writer, editor. previously: EIC @jezebel, columnist at @nymag and @gqmagazine, senior reporter at @huffpostpol
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Laura Bassett retweeted
.@jamestalarico after Elon Musk sent $158M to support Ken Paxton:
"Big money is powerful. I don't want to sugarcoat that. The richest man in the world is coming after us, but it is nothing compared to people power. Elon wants our land. He's already trying to buy one of our beautiful state parks down in South Texas. He wants our water for these AI data centers. He wants our taxpayer funds like when he ran that crazy DOGE process, and he wants his very own personal United States senator, and that's what he thinks he can get with Ken Paxton."
Laura Bassett retweeted
There is something deeply wrong with a political system that allows one trillionaire to buy his own personal U.S. Senator.
Laura Bassett retweeted
I donated $50 to Amy Acton after seeing Vivek Ramaswamy double down on that disgusting ad. Didn’t even know who that lady was yesterday, so thanks, man.
Laura Bassett retweeted
One month ago, I sat down with President Lula to discuss how government serving poor and working people. Weeks later, Brazil took a historic step: a 40-hour workweek, at least two days off and no cuts to pay for more than 30 million workers.
Workers fought for decades to win the five-day workweek in America. Brazilian workers have fought for this victory, too. I congratulate them on this achievement.
Working people deserve time to live, not just work. Building a better future means giving people more of their lives back. And we’ll keep fighting for it.
Laura Bassett retweeted
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has decided against opening up funding for individuals needing help after the July 2026 floods in Texas.
Gov. Greg Abbott and the Texas Division of Emergency Management are reviewing the decision and the process for appealing it, according to a statement from the governor’s office. bit.ly/4k81HuS
The difference is child rape. Hope this helps
Vivek Ramaswamy’s ad is apparently unprecedented. It would be just awful to activate all the members of a politician’s family to attack them…as the Democrats did with every member of RFK’s family.
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Laura Bassett retweeted
JD Vance, author of “Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith,” has a closing midterm message for Republicans: stop whining about child rape
“There are things more important than money” says the guy who sued 700 of his own patients for unpaid medical bills as low as $101
Laura Bassett retweeted
This endorsement of Amy Acton, secured thanks to Ramaswamy's disqualifying campaign turn, will run in 20 newspapers across the state, including the Dispatch, Akron Beacon Journal and Canton Repository
Opinion: Reckless behavior of this Ohio governor candidate can't be ignored. We're endorsing rival dispatch.com/story/opinion/e…
Laura Bassett retweeted
This is some of the best prep and rollout I've ever seen in politics for when your asshole opponent does the most predictable asshole thing under the Sun. You gotta admire their game...
Laura Bassett retweeted
Trump says that if Republicans lose in North Carolina he will use the power of his office to deny US Marine Corps veterans’ claims for medical treatment for cancer and other life threatening diseases resulting from decades of water contamination by toxic chemicals at Camp Lejeune
Laura Bassett retweeted
NEW: It turns out, Democrats for Mike Rogers was financed by Republican donors. The group also paid a ex-Dem council member 30k. She went on Fox News to tout Rogers/trash El-Sayed and never disclosed the payment.
VIA @JoePerticone
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Trump is looting the government, building his vanity projects, and doesn’t give a fuck about anyone
BREAKING:
Trump's head of FEMA just told states to prepare to handle disasters on their own.
The Trump admin's disaster chief told state officials they must increase their financial reserves and emergency capabilities to handle most disasters on their own — without federal help. politico.com/news/2026/10/20…
Laura Bassett retweeted
"Speculative data center debt is being repackaged and sold to pension and retirement funds, university endowments, and other institutional investors in a manner eerily reminiscent of the subprime bubble."
ourfinancialsecurity.org/res…
Is it good if the president can’t stop talking about the same man’s ass at every rally
Trump on Jon Husted: "I'm studying his body. I've never studied the body of a man before. It's not my thing. Nothing wrong with it, of course. But it's never been my thing. But I looked at his ass. I said, 'His ass, shit, it's like a pile of muscle.' Then I looked at his legs and I said, 'Man, his feet are big.'"
Laura Bassett retweeted
“If the terms were right, I’d have no problem” debating Talarico, Paxton says.
What are his terms?
“I don’t know what all the terms are but I do know I don’t want a CNN reporter.”
Fox News said it would host if Paxton agreed, after Talarico challenged him to a debate there.
I had jerky at Buc-ee’s with @KenPaxtonTX and talked about his emotions going into the midterms.
📍somewhere near Houston
Why does one unelected billionaire get to decide whether Ukrainian civilians die or not
BREAKING WSJ:
Elon Musk ordered the slowdown of the military-grade version of Starlink that Ukraine relied on.
wsj.com/world/ukraine-starli…
Laura Bassett retweeted
The GOP’s closing argument in Ohio is that the Democratic candidate wasn’t really raped by her stepfather when she was a child. They’re siding with the mother who lost custody of her.
Serial liar Amy Acton trots out the “I’m a victim” card in the response to her mother calling her a liar.
The problem is Acton can’t produce court documents for the incident she describes.
She’s hoping “MeToo” will save her.
I believe your Mother knows best, Amy.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Adult criminal court records from the 1970s involving minors as victims exist as public records in principle but are almost never digitized or searchable online. Newspaper records show that he was arrested and charged with rape of a child.
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Laura Bassett retweeted
The ad released by Vivek Ramaswamy is disgusting. Everyone, including Jon Husted, should be willing to condemn this ad.
Laura Bassett retweeted
This is some “Poland attacked Germany first” false flag level stuff. Ask yourself 2 things: How stupid do the people who sent this to “student of the ___Family” think you are to think you will believe this is real, and 2nd why do a few billionaires desperately want you focused on this vs everything else happening right now.
This is America. We always believe things can get better. It is who we are. If your only message is “yeah but it could be worse”, then step aside and let some leaders have a shot.
