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Arrest photo of young activist Bernie Sanders emerges from Tribune archives
A Chicago Tribune archival photo of a young man being arrested in 1963 at a South Side protest shows Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, his campaign has confirmed, bolstering the candidate's narrative about his civil rights activism.
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Bernie Sanders vows to break up huge ISPs and regulate broadband prices
Presidential candidate and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders yesterday released a plan to overhaul the US broadband market by breaking up giant providers, outlawing data caps, regulating broadband prices, and providing $150 billion to build publicly owned networks.
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Bernie Sanders unveils plan to boost broadband access, break up internet and cable titans
Bernie Sanders unveiled a plan Friday to expand broadband internet access as part of a push to boost the economy and reduce corporate power over Americans.
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Bernie Sanders and AOC Unveil a Green New Deal for Public Housing
Socialist Democrats are pushing the progressive envelope with a new iteration of Green New Deal legislation this week, this time with a focus on public housing. On Thursday, New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders introduced a new bill that would dedicate billions of dollars to energy retrofits for America’s dilapidated public housing stock. The Green New Deal for Public Housing Act would commit up to $180 billion over 10 years to upgrading 1.2 million federally administered homes.
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Jeff Bezos would pay $9 billion a year in wealth taxes under Bernie Sanders' plan
Jeff Bezos would pay about $9 billion in taxes this year under Sen. Bernie Sanders’ proposed wealth tax. As part of his presidential primary campaign and efforts to outflank the rise of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sanders announced a wealth tax that would hit multibillionaires like Bezos especially hard. The Amazon CEO would pay more in annual wealth taxes than the net worth of the 50 richest Americans as listed by Forbes.
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"I Don't Think Billionaires Should Exist": Sanders Proposes Wealth Tax to Slash Fortunes of Ultra-Rich
To tackle "outrageous and grotesque and immoral" levels of inequality in the United States, Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday proposed a new wealth tax on the richest Americans that economists say would slash the fortunes of billionaires in half over 15 years and raise an estimated $4.35 trillion in revenue during the first decade.
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Bernie Sanders Unveils $16 Trillion ‘Green New Deal’ Plan
Senator Bernie Sanders on Thursday will release a $16.3 trillion blueprint to fight climate change, the latest and most expensive proposal from the field of Democratic presidential candidates aimed at reining in planet-warming greenhouse gases.
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Bernie Sanders Promises to Tell Us About Aliens if He's Elected President
On the Joe Rogan Experience, Sanders said that if he learns anything about aliens, he'll announce it to the public on Rogan's podcast.
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Sydney Ember’s Secret Sources
NYT reporter hides corporate ties of Sanders critics she highlights. Ember is supposed to write reported articles, not op-eds, but she consistently paints a negative picture of Sanders’ temperament, history, policies and/or political prospects in the over two dozen pieces she’s done on him. This makes sense, given the New York Times’ documented anti-Sanders bias, which can be found among both editors and reporters alike.
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Sanders to join Ocasio-Cortez at rally as climate fight heats up
Sen. Bernie Sanders will speak at a Green New Deal rally at Howard University on Monday that also features Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, organizers said. The event, organized by the Sunrise Movement, gives the 2020 contender a high-profile platform to court the environmental left. Sanders' planned appearance comes as Democratic candidates are starting to spar over their climate plans and recent polls show environmental issues taking on...
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Sanders pushes back against Biden's 'most progressive' claim
Sen. Bernie Sanders pushed back against former Vice President Joe Biden's claim that he has "the most progressive record" of any candidate in the Democratic presidential field, citing Biden's votes as a member of the U.S. Senate as evidence that his views were not always in line with the nation's liberals. "I think if you look at Joe’s record and you look at my record, I don’t think there’s much question about who’s more progressive," Sanders, I-Vt., told ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl in an exclusive interview from Des Moines, Iowa, that aired on "This Week" Sunday.
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Bernie Sanders Tells Disney to Use ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Profits to Pay Its Workers More Money
Bernie Sanders wants Walt Disney Co. to reallocate box office profits from Avengers: Endgame to pay all its employees “a middle-class wage.” Sanders shared his viewpoint on Twitter, writing, “What would be truly heroic is if Disney used its profits from Avengers to pay all of its workers a middle-class wage, instead of paying its CEO Bob Iger $65.6 million—over 1,400 times as much as the average worker at Disney makes,” and linked to a Bloomberg News story about Disney’s stock soaring after Endgame’s opening this weekend.
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‘Now is the time to complete what we began’
Bernie Sanders fires up crowd at San Francisco rally. By Casey Tolan.
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At Bernie Sanders’ Kickoff Rally, Campaign Co-Chair Gives Shout-Out to Atheists
During the Brooklyn kickoff for Bernie Sanders‘ 2020 presidential campaign, his national co-chair, Nina Turner, gave a shout-out to atheists (among others) as she told the crowd who Sanders was representing in his run. It’s just rhetoric, but it’s good to be included in that mix. The next step is for the candidates to make a more direct case for church/state separation and why this administration’s appeals to a specific kind of conservative Christian need to end.
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Dismissing Bernie Sanders as a communist shows your 'profound ignorance' says 1 of the most influential behind-the-scenes figures in American business
Delaware Supreme Court chief justice Leo E. Strine, Jr., says Americans need to rethink social democracy if they want to improve the economy.
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Bernie Sanders Enters 2020 Presidential Campaign, No Longer An Underdog
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont is giving it another go, launching a second campaign for the White House four years after surprising Democrats with a strong bid for the party's 2016 nomination. "We began the political revolution in the 2016 campaign, and now it's time to move that revolution forward," the independent senator told Vermont Public Radio in an interview airing Tuesday morning.
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The Unfinished Business of Bernie Sanders
He went from the rumpled bit player of the progressive movement to a legit presidential candidate and liberal kingmaker. But now that Sanders wields such enormous power in Democratic politics, the question is, what’s he going to do with it? By Jason Zengerle.
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Pelosi warns against ousting a woman....OK to oust Bernie though.
She and her allies argue she can’t be denied the speakership after Democrats seized the House on a wave of female support. Some might call that sexism.
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After Leaked Video, Sanders and Warren Demand Bezos Answer for Amazon's "Potentially Illegal" Union Busting
"We write to express our alarm at recent reports that your company is distributing anti-union materials to Whole Foods managers that directs and encourages potentially illegal interference with the rights of thousands of workers."
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Bernie Sanders Ramps Up Amazon Battle With New Bill Demanding Living Wage for Workers
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is amping up his battle against large corporations like Amazon with a new bill set to be introduced on Sept. 5. According to the senator’s office, the legislation would create a 100-percent tax on large employers equal to the amount of federal benefits that the employers’ low-wage workers receive. For instance, if an Amazon employee gets $300 in food stamps, Amazon would be taxed $300.
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