Forrest Bennett

Friends, I’m running for Oklahoma AFL-CIO President. Now more than ever, Oklahomans need the kinds of policies that unions fight for. I’ve worked alongside Oklahomas unions during my time as a state representative, and I hope to work for them soon. Let’s get to work!

Can’t wait for the ethical hoops we’re about to witness in the WCF

This is probably a “top 5 most brazenly corrupt thing a president has ever done” moment right here. It’s stunning. Sue the government that you’re in charge of, order them to settle, then plunder ~$2B worth of taxpayer money to pay himself and his corrupt idiot friends.

This is theft

A whole generation losing the genuinely important ability to bullshit through an annoying assignment

Trump doubles down on one of the dumbest, most politically damaging things he has ever said

The Kennedy Center is trying to use a temporary closure as cover to bust union jobs. Workers were laid off before bargaining even happened. We stand with @IATSE workers fighting back and demanding accountability. theviolinchannel.com/union-represen…

Governor Spanberger’s veto “is a devastating betrayal to the hundreds of thousands of public employees who have spent years, and in many cases decades, fighting for a seat at the table.” - @Virginia_AFLCIO va-aflcio.org/news/virginia-…

Hey happy Friday here’s the president suggesting that a free press engaging in their constitutional, first amendment rights is treasonous. Not normal. Not good.

Man…no words. "My dad got cancer and my mom's employer collapsed. The executives got paid and the workers got screwed. She didn't have the heart to tell us, even when the bank took the house. And when she took her own life, the eviction notice was in her pocket."

they want us to believe it’s a national security emergency to fall behind china on Ai but falling behind china on high speed rail, renewable energy and childhood nutrition is a-OK.

Harrison Ford: “Humanity is a part of nature, not above it. We need cultural change. We need to extend social justice. We need to respect and elevate the indigenous people that are being marginalized, and in many cases, killed in cold blood. The world you’re stepping into, the world my generation left you, is a real mess”

AOC: What is extremely disturbing about what has happened in Virginia is this court overturned the will of three million Virginians. They can say what they want about the ballot initiative, but they explicitly chose to issue this ruling after the election happened. They had all the time in the world to issue an opinion or an injunction before allowing this election to happen. They did not overturn a map—they overturned an election. It is the power of the American people that should be the ultimate check on all three branches. The court’s ability to overturn an election that was clear in its result should be something that is called into question.

What Biden and Powell pulled off with the soft landing was genuinely insane and no one but policy nerds will ever give them credit for it

“NoThInG iS FrEe; sOmEoNe PaYs for iT.” Yes. Taxes. And stuff like this is precisely where I want my tax dollars to go. It’s wild how vehemently some folks defend reckless spending on bloated defense contracts that benefit the rich, for example, while fighting polices like this.

Good governance holds certain necessities above the fray ofpower struggles and policy debates. Freely accessible knowledge and recreation centers are fundamentally good for all people. Even people who don’t use them benefit from their existence. This is good public policy.

Let’s be honest about what we’re watching here. 🇺🇸 330 million people, the country that put men on the moon, defeated the Nazis is now sitting on its sofa watching its president post crayon drawings of Venezuela with an American flag on it. At least the Russians who oppose Putin have a reasonable excuse not to speak up. Siberia is cold and windows are tall. At least North Koreans can point to the very real possibility of their entire extended family being relocated to a concrete box with no heating. These are legitimate barriers to civic engagement. What’s America’s excuse? You can vote. You can protest. You can run for office. Nobody is sending you to a gulag. The worst thing that happens is someone calls you a name on Truth Social. And yet, there you all sit, 330 million of you, watching a man who cannot spell “Venezuela” claim it as American territory, while nodding along like this is a completely normal thing for a head of state to do. No dictator in modern history has done more damage to the prestige of a country’s highest office than this man, and he’s done it entirely voluntarily, with access to the full resources of the American government, and a communications team that apparently just lets him post whatever falls out of his head before breakfast. Kim Jong-un, for all his considerable faults, has never once posted a map with a flag on it and called it foreign policy. Think about that. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

The kind of quote that used to end political careers

Oh we know! What is “American Federation of Labor?” Thank you to Jeopardy!, which had an entire category last night about union history. The AFL and CIO unified in 1955 to build even more worker power across the country, and we’ve never looked back since ✊

BREAKING: 260 caddies at Pebble Beach are unionizing with @unitehere @unitehere19.

The average worker waits more than a year for their first union contract after voting to organize. Employers are running out the clock, and Speaker Johnson is letting them. I signed a discharge petition to force a vote on the Faster Labor Contracts Act. Let's bring it to the floor now.