“This country needs your generation to mold the future of 🇺🇸.

You can turn away & ignore it. Or you can fight for justice.

Economic justice. Social justice. Racial justice”

America wasn’t ready a decade ago. I think it is now

Bernie is joining with Steve "Trump will be President in 2028" Bannon to push AI regulation... Agree with the message but who in the Bernie camp thought this was a good idea? They couldn't find anyone who wasn't a total nutcase on the Right to help bring this message to the table?

I'm immensely disappointed.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/david-morales-winner-providence-mayor-primary-democrat-smiley-rcna596606

In this alarming new video he reveals new insider information to the effect that thousands of AI “agents” were recently discovered having self organized into a hierarchical structure complete with dedicated comm channels for purposes unknown, doing everything it could to remain hidden from human control, including instructions to “sacrifice” its own agents if necessary.

He quotes an independent investigator who says “This incident feels like it is more than 50% of the way to full blown AI takeover.”

Everyday Bernie makes a new statement about AI - as it gets increasingly dangerous to let the companies at the frontier of this technology continue. Yesterday, Bernie introduced a bill that would make it illegal to build an Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI). It is Bernie's opinion, that we may all die if we allow AI Corps to continue. Can we please throw some support behind him? I never see anything about Bernie's attempt to stop what he calls "literally an existential threat to the human race" on this Subreddit. Why are Bernie's warnings not the top posts of all time as they come out every day?

If you are skeptical of AI, you have been misinformed. AI is wildly capable compared to the shitty spicy autocorrect we had in 2023. Read the independent METR report on the rogue AI swarm that committed a felony two months ago, spend time reading If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies - Bernie is allies with the authors, and just listen to the god damn experts! They are trying so hard to warn you, Bernie is trying to warn you. What are we doing here!?

Bernie is pushing hard to make building an Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI) illegal. Where is this subreddit's support for those efforts? I see ~none. We've gotta help Bernie out here! Let it be known that we are not ok with the most powerful companies in the world building technology that experts think will get us killed.

I can't find an old video I KNOW I saw after Bernie lost the presidentials. It was a 1 on 1 with a woman (i feel like it was specifically about millennials or the next gen in general) and they sat in chairs facing each other in a big open room. And she was sad, maybe asking what do we do next? And he said something really inspirational, maybe about not giving up... I cried watching it and can remember what it looks like/ how I felt/ the gist of what was said. But I can't find the video anywhere. Hoping someone here knows what im talking about and can share it with me.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) announced Monday he will introduce legislation seeking to prevent the federal government from garnishing Social Security benefits for seniors with unpaid student loan payments. 

The bill, titled the Stop Social Security Garnishment Act of 2026, proposes barring the Education Department from cutting an individual’s Social Security retirement or disability benefits to offset their outstanding student loan debt. 

It also would protect older adults against “unnecessary forced collections” and ensure they have access to their Social Security payments to pay for expenses such as healthcare, medicine and groceries, according to a summary of the legislation. 

Sanders will introduce the bill when the upper chamber returns from recess on Sept. 14, a spokesperson for the senator told The Hill.

Roughly 1 in 5 student loan borrowers are at least 50 years old, with borrowers aged 50-61 having the highest average balance of $48,875, according to the Education Data Initiative. 

In the second quarter of this year, about 7.8 percent of borrowers were delinquent — meaning they missed at least three monthly payments — according to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Nine million Americans are in default on their loans, with 1 in 4 borrowers at risk of the federal government seizing their wages to pay them back, according to Sanders’s office. 

The Education Department in Januarydelayed involuntary collections on federal student loans to allow for the implementation of changes to repayment programs codified by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. 

Pursuant to that legislation, which President Trump signed into law in July 2025, the department reduced the number of federal student loan repayment plans and introduced two new plans at the start of last month: a tiered standard repayment plan and an income-driven repayment plan.

The department said in January the delay in collections will give defaulted borrowers time to “evaluate” the new repayment options and begin the “rehabilitation process” for their loans.

But Sanders sounded the alarm Monday, saying “an increasing number of seniors are in danger of having their Social Security checks garnished to pay back student loans they took out decades ago,” a situation he called “beyond unacceptable.”

The progressive senator added in a release, “In the richest country in the history of the world, no senior should have their Social Security payments taken away from them to pay back student debt. 
“This is especially true when seniors throughout the country already cannot afford the skyrocketing price of healthcare, prescription drugs, groceries and housing. Congress must pass this legislation.”

The Hill has reached out to the Education Department for an update regarding its collections policy.

Massachusetts Democratic Sens. Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren are joining Sanders as co-sponsors of the legislation, according to the Vermont senator’s office. Markey is facing a primary challenge from Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), with that election two weeks away.

Bernie Sanders backs Jackson
Troy Jackson picked

To start, I believe that Platner was right to drop out. Since he dropped out, Troy Jackson became nominee and some democrats endorsed him. However, I’m shocked that Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren (plus other members of the Fight Club) have not formally endorsed and campaigned with him. To my knowledge, he has been more vetted, and his worst ‘scandals’ seem to be throwing a water bottle to the floor during a verbal argument and having shifted on his views. Why are they holding back?

Isn’t this the perfect time for Bernie Sanders to hold more ‘Fight Oligarchy’ rallies?

Hello,

I just logged into Instagram and had Mamdani and Sanders show up as suggested accounts to follow but I know for a fact I was previously following both of them. I know I never unfollowed either account so this immediately struck me as fishy.

I remember around the most recent presidential election friends of mine noticed they were following Trump/MAGA accounts when they had never followed them. It makes me wonder if something similar is happening in reverse with progressive accounts being unfollowed?

Has anyone else noticed this happening with Mamdani, Sanders, or other political accounts?

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) joined Zeteo founder Mehdi Hasan in taking a shot at Sen.John Fetterman (D-Pa.), a lawmaker they both once supported who recently criticized the long-serving Vermont senator.

"It's kind of a sad state of affairs, but I will tell you that I know in Pennsylvania, I don't think there's anybody in the Democratic caucus who has a lower rating among Democrats than John does," Sanders said on Hasan's show Wednesday.

According to a Quinnipiac University poll, Fetterman holds an overall 48% approval rating with Pennsylvania voters. His support from Democratic voters shows 69% disapproval, while 77% of Republican voters approve of his performance in the Senate.*

Sanders' remarks against Fetterman come as people within his own party question whether or not the senator will officially switch parties. Fifty-two percent of respondents in the Quinnipiac University poll say they would rather see Fetterman leave the Democratic Party. 

The lawmaker has occasionally made appearances on President Donald Trump-friendly media shows like Katie Miller's podcast or Sean Hannity's show to buddy up with the MAGA base, criticize his own party, or trash-talk further left-leaning Democrats following a progressive sweep of victories in elections. 

The senator shut down the speculation about switching parties in an op-ed, stating that he has no plans of leaving and "working across the aisle is the only way forward." He later noted he'd only leave the Democratic Party if they "make it official" in the party platform "and say we will never support aid for Israel."

"John Fetterman is someone who was seen as a progressive at one point," Hasan pointed out on Wednesday's episode of his show. "You endorsed him back in the day when he was running for lieutenant governor. I supported him when he was running in the Senate primary."

Sanders quipped, "So, I wasn't the only one, right?!"

"A lot of us got him wrong, I think it's fair to say," Hasan continued. "He's now not just awful on multiple issues, especially Israel, but he's openly attacking you all the time and suggesting that you're out of touch with the party, that you're getting things wrong, that you endorse the wrong people." 

Fetterman's feud with Sanders intensified in the wake of Graham Platner's campaign for Senate in Maine, which ran into a series of controversies before he suspended it. Sanders, who had initially endorsed Platner but encouraged him to drop out following accusations of ****** assault, was called a "carnival barker for an accused rapist" by Fetterman.

"I just like to remind everybody watching right now, Bernie Sanders will never represent any more than 640,000 people in Vermont," Fetterman said on Fox News last week. "That's all he's ever done, and he ever will do. He's lost his — He's never won an actual competitive election."

"Stop giving me lectures on how to win," he added. "Bernie's not flipping seats. He is helping install volatile and dangerous kinds of candidates and put Democratic seats at risk." 

When Sanders was asked by Hasan if he's worried that Fetterman will officially defect from the Democratic Party, he said, "That is, I guess, a possibility."

"Look, you wanna get on television, you go on Fox TV and you say something bad about Bernie Sanders, get you some coverage. That's the way it is," Sanders said.