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.

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www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h... It takes years and a fair amount of money to build a field of work, recruit, train, and support a community safety workforce. Trump is taking a wrecking ball to it. States, cities, and philanthropies must fill the gap.

It's crucial to remember that RFK Jr isn't just doing all he can to roll back vaccination & drive up childhood infectious diseases in the US but also WORLWIDE & he's especially targeting children in the lowest income countries He has suspended US funding to Gavi, which supports global vaccination 🧵

This is an incredibly dangerous and radical policy decision reflects the Trump Administration’s allegiance with gun sellers rather than to the safety of the public. If not reversed, it will facilitate illegal gun trafficking that will be more guns in the hands of dangerous individuals.

How many times does this article need to be written before Federal and State officials recognize the dangers we face by releasing these models into the global ecosystem. No one knows how they do what they do, why they do what they do, or how to control them. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/m...

Bondi and Noem getting the boot while the equally corrupt and incompetent menfolk keep their jobs reminds me of this Table of RFK Jr’s CDC Directors I made last week. Only one person needed actual qualifications to be the CDC Director and that person was the only woman who had the job.

it’s unreal how these grown-ass men had no problem destroying untold lives with chatGPT but go crying to a judge when people make fun of them online

I love the idea that *this* US government, which has been nabbing landscapers and five year olds knows where Iranian sleeper cells are but just hasn’t gotten around to doing anything about it yet.

"We've been carrying the trauma, carrying the load, and we've not been the ones that are getting the resources to support the networks and the funding that are necessary to sustain it." Kayla Alexis, CEO and founder of Sustained Equity Group, tells us. publichealth.jhu.edu/center-for-g...

On top of the concentration camps, kidnapping, and murders, the news now reports ICE is buying microwave tech to kill the car engines of first amendment legal observers. And Democrats are still not even asking to claw back the 2025 budget increases.

Too many women in the workforce and delaying or foregoing childbearing? The Heritage Foundation has a plan for that. And it is the opposite of Robin Hood: It's a huge cash transfer from poor single moms to to wealthier married parents. www.throughline.news/p/the-conser...

The Great Capitulation Is Over. What Comes Next? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/o...

Trump is the biggest liar in presidential history. His lies from his #SOTU speech has been fact checked. www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

Trump takes credit for lower crime rates in Washington, DC after sending federal troops last year. Fact check: Since peaking in 2023, D.C. violent crime fell in 2024, before Trump took office, and has continued to fall at similar rates before and after federal intervention.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/s... I appreciated Al Blumstein’s in-depth analysis of crime and CJ systems. I came to know him early in my career when many were grappling with the surge in gun violence connected to crack cocaine markets. He was right on many issues and always kind.

While I’m happy to be part of this webinar, I don’t love the title chosen by CCJ. The weight of solid research evidence refutes the notion that more guns (civilian ownership and carrying) leads to less crime.

I’m looking forward to participating in this upcoming webinar sponsored by CCJ.

Two issues I'm pondering. One is that you can't move this many people without inflicting tremendous physical and psychological harm on those deported and on society itself. The second is that left in place for years, mass detention on a whole new level will be normalized. It rarely vanishes. [1/3]

Love this article by @marclevin.bsky.social It includes lots of evidence-based insights and recommendations for reducing violent crime, promoting justice, and enhancing community views of the acceptability and legitimacy of law enforcement. Obviously, ICE & CBP threatens all of these outcomes.

link.springer.com/collections/... Researchers studying political violence, please consider submitting your manuscripts for a special edition of Injury Epidemiology focusing on political violence. Injury Epi publishes many studies on violence and its prevention including political violence.

“Watchfulness is the most dangerous form of resistance because it obstructs the Trump regime’s project of habituation. Fascism works by making the extreme normal.” @fotoole.bsky.social “The sin of civic “interference” is in fact the saving grace of democracy.”

Congratulations, Elon Musk! The #1 cause of US job loss in 2025! #bankrupttesla #teslatakedown #cancelstarlink #boycottspacex #ElonMusk #doge #swastikars #USpol

Meanwhile www.cnn.com/2026/02/04/w...