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The U.S is the wealthiest country in the history of the world. We should not have the highest rate of child poverty of nearly every major country on earth. We should have the lowest. It's time to end this international embarrassment & create an economy that works for all.

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This is how they start disappearing American citizens they dislike.

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People on here who are poo-pooing Booker underestimate the power of storytelling in politics.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/o...

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The CDC has literally been gutted today. There’s no need for “April Fools” when reality is a nightmare for every human on this planet. Thousand of scientists fired. Entire departments erased. 1/

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NEW: The CDC has been gutted this morning. Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die. from me, @makenakelly.bsky.social, @knibbs.bsky.social:

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Someone explain to me why it's illegal to give an old lady a bottle of water as she's waiting on line for hours in the sun to vote, but it's totally cool for an ultra-billionaire to bribe voters with million dollar checks in Wisconsin.

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We’re going to annex Canada and invade Greenland but we can’t request return of an innocent man from El Salvador.

submitted 6 hours ago • 669 comments

The Trump administration called it an “administrative error.” But that error led to a nightmare for Maryland Resident Abrego Garcia.

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This seems bad. Does it seem bad to anyone else?

submitted 8 hours ago • 152 comments

#PassTheTorchChuck

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At 13 hours on the house floor Corey Booker demonstrates what it looks like to be a leader. I hope he shames every other Democratic Senator into following his lead.

submitted 8 hours ago • 100 comments

Cory Booker has been holding the Senate floor for 15 hours to call out Trump’s harm to Americans. More of this energy from every Democrat please.

submitted 7 hours ago • 219 comments

Senator Booker is still going strong! 15 hours and counting!

submitted 7 hours ago • 127 comments

If you were a halfway decent human being and you knew an innocent man was rotting in foreign prison—likely suffering nightmarish conditions—because your administration screwed up and send him there, you’d do something about it immediately instead of shitposting lies all day.

submitted 7 hours ago • 495 comments

Still standing straight and now talking about cuts to NIH funding @corybooker.com provides example after example how real people are harmed. Thank you Senator Booker and props to @murphy.senate.gov for staying by his side. We love and appreciate both of you!

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This is very handy.

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“The truth is that a tattoo identifying Tren de Aragua does not exist,” she told me. “Tren de Aragua does not use any tattoos as a form of gang identification; no Venezuelan gang does.”

submitted 20 hours ago • 230 comments

Looking for corporate media coverage of the @booker.senate.gov filibuster and finding NONE. Currently live on CSPAN2 and YouTube.

submitted 20 hours ago • 732 comments

Look, I don’t know exactly who should replace Mr. Schumer as Minority Leader, but I wouldn’t be unhappy with Cory Booker, that’s for sure.

submitted 20 hours ago • 180 comments

I'm seeing a lot of cynical reactions to this move from Cory Booker. And I get it!! But performative opposition is a necessary part of effective opposition from the minority. Not sufficient, but necessary. And our electeds need to know we notice when they do well and not just when they do poorly.

submitted 20 hours ago • 101 comments

Today the cherry blossoms made the world look like Middle Earth in the DC area. God I love peak bloom so much.

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SEN. BOOKER KICKS OFF LENGTHY FILIBUSTER TO PROTEST TRUMP REGIME “I rise tonight with the intention of disrupting the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able…1/

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www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/u...

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Cory Booker just hit 2.5 hours on the Senate floor. He's reading from a binder of letters written by constituents and advocates.

submitted 20 hours ago • 145 comments

Hey Wisconsin!! Tomorrow you can stay home, or you can vote for the candidates chosen by the billionaire class. OR you can vote for Jill Underly and Susan Crawford for a better, more democratic Wisconsin. WI is not for sale! #ProudBlue

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#ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited I have 4 precious little grandchildren, ages 18 months - 8. I have NEVER worried about them being around transgenders, gays, with drag queens, or anyone at all in the LGBTQIA+ community. Some of these other folks…..I’d be very leery. 😬

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My senator @booker.senate.gov is rising to meet this moment, refusing to let the Senate pretend things are normal. How about yours? If they're a Democrat, call them and ask them to join Booker in this stand. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-...

submitted 21 hours ago • 214 comments

The Trump administration can run from this national security scandal, but they cannot hide. The so-called Defense Secretary must be fired. And that’s only the beginning.

submitted 21 hours ago • 208 comments

I still believe Trump is going to water down the tariffs & back off quite a bit when he announces details on Wed. He may just go ahead at this point to try & prove everyone wrong about the impact, but he has to be getting tons of calls from Republicans in Congress & Wall Street.

submitted 21 hours ago • 298 comments

The Resistance is alive and well and angry: Reports of our demise might have been premature

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The sheer volume of time and energy being spent by thousands of university-based researchers in every field right now to figure out if their funding will exist next month or next year, if their careers can even continue… just citing dollar values doesn’t do it justice, it is full-scale upheaval.

submitted 21 hours ago • 64 comments

Listen to Sen Cory Booker rip into anyone who voted for the CR! He’s pledged to hold the floor tonight for as long as possible. Let’s lift him up and show him support as he gets in good trouble! @booker.senate.gov @corybooker.com

submitted 21 hours ago • 87 comments

Proud that my firm and I are representing Democrats in this fight!💪⚖️🗳️ "As Democrats debate how best to challenge the Trump administration’s rapid expansion of executive power, the lawsuit represents one of the first moments where seemingly every arm of the party is pushing back with one voice."

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1,000 protests on one day across every state open.substack.com/pub/ezralevi...

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Solidarity on April 5 open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

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More Senator Booker. Less Senator Schumer. Thank you, @booker.senate.gov!

submitted 21 hours ago • 318 comments

You have to see this. PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.

submitted 22 hours ago • 576 comments

Terrible news, IMLS maintains and helps to build new infrastructure for libraries and informational access. I’ve had the pleasure of working with them many times and they are super important and great colleagues.

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Resistance Rises open.substack.com/pub/steady/p...

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Will we let Musk buy an election again?

submitted 1 day ago • 75 comments

Pay attention to who he is hurting most with these cuts.

submitted 1 day ago • 165 comments

The Situation, March 31, 2025: About Those Disappearing Students

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Thank you to everyone has reached out to offer kind words of support. I will fearlessly and unapologetically continue to stand up for democracy, no matter what the president says or does. Democracy Docket will do the same. It won't back down. It will never obey. www.democracydocket.com/member-me/

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Also: www.roadandtrack.com/news/a629191...

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It is absolutely right that we do not need Greenland (or Canada) for natsec reasons because they are already close NATO allies. So the only rationale to turn the US into an aggressor in our own hemisphere is if you don’t plan on NATO being a US alliance in the future.

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It feels so surreal as an American to hear about Green Card holders asking relatives of mine to delete text exchanges on their phones for fear that they'll be searched by the authorities and those private conversations will become the pretext for illegally deporting them. But here we are.

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When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

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