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Bernie Sanders claims that “WE MUST ADDRESS THE CLIMATE CRISIS” and combat “the stupidity of Trump,” who calls it a “hoax.”

IN FACT, wide-ranging measures of human and environmental welfare related to climate change have stayed level or improved for the past 40–200 years, contrary to the predictions of prominent scientists and climate activists. Here are the specifics:

• Contrary to a 1989 prediction that global warming “will be destructive to natural systems” like “plant” life, a 2025 paper in the journal Remote Sensing Applications found a “striking global greening trend, with a significant portion of the Earth’s terrestrial land surface showing increases in vegetation cover over the past four decades.”

• Likewise, a study published by the journal Nature Climate Change in 2016 found “a persistent and widespread increase” in “greening” or plant growth “over 25% to 50% of the global vegetated area” from 1982 to 2014, “whereas less than 4% of the globe” had less greening over this period.

• Contrary to a 1989 prediction that “forests would be adversely affected” by climate change, a report published by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization in 2018 found that the mass of above-ground organic plant materials in forests “has remained stable since the 1990s,” and most regions of the world are experiencing either positive or small-to-no changes in forest area or above-ground biomass.

• Likewise, a study published by the journal Nature in 2018 found that global tree cover increased by 2.9% to 10.8% with 90% confidence from 1982 to 2016.

• Contrary to a 1989 prediction that “entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000,” a study published by the journal Nature Climate Change in 2016 found that the net amount of land area on Earth grew by about 22,400 square miles from 1985 to 2015, and the net amount of coastal land area grew by about 5,200 square miles.

• Contrary to a 1989 prediction that global warming will “disrupt agriculture” and “adversely” affect “food supplies,” the average daily food supply per person increased by 10% from 2000 to 2023, with gains of 7% in Africa, 22% in China, and 11% in Latin America and the Caribbean.

• Contrary to a 1989 prediction that “rainfall patterns would likely be substantially altered” from global warming “by the year 2020” and cause “water shortages in some areas,” a study published in 2022 by a prestigious scholarly journal found that measures of rainfall “do not show any substantial changes at the global scale in at least the last 120 years,” and there is “a statistically significant decline of the percentage of land area affected by drought conditions” from 1950–2020.

• Contrary to a 1992 prediction that “about 10 million people in Bangladesh will lose their homes and means of sustenance because of the rising sea level, due to global warming, in the next few decades,” the population of Bangladesh has grown by 42% since then.

• Contrary to a 1992 prediction that “up to 60% of the present population of Florida may have to be relocated” “not long after” the “next few decades” due to global warming,” the coastal population of Florida has grown by 67% since then.

• Contrary to a 1995 prediction that “most of the beaches on the East Coast of the United States would be gone in 25 years” due to global warming, none of them have disappeared.

• Contrary to a 2004 prediction that “we expect more and more intense tropical hurricanes and cyclones” “as the world warms,” global hurricane frequency and intensity have been roughly level for as far back as data extend (1979).

• Contrary to a 2007 prediction that the “Arctic Ocean could be nearly ice-free at the end of summer by 2012,” summer Arctic sea ice has remained roughly level since then and was higher in 2025 than 2007.

• Contrary to a 2008 prediction that “global warming” could cause “starvation due to drought,” the portion of the world’s population that was undernourished decreased from 13% in 2001 to 9% in 2022.

Assertions that such indicators are deteriorating suffer from five fatal flaws:

1) They cherry pick short-term trends and local anecdotes while ignoring long-term comprehensive data.

2) They use deficient datasets that become increasingly incomplete as they extend back in time.

3) They fail to account for factors like population growth and economic development.

4) They are blatant falsehoods.

5) They predict the future based on models, a class of studies that is notoriously unreliable and has been criticized in a scientific journal for creating a “perception of knowledge and precision that is illusory and can fool policymakers into thinking that the forecasts the models generate have some kind of scientific legitimacy.”

Hyperlinks to the sources of all the facts above are available at https://www.justfactsdaily.com/in-fact/n0000874

Abdul El-Sayed, the Democrat nominee for U.S. Senator from Michigan, claims that U.S. schools “have been underfunded for a very, very long time.”

IN FACT, U.S. schools are among the best-funded in the world and spend nearly twice what most people believe. Here are the specifics:

• In 2020 (the latest available data), the U.S. ranked 5th among 36 developed nations in average spending per full-time K–12 student. These data are based on purchasing power parities, which allow for accurate comparisons of international economic data so that an apple in one country is counted the same as an apple in another.

• In the 2022–23 school year, the average spending per public school student was $20,039.

• A scientific survey commissioned in 2021 by the journal Education Next and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University found that public school spending per student was 87% higher than what the average U.S. adult believed.

• In the 2022–23 school year, the average spending per public school classroom was about $404,788.

• A scientific survey commissioned in 2019 by Just Facts found that public school funding per classroom was more than twice as high as the majority of voters believed.

• From the time that the U.S. Department of Education was founded in 1979, the average inflation-adjusted spending per public school student has more than doubled, while the national average math and reading scores for 17-year olds in the National Assessment of Educational Progress haven’t increased and may have fallen because assessments on 17-year-olds haven’t been conducted since 2012, and younger students experienced substantial declines in math and reading over recent years, particularly in the wake of school closures and other ill-informed reactions to the Covid-19 pandemic.

• Despite inflation-adjusted spending per public school student rising by more than four times since 1960, only 37% of U.S. residents aged 16 and older can correctly answer a question that requires basic logic, addition, and division, even when using a calculator and taking as much time as needed.

• Among college-bound high school students who take the ACT exam, only 20% meet its college readiness benchmarks in all four subjects (English, reading, math, and science).

• Two-thirds to three-quarters of all young adults in the U.S. are unqualified for military service because of poor physical fitness, weak educational skills, illegal drug use, medical conditions, or criminal records.

• Public schools cannot be logically blamed for the entirety of those outcomes, but they are among the central competencies that schools purport to instill, and K–12 students spend more time in school each year than any other single waking activity over these formative years of their lives.

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Pramila Jayapal claims that the Trump administration has “denied proper due process” to ICE detainees in “at least 10,000 cases.”

IN FACT, Jayapal’s allegation is rooted in a Politico article that repeatedly distorts the truth. Here are the specifics:

• Politico’s article, written by Kyle Cheney, reports that more than 425 federal judges, including a “majority of Trump-appointed judges,” have “ruled against ICE detention practices” in nearly 10,400 cases” since the Trump administration “mandated that millions of immigrants must be locked up while they face deportation proceedings.”

• In reality, Cheney fails to disclose how many of these cases involved Democrat- or Republican-appointed judges, how many of them involved district court judges who were “obligated to follow the rulings of their respective circuit courts,” or how many of them involved “forum shopping” in which lawyers and plaintiffs “choose where to file suit based on their perception of how particular legal rules in a jurisdiction might apply or how likely the judges or juries in a given court are to rule favorably on their claims.”

• In his article, Cheney quotes just one “Trump appointee,” Judge Gary Brown, who ruled in favor of an ICE detainee while writing, “This isn’t how things are supposed to work in America. Unquestionably, the laws of human decency condemn such villainy.”

• In reality, Brown was first nominated to the bench by Barack Obama and wasn’t confirmed by the Republican majority Senate but was later appointed by Trump as part of a “compromise package of nominees” with Democrat senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand because “senators can hold up judicial” nominees “via a system known as the ‘blue slip process.’”

• As the legislative centerpiece of his article, Cheney quotes a federal law that requires immigration officials to detain certain aliens who are “seeking admission” to U.S. and writes that “every previous administration has interpreted the provision to apply primarily to people who were apprehended at the border,” not “millions of immigrants who have lived in the U.S. for years.”

• In reality, Cheney linked to an outdated 1994 version of a statute before it was significantly revised by the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996.

• Unlike the outdated statute cited by Cheney, the current law states that an “alien present in the United States who has not been admitted” is “deemed for purposes of this chapter an applicant for admission.”

• That essential fact, ignored by Cheney, is at the crux of seven opposing rulings on this matter by three-judge panels of federal appeals courts, every one with a dissent.

• Cheney closes his Politico article by quoting “U.S. District Judge Fred Biery, a Clinton appointee,” who ordered the “release of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos” while declaring, “Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And the rule of law be damned.”

• In reality, Biery freed Ramos’s father, who chose to take his 5-year-old son with him to ICE detention instead of leaving him with his mother.

• Furthermore, Biery justified his ruling by asserting that the “Constitution” doesn’t allow ICE to detain “undocumented people” without “warrants” from an “independent judicial officer,” despite federal law and numerous Supreme Court rulings that state the polar opposite, as documented below.

• The federal law that governs the “apprehension and detention of aliens” states that they “may be arrested and detained pending a decision on whether the alien is to be removed” on a “warrant issued by the Attorney General,” which is not a judicial warrant but an administrative one.

• The Supreme Court ruled in Demore v. Kim that “although the Fifth Amendment entitles aliens to due process in deportation proceedings,” “detention during such proceedings is a constitutionally valid aspect of the process.”

• The Supreme Court ruled in Wong Wing v. United States that the “detention or temporary confinement” of illegal aliens to ensure their “exclusion or expulsion” is “not imprisonment in a legal sense.”

• The Supreme Court ruled in Harisiades v. Shaughnessy that “deportation” has “been consistently classified as a civil, rather than a criminal, procedure.”

• The Supreme Court ruled in Bugajewitz v. Adams that “deportation” is not based on the “conviction of crime, nor is the deportation a punishment; it is simply a refusal by the government to harbor persons whom it does not want.”

Hyperlinks to the sources of all the facts above are available at https://www.justfactsdaily.com/in-fact/n0000872

Gavin Newsom claims that Cali’s high minimum wage “grows the economy,” makes “life more affordable,” and helped Cali become the “fourth-largest economy on the planet.”

IN FACT, high minimum wages harm economies and increase prices, which is one of the reasons why Cali has the highest poverty rate in the nation and isn’t actually the world’s fourth-largest economy. Here are the specifics:

• Not counting tips, commissions, and overtime pay, 1.0% of all hourly-paid employees are paid at or below the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.

• On January 1, 2027, California’s minimum wage will increase to $17.40 per hour, which is “higher than any current statewide minimum wage in the nation.”

• While noting there is “considerable uncertainty” about the effects of the minimum wage, a 2019 study by the Congressional Budget Office estimated that doubling the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour would raise the average annual income of families in poverty by about $600.

• An increase of $600 is about 1% of the total income of families in poverty, including the wide array of government benefits they receive.

• An increase of $600 is about half of what households in poverty spend on sweetened drinks, desserts and candy.

• One of the main reasons why the average increase is merely $600 is because only 31% of adults in poverty work or look for work at least 27 weeks per year.

• Hence, CBO estimated that increasing the minimum wage to $15 per hour would give 81% of the resultant wage increases to families who were already above the poverty line.

• Another reason for the minimal income increase is that CBO estimated the law would destroy 1.4 million jobs mainly among “young, less educated people,” because “when the cost of employing low-wage workers goes up,” some employers will replace them with machinery, technology, and higher-wage workers.

• As explained by Ph.D. economists Don Boudreaux and Walter Williams, job losses caused by minimum wage increases saw “off the bottom rungs of the economic ladder” and leave young and less educated workers “unskilled and unemployed for the indefinite future.”

• Beyond job losses among inexperienced workers, CBO estimated that raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour “would increase the cost to employers of producing goods and services,” thus raising consumer prices, leading consumers to purchase fewer goods and services, and reducing “employment of workers at all wage levels.”

• Due mainly to such job losses, CBO found that “raising the minimum wage would slightly reduce real GDP,” the nation’s inflation-adjusted gross domestic product.

• Progressives claim that raising the minimum wage to $15/hour would reduce dependence on welfare and save taxpayers money, but CBO found that it would cause spending on most social programs to rise and increase the “cumulative budget deficit” because it would raise the prices of goods and services purchased by social programs and make more people jobless and more dependent on government.

• CBO also found that increasing the minimum wage to $15 per hour would raise prices, especially “for goods or services whose production required a larger-than-average share of low-wage work, such as food prepared in restaurants.”

• Due in large part to Cali’s high costs of living, it has the highest real poverty rate in the nation, tied with Louisiana at 17.7%.

• Contrary to Newsom’s claim that Cali has leapfrogged Japan to become the 4th largest economy in the world, Japan’s economy is actually 56% larger than Cali’s, but Newsom converts Japanese yen into U.S. dollars using a dishonest method that makes the economies of locations with high prices seem larger than reality.

Hyperlinks to the sources of all the facts above are available at https://www.justfactsdaily.com/in-fact/n0000870

Chuck Schumer claims that “Medicare and Medicaid” are the “backbone of our healthcare system for tens of millions of Americans,” and “Donald Trump and Republicans are trying to rip it all away.”

IN FACT, Medicare and Medicaid have become costly and inefficient, and Republicans are attempting to make these programs sustainable while Democrats run up their costs and taxes. Here are the specifics:

• Medicare and Medicaid spend $1.6 trillion per year, consuming about 29% of all federal tax revenues and costing every household in the U.S. an average of $11,744 per year. These figures don’t include state taxes that are allocated to Medicaid and fund about 36% of the program’s total spending.

• Medicare and Medicaid wasted $831 billion on overpayments from 2015 to 2024, amounting to 56% of all known federal overpayments and costing every household in the nation an average of $6,450.

• When Democrat President Lyndon B. Johnson proposed the Medicare hospital insurance program in his 1964 State of the Union speech, he promised that it would cost “no more than $1 a month” per worker, which adjusted for inflation, is less than $11 in 2026.

• Due to laws primarily enacted by Democrats, the Medicare hospital insurance payroll tax is now unlimited and costs workers 2.9% of their wages up $200,000/year and 3.8% thereafter. Thus, workers who earn $100,000 now pay $242 per month for this tax, and workers who earn $1,000,000 pay about $3,000 per month.

• Medicare’s hospital insurance payroll taxes now fund only 35% of Medicare’s total spending, and other federal revenues finance the rest of the program.

• Since the time that Medicare was established in 1965, the general eligibility age for benefits has stayed at 65 years old, while increases in life expectancy have extended the average time that people receive Medicare benefits by about 35%.

• Under current law, Medicare has amassed $60.8 trillion in unfunded obligations, which is about 50% more than the national debt, or an average of $226,000 from all current participants in the program, including both taxpayers and beneficiaries.

• Due to future cuts in Medicare payment rates implemented by Democrats in Obamacare, the current law likely understates the unfunded obligations of Medicare by about 24%.

• Federal law requires all nonprofit hospitals to treat Medicare and Medicaid patients, while Medicare pays hospitals an average of 17% below their costs of caring for Medicare patients, and Medicare pays hospitals 12% below their costs of caring for Medicaid patients, thus forcing hospitals to shift these expenses to other patients.

• In 2022, 100% of Democrats voted for and 100% of Republicans voted against the Inflation Reduction Act, which capped Medicare recipients’ out-of-pocket drug costs at $2,000 per year, which significantly raised the average Medicare drug premium and forced seniors who don’t use a lot of drugs to pick up the tab for those who do.

• In 2025, the Congressional Budget Office revealed that federal spending on Medicare drug benefits could be “about $500 billion more than CBO previously projected” largely due to the Inflation Reduction Act, which has led to “large increases in spending on specialty drugs,” insurers “building higher profit margins and higher administrative costs into their plan bids,” and drug companies reducing their “patient assistance programs” and thereby “increasing the volume of prescriptions financed by the government.”

• From 1975 to 2024, the portion of the U.S. population receiving Medicaid for “certain low-income persons” rose from 9% to 26% while the poverty rate stayed roughly level at 13% ± 2 points.

• Gold standard randomized controlled trials published by the journal Science and the New England Journal of Medicine found that no-copay Medicaid coverage increases expensive visits to emergency rooms for “conditions that may be most readily treatable in primary care settings,” contrary to Barack Obama’s claim that the opposite would occur.

• A gold standard randomized controlled trial of Medicaid in Oregon published by the New England Journal of Medicine found that “Medicaid coverage generated no significant improvements in measured physical health outcomes in the first 2 years, but it did increase use of health care services, raise rates of diabetes detection and management, lower rates of depression, and reduce financial strain.”

• In 2025, 98% of Republicans voted for and 100% of Democrats voted against the Big Beautiful Bill, which reduces Medicaid spending through the following provisions.

• To receive Medicaid, the BBB requires “nonpregnant, nondisabled adults, aged 19 through 64” who don’t have a “dependent child under the age of 14” to “complete a minimum of 80 hours” per “month” of “work,” “community service, or enrollment in an education program.”

• The BBB prevents illegal immigrants and other aliens from receiving Medicaid under executive fiats that make them “lawfully present” for the purpose of receiving government benefits even though they don’t have “legal status” to be in the United States.

• The BBB contains a range of fraud prevention measures like “address verification” and “ensuring deceased individuals do not remain enrolled” in Medicaid, which has the second-highest level of improper payments among all federal programs.

• The BBB stops states like California from using a tax kickback scheme to obtain more federal money for Medicaid, which is fungible and can be used to fund comprehensive Medicaid coverage for illegal immigrants, as California does for 1.7 million aliens.

• The BBB lowers the max copay for Medicaid recipients who are not poor from $100 to $35 and requires states that charge them no copays to at least charge them something, in accord with gold standard studies which found that no-copay Medicaid coverage increases expensive visits to emergency rooms for “conditions that may be most readily treatable in primary care settings.”

• Beyond Schumer, politicians like Bernie Sanders, Jon Ossoff, and Elizabeth Warren have characterized the measures above as “savage cuts to Medicaid,” “gutting Medicaid,” and taking healthcare away from “little babies.”

Hyperlinks to the sources of all the facts above are available at https://www.justfactsdaily.com/in-fact/n0000869

Dick Durbin claims that Anthony Fauci is a “brilliant scientist” whose “work has helped save tens of millions of lives.”

IN FACT, Fauci funded gain-of-function research that likely caused the Covid-19 pandemic, lied about it to Congress, and repeatedly botched the response to the outbreak, potentially killing tens of millions of people. Here are the specifics:

• In 2012 — 7 years before SARS-CoV-2 emerged — Fauci wrote in an academic journal that a “moratorium on gain-of-function research” for a “highly pathogenic” virus “should continue” until certain conditions are met, but “scientists working in this field might say — as indeed I have said — that the benefits of such experiments and the resulting knowledge outweigh the risks.”

• During 2014 to 2019, Fauci’s division of the National Institutes of Health [NIH] gave $1,413,720 of U.S. taxpayer money to Communist China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology via a nonprofit called EcoHealth Alliance.

• On February 1, 2020 — one month after the first cases of C-19 were reported — Fauci emailed some of his colleagues that he and NIH Director Francis Collins spoke with “several highly credible scientists” who “were concerned about the fact that upon viewing the sequences of several isolates” of SARS-CoV-2, “there were mutations in the virus that would be most unusual to have evolved naturally in the bats and there was a suspicion that this mutation was intentionally inserted.”

• In the same email, Fauci wrote, “The suspicion was heightened by the fact that scientists in Wuhan University are known to have been working on gain-of-function experiments to determine the molecular mechanisms associated with bat viruses adapting to human infection, and the outbreak originated in Wuhan.”

• One day later on February 2, virologist Robert Garry of Tulane University — who participated in the meeting with Fauci — wrote about the molecular structure of C-19, “I just can’t figure out how this gets accomplished in nature,” but “in the lab it would be easy to generate” it.

• Two days after that on February 4, Garry and other scientists who were in contact with Fauci and had privately written that C-19 was likely created in a lab, sent to Fauci the draft of a paper in which they claimed, “It is unlikely that SARS-CoV-2 emerged through laboratory manipulation.”

• After that paper was formally published, Fauci touted it during an April 2020 press conference to allege that the structure of the virus was “totally consistent with a jump of a species from an animal to a human.”

• Testifying before Congress in 2021, Fauci denied 3 times that the NIH ever funded “gain-of-function research” at the Wuhan Institute.

• In 2023, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported that some of the money Fauci’s team gave to the Wuhan Institute was used to fund “genetic experiments to combine naturally occurring bat coronaviruses with SARS and MERS viruses, resulting in hybridized” coronavirus strains.

• Buried in a footnote, the same GAO report reveals that the research to create these coronaviruses “was not subject to” a “gain-of-function research funding pause,” and the lab conducted a “limited” experiment “to test whether the spike protein from naturally occurring bat coronaviruses” could bind “to the human ACE2 receptor,” which is exactly what SARS-CoV-2 does.

• The NIH claimed that this research “could not have been the source” of the “Covid-19 pandemic” because “NIH analyzed” the “experiments” and “concluded that the naturally occurring bat coronaviruses were genetically distant from SARS-CoV-2.”

• However, a study published by the journal Nature in 2022 found that “SARS-CoV-2 progenitor bat viruses genetically close to SARS-CoV-2” “circulate in cave bats living” in “northern Laos,” and NIH grant documents for EcoHealth Alliance show that Fauci’s team funded “experimental work” at the Wuhan Institute to “understand the ability of bat coronaviruses to bind to human receptors” with bats from multiple locations, including “Laos.”

• With regard to the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) — which is supposed to ensure government accountability and transparency — Fauci senior advisor Dr. David Morens exchanged a series of emails in 2021 with EcoHealth Alliance in which he told them that he “learned from our foia lady how to make emails disappear.”

• Morens also wrote, “I deleted most of those earlier emails,” “NOTHING gets sent to me except to my gmail,” “I can either send stuff to Tony [Fauci] on his private gmail, or hand it to him at work or at his house” because “he is too smart to let colleagues send him stuff that could cause trouble,” and “we are all smart enough to know to never have smoking guns, and if we did we wouldn’t put them in emails and if we found them we’d delete them.”

• After the pandemic began, Fauci multiplicatively overstated the C-19 death rate, which caused hysteria and prompted lockdowns that have and will shorten the lives of millions of people.

• Fauci repeatedly pushed for face masks in spite of the fact that no randomized controlled trial has ever found that masks have clinically meaningful benefits, dozens of studies show that they cause significant harms, and decades of studies prove that contagious respiratory diseases are mainly spread by microscopic aerosols that easily pe*****te cloth and surgical masks.

• Fauci repeatedly called for a permanent end to handshakes and insisted, “I don’t think we should ever shake hands ever again,” displaying further ignorance of the fact that C-19 and other contagious respiratory diseases are primarily spread by aerosols, not hand-to-hand contact.

• Fauci downplayed the potency and durability of naturally acquired immunity, which ultimately ended the pandemic.

• Fauci declared that 99.2% of all Covid deaths were among the unvaccinated, when in reality, more than half of these deaths were among the fully vaccinated.

• Fauci incessantly promoted Covid-19 vaccines, even after gold-standard randomized controlled trials involving 73,000 people found no evidence that these injections save more lives than they take.

• On his last day in office, President Biden gave Fauci a “full and unconditional pardon” for “any offenses against the United States which he may have committed or taken part in” since 2014.

• In today’s U.S. Senate hearing on the origin of the pandemic, Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment 111 times in response to questions about his role in it.

Hyperlinks to the sources of all the facts above are available at https://www.justfactsdaily.com/in-fact/n0000868

New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie claims that “democratic socialists aren’t communists.”

IN FACT, the policies and rhetoric of democratic socialists accord in striking detail with Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto, the Soviet Constitution, and the Law of the Soviet State. Here are the specifics:

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The Communist Manifesto calls for winning “the battle of democracy” so that government controls all “communication,” “property,” “transport,” “factories,” “credit,” and “agriculture.”

And the Soviet Constitution states that the “economic foundation of the USSR” is the “socialist system of economy” in which “private ownership of the means and instruments of production” is abolished except for the “small private economy of individual peasants and handicraftsmen.”

Likewise, prominent democratic socialists like Zohran Mamdani and Bernie Sanders have called for using “democracy” to “seize the means of production,” including “banks and major industries,” “gigantic” energy companies like “Exxon,” “drug companies,” and the “largest AI companies.”

Likewise, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) Platform calls for government to seize ownership of the “largest corporations and essential industries” and thereby turn “food, education, energy, medicine, and transportation” into “common goods and utilities.”

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The Soviet Constitution praises the “overthrow of the landlords and capitalists” and declares that “the bulk of the dwelling houses in the cities and industrial localities, are state property.”

Likewise, the DSA Platform says that no one will pay a “mortgage or have a landlord, because comfortable housing is a human right.”

Likewise, Mamdani has called for “moving away from the status quo in which most people access housing by purchasing it on the market and toward a future where we guarantee high quality housing to all as a human right.”

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The Communist Manifesto says that socialism will lead to a day when “class distinctions have disappeared,” but to achieve this, the “working class” must first become the “ruling class.”

Likewise, the DSA Platform aspires to a “classless society,” but it also calls for the “working class to govern” while ironically stating that people will be “free to spend your time how you like without worrying about cost or dreading going back to work.”

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The Soviet Constitution guarantees the “right to employment.”

Likewise, the DSA Platform calls for a “federal jobs guarantee.”

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The Soviet Constitution declares a “right” to “the reduction of the working day to seven hours.”

Likewise, the DSA Platform and Sanders call for a “32 hour work week.”

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The Soviet Constitution declares a “right” to “medical” care, and the Law of the Soviet State affirms that the “socialist state affords all toilers the right” to “free medical aid.”

Likewise, Sanders has stated dozens of times that “healthcare” is a “right” and demanded “Medicare for All — not some, or a few, or most” but “ALL.”

Likewise, Mamdani has written that “we need to abolish private insurance, institute single-payer & nationalize the medical supply chain immediately.”

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The Soviet Constitution declares a “right” to “pre-maternity and maternity leave with full pay.

Likewise, the DSA Platform promises “paid family leave for all workers,” and Sanders wants government to provide workers with “at least twelve weeks of paid family and medical leave” “after a new birth, to care for a sick loved one, or if they themselves are ill.”

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The Soviet Constitution guarantees “a wide network” of “nurseries and kindergartens.”

Likewise, Sanders has called for “universal childcare and pre-kindergarten,” and Mamdani says he “will implement free childcare for every New Yorker aged 6 weeks to 5 years.”

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The Soviet Constitution declares a “right” to “education,” including “higher education” that is “free of charge.”

Likewise, the DSA Platform promises “free, quality public education” through “college,” including “all medical education and training.”

Likewise, Sanders says that “public education for all” should be a “right,” including “college.”

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The Soviet Constitution declares a “right” to “annual vacations with full pay.”

Likewise, Sanders wants government to “guarantee all workers” “paid vacation.”

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The Communist Manifesto declares that “socialism” will create a world where “the hostility of one nation to another will come to an end.”

Likewise, the DSA Platform promises a “world without war.”

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The Law of the Soviet State scorns the U.S. system of checks and balances on the power of government as “bourgeois democracy” and claims that “Soviet democracy and the Soviet state are a million times more democratic than the most democratic bourgeois republic.”

Likewise, the DSA Platform calls for replacing the “President and Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress.”

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The Law of the Soviet State declares that the USSR “annihilated the capitalist system of economy” that “exploited” the “formerly poverty-stricken” masses, even though the living standard of the “Soviet people was roughly one third that of the United States.”

Likewise, the DSA Platform calls for the “end of capitalism” and promises a “world” without “poverty,” even though people in capitalist countries have far lower poverty rates and dramatically higher living standards than people in socialist nations.

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A 1973 Library of Congress report documents that the “acquisition and possession of fi****ms in the Soviet Union are subject to severe restrictions and limitations imposed by the State.”

Likewise, Mamdani stated in 2022, “We need to ban all guns.”

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Mamdani and Sanders reject the label “communist” and differentiate themselves as “democratic socialists,” but the founders of the Soviet Union called themselves “Social Democrats,” and the Law of the Soviet State refers to the Soviet Union as a “socialist democracy” more than 40 times.

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The Communist Manifesto closes with the words, “Working Men of All Countries, Unite!”

Likewise, the 2021 DSA Convention “reaffirms and rededicates DSA to the ‘Workers and the World, Unite!’”

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Hyperlinks to the sources of all the facts above are available at https://www.justfactsdaily.com/in-fact/n0000867