Tweets by Bernie Sanders in 2023

It’s time for us to move to a 32-hour work week with no loss in pay. We can reduce the stress level in our country and allow Americans to enjoy a better quality of life. (May 8, 2023)

Republicans are so concerned about the national debt that their estate tax repeal bill would give... (May 19, 2023)

This hypocrisy is truly breathtaking. (May 24, 2023)

Republicans say raising taxes on billionaires and Pentagon cost overruns are off the table in the debt limit negotiations. WRONG. What should be off the table are children, working families, and elderly Americans. (May 26, 2023)

I will be voting no on the debt limit deal because you do not do deficit reduction on the backs of Americans who are already struggling. (May 31, 2023)

I stand in strong solidarity with Teamsters who have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike at UPS. (June 16, 2023)

On Sept. 11, 1973 Salvador Allende, Chile’s democratically elected president, was overthrown by a military coup backed by the U.S. which ushered in a fascist government and the loss of thousands of Chilean lives. Today, we honor the memory of Salvador Allende. (September 11, 2023)

The United States must do everything it can to put pressure on Netanyahu’s right-wing extremist government to end this disastrous military approach, which is causing such horrific damage to human life in Palestine. (December 10, 2023)

@AIPAC is a right-wing organization that supports extremist Republican election-denier candidates. Now, they want to spend $100 million to defeat Progressives. Whether AIPAC likes it or not, the U.S. must not give a blank check to Netanyahu’s horrific war policies. (December 10, 2023)

This week Cigna said it would be spending $11.3 billion not to lower premiums, deductibles, or improve health care for its policy holders, but to buy back its stock to make its executives and stockholders even richer. This is what a corrupt & broken health care system looks like. (December 15, 2023)

This year we saw more union organizing and successful strikes than we’ve seen in decades. Working people are making it clear they are sick and tired of being ripped off and exploited. They’re standing up against corporate greed and we must stand with them. Solidarity forever! (December 27, 2023)

Today just 3 Wall Street firms, BlackRock, Vanguard & State Street manage $20.7 trillion in assets. These 3 firms are major shareholders in 95% of S&P 500 companies. (December 30, 2023)

Tweets by Bernie Sanders in 2024

If Democrats hope to remain in power, they must adopt a progressive agenda that the American people will vote FOR – not just rail against someone to vote AGAINST. (January 17, 2024)

No amount of union busting can stop worker power. Congratulations to Starbucks workers all over the country for this major step forward and for making it clear to all workers: When we stand together, there is nothing we cannot accomplish. (February 29, 2024)

If you watch television in America, the word working class will never, ever be used. (March 1, 2024)

Thanks to an executive order signed by President Biden, the minimum wage for federal contractors has gone up to $15 an hour in 2022, $16.20 an hour in 2023 and $17.20 an hour today. Now is the time to increase the minimum wage for all workers to at least $17 an hour. (March 1, 2024)

Starting today, millionaires won't pay into Social Security for the rest of the year. Billionaires stopped paying the first day of 2024. This is absurd. If we make the wealthy pay their fair share, we can make Social Security solvent for 75 years and expand it by $2,400 a year. (March 2, 2024)

Today, I am announcing my intention to seek another term. (May 6, 2024)

No job is more important and more difficult than teaching our nation’s children. (May 9, 2024)

Corrupt real estate developers are gentrifying neighborhoods and forcing working families out of the homes and apartments, only to replace them with fancy condominiums and hotels that only the very rich can afford. We need affordable housing for all. (May 11, 2024)

Congrats to Jeremy Corbyn for winning his seat as an Independent in the UK elections with a strong grassroots campaign. Corbyn made the mistake of believing that the Labour Party should represent labor – and was expelled. His constituents disagreed. Now he’s back. (July 6, 2024)

Here’s a simple fact: If politicians stand with working families, working families will stand with you. As it turns out, lowering the retirement age & raising the minimum wage are very popular. Congratulations to the French Left for taking on right-wing extremism and winning. (July 8, 2024)

 

 

We must defeat Trump, end Citizens United & tax the rich. (July 12, 2024)

 

 

If we do not get our act together, we will see more drought, more flooding, and more extreme weather disturbances. We will see homes and businesses wiped out all over the world. Calling climate change "a hoax" endangers every future generation. (July 17, 2024)

 

 

There's no rational reason other than greed for Ozempic to cost nearly $1,000 in the United States while that same exact drug can be purchased for a fraction of the price in other countries. It's long due time for the pharmaceutical industry to stop ripping off Americans. (July 17, 2024)

Donald Trump, who has taken millions of dollars from the fossil fuel industry, has a solution to the climate crisis: “Drill, baby, drill.” Just on that basis alone, nobody in America should be voting for Donald Trump. (July 19, 2024) 

Ralph de la Torre, CEO of Steward Health Care, epitomizes the outrageous corporate greed of our for-profit health care system. (July 26, 2024)

 

 

Why do working class people live shorter lives than the very wealthy? (September 27, 2024)

 

 

If Donald Trump is elected, the struggle against climate change is over. The United States will withdraw from the movement toward sustainable energy. What kind of planet will we be leaving to our kids and future generations? That’s what’s on ballot this November. (October 25, 2024)

 

 

Elon Musk – the richest guy in the world – is allowed to pour zillions of dollars into Donald Trump's presidential campaign. Does that sound like democracy to you? We need to overturn Citizens United and move to the public funding of elections. (November 2, 2024)

 

 

If Donald Trump is elected: The struggle against climate change is over. Women will lose the right to control their own bodies. We'll have no shot at raising the minimum wage. Humanitarian aid will not reach starving people in Gaza. Do not sit this election out. (November 4, 2024)

 

 

It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them. (November 6, 2024)

 

 

Missouri, a conservative state, raised the minimum wage to $15/hr. Nebraska, a conservative state, passed paid sick leave. Arizona, a conservative state, enshrined abortion access in its constitution. People across the political spectrum support these popular policies. (November 14, 2024)

 

 

Why don't we discuss the fact that Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos & Larry Ellison own more wealth than the bottom HALF of Americans? Part of the answer is that the people who own the media are doing phenomenally well. They aren't interested in highlighting massive levels of inequality. (November 14, 2024)

 

 

The stress of being poor in this country wrecks your body and your mind. (November 15, 2024)

 

 

Both political parties in America are dominated by billionaires and corporate money. Real change in this country will come about when an organized working class leads the fight for justice. We need working class candidates to help us do that. (November 26, 2024)

 

 

How come we don't talk about class in America? Because when you talk about class, you risk working people coming together and taking back power from the top 1% of our society. (November 27, 2024)

 

 

We don't need more people on Wall Street engaged in high speed trading. We need construction workers. Doctors. Teachers. Childcare workers. (November 29, 2024)

 

 

Billionaires in the U.S. are .0005% of the population, yet accounted for 18% of 2024 electoral spending. Just 150 billionaire families spent nearly $2 billion. This is not democracy. It is oligarchy. Time to overturn Citizens United and move to public funding of elections. (November 29, 2024)

 

 

The top 1% of Americans have taken $50 trillion dollars from the bottom 90% in the last 50 years. And you wonder why people in this country are angry? (December 3, 2024)

 

 

Trump has suggested that Canada become the 51st state in our union. Does that mean that we can adopt the Canadian health care system and guarantee health care to all, lower the cost of prescription drugs, and spend 50% less per capita on health care? I'm all for it. (December 3, 2024)

 

 

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: The priorities of the national government are totally absurd. More and more money for war, less and less for human needs. It’s time to invest in health care, jobs and housing – not more weapons of destruction. (December 5, 2024)

 

 

A small number of billionaires own and control our economy. Increasingly, they own and control our government through a corrupt campaign finance system. This is not democracy. This is oligarchy. We must overturn Citizens United and move to public funding of elections. (December 7, 2024)

 

 

We need to change our national priorities. Instead of pouring endless billions into a wasteful and corrupt Military-Industrial Complex, we should be investing in health care, education and the needs of working families. I will be voting NO on the bloated military budget. (December 8, 2024)

 

 

Politicians cannot vote their conscience when they know that if they defy billionaire-funded Super PACs, millions will be spent against them at the polls. We must get Big Money out of our electoral process. (December 10, 2024)

 

 

Americans need to know that somebody is standing up and fighting for them. (December 12, 2024)

 

 

To Amazon, long-term pain and disability is just the cost of doing business. (December 14, 2024)

 

 

The US Congress this week came to an agreement to fund our government. Elon Musk, who became $200 BILLION richer since Trump was elected, objected. Are Republicans beholden to the American people? Or President Musk? This is oligarchy at work. (December 18, 2024)

 

 

Today we have: More income & wealth inequality than ever before. More concentration of ownership than ever before. More billionaire control of the political process than ever before. Our job: fight back & create an economy and government that works for all, not just the few. (December 23, 2024)

 

 

Ask the American people: is health care a human right? The vast majority will say yes. (December 26, 2024)

 

 

On the campaign trail, Donald Trump stood up and said he would cap credit card interest rates at 10%. I sincerely hope that Trump keeps his word. (December 31, 2024)

 

 

 

Tweets by Assal Rad

So many words to pretend what’s happening isn’t a crime against humanity. (February 10, 2024)

I’m so tired of Biden officials acting like we’re idiots. You can’t arm and fund Israel, draw no red lines, veto UN resolutions, reject the ICJ, cut UNRWA funding, ignore international law, then say you’re helping the dire humanitarian crisis you created. People see your lies. (March 4, 2024)

Tweets by Richard Medhurst

Israel can keep slaughtering Palestinians. Take your time and stop announcing the genocide when you speak Hebrew. Also give Palestinians some food before you shoot them. (January 26, 2024)

Israel murdered a FIFA football referee, assistant referee, and 3 players from the Palestinian national team, as well as 263 professional footballers in Gaza. (July 20, 2024)

Climate Change (1st Quarter, 2024)

2023 was Earth’s hottest year on record (January 12, 2024)

Israel: A Terrorist State (2024)

TWITTER: Wael Dihadouh returns to coverage of the war in Gaza hours after the martyrdom of his son Hamza! We learn strength from you, Abu Hamza! (January 8, 2024)

 

 

 

TWITTER: Israel killed his wife, daughter, a son and grandson. The next day Wael returned to work. (January 8, 2024)

 

 

 

TWITTER: I hope western journalists look into his eyes and watch this well. (January 8, 2024)

TWITTER: I don’t think a single Western politician has spoken on Gaza as powerfully, correctly, and with such unshakable clarity as Yanis Varoufakis. (January 9, 2024)

TWITTER: The Israeli army shot live ammunition at Palestinian civilians in Gaza while they were trying to get humanitarian aid. (January 15, 2024)

TWITTER: It is astonishing that Save The Children released a report in July 2023 alleging that Palestinian children detained without charged are sexually abused - and this isn't part of the discussion at all. (January 16, 2024)

TWITTER: Don't stop talking about Palestine. (January 17, 2024)

TWITTER: After killing at least 24,000 Palestinians in Gaza - 70% of them women and children - Israel has not killed even one senior Hamas leader, according to US intelligence officials. (January 18, 2024)

TWITTER: A photo of soldiers helping an elderly Palestinian man in Gaza was posted by Israeli forces. They shot him in the back twice and killed him after filming. (February 24, 2024)

TWITTER: Israel officially added to the UN blacklist of "countries that kill children". (June 7, 2024)

TWITTER: Israeli civilians burned a Palestinian baby alive along with his parents then celebrated it at a wedding, & chanted "Ali on the Grill"! (June 12, 2024)

 

 

 

Israel’s leading paper says its own army deliberately killed Israelis on October 7. But in the U.S. media: silence (July 10, 2024)

Israel's team lineup is full of soldier-footballers. FIFA's failure to ban it makes it complicit in genocide. (July 19, 2024)

 

 

 

TWITTER: Huge day at the Olympics as Israel took its 1st gold medal in the Massacring Innocent Civilians category & then smashed the world record in Playing the Innocent Victim. (July 28, 2024)

TWITTER: What's causing the Islamophobic riots across the UK, and why now? 1. The riots have been instigated by the Zionist asset Stephen Yaxley-Lennon ('Tommy Robinson'), who has been working for the State of Israel since 2009 as part of the so-called 'counterjihad' Islamophobia movement established by that state. (August 3, 2024)

 

 

 

TWITTER: A lot of people in the US don’t seem to know what Israel did to Palestinians before Oct 7. Here is a quick rundown. (September 2, 2024) 

 

 

 

TWITTER: Ezgi Eygi was murdered by the Israeli state in the West Bank. (September 7, 2024)

 

 

 

Israel is jailing citizens for Instagram posts (August 14, 2024)

 

 

 

TWITTER: I’ve been in four wars, as a soldier or reporter, and seen a lot of atrocities and abuses. But dressing up in the clothes of the women and girls you’ve killed or displaced is a sick and twisted practice wholly unique to the murderous perverts of the Israeli army. (October 31, 2024)

 

 

 

This is not a war, it is a massacre of innocents. (November 8, 2024) 

 

 

 

Macabi Tel Aviv Fans at Tel Aviv Airport | “IDF will f*** the arabs Why is school out in Gaza? There are no children left there (November 9, 2024)

 

 

 

TWITTER: A 14 year old journalist, @OmeBender , did what the rest of the media refused to do, providing extensive on the ground footage of Israeli Maccabi hooligans instigating violence in Amsterdam. Bender shows the Zionist thug squad gathering metal pipes, wooden clubs, and rocks in search of violent confrontation. Their rampage followed a night of burning Palestinian flags, attacking taxi drivers and chanting for the slaughter of Arab children. (November 9, 2024)

 

 

 

TWITTER: I don’t think Western leaders and mainstream journalists grasp how far the world is going to change. An entire generation of young people has watched a live stream genocide, kids shredded in front of their eyes, while you show more concern for racist Israeli football hooligans. (November 9, 2024)

 

 

 

TWITTER: This is a massive media scandal. @SkyNews posted a video accurately describing what happened in Amsterdam. It described violence perpetrated by Israeli football hooligans, and their hideous racism. They then deleted it. This is the original. (November 10, 2024)

 

 

 

TWITTER: The return home from Amsterdam of the Israeli football fans, who managed with their violent and vulgar behavior, gloating over genocide, to provoke acts of recrimination from Moroccan Dutch, which is fodder for Western corporate (legacy) media to present context-free as "antisemitism,"--and even more ridiculously as a "pogrom." (November 10, 2024)

 

 

 

TWITTER: Gary Lineker has received threats after daring to say that Israel should be banned from football for their outrageous war crimes. (November 10, 2024)

 

 

 

TWITTER: Full reconstruction: How Zionist hooligans provoked chaos in Amsterdam (November 11, 2024)

 

 

 

TWITTER: Local Amsterdam residents tell @LeftLaser how they were assaulted and menaced by Tel Maccabi hooligans hunting for anyone displaying pro-Palestine symbols. Why should decent people have to put up with a hostile invasion of foreign Zionist goon squad members? (November 11, 2024)

 

 

 

TWITTER: Today, Israel assassinated Muhammad Afif, Hizbullah’s media head, killing him along with other civilians in a Christian residential neighbourhood of Beirut. Beyond its clear violations of international humanitarian law, the timing of this assassination exposes Israel’s strategic failures and reflects a campaign fuelled by desperation and a desire for retribution. (November 17, 2024)

 

 

 

The latest U.N. report chronicles Israel’s advances in its genocidal assault in Gaza. Israel is intent, the report warns, on expelling the Palestinians, recolonizing Gaza and turning on the West Bank. (November 18, 2024)

 

 

 

Israel is hollowing out what is left of Syria with bombs and tanks. (December 8, 2024)

 

 

 

TWITTER: Don't worry it's just Israeli soldiers describing their first-hand experiences in the Israeli army to the Israeli press: i.e.: anti-Semitic lies. (December 23, 2024)

 

 

 

TWITTER: Here’s how all Zionist arguments collapse upon the slightest examination (December 26, 2024)

 

 

 

TWITTER: Zionism undoubtedly carries all the traits of fascist and colonial ideologies, relying on exclusion, oppression, and expansion at the expense of other peoples. What is even more appalling is that media outlets claiming to be neutral and humanitarian turn into tools for legitimizing and justifying these crimes, exposing the hypocrisy of their slogans and making them accomplices in injustice. (December 29, 2024)

 

 

 

 

Tweets by Rania Khalek

Israeli soldiers have besieged a church sheltering hundreds of Christians in Gaza & Israeli snipers are shooting anyone that moves. They’ve killed the garbage collector, the janitor, and a mother & daughter, among others. The bodies lie there for days bc people fear being shot if they try to collect them. Where are all the people who complain about a war on Christmas? (December 17, 2023)

I am done trying to convince these people and institutions that I’m human, that my family members are human, that the region I come from is full of people who deserve life and happiness and freedom. Enough. From now on it’s about building our own media and institutions and movements and parties. Imperialism will never change, it must be defeated. (February 4, 2024)