Lois Beckett
@loisbeckett
Senior reporter @GuardianUS, West Coast bureau. 🇺🇸. Views = mine. [email protected]. Rarely checking DMs or Twitter.
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https://www.theguardian.com/profile/lois-beckett 17-02-2009 21:48:57
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NEW: Trans youth in Missouri are stockpiling medications, traveling 10 hours out of state for care and fighting for basic dignity in school. I met w/ families across St Louis. Here's how they're surviving some of the most hostile anti-trans laws in the US:theguardian.com/us-news/articl…
Am very late to this and it's still on my stack but if mike spies reported and wrote it, I'm reading it. rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
“Our jobs are increasingly risky and sometimes dangerous. In many countries, the killers of journalists go unpunished. Not so in Las Vegas.” theguardian.com/us-news/articl… Lois Beckett The Guardian
“The police just don’t seem to care. If the police think a shooting is gang-related, they have this attitude like: ‘Let them all kill each other, it’s less work for us.’” In Delano, a mother investigates her son's gang-related killing. Maanvi Singh: theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int…
Urban areas may have more total shootings--but gun homicide rates are actually higher in California's rural areas, like Kern County, north of Los Angeles. An in-depth investigation on gun homicides in rural California, from Maanvi Singh: theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int…