"There's a room here in the Senate named after Strom Thurmond... I'm here despite his speech, I'm here because as powerful as he was, the people were more powerful." -Cory Booker as he eclipses Thurmond's record for the longest filibuster in US history.

5 calls has scripts for this: 5calls.org/issue/cr-con...

Very pleased to discover that Bluesky can replace my old primary use case for Twitter: "was that an earthquake." (And apparently, despite the fact that I'm now in Maine, the answer is...yes?)