E. Hochman
@erhochman.bsky.social
Historian of modern Germany/Austria, politics, nationalism. Views are my own.
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A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
February 8, 2026 at 5:06 AM
A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
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stuff like this is why i have trouble with the incrementalism and slow-walking from dems. this is happening *right now*
The proposed centers are so large that some could house as many as 8,000 detainees at once, according to a DHS spreadsheet of more than 20 potential locations that was verified by NBC News. The largest federal prison in the U.S., for example, has roughly 4,000 inmates.
ICE plans to build mega warehouses for immigration detention spark growing concern
Sources at two government contractors told NBC News they were worried that new warehouses — and the large numbers of immigrants who would be housed in them — would present safety problems.
www.nbcnews.com
February 8, 2026 at 3:45 AM
stuff like this is why i have trouble with the incrementalism and slow-walking from dems. this is happening *right now*
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ICE has grabbed so many people from their vehicles that there are abandoned cars across Minnesota.
This tow truck driver returns the cars for free as a public service, and he’s been getting death threats.
They hate the helpers.
Which is why must keep helping.
This tow truck driver returns the cars for free as a public service, and he’s been getting death threats.
They hate the helpers.
Which is why must keep helping.
Twin Cities tow truck driver returns abandoned vehicles to families after ICE arrests
Juan Leon sends a "chase" car to check out where abandoned vehicles are located and arranges discreet drop-offs. Since late December, he estimated they have dropped off 250 cars.
www.cbsnews.com
February 7, 2026 at 5:30 AM
ICE has grabbed so many people from their vehicles that there are abandoned cars across Minnesota.
This tow truck driver returns the cars for free as a public service, and he’s been getting death threats.
They hate the helpers.
Which is why must keep helping.
This tow truck driver returns the cars for free as a public service, and he’s been getting death threats.
They hate the helpers.
Which is why must keep helping.
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Republicans are moving quickly to pass a bill requiring voters to show proof of citizenship both to register and at the polls ahead of the 2026 midterm elections — a move that experts warn could disenfranchise millions of Americans. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
GOP fast tracks monster voter suppression bill that could disenfranchise millions by requiring proof of citizenship at polls
In the past few weeks, passing the legislation has been a unifying rally cry for Republicans, a welcome distraction from the party’s cratering public opinion polls.
www.democracydocket.com
February 7, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Republicans are moving quickly to pass a bill requiring voters to show proof of citizenship both to register and at the polls ahead of the 2026 midterm elections — a move that experts warn could disenfranchise millions of Americans. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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The commander in question is “alleged to have worn red MAGA hats in the past & “made it very clear” how he feels about those who do not support the administration’s agenda.
He is also alleged to have made seeing Melania count as 1 of the 3 “unit activity events” they’re required to attend each month
He is also alleged to have made seeing Melania count as 1 of the 3 “unit activity events” they’re required to attend each month
Acive duty military are being ordered to buy a ticket to Melania and watch it, whether they want to, or not. www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/mil...
Military Pressured to See ‘Melania’ Against Their Will
A military group has evidence of troops being ordered into theater—the movie theater.
www.thedailybeast.com
February 7, 2026 at 4:41 AM
The commander in question is “alleged to have worn red MAGA hats in the past & “made it very clear” how he feels about those who do not support the administration’s agenda.
He is also alleged to have made seeing Melania count as 1 of the 3 “unit activity events” they’re required to attend each month
He is also alleged to have made seeing Melania count as 1 of the 3 “unit activity events” they’re required to attend each month
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"Die Gefahr, dass KI-generierte Holocaustbilder historische Ereignisse verfälschen & verharmlosen, ist unverkennbar. Laut dem Holocaust Knowledge & Awareness Index der Jewish Claims Conference wissen 40% der 18-29 Jahre alten Befragten in 🇩🇪 nicht, wie viele Menschen im Holocaust ermordet wurden
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Wie KI-Bilder den Holocaust verfälschen
Die Zahl von KI-generierten Holocaust-Bildern auf Facebook und Tiktok steigt rasant. Während Gedenkstätten warnen, reagieren die Plattformbetreiber nur zögerlich. Was bedeutet das für die Erinnerungsk...
www.faz.net
February 7, 2026 at 11:23 AM
"Die Gefahr, dass KI-generierte Holocaustbilder historische Ereignisse verfälschen & verharmlosen, ist unverkennbar. Laut dem Holocaust Knowledge & Awareness Index der Jewish Claims Conference wissen 40% der 18-29 Jahre alten Befragten in 🇩🇪 nicht, wie viele Menschen im Holocaust ermordet wurden
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Texas AG Ken Paxton has announced legal action against the Houston area Screwston Antifascist Committee, alleging commission of terrorism and doxing. Their account has been quiet for some time, but this was one of their last posts — identifying a neo-Nazi.
February 6, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Texas AG Ken Paxton has announced legal action against the Houston area Screwston Antifascist Committee, alleging commission of terrorism and doxing. Their account has been quiet for some time, but this was one of their last posts — identifying a neo-Nazi.
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Vance undermining the US Olympic Team would be too on the nose
American star Alysa Liu overcame a delay en route to the Milano Skating Arena caused by Vice President JD Vance’s motorcade and finished second in the women’s short program at the Olympics team event.
“We almost didn’t make it,” her coach said.
“We almost didn’t make it,” her coach said.
Nothing could stop the U.S. figure skating team. Not even JD Vance’s motorcade.
Alysa Liu and world champion dance team of Madison Chock and Evan Bates have the Americans leading the team event after day one.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 7, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Vance undermining the US Olympic Team would be too on the nose
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ICE is still doing checkpoints in Minneapolis like we are an occupied territory. Life remains really hard here thanks to Trump's thugs.
February 6, 2026 at 2:56 PM
ICE is still doing checkpoints in Minneapolis like we are an occupied territory. Life remains really hard here thanks to Trump's thugs.
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OK--if you're still not paying attention to the cruelty of ICE, maybe this will convince you. Next they'll be detaining people in the ambulance on the way to the ER
A man taken into custody in Rochester Thursday by federal immigration agents and now held at the Whipple Federal Building in the Twin Cities is a recent organ transplant recipient who is without his needed anti-rejection medication, state Rep. Kim Hicks tells MPR News.
Transplant recipient arrested by federal agents in Rochester needs medicine, state representative says
State Rep. Kim Hicks told MPR News she drove to the Whipple Federal Building near Ft. Snelling Thursday night to give the man his medication but authorities wouldn't take it without a doctor's note. S...
www.mprnews.org
February 7, 2026 at 1:30 AM
OK--if you're still not paying attention to the cruelty of ICE, maybe this will convince you. Next they'll be detaining people in the ambulance on the way to the ER
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The American figure skater's unapologetic queerness feels more important than ever.
Amber Glenn, a queer icon from Texas, is about to make Olympic history
The American figure skater's unapologetic queerness feels more important than ever.
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February 7, 2026 at 1:40 AM
The American figure skater's unapologetic queerness feels more important than ever.
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For the first time since Texas criminalized abortion, the state’s medical regulator is instructing doctors on when they can legally terminate a pregnancy to protect the life of the patient.
After years of silence, Texas Medical Board issues training on how to legally provide abortions
For the first time since Texas criminalized abortion, the state’s medical regulator is instructing doctors on when they can legally terminate a pregnancy to protect the life of the patient — guidan…
www.kxan.com
February 7, 2026 at 3:45 AM
For the first time since Texas criminalized abortion, the state’s medical regulator is instructing doctors on when they can legally terminate a pregnancy to protect the life of the patient.
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AWFUL news tonight. This blesses the “mandatory” detention in the 5th Circuit without bond (and little chance at habeas) of every undocumented immigrant who originally entered across the border, no matter how many decades in the past.
It will fuel ICE’s push to transfer people to Texas immediately.
It will fuel ICE’s push to transfer people to Texas immediately.
BREAKING: A 5th Circuit panel has backed ICE's mass detention policy, a decision that clears the way for the administration to lock up people who are in immigration proceedings
It's a 2-1 ruling
Majority: Jones (Reagan), Duncan (Trump)
Minority: Douglas (Obama)
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
It's a 2-1 ruling
Majority: Jones (Reagan), Duncan (Trump)
Minority: Douglas (Obama)
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
February 7, 2026 at 3:20 AM
AWFUL news tonight. This blesses the “mandatory” detention in the 5th Circuit without bond (and little chance at habeas) of every undocumented immigrant who originally entered across the border, no matter how many decades in the past.
It will fuel ICE’s push to transfer people to Texas immediately.
It will fuel ICE’s push to transfer people to Texas immediately.
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I cannot sufficiently underline how despicable it is that the IOC has required Haitian Olympic athletes to remove an image representing the leader of the Haitian Revolution (against SLAVERY) from their uniforms.
February 6, 2026 at 11:43 PM
I cannot sufficiently underline how despicable it is that the IOC has required Haitian Olympic athletes to remove an image representing the leader of the Haitian Revolution (against SLAVERY) from their uniforms.
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My friend lives in this building and said it was truly terrifying. The whole building woke up to their building being broken into by federal agents all to grab some guy who’s posted about being anti facist.
After 6am this morning in Whittier, Minneapolis—FOUR BLOCKS from where Pretti was murdered.
18 agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) markings smashed an apartment window, ran in, and came out with one man.
18 agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) markings smashed an apartment window, ran in, and came out with one man.
February 5, 2026 at 3:10 PM
My friend lives in this building and said it was truly terrifying. The whole building woke up to their building being broken into by federal agents all to grab some guy who’s posted about being anti facist.
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Also want to highlight my own chapter in this handbook: "Toward a Black Feminist Reading of Migration" 😊
doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
Toward a Black Feminist Reading of Migration
AbstractThis chapter offers a Black feminist theoretical perspective on migration. Black feminism as a theoretical framework offers avenues for better unde
doi.org
February 7, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Also want to highlight my own chapter in this handbook: "Toward a Black Feminist Reading of Migration" 😊
doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
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Online version published, print version coming soon!
The Oxford Handbook of Intersectional Approaches to Migration, Gender and Sexuality, edited with @gokceyurdakul.bsky.social @lizamugge.bsky.social Sarah Scuzzarello and Sirjit Sunata
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The Oxford Handbook of Intersectional Approaches to Migration, Gender and Sexuality, edited with @gokceyurdakul.bsky.social @lizamugge.bsky.social Sarah Scuzzarello and Sirjit Sunata
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February 7, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Online version published, print version coming soon!
The Oxford Handbook of Intersectional Approaches to Migration, Gender and Sexuality, edited with @gokceyurdakul.bsky.social @lizamugge.bsky.social Sarah Scuzzarello and Sirjit Sunata
lnkd.in/dhv8VFRN
The Oxford Handbook of Intersectional Approaches to Migration, Gender and Sexuality, edited with @gokceyurdakul.bsky.social @lizamugge.bsky.social Sarah Scuzzarello and Sirjit Sunata
lnkd.in/dhv8VFRN
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I’m proud of my independent, strong willed daughter. Here in Jenks, Ok. she and 100+ of her classmates walked off campus to protest the criminal way ICE is assaulting and murdering other humans. She was worried about the consequences. I said, “it means more when it costs you something.” ICE out!
February 6, 2026 at 11:24 PM
I’m proud of my independent, strong willed daughter. Here in Jenks, Ok. she and 100+ of her classmates walked off campus to protest the criminal way ICE is assaulting and murdering other humans. She was worried about the consequences. I said, “it means more when it costs you something.” ICE out!
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This is Maria, a 6-year-old detained by ICE last year.
She began to unravel soon after arriving at a detention center in Texas, wetting the bed after years without accidents, crying through the night and begging to breastfeed again.
Most of all, she wanted to be reunited with her cat, Milo. 1/
She began to unravel soon after arriving at a detention center in Texas, wetting the bed after years without accidents, crying through the night and begging to breastfeed again.
Most of all, she wanted to be reunited with her cat, Milo. 1/
February 6, 2026 at 6:25 PM
This is Maria, a 6-year-old detained by ICE last year.
She began to unravel soon after arriving at a detention center in Texas, wetting the bed after years without accidents, crying through the night and begging to breastfeed again.
Most of all, she wanted to be reunited with her cat, Milo. 1/
She began to unravel soon after arriving at a detention center in Texas, wetting the bed after years without accidents, crying through the night and begging to breastfeed again.
Most of all, she wanted to be reunited with her cat, Milo. 1/
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Rep. Juan Vargas, a Democrat from San Diego, is at the Otay Mesa concentration camp today demanding access to the facility.
The ICE detention center is run by the private prison company CoreCivic.
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The ICE detention center is run by the private prison company CoreCivic.
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February 6, 2026 at 9:38 PM
Rep. Juan Vargas, a Democrat from San Diego, is at the Otay Mesa concentration camp today demanding access to the facility.
The ICE detention center is run by the private prison company CoreCivic.
www.instagram.com/reels/DUbm5S...
The ICE detention center is run by the private prison company CoreCivic.
www.instagram.com/reels/DUbm5S...
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Just unspeakably cruel
Metry and her husband of 4 years go to DHS to get their I-130 in motion. "Good news" a DHS employee told them, the form to start her naturalization was approved.
DHS employee asks the husband to follow him through a secure door. When it locks behind him, ICE detains his wife to deport her.
DHS employee asks the husband to follow him through a secure door. When it locks behind him, ICE detains his wife to deport her.
EXCLUSIVE: Terez Metry was 13 when her family fled to Tennessee from Egypt in 2011. Then, they left her behind. She only recently discovered she had an order of removal from 2011. But she was following the legal path to citizenship. On Monday, at a routine DHS meeting, Metry was detained.
February 6, 2026 at 11:27 PM
Just unspeakably cruel
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I have been informed by U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar and confirmed by the City of El Paso, Texas that there are two known active cases of tuberculosis registered at Camp East Montana. There are also at least 18 cases of COVID-19.
I had been hearing rumors of this from my contacts for weeks.
I had been hearing rumors of this from my contacts for weeks.
2 active cases of tuberculosis confirmed at Camp East Montana
Two cases of tuberculosis have been confirmed at Camp East Montana in El Paso County.
www.elpasotimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 5:34 PM
I have been informed by U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar and confirmed by the City of El Paso, Texas that there are two known active cases of tuberculosis registered at Camp East Montana. There are also at least 18 cases of COVID-19.
I had been hearing rumors of this from my contacts for weeks.
I had been hearing rumors of this from my contacts for weeks.
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NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.
ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are
ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy r...
www.wired.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:29 PM
NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.
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1. It was not an accident.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
February 6, 2026 at 5:42 PM
1. It was not an accident.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
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However you define “meme,” you’re responsible for what you post.
Particularly when you’re the President.
That image is racist trash—using a LONG-standing racist link of Black people with apes.
You post it?
You’re accountable for it.
However you define “meme,” you’re responsible for what you post.
Particularly when you’re the President.
That image is racist trash—using a LONG-standing racist link of Black people with apes.
You post it?
You’re accountable for it.
The White House's contemptuous dismissal of blatant racism as 'fake outrage' reveals a regime that has fully normalized dehumanizing bigotry as just another tool in its arsenal of division and domination.
White House Shrugs Off ‘Fake Outrage’ Over Trump Post Depicting Obamas as Apes
Leavitt defended the post and said the controversial clip was from a meme that had depicted Trump and other lawmakers as characters from The Lion King.
www.mediaite.com
February 6, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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However you define “meme,” you’re responsible for what you post.
Particularly when you’re the President.
That image is racist trash—using a LONG-standing racist link of Black people with apes.
You post it?
You’re accountable for it.
However you define “meme,” you’re responsible for what you post.
Particularly when you’re the President.
That image is racist trash—using a LONG-standing racist link of Black people with apes.
You post it?
You’re accountable for it.