Laura Bassett
@LEBassett
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writer, editor. previously: EIC @jezebel, columnist at @nymag and @gqmagazine, senior reporter at @huffpostpol
Brooklyn, NY
Joined September 2009
Detroit police oversight board on back-to-back shootings of men fleeing stops for an obscured plate, plastic cups: “It’s profiling,” “stop-and-frisk,” “STRESS”-esque. Ann Arbor has barred stops for plate violations + more. Can that happen here? My latest: https://t.co/IFUDdRvERx
freep.com
Detroit police commissioners want to curb pretext traffic stops as the department defends them.
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Enough is enough. I was with Zohran on September 11th 2001. We were 9 years old at school in Morningside Heights. By 9:30AM we realized something was really wrong, because the teachers looked scared and they had paused classes. They had us call our parents to come pick us up.
With Dire Picture of a Mamdani Mayoralty, Cuomo Plays to Voters’ Fears On Thurs, he urged Sid Rosenberg to “imagine Mamdani in that seat,” if there's another Sept 11. “Yeah, I could. He’d be cheering,” he said. Cuomo laughed. “That’s another problem" https://t.co/Rgvlbmm8UG
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Fentanyl doesn’t even come from Venezuela. We’re just murdering random people
Eric Trump: "Now every single time a boat goes out of Venezuela it's getting blown up into a million pieces. That's exactly what's happening every single day. I personally have 4 friends who have lost children to fentanyl."
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my latest investigation for @ConsumerReports is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day — some by more than 10 times !
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Will we hold Jay Jones to the most basic standards??? We teach our children to use persuasion to sort out disagreements, not threats of violence. Certainly not death wishes! My new ad. With @CatholicVote: “If we want a better future, it starts with better examples”
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Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me” • They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me • Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked • She was filmed while stripped naked • Prison was
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The worst use of quotation marks in the history of human civilisation is in.
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🚨🇮🇱 I CAN‘T STAND THIS PROPAGANDA ANYMORE. Yes, I’m glad that Israeli hostages have been freed. And just as glad that Palestinian prisoners have been released. But a few things need to be made clear: FIRST: It’s absurd that Israelis are called “hostages” while Palestinians are
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First images of some of the 1,700+ Palestinian hostages freed by Israel returning to Gaza today. Many had been held in military camps under cruel and inhumane conditions, deprived of medical care and food. Some endured severe torture and neglect that led to permanent injuries,
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It’s very funny that Trump sent troops into Portland because someone showed him footage from the 2020 protests and told him it was current day and now troops are faced with this
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In other words, he destroyed the livelihoods of farmers and imposed a huge tax on all American consumers via tariffs, and is now giving some revenue from that tax hike to farmers as a bribe to save his own ass before the midterms.
Trump: "We're gonna take some of that tariff money that we've made, we're gonna give it to our farmers who for a little while are going to be hurt until the tariffs kick in to their benefit."
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🚨 BREAKING: FBI Director Kash Patel has released the private messages of the Dallas immigrant shooter.
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The countries where comedians can't mock the leader on late night TV are not really ones you want to live in.
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A hand in a pocket. A red solo cup. A teen out 7 mins past curfew. Detroit cops jumped out on these males for minor reasons. Major violence followed. See what drives 20% of dept shootings in my latest investigation & how 1 caused a family to flee the city
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At least 20% of Detroit police shootings in the past decade started with stops for nonviolent offenses and escalated with foot chases.
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This is not at all true. Shame on you for saying this. Shame on you for pouring gas on this fire.
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No it's gun violence
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