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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social • 2 days ago

now that's a headline

WASHINGTON (AP) — Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously held by segregationist Strom Thurmond.

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pch1960.bsky.social•2 days ago

The filibuster is still an anti-democratic piece of shit that Democrats must eliminate the minute they regain the Senate majority.

bjfar.bsky.social•1 day ago

Christ, I'm not sure that if you added up every word I've said over the last ten years it would go for that long.

uruzrune.bsky.social•1 day ago

And it accomplished precisely fuck all

artificialmcb.bsky.social•2 days ago

Hell Yeah.

layneainsworth.bsky.social•2 days ago

Oh, wait there’s more. Never read from the encyclopedia or Dr Seuss.

Told a story about how he and John Lewis went to visit Jimmy Carter.

Quoted “Let America be America Again” by Langston Hughes around the time he broke Strom’s record.

dDark days ahead but let’s remember this one for a while.

petergratton.bsky.social•1 day ago

Guy was out giving interviews right after. Meanwhile, I give a two-hour lecture and I return home like I've lost half my blood.

cleantechliam.bsky.social•2 days ago

So happy he didn’t let that human queef Chuck Schumer steal his spotlight when he crossed the line

marshallg0402.bsky.social•2 days ago

I hope Strom can hear it from whatever special hell he’s in

envy2024.bsky.social•2 days ago

Good job!!! That’s what Democrats can do!!

rcm.space•1 day ago

Cory "The Human ChatGPT" Booker

olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social•2 days ago

for context: Strom Thurmond set the record in order to try to stop the Civil Rights Act of 1857. he...didn't, lol

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/03/07/173736882/how-did-strom-thurmond-last-through-his-24-hour-filibuster

visikde.bsky.social•2 days ago

Contact your Senator
To do a 24/7 fillibuster would require 205 minutes per senator per week, 210 if we leave out Fetterman, who's playing the part of Manchin

olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social•2 days ago

1957*

jfarrell.bsky.social•2 days ago

I'm trying to somehow insert a "he's old, but not *that* old" joke here, but am failing.

andreapitzer.bsky.social•2 days ago

Gotta admit that 1857 is objectively funnier, but okay...

olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social•2 days ago

lmao

forhanforohio.bsky.social•2 days ago

the Civil Rights Act of 1857, which sought to repudiate the Dred Scott decision from the same year

forhanforohio.bsky.social•2 days ago

Strom Thurmond, secessionist leader

horsescam.bsky.social•2 days ago

I was like wait someone else said he was around until 2003 what the fk

brentwaggoner.bsky.social•2 days ago

Getting lib pilled for a few minutes because this fucking rules.

jeanjacket.bsky.social•2 days ago

was sen. Grink there

mitchellatencio.com•2 days ago

for a second i was like "wow Strom was even older than i thought"

paulkelleher.net•2 days ago

Might as well have been 18

edgardoblock.bsky.social•2 days ago

“I've been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man's soul and faith”
Jagger, Richards

olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social•2 days ago

the version that had passed the House apparently had stronger voter rights protections though, so point Strom I guess

https://history.house.gov/Historical-Highlights/1951-2000/The-Civil-Rights-Act-of-1957/

mrweiss.bsky.social•2 days ago

My recollection from Caro is that the rest of the Southern Dems in the Senate negotiated the watered down version, and then Strom went rogue with the filibuster (which pissed off the other segregationists, who felt he was showing them up), so he doesn't even deserve credit for changing the bill.

olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social•2 days ago

even better!

olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social•2 days ago

bars

https://bsky.app/profile/hunterw.bsky.social/post/3llrzochqck2o

kaidrewcpa.bsky.social•2 days ago

Never been more proud of him except when he gave me ice cream in the 4th grade in his first run for mayor of Newark.

mikedavis.bsky.social•2 days ago

LBJ shot for a compromise - as Senate Majority Leader, he passed the first civil rights legislation with teeth since Reconstruction for the liberals, and also pulled many of those teeth for the conservatives. and hey, it worked a trick for him!

neuronaraka.bsky.social•2 days ago

This is the best typo ever, because I had to think for a second about whether he might have been a senator in 1857

olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social•2 days ago

lmao

mangoboy66.bsky.social•2 days ago

only npr would care about thurmond.

annaleighmaria.bsky.social•2 days ago

Storm Thurmond was eleventy billion years old when he croaked 🤭

getwired.bsky.social•2 days ago

It’s easy to get it confused. He was really old. And really racist.

hulkling-she-her.bsky.social•2 days ago

the white uneducated cowardly racist was beaten by an intelligent, well educated, thoughtful, well spoken and well dressed Black man 😍

ticwriter.bsky.social•2 days ago

They asked for donations pretty quickly, too, didn't they? Same old dems (not against the status quo/ruling party but all about performative acts).

drsandia.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'm so sorry for your political system 🤦‍♂️

nachoyourbizness.bsky.social•2 days ago

And Cory was compelling. Strom got a bathroom break and read from the encyclopedia.

eateator.bsky.social•1 day ago

Love when the eyes go like that

sknowsthatp.bsky.social•2 days ago

letsdestroy.bsky.social•2 days ago

Even if the practical effect was modest, this goes to show how just *doing something* and fighting back is worth it. Good for raising awareness, good for people's morale, good for the Dem brand. I hope to see more.

stemthebleeding.bsky.social•2 days ago

I prefer "Black US Senator Tears Down Confederate Monument" , but I'm not a journalist.

rainsurname.bsky.social•2 days ago

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