For those of you that may have just finished watching Cory Booker’s record-breaking senate speech and are inspired to “get in good trouble”, you have a great opportunity for it this Saturday!
On April 5th, numerous advocacy groups are banding together into one nation-wide rally that will be held in major cities all over the country - you can easily find a participating location here!
I’ll be volunteering as a safety captain at my own local rally, and I encourage all of you to go out there too and get in some good trouble as well!
for the record when I say a lot of major cities I mean a LOT of major cities :P
And a damn lot of rather minor cities also.
I’m helping organize with 50501 SoCal, 50501 is coordinating with Hands Off for many of these marches/rallys and in many cases, like Los Angeles, is the main organizer. If you want to get involved through there, please follow the link here! 50 states, 50+ protests, 1 day - telling the government to keep their hands off our rights!
I’d just like to clarify some things about Senator Cory Booker’s marathon Senate speech in protest of the present administration and everything they are doing to the American people.
Senator Booker was NOT allowed to sit down, eat, or use the bathroom during his speech. Sitting or leaving the room to use the bathroom would be considered yielding the floor. Eating would have interfered with his speaking and the person who has the senate floor must continue to speak, except when listening to questions that they will then answer.
He only took occasional sips of water.
The person who previously held the record for longest speech on the Senate floor did have bathroom breaks and also did things like read from the encyclopedia.
Senator Booker did not do that. His speech was to point out the damage that this administration is doing and he stayed on that subject.
Senator Booker’s speech did reach many people. It wasn’t a silly stunt that was done so that he could take the record for longest speech. He wanted to show the country that democrats will do something to bring attention to the problems we are facing. That democrats are listening to them.
Senator Cory Booker spoke for 25 hours and 4 minutes to “make good trouble.”
also like, a Black man breaking Strom Thurmond’s record is absolutely *chef’s kiss*
for those who are too young to know about Strom, he was literally a white supremacist
He trained himself to give this speech by practicing and then implementing limits on food and water intake leading up to this. He cut out food for days, then cut out water the day before.
He then went to do an appearance on Maddow after yielding.
ok hear me out sevika with this mechanic hand holding you by your waist and guiding you up and down on her strap. similar to that one fic of caitvi where vi is using one hand to hold cait and fuck her on her other glove…….do y’all see the vision
I know that the animation studio wanted to desexualize the female characters in Arcane as much as possible which as a radical feminist I can appreciate. But as a Sevika fan, taking away the chest tattoo boob window crop top combo is actually really fucking unfair to women
if there was a fic - there would have to be at least 200k words before anything sexual happened. For me this ship is more about helping and saving each other, about bonding, about deep connection.
