Warren Gunnels

Minority Staff Director for Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Ranking Member @SenSanders
Blatantly Pro-Union
AKA: Chief of Receipts

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Netanyahu: I need $6 billion more
Trump: Approved

Argentina: We need $20 billion
Trump: Approved

Musk: SpaceX needs $5.9 billion
Trump: Approved

Bezos: Amazon needs $16 billion
Trump: Approved

Average Joe: My wife got cancer. I lost my job. Can we get Medicaid?
Trump: Denied

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Why is the price of gas $4.38 a gallon?

Why is the price of heating oil $5.87 a gallon?

Why is the price of diesel $6.20 a gallon?

The answer is obvious: Trump's illegal war in Iran.

Who benefits? Big Oil, which made $125 billion in profits this year.

End this war — NOW.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

Unlike Dem nominees in NC & AK, Dem nominees in MI & MN faced well-financed smear campaigns from Neera’s corporate Dem faction. Maine’s Dem nominee has reportedly been kneecapped by DC consultants.

The broader lesson: Corporate Dems & DC Dem elites are toxic to Dem nominees.

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

It’s not the old v. the young. It’s the rich v. everyone else.

If Bernie’s Social Security bill passed in 2021, Musk would’ve owed $2.9 billion more in taxes, benefits would be up $2,400, Social Security would be solvent for 75 years & the bottom 91% would pay $0 more in taxes.

[Remarks @remarks]

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 US boomers overwhelmingly support higher taxes on younger workers to maintain current Social Security benefits, poll shows.

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

These 2 men are against a 5% billionaire wealth tax that’d save healthcare for 3 million people in CA. Truly obscene.

Sergey Brin
Income Taxes
2019: $0
2020: $0
2023: $0
Wealth today: $276 billion

Larry Page
Income Taxes
2019: $0
2020: $0
2023: $0
Wealth Today: $297 billion

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

I can’t believe we have to say this, but the annihilation of two major American cities — more than 5 million people — is not a “small price to pay” for Trump's illegal war.

Neither are the 19 American troops and 3,000+ Iranians who lost their lives.

Our president is unhinged.

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Google’s co-founder, Sergey Brin, got $220 billion richer since 2019.

He paid $0 in income taxes in 2019, 2020 & 2023.

Now, he’s spending $138 million to oppose CA’s 5% billionaire wealth tax.

If it passed, he’d pay $13.7 billion in taxes & would still be worth $259 billion.

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

When a record 66% of all Americans, 84% of Democrats & 72% of Independents support Medicare for All there’s no excuse other than pure greed & corruption for Democrats in Congress not to support it.

Medicare for All saves over $1 trillion and 114,000 lives a year.

All aboard!

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

If Bernie’s 5% a year billionaire wealth tax had been enacted in 2012, Elon Musk would be worth less than $365 billion instead of the $1 trillion he’s worth today. He’d still be the wealthiest man alive & every senior in America would have dental, vision & hearing under Medicare.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

The number of self-proclaimed leftists on this hellsite who seem totally fine with hawkish, AIPAC-backed, Trump-endorsed Mike Rogers winning Michigan is totally insane to me.

Social media, and the need to get clicks and generate performative outrage, has broken people’s brains.

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

When the Warner Bros-Paramount merger is final, Trump’s ally the billionaire Ellison family & the royal families of Saudi Arabia, Qatar & UAE will own CBS, CNN & TikTok.

And David Zaslav? He’ll get a golden parachute of at least $550 million.

A bed made by the Oligarchs.

[Variety @Variety]

David Zaslav bids farewell to Warner Bros. employees in a video ahead of the official closing of the Warner Bros.-Paramount merger:

“For me, it’s been a great honor to be alongside all of you,” Zaslav says in the 3-minute video. “I hope you take pride in what you’ve built, what you’ve created, and the role you’ve played in shaping an extraordinary history. What’s past is prologue. The future waits for each and every one of you. For your spirit, your ingenuity, your creativity and your courage. I can’t wait to see what you do in the years ahead."

https://t.co/amPGt3nCBp

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

If Bernie’s 5% a year billionaire wealth tax had been enacted in 2012, Elon Musk would be worth less than $365 billion instead of the $1 trillion he’s worth today. He’d still be the wealthiest man alive & every senior in America would have dental, vision & hearing under Medicare.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: Elon Musk's net worth has just surpassed $1 trillion, again.

With that money we could make college completely free in America for over a decade.

[Gabriel Zucman @gabriel_zucman]

As voting begins today, the world needs to know what Silicon Valley billionaires are doing to sabotage the billionaire tax now on the ballot in California.

This is shocking. 🧵

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Mr. Altman: What “bad things” should we accept to advance AI?

Losing tens of millions of jobs?
A mass surveillance state?
A mental health crisis for our kids?
A global financial crisis?
Mass extinction?

Let’s not wait to find out. Pause advanced AI NOW!

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Don’t let Sergey Brin fool you into believing he left California.

He still owns 4 CA mansions worth $103.5 million. Just because he bought another one a half mile away from CA’s border doesn’t mean he can escape this tax, according to tax lawyers who have studied this issue.

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Google’s co-founder, Sergey Brin, got $220 billion richer since 2019.

He paid $0 in income taxes in 2019, 2020 & 2023.

Now, he’s spending $138 million to oppose CA’s 5% billionaire wealth tax.

If it passed, he’d pay $13.7 billion in taxes & would still be worth $259 billion.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

idk how we're ever going to deal w/ how much of the public square is controlled by a couple billionaires who tweak the algorithm & allow disinfo to spread against the left all around the world. we have no way to combat it. these guys are spreading maga all over the world

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

Mad scientist who has spent 25 years helping her donors corporatize the Democratic Party, thereby delivering elections to Trump and destroying the world: “We are conducting a national experiment.”

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Ro Khanna: “These billionaires are putting in $200M to try to kill Proposition 40. Some of the SEIU-UHW members I’ve talked to are tired of Democratic politicians like Gavin Newsom taking their marching orders from the donors who would fund a future presidential campaign. We are tired of a governor defying grassroots delegates in the California Democratic Party all because he’s on the side of Trump allies like Peter Thiel and Sergey Brin. You can’t pretend to be anti-Trump if you’re doing the bidding of Trump donors”

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Trump’s right: We have the best economy in the world — for billionaires. Not so good for workers.

Musk
2024: $308B
2026: $933B

Bezos
2024: $230B
2026: $369B

Meanwhile: gas, housing and healthcare costs are soaring.

We need an economy that works for ALL, not just the 1%.

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

Newsom's allies are saying they oppose the billionaire tax because it will hurt "farmers and ranchers."

Talk about gaslighting.

Of the 250 California billionaires, how many are framers/ranchers? https://t.co/QCIBXkaOzS