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When New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker delivered the longest speech in Senate history in April, to protest the cuts to public services enacted by Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency group, people were inspired. Across the United States, at water coolers and in the bars that are somehow occupied during weekday daylight hours by a diverse crowd of patrons watching a single television, citizens asked themselves: Is this the turning point, the moment when the wave begins to recede? When a party—and a country—finally begins to Stand Up for Itself?

Well, the answer to that was no. Since his speech, Booker has voted with Republicans to confirm

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