Laura Bassett
@lebassett.bsky.social
Freelance journalist. Formerly: EIC at Jezebel, columnist at The Cut and GQ, HuffPost politics reporter. Brooklyn via South Louisiana. I write a newsletter called Nightcap: https://www.laura-bassett.com
Former J6 federal prosecutors are begging senators -- mostly GOPers, but a handful of Dems are in there, too -- to stop confirming election deniers to lifetime federal courts seats. “Please stop poisoning our courts." www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...
Former J6 Prosecutors Beg Senators To Stop Confirming Election Deniers To Court Seats
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Is he saying he’d need more than two days to break his kid’s bones
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3h agoNEWSMAX: Your daughter fractured her collarbone and there was a handprint on her upper chest, and it left a bruise. How did that happen? MAX MILLER: What I can tell you is I didn't do that. 9 of the 11 previous days was my ex-wife's care. What's so troubling about child protective services is ...
NEW: Republican Rep. Chuck Edwards says he's dropping his re-election campaign, after the House Ethics Committee recommended a censure for inappropriate behavior with female staffers.
I want leadership like this for New Orleans. Instead we got the guy who nixed a huge coastal restoration project that the legislature had already approved because it “messes with Louisiana’s way of life”
Mongabay@mongabay.com · 5h agoTo mitigate tsunami impacts, a project in Japan has planted over 680,000 trees along the coast, drawing on traditional "guardian forests." While these natural barriers offer proven protection, many communities continue prioritizing concrete seawalls. Jonathan Vit reports for #Mongabay.
It is very very hard for a sitting president to mess with elections.
Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · 22h agoDOJ is now 0-20 in cases to obtain state voter files. Here is the list: Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Illinois Kentucky Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin
It’s so cool to elect republicans and use ballot initiatives to overturn all their policy
Stephen Wolf@stephenwolf.bsky.social · 15h agoMissouri Republicans have relentlessly tried to destroy ballot initiatives after voters used them to protect abortion rights, legalize weed, raise the minimum wage, and reform redistricting. They are currently sabotaging a veto referendum that should have suspended the GOP's new House gerrymander
The progressive beating the establishment AIPAC-funded candidate who spent over $70 million than him is the big election night they wanted
Politico@politico.com · 9h agoProgressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted
Nice way to downplay the situation. bsky.app/profile/dipl...
#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 10h agoUnfathomable
Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.
Trump announces he is rolling back protections for endangered species
Judge Wise finds that ICE coerced a 20-year-old Tongan man — admitted legally to the country three years ago — to sign a document accepting deportation, despite no criminal record or immigration proceedings against him. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Capybaras keep their chill while crashing Brazilian legislature apnews.com/article/braz...
Capybaras keep their chill while crashing Brazilian legislature
Capybaras have been making surprise visits to a Brazilian state legislature. These chill rodents strolled into the legislative building in Cuiaba, Mato Grosso, last week, catching lawmakers off guard.
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What a surprise, the alleged abuser was jacking himself up on testosterone.
"It’s important not to become groomed or desensitized to the fact that rapists and wife beaters are allowed to thrive in Congress if they belong to the right party. Be loud about Max Miller. It’s long past time for a reckoning." Must read by @lebassett.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/laurabas...
Congressman says he can't have abused his wife because she made him dinner 6 days later
More than one of Republican Max Miller's exes have warned that he's a violent monster. Why isn't he getting the Graham Platner treatment?
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Considering that most cities are blue, he is just saying he hates America
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump: "Look at the blue cities. What do they have in common? They're all dirty. They're filthy dirty. Their streets are dirty. Their streets smell. Their storefronts are broken. Their trees are all gross. Everything about the place is dirty. It's really all of them."
Watching how angry he is here, it’s funny to think that this is all about the bottom of the reflecting pool being shitty. He wasn’t this mad about anything that happened in Iran.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump says Jeanine Pirro "choked" and then snaps at a reporter who asks if her job is safe: "Don't ever talk again"
NEW: Two government watchdog groups have demanded an investigation into whether FCC officials violated ethics requirements by accepting luxury gala tickets from Paramount as it sought federal approval for its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros.
FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount
Citing a ProPublica report on Paramount providing luxury Kennedy Center gala tickets to FCC officials, the complaints note that commissioners accepted the gifts while the FCC was reviewing or about to...
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Demanding to examine a child's genitals for them to play sports is fucking insane
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
These pubs could hire recovering addicts who are journalists (there are plenty of us!) to write these stories, but they would rather lie to the brunch set. This entire article is horseshit. Doesn't address how drugs are getting to the street in the first place and points fingers at the helpers.
jtickel STAND WITH UKRAINE@tickedoff.bsky.social · 6d agochallenging www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Am strongly against people in hot climates owning Bernese mountain dogs
Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 10mo agoDo you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
Agree with @jamellebouie.net that it's pretty clear Elon Musk wanted to eviscerate USAID *for the purpose of killing as many African people as possible.* Mass death wasn't an accidental byproduct of his "deep state" paranoia; it was a key mission of DOGE. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...
