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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Jun 19, 2025

I think that the status quo politics of the Democratic establishment is designed to fail. It cannot succeed. It won’t succeed.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Jun 19, 2025

At this dangerous moment in history, status quo politics isn’t good enough. We need new leadership that is prepared to stand up to powerful corporate interests and fight for the working class. Zohran Mamdani is providing that vision.

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Amy Coney Barrett
@amyconeybarrett· Independent · DC· Jun 18, 2025

Even if a law does clearly and undeniably discriminate on the basis of transgender status, then it still wouldn’t trigger heightened scrutiny.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Jun 18, 2025

Prohibit the use of federal funds for any use of military force in or against Iran absent specific Congressional authorization.

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Amy Coney Barrett
@amyconeybarrett· Independent · DC· Jun 18, 2025

If laws that classify based on transgender status necessarily trigger heightened scrutiny, then the courts will inevitably be in the business of ‘closely scrutiniz(ing) legislative choices’ in all these domains.

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Amy Coney Barrett
@amyconeybarrett· Independent · DC· Jun 18, 2025

Transgender people have not sufficiently faced a history of legal discrimination

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Amy Coney Barrett
@amyconeybarrett· Independent · DC· Jun 18, 2025

Transgender people don’t deserve such protection

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Jun 18, 2025

Supporting Netanyahu's war against Iran would be a catastrophic mistake.

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Amy Coney Barrett
@amyconeybarrett· Independent · DC· Jun 18, 2025

Legislatures have many valid reasons to make policy in these areas, and so long as a statute is a rational means of pursuing a legitimate end, the Equal Protection Clause is satisfied.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Jun 18, 2025

She will be an ally to me in the House as she works to enforce antitrust laws against corporate monopolies that have bankrupted family farms like hers, raise the federal minimum wage to a living wage and expand Medicare to cover vision…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Jun 18, 2025

Rebecca is a working class fighter who developed her populist roots in rural Western Wisconsin.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Jun 17, 2025

Another war in the Middle East could cost countless lives, waste trillions more dollars, and lead to even more deaths, more conflict, and more displacement.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Jun 17, 2025

Our Founding Fathers entrusted the power of war and peace exclusively to the people's elected representatives in Congress.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Jun 17, 2025

Congress must make it clear that the United States will not be dragged into Netanyahu's war of choice.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Jun 17, 2025

Netanyahu's reckless and illegal attacks violate international law and risk igniting a regional war.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Jun 17, 2025

He understands the struggles working-class communities are facing in Detroit and across the country because he's lived those struggles himself.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Jun 16, 2025

Our Founding Fathers entrusted the power of war and peace exclusively to the people’s elected representatives in Congress, and it is imperative that we make clear that the President has no authority to embark on another costly war without…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Jun 16, 2025

Netanyahu started this war with a surprise unilateral attack against Iran, which has already killed hundreds of people and wounded many more.

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