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I haven't seen this on Tumblr yet. Cory Booker has held the floor of the Senate for a 16 hour and counting filibuster and it's all streaming on YT. Currently almost 30k people are watching. You can become one of them without even moving from your screen. In the category of "the absolute least you can do" to support a democrat actually doing something... maybe give it a watch.

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He is now at hour 20 and if he breaches 24 hours & 18 minutes he will take the record for longest filibuster, a record currently held by Strom Thurmond who used his filibuster to argue against civil rights legislation & voting rights

"It's not about right and left it's about right and wrong" - Cory Booker

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and he's doing it as eloquently as I've ever heard someone speak in defense of this stupid annoying mess of a country. I'm over 40, have kept on top of the news most of my life, can remember back to speeches and debates going back to the late 1980s, and it's been a damn long time since I've been this impressed with someone's speechmaking. It really shows how much he prepared ahead of time to do this filibuster. Nothing he's doing or saying is an accident.

#watching rn
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