My latest for @thetrace.org challenges a common narrative. That gun violence “starts in the home”. Adlone Morris was a Detroit cop and a devoted father. Still, his sons got caught up in the streets he patrolled. Their story highlights the complexities of gun violence that are often ignored [1]

Excited to check this one out

Powerful story out today from @oklahomawatch.bsky.social that localizes the Gun Violence Data Hub's reporting on the alarming rates of gun suicide among older Americans oklahomawatch.org/2025/11/07/i...

What kind of sick person seeks out an edited version of Marquee Moon

Quite the lede in this WSJ data analysis of states with stand-your-ground laws: "It’s easier than ever to kill someone in America and get away with it." www.wsj.com/us-news/homi...

I’m in DTLA picking up an item from Roadrunner Bags, but seems like many other folks are here for the Dodger victory parade

Time to lock in and throw on the big game ... Warriors at Pacers

Even as more older Americans are dying by gun suicide, their deaths often stay hidden. Many isolated older Americans have no obituary, memorial, or funeral, and for those who do, the cause of death often goes unmentioned. But doctors and researchers have been sounding the alarm.

Paul Newby is one of the most quietly powerful elected officials in America. Here's what he's been up to. Great reporting from @dougbockclark.bsky.social here. Appreciate him linking to stories I did at CPI on state supreme courts and Newby's conflicts of interest www.propublica.org/article/paul...

Ohtani getting the Barry Bonds treatment in extra innings in the World Series. Wild

RIP. Grateful I got to see him play in 2011 with Gary Peacock and Keith Jarrett in Berkeley

1989 TIME Magazine ad about the need to address carbon in the atmosphere ... from the Mobil Corporation. "Global temperatures seem to be increasing"

"Amid presidential rhetoric of 'warzones' and 'hellholes,' an important data point is being overlooked. The 80 percent of Americans who live in cities will lose far fewer of their neighbors to gun violence this year." www.thetrace.org/2025/10/gun-...

Warriors look good. If these old dudes can stay semi-healthy they will be dangerous

"The Supreme Court said on Monday that it will consider whether people who regularly smoke marijuana can legally own guns" apnews.com/article/supr...

It's projects like this that make me proud to be part of @thetrace.org. I'm from Brownsville, and I don't think I've ever seen it captured this way in any other news outlet.

BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

Will Russell Westbrook be the first-ever current/former/future MVP to ever play for Sacramento? I think so

In our collaboration with the Maine Monitor, the publication zeroed in on how older Mainers are more likely to die by gun suicide than car crashes. The story highlighted our project on the gun suicide crisis among older Americans. Learn about how the collaboration happened:

Today, we're debuting a new feature on @thetrace.org called 92 Days in Gun Violence. It's a quarterly update. The big finding thru Q3 is that have been fewer shooting deaths in 2025 than any year in a decade. Plus more on gun sales, our work, and recent research: www.thetrace.org/2025/10/shoo...

After weeks of waiting, California's governor signed a bill that will allow mid-rise apartment buildings near major transit stops in California's biggest metro areas. https://cal.news/4n3hzge 📝 @frombenc.bsky.social 📸 Ray Chavez

At different times, gay activists and a far-right group both had plans to take over Alpine County, California (1970 population: 484 people) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_...

This Mental Illness Awareness Week, we urge everyone to break the silence around mental health & aging. Too often, suicide among older adults stays hidden. But gun suicides among older Americans are rising. Read more in GQ. #MIAW #MentalHealth #Aging

🤳EXCLUSIVE: We analyzed real data from over 800 U.S. TikTok users to reveal how the app transforms casual users into power users. Extremely proud of this one, over a year in the making w/ @richardsima.bsky.social Leslie Shapiro @asteckelberg.bsky.social @ence.bsky.social wapo.st/4obueib

In an LA press conference, @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov asked tenants who have experience with mega-landlord Mike Nijjar and his companies to share complaints laist.com/news/housing...

1/My latest story, part 4 of our series “The Secret Files of the Gun Industry,” begins in in 2016, when the country’s best-known suicide prevention group teamed up with the gun industry to tackle the biggest form of gun death + help reduce suicide 20% by 2025 www.thetrace.org/2025/10/gun-...

"This investigation is the first of its kind to document the cartels’ use of ammunition from the U.S. Army-owned factory in enforcing mass displacement in Mexico" theintercept.com/2025/10/02/t...

Powerful story from @wyofile.com on gun suicides in the 70+ population in Wyoming, the state with the highest rate in the entire country. @andrewgraham88.bsky.social got responses from Gov. Mark Gordon and legislative leaders wyofile.com/older-wyomin...

Real sign of the times with these two CDC website banners: - praising the Trump Administration's work to end "the Democrat-led government shutdown" - noting site is "being modified to comply with President Trump's Executive Orders"

If you're a local journalist interested in reporting on this issue, we've shared a reporting recipe on @thetrace.org's Gun Violence Data Hub datahub.thetrace.org/resource/how...

Sobering story from @themainemonitor.org on the high rates of gun suicides among older Mainers. They're the first newsroom to use a new Gun Violence Data Hub dataset to localize a story on this subject. themainemonitor.org/maine-suicid...

well that's not very nice

I wrote about the genesis of this story in the Gun Violence Data Hub newsletter last week mailchi.mp/thetrace/dat...

Older Americans have the highest rates of gun suicide of any age group. Not by a little — by a lot. Why? I spent months exploring this question through data, field reporting, and interviews with experts. Our story is up today on @thetrace.org www.thetrace.org/2025/09/gun-...

An analysis by The Trace and @gqmagazine.bsky.social provides a sobering look at a widespread phenomenon: We found that Americans age 70 and over had the highest suicide rates of any age group, and that their rates of suicide have increased in recent years.

longest light rail line in the world, baby!

More and more older Americans are dying by firearm #suicide. Older white men and those in rural areas experience alarmingly high rates. #gunsense #gunsafety #mentalhealth

"Gun suicide is a greater killer of men over 70 than car crashes, our analysis showed. And if older men are in trouble, older white men are especially in trouble. They die by gun suicide at the highest rate — a rate more than triple that of Black and Latino men of the same age, and 19 times the..."

We've posted the data behind this story — on the alarming prevalence of gun suicides among older Americans — on the Gun Violence Data Hub. That includes county- and state-level data that journalists can use to investigate how this issue affects their communities datahub.thetrace.org/dataset/gun-...

Important, sobering story on something we rarely talk about from @amendelson.bsky.social @thetrace.org @gqmagazine.bsky.social. From our analysis: -Americans 70+ had the highest suicide rates -Gun suicides kill more men 70+ than car crashes -From 2009-23, 63,836 older Americans died by gun suicide

Startling new reporting from @amendelson.bsky.social at @thetrace.org: Americans 70+ have the highest suicide rates of any age group. Gun suicide is a greater killer of men over 70 than car crashes

Suicide among older men, particularly white men, is rising. Reporter amendelson.bsky.social goes deep and delivers illuminating details, like a gun store owner catching heat for trying to boost suicide awareness. Check it out: www.thetrace.org/2025/09/gun-...

Really important work by my colleague @amendelson.bsky.social and @thetrace.org's Data Hub. Give it a read.

Older Americans have the highest rates of gun suicide of any age group. Not by a little — by a lot. Why? I spent months exploring this question through data, field reporting, and interviews with experts. Our story is up today on @thetrace.org www.thetrace.org/2025/09/gun-...

Just finished the Seth Harp book — gripping, gruesome stuff

Lots of newsworthy stuff in the Gun Violence Data Hub — just yesterday, an Orlando Sentinel story cited one of our datasets. Reach out if you ever have Qs or want to use our data

I’m a lifelong Jake Tonges fan

The last two weeks have seen 20+ active shooting hoaxes at colleges around the U.S. — including one at Iowa State University in my hometown of Ames. New analysis from @jenmascia.bsky.social www.thetrace.org/2025/09/swat...

This is great reporting, obviously, but also fascinating to watch @pablo.show unspool this investigative yarn in a format that feels very contemporary