I was teared up by a variety of the portions of Booker's Filibuster, jeff. Its an amazing resolve that shows through in the face of the adversity we are dealing with. Honestly. Well that and it gives us all hope. Really. I think the more incredible thing was, he dehydrated himself on purpose to avoid from having to "excuse himself to the bathroom" to do it all.
I was leaning toward going Saturday before the speech, but I was also like, eh I'm 65 and it's gonna be really hot, can I stand it? But I listened to lots of the speech and heard Booker talk about good people doing nothing and realized I had to be there.
I'm on my 60's too, and it will be in the 40 to 50 degree range and raining with winds of 10 to 20 mph here. I'll be cold and wet while you're hot and sweating! (Misery loves company.) I'll think of you while we're making good trouble. Stand Up America!
It’s supposed to be in the 40s, with a 90% chance of rain, this Saturday in the Chicago area. But this 71 year-old and her 75-year-old husband are planning to be at the HandsOff protest in Arlington Heights. We will be carrying our signs and thinking of Senator Booker. This aggression will not stand, man. The Resistance abides!
The Boston Commons 🇺🇸where I grew up and played as a child ,dreamed and loved as a teen ,protested and fought for my ideals as a young man , and then watched as the country moved forward! Now as an older version of myself 69 years young we march again to the Common to fight the same battle that was fought 250 years earlier !Once again to the Boston Common where the country was born fighting the boot of a Kings tyranny began its revolution to birth a new experiment in Freedom and democracy! Let’s go people this is how it starts !🇺🇸Don’t Tread on me !🇺🇸
We're signed up for two demonstations! I hope to see gazillions of people at both. You know, in this time of feeling gobsmacked and powerless against the billionaires, the idiot and project 2025, it really feels good to just be out there, carrying a poster and shouting anti-whatever chants into the clouds. It feels good!!! So just do it; do whatever you're able for however long you're able. You'll thank yourself.
I cried like a baby listening to Cory Booker! It felt good to just bawl my head off and I actually felt better after that good cry. I must have needed it...
Me too, from 3pm on. It was great. Every time someone gave him a break to ask a question, they had interesting things to say, historical notes and stories - and then they would end with a question that would send him right back to the barn to burn it down again. He soared over and over, weaving all these great stories of the past with a call to change the path we are on.
Corey is this generations Crispus Attucks who was shot dead at the Boston massacre! Another brave man who happens to black stepping to the front inspiring patriotism! Way to go Corey! 🇺🇸
Wendy I don’t think it was technically a filibuster as there was no bill on the floor to filibuster. It was an incredible Statement, a Speech on the Senate floor.
Aha, I think you're right. I referred to it as a filibuster -- and being an editor I should have looked it up first! However, when I did look it up, I noted that an older meaning of "filibuster" is "to carry out insurrectionist activities in a foreign country." Loosely translated, that almost applies to what Booker did in the strange country we're living in.
I couldn’t help but wonder if he had a catheter and bag strapped to his leg… I drink a ton of water daily, often times forgetting about the bathroom, apparently he’s got a larger bladder than mine… damn impressive performance and speech Corey!!
He was asked about this and because he's vegan/veg he's used to fasting. He stopped eating on Friday and stopped drinking water on Sunday. So he wasn't just standing, he had already been fasting for 3 days. That seems to me like atonement or transcendence. It was amazing to watch.
I used to work with a neurosurgeon in the OR. When he would have very long cases (aneurysms or AV Malformations) he would operate for sometimes 24 hours without a break. We wondered if he had a hidden catheter.
I think a lot of us did. It's good to see someone finally standing up and denouncing this "presidency" instead of playing at business as usual. More of the same, please!
Sen Booker showed us what real leadership is. He not only inspired voters& potential voters (I read there were millions of likes on TikTok), he also inspired fellow Dems to take a stand. While Schumer once again demonstrated all he can do is jump on the bandwagon & try to take credit. We can’t wait for Jan ‘27 for new Dem leadership in the Senate. Time to call every Dem senator every day and ask for change.
I'll be contacting my Senator Chris Murphy to thank him again for all he has done. He has recently spoken for hours on end overnight on the floor; has worked with other Democrats who are fighting to hold town halls in GOP strongholds where their own reps refuse to hold town halls; speaks to the press relentlessly - including appearing on Fox - to get the message out when they are steadfastly ignoring Democrats; etc.
Senator Booker is great! I appreciate his incredible action. I also give credit to all the Democrats who have been fighting too.
If Chris Murphy is your Senator then just know I am jealous! I have followed him closely since New Town. I live in a red state where the outcome is already baked in. Chris Murphy is and has been my hero. Now I will add Senator Booker to that list.
We here in NJ could not be more proud of our US Senator Cory Booker! We hope all are galvanized to get off their butts and #RESIST this joke of an administration this weekend!
I called mine today, Dick Durbin, & read the staffer the riot act about his lack of response to Signal gate! Then I emailed him the same. Then I called & emailed Senator Duckworth to thank her for speaking out. We need much more courage in the Senate! Cory Booker was magnificent!
I wrote to my Senator (Cortez-Masto) about her vote to keep the country funded which I disagreed with. Haven't heard anything. Also, send the DNC a note about my unhappiness with the party and nada either. Obviously, they didn't care.
My Senators. One never answers. The other does, but it takes a long time. Says they are backed up, because they never expected the volume of letters they are receiving.
Also saw a video last week from AOC about calling. She was knitting as she explained that the calls are working. She says maga call consistently about everything so even if they are minority the reps are listening to 'enthusiasm' and consistency. She says Dems calls far less often in general - maybe because we think the common sense answers are so self evident we don't think we need to call - but she says consistent calling is how they measure enthusiasm and they are getting plenty of it from people. Hence Corey Booker matching that need for people to see someone do something meaningful.
Demand change ! Asking and pleading are totally insufficient in times like these !The Senators are our agents our voice the citizens who elected them to do the bidding of those who they represent!
An “ask” is an organizing for change term. I use “urge” because my experience is that MOCs don’t like people to demand they do something. Like it or not, they’re more responsive to less strident talk.
I choked up so many times I lost track—despite having listened for less than 5 hours.
I even dared to smile, really smile, and let a molecule of relief enter my heart, when I watched Charlie Sykes (on his Substack, To the Contrary) say “fuck you, Elon.”
The core episodes of my younger life were all helping my mother fight for civil rights in a town where slavers had once roamed the Missouri streets; she died this summer at 103. When I was a child I met people who’d been born into slavery. When you hear “the past isn’t passed” that’s the freaking truth. Cory Booker is a genuine hero for this time.
It can be found around the world, I read a piece on the uncivil history of the many palm oil plantations yes plantations found in tropical and stifling heat and no pay situations secluded and unseen.
Yes. It’s hard to accept that people have no sense of this as reality. Really hard. But as the song goes, “I ain’t gonna quit until I’m laying in my tomb, and even then they better shut it tight!”
Every time I checked in with the amazing protest speech yesterday, I cried. His father buying his house story… veterans… stonewall… it was all so fucking monumental!
I teared up when he read the email from the woman in Wisconsin with Parkinson’s talking about how cutting SS and medicare will affect her. My dad had Parkinson’s and it was awful to watch him deteriorate.
And as he was speaking the Trump Regime fired a doctor at NIH who has done groundbreaking work on Parkinsonʻs. Parkinsonʻs runs in my family so this is a bit personal to me as well.
And shut down that whole dept of healthy aging at NIH? Which is all Alzheimer's related. It's soul crushing the shutting down of services and research. We have to find a way to get them out.
And I'm tearing up right now, just reading about you tearing up.
One of my neighbors was at work but was still watching the speech on You Tube. He kept texting me that he was getting goosebumps. That was pretty awesome in and of itself - in the small town where I live, goosebumps would not be the expected reaction.
How fucken bizarre !how fucken odd ! that simply doing the honorable thing is so fucken rare that it deserves applause! Jesus Friggen H Christ not shitting on the side walk gets you a fucken medal I guess !
That's interesting. Here in NC we had a similar race to elect a new judge for the state Supreme Court last November, a liberal female judge vs. a MAGA male judge - and it's still not over. It was close, fewer than 800 votes separating the Dem from the GOP, and there have been three recounts, all with the Dem winning. However, the GOP candidate is basing his case on 60,000 votes which he says were illegal and shouldn't have been counted, and it looks like the current Supreme Court might back him on it.
This is awfully radical for Schimel. Some would say cuck-like. I think he will be paid a visit for this disrespect of the Fourth Reich. What was he thinking?!?
You would think he was dead or something but I congratulate him now that is is doing something that needs to be done and he does still have weight in the senate.
There's another Muskrat antic that deserves scrutiny: the Muskrat is trying to buy something, (maybe a larger stake in X?), and he wants to use his shares in Tesla to back up his financial commitment. This is 100% against SEC rules, so of course his next target is the SEC. I didn't understand a lot of what I read, which should be obvious, but he's trying to do something underhanded again and I would love to read something in plain English that would bring this to publuc attention.
Oh darn, that's too bad. If only my Nissan wasn't so new and in good shape, I guess I'd buy one. Oh wait, no, I wouldn't. My Nissan can get me to Chicago on one (tiny) tank of gas — up to 50 mpg. A Tesla can't go that far (370 miles) and would cost me an extra hour to charge, if I could find chargers in godforsaken red Indiana.
Outside of Rome, Italy a Tesla dealership went up in flames, 17 cars burned. France also. There's a leaked video of the ratfucker crying to Shitpants, "Things are really bad." Shitpants half awake reply was, "It's okay." 🥱
If you weren’t alive during World War II, chances are you have parents or grandparents who were alive during World War II. And if they are gone, you heard stories. Everyone grew up knowing that Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin were evil, and that chapter of history should always stand as a warning. So burning up Tesla outside of Rome is Europe, having lived with their most sacred monuments destroyed from a catastrophic war, saying no fucking way. Not on our watch you little self-important, Elon Musk Nazi boy. Not on our watch.
The fighting is contagious. My senator Ruben Gallego, has placed a hold on all of Chump's nominees to the VA. Corey Booker should be leading the senate a minority leader instead of last century's Chuck Schumer. Now someone please put Elmo in the corner face first, wearing his cheesehead and make him chant "I am an asshole " for the next 25 hours.
If "good trouble" means not playing by the usual rules, and stopping the business of the Senate to prevent further sliding downhill, I'm all for it. Going along to get along hurts us all.
Don't forget AOC and Jasmine Crockett who have shown Dems the way since Day One Dictator took office. And I'm not forgetting Sanders. He is an Independant who has been showing the Dems the way for decades. I stood in one very long line for over 2 hours to see Sanders and AOC in Tempe, AZ, a couple weeks ago and will do it all over again given the chance.
Jasmine Crocket has more testicular fortitude than most of the so-called men in both houses of Congress! A present and future leader bringing hope and inspiration to all real Americans!🇺🇸
I don't have much love for the performative antics of Sanders and AOC (especially the divisive Sanders) but Crockett is a real treasure as is my own congresswoman Shontel Brown, who's not as sassy but is fighting in her own way.
They were in Vegas and I would have gone, but I had to work. I usually never go to political rallies because I think they are bs on both sides. But to hear them would have been worth the effort. Obama and Michelle were here in 2008 and I'm really sorry I didn't go to that rally. I didn't know who he was then. A coworker of mine went and said she had a nice talk with Michelle. That's before he became a rock star and they were approachable. Why doesn't someone start a Super PAC for Obama. Just for shits and giggles to upset Trump. Doesn't mean anything will come of it.
Fuck Yeah is right!!!!! Yes Elon-go pilot Forkship and leave the cheesehead in WI! Cory Booker goes to Washington…new movie coming soon! Just kidding…but wow-he was amazing! What a speech! Happiness in WI right now….keep it up people!!!
Booker invoked that MLK concept of the moral arc of the universe bending toward what is right...and mentioned in Maddow that it wasn't his original intention but as he got to 20 hrs said it became more so a thought about getting across that line...but then he kept going for another 40 mins. It was inspiring to witness.
No matter when I tuned into Cory Booker's awesome (in every sense of the word) speech, I was inspired, enraged, motivated, and brought to tears. And I tuned in many times. THIS! MORE FUCKING COW BELL AND MORE FIGHT FROM DEMOCRATS! Thank you Adam Schiff for heeding the call. And now I will once again call my Senators and plead with them to do the same or get out of the way.
Actually, I ask, where are Padilla and Schiff? Schiff was a skunk during the primary and only got my vote in the general because of the opposition. I never voted for Dianne in the primaries, but I have to hand it to her, from 2003 on she was always where I wanted her to be. Barbara Boxer was always in the right place. Butler was a loss. Apparently, both Padilla and Schiff support genocide. We went from two senators from Northern California to two senators from Southern California, and it shows. I apologize, Arne.
Alex Padilia is the only one who answered my emails. I didn't vote for Adam in the Primary; I thought Katy Porter was a better candidate. I did vote for him in the General Election. In the House, my Rep. is a Republican. Doesn't answer any emails and when I called his DC office, all I got was "sorry I missed your call." Vince Fong is a waste.
Actually, Barbara Lee was the best candidate. But who ran against Fong in '24? I sent money to a number of Democratic candidates (Tran, Min, etc.) last year. If I know who ran against Fong, I can keep my eyes out for a candidate in 26, and maybe your state assembly member and senator. I don't have a lot of money (we're on SSA) but I do what I can. Lee's replacement in the House, Simon, is outstanding! I can't believe how good she is, and I was very dubious at the start.
Democrat Marisa Wood ran in the Primary but there was not a Democrat in the General Election. In my opinion, Katy Porter was the best candidate. I watched her when she was in the House and she was very good. Always had facts and figures to use against the Repubs.
Without a doubt Katy is a star. But Barbara (she was my rep for over 20 years) was sole congressperson who voted against the illegal invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001. Everyone else, D & R, supported Bush. But Barbara stood up. She and Katy are probably the same, but I've seen Barbara vote the vote. It's too bad, I didn't get any emails from Marisa Wood for the primary.
Due respect to Barbara Lee, but she was about to turn 79. Having had Dianne Feinstein die in office at the age of 90, the last thing we needed was another Senator who was older. Someone younger and more vital was necessary.
Does she represent you? Bernie seems to be doing okay. Dianne stayed too long, but it was only the last five years, and she was often too conservative for me. Where exactly do you live? In Barbara's district?
I wrote to both of them during the countdown to the vote on the CR and heard back from both. Sometimes, being outfront and flashy is the way to go. Sometimes, it's working BTS. Depends. Each of them have their own strengths.
Most of the past recessions in the U.S were caused by speculation and greed.
This one will be caused by ignorance and incompetence.
This is what happens when we elect to the office of President a person who is a liar, a fraud, a con, and incompetent in “all things business”, a person who has filled his Cabinet with ignorant, incompetent scum.
Like most recessions, this one began in New England (it began in early February), will roll down to the Mid-Atlantic and will then roll all the way out to the West Coast.
America’s Disgrace Trump is leading our country to financial disaster.
And then faux news Harris Faulkner dared to imply that 401k people (retirees) should do the war effort - “Look, when this nation used to go to war, people in this country would support the war effort with their materials at home and making things for weaponry and all of that. We gotta do 100 percent buy-in over this bumpy period.”
So screw your end of life savings and retirements and take one for the team! You’re old, disposable and we need your money! JFC. Has everyone with a microphone lost their ever loving minds!
Donald postponed his announcement until after the markets closed. He didn't want the spectacle of the Dow shedding hundreds of points with every sentence out of his anusmouth.
That's just it. The only thing this moronic turd is good at is tearing things down that were working just fine before he got reelected. It's part of the destroying us from within plan as ordered by Cousin Vlady. Now his assholiness is demanding that the US remove French from the products we export to Canada. Like that's going to happen. Hell, he can't even speak without murdering the King's English. If only some of the Congessional GOP had the balls to call him out on his daily lunacies.
If french is removed from products coming into Canada, they won't be saleable. Thanks to Quebec's language laws, which are bs to most Canadians, but in this case, it works out.
Not only that, these sewer clowns are demanding that Europe comply with the US' anti-DEI regulations. The European countries' reactions to the anti-DEI demands have been nothing short of hilarious.
And just in case you wanted to know more about the incompetence and faux business acumen, George Takei was apparently on the apprentice yrs ago and his NDA just expired, so he may be talking soon.
I live in Oregon and I kept getting offered $100 to be a block captain in Wisconsin! The spam texting and phone calls I continued to get from Wisconsin were nonstop. I don’t know what’s going on there with the Republicans, but it’s certainly bent, if not crooked if Elon is soliciting Oregonians to be block captains. How is any of that lawful, whether I live in Wisconsin or not?
After 25+ hours on his feet and speaking powerfully to the moment, Cory was interviewed by Rachel Maddow and was fully able to speak intelligently and, as she pointed out, still able to form full, relevant, and clear sentences. Something donvict can’t accomplish under the best of circumstances.
He wants to go to Mars. Thatʻs all he cares about. His bro friend Peter Thiel is planning to have his head frozen upon his death so he can be resurrected in a later time of space travel. It is tragic because they could certainly fund space research while also doing more for the needy here on earth, but they have no empathy.
I confess, I teared up while transcribing Cory Booker's "I'm here despite his speech" clip
I was teared up by a variety of the portions of Booker's Filibuster, jeff. Its an amazing resolve that shows through in the face of the adversity we are dealing with. Honestly. Well that and it gives us all hope. Really. I think the more incredible thing was, he dehydrated himself on purpose to avoid from having to "excuse himself to the bathroom" to do it all.
Cory Booker did something. Now YOU do something.
💥💥💥 DONT MISS “Hands Off” 🧨🧨🧨
🙋♂️🙋♀️🙋♂️ Gigantic nationwide demonstration! 🙋♂️🙋♀️🙋♂️
Saturday April 5 National “Hands Off” Day of Action
on the National Mall and 657 local demonstrations
Click this link to find a “Hands Off” demonstration near you.
https://handsoff2025.com/
I was leaning toward going Saturday before the speech, but I was also like, eh I'm 65 and it's gonna be really hot, can I stand it? But I listened to lots of the speech and heard Booker talk about good people doing nothing and realized I had to be there.
I'm on my 60's too, and it will be in the 40 to 50 degree range and raining with winds of 10 to 20 mph here. I'll be cold and wet while you're hot and sweating! (Misery loves company.) I'll think of you while we're making good trouble. Stand Up America!
It’s supposed to be in the 40s, with a 90% chance of rain, this Saturday in the Chicago area. But this 71 year-old and her 75-year-old husband are planning to be at the HandsOff protest in Arlington Heights. We will be carrying our signs and thinking of Senator Booker. This aggression will not stand, man. The Resistance abides!
This white haired boomer will be in DC on Saturday! Feels like getting the band back together after the Women's March.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻💙
The Boston Commons 🇺🇸where I grew up and played as a child ,dreamed and loved as a teen ,protested and fought for my ideals as a young man , and then watched as the country moved forward! Now as an older version of myself 69 years young we march again to the Common to fight the same battle that was fought 250 years earlier !Once again to the Boston Common where the country was born fighting the boot of a Kings tyranny began its revolution to birth a new experiment in Freedom and democracy! Let’s go people this is how it starts !🇺🇸Don’t Tread on me !🇺🇸
Great! Thank you!👏🏻👏🏻💙
Well said! Thank you!
Making my poster for the Hands Off in Santa Clarita Ca Saturday.
Thank you! Appreciate your effort!!
Wouldn’t miss it for the world. Resist!
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻💙
Instantly Done.
Many thanks for your time and effort!!
I have my sign and Iʻm ready to go!
Yay! Many thanks!
We're signed up for two demonstations! I hope to see gazillions of people at both. You know, in this time of feeling gobsmacked and powerless against the billionaires, the idiot and project 2025, it really feels good to just be out there, carrying a poster and shouting anti-whatever chants into the clouds. It feels good!!! So just do it; do whatever you're able for however long you're able. You'll thank yourself.
Lotta good patriotic Americans Hellofaday! 🇺🇸💪🏼BOSTON STRONG !!! This is how it starts !!! 💪🏼🇺🇸🇨🇦
We can do this people. We. Can. Do. This. Thing!!! 🇺🇸❤️🤍💙🇺🇸👏🏻👊🏻👍🏻💪🏻
✔️✔️✔️✔️
Yay!🎉🎉
We will be participating.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻💙
My husband and I are going!!
We are going too!
I cried like a baby listening to Cory Booker! It felt good to just bawl my head off and I actually felt better after that good cry. I must have needed it...
I think all of us did. Again. I think we need hope.
I listened to it live from 2 pm until he finished. I too cried because Cory spoke so eloquently and covered it all.
Me too, from 3pm on. It was great. Every time someone gave him a break to ask a question, they had interesting things to say, historical notes and stories - and then they would end with a question that would send him right back to the barn to burn it down again. He soared over and over, weaving all these great stories of the past with a call to change the path we are on.
Corey is this generations Crispus Attucks who was shot dead at the Boston massacre! Another brave man who happens to black stepping to the front inspiring patriotism! Way to go Corey! 🇺🇸
Wendy I don’t think it was technically a filibuster as there was no bill on the floor to filibuster. It was an incredible Statement, a Speech on the Senate floor.
Aha, I think you're right. I referred to it as a filibuster -- and being an editor I should have looked it up first! However, when I did look it up, I noted that an older meaning of "filibuster" is "to carry out insurrectionist activities in a foreign country." Loosely translated, that almost applies to what Booker did in the strange country we're living in.
It did prevent the Republicans from moving the grand "reconciliation" bill forward, even though that had not been put onto the floor yet
I couldn’t help but wonder if he had a catheter and bag strapped to his leg… I drink a ton of water daily, often times forgetting about the bathroom, apparently he’s got a larger bladder than mine… damn impressive performance and speech Corey!!
He was asked about this and because he's vegan/veg he's used to fasting. He stopped eating on Friday and stopped drinking water on Sunday. So he wasn't just standing, he had already been fasting for 3 days. That seems to me like atonement or transcendence. It was amazing to watch.
What a Man will do for his Country!
I used to work with a neurosurgeon in the OR. When he would have very long cases (aneurysms or AV Malformations) he would operate for sometimes 24 hours without a break. We wondered if he had a hidden catheter.
Same thought.
I kept wondering the same thing!
I think a lot of us did. It's good to see someone finally standing up and denouncing this "presidency" instead of playing at business as usual. More of the same, please!
Sen Booker showed us what real leadership is. He not only inspired voters& potential voters (I read there were millions of likes on TikTok), he also inspired fellow Dems to take a stand. While Schumer once again demonstrated all he can do is jump on the bandwagon & try to take credit. We can’t wait for Jan ‘27 for new Dem leadership in the Senate. Time to call every Dem senator every day and ask for change.
I'll be contacting my Senator Chris Murphy to thank him again for all he has done. He has recently spoken for hours on end overnight on the floor; has worked with other Democrats who are fighting to hold town halls in GOP strongholds where their own reps refuse to hold town halls; speaks to the press relentlessly - including appearing on Fox - to get the message out when they are steadfastly ignoring Democrats; etc.
Senator Booker is great! I appreciate his incredible action. I also give credit to all the Democrats who have been fighting too.
And he stayed with Booker the entire time – OK, well, he did go to the bathroom occasionally!
If Chris Murphy is your Senator then just know I am jealous! I have followed him closely since New Town. I live in a red state where the outcome is already baked in. Chris Murphy is and has been my hero. Now I will add Senator Booker to that list.
I hope he runs for President! I love that man!
We here in NJ could not be more proud of our US Senator Cory Booker! We hope all are galvanized to get off their butts and #RESIST this joke of an administration this weekend!
There was over 400 million likes on TikTot. That's hopeful. 👍
I agree with your assessment. "This country needs more than a building. It needs hope."
Hundreds of millions of likes on TikTok. :D
4 HUNDRED MILLION
Wow, he’s my Senator!
Mine too Sharon!
I called mine today, Dick Durbin, & read the staffer the riot act about his lack of response to Signal gate! Then I emailed him the same. Then I called & emailed Senator Duckworth to thank her for speaking out. We need much more courage in the Senate! Cory Booker was magnificent!
I wrote to my Senator (Cortez-Masto) about her vote to keep the country funded which I disagreed with. Haven't heard anything. Also, send the DNC a note about my unhappiness with the party and nada either. Obviously, they didn't care.
My Senators. One never answers. The other does, but it takes a long time. Says they are backed up, because they never expected the volume of letters they are receiving.
So maybe you will get a response someday.
Also saw a video last week from AOC about calling. She was knitting as she explained that the calls are working. She says maga call consistently about everything so even if they are minority the reps are listening to 'enthusiasm' and consistency. She says Dems calls far less often in general - maybe because we think the common sense answers are so self evident we don't think we need to call - but she says consistent calling is how they measure enthusiasm and they are getting plenty of it from people. Hence Corey Booker matching that need for people to see someone do something meaningful.
Demand change ! Asking and pleading are totally insufficient in times like these !The Senators are our agents our voice the citizens who elected them to do the bidding of those who they represent!
An “ask” is an organizing for change term. I use “urge” because my experience is that MOCs don’t like people to demand they do something. Like it or not, they’re more responsive to less strident talk.
Blue hairs gotta’ be in the crosshairs Abbi!!
I choked up so many times I lost track—despite having listened for less than 5 hours.
I even dared to smile, really smile, and let a molecule of relief enter my heart, when I watched Charlie Sykes (on his Substack, To the Contrary) say “fuck you, Elon.”
The core episodes of my younger life were all helping my mother fight for civil rights in a town where slavers had once roamed the Missouri streets; she died this summer at 103. When I was a child I met people who’d been born into slavery. When you hear “the past isn’t passed” that’s the freaking truth. Cory Booker is a genuine hero for this time.
So sorry for your loss—your mom sounds amazing—and you are too for continuing in her footsteps!
Slavery isn't dead yet. My husband's grandfather was lynched. He knew him.
People still use slaves under the radar. It's not a secret.
It can be found around the world, I read a piece on the uncivil history of the many palm oil plantations yes plantations found in tropical and stifling heat and no pay situations secluded and unseen.
True. I was only referring to slavery in the US, but yeah, it's pretty much everywhere if you look.
Yes. It’s hard to accept that people have no sense of this as reality. Really hard. But as the song goes, “I ain’t gonna quit until I’m laying in my tomb, and even then they better shut it tight!”
I’m tearing up reading that you teared up! Yeah, I did too while he spoke.
Motivated me to call my GOP congressman again, give his intern an earful, and attend a protest on Saturday.
I watched an old video of Michael Jackson's Man in the Mirror and teared up somemore!!
https://www.michaeljackson.com/video/man-mirror-video/
Huh. My ancient Southern White heart broke in his eulogy of John Lewis. Why THE FUCK do we still have to do this shit?!?!?!?
Every time I checked in with the amazing protest speech yesterday, I cried. His father buying his house story… veterans… stonewall… it was all so fucking monumental!
Omg the story of his parents buying their 🏠 was incredible. It was like living history...
I teared up when he read the email from the woman in Wisconsin with Parkinson’s talking about how cutting SS and medicare will affect her. My dad had Parkinson’s and it was awful to watch him deteriorate.
And as he was speaking the Trump Regime fired a doctor at NIH who has done groundbreaking work on Parkinsonʻs. Parkinsonʻs runs in my family so this is a bit personal to me as well.
And shut down that whole dept of healthy aging at NIH? Which is all Alzheimer's related. It's soul crushing the shutting down of services and research. We have to find a way to get them out.
My grandfather had it also. RIP all.
It made me cry too. That was a wonderful moment of many. It was a rare good night.
I teared up many times throughout the speech, especially when Booker teared up.
Yeah, me too.
Me too.
And I teared up listening to him. Thanks for providing these video clips.
And I'm tearing up right now, just reading about you tearing up.
One of my neighbors was at work but was still watching the speech on You Tube. He kept texting me that he was getting goosebumps. That was pretty awesome in and of itself - in the small town where I live, goosebumps would not be the expected reaction.
Better tears than Sir, who inspires only bitter tears.
hey, props to the Brad Schimel, who promptly conceded his loss and said "you've gotta accept the results" — that's rare in Republicans these days
https://x.com/OmarJimenez/status/1907261118734545340
That's how batshit these MAGA times are-we cheer him for doing what used to be the norm a few years ago and would have not merited any props back then
I know, right?
Like McCain telling his voter that Obama was not an evil "Arab"
How fucken bizarre !how fucken odd ! that simply doing the honorable thing is so fucken rare that it deserves applause! Jesus Friggen H Christ not shitting on the side walk gets you a fucken medal I guess !
That's interesting. Here in NC we had a similar race to elect a new judge for the state Supreme Court last November, a liberal female judge vs. a MAGA male judge - and it's still not over. It was close, fewer than 800 votes separating the Dem from the GOP, and there have been three recounts, all with the Dem winning. However, the GOP candidate is basing his case on 60,000 votes which he says were illegal and shouldn't have been counted, and it looks like the current Supreme Court might back him on it.
That is so, so bad.
Corruption. Pure and simple. NC should hit the streets and start a vigil at their NC Court.
But NC is even more surgically gerrymandered than WI! The woman won, but the Rethuglicans now want to remove those 60,000 (!!!) votes
Since November!! WTF
oh gawd, no, that’s bogus. And the GOP continuously accuses Dems of cheating. What an F’in joke.
Betsy L-What can we do? I heard about this, it's appalling!
OMG. Is that still not settled? I heard about that a long time ago.
This is awfully radical for Schimel. Some would say cuck-like. I think he will be paid a visit for this disrespect of the Fourth Reich. What was he thinking?!?
He was thinking like an American and not a trumpist. For that he has my respect.
You would think he was dead or something but I congratulate him now that is is doing something that needs to be done and he does still have weight in the senate.
I know! Right (as in correct). I was shocked.
Not every GOP is a total a-hole. Maybe he's the only one left who isn't. I read where Fine in Florida is just nasty. DeSantis hates him.
DeSantis said that Fine "repels people" and who is a greater expert on that subject?
here's something else to celebrate today: Tesla sales are in the shitter https://www.theverge.com/news/641311/tesla-q1-2025-delivery-production-sales-slump-musk
It's too bad fhe amazing Nikola Tesla has to have his name continually sullied by being associated with neo Nazi Musk.
From what I've heard, Tesla was no choir boy himself, although it would be hard to be a bigger a-hole than Musk.
I love the smell of schadenfreude in the morning! 🤣🤣🤣
There's another Muskrat antic that deserves scrutiny: the Muskrat is trying to buy something, (maybe a larger stake in X?), and he wants to use his shares in Tesla to back up his financial commitment. This is 100% against SEC rules, so of course his next target is the SEC. I didn't understand a lot of what I read, which should be obvious, but he's trying to do something underhanded again and I would love to read something in plain English that would bring this to publuc attention.
Oh darn, that's too bad. If only my Nissan wasn't so new and in good shape, I guess I'd buy one. Oh wait, no, I wouldn't. My Nissan can get me to Chicago on one (tiny) tank of gas — up to 50 mpg. A Tesla can't go that far (370 miles) and would cost me an extra hour to charge, if I could find chargers in godforsaken red Indiana.
Outside of Rome, Italy a Tesla dealership went up in flames, 17 cars burned. France also. There's a leaked video of the ratfucker crying to Shitpants, "Things are really bad." Shitpants half awake reply was, "It's okay." 🥱
If you weren’t alive during World War II, chances are you have parents or grandparents who were alive during World War II. And if they are gone, you heard stories. Everyone grew up knowing that Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin were evil, and that chapter of history should always stand as a warning. So burning up Tesla outside of Rome is Europe, having lived with their most sacred monuments destroyed from a catastrophic war, saying no fucking way. Not on our watch you little self-important, Elon Musk Nazi boy. Not on our watch.
Big laugh about the Teslas in Europe. Guess bleach blonde Bondi tentacles don't reach that far to make it a federal crime.
Maybe Wisconsin did Elon a favor and of course he can’t appreciate it.
Hot damn!
He might as well dismiss his lawsuit against Wisconsin, 'cause he won't be able to sell any of his vehicles there.
First quarter: most of January Tesla wasn’t on the radar - so basically sales fell 13% in 2 months - Feb/ March…
wait til the next qtr reports - it could be down 20-30% over last years sales…
or more!
I’m waiting for China to take it as they do. Turn it into a BYD plant.
They seem to be going down in flames 🔥 Poor Felonius Maximus ! HA ! HA ! Burn fascist burn !🔥
The fighting is contagious. My senator Ruben Gallego, has placed a hold on all of Chump's nominees to the VA. Corey Booker should be leading the senate a minority leader instead of last century's Chuck Schumer. Now someone please put Elmo in the corner face first, wearing his cheesehead and make him chant "I am an asshole " for the next 25 hours.
Adam Schiff has placed a hold on Ed Martin's nomination for US attorney in DC. Martin is a pig and a screaming fascist.
If "good trouble" means not playing by the usual rules, and stopping the business of the Senate to prevent further sliding downhill, I'm all for it. Going along to get along hurts us all.
No, make him wear the cheesehead everywhere now!
Nail it to his head!😈😈
Why didn't Democrats put a hold on all the nominees? None of his Cabinet members should have been approved.
I wonder too!
Don't forget AOC and Jasmine Crockett who have shown Dems the way since Day One Dictator took office. And I'm not forgetting Sanders. He is an Independant who has been showing the Dems the way for decades. I stood in one very long line for over 2 hours to see Sanders and AOC in Tempe, AZ, a couple weeks ago and will do it all over again given the chance.
Jasmine Crocket has more testicular fortitude than most of the so-called men in both houses of Congress! A present and future leader bringing hope and inspiration to all real Americans!🇺🇸
I don't have much love for the performative antics of Sanders and AOC (especially the divisive Sanders) but Crockett is a real treasure as is my own congresswoman Shontel Brown, who's not as sassy but is fighting in her own way.
They were in Vegas and I would have gone, but I had to work. I usually never go to political rallies because I think they are bs on both sides. But to hear them would have been worth the effort. Obama and Michelle were here in 2008 and I'm really sorry I didn't go to that rally. I didn't know who he was then. A coworker of mine went and said she had a nice talk with Michelle. That's before he became a rock star and they were approachable. Why doesn't someone start a Super PAC for Obama. Just for shits and giggles to upset Trump. Doesn't mean anything will come of it.
I, too, had never gone to a political rally before the one in Tempe. Should you ever go, I hope you find it worthwhile.
Fuck Yeah is right!!!!! Yes Elon-go pilot Forkship and leave the cheesehead in WI! Cory Booker goes to Washington…new movie coming soon! Just kidding…but wow-he was amazing! What a speech! Happiness in WI right now….keep it up people!!!
Agreed tess. We all have to fight....
Yesterday was a very good day. 💙 Blessed be the Badger State and brave Senator Booker!
And kudos to Florida Dem voters for vastly overperforming in two ruby-red districts, FL-1 and FL-6!
How perfectly poetic is it that the racist piece of shit’s record was beaten by a black man from the north?
Divine symmetry and synchronicity. You don’t often see this sort of thing in our political landscape.
Strom Thurmond had a mixed-race daughter. He took advantage of a 16 year old girl who worked in his family home.
Right wing men seem to be predators, it's a defining feature apparently of their fake Christianity.
Booker invoked that MLK concept of the moral arc of the universe bending toward what is right...and mentioned in Maddow that it wasn't his original intention but as he got to 20 hrs said it became more so a thought about getting across that line...but then he kept going for another 40 mins. It was inspiring to witness.
Karma is sometimes a bit late ,but never a no show !👍
No matter when I tuned into Cory Booker's awesome (in every sense of the word) speech, I was inspired, enraged, motivated, and brought to tears. And I tuned in many times. THIS! MORE FUCKING COW BELL AND MORE FIGHT FROM DEMOCRATS! Thank you Adam Schiff for heeding the call. And now I will once again call my Senators and plead with them to do the same or get out of the way.
What's the deal with the other senator from California? Where is Alex Padilla?
Actually, I ask, where are Padilla and Schiff? Schiff was a skunk during the primary and only got my vote in the general because of the opposition. I never voted for Dianne in the primaries, but I have to hand it to her, from 2003 on she was always where I wanted her to be. Barbara Boxer was always in the right place. Butler was a loss. Apparently, both Padilla and Schiff support genocide. We went from two senators from Northern California to two senators from Southern California, and it shows. I apologize, Arne.
Alex Padilia is the only one who answered my emails. I didn't vote for Adam in the Primary; I thought Katy Porter was a better candidate. I did vote for him in the General Election. In the House, my Rep. is a Republican. Doesn't answer any emails and when I called his DC office, all I got was "sorry I missed your call." Vince Fong is a waste.
Actually, Barbara Lee was the best candidate. But who ran against Fong in '24? I sent money to a number of Democratic candidates (Tran, Min, etc.) last year. If I know who ran against Fong, I can keep my eyes out for a candidate in 26, and maybe your state assembly member and senator. I don't have a lot of money (we're on SSA) but I do what I can. Lee's replacement in the House, Simon, is outstanding! I can't believe how good she is, and I was very dubious at the start.
Democrat Marisa Wood ran in the Primary but there was not a Democrat in the General Election. In my opinion, Katy Porter was the best candidate. I watched her when she was in the House and she was very good. Always had facts and figures to use against the Repubs.
Without a doubt Katy is a star. But Barbara (she was my rep for over 20 years) was sole congressperson who voted against the illegal invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001. Everyone else, D & R, supported Bush. But Barbara stood up. She and Katy are probably the same, but I've seen Barbara vote the vote. It's too bad, I didn't get any emails from Marisa Wood for the primary.
Due respect to Barbara Lee, but she was about to turn 79. Having had Dianne Feinstein die in office at the age of 90, the last thing we needed was another Senator who was older. Someone younger and more vital was necessary.
Does she represent you? Bernie seems to be doing okay. Dianne stayed too long, but it was only the last five years, and she was often too conservative for me. Where exactly do you live? In Barbara's district?
I wrote to both of them during the countdown to the vote on the CR and heard back from both. Sometimes, being outfront and flashy is the way to go. Sometimes, it's working BTS. Depends. Each of them have their own strengths.
Churning in his urn!😂🤪
Burning and spinning on the Devils rotisserie hopefully!🤞
“Welcome” to the NEXT RECESSION.
Most of the past recessions in the U.S were caused by speculation and greed.
This one will be caused by ignorance and incompetence.
This is what happens when we elect to the office of President a person who is a liar, a fraud, a con, and incompetent in “all things business”, a person who has filled his Cabinet with ignorant, incompetent scum.
Like most recessions, this one began in New England (it began in early February), will roll down to the Mid-Atlantic and will then roll all the way out to the West Coast.
America’s Disgrace Trump is leading our country to financial disaster.
I mean, its liberation day. Lets just see what happens to the market today and tomorrow as idiot pushes his bullshit out to the world.
Maybe… this so called Liberation Day is just a euphemism for Own the Libs Day… who knows?
And then faux news Harris Faulkner dared to imply that 401k people (retirees) should do the war effort - “Look, when this nation used to go to war, people in this country would support the war effort with their materials at home and making things for weaponry and all of that. We gotta do 100 percent buy-in over this bumpy period.”
So screw your end of life savings and retirements and take one for the team! You’re old, disposable and we need your money! JFC. Has everyone with a microphone lost their ever loving minds!
Donald postponed his announcement until after the markets closed. He didn't want the spectacle of the Dow shedding hundreds of points with every sentence out of his anusmouth.
And like most modern recessions, was caused by a Republican led administration
That's just it. The only thing this moronic turd is good at is tearing things down that were working just fine before he got reelected. It's part of the destroying us from within plan as ordered by Cousin Vlady. Now his assholiness is demanding that the US remove French from the products we export to Canada. Like that's going to happen. Hell, he can't even speak without murdering the King's English. If only some of the Congessional GOP had the balls to call him out on his daily lunacies.
If french is removed from products coming into Canada, they won't be saleable. Thanks to Quebec's language laws, which are bs to most Canadians, but in this case, it works out.
Not only that, these sewer clowns are demanding that Europe comply with the US' anti-DEI regulations. The European countries' reactions to the anti-DEI demands have been nothing short of hilarious.
I just heard that! Christ on a cracker!!
This one coming will absolutely be caused by greed. Not everyone in his cabinet is ignorant. The ones that scare me the most are the smart ones.
And just in case you wanted to know more about the incompetence and faux business acumen, George Takei was apparently on the apprentice yrs ago and his NDA just expired, so he may be talking soon.
I live in Oregon and I kept getting offered $100 to be a block captain in Wisconsin! The spam texting and phone calls I continued to get from Wisconsin were nonstop. I don’t know what’s going on there with the Republicans, but it’s certainly bent, if not crooked if Elon is soliciting Oregonians to be block captains. How is any of that lawful, whether I live in Wisconsin or not?
Spam calls should be going immediately to your phones spam folder- you aren’t even aware if them until you go to delete all your trash
After 25+ hours on his feet and speaking powerfully to the moment, Cory was interviewed by Rachel Maddow and was fully able to speak intelligently and, as she pointed out, still able to form full, relevant, and clear sentences. Something donvict can’t accomplish under the best of circumstances.
As a practical matter thatʻs the type of person we need as POTUS. Stamina to be effective in a crisis. Putting a pin in this for 2028.
I like Donvict! Great name for Donny
Can you imagine Orange Turd doing 25 hours? of anything? or even 25 minutes of rational talk?
Elon apparently doesn't know the difference between a cheesehead and a shit head!
Ha! But WE DO!!!! 😊
😂😂😂
Well, he should by now cause he sure did cut the cheese on this go round
I cried watching the end clip❤️
Also, how many hungry people (or animals) could Elmo have fed the money he wasted, trying to buy an election? Fuck that soulless sociopath!
He wants to go to Mars. Thatʻs all he cares about. His bro friend Peter Thiel is planning to have his head frozen upon his death so he can be resurrected in a later time of space travel. It is tragic because they could certainly fund space research while also doing more for the needy here on earth, but they have no empathy.
Head frozen? like a bag of broccoli?
Oh i’m sure that’ll work!
Wasn't Disney cryogenically frozen? Is that an urban legend?
Ted Williams was, by his kooky son.