From my family to yours, happy Hanukkah to all those who are celebrating around the world this week.

I stand with the 2,000 nurses at Ascension hospitals in TX and KS who have been locked out of work after their one day strike yesterday. In 2021, the CEO of Ascension made more than $13 million. Ascension can certainly afford safe staffing to protect nurses and patients.

I believe that it would be irresponsible for us to provide an additional $10.1 billion in unconditional military aid that will allow the Netanyahu government to continue its current offensive military approach. huffpost.com/entry/bernie-s…

Read the full op-ed here: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Change is coming. The question is: What kind of change will it be? Will it be a Trump authoritarian change which divides us up based on the color of our skin or where we were born. Or one that brings us together to achieve economic & social justice and a world of human decency.

Full story here: freep.com/story/money/ca…

Let me congratulate the UAW for its new organizing campaign to unionize 150,000 US workers at non-union auto plants owned by companies like Tesla, Nissan, Toyota and BMW. We cannot expand and strengthen the middle class without a vibrant, strong and growing trade union movement.

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Billionaires buying candidates and elections is what oligarchy is all about. It's not just Nikki Haley or Republicans, it's both parties. We need real campaign finance reform and public funding of elections.

When a company like Amazon, worth over $1.5 trillion, owned by a man worth over $170 billion, gets fined just $7,000 after its unsafe working conditions led to the death of a 20-year-old worker, it's obvious that we must strengthen our woefully inadequate health and safety laws.

From my family to yours – on behalf of Jane, our kids, grandkids, and myself – I would like to wish everyone a very happy Thanksgiving.

Justice for Palestinians. Security for Israel. Please read the op-ed I wrote for the New York Times. nytimes.com/2023/11/22/opi…

Congratulations to Shawn Fain and the UAW for approving an historic union contract that will substantially increase wages and benefits for autoworkers. Now, let’s support the UAW as they go forward to build on this victory by organizing non-union plants throughout the country.

Here is a simple moral proposition. No one in America, or anywhere in the world, should die or suffer unnecessarily because they cannot afford the medicine they need. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Corporate greed is Pfizer tripling the price of Paxlovid to $1,390 a dose and quadrupling the price of its COVID vaccine to $115 while it made over $31 billion in profits last year and gave its CEO $33 million in compensation. Unacceptable.

Nurses at Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett, Washington are on strike fighting for adequate staffing, fair wages, and safe working conditions for themselves and for the care of their patients. We must stand with them.

Congratulations to the Starbucks workers who are standing up against corporate greed & launching the largest strike in Starbucks history today. It's long past time for Starbucks to end its illegal union busting & negotiate a fair first contract with the workers. #RedCupRebellion

To ask for classrooms without mold or mice is not radical. Students and teachers deserve decent classroom conditions and teachers deserve decent pay. I stand with @pdxteachers and Portland teachers in their fight to make their schools better for students and themselves.

I stand in solidarity with @UFCW_3000 Providence Regional Medical Center nurses on ULP strike in Everett, WA. Nurses are the backbone of American health care, and they deserve the adequate staffing and safe working conditions they need to deliver the care their patients deserve.

I stand with @pdxteachers and the teachers in Portland, Oregon who are fighting for better working conditions and the school support they need to provide the education our students deserve. We must protect teachers' right to stand up for themselves and their students.

Today, on Veterans Day, let us honor our veterans, their families, and loved ones. We owe them a debt of gratitude we will never be able to truly repay.

President Biden is right. If workers at non-union auto plants like Tesla, Toyota, Honda, BMW, Nissan and Volkswagen want to improve their wages, working conditions, benefits and pensions they should organize to form a union and collectively bargain strong contracts. twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/…

This is why we need a strong trade union movement. The UAW negotiates an excellent contract for its union workers and, lo and behold, Honda and Toyota increase the wages of their non-union workers in the US. When union workers win better wages and benefits it benefits all of us.

On Tuesday, we saw a grassroots movement come together in Ohio and make it clear that we must protect a women's right to control her own body and move forward on legalizing marijuana.

Congratulations to the voters in Ohio for making it clear that women have the right to control their own bodies, not politicians.

ELECTION DAY IN MAINE: Mainers have a chance to take control of an important part of their daily life by voting YES on Question 3. Maine can have cheaper, more reliable power – and fight climate change at the same time. Get out and vote!

.@AIPAC has supported dozens of GOP extremists who are undermining our democracy. They’re now working hard to defeat progressive members of Congress. We won’t let that happen. Let us stand together in the fight for a world of peace, economic and social justice and climate sanity.

The immediate task is to stop the bombing, end the horrific humanitarian disaster in Gaza, and go forward with the entire world toward a two-state solution.

Israel's indiscriminate bombing is hitting hospitals, refugee camps, and killing thousands of innocent people. It must stop now.

.@JustinBrannan fights for working families. As a leading member of the City Council, he’s focused on delivering real results for his constituents and building a future for New York City based on justice for all. I’m proud to endorse his campaign.