2天前

Cory Booker breaks a 68-year-old Senate record with a 25-hour speech

www.npr.org /2025/04/01/nx-s1-5347318/cory-booker-senate-speech

Summary

Sen. Cory Booker spoke for 25 hours and 4 minutes on the Senate floor, breaking the 1957 record held by Strom Thurmond, to protest the Trump administration’s policies.

Starting at 7 p.m. Monday, Booker criticized Trump's actions on immigration, education, healthcare, and democracy.

Over a dozen Senate Democrats joined to support him. Unlike a filibuster, Booker’s speech wasn't tied to a specific bill.

His emotionally charged address drew over 115,000 livestream viewers and contrasted starkly with Thurmond’s segregationist stand decades ago.

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3天前

Cory Booker's anti-Trump speech on the Senate floor has lasted 13 hours and counting

www.npr.org /2025/04/01/nx-s1-5347318/cory-booker-senate-speech

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I am so glad a black man beat Strom Thurmond’s record, mostly because it would piss of Thurmond so much.
Edit: Like Jesse Owens at Hitler’s Olympics.
- And Thurmond’s record was for filibustering… the Civil Rights Act…
  Gross.

This is the baseline standard we should be expecting in these trying times. Extenuating circumstances call for extenuating measures, and our representatives need to start showing up for the job in visible and historic ways just like this. Set the standard and hold the line. Fascists are not honest negotiators.