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every time Elon suffers my health replenishes like Link in a fairy fountain

submitted 8 hours ago • 41 comments

"There's a room here in the Senate named after Strom Thurmond... I'm here despite his speech, I'm here because as powerful as he was, the people were more powerful." -Cory Booker as he eclipses Thurmond's record for the longest filibuster in US history.

submitted 11 hours ago • 57 comments

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.

submitted 12 hours ago • 55 comments

We push because it works. Bravo Booker.

submitted 11 hours ago • 20 comments

And if they don't? CALL EM UP. Contact into at ☎️ reps.fyi

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

The rhetorical victory is this: the proposal that we can and will outlast them.

submitted 11 hours ago • 22 comments

Thank you @booker.senate.gov Folks, today mattered. It wasn't a sea change, but it sure as hell made waves. Courage begets courage. LFG!

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

I'm invested in this Cory Booker thing for the sheer joy of watching that old racist fuck Strom Thurmond get dustbinned by history as he so richly deserves

submitted 11 hours ago • 10 comments

Rot in hell, Strom Thurmond

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

IF YOU'RE IN LINE TO PISS ON STROM THURMOND'S GRAVE, STAY IN LINE

submitted 12 hours ago • 46 comments

fuckstromthurmond.com

submitted 12 hours ago • 4 comments

"This is our moral moment." I truly hope other Dems will understand that we want them to fight. We're fighting, too.

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

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."

submitted 11 hours ago • 82 comments

I'm not a programming guy but MSNBC and CNN should be airing this Cory Booker thing in the same way you take over programming if there's a no-hitter or a basketball player with 60 points in three quarters. It's a physical feat! Cut in for this kind of thing. Costs nothing, gooses ratings, good TV.

submitted 13 hours ago • 999 comments

Cory Booker is 23 hours in and somehow seems to be gaining strength

submitted 12 hours ago • 421 comments

Booker still bringing incredible energy into the 23rd hour is truly something. Like, honestly, this is fucking riveting.

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

Lots of people like to pretend our money doesn’t count, but look at it out there, counting

submitted 13 hours ago • 65 comments

Cory Booker will break the record for longest Senate floor speech at 7:19 PM EDT. Fewer than 2 hours from now. The record is held by Strom Thurmond, who was arguing for segregation. GO CORY, GO!

submitted 13 hours ago • 527 comments

This may be the most important thing he's said if only because it's very hard for people to admit they were wrong and seeing someone else do it makes it so much easier

submitted 14 hours ago • 13 comments

"If America hasn't broken your heart, you don't love her enough." - @booker.senate.gov 😭😭😭 I feel this part of Senator Booker's speech in my gut.

submitted 16 hours ago • 56 comments

"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 🔥

submitted 15 hours ago • 880 comments

LIHEAP is as non partisan as it comes and keeps the elderly from being cold in the winter. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) is one of its more prominent supporters.

submitted 15 hours ago • 9 comments

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.'"

submitted 15 hours ago • 1251 comments

30 senators have joined Booker on holding the floor. Great “questions” By all.

submitted 14 hours ago • 5 comments

Today is chaos. So many agencies are breaking down across the board from FDA to CDC to VA. Swaths of SSA are down. The American government is being hacked by the American government. Medical research, medicines, & social security accessibility are all questionable. It's only Tuesday.

submitted 17 hours ago • 27 comments

Great resource about the Booker filibuster

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

On a day when thousands of our friends and colleagues are losing their jobs, we are grateful to those who stand up against this administration's harmful, heartless policies and goals. www.npr.org/2025/04/01/n...

submitted 19 hours ago • 21 comments

Hi folks: Facebook appears to be taking down my posts. Please remember they are available for free here (no paywall), and can be received by email (also free-- just don't put in your credit card information). I guess if I'm being banned I'm doing something right?

submitted 18 hours ago • 539 comments

Good morning to @booker.senate.gov Truly this is giving me life. I hope other Dems gain some courage watching this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCUK...

submitted 22 hours ago • 4 comments

France raises a fascinating hypothetical point: what if the law still exists even if people might get mad at you

submitted 1 day ago • 125 comments

What fun America is right now. We've a bunch of insipid lunatics running around the building knocking down load-bearing walls because it'll "open up the space" and now we're all just sitting here waiting for the fucking building to collapse on us.

submitted 23 hours ago • 46 comments

@booker.senate.gov still going ✊🏾🙏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Keep talking Senator Booker. I was heartened to turn on the live feed at 5:30 am and see that not only are you still going, but 14K+ of us are watching. NO BUSINESS AS USUAL UNDER TRUMP. Sincerely, Your constituent in Bloomfield P.s. is there a Senate rule that you can’t take off your jacket?

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

“The Constitution says no one - not no citizen, no one - should be deprived of liberty or property without due process of law, and yet this President is disappearing people.” 12 hours in, Sen Cory Booker sounding pretty frickin’ coherent.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

So it may be true that from a strict analysis of procedure, this doesn't do much to interrupt the business of the senate but WE also have a role to play here. Now everyone gets to call their Democratic Party senator tomorrow and say "HEY, when are you YOU gonna filibuster" gotta start somewhere

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

“the body of one of the dead had been found with his hands tied”

submitted 1 day ago • 172 comments

Please, please listen: It is really important that Senator Booker is met with praise and positive reinforcement not just on BlueSky but on X, on Facebook, and on Instagram. Take a few minutes and leave some positive engagement across social for Booker (Yes, I know the game is absurd)

submitted 1 day ago • 101 comments

In a world of Gavin Newsoms, be a JB Pritzker

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Hey, fellow kidlit authors? We should be paying close attention to this + calling our reps. NASA's pulled graphic novels about female astronauts from their website.

submitted 1 day ago • 41 comments

This YA novel follows an exiled queer #transracial adoptee as he searches for his sister while struggling to recover from religious abuse. By award-winning #adoptee author Mark Oshiro. #AdopteeVoices #YoungAdult #fiction #LGBTQIA

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I don’t care if everyone else is saying it: We Should Have Done This in the USA

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

Elections are right around the corner in some states! Take a few minutes to find if your state has one & see who's on the ballot at all levels of government! Is there a candidate standing up to book bans in your district? Volunteer to get out the vote for them. apnews.com/article/2025...

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The “methods for doing so” are (1) getting two thirds of Congress and three fourths of the states to repeal the 22nd Amendment and (2) declaring himself king. That’s it. Stop treating this despotic bullshit as if it’s some worthwhile thought experiment we have to consider as legitimate.

submitted 2 days ago • 335 comments

"The retail giant has lost more than $12.4 billion in revenue, seen its stock plunge by $27.27 per share, and is grappling with multiple lawsuits linked to its shifting DEI policies." GOOD.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

this is what we actually super need right now

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

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

submitted 3 days ago • 677 comments