Bernie on the floor of the Senate right now telling them to legalize marijuana.

Now talking about banning the use of rubber bullets and tear gas on protesters.

“Police violence is not the only manifestation f the systemic racism that is taking place in America today. “

He goes on to talk about how Civil disproportionately affects black and brown communities.

“Workers should not have to choose between going hungry on on hand, and getting ill or dying on the other.”

Name-drops @Target for raising their minimum wage to $15/hr.

. @BernieSanders calling on . @Walmart to raise their minimum wage to $15/hr. Calling out their wealth increase under Trump at ~$75B.

Tying racial justice to a federal $15/hr minimum wage by nothing that ~50% of black workers earn less that this benchmark.

Notes that the house has passed the bill, and calls not he Senate to do the same.

Back to Covid:

9 states high record highs for new cases in a day.
Admin that continues to ignore the recommendations from science and doctors.
Makes work.
Utilize the Defence Production Act to make masks.
Offers amendment to do that.

Bold action for Covid.
Bold action for police brutality.
Fierce sense of urgency for economic crisis.
Notes that over 30 mil people have lost jobs, nothing in savings.

Job loss, evictions, losing half of small businesses, all signs of economic devastation.

Calling on . @senatemajldr to act immediately.

Fed gov must:
100% of paychecks for workers up to $90k with a Paycheck Security Act.

16 million lost health insurance, says could go as high as 43 million. Notes that 87 million were already uninsured/under-insured.

Calls on Medicare to cover the costs for the uninsured/under-insured for the duration of this pandemic.

Calls for a monthly $2000 payment for essential bills. Notes the stimulus for the economy by putting money in the hands of the people.

Calls for emergency funding for the @USPS. Notes huge amounts given to large corporations.

Calls for extending the extra $600/wk for unemployment claims.

We are in the midst of the worst public health crisis in over 100 yrs.
We are it he midst of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930’s.
We continute to see African Americans brutally murdered & tortured
The Republican Senate is doing nothing about that.

Says that not everyone is hurting right now; Americas top 630 billionaires have seen their wealth increase by $565 billion.

American households have seen their wealth go down $6.5 trillion.

Likely the greatest transfer of wealth from the middle class and the poor to the rich in the modern history of our country.

Calling on the Senate to hear the cries of those calling out in pain.

He yields.

Sorry for all the typos, I will trying to keep up. And I will also mention that I did not catch the beginning of his speech on this thread. He started off talking about racial justice and listed many names of victims of police violence.