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Mark Hoben
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Husband, father, gamer, unapologetic liberal. Farmers' Market partisan. Warlock main. Black Lives Matter. Voted for her. Good trouble, necessary trouble.
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Ilhan Omar rose from a single parent immigrant family where her dad drove a taxi to her current position. Trump is the kid of a racist wealthy slum landlord who headed multiple failed businesses. One of these people is the example of failed ambition and it's not her.
What a racist piece of shit.
Trump on Somalis: "We're gonna go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage."
December 2, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Senator Kelly is correct.

Plus a Public Service Announcement:

KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.

The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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The truth is the GOP could end this national nightmare anytime they want to. They don’t want to.
November 30, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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In the last week, Donald Trump has called for the murder of Congressional Democrats and threatened to unilaterally declare an invasion of Venezuela.

If Congressional Republicans followed the Constitution, both of these would be removable offenses. But, they’re loyal to Trump, not the constitution.
November 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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The NYT and the Washington Post are simply ignoring the rapidly growing constitutional crisis in the White House. Almost nothing in their news coverage or opinion sections. They are as culpable as anyone in this.
November 29, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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AOC and Mamdani not backing a primary challenge to Jeffries is fine, actually.

It’s transactional, sure. But Jeffries did ultimately come around and endorse.

IMHO throwing a primary challenge at him now sends a message: Even if you do come around, we may still come after you.
November 26, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Definitely have to share one of the most iconic Thanksgiving Day reenactments today. Grab those cardigans and highballs and enjoy! 🦃 🍁 🪶🔥🍽️
Addams Family Values: Thanksgiving play (HD CLIP)
YouTube video by Binge Society
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November 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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First Secretary of Defense you could defeat by painting a tunnel on the side of a boulder.
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Easily top five though
It's always hard to pick a worst day politically, but today the president called for the death of members of the opposition party, and the administration decided that people were being too hard on the swastika
November 21, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Counterpoint: Fallows and the other apologists are full of shit. Sen Whitehouse can shovel his kumbaya bullshit but it's laughable to think Democrats standing down now will somehow energize voters next year.
James Fallows is good on this.
November 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Trump is singularly awful, but America's moral collapse is being perpetrated not by Trump by the Republican Party, who have shirked or sabotaged every Constitutional protection that would have prevented this. Yes, Trump must go, but his moral cancer has already metastasized across the GOP.
November 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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The mainstream media will never acknowledge that the right ultimately wants the worst for America and this the motivation for their actions. In short, mainstream press won’t tell the truth.
November 18, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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For no particular reason….posting former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell’s mugshot before he went to Federal prison for committing numerous crimes on behalf and or/at the direction of President Nixon including obstruction of justice and conspiracy.
November 15, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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The DOJ is suing California over Prop 50, saying it's a "brazen power grab that tramples on civil rights and mocks the democratic process."

Nothing mocks democracy like a president ordering red states to gerrymander while prosecuting a blue state for letting its voters decide.
November 14, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Newly released emails show Democrats on House Oversight have damning, relevant information they have not been sharing. Fuck Mike Johnson, fuck decorum and any House vote, RELEASE EVERYTHING you have now and DEMAND HEARINGS for the rest of it.
EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: Newly released emails show Jeffrey Epstein told Ghislaine Maxwell that Donald Trump “spent hours at my house,” “knew about the girls,” and “that dog that hasn’t barked is trump.”
November 12, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Every 👏 word 👏 of 👏 this 👏
October 31, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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October 29, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Republicans refusal to uphold the Constitution is not a small problem. Trump is singularly awful, but we could not have fallen this far this fast without the acquiescence and cooperation of elected congressional Republicans who have bypassed or shirked every Constitutional safeguard.
Jesus. I mean even the Senatorial class under Augustus made more of an attempt to defend their sense of dignity and the Roman legal structure than this.
Tuberville on Trump's third term: "He might be able to go around the Constitution, but that's up to him."
October 29, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Once again, the main day of Tea Party protests had about 300,000 nationwide, but saw endless coverage.

The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn.

No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.
Ask yourself this: How would the New York Times have covered the protests if it had been seven million MAGA supporters flooding the streets? We don’t even have to guess: We know how they and other mainstream outlets covered the Tea Party protests during Obama’s first term.
October 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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He orders extrajudicial killings. He sent troops into our cities. He terrorizes citizens with ICE raids. He raised taxes without congressional approval. He has ruined American farmers and ranchers. He plans to starve the vulnerable. He demolished our house.

Remove him from office.
October 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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No one besides gutter racists wants this
A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday morning as his two sons watched, the older boy begging them not to hurt his father and tearfully asking for a chance to speak to him before they left.
As his two sons watch and cry, ‘Pa, te amo,’ federal agents arrest man outside of Naperville apartments
A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday as his two sons cried and begged for him not to be hurt.
trib.al
October 26, 2025 at 12:27 PM
The Bluesky version of obeying in advance

STFU is sometimes the best advice
The dooming on this site is getting out of control. Every time you post anything about politics some rando condescendingly wonders how you can't possibly know that elections are over and all hope is lost. If you've completely lost hope, I'm sorry, but shut the fuck up, OK? You're not helping.
October 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM
The world needs more dinosaur art. And science.
Had the pleasure of working on the press release image for this groundbreaking research!
October 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
If #ESPN and the #NFL can’t field two separate competent announcer teams for #MNF then just schedule the one game. SEA-HOU announcers are hot garbage.
October 21, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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I really need for people to see & acknowledge that the open racism & sexism in US public life today are directly downstream of the decade-long effort to destroy "woke," ie, anti-racism & anti-sexism. This was always the point.
October 20, 2025 at 6:22 PM