Laura Bassett
@LEBassett
freelance writer, election columnist @TheCut. previously: EIC @Jezebel, columnist @GQMagazine, senior reporter @huffpostpol
Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre on Ghislaine Maxwell: “She is a monster. She’s worse than Epstein. She was vicious. She was evil. I know that woman.”
Exclusive: The Justice Department told President Trump in May that his name is among many in the Epstein files on.wsj.com/4mcTIKV
NEW: Justice Department told Trump in May that his name is among many in the Epstein files — via @WSJ wsj.com/politics/justi…
Lol this is hilarious. The Phillies had a kiss cam and had the Phillie Phanatic re-enact the Coldplay affair😂
Trump’s entirely capable of firing the Fed chair and wrecking the dollar to distract from his close friendship with a criminal sex abuser. That’s the nature of the man.
Mohsen Mahdawi of White River Junction, Vermont was illegally detained by ICE during what was supposed to be the final step in his citizenship process. Mr. Mahdawi, a legal resident of the US, must be afforded due process under the law and immediately released from detention.
The Environmental Protection Agency is now planning to stop requiring polluters to collect and report the emissions that cause climate change. propublica.org/article/trump-…
This is pretty wild. Marjorie Taylor Greene bought $RH during the tariff dip. It caught our attention, because it was her first time ever buying the stock. It is up 27% today after the announcement of the tariff pause.
a room full of elite billionaires openly bragging about how much money they made from their "crash global markets" scheme because they know there is literally nobody who will hold them accountable. the state of american politics has never been more bleak
"He made $2.5 billion today, and he made $900 million" – Trump It’s the White House billionaires vs the rest of us. Do you get it yet?
Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/4j8e0DG
Excellent, truly spot-on piece from @LEBassett…. thecut.com/article/democr…
Good @maddow segment featuring our reporting on layoffs at NIH's center for Alzheimer's research. Rep Tom Cole championed this center, and Maddow asked him for comment on the new firings, which experts fear will badly set back efforts to treat Alzheimer's. No answer yet. Watch:
Holy shit! You’ve got to see this town hall. Republicans are getting torn apart by their own voters. Rep. Rich McCormick: “You don’t think I’m going to stand up for you?” Woman in the crowd: “You need to stand up.” Another woman: “Don’t bend over.” 🔥
The town hall crowd peppers Rep. Rich McCormick with boos and catcalls as he struggles to answer a pointed question from a resident who says she’s a descendant of Patrick Henry who pressed him on whether Trump was moving toward “tyranny.” #gapol
An *overflow* crowd spills outside Roswell City Hall for a town hall tonight for Republican Rep. Rich McCormick. #gapol
There it is. A preliminary FAA report says that staffing at the air traffic control tower in DC was “not normal” during last night’s crash. It was not about DEI. It was about worker shortages, which Trump has exacerbated.
Snowball fight on Bourbon Street in New Orleans! #lawx
This is what’s left of the Pacific Palisades. The mall survived. Most everything else is gone. Homes, apartment complexes… businesses.
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The incoming Trump administration plans to target the National Climate Assessment so that it can't be used to defend regulations in court. Russ Vought, Trump's OMB pick, wants to personally approve a team of climate denialists to rewrite it. eenews.net/articles/trump…