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Hank Hoffman

@hankhoffmanct.bsky.social
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Music—psychedelia, punk, garage rock, roots reggae, jazz, '60s soul, Beatles. Left/lib politics, NY Mets. 1950s cars w/ tailfins, midcentury modern design. Film noir, EC Comics. If you follow me & your feed makes me wonder why, I'll probably block you.

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Hank Hoffman @hankhoffmanct.bsky.social · 51m
Time to start up the Tesla Takedowns again.
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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 5h
Ms Brown is entirely right here Every word of this 👇🏻❤️👇🏻
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Hank Hoffman @hankhoffmanct.bsky.social · 6h
No to Newsom.
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Hank Hoffman @hankhoffmanct.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I hope karma is real and it comes in full for all six of the RepubliKKKan (in)justices.
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Aunt Fancy @auntiefancy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Arguably the civil war was as much about northern states not wanting to be legally required to enforce the slavery laws of southern states as it was about the south wanting to continue enslaving people. Just mentioning that for no particular reason.
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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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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It should alarm us that the civilian head of the military gathers together troops to give them a political speech in which he calls the free press treasonous. He should be removed from office for doing so.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The funniest thing about the Schmitt rake stomp is that if it'd been a Dem we'd have a week of think pieces about how Dems lack of hoops literacy was alienating them from real America.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ICE is torturing this man. This is an emergency.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There's no real point in arguing with his mouth noises, particularly not when preaching to the Bluesky choir, but this is *noteworthy* nonsense. If the revenue were real (it's not), then it would be revenue *of the United States government,* equally available to a Democratic Congress to spend.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is phenomenal, especially since Tim Robinson is from Detroit (and even had a show called the Detroiters).
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The leader of the Republican Party is stealing money paid by American taxpayers to buy campaign ads for Republicans in the midterms. You can’t vote him out in 5 weeks, but you can vote out the people he’s trying to help with your money he’s thieving while they remain silent.
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James in Brooklyn @jamesinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A 1000 year old city utterly razed by these genocidal freaks, using our weapons and diplomatic immunity
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This serves as advertisement for Alex Gibney’s documentary, Musk, opening October 9. Pass it on.
hollywoodreporter.com
The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The two main tendencies in national Israeli politics right now are "expulsion and annexation of the Palestinian territories" vs "civil separation under the authority of an Israeli police state", and virtually all mainstream US commentary simply refuses to engage with this.
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dtf1947 @dtf1947.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Hank Hoffman @hankhoffmanct.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Absolutely wonderful.
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Hank Hoffman @hankhoffmanct.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It’s bad enough that Trump embarrasses the country every time he participates in a public diplomatic function. But what’s worse is that he can’t be trusted not to endanger the country.
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Hank Hoffman @hankhoffmanct.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Happy Stanislav Petrov Day! #OTD in 1983, Stanislav Petrov saved the world. Petrov was the duty officer at a nuclear early-warning system when the system reported a missile had been launched from the United States, followed by up by 4 more. Petrov correctly judged the reports to be a false alarm.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
theintercept.com
DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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Hank Hoffman @hankhoffmanct.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Everyone needs to ask the Dem candidate for House in their district & for the Senate in their state where they stand on Supreme Court reform, including court expansion. Any Dem candidate not supporting it, unabashedly, needs to get major pushback. And the threat of a primary in the next cycle.
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Hank Hoffman @hankhoffmanct.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
WOW. What an ad for Adam Hamilton, the Dem running to unseat Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kansas).
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Phil @resistmagafascism.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I think there is an even bigger change in SCOTUS Constitutional theory going on. Clearly they believe that Trump's EO's are the new way the US govt. creates laws. And I say "Trump's EO's", because they didn't have that theory under Biden and won't have it under any Dem POTUS. Expand the court.
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Hank Hoffman @hankhoffmanct.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Supreme Court Republicans know accountability may be coming if Dems sweep the midterms so they're helping Trump purge the voter rolls, claiming blocking that inhibits “the fed govt’s efforts to assist state & local agencies in the proper administration of the midterm elections.” "assist" my ass
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Hank Hoffman @hankhoffmanct.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, & Democratic Party consultants advise Charlie Brown to once again try & kick the football Lucy is holding. Surely, THIS TIME she won't pull it away. (Inspired by Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) urging Dems not to impeach "anybody" if they win Congress.)
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 24/09/2026
"Now the world knows that we can’t, in fact, be trusted as an energy supplier — that we may suddenly cut off fossil fuel exports whenever doing so might yield even temporary domestic political advantage." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/donald-the...
paulkrugman.substack.com
Donald the Deadbeat Does Diesel
Trump gets ready to stiff more contractors
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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Hank Hoffman @hankhoffmanct.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is terrifying. Even though my family and close frioends are in my contacts, I make a point of typing their numbers out manually on my pohone so I'll remember them.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 24/09/2026
Yes. I think the consensus among US elite pundits and senior politicians that the way to protect liberal democracy is *not* to punish elite figures who violate its rules is wrong. A norm starting at least with the Watergate pardon. The opposite is true. You need to enforce the law and Constitution.
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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 24/09/2026
Reporters stood at the White House gate this morning holding a federal judge’s order that said let them in, & were turned anyway. No explanation. No comment. Just a president ignoring a court like it’s beneath him. This is an unprecedented, fascist assault on free speech. Free the press!
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Hank Hoffman @hankhoffmanct.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
These people are so effing clueless that the degree of cluelessness cannot be measured. If Dems choose this route, there better be hell to pay for these feckless, cowardly, conflict-avoiding motherfuckers.
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Zionism is an actual thing you can condemn, but if you're just throwing "Zionist" as an insult at anyone you don't like when the subject at hand has nothing to do with Israel - which is becoming far too common - then yeah, that's antisemitic. Hope that clarifies things!
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
$131.5 million: the largest labor settlement in NYC’s history — and the largest resulting from any law I authored (so far).
thecityreporter.nyc
‘We Screwed Up’: DoorDash to Pay $131.5 Million to Stiffed NYC Delivery Workers
The settlement is the largest of its kind in New York City history.
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Hank Hoffman @hankhoffmanct.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"How was the play, Melania?"
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Did not think I would -- or my children would -- ever hear an American leader go to the United Nations and muse aloud on whether or not to annihiliate another country. But then, I didn't think I would hear and see so many things over the last decade. We will never remove the stain.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I know we're all* numb to this by now, but it really needs to be said that any one of the batshit insane tyrant tweets from our special little boy would've led to swift efforts to remove any other previous president.
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Hank Hoffman @hankhoffmanct.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
@vanhollen.senate.gov for Senate Majority Leader in 2027.
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Thomas Leeper @thosjleeper.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Your house is uninsurable because you've never filed a claim; we only insure houses with past reimbursements for fire damage," said no insurance company ever.
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Hank Hoffman @hankhoffmanct.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Always look on the bright side of life. That's my motto!
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The black guy named Barack Hussein Obama got elected president twice. There is no "are they electable" argument. Anyone is electable if they're charismatic and solid on policy.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Here's what happened. It matches dozens of ICE's other car-smashing apprehensions, others of which ended with a shooting. “an unmarked black truck sideswiped him.” “He didn’t know it was ICE, and he did a U-turn under the highway. The truck chased him and sideswiped him again." Then ICE shot him.
Lincoln-Goldfinch shared Garcés Pérez’s account of the shooting, saying he was making a delivery when “an unmarked black truck sideswiped him.”

“He didn’t know it was ICE, and he did a U-turn under the highway. The truck chased him and sideswiped him again, and the agents came out and shot him in the back of the neck and pulled him out of the car,” she said.
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Hank Hoffman @hankhoffmanct.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It’s hot sauce-making time!
Photo of a melange of orange and red hot peppers on a sheet-pan: Thai Dragon, Moruga Scorpion, Carolina Reaper, Dragon’s Breath, Habañero, Bhut Jolokia, Bulgarian Carrot Peppers.
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ICE Goons Tracker @icegoons.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The DoorDash driver cowardly shot in the back by ICE goons is now partially paralyzed after he was removed from the hospital despite having a bullet in his back near his spine. Left to sleep in pain on an ICE prison floor. Outrage is not enough. We need trials and prison for these fascist sadists.
washingtonpost.com
Man shot and detained by ICE hospitalized for partial paralysis, lawyer says
Wilber Garcés Pérez has been transferred to a hospital after his condition worsened, according to his attorney. He was shot and wounded by an ICE officer in Texas.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026
this is a genuinely crazy story
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Time to bring this back
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