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Jane Fountain

@janeefountain.bsky.social

UMASS Amherst School of Public Policy

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Donate to your local food pantries and shelters. We still have no idea whether the emergency funds will be released and they’re not enough to cover full costs.

Build mutual aid. The only way we get out of this mess is to reinvigorate our sense of interconnectedness.

03.11.2025 17:26 β€” πŸ‘ 340    πŸ” 105    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 6

Having to explain what tear gas is to kids
A child telling her dolls "We have to be good or ICE will get us"
A community having to stand guard so kids can get home safely

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Watch how the media reports yesterday’s march.

Outlets that don’t report it, or dramatically downplay it are showing you precisely who they are.

When it matters.

19.10.2025 13:23 β€” πŸ‘ 6061    πŸ” 1265    πŸ’¬ 148    πŸ“Œ 39
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Pritzker: Throughout history we've learned that tyranny doesn't arrive with dramatic proclamations. Most times it comes quietly wrapped in the language of law and order, with fingers pointed at someone who doesn't look like you, promising safety while demanding that we sacrifice our neighbors.

18.10.2025 23:30 β€” πŸ‘ 20548    πŸ” 5810    πŸ’¬ 225    πŸ“Œ 180
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MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally:

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This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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this is truly invaluable reporting

16.10.2025 22:56 β€” πŸ‘ 3348    πŸ” 1069    πŸ’¬ 92    πŸ“Œ 27

Man, this freaking guy.

"I have no staff ... The phones don't work. There's no computer," Grijalva says from her sparsely furnished office on Capitol Hill. "We don't have a government email." www.npr.org/2025/10/16/g...

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www.npr.org/2025/10/14/g...

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A box overlaid on a map showing southern England, with London prominently marked. The box features bold black text reading:

"NO TYRANTS
INDIVISIBLE
LONDON UK"

Below this heading, the event details are listed:

Date: Sat, Oct 18

Time: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT

Location: US EMBASSY LONDON (UK)

The time and date information is accompanied by red calendar and map pin icons. At the bottom of the flyer is a large red button labeled β€œRSVP” in white text.

A box overlaid on a map showing southern England, with London prominently marked. The box features bold black text reading: "NO TYRANTS INDIVISIBLE LONDON UK" Below this heading, the event details are listed: Date: Sat, Oct 18 Time: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT Location: US EMBASSY LONDON (UK) The time and date information is accompanied by red calendar and map pin icons. At the bottom of the flyer is a large red button labeled β€œRSVP” in white text.

Lol that the London No Kings event is called No Tyrants because…you know…

www.nokings.org#map

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Newsom: We were under the understanding that we were going to close I-5 β€” up to 80,000 vehicles tomorrow and Saturday. They seemed to have backed off of that. They were going to move forward with a display, but they’re not clearly sharing that with state officials.

16.10.2025 19:25 β€” πŸ‘ 4845    πŸ” 1288    πŸ’¬ 115    πŸ“Œ 47
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Pritzker: Illinois is not a place you can conquer and our people are not your subjects

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Newsom: This president appears unhinged… seems listless… he seems, dare I say, in declineβ€”cognitively, and… physically. These are just the rantings of someone who needs an intervention, needs some help, needs to be stabilized.

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Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."

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Today, I convened a group of former military generals and veterans to hear perspectives on deploying troops in American cities.

Their commitment is to our nation. That’s why they’re speaking out against what the President's doing as uncalled-for, unprecedented, and un-American.

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"Every essay, every tweet, every moment of vulnerability I shared in the name of progress. Did I paint a target on my own back?"

Read more from @parkermolloy.com in the first of our special series, The Future of Being Trans on the Internet: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

14.10.2025 13:53 β€” πŸ‘ 425    πŸ” 112    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 11
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I couldn’t be more proud of this team! πŸ₯Ή

If you haven’t listened yet, Ultra Season 2 is available for free and in full here:

www.msnbc.com/msnbc-podcas...

14.10.2025 16:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1894    πŸ” 314    πŸ’¬ 67    πŸ“Œ 13

*no kings except this guy

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Amid shutdown, Trump administration guts department overseeing special education Multiple sources tell NPR that as part of the Trump administration's latest reduction-in-force, the U.S. Department of Education has gutted the office that handles special education.

Trump is stooping so low that he’s gutting the federal Office of Special Education.

Attacking students with disabilities is wrong. Every child in America deserves a fair shot at success.

14.10.2025 21:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2826    πŸ” 892    πŸ’¬ 117    πŸ“Œ 40
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Gov. Josh Shapiro: "It's important that in this time of political violence that none of us grow numb to it, or accept this as the normal course of doing business for elected officials."

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David Brooks is not wrong www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

14.10.2025 18:03 β€” πŸ‘ 522    πŸ” 143    πŸ’¬ 63    πŸ“Œ 8
a black and white photo of a man in a pinstripe worsted suit, white shirt, and textured necktie. the tie has a nice dimple under the knot.

a black and white photo of a man in a pinstripe worsted suit, white shirt, and textured necktie. the tie has a nice dimple under the knot.

a photo of donald trump upside down. there is also a nice dimple on his red tie

a photo of donald trump upside down. there is also a nice dimple on his red tie

when you tie a tie, try to put in a dimple, like so

14.10.2025 18:19 β€” πŸ‘ 4460    πŸ” 475    πŸ’¬ 131    πŸ“Œ 41

They are terrified of the No Kings rallies and doing everything they can to discredit them.

If you're on the fence about going, just think of how much it'll piss off these assholes.

14.10.2025 12:53 β€” πŸ‘ 6070    πŸ” 1541    πŸ’¬ 321    πŸ“Œ 102

Happy to share that I’m now officially an affiliated faculty at Harvard Law School

Firmly believe law is where the most important conversations are happening, and am looking forward to building connections between law, policy, and politics. Thanks to those who helped make this happen!

14.10.2025 13:16 β€” πŸ‘ 540    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 3

It feels like the political overton window has shifted far to the Right because the wealth class controls our media and owns our politicians.

Meanwhile, the vast, vast majority of people belong to what would now be portrayed as β€œthe extreme Left.”

It’s a perception game and narrative control.

15.10.2025 03:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1278    πŸ” 324    πŸ’¬ 38    πŸ“Œ 19
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Tackles, projectiles and gunfire: Many fear ICE tactics are growing more violent Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of ...

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People are being tackled, people getting pepper sprayed or tear gassed. People getting threatened. And we've seen at least two incidents involving gunfire.

This administration overall seems more interested in heightening the tensions instead of trying to ramp them down.

14.10.2025 12:56 β€” πŸ‘ 343    πŸ” 132    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 8
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Big roar for AG Letitia James at the ZOHRAN rallyπŸ‘‡πŸ½

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The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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