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@abdulelsayed.bsky.social: it's easier in our current system for a billionaire to make a second billion than it is for the average worker to make their first $100,000. And I would rather live in an America where it's harder to make a second billion than it is to make your first $100,000.

@abdulelsayed.bsky.social: I said to President Obama, I don't get to do what I'm doing without you having done what you did. The job is to carry the baton forward for other people who were told they were not quite enough because of who they are.

Abdul El-Sayed: Money out of politics, what does that mean? We have this regime called Citizens Unified. Students: Booo.

Bernie Sanders on how to make Medicare For All a reality:

Abdul El Sayed: Codify Roe. Pass a law that codifies Roe. We should have done it along time ago. This shouldn't be up for debate anymore.

Abdul El-Sayed: I want to ban unconditional foreign military aid. I don't pay my tax dollars so another country gets a bomb or a tank.

Bernie Sanders: As you're seeing here in Michigan today, we have a corrupt campaign finance system. Billionaires can and are putting in unbelievable amounts of money. Elon Musk himself, in this campaign, is going to spend $400 million

Bernie Sanders: What Abdul believes and what I believe is that it is absolutely imperative we end this endless war, stop funding the extremist Netanyahu government in Israel, and we invest in our kids, in our seniors, and in working class people.

Senator Bernie Sanders and Abdul El-Sayed walk onto the stage to chanting and roaring applause at the University of Michigan Students vs. Billionaires town hall

Student tenant organizer Jack Bernard: Real students are in housing units that are catching on fire over landlord-neglected maintenance problems, receiving no compensation for these grave threats to life and safety.

LIVE: Bernie Sanders and @abdulelsayed.bsky.social are taking questions from college students in Ann Arbor at our ninth Students vs Billionaires Town Hall.

@aoc.bsky.social: Public colleges and universities should be tuition-free.

@AOC: AI's goal is to take your thoughts away from you, making you dependent on a machine.

@aoc.bsky.social: The House and the Senate have always been institutions for the ruling class in America. Susan Collins is a member of that ruling class. They don’t like that it breaks the rules for @troyjackson207.bsky.social to go in there.

Trans voter to @aoc.bsky.social: Trans people in America feel like they've been abandoned by the Democratic Party, that we are a losing issue, that it's not worth defending us. What do you say to that? AOC:

Young Maine voter: How do we prevent ICE agents from taking our community members? @troyjackson207.bsky.social: I've been saying for months now, we should defund ICE. We should abolish ICE.

@aoc.bsky.social: The trillion dollars in health care cuts that Susan Collins paved the way for is threatening the closure of our rural hospitals and our urban hospitals alike. But the first thing to go in every one of these systems is Labor & Delivery and OBGYN.

Maine student to @troyjackson207.bsky.social: How do you pitch Medicare For All in rural areas where people aren't as used to the idea?

Young voter to @aoc.bsky.social and @troyjackson207.bsky.social: America first or Israel first?

Maine voter: What are your plans on Day 1? @aoc.bsky.social: We will be opening investigations into the heads of every single one of these agencies. We will never get our country back if we allow criminals to have cabinet seats in the United States.

Maine college student: I'm on the autism spectrum. What can be done in the House of Representatives to push back the narrative that Tylenol causes autism? @aoc.bsky.social: We need to get big money out of politics so that we can have qualified professionals making these reviews.

@aoc.bsky.social: "Palantir is going out to lunch on the $70 billion in ICE funding that Susan Collins helped rubber stamp."

Maine student: How can we bring back more privacy online? @troyjackson207.bsky.social: "We need real regulation to protect people, especially young people. That's what the billionaires are spending money in Maine to prevent."

@petebuttigieg.bsky.social closing message to students Think about what you wanna be able to say you did so that the 2020s turned out very different than it started. Do not underestimate your power.

@petebuttigieg.bsky.social on the presidential admin being held accountable for targeting universities, museums, and national parks over ideological differences. We are making clear that corruption and abuse is not an academic crime. It hurts real people, and that’s why it has to change.

This is why we have government, so you don’t have to ask a private actor to do the right thing when it puts him at a disadvantage. You set a floor that everybody has to follow. @petebuttigieg.bsky.social on holding data centers/corporations responsible for the wealth inequality they create

A Charlotte student to @PeteButtigieg on corporate abuse of the minimum wage. How will the Democratic platform structure a wage increase to actively protect small businesses from being forced to close or cut hours?

@petebuttigieg.bsky.social on the direction of the Democratic Party: If the status quo was working, we wouldn't be here right now. We need to raise the minimum wage, lower health care costs, implement paid parental leave, and pass a constitutional amendment to get money out of politics.

9th grader in North Carolina to @petebuttigieg.bsky.social: I'm seeing a lot of energy from young people right now. How can we bridge the intergenerational gap?

“It would be self-defeating to allow HBCUs to deteriorate because of a lack of support.” - @petebuttigieg.bsky.social answering a question on the lack of support provided to HBCU’s and their importance to our country.

"We should be supporting leaders who understand that once elected, when communities and families are crying out to them for help—whether it's help getting a roadway fixed or getting health care—that the last thing you're going to do is check how they voted." - @petebuttigieg.bsky.social

@petebuttigieg.bsky.social: If 2/3 of Americans agree on issues like health care, why aren't we seeing progress? Gerrymandering, money in politics, and voter suppression.

We are LIVE NOW from UNC Charlotte for our Building A Future We Can Afford Town Hall with @petebuttigieg.bsky.social, where students are asking questions about the issues that matter most to them.

Join our next Students vs. Billionaires town hall in Portland, Maine featuring @aoc.bsky.social and @troyjackson207.bsky.social! 10/22 at 2PM. Bring a friend and bring questions. RSVP: actionnetwork.org/forms/mpuniv...

We can build a future that’s affordable for everyone. Join our town hall Q&A with @petebuttigieg.bsky.social at UNC Charlotte THIS Sunday. RSVP: actionnetwork.org/forms/pete-t... Bring a friend and bring questions!

Senate candidate @angieforfl.bsky.social answers a transgender FIU student's question: You have not just an ally in me, you have an accomplice. "We're gonna make sure that when we pass things like universal healthcare, that gender affirming healthcare is included as well."

@angieforfl.bsky.social: We need to start electing people who have experienced what it's like to struggle, who have experienced what it's like to be just an everyday person. This is a multi-racial working-class electorate. The elected officials, the lawmakers, need to reflect that.

@maxwellfrost.bsky.social: I believe young people do care, but there are systems in place to keep you from voting. They don't want you to realize your power.

@maxwellfrost.bsky.social: You can see the racism blatantly with TPS. Look at what they did with TPS for Hati. They want to essentially exile 450,000 Haitians, which, by the way, 1/4 of our caretakers for elders in the state of Florida are Haitians. So this impacts everybody."

In response to an FIU student's question about protecting the environment, @angieforfl.bsky.social says that executives who caused sickness and death in Florida's communities should go to jail.

@angieforfl.bsky.social is asked about how we can reach out to older Latino voters in Florida...

@angieforfl.bsky.social to Gen Z: You deserve so much more. So you all have to organize your friends, organize family, especially your parents and grandparents, and tell them they need to not just vote for them, they need to not just be voting for you.

@angieforfl.bsky.social I got y’all’s back. I want to abolish ICE and make sure we are rerouting and redirecting those funds. Immigrants are welcome here.

@angieforfl.bsky.social: Voting is your power. Holding elected officials accountable is even more powerful. We work for ya'll.

STUDENT: "What are you going to do about cost of living?" @angieforfl.bsky.social : "We need to repeal that big BS bill, because that's what it was, it was not beautiful."

Students around the globe are fed up with a system that does not work for them. Now, we're fighting back.