Mark Hoben

Mark Hoben

@marconius425.bsky.social

Husband, father, gamer, unapologetic liberal. Farmers' Market partisan. Warlock main. Black Lives Matter. Voted for her. Good trouble, necessary trouble.

388 followers215 following982 posts

Just S-tier sociopathy to label the literally thousands of deaths cited in the original thread (Venezuela, Iran, ICE, measles) as"hypothetical maths" Increasingly hard to take these folks seriously

shaunt@shaunvids.bsky.social

even abstracted into hypothetical maths this doesn't make any sense. picking the lesser evil still makes things more evil, just by a lesser amount

Either way this season is bound to be the subject of some sort of documentary, either an NFL Films feel-good piece about the team coalescing around a 1st year offensive coordinator OR an ESPN expose on the hubris of hiring a first year OC with zero experience calling offensive plays at any level.

alexcastrofilho.bsky.social@alexcastrofilho.bsky.social

Seattle’s offense has multiple issues, but Brian Fleury’s play-calling is a major concern. There’s a difference between poor execution and a scheme that keeps putting players in bad spots. Seattle has shown both, and I’m not confident Fleury can fix it.

Mark Hoben reposted

if i were a republican, idk if i'd want to be breaking the seal on 'televised firing squads', what with the way the polls look lately

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

WASHINGTON (AP) - Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed in December.

Mark Hoben reposted

TRUMP: if yhe GOP wins, I will give every American $5,000 GOP LAWMAKERS: You may not hand out water to voters in hours-long lines. That would be influencing them…

The Republican Party making no secret that they are Nazis all the way down

Exclusive: Republicans are planning to raise millions of dollars during the coming GOP midterm convention in Dallas, including asking donors to pay more than $88,000 for a photo with President Trump. 🔗: on.wsj.com/4zR73QK

Unpopular opinion: when people are being kidnapped off the streets these "hardworking Americans" messages seem hopelessly out of touch. Our nation is engulfed in a five-alarm, constitutional crisis house fire, and Democratic leadership is making kitchen table arguments. Read the room I beg you.

House Democrats@housedemocrats.bsky.social

Donald Trump prioritizes his billionaire buddies over hardworking Americans.

Among the things Trump never understood is one of the things that made America great was great neighbors. We're blessed with two friendly, stable democracies, with deep cultural and trade relationships with each for decades - until now. Trump and his MAGA enablers have thrown it all away.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "The United States is giving serious consideration to changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America in that we don’t expect to be doing much business with Ontario any longer. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP"

Another option: Jeffries secretly meeting with Kushner looks bad because it really is bad. Democrats across the country are running to hold Trump's corrupt regime to account, while House leadership secretly meets with Trump's corrupt unelected son-in-law to plan ways to undermine those efforts.

This post is unavailable.

Democratic voters need to be maximally cynical about any assertion that Hakeem Jeffries or House Democratic leadership are serious about ending the Trump regime's many abuses.

This is The Way. Democrats need to promise to raze the ballroom, and make the motherfucker pay for rebuilding the East Wing out of his stolen millions. Restore the Rose Garden. Cancel the ridiculous arch. Restore the Kennedy Center. And scrape all that tacky gold shit off the walls of the Oval.

Lindsay Beyerstein@beyerstein.bsky.social

Legacy is all Trump thinks about. Campaign on bulldozing the ballroom and degilding the Oval Office and he'll freak the fuck out.

Mark Hoben reposted

It'll never fail to astound me that computing tech has gotten so sophisticated, and yet copying and pasting a bulleted list accurately is apparently an unsolved problem

I wish Democrats could understand just how much this tepid 🤡 hurts Democrats

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Jeffries stop short of committing to holding a vote to abolish ICE is he's House Speaker next January, but says he's "committed to dramatically reforming ICE ... the masks should come off, body cameras should come on, judicial warrants should be required."

Mark Hoben reposted

It'll be pretty embarrassing if the dinosaurs went out with more dignity than us. They can't say they knew about the meteor for decades, knew exactly what to do about it, had all the technology and resources to stop it but didn't so five of them could own everything

It is absolutely the party of bigotry, xenophobia, and racism, and we all need to take it a step further and stop associating with the people who continue to vote for this cruel, evil bullshit. Don't meet up for beers. Don't shop their businesses. Skip Thanksgiving. Just cut ties and move on.

Greg Pak@gregpak.net

The wickedness of this is obscene. Never vote for a Republican for any office. It's the party of bigotry, xenophobia, and racism.

LOL tell us you are completely out of touch without using those words, and go:

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social

Look, on some fundamental level, we need to be able to acknowledge that the claim Talarico is making here is basically BS. I understand WHY he’s making it. But it’s not true, playing to popular resentments in a way not totally dissimilar to Trump saying immigrants are taking your jobs.

Mark Hoben reposted

Golden State Valkyries forward Gabby Williams: “There’s a lot of discourse around trans athletes and what they can compete in. I would welcome a trans athlete on my team or against my team. Anytime. I don’t think it’s a problem in the world, it’s just another way to kind of attack trans people.”

#GOPChoseCorruption

Indivisible Central New Jersey@indivisiblecentnj.bsky.social

The #IndivisibleCentralNJ #VisibilityBrigade says #GOPChoseCorruption. #BlameBillionaires! (7/31/26 - Edison, NJ) #NJ #ICNJ #Indivisible #VB #RushhourResistance #Corruption #Billionaires @maddow.bsky.social @indivisible.org @njindivisible.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social

Mark Hoben reposted

Most of the corruption perpetrated by the Trump admin would not be possible without the complicit enabling of the Republican majorities in the House and Senate. The only way to put any check and balance on this out of control regime is to vote them out in November.

Again, Trump is singularly and historically awful, but it is the elected members of the Republican Party that have abandoned their sworn oaths to support, defend, and bear faith and allegiance to the US Constitution that made this possible. None of this happens without GOP support and endorsement.

This post is unavailable.

The rest of America needs boycott, divest, and sanctions measures against the congressional districts that send these ideological asshats to Congress, in this case, Virginia's 5th District. THIS is how seriously the voters of VA-5 take national governance. By sending this clown. Fuck them.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Rep. John McGuire: "I don't know if you heard about the BLT sandwich -- using human fetus baby parts in the vaccine when they could've used ivermectin"

Mark Hoben reposted

America has gotten to that last part of Monopoly where the game is effectively over and we're all just watching the Elites suck up all the money, nobody else is allowed to really keep playing the game & we're all getting more pissed by the minute. Flip the damn board over already.

I say this with a little bit of ill will and animosity: don't fucking gatekeep the Democratic Party. The Party is and always will be WHO SHOWS UP.

Jaime Harrison@jaimeharrison.bsky.social

I say this with no ill will or animosity: if you hate the Democratic Party, then please don’t run for our nomination. Don’t use our resources. Don’t rely on our volunteers. Don’t use our infrastructure. Don’t ask Democrats to invest their time, money, and energy in your campaign.

Or maybe voters are just sick of watching the Democratic Party be the electoral equivalent of the Washington Generals. And most sincerely FUCK the undisguised elitism that the tepid apologistas and their patrons know Democratic voters' best interests better than the voters themselves.

Mark Zaid, Esq@markzaidesq.bsky.social

We are witnessing MAGA equivalent of destruction of Democratic Party through election of progressive Socialists. If you think this ends well for country, I believe you're sadly mistaken. Extremism on one side simply fuels opposite growth on other side. We need moderates.

Mark Hoben reposted

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

Mark Hoben reposted

Replying to @volts.wtf

Say it with me: "This is what you get when you elect Republicans." Make it about the brand, not just the policy.

Mark Hoben reposted

Palestine action are terrorists but the people agitating for race riots aren't, there's your two tiers right there. The state always protects the far right and always demonises the left. Because, at the end of the day the left is threat to authoritarian control the far right isn't.

Mark Hoben reposted

"Bluesky is a bubble" they say. "Come to X, the marketplace of ideas" they say.

Vikram Bath@vikrambath.bsky.social

The top 2026 X accounts gives insight into the lie that X is the town square. These people are niche celebrities and their influence on X does not represent influence elsewhere. Your participation is not going to change this graph www.natesilver.net/p/social-med...

Endorse and co-sign: make the corrupt motherfucker pay to rebuild it exactly as it was out of his own pocket. Also make him pay to restore the Rose Garden, and remove every bit of that tacky gold shit off the walls of the Oval Office.

AltYellostoneNatPar@altyellonatpark.org

Not only should he be required to rebuild it exactly the way it was but he should also be required to personally pay for every dime of it out of his own pocket.

America's Mayor

Today, I signed an Executive Order temporarily repealing bedtimes in the City of New York so that kids of all ages can watch our team in the NBA Finals. As Mayor, you’re forced to make many difficult decisions. This was not one of them. Go Knicks.

Being forced to use “Microsoft 365 for Web” has me reconsidering my opposition to capital punishment. In all seriousness, shipping software this bad should carry a penalty beyond loss of revenue or brand reputation. Absolute garbage from a company that seems to have perfected absolute garbage 🤬

The next Congress needs to assert its authority and rebuild the White House, including razing the ridiculous ballroom and complete restoration of the East Wing and Rose Garden. There should be zero publicly-funded monuments to this lawless wretched regime.

Steve Benen@stevebenen.com

A bizarre visual at the White House complex - On one side, ballroom construction where the East Wing once stood - On the other side, a patio redesigned to resemble Mar-a-Lago where the Rose Garden used to be - In between, construction of a giant UFC venue on the South Lawn www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Mark Hoben reposted

There is no decision any city can make more catastrophically stupid than running a f'ing interstate right through the middle of itself. It's just one of the fatefully stupid decisions Seattle has made, but it might be the worst.

seattletimes.comUW students resurrect Seattle cityscape that I-5 erasedHomes and businesses were lost when I-5 cut a swath through Seattle in the 1960s. Now UW students are resurrecting those neighborhoods and their stories.

Mark Hoben reposted

DeTrumpification is as necessary a project to the US as DeNazification was to Germany. Everything removed from everywhere, including every person in the Trump party from every elected and appointed position of public trust, with all appropriate investigations, charges, and trials.

Micah@rincewind.run

I am not kidding about making a cabinet-level position for tearing Trump’s name off everything in this country you write this shit into a movie script before Trump came on the scene and you get laughed out of the room

10 fucking posts to say the Nazi bar is more fun Say less

Corey Atad@coreyatad.com

when this critique is made, it often feels like it's about politics, like the answer is to just let the Nazis on here, but that misses why X, despite it all, is still a more fun place. it's because the "no fucks given" style there means *more* willingness to engage in roiling, exciting conversation.

Mark Hoben reposted

It hasn't yet ceased to amaze me the distance of understanding between the elites regarding AI and the rest of us regarding AI. They really don't seem to notice, let alone understand, the growing backlash. I have never seen such a clear and immediate chasm of perspective on technology.

The @NFL giving a giant FUCK YOU to Black Americans everywhere, but particularly to those living in Tennessee. This shit is not tone deaf, it’s intentional.

Big Gold Belt Media@biggoldbelt.bsky.social

The NFL has officially announced that Nashville will host Super Bowl LXIV in 2030 at the new Nissan Stadium, marking the first time Music City will host the league’s biggest event. #NFL #SuperBowlLXIV

Mark Hoben reposted

We've become numb to this stuff, but a president accusing a journalist of treason -- a capital crime -- for reporting on an ongoing war is not normal, and we should never accept it as normal.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump to NYT's David Sanger: "I had a total military victory. But the fake news, guys like you, write incorrectly. You're a fake guy. We had a total military victory. I actually think it's sort of treasonous what you write. You should be ashamed of yourself. I actually think it's treason."