Abby Vesoulis
@abbyvesoulis
Currently: national politics reporter @motherjones. Previously: congress reporter @TIME. Always: midwesterner @ heart.
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https://www.motherjones.com/author/abby-vesoulis/ 20-04-2011 23:28:43
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Cool stuff: Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein feature 'Is This The End of Prison Phone Fees?'—that we worked on with Economic Hardship Reporting Project—was nominated for a Deadline Club Award for Magazine Feature Reporting. Give it a read:
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Journalists: The AP is hiring for two positions in Arizona and Michigan to cover state government focusing on women in politics. These are grant-funded through February 2026. Check it out! #NABJ Headquarters ✊🏾🖊️🎙️💻 📷 🎥 📝 🔈 NAHJ NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists Indigenous Journalists Association Asian American Journalists Association est. 1981 Writers of Color Society of Professional Journalists
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We are 20 years away from white people no longer being the majority.
In a new book excerpt, Ari Berman writes about how some conservatives are fighting what they view as a coming siege with suppression tactics and censoring.
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NEW: Today, the AZ Supreme Court upheld a Civil War-era abortion ban from 1864, making nearly all abortions in the state illegal and potentially criminalizing healthcare providers with up to five years in prison.
Read more in my latest for Mother Jones:
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What does New Jersey think of New York’s reaction to today’s earthquake? I asked Congressman Donald Norcross 🇺🇸
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My colleague Abby Vesoulis looks at whether recent anti-abortion moves in Florida can help Dems in 2024. Important stuff.
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.Abby Vesoulis w/ the most nuanced, substantive piece I’ve read on what the dueling Florida abortion rulings *actually* mean for state & national Dems…& what work they’ll still have to do to turn Florida blue regardless ⤵️
Spoke to Melissa Murray (@ProfMMurray on Threads 🧵) about why Americans should be worried about this ⤵️
(Spoiler alert: In criminalizing gay sex, the Ugandan high court cited Dobbs...thereby doing exactly what Clarence Thomas suggested: using it to roll back other intimate rights 🫣)
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NEW Mother Jones: Uganda cited Dobbs to back an anti-LGBTQ crackdown. Americans should be worried too.
The ruling 'suggests how easily [Dobbs] might be deployed in our country for the same thing,' Melissa Murray (@ProfMMurray on Threads 🧵) told me. ⤵️
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