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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 11, 2026

Almost every day, there is a new story about how your companies are losing control of the AI technology you are developing, with potentially cataclysmic results.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 11, 2026

Let me be very clear: If you do not take appropriate action now, my colleagues and I in the U.S. Senate will.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 11, 2026

In the interest of humanity, stand by your words. Pause AI development. It is not too late to avoid disaster. Stop building machines that humans cannot control.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 11, 2026

You can't allow Democratic candidates to be outspent 50 to 1. But it is a corrupt campaign finance system, and Democrats can take charge of what takes place within their own primaries right now.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 10, 2026

While there are ideological differences of opinion within the big tent of the party, I would hope that we can all agree that Republican special interests should not play a role in determining the outcome of Democratic primaries. The time…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 10, 2026

What is particularly obscene is not only the outrageous amount of money coming into Democratic primaries from billionaire-funded super PACs, but the reality that these special interests have no particular desire to see Democrats win.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 10, 2026

My message to Democratic leaders: Ban super PACs from Democratic primaries NOW.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 10, 2026

If the people of Minnesota can stand up -- and I’m confident that they can -- and tell these billionaires and their lies and their 30-second ads and their super PACs to go to hell, democracy is going to reign.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 10, 2026

I urge you to take action and make clear that the Democratic Party will no longer maintain this corrupt system.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 10, 2026

Look, in the world that we live in, until we get rid of Citizens United and get rid of super PACs and move to public funding of elections, that is the reality.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 10, 2026

What you are seeing is, it doesn't matter that you're a Democrat or Republican.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 9, 2026

Margaret, in my view, Abdul's victory was one of the most extraordinary victories in modern political history.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 9, 2026

We have so many problems at home. We have people sleeping out in the streets. People can't afford health care.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 9, 2026

I think Abdul has run a brilliant campaign, and he's more than capable of making his own political judgments.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 9, 2026

People, many people, experts, including myself, consider what's going on there as a genocide.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 9, 2026

What you had is AIPAC spending 30 million dollars in the Democratic primary trying to defeat Abdul.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 9, 2026

Raising taxes on the rich, making sure that everybody in Wisconsin or America has health care as a right, sounds quite reasonable to me.

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