Lois BeckettVerified account

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Senior reporter covering gun policy and politics . Formerly . Views = mine.

New York, NY
Joined February 2009

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  2. If you’re poor, walking home drunk can lead to spending 23 hours a day in a cage for a week:

  3. On the bus, a boy asked a girl why she chose her major. "Job security," she said. "But do you have a passion for it? Where's the passion?"

  4. Bridegroom withheld key facts during courtship, including a Tinder account and undisclosed donations from industry lobbyists.

  5. Actually a ProPublica investigation of NYT vows stories would be amazing

  6. tbh at first I thought this meant ProPublica was getting a vows section

  7. . is trying something new: We're hiring an engagement reporter. It's not a social media job. Check it:

  8. We crunched 40+ years of data from 60+ cities to examine violent crime in America.

  9. Come to our open house tomorrow if you want to feel better about journalism and get over a garbage week

  10. Also you should read the Grassroots Leadership statement on the DOJ decision because they've been tireless on issue

  11. (extremely Sarah Koenig voice) I talked to Ryan Lochte. He was at his mom's house, he hadn't left in a few da —

  12. 32 isn't a kid? I smell something in the air... ....what is it... is that...the scent of a of thinkpiece...on "millennials" ?

  13. Why did the officer put Howard in a chokehold? He alleged Howard tried to bite him. This "did not equate to a deadly threat."

  14. "Howard was on the ground in a controlled position with five officers on top of him and two others monitoring."

  15. 22 days. That's how long an LAPD officer was suspended for putting Vachel Howard in a chokehold. Howard died.

  16. .@kathrynschulzon the Underground Railroad "Hardly anyone used it, but it provides us with comfort—and white heroes."

  17. tbh I think it's they're all married already to other adorable journalists. "The family that FOIAs together stays together," as we say.

  18. those are the good ones what are already all snapped up.

  19. Yesterday, some friends discovered that there are zero men in the United States of America who list "FOIA" as an interest in Tinder.

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