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NJ Democrat senator Cory Booker takes the floor in protest of Trump/Musk, "saying that he will keep going “'as long as I am physically able'.”
“I rise with the intention of disrupting the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able,” Booker said at the outset of his remarks. “I rise tonight because I believe sincerely that our country is in crisis.”
“In just 71 days, the president of the United States has inflicted so much harm on Americans’ safety; financial stability; the core foundations of our democracy. “These are not normal times in America. And they should not be treated as such in the United States Senate.” -source
I am posting this at 2:30am EST. He has been speaking since 7PM EST. This link (at this moment) is to a live stream.
FUCK YEAH, JERSEY!
So very proud of my state at the moment.
Reblogging and adding the livestream link from Senator Booker's YouTube (the other one was glitching) . It is almost 4am. He is still going STRONG. If you are watching and plan to go to sleep, turn the volume down and leave it up so that the "watching" number reflects the involvement of people supporting him.
If he can LITERALLY stand and protest as a single voice, we can keep it playing and symbolically stand with him.
Senator Booker is on Hour 13 and going STRONG
Yeah! That’s what I’m talking about. No business as usual! Slow the Fascists down! He should get some Democrat colleagues to join him so they can periodically cede to each other and spell each other off to keep it up longer!
STILL GOING! If you can open up the livestream to show support.
Folks, he's still going - and importantly, he's talking about his own shortcomings, his own failures and the things he wants to do better because he knows he fucked up the last time.
If your disdain for Democrats has been rooted largely in their reluctance to meet the moment, then I heartily encourage you to watch the livestream — other Democratic senators are asking long-winded "questions (which is part of the rules and allows Booker to take the occasional break for a drink of water or to rest his feet or whatnot) and helping however they can.
Booker's going to hit 24 hours at 7 pm and it's worth watching a few minutes, don't you think?
this is my calling.
fr though punks, go check if he's still going!
He is still going and he is an incredible orator. This is incredibly fucking powerful and raw. This is the power of words. This is the power you have as people.
I am a man who believes in the power of words. I am using those words to tell you about Senator Cory Booker.
I am being inspired by Senator Cory Booker, a man who believes in the power of words. He is using those words to tell us about John Lewis.
He was inspired by John Lewis, a man who believed in the power of words. A man who used those words to create good trouble.
go forward and make good trouble punks.
he has just made the record.
He made it 25 hours and a few minutes. I didn’t catch the whole thing but this was inspiring to watch.
And Dems (I think they were Democrats, I could be wrong about some of them) got up to support him. They’d get up to “ask him a question” and he would specifically yield for a question but retain the floor. He said it over and over. And the questioner would, more often than not, give an impassioned speech about something and then as his opinion or knowledge on the matter.
They’d give Booker a moment to rest and then a new thing to talk about. And frequently, before he would yield (but only for a question), he would talk about his relationship to the questioner and what their work meant to him.
Say what you will about symbolic acts but I was damn moved. Time to make some good trouble y’all.
This was more than a symbolic act. This was a man standing up for what he believed in. This was a man who was genuinely passionate about what he was doing. I wish all of america got to see even a half an hour of him talk.
This was an inspiration and a call to action.
I dont remember his exact wording. But one of his final statements was something along the lines of “This is the time to act and cause some trouble for the good of the country.”
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I feel like tariffing the "entire world" is literally just functionally sanctioning yourself
I can't wait for US Americans to experience what it's like to have import tax on everything, like a lot of the world does. Except instead of having it go to anything good in the government like Brazil's public health-care or the social services in many European countries it's just going to building more Abrams tanks
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Sylveon is a species of Pokemon that was only recently recorded officially. It stands to reason that they existed long beforehand, just like the Fairy-type itself, but were always written off as something they were not in years past.
Sylveon is a species of Pokemon that the popular Pokemon, Eevee, can evolve into. Eevee can evolve into lots of different Pokemon, depending on how they are raised and what environments they are exposed to as they grow. A lot of Trainers are content to let their Eevee choose how they want to evolve, but many of them capture an Eevee with the expressed purpose of evolving them into something in particular. If that Eevee ends up evolving into something different, the Trainer may be upset. Some choose to accept the way that their Eevee has evolved. Others do not.
Sylveon is a species of Pokemon that can only be obtained through giving your Eevee lots of affection. Only with an accepting and loving Trainer can Eevee evolve into Sylveon. But raising your Eevee like this does not guarantee you a Sylveon. Your Eevee could evolve into something else that requires high affection, like Espeon or Umbreon. Or it could evolve into something else entirely that doesn't require high affection.
Knowledge of this most recently-discovered evolution of Eevee is spreading quickly. Lots of Trainers are starting to understand what their Eevee became. Lots of Eevee are starting to understand this form they can obtain. As more understandings are met, more Eevee evolve into Sylveon.
Sylveon are being killed at an unprecedented rate.
Sylveon are being killed by people who do not know what type of Pokemon they are, and fear they may be dangerous. Sylveon are being killed by those who have bought into the ideas of the older generation: that Sylveon is nothing but a mutation that should be put out of its misery immediately, not a proper evolution... Sylveon are being killed by their own Trainers. Infuriated that their precious Eevee evolved into Sylveon, and not an Umbreon or Espeon, as they had been intending.
Sylveon are not any more dangerous than any other evolution. Sylveon are not a mutation or abomination. And Sylveon do not exist to please the whims of us humans.
An Eevee evolving into a Sylveon is just another form of growth. So please, keep your Sylveon safe.
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I can never leave Tumblr because after years of sporadic therapy utterly failed to even approach the core of my problem some random tumblr user was like “I processed my trauma by writing a 10,000 word work of filthy fanfic erotica” and I was like “fuck it I’ve tried everything else” and now I’m 17 chapters and 20,000 words deep into an unpublishable work of obscenity and after careful literary analysis with one of the Beloved Mutuals I have come to some Terrible Revelations about my childhood and may now continue the process of Healing. Where else am I supposed to get this kind of experience. Who does this. Why are we like this. I’m never leaving. I love y’all.