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@legopuzzlescats90.bsky.social
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Thurmond was the same age as Booker when he set the record Senator Cory Booker just broke.

Thurmond was afforded a bathroom break and read from the encyclopedia. Booker held the floor the entire time and delivered a consistent, cogent speech for more than 24 hours.

Incredible.
April 1, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"
April 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Cory Booker ending his record-breaking speech on the Senate floor:

“Let's get in good trouble."

What a fantastic way to cap off his epic 25 hour and 5 minute speech.

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
April 2, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Thread: How can you know which autism orgs to support & trust, & which ones to avoid like the plague(s that some of them are actively enabling)? Those we endorse follow the guidelines outlined in our Useful Autism Organizations explainer:

thinkingautismguide.com/useful-autis... #neurodiversity 1/
April 2, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Senator Cory Booker concludes his record-breaking Senate Floor speech after 25 hours

Massive applause for Booker
April 2, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Cory Booker just gave the longest speech in the history of Congress and concluded by apologizing to everyone who had to stay up all night keeping the chamber open and operating.
April 2, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Someone asked me how we stop this. We start with showing up on April 5. And then we keep showing up. We mobilize mass resistance of the American people and we take back our power and our democracy. But it starts Saturday. So join us. Find an event near you:
HandsOff2025.com
April 1, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.

What will you do?
April 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥
April 1, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Not an April Fool's joke: my friends and former colleagues at HHS are learning about RIFs in their agencies this morning.

More to follow, but not good for people depending on the services providing by ACF, ACL, AHRQ, ASPR, CDC, CMS, FDA, HRSA, IHS, NIH, the Office of the Secretary, and SAHMSA.
April 1, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
April 2, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Congratulations to Judge Susan Crawford on her victory, and to the people of Wisconsin for electing a judge who believes in the rule of law and protecting our freedoms.
April 2, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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First: *why was he removed? On what authority was he arrested? The new EO (discussed previously) that is probably unlawful? Or….? Cause the last traffic arrest was in 2019, so no reason to arrest in 2025.

www.cnn.com/2025/04/01/p...
Trump administration concedes Maryland father from El Salvador was mistakenly deported and sent to mega prison | CNN Politics
The Trump administration conceded in a court filing Monday that it mistakenly deported a Maryland father to El Salvador “because of an administrative error” and argued it could not return him because ...
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April 2, 2025 at 4:57 AM
I had a meltdown & subsequent panic attack 7 hours ago & I still can’t handle any noise. I really hope this doesn’t happen Saturday. I’ve got to be out there, but I have to be able to function & handle it. Some people have no idea how hard it is to function & handle simple stuff when you’re autistic
April 1, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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The president's latest executive order directs the Dept of Education to be closed, and withholds federal funding from schools that support DEI. @autisticadvocacy.org "condemns this executive order, as well as any further attempts to defund or dismantle the DoE."

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ASAN Condemns Trump’s Executive Order on the Department of Education - Autistic Self Advocacy Network
On March 20th, the Trump administration released an executive order calling on the Secretary of Education to take steps to close the Department of Education. The executive order further directs the Se...
autisticadvocacy.org
March 21, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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AOC: What they like to call as radical, I believe is common sense.

I believe that when a person gets sick, they shouldn’t go bankrupt in the wealthiest country in the history of the world. Common sense

I believe that a minimum wage should cover the minimum cost to live. Common sense...
March 20, 2025 at 9:33 PM
An NRA car next to my ACLU car at work 🤦‍♀️ I hate it here! Fu€k N@zi5!
March 20, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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And here we are, with our own Orange Julius.
March 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Watch who and what they are attacking first.
March 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Today is day 57.
March 19, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Musk’s staffers have entered an independent government agency by force. Employees from DOGE are now inside the Washington offices of the United States Institute of Peace. This comes just days after agency representatives were unable to gain access to the building on Friday being blocked by lawyers.
March 17, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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This is a coup! U.S. Institute for Peace called the DC police on the Musk team members in an effort to stop them from trespassing because the institute has control of its own building and the land it sits on. But instead, the DC police allowed them to enter and kicked out the institute’s officials.
March 18, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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The Trump administration plans to eliminate the EPA’s scientific research arm and lay off more than 1,000 chemists, biologists, and other scientists.
March 18, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Reminder: DOGE isnt real. Its a fake department.

Fugazi
March 18, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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The trade war threatens to decouple the world’s top LNG buyer and seller.
China hasn’t imported LNG from the US for 40 days, the longest gap in almost two years. #EconSky
March 18, 2025 at 1:49 AM