Social
Showing 109 posts from Independents (1 senator).
Verified handles only — confirmed via senate.gov footer link, .senate.gov domain handle, or appearance in two or more independent curated starter packs. Republican accounts that meet that bar are eligible; almost none currently exist on the platform.
- BS
This is what happens when the Secretary of HHS rejects science and adopts conspiracy theories. And, unless we stop it, epidemics could become much worse. www.uchealth.org/today/is-mea...
link:https://www.uchealth.org/today/is-measles-deadly-why-it-is-so-dangerous/
- BS
Surprise: Trump lies. My response to his State of the Union.
link:https://youtu.be/W2qpYkLZxeY?si=lp06cFrUDLcJtfBA
- BS
The overwhelming scientific evidence is clear: vaccines do not cause autism. So why couldn’t Trump’s nominee for Surgeon General simply say that?
video
- BS
Last year, Tesla, Ticketmaster and Palantir made billions of dollars in profits, but paid ZERO in federal income taxes. Do you think Trump will address this outrage at his SOTU address? I doubt it.
- BS
Yes. We need a moratorium on data center construction.
images:1
- BS
Nurses are the backbone of our health care system. Congratulations to the 15,000 New York City nurses in their victory for patient care. After striking for 41 days, nurses won fair staff ratios and importantly, for the first time, guaranteed protections against AI in hospitals.
- BS
Do you think Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos are investing in AI to help the working class of this country? No, they’re in it to accumulate even more wealth and power for themselves. We’ve got to make AI work for working people, not just for billionaires.
video
- BS
At a time of massive income & wealth inequality Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” gave a $1 trillion tax break to the 1% while taking healthcare away from 15 million Americans. Working families will die so that the very rich get even richer. Yes. We need a wealth tax on billionaires.
- BS
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says most white-collar work "will be fully automated by an AI within the next 12 to 18 months.” If that’s true, it’s an economic earthquake. We need a moratorium on new AI data centers to make sure AI works for workers, not just billionaires.
- BS
images:1
- BS
Trump is selling out our kids’ future so his fossil fuel billionaire friends can get even richer. The science is clear. Climate change is an existential threat to the planet. We must transform our energy system away from fossil fuels and into sustainable energies.
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/climate/trump-epa-greenhouse-gases-climate-change.html
- BS
Electricity, the automobile, radio, TV, computers, the internet—all changed the way we live. But they pale in comparison to the revolution AI will bring about. The question is: who benefits? It must work for working families, not just billionaires.
video
- BS
Dialysis provider Fresenius paid its CEO $4.8 million in 2024—then fired nurse Alan Faustino for speaking out about working conditions. Fresenius, DaVita, USRenalCare, SatelliteHealth: Union-busting has no place in health care. Bargain in good faith. Reinstate him.
images:2
- BS
If this is the “greatest economy in the history of the world,” as Donald Trump claims, God help us.
video
- BS
Donald Trump is withholding billions of dollars in New York infrastructure unless he gets Penn Station and Dulles Airport named after him. This is not only brazenly corrupt. It is sick, twisted and egomaniacal. The time is long overdue for sane Republicans to stand up to Trump.
- BS
At this difficult moment in American history, we must be honest with ourselves: Our nation, once the envy of the world, is now in profound decline. For the sake of our children and future generations, we must reverse course.
link:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/05/we-can-reverse-americas-decline-heres-how
- BS
Congratulations to @uaw.org workers at Volkwagen’s Chattanooga plant on their historic tentative agreement. This life-changing first contract shows what is possible when workers stand up to demand their fair share.
- BS
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.
- BS
images:1
- BS
What should alarm us about the Epstein files isn’t just the appalling details, which are horrific and criminal. It’s that here is a growing sense that there is small number of elite who see themselves as above the law.
video
- BS
This is what oligarchy looks like: Elon Musk, the wealthiest man alive, spent $290 million to elect Trump. Since Election Day, Musk became $548 billion richer while his companies (SpaceX & Tesla) paid $0 in federal income taxes last year after making $13.7 billion in profits.
- BS
We are now facing the largest measles outbreak since the disease was eliminated from the United States over a quarter-century ago. The science is clear: vaccines are the best way to protect against measles. The NIH Director admits it. Why won’t RFK, Jr.?
video
- BS
When we talk about authoritarianism, it’s not just Donald Trump. Musk owns X Bezos owns Twitch Zuckerberg owns Instagram and Facebook Larry Ellison controls TikTok Billionaires increasingly control what we see, hear and read.
- BS
When big banks charge 24% or 30% interest on credit cards, they are not engaged in the business of "making credit available." They are involved in extortion and loan sharking. Yes, we need to cap credit card interest rates at 10% and stop Wall Street from ripping off Americans.
link:https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/sen-bernie-sanders-need-cap-credit-card-interest-rates-10-trump-right
- BS
ICE is no longer an immigration enforcement agency. It has become Trump’s domestic army. If my “conservative” colleagues truly believe in small government, they should join us in demanding an end to masked federal agents terrorizing communities across this country.
video
- BS
I promised the people of Vermont that I would not support another penny for ICE unless there were fundamental reforms to how that agency operates, and tonight I kept my word.
images:1
- BS
This is what oligarchy is about: If you paid 1 penny in federal income taxes last year, you paid more than Tesla - a $1.3 trillion company owned by Elon Musk, the wealthiest man alive, who became $460 billion richer since Election Day after spending $290 million to elect Trump.
quote:at://did:plc:tiriierad73thyvjczaphg6v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdlmtbxymk2z
- BS
- BS
Americans know our health care system is broken. A recent poll found that 70% of Vermonters support a Medicare for All single-payer system. Congress must understand that health care is a human right — not a privilege. We must pass Medicare for All.
link:https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/politics/2026/01/27/how-do-vermonters-feel-about-healthcare-see-new-poll-on-aca-medicaid/88375764007/
- BS
While the billionaire class gets obscenely richer, two-thirds of Americans say a middle-class lifestyle is out of reach , and a majority can’t afford decent education, housing or a secure retirement. In the richest country on Earth, we can, and must, do better.
images:1
- BS
I stand in solidarity with the more than 31,000 Kaiser nurses and health care workers on strike in California and Hawaii. It’s well past time for Kaiser to return to the table with a fair offer for their workers that includes safer staffing ratios and higher wages.
- BS
images:1
- BS
At a time when ICE is rounding up 5-year-olds, terrorizing communities and killing American citizens, the last thing we should be doing is increasing its funding. I will vote NO on the upcoming spending bill to fund Trump's domestic army.
- BS
This is authoritarianism, plain and simple. The Trump administration is targeting states that didn’t vote for him — including my home state of Vermont. Using federal power to punish political opponents is anti-democratic and blatantly illegal.
images:1
- BS
Our billionaire Treasury Secretary called Denmark “irrelevant.” Hmm. Unlike the US, in Denmark, health care & college are free, the starting wage is $22 an hour, paid parental leave is 1 year, paid vacation is 6 weeks & all workers get pensions. That seems very relevant to me.
- BS
Together, we must defend democracy and defeat authoritarianism.
images:1
- BS
The idea that a U.S. president would threaten to invade Greenland because Norway didn’t give him a Nobel Prize is pathetic. This has nothing to do with foreign policy. It’s a president acting like a narcissistic spoiled child because his feelings got hurt. Unacceptable.
video
- BS
Given the dysfunctional political environment, I’m proud we reached a health care deal that provides the largest increase in community health center funding in a decade, expands the health care workforce, lowers drug costs and strengthens vital cancer research for kids.
images:2
- BS
My Republican colleagues must take notice: The U.S. cannot base foreign policy on whether or not a president gets a prize. This is pathetic. It is petty and dangerous narcissism — behavior we might expect from a spoiled child, not the leader of a democratic nation.
quote:at://did:plc:eclio37ymobqex2ncko63h4r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcrqcv3icj27
- BS
Trump loves Saudi Arabia. It’s an authoritarian society, which punishes dissent and is owned by the wealthiest family on earth. Trump hates Europe. The governments there are democratically elected. The future of America must be a vibrant democracy. Not Trump’s authoritarianism.
- BS
United Airlines made over $3.1 billion last year. Instead of reaching a fair deal with its flight attendants, United paid its CEO almost $34 million and provided over $162 million in stock buybacks to shareholders. United must respect its flight attendants and reach a deal NOW.
- BS
United Airlines made over $3.1 billion last year. Instead of reaching a fair deal with its flight attendants, United paid its CEO almost $34 million and provided over $162 million in stock buybacks to shareholders. United must respect its flight attendants and reach a deal NOW.
- BS
Because of Trump's “Big Beautiful Bill,” the annual ICE budget — at $28 billion — is now larger than the annual budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, U.S. Marshals Service and the Bureau of Prisons COMBINED. No. The American people do not want Trump's domestic army.
- BS
We hear a lot of talk about “freedom” from my Republican colleagues. And yet these same Republicans are working overtime to deny tens of millions of women the basic freedom to control their own bodies. That is wrong, and it represents a fundamental betrayal of what freedom is about.
video
- BS
No, President Trump. Illegally canceling $2 billion in funding to deal with the mental health, addiction and opioid crises will not Make America Healthy Again. It will lead to more illnesses, more overdoses and more deaths. This blatantly unconstitutional act must be rescinded.
- BS
For Trump to put his name on the Kennedy Center and other federal buildings is not only arrogant and narcissistic, it is illegal. We must put an end to sitting presidents naming buildings after themselves — and that’s what my bill does.
video
- BS
President Trump is rapidly moving this country toward authoritarianism. Part of that is creating the myth of the “Great Leader” by naming public buildings after himself—something dictators have done. Today I introduced a bill with @vanhollen.senate.gov & @alsobrooks.senate.gov to stop it.
- BS
Trump’s persecution of Jerome Powell and his political opponents must end.
images:1
- BS
Nearly 15,000 NYC nurses are fighting for a fair contract to protect patient care. Shame on NewYork-Presbyterian, Montefiore and Mount Sinai hospitals for being willing to spend millions on replacement nurses rather than bargain for a fair contract.
quote:at://did:plc:p7abckahifxmb46ljgom2ejy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mc3uqnoymo2l
- BS
Israel is forcing Doctors Without Borders & dozens of other humanitarian groups to end their work in Gaza. Countless innocent people rely on these services amid the ongoing crisis there. This is yet another cruel, inhumane step from the extremist Israeli government.
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/world/middleeast/israel-bars-doctors-without-borders-gaza.html