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6/19 News Roundup – Bernie Sanders rallies w/ Ben Jealous; New Video Captures ‘Horrifying’ Reality of Children Taken From Parents & More

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Bernie Sanders joins candidate Ben Jealous to help fire up Maryland voters

Sen. Bernie Sanders may not be endorsing his own son’s congressional bid, but he rallied on a hot Monday night in Maryland to fire up voters for Ben Jealous’ campaign for governor.

The senator, known for his reluctance to endorse politicians, joined the former NAACP president outside an early voting center in Silver Spring, Maryland.

“I am proud to be here because Ben is one of those leaders who is not going to be nibbling around the edges, but understands we have got to transform the economic and political life of this country,” Sanders said in a plaza outside the voting center as a crowd of supporters cheered. Jealous stood by his side.

Jealous has been tied in recent polls with Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker in Maryland’s Democratic primary to challenge popular Republican Gov. Larry Hogan in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans 2-1.

Jealous and Sanders share support for tuition-free college and expanding Medicare to all. Sanders also praised Jealous for supporting a $15 minimum wage and equal pay for equal work.

Sanders also said he wanted to see Jealous become governor to be a loud voice against President Donald Trump in nearby Washington, D.C.

“And when the president of the United States continues to do outrageous things, like separating children from their parents, I want Mr. Trump to hear Ben Jealous’ loud voice,” Sanders said as supporters, many of them young adults, cheered.

12/6 News Roundup – Sanders Shows The Senate Tweets With Broken Promises, Ben Jealous releases plan for statewide ‘Medicare for all’ & More

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Will Trump Cut Social Security And Medicaid? Bernie Sanders Shows The Senate tweets With Broken Promises

Senator Bernie Sanders wants President Donald Trump to know that he reads Trump’s tweets—especially those with promises the president is breaking.

On Tuesday, Sanders took to the Senate floor to remind Trump about his tweeted vow to not cut social welfare programs—something that’s set to happen under the Republican tax reform plan.

“I was the first & only potential GOP candidate to state there will be no cuts to Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid. Huckabee copied me,” Trump tweeted in May 2015.

Sanders, an independent from Vermont, brought out a huge printout of that tweet and other similar comments made by Trump to the Senate’s debate about gutting the Affordable Care Act and entitlement programs.

The Republican Party is aiming to cut New Deal-era entitlements to reduce the rise in the federal deficit that will be brought upon by their scribbled tax bill. Sanders said Trump should either keep his word and veto any cuts, or admit he was lying.

“Millions of people voted for him on the belief that he would keep his word,” Sanders said.

“If he was sincere, then I would hope that tomorrow or maybe today he could send out a tweet and tell his Republican colleagues to stop wasting their time and all of our time. And for Mr. Trump to tell the American people that he will veto any proposal that cuts Medicare, that cuts Medicaid or that cuts Social Security.”

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8/16 News Roundup – Nina Turner Denounces The Enablers Of Nazis, Sanders To Introduce Single Payer Bill In Sept, Ben Jealous Gets Arrested & More

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In Today’s News Roundup & Open Thread:

*Nina Turner Denounces The Enablers of Racism
*Video Of Bernie Speaking @ The St Albans Senior Center
*Ben Jealous Gets Arrested
*Tim Black & Jimmy Dore Try To Understand Keith Ellison
*Pipeline & Water Protector Updates
* More

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7/14 News Roundup – Sanders: ‘Trump Has To Be Exposed For The Fraud He Is’, Corbyn Gives Bernie Credit & More

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Beyond Crazy Tweets, Sanders Says Policies Expose Trump ‘For Fraud He Is’

In an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Thursday morning, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) urged opponents of President Donald Trump to not allow his “stupid tweets” to distract attention from his “destructive” policies, which include a healthcare plan that could strip insurance from 22 million people and tax proposals that would provide generous cuts to the rich and hikes for the middle class.

Asked to outline an “optimistic scenario” for the next several months in Washington, Sanders said: “I hope we beat [Trumpcare] badly. I hope Trump supporters in rural states understand that what he told them during the campaign that he was going to stand up for working people was nothing but a lie. And if you think this healthcare bill is a disaster, take a look at the budget that he proposed.”

Sanders implored the media and activists to emphasize that “the policies he is proposing are the most destructive policies being proposed in our lifetimes.”

“He has got to be exposed for the fraud that he is, not just focusing on his temperament and on his tweets,” Sanders concluded, “but on his extremely right-wing policy that is paid for by the Koch brothers and other billionaires.”

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7/13 News Roundup – Sanders: “I Am Not Taking 2020 Off Of The Table”, Bernie Endorses Ben Jealous & More

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Via Newsweek:

Bernie Sanders supporters are still feeling the sting of their candidate’s loss in the race for the Democratic nomination for president and Hillary Clinton’s subsequent loss of the election to Donald Trump. Sanders’s fans, political observers and the media have been asking him for months whether he’ll consider running again in 2020.

The Vermont senator’s usual answer is that it’s way too early to talk about the next election. He reiterated as much in an interview that will air Thursday morning on Sirius XM’s “Make It Plain With Mark Thompson.” But when Thompson asked Sanders whether he’s leaving 2020 on the table or taking it off, the senator answered, more directly than he normally does, that he isn’t not considering it.

“No, I am not taking it off the table. I just have not made any decisions,” Sanders said. “And I think it’s much too early,” he continued, directing the conversation to what he believes the public should be focusing on at this time.

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7/3 News Roundup – Bernie Blasts Trump’s ACA Repeal Plan, Ben Jealous Discusses The ‘Election Integrity Commission’ & More

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Bernie Sanders Rips The Heart Out Of Trump’s Obamacare Repeal Plan With One Stunning Statistic

During an interview on CNN’s State of the Union, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) killed Trump’s idea that Republicans should repeal Obamacare now and replace it later by pointing out that 32 million Americans would immediately lose their health insurance under Trump’s idea.

Sanders was asked by CNN’s Jake Tapper if Democrats would work with Republicans if they repealed now and replaced later.

Sen. Sanders answered, “No. The answer is that I have a lot of respect for Sen. Sasse, but that idea is an absurd idea. As you pointed out, the Congressional Budget Office indicated that if you simply repeal the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), you will throw 32 million Americans off of health insurance, ten percent of the population of the United States. If you throw 32 million people off of health insurance ten percent of the population of the United States. For seven years, Republicans have been talking about a repeal mechanism, they haven’t agreed yet. If you throw, Jake, 32 million people off of health insurance, what doctors who have studied this issue say is that tens of thousands of people, every single year, will die.”


Sanders says he’ll pitch ‘Medicare for all’ when the GOP health-care plan fails

“Medicare for all” will be on the Senate agenda after Republicans fail to repeal and replace ObamaCare, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Sunday in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper.

“We are going to introduce it literally as soon as we’re through with this debate. I don’t want to confuse the two issues,” Sanders explained in his State of the Union appearance. “Medicare for all [is] simply an expansion of Medicare, so it’s not just for seniors, but for everybody.”

“I’m talking to you 50 miles away from the Canadian border. Somehow they manage to provide health care for all of their people and at a significantly lower cost per capita than we do, and so does every other major country on Earth,” Sanders argued, conceding “there is a lot to be talked about” but maintaining his case for a single-payer system.

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6/5 News Roundup – Sanders To Israel: “This Occupation Must End”, Bernie Speaks In Wales & More

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Bernie Sanders, in video to left-wing Israeli party, says ‘occupation must end’

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said “the occupation must end” in a video message to Israel’s left-wing opposition Meretz Party.

The five-minute video was set to be screened at a conference Sunday marking the end of the Six-Day War in 1967 and “50 years of Occupation.”

In opening the video, Sanders, a Jewish Independent who sought the Democratic presidential nomination, called Meretz, which currently has 5 seats in Israel’s 120-seat Knesset, “Israel’s most prominent political organization.” He added that the party stands “for many of the same values that progressives are fighting for here in the United States and throughout the world.”

“We are now in the 50th year of Israel’s occupation, an occupation which denies basic Palestinian rights while failing to deliver Israel real security,” said Sanders.

“I know so many of you agree with me when I say: this occupation must end. Peace, real peace, means security not only for every Israeli, but for every Palestinian. It means supporting self-determination, civil rights and economic well-being for both peoples.”

Sanders called for “a politics of solidarity and a common humanity” and added that “brave people uniting around a common set of values with clear goals, can change a country, they can change the world, they can even change the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”

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5/31 News Roundup – Bernie’s Brooklyn College Commencement Speech, Ben Jealous To Run For MD Gov. & More

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‘Help Us Create The Nation’ We Want, Bernie Sanders Tells Grads in Speech

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders returned to his home borough of Brooklyn Tuesday to deliver Brooklyn College’s commencement speech, entering the stage to rousing chants of “Bernie.”

Though he never mentioned President Trump by name, Sanders decried the current administration — which he called an “oligarchy” set on stripping 23 million people of their health care coverage, decimating Medicaid, de-funding Planned Parenthood and laying waste to supportive resources like food stamps, afterschool programs and Pell grants to help middle class families pay for college.

He called on the more than 4,100 undergraduate and graduate students getting their diplomas inside the Barclays Center alongside him to put all their efforts into turning the nation in the right direction.

“My message to you is very simple: think big, not small, and help us create the nation that we all know we can become,” he said.

The Independent senator, who was born and raised in Brooklyn and attended Midwood’s P.S. 197, Sheepshead Bay’s James Madison High School and Brooklyn College in 1959, which he attended briefly before transferring to the University of Chicago, was awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters degree for his “groundbreaking career in politics, visionary approach to public policy and higher education, dedication to civic welfare and commitment to equality.”

A Full Transcript Of Bernie’s Speech

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4/23 Our Revolution Update Live, Bernie on Face the Nation, Sun BNR & Open Thread

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