Ben Royce 🇺🇦<p>Happening now:</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NJ</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democrat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democrat</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CoryBooker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CoryBooker</span></a> is delivering a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/filibuster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>filibuster</span></a> in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Senate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Senate</span></a></p><p>For nonAmericans, it simply means you block all business as long as you can speak</p><p>He started at 7 PM Monday, and spoke through the night, and is still going as of 1 PM today</p><p>We need *a lot* more than that but it's a start</p><p><a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/04/01/nx-s1-5347318/cory-booker-senate-speech" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">npr.org/2025/04/01/nx-s1-53473</span><span class="invisible">18/cory-booker-senate-speech</span></a></p><p>livestream: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2utlMxAwtE" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=v2utlMxAwtE</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>edit: it's not even a filler filibuster, where you read the dictionary or something empty, he's still on point the whole speech</p>