30 minutes away from breaking the record. Senator #CoryBooker is still speaking about the importance of the US #Constitution & standing up for the #rights of all #people, especially those who are being targeted by a savage few with the #money & #power to do so.

#resist #Trump #AbuseOfPower #autocracy #tyranny #TrumpCoup

#democracy #USpol #Senate

And he has done it. Senator #CoryBooker has broken Strom Thurmond’s 1957 anti-civil rights filibuster.

“I am not doing this because of him, I am doing this in spite of him.”

“I’m not quite ready to wrap this up yet.”

#resist #Trump #money #power #AbuseOfPower #autocracy #tyranny #TrumpCoup 
#democracy #USpol #Senate #Constitution #rights

Senator #CoryBooker has now entered his 22nd hour speaking on the #Senate floor, criticizing the #Trump admin.

If he makes it to 7:19PM ET, he will have surpassed the all time record in US history.

Senator Strom Thurmond’s 1957 civil rights debate on the Senate floor holds the record at 24 hours & 18 minutes long.

#resist #AbuseOfPower #autocracy #tyranny #TrumpCoup
youtube.com/watch?v=rCUK2VbdLS…

U.S. Senator #CoryBooker addresses the #Senate floor. Booker, a #Democrat from New Jersey, has promised to speak "as long" as he's physically able on the Senate floor Monday night into Tuesday morning, criticizing the #Trump admin.

Hell yeah.

#resist #AbuseOfPower #autocracy #tyranny #TrumpCoup
youtube.com/watch?v=rCUK2VbdLS…

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

npr.org/2025/04/01/nx-s1-53473…

livestream: youtube.com/watch?v=v2utlMxAwt…

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

The #Senate Select Cmte on #Intelligence hearing is a regular briefing intelligence ofcls provide #Congress on worldwide threats & was scheduled before #JeffGoldberg’s report from The Atlantic.

But the controversy is likely to dominate the session.

Testifying:

#DNI Tulsi Gabbard

#CIA Dir John Ratcliffe

Timothy D. Haugh, #NSA

#Defense Intelligence Agency dir Jeffrey A. Kruse

#FBI director Kash Patel

#NationalSecurity #USpol #geopolitics
c-span.org/event/senate-commit…

Exclusive: #Section230 May Finally Get Changed as Lawmakers Prep New Bill

By Paris Martineau

As early as next week, Senators plan to introduce the first bipartisan bill to repeal Section 230, the landmark #internet #law

Martineau spoke w/congressional aides to get the details of the ambitious effort, which internet experts described as akin to #extortion

#Congress #Senate
theinformation.com/articles/ex…

Senator #ChuckSchumer of NY, the Democratic leader, on Thurs broke w/many in his party & said he would vote for a Republican-written stopgap spending bill to keep federal funding flowing past a midnight deadline on Friday, making a forceful case for why #Democrats could not allow a shutdown that most of them have demanded. “A shutdown would give Donald #Trump, Elon #Musk & DOGE the keys to the city, state & country,” he said on the #Senate floor.

nytimes.com/live/2025/03/13/us…

#Trump to sign #ExecutiveOrder Thurs closing #Education Dept.

Trump to issue an EO Thurs directing his newly confirmed education secy to close the dept she now leads, 2 people familiar said.

A draft of the executive order that circulated on Wed recognizes that Trump does not have the #power to shutter the Education Dept. It would take an act of #Congress & 60 yes votes in the #Senate, which is unlikely given #Republicans hold only 53 seats.

#law #idiocracy #USpol
washingtonpost.com/education/2…