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It's outrageous that in the richest country on Earth, we have people going into debt & filing for bankruptcy for necessary medical procedures. I’m so proud to be an original cosponsor of @SenSanders & @RepRoKhanna’s legislation to cancel all medical debt.
theguardian.com
Exclusive: legislation creates a program to cancel all existing patient debt and block creditors from collecting past medical bills
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"There are no protests on the college campuses in Gaza," said @SenSanders. "You know why? Because every one of the 12 universities in Gaza has been bombed and destroyed."
commondreams.org
"There are no protests on the college campuses in Gaza," said the Vermont senator. "You know why? Because every one of the 12 universities in Gaza has been bombed and destroyed."
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Let's be clear. When Mercedes hangs a banner at its plant in Alabama urging its workers to "vote no" on forming a union, that's not being "neutral" as it claims to be. That's union busting. I say to Mercedes: Stop intimidating your pro-union workers. End your union busting.
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Monitoring women's pregnancies? In the "land of the free"? Unspeakable.
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I find it extraordinary that Congress is very quick to bring forth bills and resolutions condemning student protesters, but there has been minimal discussion about what these young people are actually protesting.
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Gaza is starving. The UN is trying to feed them. Yet many in Congress seem happy to be part of the starvation caucus – more focused on attacking the UN than getting desperately-needed aid to suffering Palestinians.
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Who has your support for president thus far? If other, drop a reply in the thread. ( ͡Ⓘ ͜ʖ ͡Ⓘ)✊
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📢📢📢 Disney cast members rallied for higher wages in Central Florida. 💥Workers are committed to fight to win an $18 minimum wage this year! #DisneyWorkersNeedaRaise
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One of the most absurd aspects of the Silicon Valley bank failure is that its CEO was a director of the same body in charge of regulating it: the San Francisco Fed. I'll be introducing a bill to end this conflict of interest by banning big bank CEOs from serving on Fed boards.
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Bernie Sanders called for all drug prices to be lowered as Sanofi joins Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk in lowering its insulin prices this month. https://t.co/JpSUWPUzL9
truthout.org
Moreover, analyses of the companies’ price cuts show that the cuts aren’t as altruistic as they might seem.
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BREAKING: Pharma giant Sanofi announces it will cap out-of-pocket insulin costs at $35. Sanofi is the third and last of the three major insulin producers to cut prices.
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ICYMI: Preston says callers grappling with terminal illnesses and angry at a cumbersome signup process often vent their frustration on the worker on the other end of the line. Sometimes their comments are outright racist.
labornotes.org
Lakeisha Preston speaks in acronyms. Working the phones at federal contractor Maximus in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, she drops them as if they were name brands—MSP (Medicare Secondary Payee), ESRD (End
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“We have got to start protecting the needs of working families,” Sanders emphasized. https://t.co/lrr86EHJzn
truthout.org
“We have got to start protecting the needs of working families,” Sanders emphasized.
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"All across the country, corporate conglomerates and hedge fund vultures have bought and consolidated local newspapers and slashed their newsrooms — all while giving executives and shareholders big payouts." https://t.co/QTYJ32nIoi
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Bernie Sanders to Bring Yemen War Powers Resolution to the Floor as Soon as Next Week https://t.co/H9glE1dS3W
sanders.senate.gov
By: Daniel Boguslaw, Ryan Grim; The Intercept Backers of a war powers resolution say that a strong vote in the Senate will send a signal to Saudi Arabia that it does not have a free hand to restart...
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It is literally beyond belief that rail (all) workers are not guaranteed this basic and fundamental human right (sick days). https://t.co/KwliEsdXpd
prospect.org
The Vermont senator leads over 70 members of Congress urging the president to sign an executive order extending sick days for federal contract workers to the rail industry.
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The Vermont lawmaker will seriously consider a bid for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination if President Joe Biden does not run. 👀 https://t.co/KIbgQqHN5m
cbsnews.com
Faiz Shakir said of Sanders in an interview with CBS News that if it were an open field, "I'm confident he would take another look at it and say, 'Do I want to do this or not?'"
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