Julianne McShane

2026 Application & Overview — JAWS

Female journalists interested in health reporting: the fellowship I did at @womenjournos.bsky.social last year is open again for next year! Deadline to apply is December 5. www.jaws.org/apply-here

Russ Vought is Trump’s shutdown hero. His neighbors think his work is "abhorrent." The people living near Trump's "grim reaper" of government cuts have put up signs letting him know they stand with federal workers.

Russ Vought will not get an invite to the block party: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Russ Vought is Trump’s shutdown hero. His neighbors think his work is "abhorrent." The people living near Trump's "grim reaper" of government cuts have put up signs letting him know they stand with federal workers.

Russ Vought's neighbors have strong feelings about him:

"You asked what it is like living near such a man. Frankly, I'd rather not, but this is a wonderful neighborhood and, unlike Mr. Vought himself, we do not want our neighbors (even Mr. Vought) to be traumatized. So we just live with it."

Why are execs offering six or seven-figure salaries to people who lack relevant experiences &/or made mistakes that for others would've been career ending?

There are SO MANY talented reporters freelancing or desperately looking for work whose careers you could make by paying them a moderate salary

For $150 million CBS could've helped revitalize local journalism nationwide. Instead they hired someone w *checks notes* no basic reporting experience

As long as editors & execs don't value the behind-the-scenes, critical work of actual accountability reporting, our industry will remain in trouble

Judge Says DOJ May Be Vindictively Prosecuting Kilmar Abrego Garcia It's the latest twist in the government's vendetta against the man they accidentally deported.

Judge Says DOJ May Be Vindictively Prosecuting Kilmar Abrego Garcia www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The cover of the November/December 2025 issue of Mother Jones magazine, with the title "American Gulag" and the subtitle "The brutal rollout of Trump's police state" over a black-and-white photo of two masked agents arresting an immigrant at a federal courthouse.

Latest @motherjones.com hotness coming to newsstands near you soon

How the Crisis PR Machine Shapes What You Think About Celebrities The disinformation age has hit Hollywood, and the celebrity-industrial complex is armed to the teeth. Meet the crisis publicists, right-wing wranglers, and trolls for hire who are influencing what we ...

must read @annasilman.bsky.social's fascinating and delicious dive into the very curious world of crisis PR:

www.gq.com/story/how-th...

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ICE will be "all over" the Super Bowl Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson that only "law-abiding Americans who love this country" should attend the event.

“They suck and we’ll win and God will bless us,” said a government official to a podcaster.

ICE will be "all over" the Super Bowl Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson that only "law-abiding Americans who love this country" should attend the event.

New @motherjones.com: ICE will be "all over" the Super Bowl, according to Kristi Noem

The right is freaking out over Bad Bunny's halftime performance. The Trump administration plans to use it to make more arrests.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trump sending troops to another American city "They want to create the war zone," Gov. JB Pritzker (D-Ill.) said on CNN on Sunday.

“For Donald Trump, this has never been about safety. This is about control.”

Trump sending more troops to American cities "They want to create the war zone," Gov. JB Pritzker (D-Ill.) said on CNN on Sunday.

New @motherjones.com: President Donald Trump is making good on his promise to invade more American cities.

On Saturday, Gov. JB Pritzker (D-Ill.) announced that the Trump administration planned to deploy 300 National Guard troops to Illinois “against our will.”

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

ICE will be "all over" the Super Bowl Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson that only "law-abiding Americans who love this country" should attend the event.

Be prepared: The Trump administration says ICE will be at the Super Bowl.

"I think people should not be coming to the Super Bowl unless they're law-abiding Americans who love this country," Kristi Noem told a podcaster.

ICE will be "all over" the Super Bowl Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson that only "law-abiding Americans who love this country" should attend the event.

New @motherjones.com: ICE will be "all over" the Super Bowl, according to Kristi Noem

The right is freaking out over Bad Bunny's halftime performance. The Trump administration plans to use it to make more arrests.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

When Adoption Promises Are Broken Many birth mothers hope to maintain contact with their child. But their agreements with adoptive parents can be fragile.

If you want to understand open adoption, it makes sense to start with birth parents—yet studies of them are few. 2+ yrs ago, I began talking w/ birth mothers to try to understand what living in an open adoption is like for them, and what rights or options they might have if challenges were to arise.

Trump plans to block funding to groups that promote diversity policies abroad The administration wants to expand a policy that already restricts U.S. funding to foreign groups that promote abortion access.

The Trump admin plans to block U.S. funding to organizations that do work abroad on issues related to gender identity and diversity.

Death, Sexual Violence and Human Trafficking: Fallout From U.S. Aid Withdrawal Hits the World’s Most Fragile Locations Exclusive State Department records show: As the Trump administration abandons its humanitarian commitments, diplomats are reporting that the cuts have led to violence and instability while undermining...

Refugees in Kenya have died at food distribution centers, officials noted, including a pregnant woman crushed to death during a stampede. Aid workers said they expected more people to get hurt “as vulnerable households become increasingly desperate.”

(Published May 2025)

Americans aren't buying Trump's shutdown blame game Early polls show that most blame Trump and Republicans—and for good reason.

Trump keeps trying to pin the government shutdown on the Democrats. Americans are not buying it.

A new poll from the Washington Post found that nearly half of Americans blame the shutdown on the president and Republicans in Congress.

Americans aren't buying Trump's shutdown blame game Early polls show that most blame Trump and Republicans—and for good reason.

Americans aren't buying Trump's shutdown blame game, and for good reason

Americans aren't buying Trump's shutdown blame game Early polls show that most blame Trump and Republicans—and for good reason.

Early polls show that most blame Trump and Republicans—and for good reason.

The shutdown means no jobs data—conveniently for Trump "To lose this source of data at this critical time, it's just a real problem."

#CornellILR senior econ. advisor @ericagroshen.bsky.social—who was BLS commissioner from 2013-2017—says that “it’s a particularly fraught time because of the economic conditions right now.”

Following a 16-day shutdown in 2013, BLS released info when the govt was back up & running, Groshen explains.

If Jesus ever does come back, a lot of people who claim to act in his name are going to have some serious explaining to do.

The shutdown means no jobs data—conveniently for Trump "To lose this source of data at this critical time, it's just a real problem."

And @juliannemcshane.bsky.social reports, the future of the Bureau of Labor Statistics is also uncertain after the White House withdrew Trump’s nominee to be its new commissioner on Tuesday.

The shutdown means no jobs data—conveniently for Trump "To lose this source of data at this critical time, it's just a real problem."

The government shutdown means no jobs report today, just when experts tell @juliannemcshane.bsky.social the country could soon enter a recession.

“People are on edge at the moment, and to lose this source of data at this critical time, it’s just a real problem.”

Classy guy.

Fewer women cross state lines for abortion in 2025, suggesting more pill use, researchers find A report from the Guttmacher Institute found that clinician-provided abortions were declining in states without near-total abortion bans.

Fewer people had abortions in the first half of 2025 in states that allow the procedure, a report found. The number of patients who crossed state lines for an abortion also decreased.

But that doesn't necessarily mean abortions are dwindling nationwide.

Shooting his partner, then himself: How firearm access fuels domestic violence tragedies States with strong gun control laws had three times fewer incidents of domestic violence homicide-suicide, according to a report shared exclusively with The 19th.

About 19 women per month are killed by firearms in DV homicides, per a new @everytown.bsky.social report - via @19thnews.org:

19thnews.org/2025/10/fire...

Americans aren't buying Trump's shutdown blame game Early polls show that most blame Trump and Republicans—and for good reason.

Republicans keep trying to blame Democrats for the shutdown, falsely claiming they want to provide “free health care for illegal aliens."

Poll after poll shows Americans aren't buying it, with more holding Republicans responsible than Democrats. New @motherjones.com: