elon Musk, engaged in a coordinated public relations campaign to impugn the
personal and professional integrity of Ms. Comans. For reasons unfathomable to this Court,
officials chose to turn the power of the federal government against a singular employee with an
impeccable record of public service. In short, Ms. Comans was professionally targeted and
personally attacked by government officials for no legitimate reason. The attacks against Ms.
Comans were based entirely on false information, and many government officials knew the
accusations were untrue at the time they were made. With no regard for the truth and with no
consideration for the personal and professional effect on Ms. Comans, government officials
exploited their access to mass media outlets to broadcast false information. These false
statements reached hundreds of millions of people. The purpose of this Order is, to the best of
this Court’s ability, to correct the public record and establish as a matter of law that the
statements made by these officials about Ms. Comans were objectively and demonstrably false.
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Citizen of Somewhere Else @citizense.bsky.social · 18h
I stand with @uupinfo.bsky.social www.whec.com/top-news/edu...
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Education union: SUNY Brockport employee taken by ICE Tuesday morning
Education union United University Professions says a SUNY Brockport employee was taken by ICE Tuesday morning outside his house in Batavia.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 13/10/2026
The FAA rolled out a new AI tool for air traffic control in DC without publishing a safety evaluation or sufficiently consulting labor. @repaprildelaney.bsky.social and I are urging the FAA to stop the rollout until we have answers. Air traffic control leaves zero margin for error.
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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 23h
OHHHHHHH SHITTTTT this is an AMAZING story, I am so psyched it's gettting this treatment
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
NEW: Texans spent decades steadily tearing down the church-state wall, claiming it is a myth meant to obscure America's true Christian roots. Now, Trump is helping them export their playbook nationally. The result: A federal bureaucracy remade in their Christian nationalist image. (Gift link)
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Texans Spent Decades Tearing Down the Church-State Wall. Now They Have Trump’s Ear.
Dan Patrick calls the separation of church and state a lie and has worked to infuse Christianity into Texas institutions. Trump is helping him take that strategy nationwide.
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Alyssa S. #BakerSquad 🏆 @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
No, this is NOT at all like the 1939 American Nazi Rally at MSG, where American Nazis beat the crap out of Isadore Greenbaum, a Jewish laborer who came to protest the hateful rhetoric they were espousing. (start at 3:33 & watch him enter at 3:52). 🗃️ #NightAtTheGarden www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYkU...
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 13/10/2026
More damaging revelations about Ken Paxton: A previously unreported New Year’s Eve 2024 celebration where Paxton partied in Dubai with two fugitives from U.S. justice and a woman who wasn’t his wife on.wsj.com/4yKLe4d
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More damaging revelations about Ken Paxton: A previously unreported New Year’s Eve 2024 celebration where Paxton partied in Dubai with two fugitives from U.S. justice and a woman who wasn’t his wife
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Once a day I’m reminded that several leading left intellectuals spent the first Trump term claiming that the admin wasn’t fascist.
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
BREAKING: WASHINGTON (AP) — Omar says she will 'not be silenced' and calls search of her home 'latest escalation' in Trump's 'intimidation' campaign.
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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The Regime started with a target they assume Democrats and mainstream elites wouldn't defend. That's always the strategy. But if they can come for Ilhan Omar, they can come for you too. Count on it.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Why would a physical search of Omar’s home in 2026 be relevant to or necessary for an investigation into whether her dad filled out a form incorrectly decades ago?
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I do not think an exec branch led by a man who thinks he is entitled to treat federal agents as an arm of his firm, refers to Somali Americans as “garbage” and has said racist things specifically about Omar is capable of neutrally applying the law to her, to put it mildly apnews.com/article/ilha...
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Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say
Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That's according to people familiar with the matter.
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
What was once a gradual slide into autocracy has become something like free-fall. We should all be in the streets. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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US launches immigration raid of Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar's home, Fox News reports
US authorities conducted a predawn raid Monday on the Washington-area home ​of Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar in ‌a probe of the Somali-born lawmaker's immigration paperwork, Fox News Digital re...
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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
in honor of spooky season, I am ghosting my manuscript until further notice
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
No way a person on foot running away from you is a threat. This is attempted murder.
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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Hegseth broke the news about live streaming an execution to a MAGA propagandist who has 14/88 tweets and once hired Atomwaffen members (who were at Charlottesville and friendly with the Tree of Life shooter) to help him harass the family and neighbors of a Jewish murder victim.
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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The campaign of educational censorship sweeping Texas and other GOP-governed states in the name of “free speech” and “diversity of viewpoint” in many ways exceeds the worst of the McCarthy Era (gift link obvs) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
You have to go back to the loyalty oath cases of the Cold War period to see relatively analogous situations where the government was trying to silence academics with viewpoints that they didn’t like,” Emerson Sykes, an attorney with the ACLU, told me. “But even in those cases, we did not see the sort of brazen attempt to ban particular ideas or ideologies and scrub them from the public record or from public education.”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/10/2026
question for brooks: what if they are, literally, nazis?
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It'd be one thing Ossoff were talking about the people running a campaign of mass ethnic cleansing &concentration camps using a terror campaign run by secret police. But he's talking about stuff like 'All we’re told is, ‘Germany bad, Hitler evil, don’t ask questions, Holocaust, Holocaust, Holocaust'
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
In other professors’ syllabi, the bot flagged the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, essays by the Mexican American MacArthur genius grant recipient Sandra Cisneros, and materials related to a class about the Holocaust (that professor was told to drop material regarding Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people).

Putting aside the ideological slant of the new rules, the bot, like many large language models, seems to “hallucinate,” or make mistakes. The AAUP lawsuit lists texts banned for their “sex-based ecofeminist framework” and “gendered ecofeminist frameworks.” These phrases might sound persuasively like academese, but the academics behind the lawsuit had never heard of them; these concepts “do not exist,” the complaint says. Matthew Pehl, a history professor at Tech, told me that he knew several people who’d received reports from the system that were “plainly written by an AI that had hallucinated content or confused content from one class to another.”
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Oliver Das Gupta @oliverdasgupta.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"Mein gehenkter Vater": Niklas Frank, Sohn des Nazi-Verbrechers Hans Frank, schreib noch einmal über seinen Senior. Der Schlächter von #Polen, der am 26. Oktober 1939 sein Amt als Generalgouverneur der von den Deutschen besetzten Teile des Landes antrat (Ostpolen war von Stalins UdSSR besetzt).
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"Mein gehenkter Vater": Der Sohn von Hans Frank rechnet noch einmal ab
Der Autor Niklas Frank schreibt 1987 erstmals über seinen Vater. 80 Jahre nach dessen Hinrichtung in Nürnberg rekonstruiert er erneut dessen Tod – und sein eigenes qualvolles Leben. Manfred Rebhandl h...
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Just Ted Cruz recirculating racist far right propaganda from a French white nationalist and disseminator of the great replacement bullshit theory.
Ted Cruz * @tedcruz• 1h
Wow. Everyone should WATCH this
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American an European friends,
I'm so ashamed, but you need to see what France has become....
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GeekeryNZ @geekerynz.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Is it genocide? In NAZA, Israeli soldiers and intelligence officers describe the killing of civilians, the destruction of Gaza, and genocide. One interviewee is asked directly. The answer is chilling. #NAZA #Documentary geekerynz.blogspot.com/2026/10/naza...
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NAZA is not an easy documentary to watch, or to review. If I told you it was mainly two people talking on a dark rooftop high above Tel Aviv...
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Dictator Move of the Day.
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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 10/10/2026
I think it's good that candidates are referring to their opponents as Nazis and Klansmen, because they are! It's true! It's good to say true things!
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 09/10/2026
"Are my migraines hormonal, or am I thinking too hard about how Peter Thiel has more money than all nurses on Earth combined?" buff.ly/oLdL54C
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Is It Perimenopause or the Fascist Death Knell of Late-Stage Capitalism?
“Is my hair thinning, or am I ripping it out because a thirty-four-time convicted, sexually abusive steak salesman with a Hannibal Lecter fetish is five poin...
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 10/10/2026
This is outrageous. Donald Trump just announced a deal with Vladimir Putin to import Russian diesel, and Treasury immediately lifted sanctions on Russian diesel exports through April. Those sanctions exist for one reason. They limit the money Putin can use to wage his brutal war on Ukraine.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review. Experts are alarmed www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review. Experts are alarmed
Regulator looks to expand loophole to allow dangerous compounds in food as long as they’re not carcinogenic
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 10/10/2026
If you listened to our “Grapevine” podcast, about the fight to exalt Jesus and demonize LGBTQ people in a suburban school district, you might recall a right-wing board member bragging about having a list of “poison” teachers she was going after. Turns out the list was real and has now been released
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GCISD dropped its lawsuit and released the “poison teachers” list people asked about for years
Grapevine-Colleyville ISD released a list of 18 employees a former board member called “poison teachers” after years in court. Some say they were shocked to be named.
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Anne Sarah Rubin @annesarah.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I'm not surprised, just so very angry. When will universities. police departments, and the culture at large stop punishing women for being assaulted? When will women's bright futures matter as much as men's?
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I’m Not the Only Cornell Student Title IX Failed
When I was raped in 2023, my attacker, too, only had to write an essay. Now, I see I’m not alone.
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Lauren McGaughy @lmcgaughy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Scoop: In 2014, Ken Paxton sat for a deposition where federal lawyers quizzed him about his growing wealth and investment tactics. The depo has never been made public. We got a copy. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/u...
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Inside Ken Paxton’s Private Testimony About His Money
A leaked deposition from a fraud inquiry in 2014 provides insight into the Senate candidate’s growing wealth and his tactics for defending himself.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose. @zachdespart.bsky.social w/ @texastribune.org
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Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.
Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to sta...
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E. Hochman @erhochman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The History Department at SMU is hiring a full professor who will also serve as department chair. Field is open. apply.interfolio.com/193610
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
JUST UNSEALED: A judge ruled this week that the first Trump admin's "Remain in Mexico" policy illegally subjected thousands of people – many with meritorious asylum claims — to horrifically dangerous and violent conditions and deprived them of access to attorneys. cgrs.uclawsf.edu/en/legal-doc...
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Fifth recording just dropped. www.cnn.com/2026/10/09/p...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The takeaway from Bo French suggesting Asian students are “foreigners” and the tepid GOP response is that the Trump-era Republican Party is increasingly explicit about its belief that the only good immigrants, and the only real Americans, are white. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
The Afrikaner policy is illuminating, because it proves the catch-22 facing nonwhite immigrants: If you are poor, you are a moocher, and if you are gainfully employed, you are taking a job from a hardworking American. The only way to be a good immigrant is to be white and Christian.

Bo French, who is running for a seat on the Texas Railroad Commission, has taken this idea a step further, suggesting that the only way to be an American is to be white and Christian.
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Andrea Löw @andrealoew.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"Wir lassen unser Gedenken nicht kapern. Sie sind hier nicht erwünscht." Dass der Neonazi da überhaupt auftaucht, ist ekelhaft, aber wie gut und mutig, dass die Studierenden ihn gestoppt haben.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ICE is a militia of serial abusers.
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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
What the hell. This man and everyone who accedes to his wishes . . . . just . . . . AHHHHH.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"
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S.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
*That’s* a headline.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff says that Mike Collins has "hired half the Third Reich to staff your congressional office"
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