Private equity is buying America's hospitals and nursing homes. The playbook: pile on debt, sell the building, cut staff. The result, one landmark study found: patient deaths up about 11%. #news #information #privateequity

www.thetrace.org/2026/07/balt... Excellent article describing how Baltimore dramatically reduced homicides since 2022. Kudos to UPenn’s Ben Struhl & Jeremy Biddle, MONSE’s Stefanie Mavronis, Police Commissioner Worley, Safe Streets, Roca, YAP. Focus on the highest risk w/ supports & accountability.🙌

www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/u... Trump Admin gives a pass to gun sellers who break the law, allows gun sales without background checks and direct shipping of firearms to consumers and anyone scooping packages dropped at doorsteps. These gifts to industry & political allies will lead to more deaths.

Reminder that the nomination period for the $5,000 Greenwald Family Award for Firearm Violence and Injury Prevention Research Excellence closes in one month. Peer-reviewed papers published within the past two years are eligible for this prize. lnkd.in/dWe9qZaa

Good summary!

Washington Post gives brief quote from former ATF official explaining how dangerous the proposed rule is to the public near the end of the article. Disappointing that such an insane proposal threatening public safety is casted as normal evolution of a marketplace for consumer convenience.

Plan to ease rules on mailing guns could help company Trump Jr. has stake in Long article with ~10 quotes from the Trump Admin and the gun lobby claiming current regs prohibiting online sales of guns violate the 2A. No counter from Constitutional scholars. More $ for gun industry, more deaths.

Trump has made it a golden age for white-collar crime. Committed fraud? Step 1: He's too busy chasing immigrants and enemies to catch you. Step 2: Got caught? He'll pardon you. Step 3: Got caught buying that pardon? See step one. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/21/u...

Requiring 3D printer makers to not allow their product to make firearms is common sense. Sales of DIY ghost gun kits were gas on the fire of the surge in gun violence in 2020 and their regulation has likely contributed to historic reductions since 2022. GVP advocates make this a priority.

By freeing up licensed dealers who don’t comply with federal law to divert guns to traffickers, other criminals, and underage youth, it increases gun sales and profits. More gun crime boosts civilian demand for guns. They want everyone armed at all times.

That the Trump Admin is changing its policies to suit industry, especially the gun industry, rather concern itself with the safety and welfare of Americans is no shocker. These moves have nothing to do with 2A rights and everything to do with what Trump values - $ and power.

Elon Musk’s DOGE cut the federal government’s screwworm monitoring program, which cost $15 million. Now, the Trump administration is preparing to spend $1 billion to combat the screwworm outbreak. Never forget how destructive and downright stupid DOGE was.

In added deference to the gun lobby, they are bringing 2A lawsuits against cities and states. www.thetrace.org/2026/06/trum...

Gun dealers who had their licenses revoked for noncompliance are not just allowed to reapply, they are encouraged to reapply. And those noncompliant dealers will face no oversight because a) many ATF agents who work compliance have resigned or been reassigned and b) supervisors got the message.

www.propublica.org/people/alec-... Sharing this excellent article that describes the many things that the Biden Admin was doing to combat illegal gun trafficking including crackdowns on gun dealers not complying with the law. No surprise, Trump has dismantled everything in a favor to the industry.

You wouldn’t leave your door unlocked. Don’t leave your gun unlocked. Locking up your firearm is as quick and simple as locking your front door. For more resources and information on safe gun storage, visit: publichealth.jhu.edu/center-for-g...

Between 2009 to 2018, CDC had a single non-Senate confirmed appointee, but now has 12. The increase in the power of appointees (tactic #2) is partly due to the removal of career officials (#5) plus a healthy dose of intimidation (#4). donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-creep-...

Please contact your member of Congress and submit a comment on the new policy to (further) politicize science, and encourage others to do so. You don’t have to be a scientist! Some very good guidnace here: bsky.app/profile/eliz...

Finally, shootings of Baltimore youth have plummeted further since the end of the study period. In addition to effective community interventions, the availability of ghost guns has diminished greatly due to smart federal, state, and local policies. This has likely contributed to fewer youth shot.

The article itself is generally fair. There was great variation in effects across sites; but they name the 2 sites with poor outcomes and not the 4 with youth homicide reductions of 60% or more. We need innovation + investments to address the drivers of youth shootings today. 🎩s off to the workers!

Baltimore's Safe Streets model faces evolving challenges The Sinclair editors led with a headline to reinforce doubt among their readers that community violence interventions can reduce violence. The findings of our study, led by Carla Tilchin, reveal an average reduction of 42% in youth homicides.

New research from @jhu.edu: Baltimore's Safe Streets program is associated with a 42% drop in youth homicides and 21% fewer nonfatal youth shootings. It's the first study to examine community violence intervention programs specifically for youth violence impacts. 🔗

It remains baffling to me that we have a clear constitutional requirement that the president can't enrich himself on the job, something we had no problem enforcing strictly for hundreds of years, and then this sweaty conman came by and the nation just sorta shrugged it off.

NEW: The Trump administration's DOJ has been systematically removing materials from its websites regarding the many indictments and convictions related to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. In response, @lawfaremedia.org has been systematically restoring them:

26% of gun owners with teens only in their home kept 1+ firearm unlocked & loaded vs 17% with only 12 and younger. In 2024, 3,544 teens died by gunfire vs 335 of children under 13. More intentional & effective messaging needed on teen risk of killing themselves or others when gun are accessible.

I know you know this, but I outted this as nonsense *12 days* after the NYT published Dr. Prasad’s embarrassing memo—a memo that was specifically refuted by his own agency’s assessment, which I read in December. We knew this was garbage since then. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

Stunning and telling. With 1 out of 3 US adults owning firearms, mostly for protection against all the “bad people” around them, no wonder why the US is an outlier among high-income countries in its homicide rates even after recent historic drops.

➡️ Police violence is not tied to their safety. According to the 2025 Police Violence Report, the vast majority of killings began with police responding to suspected non-violent offenses or cases where no crime was reported. policeviolencereport.org

missouriindependent.com/2026/05/19/m... Since Missouri went red 20 years ago, its “solutions” to violent crime were ditch handgun purchaser licensing, guns everywhere for everyone, Stand Your Ground, arm teachers. No state has had a steeper rise in gun homicides. But fitter guards to the rescue!

As with so many other things we can no longer count on our federal govt, gun dealer regulation and oversight and enforcement of anti-gun trafficking laws is up to state and local authorities. And litigation against bad actors in the gun industry has been effective in curbing gun trafficking.

Crackdowns on dealers tied to very high numbers of guns diverted for crime and poor law compliance records under Biden, didn’t impact 2A rights. Yet the gun lobby dictated deregulation and the dismantling of the ATF’s dealer compliance under Trump and encouraged those who lost their FFL to reapply.

Most gun dealers operating under weak regulations follow the letter of the law to deny illegal straw purchase attempts. But others are magnets for traffickers and prohibited purchasers for a reason because they break the law or look the other way.

The pattern of where most crime guns are first sold by gun dealers not long before they’re recovered from crime suspects is familiar and predictable. The dealers have no state oversight despite ATF’s limited capacity and no purchaser licensing or regulation of private sales - a trafficker’s delight.

With the new TN districts broken up 29%, 29%, and 32% Black the only thing not adding up here is the GOP’s claim this new map “isn’t about race”. I’m no mathematician, but if you see a pattern, assume it’s telling you something. Numbers don’t lie— people do.

there are only, like, 30 people tops in a given class year at Yale Med who identify as a member of *any* group underrepresented in medicine so please understand that the Trump admin is losing its shit about the tiniest handful of elite Black and Latino students ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

At least 33 pardoned January 6th insurrectionists have been rearrested, charged, or sentenced for new crimes. Some of these crimes include illegal possession of weapons, including at least two who had a previous domestic violence conviction. These mass pardons are a grave risk to public safety.

A necessary national conversation about the fact that a woman’s risk of being killed by an intimate partner is highest in the weeks and months around a separation - TIME Excellent piece on policies behind elevated risk of intimate partner femicide Black women face witj insights on prevention.

Thank you @natureportfolio.bsky.social for making my review of the Anxious Generation open access for parents, policy-makers, and the public. The story told in this book runs counter science and is leading to poor policy decisions that will ultimately fail our kids. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

For the first time, the Postal Service is set to allow people in the same state to mail handguns to each other without going through a licensed dealer. Here we break down the proposed rule — which experts say is ripe for a court challenge:

Parents of teens who break curfew in D.C. will be prosecuted, DOJ says Truly ridiculous yet predictable grandstanding by Pirro. Hard to imagine a less useful way to use police, prosecutors, and courts.

minnesotareformer.com/2025/04/25/s... Focusing resources to improve investigations of nonfatal shootings reduces cycles of violence, improves police legitimacy in communities that have lost trust in police and the CJ system. It should also enhance the effectiveness of community violence interruption

We do not need a Surgeon General who hawks supplements on the internet, spreads lies about vaccines and blames you for any health problems you may have as your personal responsibility. Tell your Senators #NOonSapier. Another bad choice for America. actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Here we go again. Saphier lies about vaccines, hawks supplements on the internet and tells you that your health is your "personal responsibility" (get sick: it's your fault). Write to your senators now and oppose this nomination. actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

We have a year’s worth of economic data since Liberation Day, when President Trump announced much higher tariffs on most imported goods and countries, and the data are definitive; the tariffs have done significant damage to the economy.

Trump’s ATF is also encouraging individuals who lost their licenses to sell firearms under the Biden Administration due to noncompliance with gun laws to reapply. They can’t wait to put the bad actors allowing guns to be diverted for use in crime back in business. It’s all about the $.

But the gun industry has long profited from the lack of universal background checks by accessing a large market that nearly everyone else wants to keep from having guns - underage youth, ppl convicted of violent crimes, domestic abusers.

This could reopen the gap in federal gun law that Congress sought to close in 2022 with the BSCA. In states lacking universal background check laws, many ppl advertise guns for sale on websites, social media and at gun shows “NO BACKGROUND CHECK NEEDED.” Who do you think there market is? Criminals!

www.thetrace.org/2026/04/atf-... Heads up for new ATF rules intended to weaken the implementation of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act requirement that people selling guns for a profit must obtain licenses to sell firearms and make sales contingent on background checks.

MOULTON: You said, 'We will give them no quarter.' That's a war crime. Do you stand by it? HEGSETH: Uhm. The Dept of War fights to win M: You called for Ds to be tried for sedition for reminding our troops to follow the law. But when you tell them to commit a war crime, you stand by it. Congrats.

> @cnn.com