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I'd just like to clarify some things about Senator Cory Booker's marathon Senate speech in protest of the present administration and everything they are doing to the American people.

Senator Booker was NOT allowed to sit down, eat, or use the bathroom during his speech. Sitting or leaving the room to use the bathroom would be considered yielding the floor. Eating would have interfered with his speaking and the person who has the senate floor must continue to speak, except when listening to questions that they will then answer.

He only took occasional sips of water.

The person who previously held the record for longest speech on the Senate floor did have bathroom breaks and also did things like read from the encyclopedia.

Senator Booker did not do that. His speech was to point out the damage that this administration is doing and he stayed on that subject.

Senator Booker's speech did reach many people. It wasn't a silly stunt that was done so that he could take the record for longest speech. He wanted to show the country that democrats will do something to bring attention to the problems we are facing. That democrats are listening to them.

Senator Cory Booker spoke for 25 hours and 4 minutes to "make good trouble."

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Winter has arrived on Poob.

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#you cal them burger buns but you don’t call them burger patties (via @robotslenderman)

friend, I have some exciting news about what we call ground beef patties in the US

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The new, updated version of my Dream Library print is available here with 3 background colour options!

Which would you most want? I would personally love to read the potentially award winning book that I occasionally have vague ideas about writing..

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“how did you get into writing” girl nobody gets into writing. writing shows up one day at your door and gets into you

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just as a thing, EVEN IF you believe that "if you have nothing to fear, you have nothing to hide" bullshit, "I am forbidden from even accidentally disclosing information about my clients" is a pretty decent rebuttal

and if you're thinking, "oh, maybe they just wanted to see his phone because they didn't know he was an attorney or that stuff is privileged," NOPE

While in the interrogation room, Makled said, a man in plain clothes entered and began speaking to him. He said he recalls the man telling him: "We know you're a lawyer. We know you take on big cases." Makled said he responded: "I said, 'I’m not a famous lawyer. Let’s get to the bottom. What's the issue here?' "

they then harassed him into letting them see his contact list (but only after he refused to let them see his privileged texts with his clients)

Lawyer for U-M protester held at airport; refused to give feds his phone

Dearborn attorney Amir Makled was detained and questioned at Detroit Metro Airport about his clients and asked to surrender his cellphone.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) stated that electronic device searches are infrequent and unrelated to political beliefs, focusing on national security threats.

Makled said he believes he was targeted due to his involvement in cases that challenge the current administration of President Donald Trump.

Plus probably his name & skin colour

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Schwarzenegger winning seemed like the most embarrassing thing that would ever happen in politics at the time and now he’s to the left of every elected Republican and a few Democrats and just makes videos going “young men, my fadda was a Nazi and he was a contemptible loosah”

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note that in America we call ground beef "hamburger"

this is why we have things like Hamburger Helper, which is "stuff that stretches out ground meat into a full meal"

and other stuff like Hamburger Soup, which is the same concept but in soup form

and all of this is because the original hamburger was a Hamburg steak (a ground beef patty) served in sandwich form

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Leonid Pasternak  (Ukrainian, 1862–1945) - The Torments of Creative Work

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i think we should be talking about the semi-recent advancements in cystic fibrosis treatment like all the time every day. there hasn’t been a drug like this since AZT medications for HIV infection it is truly fucking miraculous and very important

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do you guys wanna see my favorite video on the internet yes you do

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Stargate Atlantis as text posts (1/?) | (SG-1)

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I’m watching Splash (1984) which is a romcom about a guy who falls in love with a mermaid, and when she chooses a human name she chooses Madison and guy says “that’s not a real name, but alright” which seems to imply that Madison was not a name until at least the 80’s and all girls named Madison are actually named after the mermaid. thought you should know

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One under-appreciated breed of fic writer are the ones who hyperfocus on logistics to the exclusion of all canon shortcuts, and thus usually strike upon an awesome way to flesh out the worldbuilding or characters.

Like, I’m not necessarily talking realism here since often it’s still pretty far from realistic, but more like, “someone has to be running spies in this fantasy kingdom, and we’ve seen the whole royal court, so which background character is it? How does that change these three major interactions?” Or “real life historical nobility did in fact have some things to do that were like jobs, how does this human disaster cope with running an estate?” Or “there’s no reason for a sci-fi robot detective to know how to whitewater kayak, where’d she learn?” Or “if this guy is serving the emperor directly he has to be way high up in the space empire servant hierarchy, why is he doing this menial task for someone else? What’s his motive? Does he perhaps have the secret space telepathy?”

Anyway I’m always DELIGHTED to find a fic or writer who asks these questions because the fics themselves are universally bangers.

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I promise you, the answer is not Mr. Darcy... read all the options before you vote!

Estimated Sexual Abilities of Austen Men if you need a reference