Summary

Senator Cory Booker’s speech on TikTok live surpassed 350 million likes as he stood for over 25 hours speaking in the Senate chamber.

Booker broke Strom Thurmond’s record for the longest Senate speech, which lasted 24 hours and 18 minutes in 1957 to block civil rights legislation.

  • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Hopefully dems start doing this strategy to block actual policies from being passed.

    It’s really really important to understand that this was 100% performance, no legislation has been delayed or stopped as a result of this.

    We SHOULD encourage our reps to waste yhe legislature’s time, but ONLY when it actually impacts something.