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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.

and with your help it can rack up 700k notes on tumblr in 2024

no tumblr this doesnt need tags im releasing it into the wild as god intended

Yeah okay, I'll rebark that!

Love confession? No. Love admission. We both know this is happening and we've finally decided to let it happen.

adam scott against my better judgement i have grown fond of you

they should invent a special new pulitzer prize for any journalist who manages to cover the trump presidency without doing this:

they could make it award one billion dollars and not worry becuase they would simply never have to pay it out

like is this really a "north korea state sanctioned hairstyle proposed law", or is it, perhaps, possibly, more accurately described as a "arkansas, united states of america, sanctioned hairstyle proposed law", as that is where it is taking place, as a result of political forces specific to that place and nation?

is guantánamo bay really 'america's gulag' or is it perhaps, 'america's guantánamo bay, the extrajudicial prison that the usa famously runs'. and so on. and so on

been so long since a tweet got me hooting like this

https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/judge-says-park-service-reinstate-fired-employees-20220040.php

Public outcry works. Protest works.

Keep raising hell!

More from the article below. Thanks for posting, op! Some excellent news. Keep resisting.

"A federal judge in San Francisco has ordered the National Park Service and five other federal agencies to immediately reinstate probationary employees who were fired en masse last month, ruling that the Office of Personnel Management had no legal authority to mandate their terminations.

U.S. District Judge William Alsup, in a scathing rebuke of the Donald Trump administration’s actions, declared the mass firings a violation of federal law and accused officials of using procedural loopholes to sidestep legal protections. In addition to 1,000 employees who were terminated from the park service, his order affects employees at the departments of Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, Defense, Energy, the Interior and the Treasury, who were abruptly dismissed in February.

“It is a sad, sad day when our government would fire some good employee and say it was based on performance when they know good and well that’s a lie,” Alsup said from the bench. “That should not have been done in our country. It was a sham in order to avoid statutory requirements.”

The judge made clear that while federal agencies can conduct layoffs, they must follow legally defined “reduction-in-force” procedures. He accused the Office of Personnel Management of orchestrating an unlawful workaround by directing departments to fire workers without due process.

As part of his ruling, Alsup barred the office from issuing any further guidance on employee terminations and ordered federal agencies to report back on their compliance with the reinstatement order. He also authorized depositions and further hearings to determine whether existing administrative appeal channels remain viable — or if they have been dismantled.

For park service employees, the ruling represents a hard-won victory, albeit a tenuous one."

-via SFGate, March 13, 2025

[ Image Description: A screenshot of an online article posted on March 13, 2025. It is written by Olivia Herbert. The headline reads "'Today, we celebrate': Judge says National Park Service must reinstate all fired employees". Below the headline is a photo of a ranger standing in front of a fence and gesturing at a large tree. The caption under the photo reads "FILE: A park ranger gives a nature talk near the Giant Forest Museum at Sequoia National Park."

GIF Description: A gif of Freddie from the show iCarly. He is throwing his arms up and shouting victoriously. / End ID ]

really enjoying all the videos Muslims have been posting of their cats looking like this

when the humans are up at 4 am for suhoor

slow down you crazy child youre so ambitious for a juvenile but then if youre so smart tell me why are you still so afraid? where's the fire what's the hurry about? you'd better cool it off before you burn it out you've got so much to do and only so many hours in a day hey but you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old youre gonna kick off before you even get halfway through when will you realize vienna waits for you? slow down youre doing fine you can't be everything you wanna be before your time although it's so romantic on the borderline tonight tonight too bad but it's the life you lead youre so ahead of yourself that you forgot what you need though you can see when youre wrong you know you can't always see when you're right you've got your passion you've got your pride but don't you know that only fools are satisfied? dream on but don't imagine they'll all come true when will you realize vienna waits for you? slow down you crazy child and take the phone off the hook and disappear for a while it's alright you can afford to lose a day or two when will you realize vienna waits for you? and you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you could just get old youre gonna kick off before you even get halfway through why don't you realize vienna waits for you? when will you realize vienna waits for you?

To celebrate rawdog winning word of the year per the American Dialect Society, I'd like to tell the story of how I learned that the meaning of rawdog changed in the past couple years.

If anyone doesn't know, the original and long-held meaning of rawdogging was fucking without a condom. The new meaning has extended to doing any kind of action unshielded, plain, or without preparation.

So, about a year ago, I'm eating lunch with coworkers. It's an office job and we're generally pretty professional. People swear a lot, but there's never any innuendos or sex talk.

A coworker is describing a recent trip she took to a vendor to get a demo of equipment we were considering purchasing. Someone else asks "Did you meet Bob LastName while you were there? He's kind of an interesting guy."

"Yeah I did, and he is a little strange. I walked into the breakroom one morning and he was rawdogging two blueberry bagels"

Cue my high-pitched shriek of "He was DOING WHAT."

Followed by my coworkers explaining the meaning and my faint, flustered reply of "ah...well... I'm used to that meaning.... something else." Some people knew what I was talking about, but unfortunately others did not, and I had to face the ordeal of explaining as delicately as possible to a group of coworkers aged 22 to 60

official semantic extension post

if you dont like bush you literally dont deserve to fuck

he invaded iraq???

oh

One of the most important things to unpack and unlearn when you’re part of a white supremacy saturated society (i.e. the global north) and especially if you were raised in an intensified form of it (evangelicism, right wing politics, explicit racism) is the urge to punish and take revenge.

It manifests in our lives all the time and it is inherently destructive. It makes relationships and interactions adversarial for no good reason. It undermines cooperation and good civic order. It worsens some types of crime. It creates trauma, especially in children.

Imagine approaching unexpected or unacceptable behavior from a perspective of "how can this be stopped, and prevented" instead of "you’re going to regret this!”

Imagine dealing with a problem or conflict from the perspective of “how can this be solved in a way that is just and restorative” instead of “the people who caused this are going to pay.”

How much would that change you? How much would that have changed for you?

Please.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid dir. Thor Freudenthal

Happy International Women’s Day

By the way guys, in all seriousness? Do not hike in the US this year

Unless you are completely, 10000% sure there are no possible circumstances under which you’d need a ranger’s help to get you out, do not go on a trail

(If you are this sure there are no circumstances under which you’ll need help you either do not understand hiking well enough to go, or you’re comfortable with the idea of crawling out on two broken legs. Gravity sucks, anyone can fall)

3 rangers for the entirety of Yellowstone means that if something goes wrong you are literally on your own

People already go missing in national parks every year, because the park rangers were already wickedly under staffed and under funded

Between 2018 and 2020, there were 371 search and rescue incidents in Yellowstone. In the same period, Yosemite reported 732. The Grand Canyon had 785, in the same 2 years, and over 900 confirmed deaths overall - and that’s the bodies that were found

Most of these search and rescue incidents end well… because of the tireless expert work of park rangers who will not be there this year

People are going to die on family vacations, provided they can get into the parks at all - cuz they’re not going to have the staff to handle parking

Let alone trail maintenance after every storm, trash removal, camp and fence repairs…

Nature is beautiful and wild and free and fucking dangerous and it is exactly as easy to die of exposure now as it always has been

Fuck, people are going to die running at the bison to take a selfie with them, because no one will be around to tell them not to

And if you’re in an area that counted on tourism to a national park for revenue… I genuinely have no idea what’s going to happen, but it’s not going to be good

May “liberal tears” be a great comfort to every family that loses a loved one because they wanted one cool vacation pic

Okay, I agree with the sentiment here, that the cuts to the National Park Service are terrible and short sighted and will absolutely affect the health and safety of everyone who visits the parks. I disagree that no one should go hiking anymore because they won't be 1000% sure of their safety. I'm not 1000% sure of my safety sitting at my own kitchen table.

You know what I think will happen if all the visits to the National Parks stop? They'll cut the whole program. I know some guys who would love to build big ugly hotels over all that valuable real estate instead of having national parks for public use.

Yes, hiking is risky, and in some places it will be more so now that staffing is cut. Hiking is always risky, and you should ALWAYS be taking precautions. Here are some common hiking safety tips that you should follow, no matter where you're hiking and if that area is staffed or not:

Most of all, use common sense. Never approach wild life. Be respectful of the land and the creatures that live there. Be prepared, keep your eyes open, and don't go alone.

^ These right here, this is all the most important parts of Hiking 101, and you should Never Hike Without It Anywhere.

Hell, you might come across a particularly pretty patch of scenery and end up staying an extra hour just taking pictures - you brought sun protection, right? Flashlights? A jacket for when it gets dark? Bug spray?

By all means, everyone absolutely should still be going to the national parks when you can!

But there are so many things to do there other than hiking, and a lot of state or city parks alongside national parks rely on national parks rangers in emergencies, so we all have one job this year:

Do not be the cause of the emergency.

It is so much fun to put together a hiking pack. Pretend you’re playing Zombie Apocalypse. And your hike will be so much more comfortable and pleasant, big heavy pack included, if you’re well equipped.

Good shoes. Good hat. Physical map; you can take a picture on your phone, but bring a spare battery pack in case that phone dies, and you’ll still need a physical map cuz it’s bigger than your screen and cannot run out of battery. Plenty of water - this will probably be a good chunk of the weight of your pack, so sip freely and see how much lighter it is by the time you get back - but Do Not Run Out.

I tend to shoot for one water bottle per person per hour, but terrain will change that. Hills demand more.

If you’ve never done any of that before, congrats, this year is Testing Year! Short trails, easiest ratings, and put together a hiking pack just to go on a picnic, no trails involved. See what you need more or less of. Pick your favourite snacks - and sealable containers.

This is all important for safety reasons but you will also deadass just have a much better time if you plan ahead, and turn back when needed. Everyone I know who doesn’t love hiking tried to go without a water bottle and had a bad time

(RIP the family I met last year trying to bring a stroller along one of the rougher patches of the Bruce Trail involving 5 different pebble beaches and multiple hills, because they did not check the trail head, nor take a map.

I got them to take photos of ours and directed them back to the easily stroller accessible trail that started directly opposite the parking lot, about 2 minutes past where they went wrong and 75% shorter, more direct, and occasionally takes golf carts

We caught them before the scramble up the cliff and they got the stroller disassembled to carry until they made the intersection so I hope we rescued that day for them

The two pugs in the stroller had the most exciting walk of their lives)