Julia Furlan
@juliafurlan.bsky.social
Audio journalist (bylines @npr @vox @iheart & more)
Adjunct at CUNY, NYU & New School
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Adjunct at CUNY, NYU & New School
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Julia Furlan
@juliafurlan.bsky.social
· Mar 27
How to raise kids in a multilingual home
Life Kit · Episode
open.spotify.com
I loved interviewing my toddler and digging into the research for this @npr.org Life Kit story on raising bilingual kids! Please listen and if you’re wondering about bilingual parenting — go for it! open.spotify.com/episode/6q57...
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Gene is a wonderful person who has absolutely fucking walloped cancer in the past. He’ll do it again.
hey guys, just to confirm this is my fundraiser. i didn't want to ask for help, but i do need it.
my cancer is back. i am going through a lobectomy next week, the same surgery Walter White undergoes. i can't express how grateful i am. thank you so much everyone.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-ge...
my cancer is back. i am going through a lobectomy next week, the same surgery Walter White undergoes. i can't express how grateful i am. thank you so much everyone.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-ge...
Donate to Support Gene Park's Cancer Surgery and Treatment, organized by Gene Park
Hi, my name is Gene Park. I’m a games critic at The Washington Post, and I’… Gene Park needs your support for Support Gene Park's Cancer Surgery and Treatment
www.gofundme.com
January 22, 2026 at 4:19 AM
Gene is a wonderful person who has absolutely fucking walloped cancer in the past. He’ll do it again.
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Very grateful for her contributions to a profound technology spanning many uses.
Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95
ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away
thezebra.org
January 19, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Very grateful for her contributions to a profound technology spanning many uses.
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This is the updated, more organized & better than ever way to help in Mpls/ St Paul/ Greater MN.
Taking submissions on the site & everything.
Look for the ones with non-English language & unfunded, small amounts because they're not getting the love they need.
Taking submissions on the site & everything.
Look for the ones with non-English language & unfunded, small amounts because they're not getting the love they need.
For ease of navigation and sharing, I have turned my little list into a website: standwithminnesota.org
January 15, 2026 at 3:03 AM
This is the updated, more organized & better than ever way to help in Mpls/ St Paul/ Greater MN.
Taking submissions on the site & everything.
Look for the ones with non-English language & unfunded, small amounts because they're not getting the love they need.
Taking submissions on the site & everything.
Look for the ones with non-English language & unfunded, small amounts because they're not getting the love they need.
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A really sad follow-up to this story — Alexis Erlinmeyer, one of the trans federal intelligence workers who was fired, has died of a pulmonary embolism. She was 31. Her family is burying her under her deadname, so friends are fundraising for an accurate memorial: www.gofundme.com/f/in-memory-...
NEW—In late Feb, Chris Rufo published leaked chats between queer/trans employees at US intel agencies. Then Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said she’d fire all involved.
I spoke to chat members who were fired, are on admin leave, and who kept their jobs about the new lavender scare:
I spoke to chat members who were fired, are on admin leave, and who kept their jobs about the new lavender scare:
Queer intel officers targeted by top secret chat leak get their chance to speak
Chris Rufo published the chats. Staffers say a new "lavender scare" is upon us.
www.thehandbasket.co
January 4, 2026 at 10:24 PM
A really sad follow-up to this story — Alexis Erlinmeyer, one of the trans federal intelligence workers who was fired, has died of a pulmonary embolism. She was 31. Her family is burying her under her deadname, so friends are fundraising for an accurate memorial: www.gofundme.com/f/in-memory-...
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This bit of news — at least 40 dead— appears around the 27th graf of the NYT story. Which is a really bizarre choice.
(And we find out a few grafs down that several US soldiers were injured)
(And we find out a few grafs down that several US soldiers were injured)
January 4, 2026 at 5:09 AM
This bit of news — at least 40 dead— appears around the 27th graf of the NYT story. Which is a really bizarre choice.
(And we find out a few grafs down that several US soldiers were injured)
(And we find out a few grafs down that several US soldiers were injured)
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@gabemschneider.bsky.social: “How the Times covers individual stories, whose deaths it chooses to prioritize, and whose voices it centers, are worth scrutinizing.”
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/sham...
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/sham...
December 20, 2025 at 6:04 PM
@gabemschneider.bsky.social: “How the Times covers individual stories, whose deaths it chooses to prioritize, and whose voices it centers, are worth scrutinizing.”
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/sham...
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/sham...
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I wrote about the New York Times’ coverage of Gaza for @niemanlab.org. www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/sham...
December 17, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I wrote about the New York Times’ coverage of Gaza for @niemanlab.org. www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/sham...
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The term ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion life is returning to normal’
Since the US-brokered ceasefire was announced on 10 October, Israeli forces have killed more than 360 Palestinians in Gaza; according to a UN official, at least 70 are children
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Since the US-brokered ceasefire was announced on 10 October, Israeli forces have killed more than 360 Palestinians in Gaza; according to a UN official, at least 70 are children
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
‘Bloodshed was supposed to stop’: no sign of normal life as Gaza’s killing and misery grind on
The term ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion life is returning to normal’ for Palestinians squeezed into the remaining 42% of their land behind Israel’s ‘yellow line’
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:26 AM
The term ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion life is returning to normal’
Since the US-brokered ceasefire was announced on 10 October, Israeli forces have killed more than 360 Palestinians in Gaza; according to a UN official, at least 70 are children
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Since the US-brokered ceasefire was announced on 10 October, Israeli forces have killed more than 360 Palestinians in Gaza; according to a UN official, at least 70 are children
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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5/ As I shared last week, I had the chance to draw blood & observe an HIV outreach team in Kampala, which gave condoms to 200 sex workers & 30 days of PreP pills to dozens who tested negative for HIV.
But if we’d had Lenacapavir instead…
theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...
But if we’d had Lenacapavir instead…
theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...
December 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
5/ As I shared last week, I had the chance to draw blood & observe an HIV outreach team in Kampala, which gave condoms to 200 sex workers & 30 days of PreP pills to dozens who tested negative for HIV.
But if we’d had Lenacapavir instead…
theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...
But if we’d had Lenacapavir instead…
theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...
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4/ Also, Lenacapvir, an injectable HIV prevention medication which lasts for six months, is just ready to roll out. But as @gregggonsalves.bsky.social explained—and as I have seen in South African & Uganda—Trump just DESTROYED the needed distribution infrastructure
theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...
theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...
December 1, 2025 at 3:17 PM
4/ Also, Lenacapvir, an injectable HIV prevention medication which lasts for six months, is just ready to roll out. But as @gregggonsalves.bsky.social explained—and as I have seen in South African & Uganda—Trump just DESTROYED the needed distribution infrastructure
theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...
theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...
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3/ In every country we reported, Trump's health budgets have been a crisis of LGBTQ *employment*. HIV is a slow-acting virus & while "the cuts" have caused death, overwhelmingly, the biggest and fastest form of harm has been Black & brown LGBTQ people losing work theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...
December 1, 2025 at 3:12 PM
3/ In every country we reported, Trump's health budgets have been a crisis of LGBTQ *employment*. HIV is a slow-acting virus & while "the cuts" have caused death, overwhelmingly, the biggest and fastest form of harm has been Black & brown LGBTQ people losing work theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...
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2/ First, a simple acknowledgment of World AIDS Day, and the impact of HIV over the last half-century: the virus has already taken the lives of approximately 44 million people, and 40 million people are currently living with HIV. theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...
December 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
2/ First, a simple acknowledgment of World AIDS Day, and the impact of HIV over the last half-century: the virus has already taken the lives of approximately 44 million people, and 40 million people are currently living with HIV. theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...
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1/ For six months, I've been traveling the world on Pulitzer Ctr & Fund For Investigative Journalism grants investigating Trump's effect on HIV & LGBTQ health. On World AIDS Day, @theintercept.com is publishing an overview essay of Afeef Nessouli & my findings. theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...
Trump Gutted AIDS Health Care at the Worst Possible Time
By the first World AIDS Day of his second term, Trump gutted LGBTQ+ employment globally and put humanity at greater risk of AIDS.
theintercept.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
1/ For six months, I've been traveling the world on Pulitzer Ctr & Fund For Investigative Journalism grants investigating Trump's effect on HIV & LGBTQ health. On World AIDS Day, @theintercept.com is publishing an overview essay of Afeef Nessouli & my findings. theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...
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I’m 250 paid subscribers away from a major goal. Think we can get there tonight? www.thehandbasket.co/upgrade
New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:
Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Esptein's journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 19, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I’m 250 paid subscribers away from a major goal. Think we can get there tonight? www.thehandbasket.co/upgrade
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NEW — I spoke to DoorDash about the White House claiming the company's report shows "inflation has been tamed" and whether that's an interpretation one should make. An economist also weighed in, pointing out dictatorships use data obfuscation as a tool, and right now they're "grasping at straws."
WH claims 'inflation tamed,' per DoorDash stats. Company says that's not in its report.
It comes the same week we learned the WH would likely not release key economic reports for October.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 13, 2025 at 9:52 PM
NEW — I spoke to DoorDash about the White House claiming the company's report shows "inflation has been tamed" and whether that's an interpretation one should make. An economist also weighed in, pointing out dictatorships use data obfuscation as a tool, and right now they're "grasping at straws."
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Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
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heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.
November 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.
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hire all the fired political teen vogue writers and make a new magazine call teen rogue.
we’ll all subscribe en masse
we’ll all subscribe en masse
November 4, 2025 at 2:32 AM
hire all the fired political teen vogue writers and make a new magazine call teen rogue.
we’ll all subscribe en masse
we’ll all subscribe en masse
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begging with my entire heart for election results across the map which force the Dems to finally begin internalizing the lesson that throwing trans people under the bus is going to fuck them repeatedly
Decision Desk HQ has called the Virginia governors race for Spanberger. The millions of dollars in anti trans ads fell completely flat there.
November 5, 2025 at 12:46 AM
begging with my entire heart for election results across the map which force the Dems to finally begin internalizing the lesson that throwing trans people under the bus is going to fuck them repeatedly
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I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members.
At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.
At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.
November 3, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members.
At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.
At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.
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thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
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Aaron’s long essay on the People’s Park mural and Telegraph Ave in Berkeley + @reveleth.com’s recent reporting on the quest to save Esther’s Orbit Room’s iconic West Oakland facade make for one hell of a double feature on what gets remembered and why in the East Bay.
October 22, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Aaron’s long essay on the People’s Park mural and Telegraph Ave in Berkeley + @reveleth.com’s recent reporting on the quest to save Esther’s Orbit Room’s iconic West Oakland facade make for one hell of a double feature on what gets remembered and why in the East Bay.