#sanders — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #sanders, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.europesays.com/people/104406/ Public ownership in AI: Trump and Sanders find common ground #AI #AIRegulation #altman #concern #MajorDatumCenter #michigan #people #public #ReporterFriday #SamAltman #Sanders #Technology #Trump #washington #week #Whitmer
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As Senator Bernie #Sanders pointed out, even within the law of the US, this war on Iran is “illegal, premeditated and unconstitutional”. This hastens the need for a body with integrity to stand up to #Trump's narcissistic bullying & irrational behaviour. That body must be the EU, hopefully with the UK back on board, and with the likes of Canada and others a part of a wider block whose sole purpose is to give voice to the millions of oppressed people in the world. https://shorturl.at/sCSJC #RejoinEU #ClimateCrisis #StandwithUkraine #PeacePrize
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Question for all of you USA folks: I have been watching Sanders on Stephen Millers via YouTube. it was like 6 parts, every 2-3 minutes "We'll be right back!"
Do you guys really have that much ads in linear TV?
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Rarely does the mere filing of a #ballot #initiative scramble politics in California.
But the "#Billionaires #Tax" proposal is suddenly dominating the discourse
as proponents collect signatures to place it on the November ballot
— and wealthy residents, like Google co-founders
Larry #Page and Sergey #Brin,
move their assets out of the state rather than wait to see if it will pass.The idea of taxing billionaires’ total assets
— a more aggressive idea than the income taxes California already levies on high earners
— has long captivated the left,
galvanizing labor and shaping presidential politics.But now that
SEIU-UHW,
a union representing more than 100,000 health care workers,
has pushed the idea closer to reality than ever before,
California is getting a vivid glimpse of just how politically explosive the proposal is
and, for supporters, how high the stakes are for getting it rightThe fight has reignited a struggle over the Democratic Party’s economic agenda in the runup to the 2028 presidential contest,
-- drawing vehement denunciations from Governor #Newsom and prominent Democratic donors like Reid #Hoffman-- while being embraced by progressives like Ro #Khanna,
who represents Silicon Valley and is also mulling a presidential run.Sen. Bernie #Sanders called it “a model that should be emulated throughout the country.”
“This isn’t radical. This is fairly simple. We live in the wealthiest country in the world and people are struggling,”
Liz #Perlman, executive director of AFSCME 3299, said on a call this week in which unions and progressive groups from around the country trumpeted higher taxes in all 50 states.But beyond Perlman, the unions on that call did not necessarily embrace a wealth tax. And even Democrats championing populist economic messages are treading cautiously on this particular wealth tax proposal.
California Sen. Adam #Schiff, for example, signed onto a letter this week encouraging Democrats to “demonstrate a real willingness to take on corporate power and the billionaires” in advance of the midterms.
But Schiff has not yet taken a position on the proposal roiling politics in his home state.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/16/wealth-tax-push-california-politics-00732882
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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:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-sanders-donald-trump
#Oligarchy #OligarchyTour #StillSanders #BernieSanders #USPol #CorporateInterests #Corporatocracy #CorporateColonialism -
"Ich würde nicht so weit gehen wie Bernie #Sanders, der im Grunde hundert Prozent jedes #Vermögens von mehr als einer #Milliarde Dollar wegnehmen würde, aber ich denke durchaus, dass wir progressiver sein könnten."
Bill #Gates über #Besteuerung der #Superreichen
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I know Coach Prime is transforming Colorado Buffalo football, but now it looks like Deion Sanders is even getting into the water!
#Colorado #Buffaloes #football #collegefootball #CoachPrime #Sanders #DeionSanders #Deion #deionized #water #deionizedwater #funny #humor #CVS
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CW: Music for the time
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In the presidential debate against #BernieSanders 2 weeks ago, #Biden came up with a cheap - and dumb - shot: "#Medicareforall didn't protect #Italy from #Corona".
Biden is so very wrong - #Medicareforall is the only reason #Italy is still standing *despite* of #COVID19.
Sorry folks, but #Biden is, like #Obama and #Clinton before him, just another #republicandressedupinblue. And #truckfonalddump will eat him for breakfast.
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/03/joe-biden-italy-coronavirus-public-health-care-debate
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The first time we were #blocked on the #Fediverse was last year when we genuinely didn't understand what #BernieOrVest meant so we asked the person. :(
We didn't pick up on the reference to the #YellowVest movement
She blocked us.
We were recently blocked by a #waterDefender in #Canada for being #proChoice and pushing to reverse runaway #populationGrowth.
These are sad times for us #leftists, but hopefully the #civilDiscord will end when #Sanders is elected.
Let's come together!