Hank Hoffman
@hankhoffmanct.bsky.social
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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The Wall Street Journal story on Noem and Lewandowski is just a bus running over them, backing up, running over them again, and on and on. A line of admin officials waiting to get their turn at the wheel.
Paywalled at WSJ, free at MSN (good biz model)
www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
Paywalled at WSJ, free at MSN (good biz model)
www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
MSN
www.msn.com
February 13, 2026 at 12:34 PM
The Wall Street Journal story on Noem and Lewandowski is just a bus running over them, backing up, running over them again, and on and on. A line of admin officials waiting to get their turn at the wheel.
Paywalled at WSJ, free at MSN (good biz model)
www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
Paywalled at WSJ, free at MSN (good biz model)
www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
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On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 7:41 PM
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
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appreciate that greg has been highlight the short-term thinking by lots of dem strategists on immigration, and that there are strong counterexamples of dems being successful taking another path
The extraordinary public backlash to Trump's ICE raids and mass deportations suggests it's time to rethink how information warfare and political persuasion work in the Trump era. Dems have an opening to reset the immigration debate if they act now.
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2059...
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2059...
How the Democrats Can Play Offense on Immigration
Typically, Democrats run for the hills when immigration comes up. But as two blue-state governors are showing, the winning play is actually to confront ICE and MAGA xenophobia head on.
newrepublic.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:21 PM
appreciate that greg has been highlight the short-term thinking by lots of dem strategists on immigration, and that there are strong counterexamples of dems being successful taking another path
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Democrats should promise, today, that Melania Trump, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel will be stripped of citizenship and deported if the administration advances this effort
cool, cool. so we are sort of like citizens, but not really?
February 12, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Democrats should promise, today, that Melania Trump, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel will be stripped of citizenship and deported if the administration advances this effort
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it really can't be said enough that this is a person who has dined with the president of the united states
Fuentes then fantasizes about “breeding gulags”: “So just like Hitler imprisoned Gypsies, Jews, communists, you know, all of his political rivals, we have to do the same thing with women… They go to the breeding gulags. The good ones will be liberated. The bad ones will toil in the mines forever.”
February 12, 2026 at 4:11 PM
it really can't be said enough that this is a person who has dined with the president of the united states
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This is the kind of thing that happened in dystopian fiction to warn us about what kind of society we were supposed to work to avoid becoming: www.kut.org/politics/202...
Trump administration is sending pregnant migrant girls to South Texas shelter flagged as medically inadequate
Government sources and advocates for the children worry the goal is to concentrate them in Texas, where abortion is banned.
www.kut.org
February 12, 2026 at 10:11 PM
This is the kind of thing that happened in dystopian fiction to warn us about what kind of society we were supposed to work to avoid becoming: www.kut.org/politics/202...
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If he's trying to radicalize every parent in America by poisoning our children, letting them die by disease, and arresting their classmates, I'd say it's working.
“I don't see any plan, any strategy, any end game,” says Pat Parenteau, a professor of environmental law at the University of Vermont. “I don't see anything from this administration, just fuck everything up as much as you can. You can print that.”
Sounds accurate to me.
Sounds accurate to me.
The Fight Over US Climate Rules Is Just Beginning
As the EPA moves to roll back the endangerment finding, which allows it to regulate greenhouse gases, experts predict uncertainty for business and a protracted legal fight.
www.wired.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:54 PM
If he's trying to radicalize every parent in America by poisoning our children, letting them die by disease, and arresting their classmates, I'd say it's working.
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New post at CAMPAIGN TRAILS on protests and photos:
A Thousand Words
Leaders of the civil rights movement called their protests "demonstrations" because they aimed to make visible the systems of political repression and physical violence that were all too often hidden ...
campaign-trails.ghost.io
February 12, 2026 at 4:33 PM
New post at CAMPAIGN TRAILS on protests and photos:
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The El Paso story is a perfect little slice of Trumpism. You take the combined incompetence of our Dep'ts of Transportation, Defense & Homeland Security and create a major public safety risk, shut down a major airport, alarm our neighbors that we are about attack them & shoot down a party balloon.
February 12, 2026 at 12:12 PM
The El Paso story is a perfect little slice of Trumpism. You take the combined incompetence of our Dep'ts of Transportation, Defense & Homeland Security and create a major public safety risk, shut down a major airport, alarm our neighbors that we are about attack them & shoot down a party balloon.
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They drove through Minneapolis, detaining people at random; broke into their cars and homes without warrants; and beat or shot either the Brown people they were almost exclusively pursuing or nonviolent protesters
Scouring the streets and denying people their rights was EXACTLY what they were doing
Scouring the streets and denying people their rights was EXACTLY what they were doing
Homan: "ICE is a legitimate federal law enforcement agency. We're not out scouring the streets to disappear people or deny people their civil rights or due process."
February 12, 2026 at 2:36 PM
They drove through Minneapolis, detaining people at random; broke into their cars and homes without warrants; and beat or shot either the Brown people they were almost exclusively pursuing or nonviolent protesters
Scouring the streets and denying people their rights was EXACTLY what they were doing
Scouring the streets and denying people their rights was EXACTLY what they were doing
@raskin.house.gov @jayapal.house.gov @balint.house.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social Good question here:
Why is no one trying to charge Gruppenfuhrer Bondi with Contempt of Congress?
Why is no one trying to charge Gruppenfuhrer Bondi with Contempt of Congress?
Pam Bondi essentially refused to testify. Serious question: Why is no one trying to charge her with Contempt of Congress?
February 12, 2026 at 2:59 PM
@raskin.house.gov @jayapal.house.gov @balint.house.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social Good question here:
Why is no one trying to charge Gruppenfuhrer Bondi with Contempt of Congress?
Why is no one trying to charge Gruppenfuhrer Bondi with Contempt of Congress?
Important 🧵 on the concentration camp system.
I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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February 12, 2026 at 4:31 AM
Important 🧵 on the concentration camp system.
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People say we can't compare this to the Third Reich because of the atrocities but we only found out about the atrocities after the fact when it was all said and done and we're not done with this yet so I am sure the worst stomach churning shit has yet to be revealed.
ICYMI: The US is currently holding three times as many people in immigrant detention as were detained in the Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939 — six years into the Third Reich, and just before the start of World War II.
February 1, 2026 at 10:26 PM
People say we can't compare this to the Third Reich because of the atrocities but we only found out about the atrocities after the fact when it was all said and done and we're not done with this yet so I am sure the worst stomach churning shit has yet to be revealed.
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"Governor Sherrill also launched a new state website so New Jerseyans can quickly find information about their rights when interacting with federal agents."
➡️ nj.gov/knowyourrights
Full press release: www.nj.gov/governor/new...
➡️ nj.gov/knowyourrights
Full press release: www.nj.gov/governor/new...
February 11, 2026 at 9:52 PM
"Governor Sherrill also launched a new state website so New Jerseyans can quickly find information about their rights when interacting with federal agents."
➡️ nj.gov/knowyourrights
Full press release: www.nj.gov/governor/new...
➡️ nj.gov/knowyourrights
Full press release: www.nj.gov/governor/new...
@froomkin.bsky.social:
"After months of resistance actions seemingly dominated by older adults, a wave of student activism is sweeping across the nation, with many thousands of young people walking out of classes to protest ICE."
"After months of resistance actions seemingly dominated by older adults, a wave of student activism is sweeping across the nation, with many thousands of young people walking out of classes to protest ICE."
Well this is kind of exciting: The students are coming!
Across the nation, young people are walking out of classes to protest ICE. From my Heads Up News newsletter. www.headsupnews.org/p/the-studen...
Across the nation, young people are walking out of classes to protest ICE. From my Heads Up News newsletter. www.headsupnews.org/p/the-studen...
The students are coming
Across the nation, young people are walking out of classes to protest ICE
www.headsupnews.org
February 11, 2026 at 10:38 PM
@froomkin.bsky.social:
"After months of resistance actions seemingly dominated by older adults, a wave of student activism is sweeping across the nation, with many thousands of young people walking out of classes to protest ICE."
"After months of resistance actions seemingly dominated by older adults, a wave of student activism is sweeping across the nation, with many thousands of young people walking out of classes to protest ICE."
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Bondi should be impeached based solely on her conduct today. Talking money when the topic is Epstein victims should earn her contempt of Congress and disbarment as well. She is a disgrace to the legal profession.
February 11, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Bondi should be impeached based solely on her conduct today. Talking money when the topic is Epstein victims should earn her contempt of Congress and disbarment as well. She is a disgrace to the legal profession.
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You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.
February 11, 2026 at 5:48 PM
You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.
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This is very good from @bernybelvedere.bsky.social on little-noticed examples of DHS echoing fascist language on the agency's official twitter feed, and how that illuminates Trump/MAGA's broader project of state violence and terror:
www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-vil...
www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-vil...
February 10, 2026 at 5:54 PM
This is very good from @bernybelvedere.bsky.social on little-noticed examples of DHS echoing fascist language on the agency's official twitter feed, and how that illuminates Trump/MAGA's broader project of state violence and terror:
www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-vil...
www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-vil...
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If you follow Joanne Freeman she reported last week that Holocaust survivors living in assisted living homes, I think in Florida, we asking home administrators if they could hide their Haitian nurses and care-givers in their apartments to keep them safe.
February 10, 2026 at 11:05 PM
If you follow Joanne Freeman she reported last week that Holocaust survivors living in assisted living homes, I think in Florida, we asking home administrators if they could hide their Haitian nurses and care-givers in their apartments to keep them safe.
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Worth watching this in full. The statement is more powerful than this quote alone. Here is is from USA Today, with alt text.
Also! Rich Ruohonen is a personal injury lawyer and the oldest athlete to ever represent the United States in a Winter Games at 54 years old.
Also! Rich Ruohonen is a personal injury lawyer and the oldest athlete to ever represent the United States in a Winter Games at 54 years old.
February 10, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Worth watching this in full. The statement is more powerful than this quote alone. Here is is from USA Today, with alt text.
Also! Rich Ruohonen is a personal injury lawyer and the oldest athlete to ever represent the United States in a Winter Games at 54 years old.
Also! Rich Ruohonen is a personal injury lawyer and the oldest athlete to ever represent the United States in a Winter Games at 54 years old.
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You are allowed to say, "this performance was not to my personal taste, a thing that sometimes happens in a free society," and move on with your life.
Rep Mark Alford (R-MO) says House Rs are "investigating" Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show & talking with FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr. Alford says he didn't watch the whole thing & also doesn't know Spanish but suspects it might have been "much worse than the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction"
February 10, 2026 at 5:49 PM
You are allowed to say, "this performance was not to my personal taste, a thing that sometimes happens in a free society," and move on with your life.
Bookmark this one for when you come upon a MAGA in some comment thread saying ICE can't be unmasked because of how dangerous it would be.
Journalist Garrett M. Graff explains how it's more dangerous being an elementary school student in the USA than being an ICE agent.
Journalist Garrett M. Graff explains how it's more dangerous being an elementary school student in the USA than being an ICE agent.
If you can’t police in a free society without hiding your face, the problem is with the policing — not the public. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-s-mask...
ICE's Masks Are All a Lie
Working for ICE is actually less dangerous than being an elementary school student in America.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
February 10, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Bookmark this one for when you come upon a MAGA in some comment thread saying ICE can't be unmasked because of how dangerous it would be.
Journalist Garrett M. Graff explains how it's more dangerous being an elementary school student in the USA than being an ICE agent.
Journalist Garrett M. Graff explains how it's more dangerous being an elementary school student in the USA than being an ICE agent.
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As a purely political matter, it shouldn't be hard to say, "hey, you know that agency with armed, masked men who kidnap your neighbors, throw tear gas at peaceful protestors, & turn cities that offend Stephen Miller into war zones? Yeah, we're not going to fund it anymore."
February 10, 2026 at 5:45 PM
As a purely political matter, it shouldn't be hard to say, "hey, you know that agency with armed, masked men who kidnap your neighbors, throw tear gas at peaceful protestors, & turn cities that offend Stephen Miller into war zones? Yeah, we're not going to fund it anymore."
BRING IT!
Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."
February 10, 2026 at 5:49 PM
BRING IT!
Yes. Make it real.
McIVER: Do you consider yourself a religious man?
LYONS: Yes mam
McIVER: How do you think judgment day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?
LYONS: I'm not going to entertain that question
McIVER: Do you think you're going to hell, Mr Lyons?
LYONS: Yes mam
McIVER: How do you think judgment day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?
LYONS: I'm not going to entertain that question
McIVER: Do you think you're going to hell, Mr Lyons?
February 10, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Yes. Make it real.