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HE BROKE THE RECORD

Senator Cory Booker just broke the all-time record for the longest Senate floor speech, speaking for over 24 hours without a pause (no food, no bathroom breaks, only water to drink) as a protest against Trump and Musk and what they're doing.

The previous record was set in 1957, when Strom Thurmond spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes protesting the Civil Rights Act.

Senator Booker has blown past that record, currently at 25 hours and still speaking as of 8 pm local time. Respect.

cosmogyros

AND HE'S DONE!!! What a true badass.

cosmogyros

And I know this wasn't the point of his action, but it's so moving to me that it was a Black Senator who broke the record previously set by a known segregationist trying to reinforce racist policy.

As Dr. King said: The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.

pigbutt

oh it was partially the point!


Text from an NBC News article reading, "The Democratic senator from New Jersey broke the record set by segregationist Strom Thurmond in 1957, saying later that Thurmond’s record “always kind of just really irked me.”"ALT

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