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I'd just like to clarify some things about Senator Cory Booker's marathon Senate speech in protest of the present administration and everything they are doing to the American people.
Senator Booker was NOT allowed to sit down, eat, or use the bathroom during his speech. Sitting or leaving the room to use the bathroom would be considered yielding the floor. Eating would have interfered with his speaking and the person who has the senate floor must continue to speak, except when listening to questions that they will then answer.
He only took occasional sips of water.
The person who previously held the record for longest speech on the Senate floor did have bathroom breaks and also did things like read from the encyclopedia.
Senator Booker did not do that. His speech was to point out the damage that this administration is doing and he stayed on that subject.
Senator Booker's speech did reach many people. It wasn't a silly stunt that was done so that he could take the record for longest speech. He wanted to show the country that democrats will do something to bring attention to the problems we are facing. That democrats are listening to them.
Senator Cory Booker spoke for 25 hours and 4 minutes to "make good trouble."
also like, a Black man breaking Strom Thurmond's record is absolutely *chef's kiss*
for those who are too young to know about Strom, he was literally a white supremacist
Au Based somewhat on the movie Mrs. Henderson presents after Jason dies and comes back only to find out, joker is alive but also Bruce has quit being Batman and decided to open a strip club because Jason died a virgin. Jason decides not to come back to gotham because that wasn’t that important fact about him prior to death.
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I love the headcannons where Ras gets (unwillingly) attached to Jason in the league but in like a grumbly old guy way + Is head of the league of assassin's so he just shows it in the most insane ways. Jason, who couldn't identify affection if somebody whacked him with it, is so oblivious. Just like -
Jason, walking into the cave: I think Ras is trying to kill me :/
Damian: Again?
Dick: You think? Wait again?
Jason, ignoring Dick: well he sent league assassin's after me but when I went to confront him on it he said and I quote "I had no choice since you refuse to employ the training the league provided, I had to ensure your skills remained sharp"
Like what does THAT mean. Why does he sound dissapointed?
Damian, confused: What's there to decipher? He's obviously ensuring your skills are up to par
Jason, just as confused: But I don't work for the league anymore? Why would he care?
Damian, talking like its obvious: To ensure you are safe
Jason and Dick: ???
Damian: tt- plus hes clearly he's dissapointed neither of his grandchildren followed in his footsteps and became assassins
Jason and Dick: ????????
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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.
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Flip the House in 2026.
Fcuk Musk. Fcuk Trump.
Wisconsin beat the billionaire.
Great News. Grats to Susan Crawford and WELL DONE WISCONSIN VOTERS.
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Sometimes I think about the Nazi who got outed by antifa after heading up an Identity Evropa contingent at Charlottesville, lost his job, signed up for a drug trial to make money, was given MDMA, suddenly realised the fundamental unity of humans and illusory nature of self, and renounced his racist ways.
I mean, I don't think that MDMA alone cures fascism, but like...I feel like the fundamental unity of all humans is a point we should be emphasizing more.
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Birds of Prey #20 - "On the Run" (2025)
written by Kelly Thompson art by Sami Basri, Vicente Cifuentes, & Adriano Lucas
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ACT UP, 1990
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Lolo the Pallas's cat at the Novosibirsk Zoo is proudly showing off her seven fluffy cubs, and letting us watch them be kittens as well!!!!!!!!
The Pallas cat eyes make their "expressions" even more ridiculous and DONE 🤣❤️
7cubs and not a thought between them.
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A Quebec man has been found in contempt of court for refusing to remove swastikas from outside his home in a municipality that he accuses of being “the most racist city in the world.” A Quebec Superior Court judge ruled earlier this month that Yahia Meddah had not taken seriously injunctions ordering him to remove the offensive signs.
Tagging: @newsfromstolenland
More context from last year (11 July 2024):
So to be clear, the sign with the swastika was accusing the city of being racist.
It wasn't a swastika being used proudly, it had bold red text over it calling the city racist, because his family had been experiencing harassment.
Whether or not that justifies a sign with a swastika, I'm not qualified to say. But I want to be clear about his motives.
I put the image of the sign below the cut, along with a translation
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My state is banning "obscene depictions of minors in content (or someone that looks like one)"
It's safe to say that they don't care about protecting real kids. If they did, child marriage and child beauty pageants would be outlawed.
More than likely, they're using this to conveniently label LGBT content as obscene and then ban it, regardless of context. But of course, if I question this, I'll be called a pedophile.
remember: They say a word like "obscene" and you think "Oh, when they say obscene, that means obscene. As in, you know, really bad things. Well, I definitely am against really bad things. This sounds like maybe a good idea."
Except the thing is that the are not using words in good faith. When they say "obscene", they mean the things that are obscene to *THEM*, not the things that are obscene to you.
Some things that conservatives find obscene: Queers existing anywhere. Women having the right to vote and medical control of their own bodies. Anyone having sexual autonomy. Interracial marriage. Equal pay. Immigrants breathing near them (anywhere within a 2500 mile radius). A Black person making eye contact with them. People speaking a different language where they can hear it.
By the definition they are thinking of, an "obscene depiction of a minor" could be a photograph of an interracial couple on their wedding day, smiling together with their daughter, the flower girl. You think this is a joke? Nope. This is Fascism 101, baby.
Your "obscene" and their "obscene" are not the same thing.
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Batman: The Long Halloween: The Last Halloween #6 - "Suspects" (2025)
written by Jeph Loeb art by Enrico Marini & Dave Stewart
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we do need to revisit the wording of "you can't have your cake and eat it too" because i don't think it clearly enough conveys that it's more that you can't simultaneously retain a cake and also get to consume it (which would render you cakeless). for years i was like But why not....it's my cake....?
this fucking problem is how they caught the unabomber
hey you should uh. elaborate. for my own personal satisfaction
the unabomber was pedantic about idiomatic phrases like "have your cake and eat it too" and rephrased it to "eat your cake and have it too" (which to be very fair makes sense). fast forward to when he starts writing manifestos. he uses the phrase word for word in his pedantic style and his brother (who has been keeping his eyes on the unabomber shit for obvious reasons) notices the phrase and is like "oh fuck that's my fucking brother no one else fucking says that" and calls in an FBI tip
Well you can't deliberately speak in a way nobody else does and also stay anonymous you know. Can't eat your cake and have it too.