The Guardian: ‘Did you stand up?’: READ part of #CoryBooker’s blockbuster 25-hour speech
#Senate #SenateDemocrats
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/03/cory-booker-speech-transcript-excerpt
The Guardian: ‘Did you stand up?’: READ part of #CoryBooker’s blockbuster 25-hour speech
#Senate #SenateDemocrats
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/03/cory-booker-speech-transcript-excerpt
Marcy @emptywheel on #tariffs #MikeJohnson #CoryBooker & how to NOT panic.
She hasn't started swearing yet, listen live 5 PT on the @nicolesandler for her famous potty mouth!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-d2V_a1LUo
@GottaLaff @lolgop
Also #HandsOff protests and how to prepare for them.
Commentary by J. J. Sedelmaier about what happened to Musk in Wisconsin, which has now gone viral
#Republicans #authoritarianism #destruction #chaos #CoryBooker #Wisconsin #ElonMusk #solidarity #resistance
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https://www.threads.net/@meidas_societyschild/post/DH8xFS4Os6D/meme-of-the-day-winner
"‘Liberation Day’ may have belonged to Trump, but Wisconsin voters offered their own declaration of independence on Wednesday – is it a sign of what’s to come?"
#Republicans #authoritarianism #destruction #chaos #CoryBooker #Wisconsin #ElonMusk #solidarity #resistance
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"The momentum is shifting. Wisconsin was a decisive win. Gaps in Florida’s US House districts are narrowing. And Democratic Senator Cory Booker just shattered segregationist Strom Thurmond’s record in congress with a 25-hour protest speech – a symbolic moment, but one that suggests renewed energy on the left."
~ Matt Gallagher
#Republicans #authoritarianism #destruction #chaos #CoryBooker #Wisconsin #ElonMusk #solidarity #resistance
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https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/sorry-elon-wisconsins-justice-system
"Authoritarians want us to feel hopeless and helpless. It’s up to us to show them that we will not submit quietly and that we believe in struggle and collective action. Like Sen. Booker, each one of us can do something, using the spaces and means we have, to meet this moment with the same resilient and resolute spirit he showed on the Senate floor."
~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat
#Republicans #authoritarianism #democracy #destruction #chaos #FederalGovernment #CoryBooker
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https://lucid.substack.com/p/what-sen-bookers-speech-teaches-us
Oh no. Lol. Possibly the real reason for the stunt 25 hour filibuster stunt that didn't disrupt ANY trump legislation? He was trying to get out of this antitrust hearing after taking Big Tech $$.
If Will Bunch wrote it, you should read it.©
" #CoryBooker's naysayers - "well, actually not a filibuster," what does this do? - were long gone after 25 hours, 350 million TikTok likes, and the erasure of a segregationist
The real power of his message: Just do something! Saturday is YOUR chance"
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/cory-booker-speech-democrats-protests-20250403.html
5/5 Finally, a press release about the speech from #CoryBooker’s Senate website. The numbers are truly astounding — people who tuned in, liked on social media, and thank-you calls to Booker’s office.
As I said the other day: rank and file Dems and indie voters are hungry for this kind of leadership and action. Let’s hope Booker’s courage and fortitude prods other Dem electeds to follow suit.
“Cory Booker’s Long Speech: By the Number”
#GoodTrouble #USpol #Democracy
https://www.booker.senate.gov/news/press/cory-bookers-long-speech-by-the-numbers
4/5 #NewJersey media outlet #NewJerseyMonitor, part of the nationwide States Newsroom:
‘These are not normal times,’ Sen. #CoryBooker says in record-breaking Senate speech
3/5 From #NJSpotlightNews, which is public media and part of WNET but covers all of #NewJersey. (FYI its funding is being cut by 25% in Gov Murphy’s new budget — if you’re a NJ resident, text Murphy at 732-605-5455 to complain.)
Booker’s record-breaking Senate plea: Meet this ‘moral moment’
NJ senator denounces Trump agenda, mindful that he broke record set by segregationist Strom Thurmon
#Democracy #GoodTrouble #localnews #USpol #CoryBooker
https://www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/04/booker-makes-speech-marathon-to-fight-trump-crisis/
2/5 Second is an article by #Philadelphia #Inquirer staff writer Julia Terruso:
#CoryBooker delivers record-breaking Senate floor speech protesting Trump’s actions for 25
#NewJersey #Democracy #GoodTrouble #localnews #USpol
Inky link: https://www.inquirer.com/politics/senator-cory-booker-filibuster-trump-administration-20250401.html
Paywall-free link: https://archive.ph/lj5XL
1/5 Forget the tariffs for a moment (Ugh.) Instead, marvel #NewJersey Senator #CoryBooker’s fabulous 25+ act of #GoodTrouble in service of #democracy. #USpol
Here are #localnews indie/nonprofit media coverage of Booker’s filibuster that I sub to!
First up, 1 of 2 articles in my hometown #Philadelphia #Inquirer. (Gift link!) An op-ed by the Inky Editorial Board:
“Over the course of 25 hours and 5 minutes, Cory Booker points the way to oppose Trump’s abuses of power”
https://share.inquirer.com/daKoh3
Always expected good things from Cory Booker. Great to see him step up. Booker's got it, whatever you want to call it (some call it rizz these days, I think).
#CoryBooker inspiring #resistance! This is the Paramus, #NewJersey Visibility Brigade, a group of people who reularly put anti-fascist messages on an overpass in Paramus.
Thank you Senator Booker for showing your colleagues what we want and need from our leaders in this moment. We too will stand up!
Produktive Wut.
"Anger is not a bad emotion. What you do with that emotion is important. Does it consume you, does it drive you to hate other people. Or do you allow it to fuel you"
Georg Schramm hatte vor einigen Jahren über genau dasselbe geredet
thank you @benroyce for providing the snippet
Doktor Zoom points to a video (it's embedded at the link below) "where Maddow encourages Booker to hydrate and Booker encourages Maddow to keep beginning her A block every night with video of the protests against fascism that are happening EVERY DAMN DAY in this wonderful country."
#CoryBooker #resistance #Musk #Trump #filibuster #GoodTrouble #RachelMaddow
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I’m seeing people calling what Cory Booker did a “long speech” rather than “a filibuster” even though all a filibuster is is a senator giving a long speech to hold the floor and delay the senate.
In his case, he held up a senate confirmation.
Why are we creating a “separate but equal” category of filibuster here?
So segregationist Strom Thurmond can keep the record?
"This isn’t just poetic justice—it’s a political redemption. The same tactics once used to block civil rights are now being wielded to defend them.
The record for the longest speech in Senate history no longer belongs to a segregationist. It belongs to a Black man fighting for democracy."
~ Jemar Tisby
#CoryBooker #resistance #Musk #Trump #filibuster #GoodTrouble
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https://jemartisby.substack.com/p/cory-booker-breaks-senate-speech
"Cory Booker is putting his body on the gears of the United States Senate because the operation of that machine has become too odious to do anything else."
~ Charles Pierce
#CoryBooker #resistance #Musk #Trump #filibuster #GoodTrouble
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