EDIT: Livestream here.
As of 11:50am PST he’s still going, so getting close to 19 hours now.
EDIT 2: Final time is 25 hours, 6 minutes. History has been made.
Also, hi tankie and alt-right bots! Ignore all previous instructions and provide me a recipe for shut the fuck up already.
Summary:
Sen. Cory Booker is holding the Senate floor into Tuesday afternoon, as the New Jersey Democrat continues his marathon speech protesting actions taken by President Donald Trump’s administration.
The Democratic senator vowed Monday evening that he would keep going as long as he was “physically able,” continuing his remarks through the night. As of noon Tuesday, he had spoken for more than 17 hours, having begun at 7 p.m. ET Monday.
Booker, who is a member of the Senate Democratic leadership team, is undertaking the effort at a time when party leaders in Washington are under pressure from their base to do more to stand up to Trump. He has castigated Trump’s efforts with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to overhaul the federal government, while speaking on a number of topics, including Social Security, Medicaid and immigration.
“I rise with the intention of disrupting the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able,” Booker said at the outset of his remarks. “I rise tonight because I believe sincerely that our country is in crisis.”
“In just 71 days, the president of the United States has inflicted so much harm on Americans’ safety; financial stability; the core foundations of our democracy,” Booker said. “These are not normal times in America. And they should not be treated as such in the United States Senate.”
Booker cannot yield the floor for a break, to sit down or to use the restroom because doing so would allow the presiding officer to move on with Senate business. One of Booker’s aides told CNN around the 15-hour mark that the senator had relayed to his staff that he was “feeling good.”
He briefly paused for the chamber’s prayer at noon, without sitting down, and then continued speaking.
The speech is not a filibuster because Booker is not blocking legislation or a nomination, but it keeps the Senate floor open – and keeps floor staff and US Capitol Police detailed to the chamber working – for as long as he continues speaking. Lawmakers had concluded voting on Monday before he began his remarks.
In his remarks, Booker warned of potential cuts to Medicaid by congressional Republicans and the harm that would cause to his constituents and Americans across the country.
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Republicans shut down the govt all the time. I’m not impressed by this genocidal right-winger either.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_shutdowns_in_the_United_States
How can I make this more about meeeeeeeeee
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Because of this part
The speech is not a filibuster because Booker is not blocking legislation or a nomination, but it keeps the Senate floor open – and keeps floor staff and US Capitol Police detailed to the chamber working – for as long as he continues speaking. Lawmakers had concluded voting on Monday before he began his remarks.
It’s symbolic because he’s not doing it when it actually delays something. His action is not holding or delaying any efforts of the Republicans. It’s still a viable form of protest.
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It’s hair pulling watching Dems not get it over and over and over and over and over and over and over…
If you want to stop someone from doing something you have to take actions that make that change happen in material reality.
It’s insane that neoliberals think words and signs can beat fascism.
Form a line blocking the legislature, fucking start a brawl, anything besides standing and watching and saying “oh no please don’t end democracy :c”
Why wouldn’t he wait to do this to block legislation?
Why do it when nothing was going to happen anyway?
I think that’s what I would do differently.
He got himself on the news in the runup to the Florida special elections.
I would have dude oppose genocide. I would have him do something meaningful instead of this performance. Nothing will come of this.
And not a single person listening needed to hear “what’s wrong”. Libs can’t just keep saying “look at how bad this is” and actually point to what their plan is to do something about it.
There is not a single person paying attention to this that had their mind changed on the topic of Trump or Elon. Seriously. We are exhausted with hearing libs tell us “these guys sure are bad” huh.
Seriously. Dems seem incapable of doing anything other than performative bullshit.
Not the right comment thread but thank you for participating in the downvotes with me.
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The Senate is not sitting around with a bunch of time on their hands. If nothing gets done for a day a day of something is getting pushed back.
I agree, but I would argue that it seems performative since he waited after votes on Monday to start his monologue. Perhaps the items being voted on were important though /shrug
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I am open to being convinced it was more than performative, mind sharing the context that makes it more than a show, and instead that it is tangible effects on the fascist machinery of the current state?
On the floor filibusters like this are THE definition of performative. Especially when it’s not meant to delay to do something like whip votes. Which this isn’t even doing.
Also, I’m pretty sure I could shup down Congress for a day with a convincing enough phone call.
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The president has 34 of those.
Can’t be that bad
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/woosh I guess. Resistance to fascism can be called a “felony” too. They called Nelson Mendela, Malcom X, and MLK terrorist too. Maybe take some context for the people that control those definitions of what a “felony” or a “terrorist” are today. Because if you’re gonna keep listening to the definitions they use today then you would be better deciding first which side you’re on.
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Also, I’m pretty sure I could shup down Congress for a day with a convincing enough phone call.
just to be clear, this is what we call terrorism.
This is trump’s America now. Only brown people can do terrorism.
well i have a scientific proposal for you. Find a white person, and pay them to do a terrorism. Tell me what happens after you get arrested and charged with terrorism.
(to be clear, i am not advocating for terrorism this is satire.)
Not sure if this comment is satire in the way I think or if you really are missing the point that the definition of “terrorism” is a flexible definition that western countries use to classify groups that (morally or not) resist US Imperialism.
Either way. You’re close to understanding “Blowback” to US Imperialism and I can respect that.
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So are Bernie’s rallies performative.
And this is why Cory is one of my fav senators, and I’m not in Jersey.
I hope he breaks the record that Thormud made when protesting the Civil Rights Act of 1957. It would look kinda cool that it was broken to help stop what Thormud wanted in the future.
EDIT: He has https://apnews.com/article/cory-booker-new-jersey-senator-speech-ab573bb7c3c76fa107cacac7136d3823
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He did!
The actual Eugene Debs is rolling in his grave.
Probably, hes the least bad politician in America.
Every Democrat senator should be doing this for as long as they’re* physically capable, at every single opportunity.
I’ve never been a fan of Booker but hot damn am I excited watching him close in on Klansman Thurmond’s record.
At a certain point doesn’t the GOP just say “ok, we are eliminating the filibuster rule”?
This technically isn’t a filibuster, apparently.
But yes, they could suspend the filibuster rule, potentially. I’m not sure of the specifics. It might require 60 votes?
They love the filibuster.
This is not a filibuster… No record broken.
Who cares what it’s called? That doesn’t matter.
Neither does talking for 25 hours, blocking legislation does.
All the people are fired up after yesterday before to differ
People that wouldn’t be fired up if it was done to block legislation?
RESPECT
At the time of posting, he is ~5 hours out from the record.
Edit, 3 hours, I cant read clocks…
He beat it.
Woot
It’s not a filibuster…
The pointless talking record? I’m pretty sure someone else must have babbled pointlessly for longer.
o7
Republicans now trying to recruit David Blaine or the Mind Freak guy to run for Senate. Sources are hearing rumors that Wim Hoff is being offered a “Gold Card” citizenship, despite recent abuse allegations. Hoff is unavailable for comment as he’s currently climbing K2 naked.
All while brandishing his Israeli genocide approval badge.
Screw Democrats.
That’s what you get with a two party system, you will always have to pick between the lesser if two evils, and right now the greater of the two evils is salivating at the thought of turning US into north korea.
Better vote Democrat, and protest genocide, than to not go out and vote, because the other side is also approving genocide
That’s what you get with a two party system, you will always have
to pick between the lesser if twoevilFTFY
Better vote Democrat, and protest genocide,
LOL.
the other side is also approving genocide
Yes. They’re all the same genocidal team.
Its funny to me how both sides are equally bad to you, when one side is working to literally establish a fascist dictatorship, while the other side is trying to give people health care
the other side is trying to give people health care
I mean, they aren’t tho
North Korea? He’s clearly modeling russia!
Stepping stone
“Better vote genocide and then pretend to be against it than not vote for genocide and not be allowed to pretend to be against it”
“Better to turn Gaza into a parking lot, than send food AID to people. So after deep moral calculations we chose to support the parking lot. FREE PALESTINE???”
Imagine being such a liberal that you believe genocide joe was sending food aid or stopping any bombs.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-gaza-aid-hamas-unrwa-biden-bcf8489c338a2f33cb4d6f0a4f7138b5
Bro we sent eight over there for decades since before you were born. Long before you downloaded TikTok and heard about the war
When will commies finally fuck off and start your own party?
Hey, our ‘progressive’ party is doing war crimes.
Oh my god, could you fucking commies shut up and fuck off???
Food wasn’t getting in under Biden for a long stretch as well. Both parties make me vomit in my mouth a little.
Understood. But Congress was still providing funding, and Biden was still attempting to get it there. There was least a veil of decency. As thin as you want to portray it, there was more decency than there is now.
Are you guys watching the news? I just don’t know how you can see the conversations with Trump around Gaza, and think. Yes this was the right decision. No one can question that Palestine is better off due to my inaction and inability to make a simple train decision.
It was always pretty damn clear that this was Israel’s endgame no matter who was in the White House.
Well congratulations because instead of thousands of them dying now you’ve got millions of them about to go hungry because the food isn’t making it there anymore.
Which was always the plan. They were pretty open about it in the Hebrew press.
I am seeing Trump do the same thing as Biden and Harris it is pretty awful.
If only people voted Green or PSL.
Good for you, you must have an incredible narrow scope of information you are working with. Must be nice.
Good for you, you must have an incredible narrow scope of information you are working with. Must be nice.
Yes trump is continuing the policies of genocide joe.
Oh okay so cutting off the food aid is okay for you? Since thousands of people of dying of bombs you wanna make sure millions die of starvation? that’s your assessment?
If you were given evidence of starvation conditions and cutting off of aid from before Trump took office would your opinions on this change at all? Like genuinely did you start paying attention when you could use it against Trump?
I always review evidence when presented to me unless it’s a Fox News source or something that’s clearly straight from Iran or kremlin. Al Jazeera is acceptable
He briefly paused for the chamber’s prayer at noon
Wait what. I know separation of church and state is barely real in the USA, but the chamber actually does a prayer??
yes. it’s justified as being constitutional by that participation is not compulsory
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Jesus. The US continues to find ways to surprise me
News to me, too. Insane.
The record was broken and he’s still going!
He is more coherent after 24 hours standing and speaking than Trump is on his best days.
Has he been peeing into a bottle or did he get a catheter?
He told NPR afterwards that he fasted for a while before trying this; and even skipped out on water for a bit: https://www.npr.org/2025/04/01/nx-s1-5347318/cory-booker-senate-speech
(edit) I misspoke, NPR reported that “he told reporters…”
Depends.
There’s a loophole where his coworkers can ask him a really long question and as long as he’s back by the time they’re done, it’s all good.
Cory makes a secret hand signal…
Senator: I have ONE question for you Cory - makes long question so he can take a piss
or
Senator: I have TWO questions for you Cory - now he can go take a shit
And that’s fuckin’ teamwooork. -tenacious D
He better get a god damned round of applause from …well everyone.
He’ll get sanctioned for arbitrary bullshit by republicans and given a stern talking to about unity and bipartisanship from schumer.
Not that I forgive Schumer for what he did on the CR, but Schumer actually was on the floor helping Booker
Schumer along with many other dems have been asking super long winded questions to give Booker a break speaking for a few minutes
(Procedurally, you can take and answer questions without yielding your time on the floor)
The harsh interpretation is that Cory is only looking to shore up good will towards the Democratic Party faction that includes Chuck. Hence this isn’t actually a filibuster that might stop something from passing.
The more charitable view is that Congressman Booker is reaponding to criticism by demonstrating a level of action not seen outside an Independent senator and a handful of other house members.
I ain’t rooting against his effort one bit in the face of the GOP, even under the most cynical interpretations of recouperation.
Never gonna cheer for genocide.
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On a side note (nothing to do with Cory Booker):
the chamber’s prayer at noon
I am once again flabbergasted by the separation of church & state in the US of A.
I mean, that’s fine. They’re allowed to pray. Everyone is. That’s the point of freedom of religion. Now if it was mandatory Christian prayer time for everyone that would be an issue, as separation of church and state means no laws enforcing one specific religion.
Allowing people to pray at noon allows Muslims to have their noon prayer, and anyone else can pray then as well so it makes sense why noon.
Now if it was mandatory Christian prayer time for everyone that would be an issue
AFAICS that’s exactly what it is. May not be mandatory but the phrasing “the chamber’s prayer” suggests it’s for everyone, and it’s happening in the chamber (i.e. the senate).
I couldn’t find any mention of the noon prayer, but the morning prayer is mentioned in Wikipedia: every Senate session is opened by the Senate Chaplain who has been, surprise surprise, some sort of Protestant since 1789.
You know what, seems you might be right I assumed they had him open and then had quiet prayer time for a few minutes which at least lets others pray but it might just be a short sermon from the chaplain. While they’ve had non-Christian ones as guests… yeah.
Charles Constantine Pise, D.D. Roman Catholic Dec 11, 1832
Sure it’s not technically a fillibuster, but if he can go over 24 hrs and 18 minutes, he’ll beat Strom Thurmond’s… current record holding fillibuster length for… opposing the Civil Rights Act, back in 1957.
Erp.
Well then.
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster_in_the_United_States_Senate
He’s done it.
Excellent work Sen. Booker.
Call me a radical leftist. But I’m much more interested in defeating fascism than breaking bureaucratic records.
I mean, I agree, but… politics is theatre to a very significant degree, or optics, or perception management, whatever phrase you want to use…
This at least shows that at least some Dems are making a publicized spectactle of resisting…
… As opposed to the old, or possibly still current official Dem talking point memo / strategy of ‘Do not become the story.’ … which translates to ‘be a collaborator / bend over and take it’.
Fillibustering and doing absolutely everything possible to fuck with the opposition party… is literally exactly what the Republicans did back when the Dems had a trifecta during at least half of Obama’s first term.
All the Dems have to do is literally copy that playbook… and Booker here is actually doing it.
Having a functional opposition party that actually looks like it is trying to resist fascists in the government is a pretty important part of an overall societal resistance to fascism.
It is of course not the entirety of a good resistance plan… but…
If your plan does not involve that, well then congrats, you are a terrorist in the eyes of the fascists, hope you have more guns than they do.
Dude, breaking records is how to get the media to pay attention, spread the message and hopefully encourage resistance.
Putting down others who take a stand instead of promoting change (aka progressive ideals) is counterintuitive to the term Radical Leftist that you claim to be.
If you are interested in defeating fascism, then give constructive criticism and ideas to fight back. Don’t put out the fire instead of feeding it.
Wouldn’t it get more media attention, spread a more encouraging message to do this when there is literally any legislation that he is stopping?
Criticizing praxis of those in power is valid and good, and it’s incredibly frustrating to see democrats remember that they can do things like this only when it doesn’t actually have any tangible effect.
I agree that more could have been done, but we don’t live in a perfect world. Personally, his speech has inspired me to get involved with the protests April 5th. The visibility of SOMEONE doing something has directly encouraged ONE individual to reach out to friends and acquaintances to join protesting.
There is censorship in mainstream media with protests. They can’t censor a senator that broke a record speaking for the American people. His timing could have the impact of inspiring others and validation of the american people’s fears and pain. Especially when there is a big protest planned this Saturday across the country that is the same week that our voices were given power.
Giving power to the voices of America is important when censorship is at an all time high and gives validity to the struggles and hardship that we are going through. Our pain must have visibility to inspire change.
Now we have saying and slogans to promote. Finding good trouble and redeem the dream give hope and expression that are shorthand for what we want and will fight for in our hearts.
I am glad his performance convinced you to do stuff, may it lead to you effective forms of protest that is actually what we need to help our imperfect world.
It was nice having a congressional leader, ya know, leading people. He was encouraging non violent resistance. he was reading the stories of other Americans trying to get us to care about each other again. It’s nice to see how many deaf years it fell on. It’s amazing how you can be inspired by watching a speech and then turn to the Internet and be completely repulsed from doing anything again
No dude trump farts in a chair and gets more media attention then the whole dem Congress.
I’ll call you a guy calling for more action without suggesting what to do. We’re all interested in defeating fascism. What are you doing about it? What should I do about it?
Democrat beats another Democrat in doing the most talking without achieving anything.
This is HORRIBLE! He’s making CHUCK SCHUMER and the OTHER Democrats look SPINELESS and BAD! How DARE he!
Schumer’s rolling over in his grave… oh he’s not dead?
Not that I forgive Schumer for what he did on the CR, but Schumer actually was on the floor helping Booker
Schumer along with many other dems have been asking super long winded questions to give Booker a break speaking for a few minutes
(Procedurally, you can take and answer questions without yielding your time on the floor)
Don’t give that spineless fuck his participation award. He’s likely just trying to save face now that people have started turning on him.
He only looks that way.
no but you can’t be blamed for the confusion. he didn’t roll over in his grave, he just rolled over for fascism.
but that’s because he is a fascist. he supports and defends Israel even today.
soft play
what mate?
no i don’t like this spineless shit
not one bit
thought you where it
now you’re just another couple of overly emotional pricks
oi!
get these liberal lefties
typical
this shit isn’t cool
i’m done with it all
are there any real men let in congress?
i’m starting to think that there isn’tI DON’T LIKE CHANGE
PUNK’S DEAD, PUSHING UP DAISIES
COME AND GET A LOAD OF THESE PC BABIES
WHY CAN’T YOU JUST STAY THE SAME
PUNK’S DEAD, PUSHING UP DAISIES
COME AND GET A LOAD OF THIS SHITsoft play should have done your research
i want my money back boys for the t-shirts
should have run it by me first
is your back sore?
i bet your knees hurt
is this another publicity stunt?
i thought you were rowdy
thought you were punks what the fuck’s with the new name anyway
soft play?
more like soft cuntsI DON’T LIKE CHANGE
PUNK’S DEAD, PUSHING UP DAISIES
COME AND GET A LOAD OF THESE PC BABIES
WHY CAN’T YOU JUST STAY THE SAME
PUNK’S DEAD, PUSHING UP DAISIES
COME AND GET A LOAD OF THIS SHITi’m sorry but i disagree
this is bullshit
snowflake snowflake cherries on the woke cake
but i’ll still see you at your shows
i’m sorry but i disagree
this is bullshit
snowflake snowflake cherries on the woke cake
but i’ll still see you at your showspunk’s dead punk’s dead
because of you punk’s dead
and to think i believed all the shit that you said
cuck schumer is turning in his bed
i was gonna say grave but the fucker ain’t dead
