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One of the things Senator Cory #Booker described in the middle of the night is Trump's timeline for invoking the Insurrection Act & that chilling description kept me awake far longer.

On "Day One" Trump tasked Sec Def & Sec Hom Sec with a 90 DAY study & preparation timeline on the #InsurrectionAct, which will enable him to use the military within the country to round up & deport people, among other things.

Be advised that prep time is up on APRIL 20.

1/4 People are celebrating #Booker &the great #filibuster caper. That's fine. They're desperate for a hero w Schumer asleep at the wheel or rather driving drunk under the influence of #Zionist #fascism.

Did the record deserve to be broken and held by anyone other than a segregationist? Sure.

Please understand that ICE disappearing legal residents is directly related to #Zionism, to which Booker & many in Congress pledge allegiance with every vote & dollar every day.

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The thing you should know about Sen. Cory #Booker is that he's probably the NICEST guy in the Senate. Just a really great dude. (Sen. Sherrod Brown and Sen. Bob Casey were also super nice, but sadly both gone.)

Watched the last hour of Cory Booker’s marathon speech on TV in my living room, texting about it with my daughter, who was commuting to her teaching job in Japan, and watching the live stream on her phone on the train. Gen Z Americans especially needed to see someone do something, and #booker did that. What an impressive and passionate human being. Onward.

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‘At the exact moment when he surpassed the previous record – held by Republican senator Strom Thurmond, who gave a 24 hour and 18 minute long speech filibustering the Civil Rights Act in 1957 – #Booker forgave Thurmond for trying to block the protections that allowed him to be where he is today.

Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer then interrupted Booker to ask a question, telling him he’d broken the record.’

Guardian US Politics Live

Ok, so Cory #Booker wasn’t a familiar name to us Brits yesterday…but the man has shown us that there is someone other than Bernie Sanders and AOC from the Democrats who is willing to take a stand (quite literally for 24hrs now) for democracy in the face of #Trump’s fascist dismantling of the state.

Make it a record Cory!