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  1. "Bernie Sanders aims to ban AI ‘superintelligence.’ But experts can’t agree on what the term means"

    I think the best way to do this is to ban the use of AI agents that can affect life-changing decisions. Superintelligent or not, robots should not be allowed to take over our lives.

    #SuperIntelligence #Ban #Sanders

    🔗 science.org/content/article/be

  2. Sanders Forces Senate Votes to Halt US Arms Sales to Israel

    Senator Bernie Sanders forces Senate votes on Wednesday to stop $660 million in US arms sales to Israel, affecting weapons used in Gaza.

    #Sanders, #IsraelArmsSale, #USPolitics, #GazaConflict, #SenateVote

    newsletter.tf/senate-votes-to-

  3. Democratic leaders were outspoken during the massive US military buildup in the Middle East,
    ⭐️decrying his unwillingness to engage with Congress and lack of long-term strategy for Iran.
    🔸They noted that it was Trump, during his first term, who shredded Barack Obama’s nuclear agreement with Iran.

    Once the US and Israeli military struck on Saturday, the sharpest voices accused the president of riding roughshod over the constitution.
    Senator Bernie #Sanders denounced the assault as “an illegal, premeditated and unconstitutional war”,
    while Senator Chris #Van #Hollen warned it amounted to a “regime-change war” that would leave the US less secure.

    Senator Tim #Kaine, long a thorn in the side of presidents of both parties on war powers, called the strikes “a colossal mistake”
    and demanded a swift vote requiring Trump to seek authorisation.

    Others, however, were more qualified. Tom #Suozzi, a New York Democrat who co-chairs the Problem Solvers caucus, wrote on X: “I agree with the President’s objectives that Iran can never be allowed to obtain nuclear capabilities.”
    Henry #Cuellar of Texas said the threat posed by Iran was “real and longstanding”.
    And not all Democrats are lining up behind a war powers rebuke.

    There may be enough defections to block a war powers resolution,
    -- although a few libertarian Republicans could join those in favor.
    The split also exposes a deeper unease within Democratic ranks over how robustly to confront Iran and how far to go in backing Israeli military action.
    There are also political traps as Republicans accuse them of lacking patriotism and ignoring the Iranian diaspora who have taken to the streets to celebrate Khamenei’s downfall.
    The discomfort is embodied by Senator Mark #Kelly, a former combat pilot and potential 2028 presidential contender. Appearing on NBC’s Meet the Press, Kelly was asked if he agrees with Lindsey Graham, a hawkish Republican senator, that the world is now safer because the supreme leader of Iran is dead.
    Kelly replied: “Well, I agree with that part. I mean, it’s a good thing that the supreme leader is gone and some of the folks around him.”
    👍But he also delivered a withering assessment of the White House’s preparation.
    ♦️ “Hope is not a strategy,” Kelly warned,
    questioning whether the administration had any serious plan for the aftermath.
    Air power can destroy targets, he added,
    ⚡️but fully eliminating capabilities without boots on the ground is “incredibly challenging”.

    The congressional debate over war powers would mostly be symbolic.
    🆘Even if a resolution were to pass the narrowly split Congress, Trump likely would veto it and Congress would not have the two-thirds majority needed to overturn that rejection.
    Congress has often failed to block other US military actions, including in a Senate vote on Venezuela,
    👉but the roll calls stand as a public record.
    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m

  4. Thousands in #Midwestern #GOP Districts Attend #Sanders' First Stops on Tour to Fight #Oligarchy

    "It's like there's only one person who is actually able to sidestep the demoralization and frustration," said one observer.

    Julia Conley, Feb 22, 2025

    "After addressing more than 3,400 #Nebraska residents in Omaha Friday evening, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday made his second stop on his National Tour to Fight Oligarchy—telling Iowa City, #Iowa residents that '#Trumpism will not be defeated by politicians inside the #DCBeltway.'

    "'For better or worse, that is not going to happen,' said the Vermont Independent senator, whose broadly popular policy proposals have long been dismissed by Democratic leaders as unrealistic and radical while President Donald Trump has increasingly captured the attention of the #WorkingClass Americans who would benefit most from Sanders' ideas.

    "'It will only be defeated by millions of Americans in Iowa, in #Vermont, in Nebraska, in every state in this country, who come together in a strong #grassroots movement and say no to oligarchy, no to #authoritarianism, no to #kleptocracy, no to massive cuts to programs that #LowIncome and working Americans desperately need, no to huge #TaxBreaks for the #wealthiest people in this country,' said Sanders.

    "The senator announced his tour earlier this month as #ElonMusk, the head of the Trump-created Department of Government Efficiency ( #DOGE) who poured $277 million on the president's campaign, swept through numerous agencies, with DOGE staffers setting up illegal servers, seizing control of data, shutting federal employees out of offices, and working to shut down operations across the government.

    "Since Trump took office for his second term just over a month ago, roughly 30,000 federal employees have been fired or laid off—part of Musk's push to cut $2 trillion in federal spending in order to fill the $4.6 trillion hole that Trump's extension of the 2017 tax cuts would blow in the deficit.

    "#Republican lawmakers have also pushed to include cuts to #Medicaid, and Trump this week signaled he would back #Medicare cuts after repeatedly insisting he would not slash the popular healthcare program used by more than 65 million Americans, in order to save money while handing out tax cuts to the same #corporations and #ultrawealthy households that benefited from the 2017 tax law.

    "'Today in America we are rapidly moving toward an #oligarchic form of society where a handful of #multibillionaires not only have extraordinary wealth, but unprecedented economic, media, and political power,' said Sanders in Iowa City, which like Omaha is represented by a Republican U.S. House member who narrowly won reelection last November and has faced pressure to reject the GOP budget plan. 'Brothers and sisters, that is not the democracy that men and women fought and died to defend.'"

    Read more:
    commondreams.org/news/bernie-s
    #Oligarchy #OligarchyTour #StillSanders #BernieSanders #USPol #CorporateInterests #Corporatocracy #CorporateColonialism