Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

U.S. Sen. Cory Booker has broken the record for longest floor speech in the U.S. Senate's history as a demonstration of resistance towards the policies and actions of the Trump administration.

"That's what we need in our generation now. We need a dream to call the nation together...but as long as this is a democracy, we can say the power of the people is greater than the people in power."

The record previously belonged to Strom Thurmond, who filibustered against the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

Senator Adam Schiff has placed a hold on Trump’s nominee for U.S. Attorney for D.C. https://www.schiff.senate.gov/news/press-releases/statement-sen-schiff-announces-hold-on-d-c-u-s-attorney-nominee-ed-martin/

This is what Dem Senators could and should have been doing for every one of Trump’s horrible nominees. But I commend Schiff for stepping up now. 1/

@benroyce Sen. Booker would be a much better Minority Leader than Mummified Old Doormat Schumer...

ps:

#CoryBooker has about an hour left, and if he passes the threshold he will beat the record for a #filibuster in the #Senate

and who set the current record?

#StromTurmond the #racist ghoul trying to stop the #CivilRightsAct of 1957

there's a certain poetic justice to it all

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strom_Thurmond_filibuster_of_the_Civil_Rights_Act_of_1957

watch Cory making history now, he's pausing, reaching to recall words, but he's still lucid and on point:

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

much respect Cory

#BookerFilibuster

The Sentencing Council has backtracked on its decision to introduce “two-tier justice” rules, which would have advised courts to order a “pre-sentence report” for offenders from minority groups, says The Daily Telegraph. Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood says the idea of “differential treatment” for minorities is “corrosive” and will today introduce legislation to block the guidance from ever being introduced. 

Hopefully, these Freudian slips are beginning to shed light what the real Republican agenda is to the American electorate.

@WarnerCrocker He’s still going strong. Other Democratic Senators are interjecting comments and questions for Senator Booker, but he is carrying the load. It’s live on C-SPAN, which I can’t get right now. There is also a YouTube livestream https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v2utlMxAwtE

#uspol

El Paso Mass Shooter Says He Was Acting At The Direction Of Trump

https://crooksandliars.com/2025/03/el-paso-mass-shooter-says-he-was-acting?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=100727

Now We're Talking Jersey Style! Senator Cory Booker Holding a Real Filibuster on the Senate Floor!! https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/3/31/2313752/-Now-We-re-Talking-Jersey-Style-Senator-Cory-Booker-Holding-a-Real-Filibuster-on-the-House-Floor?pm_campaign=trending&pm_source=sidebar&pm_medium=web

A win for repro rights: Alabama can’t charge activists helping patients get out-of-state abortions
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/alabama-cant-charge-abortion-groups-for-helping-patients-out-of-state-criminal-conspiracy/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Mother Jones @mother-jones-MotherJones2021

Stacking up: One year of global plastic waste is taller than the Burj Khalifa

Source: Made Visual

https://www.voronoiapp.com/sustainability/One-year-of-global-plastic-waste-visualized-4407

@Nonilex So sports team logo clothes are now suspect? where are our uniforms? The cultural revolution in China had recommended attire. What is our proper attire for the Trump cultural revolution?

Can Democrats have Soros show up with giant checks on stage before the next election then? Republicans would be OK with this, yes?

I was taught that in America we’d rather see 100 guilty people go free than see 1 innocent person jailed. That’s the basis of our system of DUE PROCESS. Republicans don’t seem to share this belief as they continue to allow the Convicted-Felon-in-Chief operate outside of the law.
#USPolitics #FuckTrump #GOPFail https://mastodon.social/@WarnerCrocker/114263102041402163

Scientists have just pulled off what sounds like science fiction—a plastic that disappears in seawater within hours and actually enriches the soil instead of polluting it!
This revolutionary plastic is made from food-safe materials, meaning it's non-toxic, fully biodegradable, and safe for industries like food packaging, medical supplies, and even agriculture.
No microplastic pollution! This plastic dissolves into harmless organic compounds zero environmental footprint
https://www.ndtv.com/science/japanese-scientists-develop-new-plastic-that-dissolves-in-saltwater-8039154

Democrats should be taking turns doing this in perpetuity until republicons' heads explode. Thank you for your service, Cory. You're a profile in courage for standing up on the job, instead of running to a corrupt, corporatist media-infotainment complex, hell bent on helping christo-fascism succeed!

https://crooksandliars.com/2025/04/sen-cory-booker-slams-trump-actions