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.

They found two mass graves in the last month.

Graves full of children who did nothing wrong other than wanting to experience their own culture. Hundreds of Indigenous children who were taken away from their homes and families, forced into Residential “Schools” and beaten and raped and killed just for existing. The last school didn’t close until 1996.

Back when they first started these schools, our ancestors claimed it was “for their own good” and to “help them adjust to normal life” as if their way of life wasn’t normal, as if it was wrong. They weren’t allowed to celebrate their culture or even speak their own language.

They called them savages. Girls were treated as sexual objects at as young as 4. But the thing is it’s not *were* it’s *are*. The stereotypes never went away. Even now thousands of Indigenous people are left without clean water. Thousands of Indigenous women and children are MISSING and no one is looking for them. Important pieces of their culture and history are being torn down with every new construction project. And if any of them dare to say anything about it? They’re told to “sit down, shut up. We stopped killing you, you should be grateful.”

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Trigger Warning: Character Death

Title: Capture

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hello, internet.

i'm posting on here to ask for a little bit of help making bills, which include electricity, water, internet, and food. i live in a house where bills are divided by four, and for some reason i am still paying more than my other roommates, as well as dealing with their disrespect regarding my name and pronouns. here are some links if you are willing to help me, please reshare if you can:

KOFI: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/aurumandink

PayPal: paypal.me/spectacularspiderman (Please note this app still has my deadname for legal reasons.)

CashApp: $TheseusAsteria

i am a trans guy, and when i moved to georgia as most of you know, i had been using the name alex since it was close to my deadname and i hadn't yet had time to think about an actual name. I eventually settled, as you may know, on theseus. i also made sure my roommates knew to refer to me as he/him. i introduced my new name to my roommates and was told "oh my god, stop changing your name." and they continued to refer to me only as alex. only recently, i confronted my roommates around it and while there has been some minor improvement, one of my roommates has decided to refer to me as alex unless i have "earned the right to use my preferred name." yesterday, she also did this with my pronouns and it came as a shock to me.

also this week, i was told me being $50 short on rent was the reason one of my roommates was mentally abused by her father, and in response to me saying "that's not okay to tell me" i have once again been isolated by the entire household.

as for food money donations, there is food in the house but one of my roommates will scream and throw an adult tantrum. i am genuinely scared to touch the food and she has screamed and shouted at me about it. like, literally, i cannot touch any food in the house or i'm stealing from her, despite some of it being food i had bought and stored in the fridge.

my goal is to eventually move out of this house, and save up the money to do so. in the meantime, any donations will help greatly.

hello, internet.

i'm posting on here to ask for a little bit of help making bills, which include electricity, water, internet, and food. i live in a house where bills are divided by four, and for some reason i am still paying more than my other roommates, as well as dealing with their disrespect regarding my name and pronouns. here are some links if you are willing to help me, please reshare if you can:

KOFI: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/aurumandink

PayPal: paypal.me/spectacularspiderman (Please note this app still has my deadname for legal reasons.)

CashApp: $TheseusAsteria

i am a trans guy, and when i moved to georgia as most of you know, i had been using the name alex since it was close to my deadname and i hadn't yet had time to think about an actual name. I eventually settled, as you may know, on theseus. i also made sure my roommates knew to refer to me as he/him. i introduced my new name to my roommates and was told "oh my god, stop changing your name." and they continued to refer to me only as alex. only recently, i confronted my roommates around it and while there has been some minor improvement, one of my roommates has decided to refer to me as alex unless i have "earned the right to use my preferred name." yesterday, she also did this with my pronouns and it came as a shock to me.

also this week, i was told me being $50 short on rent was the reason one of my roommates was mentally abused by her father, and in response to me saying "that's not okay to tell me" i have once again been isolated by the entire household.

as for food money donations, there is food in the house but one of my roommates will scream and throw an adult tantrum. i am genuinely scared to touch the food and she has screamed and shouted at me about it. like, literally, i cannot touch any food in the house or i'm stealing from her, despite some of it being food i had bought and stored in the fridge.

my goal is to eventually move out of this house, and save up the money to do so. in the meantime, any donations will help greatly.

… but… Bees consent. NO. I’M NOT KIDDING.

How? Bee hives aren’t kept on leashes. They’re outside, the bees can travel miles every day. They follow their queen. Who is also outside, not on a leash, and can travel miles every day. If she doesn’t like the hive for any reason - for example: it got too hot, too cold, too messy, too filled with sugary stuff and they need more space… then the queen leaves. And with her the hive.

The queen stays in the hive because the hive is the best place to live. Period. Done. End of. If the hive is staying with the beekeeper it’s because the keeper is doing their job correctly and keeping them happy because the bees can, and do, leave bad beekeepers.

hey, tumblr! please help me by either donating or sharing this post. i have about two days to make $250 for my rent. i am willing to trade art for donations once my etsy store opens.

cashapp: $TheseusAsteria