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

Mamdani won. The establishment is in panic. Billionaires are raising money against him; Trump is ranting; Islamophobes are on the loose. They know what we know: Candidates who stand boldly with the working class can win not only in NYC…

newsweek.com
Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Jul 15, 2025

Like all authoritarians, Trump doesn't like criticism or objective reporting. He just wants flattery.

commondreams.org
Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Jul 15, 2025

Do the American people really want massive cuts to health care, nutrition and education so that billionaires can get huge tax breaks? I don’t think so. No member of Congress who voted for this disastrous legislation should be re-elected.

truthout.org
Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Jul 11, 2025

The Trump administration’s barbaric practice of expelling immigrants to dangerous ‘third countries’ is an abuse of our justice system.

theintercept.com
Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Jul 11, 2025

The deportation of eight men to South Sudan – a country plagued by famine and brutal civil war – is abhorrent.

theintercept.com
Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Jul 9, 2025

We cannot continue to allow big banks to make huge profits ripping off the American people.

newsweek.com
Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Jul 8, 2025

At this moment, hundreds of thousands of people are starving after Israel prevented any aid from entering Gaza for nearly three months.

commondreams.org
Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Jul 8, 2025

This is the man Trump and Congress are welcoming this week: a war criminal who will be remembered as one of modern history's monsters.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Jul 8, 2025

As President Trump and members of Congress roll out the red carpet for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, let's remember that Netanyahu has been indicted as a war criminal by the International Criminal Court for overseeing the…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Jul 8, 2025

The Redstone family diminished the freedom of the press today in exchange for a $2.4 billion payday.

thenation.com
Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Jul 7, 2025

The settlement sets an “extremely dangerous precedent in terms of both the First Amendment and government extortion,”

nypost.com
Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Jul 4, 2025

Make no mistake about it: This bill is a death sentence for working-class and low-income Americans.

commondreams.org
Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Jul 4, 2025

This bill includes the largest cut ever to Medicaid in order to pay for the largest tax break for billionaires that we have ever seen.

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Becca Balint
@beccabalint· Democratic · VT· Jul 2, 2025

This is a cruel bill. Thousands of Americans will die because of it. Rural hospitals will close. Millions will lose their healthcare. Kids will go hungry. Americans will be poorer. They will be sicker because my Republican colleagues are…

govinfo.gov
Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Jul 2, 2025

It is a victory for a president who is attempting to stifle dissent and undermine American democracy.

nypost.com
Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Jul 2, 2025

It’s pretty obvious why Paramount chose to surrender to Trump.

huffpost.com
Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Jul 2, 2025

The decision by the Redstone family, the major owners of Paramount, to settle a bogus lawsuit with President Trump over a 60 Minutes report he did not like is an extremely dangerous precedent in terms of both the First Amendment and…

huffpost.com
Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Jul 2, 2025

Make no mistake about it. Trump is undermining our democracy and rapidly moving us towards authoritarianism, and the billionaires who care more about their stock portfolios than our democracy are helping him do it.

commondreams.org