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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· May 7, 2025

There is no ambiguity here: Netanyahu's extremist government talks openly about using humanitarian aid as a weapon.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· May 5, 2025

Unfortunately and unacceptably, the Antisemitism Awareness Act we are considering today would label speech that criticizes the Israeli government and Netanyahu’s horrific war in Gaza as antisemitic and a violation of civil rights laws, and…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· May 5, 2025

Americans are not quite as dumb as Ms. Slotkin thinks they are.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· May 4, 2025

What’s going on is the destruction of the agency from the inside out, and it’s accelerating.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· May 3, 2025

I want to applaud Harvard University for having the guts to stand up to them.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· May 1, 2025

Today on Mother's Day, let's remember every mother deserves a livable wage, affordable childcare, paid family leave, and the ability to retire with dignity.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 30, 2025

$7.25 an hour minimum wage is a starvation wage. It must be raised to a living wage — at least $17 an hour.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Apr 28, 2025

That’s easy to say. States can’t print money the way they can around here. So it would be very difficult for the state to make up that difference.

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

We have the radical idea of putting healthcare dollars into healthcare, not into profiteering or bureaucracy.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 27, 2025

I think the American people are not quite as dumb as Ms. Slotkin thinks they are.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 26, 2025

We’re on the same page, but what Democrats lack right now is a vision for the future.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 26, 2025

You want to run as a Democrat? Great. You want to run as an Independent? That's great, but you've got to get involved in the political process, because right now the two-party system is failing the working class of this country.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 26, 2025

If we don't address that issue, the American people will continue to turn their backs on democracy, because they're looking around them and they're saying, 'Does anybody understand what I am going through?'

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 26, 2025

When the top 1% owns more wealth than the bottom 90%, when big money interests are able to control both political parties, they are living in an oligarchy.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 26, 2025

I think the American people are not quite as dumb as Ms. Slotkin thinks they are. I think they understand very well.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 26, 2025

Democrats lack a 'vision for the future,' warning that Americans will 'turn their backs on democracy' if elected officials fail to tackle an 'oligarchy on steroids.'

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 24, 2025

Trump‘s arrest of Judge Dugan in Milwaukee has nothing to do with immigration. It has everything to do with his moving this country toward authoritarianism.

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