figurines by TheSafflowerField
Cory Booker has been talking in the senate for over 20 hours now
He’s not filibustering. He’s protesting the current administration.
For those of you from outside the US or those of you who didn’t pay attention in government class, in the US senate there’s really no limit to the amount of time a senator can speak. So sometimes if they don’t want a bill to pass they just. Don’t stop talking. To hopefully get past the deadline to vote on a bill. This is called filibustering.
Senator Cory Booker isn’t doing that. He’s disrupting “the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able”. Just in protest. This doesn’t usually happen.
He’s less than 20 minutes away from breaking the record of the longest speech given on the senate floor
Cory Booker has officially broken Strom Thurmond’s record for longest speech on the senate floor and he’s still going
For those of you wondering what he’s been talking about this whole time, his staff wrote down a bunch of stuff for him to read like stories from people across the political spectrum opposed to what the administration is doing. He’s also been telling personal anecdotes about meeting important civil rights leaders and other democratic senators have been pausing him for “questions” but the questions have been as long as a small speech and have both served the purpose of giving him a second to sit down and updating him on the news that he’s been missing while he’s been talking.
He has yielded the floor at 25 hrs and 4 mins. His eyes are so wide they look like they’re going to bug out of his skull so I don’t blame him for stopping. He said to go out and get in some good trouble.
Addition for those unaware: Cory Booker is black. Strom Thurmond set the previous record about 70 years ago in protest of civil rights. Booker spent much of the time I was watching talking about the importance of working together for the people and the idea that it's not "left versus right but right versus wrong."
The new record speech is on the right side of history.
there's lots of things to talk about in the huge dump of "CANCELLED PLANS FOR DISCO ELYSIUM 2: CUNO BOOGALOO" but i am fixated on this little diagram of a mechanic where the better the kids are getting along, the closer they will walk to each other, and at maximum, they start holding hands
the whole game was going to be based on this complicated relationship between two traumatized orphans. and then it was going to end with them fighting to the death
does my bestie kim kitsuragi smell like communism?
X7 Acts 1-3 Summaries transcription
note: I have used round brackets to indicate things I am unsure about as opposed to round brackets since it seems they have used square brackets in some segments. I think it'll be obvious what's THEIR round brackets and what's MINE tho
Might update tomorrow when I'm not as tired if I go over it again and notice some errors or read some stuff I couldn't before, otherwise I might type out everything else I can see in that portion of the video
I encourage everyone to look at the screenshots or video themselves to see if they can read something themselves more accurately than I have. You can see the leak here.
I had the pleasure of working on this commission for the very kind @bee-boppin her character is so cute!~
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love the team balancing re: lieutenants in The Terror. Jock boat versus nerd boat. Fitzjames looking at the rosters going "Ooo sorry Francis, have fun with Zoloft blob, Pubquiz and Bible Boy. Me and the lads on Erebus are going to spend the winter using gym towels to flick each other in the balls"
happy april foold everyone did you know about………………… bofa
haha… bofa them
Pet dragon 🐲 [by Ryoko Kui]