More Perfect Union

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

NOW: Senator @sanders.senate.gov and @abdulelsayed.bsky.social are about to take questions from students in Ann Arbor at More Perfect University’s latest Students vs Billionaires Town Hall. www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3B9...

Students from across the United States can get involved with More Perfect University and help build student power on campus. Join us on Discord: discord.com/invite/QUpAy....

WATCH LIVE: Todd Achilles @achillesid.bsky.social takes questions from University of Idaho students at More Perfect University’s eighth town hall event.

The cost of flying is up 22% from last year. The average Southwest ticket for example, is about $231.69, up almost $50 from a year earlier. www.cnbc.com/2026/10/23/a...

Private equity has transformed youth sports into a $40 billion for-profit industry. Now, lower incomes families are being priced out and those that do participate are stuck with high costs. That's why we're collecting stories from those who experienced it firsthand: earful.us/c/youth-sports

@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.

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.

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:

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.

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

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?

Students, get involved with More Perfect University on Discord:

LIVE: @aoc.bsky.social and @troyjackson207.bsky.social are speaking with students in Portland, Maine, at our latest Students vs Billionaires town hall, answering questions about the issues that matter to them most.

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."

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

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.

Meta reported its first negative negative free cash flow quarter since its 2012, with AI infrastructure spending expected to top $130 billion this year.

BREAKING: New Mexico judge says Meta must pay $25 billion for deceiving users about data privacy. The company was found to have committed 43 million violations of New Mexico law since n this case stemming from the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

HUGE: Utah is suing Kalshi over what it calls a “brazen pattern of unlawful conduct” and is asking a judge to order the company to stop offering wagers in the state immediately. It also wants the prediction market to pay back the millions it’s made off residents. www.sltrib.com/news/2026/10...

BREAKING: Anthropic reports an $80 billion net loss in the first half of 2026.

Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.

BREAKING: Zohran just announced that NYC’s free child care program for 2-year-olds will expand to all of Staten Island and all of the Bronx. The expansion means an additional 10,000 2-K seats by fall 2027. More neighborhoods in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens will receive 2-K seats as well.

The average age of a car on the road in America has now passed 13 years. This is a new record high, and comes after the cost of both new and used cars has soared. The average new car in the U.S. costs just over $50,000, while the average price for a used vehicle is over $27,000.

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?

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

@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.

@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 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.

“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.

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?

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.

@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 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