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.
Build mutual aid. The only way we get out of this mess is to reinvigorate our sense of interconnectedness.
November 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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.
Build mutual aid. The only way we get out of this mess is to reinvigorate our sense of interconnectedness.
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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
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
November 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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
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.
Outlets that don’t report it, or dramatically downplay it are showing you precisely who they are.
When it matters.
October 19, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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.
Outlets that don’t report it, or dramatically downplay it are showing you precisely who they are.
When it matters.
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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.
October 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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.
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MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally:
October 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM
MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally:
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this is truly invaluable reporting
Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 10:56 PM
this is truly invaluable reporting
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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...
"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...
Johnson: "Grijalva should be working for her constituents right now. I don't know what she's doing. I keep seeing their political stunt videos. She should be in her office. She should be working or in the district for her constituents" (Grijalva is not in fact a Rep. b/c Johnson refuses to seat her)
October 16, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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...
"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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October 17, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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October 16, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go."
The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:
The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Newsom: We were under the understanding that we were going to close I-5 — 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.
October 16, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Newsom: We were under the understanding that we were going to close I-5 — 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.
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Pritzker: Illinois is not a place you can conquer and our people are not your subjects
October 16, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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 decline—cognitively, and… physically. These are just the rantings of someone who needs an intervention, needs some help, needs to be stabilized.
October 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Newsom: This president appears unhinged… seems listless… he seems, dare I say, in decline—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."
October 17, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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.
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.
October 16, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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.
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/...
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/...
October 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
"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/...
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/...
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I couldn’t be more proud of this team! 🥹
If you haven’t listened yet, Ultra Season 2 is available for free and in full here:
www.msnbc.com/msnbc-podcas...
If you haven’t listened yet, Ultra Season 2 is available for free and in full here:
www.msnbc.com/msnbc-podcas...
October 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I couldn’t be more proud of this team! 🥹
If you haven’t listened yet, Ultra Season 2 is available for free and in full here:
www.msnbc.com/msnbc-podcas...
If you haven’t listened yet, Ultra Season 2 is available for free and in full here:
www.msnbc.com/msnbc-podcas...
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*no kings except this guy
October 15, 2025 at 12:44 AM
*no kings except this guy
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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.
Attacking students with disabilities is wrong. Every child in America deserves a fair shot at success.
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.
www.npr.org
October 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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.
Attacking students with disabilities is wrong. Every child in America deserves a fair shot at success.
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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."
October 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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...
October 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
David Brooks is not wrong www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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when you tie a tie, try to put in a dimple, like so
October 14, 2025 at 6:19 PM
when you tie a tie, try to put in a dimple, like so
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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.
If you're on the fence about going, just think of how much it'll piss off these assholes.
Emmer: "We call it the 'Hate America' rally because you'll see the hate for America all over this thing when they show up. The rumor is that they can't end this shutdown because this small but very violent and vocal group is the only one that's happy about this."
October 14, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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.
If you're on the fence about going, just think of how much it'll piss off these assholes.
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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!
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!
October 14, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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!
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!