Abby Johnston
@abbyjohnston.bsky.social
Partnerships and climate, economy and health editing at 19thnews.org.
Before: Texas Monthly, Frontline, Texas Observer.
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Before: Texas Monthly, Frontline, Texas Observer.
(she/her)
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Congrats to one of the best @joanmeiners.bsky.social and the other best @abbyjohnston.bsky.social!
Thank you @coveringclimatenow.org for the "#Climate in every beat" award! I'm happy to see this collab btw @azcentral.com & @19thnews.org on the intersection of climate concerns + abortion access get recognized.
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September 18, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Congrats to one of the best @joanmeiners.bsky.social and the other best @abbyjohnston.bsky.social!
Congratulations to Joan for all of the great work she did on this, and to @jazzmyth.bsky.social for the excellent viz. I loved working on this collaboration with y'all!
Thank you @coveringclimatenow.org for the "#Climate in every beat" award! I'm happy to see this collab btw @azcentral.com & @19thnews.org on the intersection of climate concerns + abortion access get recognized.
Award: coveringclimatenow.org/projects/the...
Story: www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...
Award: coveringclimatenow.org/projects/the...
Story: www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...
September 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Congratulations to Joan for all of the great work she did on this, and to @jazzmyth.bsky.social for the excellent viz. I loved working on this collaboration with y'all!
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I saw a lot of headlines about Florida getting rid of all its vaccine mandates for schoolchildren. So @nadrakn.bsky.social and I wanted to add a little context and clarity about what that means and what might happen next. Our latest for @19thnews.org: 19thnews.org/2025/09/flor...
Florida officials say they want to eliminate school vaccine mandates. It won’t be that simple.
Many of the reversals will require action from lawmakers. Public health experts and educators warn that dropped mandates could worsen disease outbreaks and add to a teacher shortage
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September 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I saw a lot of headlines about Florida getting rid of all its vaccine mandates for schoolchildren. So @nadrakn.bsky.social and I wanted to add a little context and clarity about what that means and what might happen next. Our latest for @19thnews.org: 19thnews.org/2025/09/flor...
Unless I missed something in the audio, the on-court interviewer called Coco Gauff “Simone” as she spoke to her post-match. Simone Biles was in the U.S. Open audience to watch Gauff.
August 29, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Unless I missed something in the audio, the on-court interviewer called Coco Gauff “Simone” as she spoke to her post-match. Simone Biles was in the U.S. Open audience to watch Gauff.
Grab tissues before you watch this, moms.
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Opinion | ‘Motherhood Should Come With a Warning Label’
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June 25, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Grab tissues before you watch this, moms.
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1/ As divorce rates soared in the late 1970s, there was a consensus, supported by limited data, that fathers who had lost custody of their children were kidnapping them and hiding them abroad, leaving mothers with no means of redress.
Nowhere in the world to run: The international law ripping children from their mothers
The Hague Abduction Convention was meant to reunite mothers and children. Instead, it's often used by allegedly abusive fathers to tear them apart.
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June 17, 2025 at 6:12 PM
1/ As divorce rates soared in the late 1970s, there was a consensus, supported by limited data, that fathers who had lost custody of their children were kidnapping them and hiding them abroad, leaving mothers with no means of redress.
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The Hague Abduction Convention was meant to reunite mothers and children. Instead, it's often used by allegedly abusive fathers to tear them apart. Olivia Gentile reports in partnership with @19thnews.org:
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The international law ripping children from their mothers - Type Investigations
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June 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The Hague Abduction Convention was meant to reunite mothers and children. Instead, it's often used by allegedly abusive fathers to tear them apart. Olivia Gentile reports in partnership with @19thnews.org:
www.typeinvestigations.org/investigatio...
www.typeinvestigations.org/investigatio...
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So incredibly proud of @abbyjohnston.bsky.social for seeing this story to fruition. It was a massive undertaking — 16 months in the making, in partnership with Type Investigations. Such an important story that I am grateful @19thnews.org was able to tell.
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Nowhere in the world to run: The international law ripping children from their mothers
The Hague Abduction Convention was meant to reunite mothers and children. Instead, it's often used by allegedly abusive fathers to tear them apart.
19thnews.org
June 17, 2025 at 5:46 PM
So incredibly proud of @abbyjohnston.bsky.social for seeing this story to fruition. It was a massive undertaking — 16 months in the making, in partnership with Type Investigations. Such an important story that I am grateful @19thnews.org was able to tell.
19thnews.org/2025/06/hagu...
19thnews.org/2025/06/hagu...
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A vital new report that you must read:
19thnews.org/2025/06/hagu...
19thnews.org/2025/06/hagu...
Nowhere in the world to run: The international law ripping children from their mothers
The Hague Abduction Convention was meant to reunite mothers and children. Instead, it's often used by allegedly abusive fathers to tear them apart.
19thnews.org
June 17, 2025 at 11:37 AM
A vital new report that you must read:
19thnews.org/2025/06/hagu...
19thnews.org/2025/06/hagu...
Coco Gauff quoted an edited version of Tyler the Creator in her speech: “I never had a doubt inside me. And if I told you I did, I was lying.”
June 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Coco Gauff quoted an edited version of Tyler the Creator in her speech: “I never had a doubt inside me. And if I told you I did, I was lying.”
The first American to win the French Open since Serena Williams in 2015.
BREAKING: Coco Gauff defeats top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka to win her first French Open title.
Coco Gauff defeats top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka in 3 sets to win her first French Open title
Coco Gauff has won the French Open for the first time by defeating top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka 6-7 (5), 6-2, 6-4.
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June 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The first American to win the French Open since Serena Williams in 2015.
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The New York Times has found at least two more fake citations in the MAHA report.
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White House Health Report Included Fake Citations
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May 29, 2025 at 9:21 PM
The New York Times has found at least two more fake citations in the MAHA report.
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www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...
In a shocking turn of events, Texas' abortion medication bill is dead, @shefali.bsky.social reports. This is a big deal: The anti-abortion movement was looking at this as a potential blueprint for blocking an extremely common abortion method. 19thnews.org/2025/05/texa...
A Texas bill to block abortion pills has died for now
Senate Bill 2880, which supporters hoped could halt a key source of abortion, will likely not get a vote before the end of the session.
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May 27, 2025 at 7:28 PM
In a shocking turn of events, Texas' abortion medication bill is dead, @shefali.bsky.social reports. This is a big deal: The anti-abortion movement was looking at this as a potential blueprint for blocking an extremely common abortion method. 19thnews.org/2025/05/texa...
I do not find a woman going into labor and continuing to anchor the news cute. I shudder to think why she felt like she needed to do that. cbs6albany.com/news/local/b...
Meet Baby Quincy: making his debut after Olivia's viral labor
It was the birth heard 'round the world this week, our own Olivia Jaquith anchoring the morning show while in labor, and now a look at the beautiful baby boy!
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May 23, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I do not find a woman going into labor and continuing to anchor the news cute. I shudder to think why she felt like she needed to do that. cbs6albany.com/news/local/b...
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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
May 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
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I'm looking for ideas for me as a journalist to do for a solutions story at @motherjones.com on how aging people (60+) are staying connected to each other through a cool activity (think slightly quirky). If you have any examples, please get in touch at jmetraux@motherjones.com
April 22, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I'm looking for ideas for me as a journalist to do for a solutions story at @motherjones.com on how aging people (60+) are staying connected to each other through a cool activity (think slightly quirky). If you have any examples, please get in touch at jmetraux@motherjones.com
Send me, I’ll check it out. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/s...
Astronomers Detect a Signature of Life on a Distant Planet
Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even habitable.
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April 16, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Send me, I’ll check it out. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/s...
Scooplet from @19thnews.org!
News: Diana Greene Foster, the MacArthur-winning author of the Turnaway Study, learned her NIH grant — funding a multi-year study on Dobbs' impact — has been pulled. She was told its bc the govt won't study "gender identity."
Her work has shaped our understanding of abortion bans' consequences.
Her work has shaped our understanding of abortion bans' consequences.
She was tracking post-Roe abortions. The government just pulled her funding.
Diana Greene Foster, who was behind the landmark Turnaway Study, wanted to study the health and economic impacts of the loss of abortion access.
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April 9, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Scooplet from @19thnews.org!
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Medical experts say that while the health secretary is showing more direct support for the measles vaccine following the death of a second unvaccinated child, he’s also sharing information about debunked remedies.
Parents are receiving mixed messages about measles from RFK Jr.
Medical experts say that while Kennedy is showing more direct support for the measles vaccine, he’s also sharing information about debunked remedies.
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April 8, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Medical experts say that while the health secretary is showing more direct support for the measles vaccine following the death of a second unvaccinated child, he’s also sharing information about debunked remedies.
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Trans folks, if any of these new orders are impacting your life, we at @19thnews.org want to know. DM me. Tell me if your medical appointments are canceled. If your documents are seized. Help us find the news
February 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Trans folks, if any of these new orders are impacting your life, we at @19thnews.org want to know. DM me. Tell me if your medical appointments are canceled. If your documents are seized. Help us find the news
These are the first criminal charges against a doctor for mailing abortion pills to a state with a ban.
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New York doctor indicted for prescribing abortion pill in Louisiana
A New York doctor has been indicted by a Lousiana grand jury for allegedly prescribing an abortion pill online in the Deep South state, which has one of the strictest near-total abortion bans in the c...
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January 31, 2025 at 7:22 PM
These are the first criminal charges against a doctor for mailing abortion pills to a state with a ban.
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Yesterday, Sen. Tammy Duckworth reintroduced a bipartisan bill that aims to make air travel easier for breastfeeding parents. The BABES Enhancement Act passed the Senate by unanimous consent last Congress but wasn't taken up in the House 19thnews.org/2025/01/tsa-...
Senators are trying — again — to make air travel easier for breastfeeding parents
Sen. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois is reintroducing the BABES Enhancement Act to clarify TSA guidance on flying with breast milk.
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January 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Yesterday, Sen. Tammy Duckworth reintroduced a bipartisan bill that aims to make air travel easier for breastfeeding parents. The BABES Enhancement Act passed the Senate by unanimous consent last Congress but wasn't taken up in the House 19thnews.org/2025/01/tsa-...
Cecile Richards, one of the country's most prominent abortion rights activists, has died at 67. She and her mother were both taken from us way too soon. RIP. 19thnews.org/2025/01/ceci...
Cecile Richards, former Planned Parenthood president and feminist activist, has died
Richards died Monday of an aggressive brain cancer. She was 67.
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January 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Cecile Richards, one of the country's most prominent abortion rights activists, has died at 67. She and her mother were both taken from us way too soon. RIP. 19thnews.org/2025/01/ceci...
Every holiday is a firework holiday when you live in Texas.
January 20, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Every holiday is a firework holiday when you live in Texas.
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This bill, the first federal anti-trans law brought to a vote in a newly GOP-controlled Congress, is Democrats’ first test on whether they will fight an expected wave of proposed anti-trans laws under Trump.
Two House Democrats voted in favor: Texas Reps. Henry Cuellar and Vicente Gonzalez
Two House Democrats voted in favor: Texas Reps. Henry Cuellar and Vicente Gonzalez
House votes to ban trans girls from women’s sports in schools
If passed into law, the legislation would change Title IX and revoke federal funding for schools that allow trans girls in women’s sports.
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January 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
This bill, the first federal anti-trans law brought to a vote in a newly GOP-controlled Congress, is Democrats’ first test on whether they will fight an expected wave of proposed anti-trans laws under Trump.
Two House Democrats voted in favor: Texas Reps. Henry Cuellar and Vicente Gonzalez
Two House Democrats voted in favor: Texas Reps. Henry Cuellar and Vicente Gonzalez