I am proud to be the first Democrat to take this pledge to reject money from AIPAC and affiliated groups, recognize the genocide in Gaza, and oppose aid to Israel and military sales that kill civilians.
In America today, we rank 34th out of 35 countries in childhood poverty and millions of children are food insecure.
Maybe, just maybe, my Republican colleagues would consider holding a single hearing about how we improve the lives of American kids.
While Pentagon spending hit $1 trillion last year, defense contractor CEOs got a raise:
General Dynamics CEO: $25.9M
Northrop Grumman CEO: $25.3M
RTX (Raytheon) CEO: $24.8M
Boeing CEO: $23.5M
Lockheed Martin CEO: $23.4M
This is the military-industrial complex.
BREAKING: Billionaires in America now own a record $9.2 TRILLION in wealth.
That's up 32% over the last year. The country's GDP has only risen 6% in that time.
Tax breaks for the wealthy don't trickle down to working people. They just create trillionaires.
Two real estate cartel companies are poised to merge — AvalonBay and Equity Residential.
Together, they'd be the largest corporate landlord in the United States.
But this will pose major problems for tenants and a monopoly in communities everywhere.
https://t.co/Itva28zCd0
Thank you @SenSanders for your leadership in addressing a disastrous situation millions of Americans are about to be faced with. Our action cannot stop here. We are calling on the White House to pause all student loan payments and interest immediately. https://t.co/Th4zrE0uee
Thanks to Trump and his “Big Beautiful Bill,” student loan payments will go up as much as $4,000 a year starting July 1st.
While billionaires get massive tax breaks, working people will be defaulting on their debts.
Unacceptable.
GEO Group is attempting to remedy the situation by transferring all detainees to other detention centers, where they will undoubtedly face more overcrowding, forced labor, dismal conditions, and untold abuses.
The effort to turbocharge the process of criminalizing, abducting, and deporting immigrants is predictably resulting in horrific abuse and terror. The combination of incompetence and cruelty ensures that those caught up in Trump’s terror campaign will suffer immensely.
This uprising made clear the shoddy construction of the facility, with GEO Group stating that a wall had been destroyed. They have not even been able to account for the people inside, with it being unclear whether some of the unjustly detained immigrants escaped.
foul water served at irregular intervals, arbitrary revocation of visitation hours and lawyer visits, and generally unsafe conditions. This all culminated on the evening of June 12th, with an uprising against the deplorable conditions.
Friday, June 13, 2025
Newark, NJ
On May 1, GEO Group, a private prison profiteer, illegally opened Delaney Hall in Newark’s toxic chemical corridor. In the short time since, the facility has seen horribly overcrowded conditions, rotten food and
First elected to the U.S. Senate in 1972, Joe Biden turns 80 years old today.
These have been the most productive decades in human history and Biden has been diligent in ensuring the wealth generated is concentrated with his cronies.
Way too many years of rigging the system...
Today, I confronted with UK 🇬🇧 Minister of Energy, Climate and Environment @ZacGoldsmith at #COP27.
I asked him, "When will you release those jailed climate activists your Govt. arrested for protesting to stop new oil & gas license across UK?"
He replied, "No idea" & run away!
Service workers from across the South are signing union membership cards to join the Union of Southern Service Workers (USSW)!
We're getting organized to win real structural changes in our workplaces and communities.
#OrganizeTheSouth#UnionsForAll