honestly heroic

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?

If you want to lament, click on the "Lament" tab. Customize your wailing, writhing, and babbling, to make each lamentation a unique experience.

I wish Mythbusters was still around so we could see them fuck up a Cybertruck

driving myself to hysterics thinking abt what donald duck being waterboarded would sound like

In the nonprofit sector, we have this sometimes annoying little thing where we frequently talk about how “our job is to work ourselves out of our jobs.” In other words, when you are engaged in mission-based work, the idea is that if you are successful in achieving your mission, someday, the actual organization, as it exists, should become irrelevant.

For those of us who have made long careers in the sector, it can be easy to roll your eyes at this kind of thought process because many of the missions that we are engaged in are SO needed and SO complex that they don’t realistically have any kind of end coming in our lifetimes. For example, if you could work at a food bank for 50 years, bearing witness to only growing depths of poverty in your community, and because you exist in the wider context of the American economy, it can be very easy to become jaded about it as you see that it’s all getting WORSE in those 50 years, in terms of needs. Or if you’re like me, and you work in feminist related nonprofit work, and you see misogyny as strong as ever, gender policing at an all time high, and the overturning of Roe v Wade, you may also have an overwhelming sense of backsliding and battles lost some days.

Basically, more often than not, our work is so daunting that as much as we want to, and as much as we’re “supposed to,” we can’t conceive of a future where our agencies would actually shutter because the issues were working on, have gotten so much better.

And all of this whole ramble that I’m offering here is only just to say how beautiful it is to get a chance to see a mission that actually was able to be worked out out of existence in my lifetime.

Seriously, when it comes to the breakthroughs that we have made related to HIV and AIDS, this is a truly incredible moment as a people… We really should be celebrating this. Not necessarily the singular or shuttering of the organization here, but just the full story of how medicine has advanced to rise to the challenge of this particular virus, and persisting in doing so in the face of so much bigotry that comes with HIV. Despite all of these obstacles, we’re figuring out the fucking cure… Like we’re really doing it y’all. Well I’m not, but brilliant scientists are 😆

I’m old enough to remember all of the news of the early 90s where AIDS was so stigmatized, seen as a complete death sentence, and so feared mongered. I viscerally remember the fear. But now? This shit is beautiful. Gotta bask in the victories.

you can only reblog this today

Get fucked Marine Le Pen.

the action this person took is bad because it's directly harmful and exploits and leverages their social capital "also they're cringe" not what I said "adults who like cartoons are always shitty" no they aren't "their artistic tastes reflect their bad morals" I don't believe that is the case "typical tenderqueer" I honestly just think you're being homophobic "mid 30s polyamorous neurospicy kinky asexual picrew icon fanfic writer" do you even care about the bad thing they did or are you just using this as an excuse to make fun of people you don't like

They called him a liar. He posted the receipts.

Shit is flying.

an article from PBS that only has a snippet, but is not paywalled

Edit: here's MSN, which has more details

Fully unpaywalled Atlantic here. Finally.

I'm really glad they unpaywalled it.

It is a HELL of a read. There are screenshots!

The comments over at the Fox News site, of all places, are overwhelmingly upset and angry at Hegseth & Co. I fully expected to see them supporting the "it wasn't a war plan" lie, but they are laying into Trump White House staff.

This makes Watergate look like a kid accidentally telling mom what dad got her for Christmas.

Daring Fireball's latest today shares an observation from Hannah Arendt about how the ranks of authoritarian governments inevitably wind up being filled with “crackpots and fools” because they’re the people whose loyalty is most assured:

The Fireball article goes on to say: "When The Atlantic’s initial story hit, everyone responsible in the Trump administration, right up to the president himself, just immediately began telling bald-faced lies about what happened, despite the fact that they knew Jeffrey Goldberg literally had the receipts to prove otherwise. That works, until it doesn’t."

Keep yelling the truth, folks. Keep showing the difference between real and false.

It may seem obvious and not worth mentioning, but apparently it is.

Some women are conditioned to be fragile and weak, and to believe that it's a sin to outperform a man. Her feminism would involve allowing women to be strong.

Some women are expected to be strong at times when they can't. Her feminism would involve reassuring her that it's okay to not be strong.

Some neurodivergent people are raised to believe that they're too stupid to ever amount to anything. Their disability activism would involve reassuring them that they're capable.

Some neurodivergent people are raised to believe that they're smart and gifted, and are expected to live up to impossible standards. Their disability activism would involve allowing them to fail, make mistakes, be stupid, etc.

Some children are constantly reminded "you're the child, I'm the adult" in order to deny their autonomy. Their youth rights activism would involve treating them like an adult at times when they feel ready for it.

Some children are treated like adults in order to justify increased expectations or to downplay abuse against them. Their youth rights activism would involve allowing them to be a child.

There is no one-size-fits-all solution to oppression. Each individual person's experience is different. Whatever trauma is caused by their oppression, the activism should focus on undoing it.

loving this trend of fancy queer detectives, let's keep it up 🏳️‍🌈

There needs to be a blog called “Where Are They Now? Politically-charged Bloggers and influencers that mysteriously disappeared after November 2024.”

a pigeongirl detective would say something like "hmm... i've got my suspigeons"

On this day twenty years ago, Rose Tyler tried to find out more about the mysterious man known as the Doctor by googling "doctor". Iconic shit.

and it fucking works