Wexford

NO FUCKIN WAY

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.

He has yielded the floor at 25 hrs and 4 mins. His eyes are so wide they look like they’re going to bug out of his skull so I don’t blame him for stopping. He said to go out and get in some good trouble.

The oligarchy lost tonight. Congrats to @crawfordforwi and the entire state of Wisconsin!

this thread on twitter is fucking killing me

IT GETS BETTER

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lmao prev

I should post more

Like, it rly is wild teaching American history rn

tariffs used to be the most boring word u could say but now its a hot button issue

"Washington had this weird evil friend Hamilton who made all his decisions for him. He was an immigrant who hated other immigrants and loved being rich. Nobody else but Washington seemed to like him."

"So John Adams passed the Alien Enemies Act, which is still on the books, and used it to deport ppl while trying to shut down press criticism"

"We invaded Canada and immediately ate shit, then they burned down the White House."

"So in the 50s they started firing all the gay people in the government and military"

After much consideration, I've realized my raison d'etre is to paint realistic Business Fish. There is just something so alluring about those dead fish eyes, the gaze of which penetrates to the very depths of my soul. This is my magnum opus, I can never surpass this.

I absolutely fucking hate this. Gold star, no notes.

did good on my bread final

no no no no. you did well, not good. you do well, you are good.

thanks for the grammar lesson but I don’t need it.  I’m majoring in bread

happy april foold everyone did you know about………………… bofa

haha… bofa them 

for everyone asking for what article this is i actually went back and found it again and you'll never guess who it's about

I can’t find my old post about it but it’s been zero days since hate in the tag, restart the clock

zero days

It was three days and now it is zero

Fifteen days was nice, restart the clock

We actually made it to a month and a day this time!

Restart the clock

Couldn’t go one fucking day

Four days because the reason for the last two restarts wants to be a martyr, restart the clock

nine days! restart the clock

it’s been zero days since someone posted… an article about colonialism in Mass Effect that only goes in on Ashley’s sPaCiSm not any of the aliens’ in the tag? I didn’t have a clock for this

It had been eighty-nine days since someone posted hate in the tag, that was a good run! Restart the clock

It was 147 days (almost five months!) since hate in the tag. Restart the clock

It was 246 days (!) since hate in the tag. Restart the clock

I felt like I needed to clarify some things before we could continue any more conversations on this godforsaken website.

I’m very proud of the European Robin, I think I really captured it.

ALSO A DADDY LONG LEGS is different in the UK vs USA. I learned that by arguing with some Brits because they said there was a daddy long legs on the wall, i looked and only saw an insect, argued with them all for 45 minutes until we all looked it up and saw that we were both correct.

British badger:  jovial fellow, eats toast and jam.  Might invite you in for a cuppa with the Mrs.  Agricultural nuisance.

American badger: pallas cat of a wolverine.  Very defensive.  Fuck immediately off. 

Bonus African badger:  Silverback gorilla of mustelids.  Should be a cryptid.  Bro, don’t even.  You are nothing to him.

an extremely good post addition

Opposum (US)

VS

Possum (AUS)

@rosewind2007 Ah! Our discussion topic!

Bonus mention of @boppinrobin !

Porcupine (North America)

Porcupine (Africa)

Porcupine (South/Central America)

Awwwww what an adorable addition!

@mildlybizarrecorvid thus seen like the knowledge you may enjoy

I honestly didn’t know there were non-African porcupines, I’d only seen the African ones

NEVER HUNGOVER AGAIN

elyot belongs to @nessunto