gwen fulton

southerner~anticapitalist. working-class organizing. bottom-up storytelling. Tweets my own/not my jobs.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Dear writers, we need your imagination, your narrative creativity and your lively thinking. We need these to create spaces of freedom and authenticity, within which divine grace can make the promise of consolation and peace resound. https://t.co/FEmCrdQ392

[Bryan Anderson @BryanRAnderson]

Lawmakers this morning are advancing a sweeping 36-page elections bill this morning. Here’s what’s in it—> #ncpol https://t.co/THAlRtDl0b

[gwen fulton @gwen_fulton]

In Lake Station, Indiana, working folks repair what's broken.
https://t.co/pjghZYdmuJ

[gwen fulton @gwen_fulton]

The Ohio Organizing Collective, which does political and voter engagement activities, was raided by the FBI yesterday.

They built this website to explain what is happening: https://t.co/9fytqfUft2

[gwen fulton @gwen_fulton]

A story for all the working class women out there. https://t.co/ljln60WIz4

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The apparent objectivity of the responses these systems provide can lead us to overlook the fact that they reflect the cultural assumptions of those who designed and trained them.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

#AI can be a valuable tool and, at the same time, it calls for a measured and vigilant approach. The speed and simplicity with which practical assistance can be accessed undoubtedly makes life easier. Yet they can also encourage excessive reliance and the search for ready-made answers, and weaken personal creativity and judgment. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

The mechanism is specific and worth reading carefully.

Able-bodied adults without dependents must now document 80 hours per month of work, training, or volunteering to maintain SNAP. Job searching - actively looking for work - does not count. Miss the threshold over any three-month period: ineligible for three years.

The exemption that previously protected former foster youth from this time limit has been eliminated. A population already more likely to face housing instability, academic disruption, and unemployment now runs the same clock as everyone else.

The average SNAP benefit is $6 per day. That is what this policy fight costs at the individual level.

The bill that built this requirement cut $187 billion from SNAP in the same legislation that extended tax cuts for corporations and wealthier Americans. That contrast is in the record.

[gwen fulton @gwen_fulton]

For my latest in The Nation, I talk about how when the rich rob the poor, it's just shrugged away as business as usual.

https://t.co/2vFpLbSUBx

[gwen fulton @gwen_fulton]

In Idaho, a group of moms are carving out time to help each other with chores, to free up time to "do politics" together too. https://t.co/wQL4eN12tf

[gwen fulton @gwen_fulton]

Looking for leads on cool, small town organizin. Someone in your town doing something to address housing in a community minded way? Fighting a local billionaire who's trying to suck your town dry? Fighting for fair wages with a local employer? Etc etc. Message me.

[Carolina Forward @ForwardCarolina]

Monroe's @RobertBurns82, who won his sole mayoral term in a coin flip, has filed paperwork to run for Governor in 2028.
https://t.co/gULgSWE928

[gwen fulton @gwen_fulton]

This week on Working Class Stories: How a group of busy moms in Colorado is putting their weight (and what little free time they have) behind some big changes for childcare in the state.A Future Where Moms Aren't So Overwhelmed
https://t.co/Y1zZc5s7Ro

[United Farm Workers @UFWupdates]

"Alice" sent this photo from where she's working in the blueberries in Kern County. "We are paid piece rate - $1.10 a pound. However a lot of the fruit is still green, so it's very slow picking. Even working fast, we only pick around 13 lbs per hour." #WeFeedYou

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

The Trump family has made $4 billion off the presidency.

Crypto: $3.02B
Persian Gulf deals: $425.8M
Qatari jet: $150M
Legal fees/merch: $127.7M
Mar-a-Lago: $125M
Corporate deals: $91M
Hanoi hotel: $40M
Truth Social: $25M
Don Jr: $19.6M

Unprecedented kleptocracy.

[Phil Williams @PhilNvestigates]

Prominent white nationalists, including those who planned Charlottesville’s deadly “Unite the Right” rally, are mocking MAGA figures for their efforts to spin the Trump administration’s indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center. https://t.co/4OCKawYWzp

[gwen fulton @gwen_fulton]

I have passkeys for my authenticator and authenticators for my passkeys, and all I ever wanted to do was go live in the woods.

[From Below: Rising Together For Coalfield Justice @HollerGospel]

The State of West Virginia permitted active mining of a public water source for rare earth minerals. Residents still have not been provided drinking water from the state and still have to pay their water bills. #waterforwv

[gwen fulton @gwen_fulton]

Excited to share my first column in The Nation.

How Working People Are the Canaries in the Coal Mine https://t.co/D9iPTvm0UR

[gwen fulton @gwen_fulton]

"YOU CANT BLOCK THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ, WE ARE BLOCKING THE STRAIGHT OF HORMUZ!"