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Yesterday was incredible. The official count is in — 5.2 million people joined the #HandsOff protest nationwide. So many are asking: what’s next? Mark your calendars: 4/19 is the next nationwide day of protest.

If they can illegally send anyone to an El Salvador prison illegally and not bring them back, they can illegally send you to an El Salvador prison and not bring you back. How can anyone defend this?

Where is our humanity?

A functioning democracy needs consistent principles—and the courage to stand up for them, even when it’s hard and requires sacrifice! BARACK OBAMA: “It’s up to all of us to fix this!” #standup

Tim Walz right now, speaking to the Network for Public Education in Columbus: “If you want to know who I think the leader of the democratic party is right now, just go out on the streets. They’re all over the place. They’re out there.” @governorwalz.mn.gov

the audacity of claiming protestors are being paid when musk literally pays people to vote is just beyond

Remember that this is where his discussions with El Salvador began. The migrant detentions there are the dry run. He wants to ship U.S. prisoners to El Salvador.We cannot sleepwalk through this.

MAGA be like "he has a plan, he's playing chess not checkers" and the whole time he's literally just playing golf.

Trade deficit. I have bought food from say, Chilis. They have never bought food from me. There is a trade deficit with Chilis. I’m still doing fine. The trade deficit argument SOUNDS compelling, but it’s a straw man with no relevancy

if Kristin Noem can coordinate a media stunt at the prison he is at then they can get him released.

it is because they want to impoverish the country! they don’t want high end manufacturing. they want americans working subsistence wages making t shirts and clothes hangers

#Tariffs 🤣😂

NEW: A man mistakenly deported to El Salvador must be brought back by midnight Monday, judge rules

Hi, sending people to El Salvador, if they're not from El Salvador, is not deportation. It's human trafficking, and this entire regime is complicit in crimes against humanity. I hope I live long enough to see them all stand trial with the whole world arrayed against them.

Fox Business airs segment on the virtues of penury.

Exactly!!

#maddow Just so you know. . .

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

Cory Booker is the Steph Curry of talking, future senators will be putting up 48 hour filibusters like it's nothing. He has changed the game.

At this moment of autocrats vilifying judges and the rule of law, lawyers can prove why they're lawyers. This is the time to stand up for the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and for people under attack.

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do you think Cory Booker can make it for 3 years and about 10 months longer?

I’m not saying everyone needs to do *this*. But @booker.senate.gov figured out the biggest best thing HE could do right now. And then he did it. Everyone needs to do *that*.

“I promise you, (John Lewis) that I will do everything possible to make you proud.” —Cory Booker

Sen. Cory Booker has shattered the record, brought the BEST trouble, and redeemed the dream of America. Massive thanks with all our hearts and greatest appreciation @booker.senate.gov

In his 1957 filibuster, Strom Thurmond said "Negroes ... are not so well qualified to vote as are the white people.” A Black senator just broke the record Thurmond set with that speech. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cory-bo...

Records are meant to be broken. Congrats @booker.senate.gov for stepping up and standing up for the American people. Blazing your own path for the W 👏👏👏👏👏

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

UPDATE: Cory Booker is 15 minutes away from holding the Senate floor for a full day and only 34 minutes from holding the floor longer than any person in history. Meanwhile his TikTok livestream has over 230,000,000 LIKES.

Strom Thurmond made his Senate record while fighting against Black voting rights. It stood for 67 years. A Black man is about to break it.

Booker, just minutes away from the speaking record: "This is when the most precious ideas of our country are being tested, where the Constitution and the question is being called -- Where does the constitution live? On paper? Or in our hearts? This is the moment."

Sen. Corey Booker: I've done a few things for 24 hours before. They were all tough. I don't care if you're sitting in a chair for 24 hours...at some point, you start fading...and that's when you have to dig for something deeper. He's still going.🔥

Sen. @booker.senate.gov : “I rise with the intention of disrupting the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able. Our constituents are asking us to acknowledge that this is a crisis. So I am going to stand here until I no longer can.”

As I remember it, this wasn’t a significant part of the 2024 election. Congress has never held a vote on ending foreign aid, much less passed a bill. And the official responsible for eviscerating foreign aid and demolishing the agency that provided it was never confirmed to his made up position.

“All you have to go on is faith that the light shines in the darkness, and nothing, not death, not disease, not even the government, can overcome it.” Anne LaMotte

The administration is trying to destroy free speech and freedom of the press. The White House Correspondents Association does not want to offend them while they're doing it. Sad days when journalists are the ones greasing the slippery slope to fascism.

It's simple. Everyone in the US enjoys the protections of the Constitution - even visitors. So if someone commits a crime here, you give them due process here. You charge them here, try them here, and sentence them here. You don't deport them to an offshore torture prison.

#ICE