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ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES Apr 1, 2025

Happening now:

#NJ #Democrat #CoryBooker is delivering a #filibuster in the #Senate

For nonAmericans, it simply means you block all business as long as you can speak

He started at 7 PM Monday, and spoke through the night, and is still going as of 1 PM today

We need *a lot* more than that but it's a start

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/01/nx-s1-5347318/cory-booker-senate-speech

livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2utlMxAwtE

edit: it's not even a filler filibuster, where you read the dictionary or something empty, he's still on point the whole speech

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ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES Apr 1, 2025

addendum:

if you tune in you can see other speakers from the floor chiming in

these are other democrats helping cory out by giving him a small break, it's just using a quirk of the rules

congress has byzantine rules about how long someone can speak, who can respond, how long they can respond, etc, so it becomes a game

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ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES Apr 1, 2025

now he's speaking about the history of the #women's #suffrage movement, about one of the first people to #protest #congress, how she directly challenged president woodrow wilson and how she was then abused by the state

this is hour 19!

he's stammering a little, but his thoughts and rhetoric are fire

cory is on fire

dude's being a fucking us history professor giving a college level lecture to the nation with no sleep

now on to #FrederickDouglass!

much respect #CoryBooker

#BookerFilibuster

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ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES Apr 1, 2025

#CORYBOOKER IS FIRE 🔥 🔥 🔥

Ranging from #anger to #women's #suffrage (#AlicePaul) to #FrederickDouglass to all aspects of #American #history in hour 19-20 of a no sleep #filibuster in #rhetoric I could never elocute well rested in my entire life

WITNESS THIS MAN

I wanted to capture some snippets from hour 19 (he's going on hour 22 now)

Corey Booker on #Anger:

#BookerFilibuster