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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.

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.

This is the kind of bullshit that I'm so sick of fellow leftists doing. I'm not saying never push for more, but there is a defeatist attitude in shitting on anything vaguely positive will not offering a single positive thought or alternative.

All it does it deflate energy, it serves absolutely no purpose that I can see.

Nothing about it being better late than never, let's see what other democrats will put out, not is being a good start but still pushing for more. No, just shitting on the effort and anyone who feels any kind of hope from it.

Do not let people convince you that resistance of any kind is futile. You can say it is not enough and you want more, but anyone who acts like this is a psy-op or a defeatist fool and should either way be tuned out to avoid being the energy vampire that they want to be.

If you were powerless, they wouldn't be scared of you and trying every trick in the book to strip your vote or buy votes, and they are.

And despite that, Susan Crawford just won in Wisconsin, despite Musk buying votes.

jurassic park but it's tiny elephants and nothing goes wrong 🥺

same score but played entirely on kazoos

Betty White Kittyface was sleeping:

And then there was an soumbd. And this was not met with gracious approval:

Awake. But at what cost.

I love when she gets bedhead.

Also I sympathise. I too dislike noises.

Why are you lgbtq+? wrong answers only GO

Star Trek needs to capitalize on the fact that it has such a cool and expansive universe. They need to make more shows/movies/stories centered around the more niche corners of the galaxy. I want truckstop romance stories between a Vulcan freighter captain and a human waiter whose claustrophobia won’t let them get on a space ship. I want an epic political thriller of an orphan gorn egg raised by a ferengi family, I want to learn how a Klingon family started a barbecue joint on Kronos and became universe famous for their lava butter (there actually is something like this in the Star Trek travel guide but it’s such a short snippet and I want to know more), I want to see the drama of a Klingon opera, i want to see the stories that are always just out of focus.

There are just so many cool ideas. And not to say I don’t love the challenge of the weekly crew style but we saw how interesting the stories can get if you expand past just starfleet (especially in ds9)

the thing about disco elysium is that it has women in it. what you see on the internet about it might lie to you about that but it has women, gay women even, very compelling women even, in it.

I haven't played this game, and I genuinely wouldn't've guessed there were women in this.

it's a shame you can't Cool, Silent, and Mysterious your way to being very close to people. we are unfortunately going to have to embarrass ourselves for this

fortunately you can cool, loud, and weird your way into closeness

Why can’t we live in a reality that doesn’t hurt

quick reminder that everything russia’s doing to ukraine isn’t new. there were 170 governmental bans on ukrainian language in the last 150 years. most of ukrainian writers from the basic school literature curriculum were murdered or oppressed for speaking out for ukraine. an average person doesn’t have to know executed renaissance or slovo house or the ems ukaz or forced russification or literally hundreds of similar precedents, but please do note that this all was a thing long before putin

quick reminder that everything russia’s doing to ukraine isn’t new. there were 170 governmental bans on ukrainian language in the last 150 years. most of ukrainian writers from the basic school literature curriculum were murdered or oppressed for speaking out for ukraine. an average person doesn’t have to know executed renaissance or slovo house or the ems ukaz or forced russification or literally hundreds of similar precedents, but please do note that this all was a thing long before putin