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Posts by David Hochfelder

"We are pleased to share more than 125,000 U.S. Supreme Court records and briefs. These materials which span nearly two centuries of American law are now freely accessible online."

"Includes records and briefs spanning cases from 1830 through 2019."

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One of my favorite newsletters!

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The fact that every major police union endorsed Donald Trump is under appreciated in our political discourse.

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Tax Day 2026: The Average Taxpayer Paid $4,049 for War and Weapons - Institute for Policy Studies Tax Day 2026: The Average Taxpayer Paid $4,049 for War and Weapons

"The average taxpayer in 2025 paid: $4,049 for weapons and war, vs. $2,492 for Medicaid, which provided health insurance to 68.5 million Americans in 2025 — about one in five Americans."

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I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

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US Southern Command: On April 19, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Three male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed. @DeptofWar #OpSouthernSpear
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US Southern Command: On April 19, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Three male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed. @DeptofWar #OpSouthernSpear UNCLASSIFIED

We murdered three more people in boats today

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"Ms. Ross-Mahé, age 86, was greeted at the airport by her three adult children. She was still dressed in her prison wear — orange shoes, sweatpants and a gray sweater — covered in stains and holes...

"She was in a state of physical shock...

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/u...

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My grandfather, who helped raise me, died of pancreatic cancer.

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We report, you decide.

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Seen on a lamppost in Albany: "John Brown would've shot ICE agents."

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Trust me. Don't fuck with South Side Catholics.

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The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

Chief Justice John Roberts should be impeached and removed from the Supreme Court.

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Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto SAN FRANCISCO—Following reports that a 20-year-old man had been arrested for throwing a Moltov cocktail at Sam Altman’s home, the suspect stated Monday that he only initiated the attack because he was...

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto

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He's such a freakazoid

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Why are Harvard’s slavery researchers quitting or being fired? The school’s $100m project to examine its slave ownership in Antigua is mired with controversy as academics allege obstruction

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

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🧊✈️ HEADS UP VIRGINIA‼️

⚠️ ICE Air inbound to Richmond

Air Wisconsin CRJ-200

Tail: N458AW – ETA 12pm 👀

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Current hostility (on the part of politicians and institutional leaders alike) to even looking at the past is strikingly blunt. It touches many disciplines, but denying history is the key issue.

The backlash against Bouie’s piece on Enlightenment and then the 1619 Project were public turning points

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treats treats treats treats

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It was about 44 degrees as these shackled detainees were loaded onto today's ICE Air flight in the pouring rain at MSP.

ICE hasn't stopped in Minnesota, neither have MN50501's volunteer observers - please help cover our parking fees: mn50501.org/donate

Data: ottergoose.net/ice-flights-msp/data

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ICE And The Absence Of Accountability Earlier this month, at the notorious state-run immigration detention facility in Florida dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” by state officials, there was another incident.

In Maine, ICE brazenly called their operation “catch of the day.” The banal inhumanity of it all is overwhelming. The deaths, the injuries, the conditions in detention, the brazen disregard for people’s rights, including American citizens. And it’s still happening.
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Trust me. Don't fuck with South Side Catholics.

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TRUMP, throwing insults at Pope Leo:
“weak on crime”
“terrible for foreign policy”
“catering to the Radical Left”
“owes his position to me”
“sit down and mind your own business”

POPE LEO, unbothered:
“We are called to love.”

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Be excellent to each other.

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The White House Correspondents’ Dinner has always been a cringefest. Trump just makes it obvious. - Poynter This year’s disaster has been decades in the making

Any journalist who attends this should be treated with utter contempt thenceforward.

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ICE agent charged with assault in Minnesota for allegedly pointing gun at motorists Prosecutors say this is first criminal case against a federal agent involved in Trump’s immigration crackdown

BREAKING: Prosecutors in Minnesota have charged an ICE agent with two counts of assault related to a road rage incident. A nationwide warrant has been issued for his arrest.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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When they said "AI will increase productivity" I didn't realize they meant "AI code will crash the social media networks on which I procrastinate, forcing me to actually do my job"

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🧊✈️ HEADS UP VIRGINIA‼️

⚠️ ICE Air inbound to Richmond

Eastern 737 – Tail: N668CP

ETA – 5:10pm 👀

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Trump administration plans to release money for Second Avenue Subway after MTA lawsuit President Donald Trump has for months bottled up promised money for the project.

if Sean Duffy hates public transit so much, why does he always take the L? www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

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Thank you to whoever did this one. 🤣👏

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Let’s Replace All Corporate Chiefs With AI Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, and Jim VandeHei are halfway there already. Let’s follow that train of thought.

Nobody is more expensive than corporate chief executives, so in the coming AI dystopia of their making they'll have to be the first to go. My latest.

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