Andrew D Thaler

drandrewthaler.bsky.social

03 April 2025 02:43

Thurmond was the same age as Booker when he set the record Senator Cory Booker just broke. Thurmond was afforded a bathroom break and read from the encyclopedia. Booker held the floor the entire time and delivered a consistent, cogent speech for more than 24 hours. Incredible.

Robert Bradley

librarybob.bsky.social

03 April 2025 01:05

For the first two of the BAA's three years the NBL was clearly the better league.

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walledgardenmag.bsky.social

03 April 2025 00:29

It's wild that the NBA is the furthest-behind on this front. Didn't the MLB do something like this a few years ago with the Negro Leagues records?

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walledgardenmag.bsky.social

02 April 2025 12:57

It's really fucking odd. A state Trump allegedly won pretty comfortably, Elon putting the pressure on hard recently, and it's an 11-point mugging. Really makes me wish we got hand recounts on the Federal Election.

GHOSTopher Bird

mightygodking.com

02 April 2025 11:03

Just so everybody understands, Booker has been speaking cogently about the issues the entire time and Strom Thurmond famously spent hours reading from the encyclopedia, because segregationists were and are dumbshits