Fast forward to today, and Senator Cory Booker is on a marathon speech of his own. As of now, he's surpassed 19 hours and counting.
If Booker keeps this up, he might just outlast Thurmond's record. Imagine that: turning a symbol of obstruction into one of progress.
Did you know that the longest solo filibuster in U.S. Senate history was by Senator Strom Thurmond, clocking in at 24 hours and 18 minutes in 1957? He was trying to block the Civil Rights Act—a move as outdated as his views.
There was no fight. There was capitulation.
we 💓 a slight goth phase
Wrote about the morally vacuous, strategically unsound (and also wrong!) anti-“woke”diagnosis everyone’s still sticking with, even in the midst of civil rights apocalypse.
Thank you, this is brilliant.
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WaPo quote: “A Washington Post review of Kennedy's public appearances found he also promoted these centers as particularly beneficial for Black youth. "Every Black kid is now just standard put on Adderall, on SSRIs, benzos which are known to induce violence and those kids are going to have a chance to go somewhere and get re-parented, to live in a community where there'll be no cellphones, no screens. You'll actually have to talk to people," Kennedy said in a June 2024 episode of the 19Keys online show”
Even the most disturbing RFK Jr. headline always manages to have a detail inside creepier than you could have imagined. I’m sorry, did you just say Black kids should have a chance to get “re-parented”???? Gift link wapo.st/4hW2xGI
I need people to play attention to this 👇 and to what I said on Thursday
www.marketplace.org/2025/02/13/t...
The destruction of politics is coming for the economy
Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
I put it on my calendar. I need to get involved in things again. Just so I don’t go crazy reading about the things I can’t change
Is sassy gay a skillset others would value?
Agreed. It isn’t about following the rules. It’s simply about doing something wildly illegal or improper, installing cronies to make sure it happens, then pardoning everyone if they keep acting illegally until the original illegal goal is fulfilled
Of course.
What fresh hell will tomorrow bring?
Wait wait wait also they've added "accessibility" to DEI now as a thing that is banned? To what extent does the screenshot amount to flat-out ordering grantees to violate the ADA??
Everyone spare a thought for your local “DC friend” who is being absolutely firehosed with insane questions under the assumption they have magical inside information. It’s a frankly insane amount of unpaid emotional labor going on rn.
I’m here for the queerness. More queerness.
Also, please, please, please turn on alt text as a default in accessibility settings to demonstrate inclusive posting. We have had a terrible time getting people to make their images accessible to low visibility and disabled users.
Took the day off because. Well, because.
Heading to my folks tomorrow, hopefully that will bring me out of this funk I've been in for a week.
Starter packs are genius, but I was surprised there wasn't a list of them for people to find.
So I built it:
blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
The website monitors the packs being shared and adds the ones it finds to the database.
Missed your stater pack? Message me and I'll get it added.
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I just searched for one of these, hoping I get notified when you complete it. Thank you!
I'd love to be able to share a feed on 16th century sheep herding techniques! ☺️🐑🐏
If you begin with “no disrespect”, everyone is expecting some disrespect. You better deliver.
