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hochmand.bsky.social @hochmand.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The very name begs to be the final element of a modern analog to FDR's derisive campaign chant "Martin, Barton, and FISH," which went the equivalent of viral in its day. How about "Altman, ____ ?, and MUSK" Need help with the rhythm of the 2nd name in the sequence.

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hochmand.bsky.social @hochmand.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

That is a name I haven’t heard in a long time

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hochmand.bsky.social @hochmand.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Yes. Here's why they will eventually come around to your view: if a Rep. or Senator can't even deliver a passed and signed appropriation, why would a special interest ever steer a campaign contribution to them?

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hochmand.bsky.social @hochmand.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

To call him a bureaucrat understates his importance and status. He sits with the Cabinet. He's a Senate-confirmed appointee, who is therefore subject to impeachment. He can be held accountable through normal political processes as you suggest.

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hochmand.bsky.social @hochmand.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I'm not opposed to nuclear in the mix, but no reactor of TMI's vintage should be reopened or extended. Everything must be Gen III/III+ with passive safety features, at the very least. My guess is Japan will follow that path, now that they really need the power they took offline after Fukushima.

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hochmand.bsky.social @hochmand.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

She has no serious opposition in the June primary and filing deadline is long gone.

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hochmand.bsky.social @hochmand.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

If you don't know whether a company is publicly traded, you have no business shorting it. Short selling is a dangerous game in which it's hard to establish a sensible position even if you have pro-level knowledge and easy to lose a lot of money quickly, especially if you don't. Don't do it.

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hochmand.bsky.social @hochmand.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

It’s not being used as a title else it would be before the name and capitalized. This is, was, or should be the style at all major U.S. newspapers. If it functions as a new first name it’s a title and should be upper-cased and then you might have a point on localized spelling.

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hochmand.bsky.social @hochmand.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

It’s a state law, not a city law. Just enforced by the city.

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hochmand.bsky.social @hochmand.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Omg that’s Sousa’s The Washington Post March, isn’t it?

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hochmand.bsky.social @hochmand.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

The joint chiefs are staff, not in the chain of command

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hochmand.bsky.social @hochmand.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

The Forbes graph has gotten play but it's important to be clear a lot of his total was gifts to private foundations -- especially to the then-B&M Gates Foundation, which he trusted to be his steward. If those donations just got added to endowment, they're not really direct gifts to public charities.

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hochmand.bsky.social @hochmand.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Pretty sure Cuomo used to give his SoS as a PowerPoint delivered in the Albany Egg, not the legislative chambers. Then he took the PowerPoint around the state to other media markets.

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hochmand.bsky.social @hochmand.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

“Extend and pretend” — but for equity!

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hochmand.bsky.social @hochmand.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Many U.S. states had exactly this one county gets one seat design for their upper chamber until the Supreme Court's one-man-one-vote decision, which said if you weren't this way in the US Constitution (like the Senate) you couldn't do it. Even NYC had this in its Board of Estimate, now gone

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hochmand.bsky.social @hochmand.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

The story also buries the lede (or at least something worth much more exploration) in the last graf.

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hochmand.bsky.social @hochmand.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

It’s a commercial disguised as a safety instruction, and a good commercial at that. Apparently they actually paid an ad agency to do something with wit. Hard to hold that against them. Just ignore it after the first time. They’ll replace it eventually.

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hochmand.bsky.social @hochmand.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

"Gaudy" is indeed le mot juste. "The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter" -- The Maltese Falcon.

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hochmand.bsky.social @hochmand.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

NYC has a long history of municipally constructed and owned markets (the vendors themselves were private businesses). See mailchi.mp/urbanarchive... My family shopped in one of these in the early '60s because its produce was superior to that available in our (cooperatively owned) supermarket

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LaGuardia’s War on Street Vendors: How the WPA Replaced Pushcarts

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hochmand.bsky.social @hochmand.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

I thought I was having a stroke when I read this passage in the paper version of the NYT this morning -- thank you for calling them out on exactly the correct grounds and with the right measure of scorn!

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hochmand.bsky.social @hochmand.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I was interviewed at the Stand up for Science rally in NYC.

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hochmand.bsky.social @hochmand.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Great day to take out the Kerch Bridge for real this time.

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hochmand.bsky.social @hochmand.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Cruz running an updated version of the Proxmire playbook on federal R&D

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hochmand.bsky.social @hochmand.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

It's not uncommon for general aviation airports to be untowered, at least during certain hours, but probably rare for them to be demoted from towered to untowered.

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