“Stand” will be published Nov. 11, St. Martin’s Press announced Wednesday. In April, the New Jersey Democrat made headlines by delivering the country’s longest continuous Senate floor speech — just over 25 hours. The 56-year-old Booker spoke in opposition to numerous Trump administration policies, whether the desire to make Canada part of the United States or cuts to Social Security offices.

“This book is about the virtues vital to our success as a nation and lessons we can draw from generations of Americans who fought for them,” Booker said in a statement.

Booker’s speech broke a record set by Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, a segregationist and southern Democrat who opposed the advance of the Civil Rights Act of 1957, which eventually passed.

Booker was assisted by fellow Democrats who gave him a break from speaking by asking him questions on the Senate floor.

idk about you but i still clap when i listen to it on 2x speed. thank you sir

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[–] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I'm pretty sure I saw something about how when he made that speech he was also dodging a committee meeting where he would've been expected to speak out against big tech and Ai and such - people who have been his donor's even (?? I can't quite recall, and I can't quite fucking find it because any Google of Cory Booker brings up his epic speech and how dope it was)

[–] adhdplantdev@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Unfortunately I've often had to resort to using deepseek to help clarify these things because it tends to be better at getting unbiased information. Google is so bought and paid for that it's not even funny

[–] MizuTama@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You could do something like setup a metasearch engine like searxng. Tends to help.

[–] adhdplantdev@lemm.ee 3 points 3 days ago

Good idea. I'll look into that