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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.

Addition for those unaware: Cory Booker is black. Strom Thurmond set the previous record about 70 years ago in protest of civil rights. Booker spent much of the time I was watching talking about the importance of working together for the people and the idea that it's not "left versus right but right versus wrong."

The new record speech is on the right side of history.

Minor correction: the questions from other Democrats did not allow him to sit down as he must remain standing and at his desk in order to retain the floor. Additionally, I believe the final time was 25 hours and 7 minutes.

Self correction: final time 25 hours 5 minutes.

solid snake is implicitly a committed musher and his line about “needing to be in anchorage this saturday” implies he was going for the fucking iditarod (the saturday of the week of  the 28th 2005 was the iditarod) and they just like. never acknowledge that again. also given that the shadow moses incident took place over the course of about a day we cannot technically confirm that he did not kind of go “well that was fucked up” and run the iditarod 

Dude what the hell move

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this is actually dope as fuck iwanted to kill myself this morning and then i thought about trampolines and juice and now im so chill

English added by me :)

basketballs smell gross 

go to hell??

why are you defending the smell of a ball 

I feel like tariffing the "entire world" is literally just functionally sanctioning yourself

It’s so crazy how you can measure the shifts in culture based on which race Ariana is pretending to be

who’s a good girl

See That is really smart because that's the easiest water to get to