Ami Foster

Co-Founder of The Essay Coaches. Words matter. So do #HandMarkedPaperBallots and nationwide vote-by-mail.

[Winter @deenafaywinter]

When Amara Strande was just 16, a 15-pound tumor was found embedded in her liver. Nearly the size of a volleyball. She was one of many students at Tartan High School in Oakdale who got cancer. Students joked about the water fountains, saying, “Don’t drink the 3M cancer water.” 🧵

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

A thread bringing together some thoughts about #fascism from the last decade.

[Brett Cross @BCross052422]

Your child is murdered. Your community cries. Support comes in from all over the world. Your community claims they’re UvaldeStrong. Baseball and basketball games, free events, bikes, parks. Your community relishes it.
You fight for accountability. Your community goes quiet.

[Ami Foster @amifoster528]

@SIfill_ This quote, on why he didn’t emphasize his own role, brought tears: “This was by design. Still understood, and wanted his readers to understand, that fugitive slaves were the engine of the Underground Railroad, that they were agents in their own liberation.”

[Ami Foster @amifoster528]

@jasonintrator @nytimes @GovWhitmer And Jared Polis….

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

Bill Clinton: "The Republicans are pretty simple, actually, and pretty straightforward. They say, 'I want you to be very miserable. And I want you to be very angry. And I want you to vote for us, and we'll make it worse, but we'll blame them.'"

[Ami Foster @amifoster528]

@LibnOfCongress @librarycongress I love that it is a Cathedral of Learning—a reverence of knowledge radiates through it. The view into the reading room gives me the best sense of vertigo.

[Mueller, She Wrote @MuellerSheWrote]

THREAD: CROWD SIZE: Okay look. For years now, Donald and the GOP have been lying about crowd size. They’ve been lying about how many people call them and tell them they love them. They’ve been lying about the size of their fan base. There’s a reason for this. 1/

[Ami Foster @amifoster528]

@ElieNYC So deeply sorry.

[Rep. Eric Swalwell @RepSwalwell]

Our votes are in! RT if you’ve voted!

[Ami Foster @amifoster528]

@tressiemcphd So smart to short circuit people by playing their intersecting stereotypes and heuristics against each other. But man, it sucks the way class markers offer exceptions to crappy rules.

[Ami Foster @amifoster528]

@minjinlee11 😂

[Ami Foster @amifoster528]

@JonBoeckenstedt Fantastic resource. Thank you for sharing all that effort.

[Ami Foster @amifoster528]

@hmcghee @ColorOfChange Your work has helped me make sense of everything and to revise the stories I was taught about this country when I was younger. Can’t wait to see the action plan. Thank you.

[Ami Foster @amifoster528]

@mhdksafa I appreciate you and your voice and your insights. Hope you feel better soon.

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

Every single American should see this from @JessicaValenti before they vote.

[President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive]

It’s simple: When the cost of oil comes down, we should see the price at the pump come down as well. That’s how it should work.

But right now, refiners and retailers are making record profits at the expense of the vast majority of Americans. It’s unacceptable.

[Ari Drennen @AriDrennen]

Holy shit

[January 6th Committee @January6thCmte]

This previously unseen footage shows Congressional leaders—both Republicans and Democrats—as they were taken to a secure location during the January riot.

Everyone involved was actively working to address the violence. All of them did what President Trump refused to do.

[Ami Foster @amifoster528]

Absolutely beautiful

[Alvaro Bedoya @BedoyaUSA]

35 years ago last night, my mother, brother and I landed at JFK on a long Lufthansa flight. My father had gone ahead of us; our mom didn't know if we had utensils at our new home, so she asked our flight attendant if we could keep the cutlery. She quietly said yes.