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@nightvaleradio.bsky.social thanks for playing What Really Matters in ep 265!

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Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"

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Others have pointed this out already but the Booker's "stunt" is him literally Doing the Job - impassioned speechmaking is supposedly the main reason for Senators to exist and the only reason any of them from before the United States was established are remembered by name

submitted 3 days ago • 111 comments

Senator Cory Booker concludes his record-breaking Senate Floor speech after 25 hours Massive applause for Booker

submitted 3 days ago • 363 comments

#corybooker PREACH. 23rd hour.

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💥@booker.senate.gov 💥

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Daily routine now: Gratitude list. Coffee. Yoga. News. Inspiration to fight. Fantasies of flight (Spain? Canada?) Freeze. Gratitude list. Bed.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Thank you for this @chenoweth.bsky.social Everyone should follow their important research on resistance

submitted 16 days ago • 9 comments

I have said this from the start: the pace and scope of change in America resembles a post-coup situation.

submitted 15 days ago • 31 comments

@ruthbenghiat.bsky.social Authoritarianism scholar Prof. Ruth Ben-Ghiat joins WIRED to answer the Internet's questions about dictators & Fascism. This is excellent and well worth the time to watch. Prof. Ben-Ghiat has the unique gift of concise specificity. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK6f...

submitted 15 days ago • 9 comments

Here’s an idea: Rogue government has installed itself in the US capital. 100,000 federal workers from the former US are unemployed. Sounds like there are 100,000 highly skilled experts looking for a new job could be a good foundation for a new nation…

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Seems Vance is getting off scott free. For now on: Trump-Musk/Vance. Credit where credit’s due.

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To digest it all, I literally hand-wrote in my journal the entire timeline outlined in this Canadian Mugsy Margarit’s recount of WTF has been happening with Canada/US. I stand with Canada. 🇨🇦 It’s chaos down here, and this cuts through. All below is from the link in the first🧵

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Vaccines for chickens. Oh to be a chicken. 🐓🐓🐓

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Friends keep emailing me with news about the coming of an #asteroid... Glad to have a song for the moment. 😂 ICYMI, the music video: youtu.be/BEAwGnTaisc?...

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Morning rituals. 2024: meditation, coffee, journal 2025: meditation, coffee, journal, calls to Senators and Reps #yoga

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Federal workers new web site explains what real efficiency is. www.wethebuilders.org

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