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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 28, 2025

I am very disturbed that the Trump administration apparently made this reckless decision because Director Monarez refused to act as a rubber stamp to implement Secretary Kennedy's dangerous agenda to substantially limit the use of safe and…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 28, 2025

We need leaders at the CDC and HHS who are committed to improving public health and have the courage to stand up for science, not officials who have a history of spreading bogus conspiracy theories and disinformation that will endanger the…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 28, 2025

History will not look kindly on those who stayed silent in the face of this assault on science. We have a moral responsibility to act now.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 28, 2025

Now is the time for all of us—whether you are a Democrat, Republican, independent, progressive or conservative—to come together and say enough is enough.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 28, 2025

Let us be clear: We are witnessing a full-blown war on science, on public health, and on truth itself.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 23, 2025

No. Taxpayers should not be providing billions of dollars in corporate welfare to large, profitable corporations like Intel without getting anything in return.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 22, 2025

Last time I heard, in America, people are allowed to criticize the President of the United States without the FBI showing up on their doorstep.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 22, 2025

Congrats to the DNC for starting the process to ban Big Money from presidential primaries.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 21, 2025

If microchip companies make a profit from the generous grants they receive from the federal government, the taxpayers of America have a right to a reasonable return on that investment.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 21, 2025

This is what oligarchy looks like: Today, 2 Trump judges ruled that the NLRB’s structure is unconstitutional giving Elon Musk, worth $410 billion, and other union busters the absolute power to exploit workers and violate labor law with…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 15, 2025

The Netanyahu government’s extermination of Gaza intensifies. Malnutrition is rampant, children are starving to death, people are shot while waiting for meager food rations — and US weapons allow it to happen.

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Peter Welch
@peterwelch· Democratic · VT· Aug 15, 2025

It’s a war crime to starve a population to get what you want from your enemy.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 14, 2025

This is a huge fight. We have the American people behind us. Let’s win it.

truthout.org
Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 14, 2025

If you lift that cap, we can substantially increase benefits, which is what we’ve got to do, and extend the life of Social Security for many, many decades.

truthout.org
Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 14, 2025

A billionaire pays the same amount into the Social Security Trust Fund as somebody who makes $176,000 a year.

truthout.org
Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 14, 2025

Despite its popularity and despite its success, Trump and [Elon] Musk and others have been working overtime to try to dismantle Social Security and importantly, undermine the confidence that the American people have in it.

truthout.org
Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 14, 2025

Trump and Musk have also absurdly and quite intentionally lied to the American people, by suggesting that millions and millions of people who are between the ages of 140 and 360 years of age are receiving Social Security.

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