Julianne McShane
@JulianneMcShane
News & Engagement Writer @MotherJones | bylines/formerly @NBCNews @washingtonpost @nytimes @guardian | [email protected] | Signal: jmcshane.19
As rates of domestic violence rise, federal funding for services is plummeting. Hotlines are on the brink of closing. Advocates are losing their jobs. Congress is sitting on a fix. And as one source says: "The consequence may be death." New @MotherJones: motherjones.com/politics/2024/…
To me and you, members of this goon squad look like the guys who roam around America’s dead malls. But for MAGA, the ICE agents terrorizing immigrants are beautiful Americans that fit into the right's larger repudiation of gender fluidity, MeToo, etc. motherjones.com/politics/2025/…
When you consider the past six months in their totality, it’s clear that it was a historic start to Trump’s second term...just not in the ways he thinks. motherjones.com/politics/2025/…
The White House hagiography of Trump's first six months back in office has kicked into high gear. But let's take a factual look at what he's really done so far—for @MotherJones: motherjones.com/politics/2025/…
It's been six months since Trump returned to the White House, and the GOP is already claiming that the president has made America "safer, stronger, and more prosperous.” Millions of Americans would disagree. motherjones.com/politics/2025/…
Dismantling the federal government. Yanking support for poor and working-class Americans. Emboldening extremism. Six months in, Trump has made American life immeasurably worse. motherjones.com/politics/2025/…
I know you feel that Trump in the first six months of his second term has made life worse. Here are the deets: motherjones.com/politics/2025/…
The Trump administration is making it much more difficult for women fleeing gender-based violence in other countries to immigrate to the United States. motherjones.com/politics/2025/…
He lost badly the first time. It’s hard to figure out the political logic of the rerun, writes columnist Ross Barkan. nymag.com/intelligencer/…
BREAKING: At least 16 people killed after a Bangladesh Air Force jet crashed into a school in Dhaka, an official tells local media. apnews.com/article/bangla…
Colbert will "be fine, of course — but he also has 200 staffers to think about," @latenightercom's Jed Rosenzweig points out cnn.com/2025/07/21/med…
Most Americans disapprove of Trump's handling of the economy, survey shows trib.al/QZzEBSY
Would like this to be a bigger deal than the cheating CEO.
"Local. Trusted. Defunded." That's what the big digital sign outside GBH's building in Boston says now. Like other PBS/NPR stations, GBH is starting a new fund-raising push: "We're not backing down" despite the federal funding loss, "but we can't do it without you..."
Maria Farmer twice reported Donald Trump‘s connection with sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein to the FBI, shining light on how the president may be mentioned in the Epstein files held by the Justice Department. Story: rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
‘Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates “like dogs”’ per allegations in a report from @hrw .
What I learned covering the abuses at Abu Ghraib in Iraq is that a system that encourages treating people like animals will eventually end up with abuse. A reminder most of those being held have not committed any crimes. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
Gaza's hunger crisis has killed hundreds — including dozens of children from malnutrition nbcnews.com/world/middle-e… via @nbcnews
How have I never seen this
what you are seeing is Eric Adams taking questions from reporters while getting his eyebrows done in Corona, Queens
Don't miss this important yet overlooked story from over the weekend by @sjmichaels for @MotherJones, about how Trump's DOJ just quietly made it harder for victims of gender-based violence to secure asylum in the US: motherjones.com/politics/2025/…
