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Dru Stevenson

@drustevenson.bsky.social
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Professor of Law, South Texas College of Law - Houston. Academic research now focuses on firearms regulation. I won't follow accounts or reply to their posts if I can't tell who they are IRL. #Housky #lawsky #gvp #gvr

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Everytown for Gun Safety @everytown.org · 9h
A man opened fire at his workplace in Virginia, killing two co-workers and wounding another. After a pursuit by police, the man shot and killed himself. People in this country should be able to go to work, school, a concert, places of worship — anywhere — without the threat of being gunned down.
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2 employees killed, 1 hurt in workplace shooting in Virginia; suspect dead: Police
An employee allegedly opened fire in an act of "workplace violence" in Virginia, killing two coworkers and wounding one coworker.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 19h
Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.
From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water.  I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there?  God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"
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Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New research about firearm owners' support for policies about safe storage of guns in cars. I'm honored serve on a Community Advisory Board for the research group producing this and related studies. They do terrific work! #2A #GVP link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Firearm owners’ support for policies regulating firearms left in vehicles - Injury Epidemiology
Purpose Firearms stolen from vehicles are a leading source of gun theft in the US. In response, there has been growth in the number of proposed and enacted policies at the state and local levels. Yet ...
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Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Despite two circuit judge nominees eligible for confirmation on the Senate floor, it sure seems like Thune is done with judges until after the midterms. That’s an interesting roll of the dice on his part.
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Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#2A #GVP Good news: yesterday, the Ninth Circuit UPHELD Hawaii's firearm permit law, which has a couple unique features, in Yukutake v. Lopez. The law says 1) the permit is void unless the firearm is purchased within 30 days, and 2) requires filing a form (gun caliber, serial # & manufacturer), etc
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Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Reminds me of Jevons' Paradox
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Sonali Rajan @sonalirajan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
For those who will be in DC tomorrow, @thetrace.org is hosting their annual Safer Together forum featuring many researchers in our field. It's a terrific lineup -- details here: www.thetrace.org/event/the-tr... (2/n)
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The Trace Live: Safer Together 2026 – The Trace Events
On September 22 in Washington, D.C., The Trace will host a series of timely conversations about the next frontiers for ending gun violence.
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Sonali Rajan @sonalirajan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
OK friends, a lot happening in the firearm injury prevention world this week and next -- sharing a few events I’m especially excited about (some I’m lucky to be part of, and others I’m looking forward to following)!🧵 (1/n)
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Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I have many questions
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NBER @nber.org · 19/09/2026
Black neighborhoods saw a boost in entrepreneurship during COVID, inverting their historical startup deficit, consistent with an expectations-driven equilibrium shift, from Catherine E. Fazio, Jorge Guzman, Scott Stern, and Yan Xu www.nber.org/papers/w35752
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Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Check it out!
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Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Got my COVID vaccine booster and my annual flu shot today!
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Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Deeply disappointed, for sure.
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Free Law Project ⚖ @free.law · 17/09/2026
CourtListener is now available in ChatGPT. To celebrate, API rate limits are doubled for everyone through Oct 1 Read more in our blog - free.law/2026/09/17/g... #LegalResearch #MCP #ChatGPTEnterprise
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Grounded Legal Research in ChatGPT: CourtListener Joins ChatGPT Enterprise
The CourtListener plugin for ChatGPT Enterprise is now available, bringing the power of CourtListener — primary-source case law, PACER data, and more — to ChatGPT.
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Scholastica @scholasticahq.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
👀 Are you seeking low-risk ways to use AI to save time in your publishing workflows? There's still time to join Scholastica & Samast AI for a @peerreviewweek.bsky.social webinar, "Building capacity with AI tools you already have," on 9/16 at 10:30 AM ET. Learn more & register: buff.ly/E1AXd7O
Scholastica and SAU webinar flyer: “Building capacity with AI tools you already have” for scholarly publishing, Sept. 16, 10:30 AM ET.
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NBER @nber.org · 12/09/2026
The No Surprises Act reduced provider network participation in the specialties and states most affected by the reform, contrary to the prediction that removing balance billing makes network participation more attractive, from Jia Barwick, Li, Xia, and Yu www.nber.org/papers/w35717
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Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I guess we're finally enforcing our gun laws
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Andrew Morral @andrewmorral.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The pandemic firearm purchasing spree saw women’s gun ownership rise by 35%. (Men’s didn’t.) Growth in women’s gun ownership was incredibly broad-based, across income levels, races, education, etc. But exclusively among Republican women, not Democrats. www.rand.org/pubs/comment...
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The Recent Rise of Women Gun Owners
In recent years, women made up almost half of all new gun owners, a striking shift from the historical norm, when women accounted for about a quarter of them. And the uptick is widespread across geogr...
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Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The United States is replacing every official latitude, longitude and height it publishes, existing coordinates will move by as much as four meters, and the million survey marks in the ground will no longer be what the system is measured from share.google/cVGi5DJvjM11...
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The United States is replacing every official latitude, longitude and height it publishes, existing coordinates will move by as much as four meters, and the million survey marks in the ground will no ...
The National Geodetic Survey has spent years building a replacement for the reference system that fixes every published position in the country. New geodetic-control submissions into the old system st...
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Chris Tomlinson @cltomlinson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
How much longer will the people who rule Texas look different from the people who live here? White men make up 19% of Texans, but hold 63% of statewide elected offices and legislative seats. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/columni... #txlege @houstonchronicle.com
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White colonists 'invented' Texas. Now their grip on power is fading.
Texas' leaders still look little like the state's population. Demographic forces that have been building for decades could finally change that.
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Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Really sad. This poor guy. www.sltrib.com/news/educati...
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Charlie Kirk was assassinated while answering this Utah student’s question. A year later, the threats and theories haven’t stopped.
“I don’t think people understand how bad it’s gotten,” said Hunter Kozak.
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Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Farmington River in Simsbury, CT (if "home" is where I grew up) and the west fork of the San Jacinto River, near where I now live in Kingwood, TX. I still miss Connecticut.
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Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I'm still sort of shocked by this.
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Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/09/we-j...
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We just had the hottest August, hottest summer, and hottest year to date in U.S. history » Yale Climate Connections
NOAA data show unprecedented heat, as deepening drought, shrinking reservoirs, and a severe wildfire season underscore the growing impacts of a warming climate. Could El Niño bring some relief?
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GVPedia @gvpedia.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This recent article from the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) lays out the consistent prevention strategies that denomination has supported for over 60 years. #presbyterian #commonsensegunlaws #GVP #gunviolenceawareness
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GVPanorama - Presbyterian Response to Gun Violence Across the Decades
The denominations’ consistent fight against our firearm plague
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Jamie Baker Roskie @whenisayj.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Get your booster, folks! The new ones are out.
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Alan Mygatt-Tauber @amtappeals.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Sounds familiar…
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Brian L. Frye @brianlfrye.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Ok landlord. Nothing is being “stolen.” You’re just not collecting rent from your competition.
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Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Soooo, are we going to get an executive order renaming the moon? "Lunar America"?
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Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I don't understand this requirement in politics everyone disavow or shun people two steps removed from them, as if there's a rule that you can't support a candidate if they have *any* friends you really dislike.
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Lowered Expectations
Alt: Lowered Expectations
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Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The ABA published a new formal ethics opinion yesterday (see description below). Title: Client With Decision-Making Limitations. Link to opinion: www.americanbar.org/content/dam/...
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Bloomberg Law @bloomberglaw.com · 03/09/2026
Advocates for reform of the guardianship system are particularly pleased with the American Bar Association’s newest ethics opinion, which counsels attorneys to avoid the arrangements if at all possible.
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ABA Guardianship Opinion ‘Overdue’ But Welcome, Advocates Say
Advocates for reform of the guardianship system are particularly pleased with the American Bar Association’s newest ethics opinion, which counsels attorneys to avoid the arrangements if at all possible.
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Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The new slide features in Zoom are pretty amazing and I just learned about them youtube.com/watch?v=M9nt...
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Zoom Slides Presenter View: Complete Setup & Feature Guide
YouTube video by Zoom
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Megan Walsh @meganwalshgvp.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Fed dist ct upholds Hawaii ban on 18-to-20 year olds owning firearms, continuing a recent pattern of courts upholding age limit laws on gun purchases. And a pattern of upholding such laws when courts use historical limits on minors' contracting rights at common law as evidence of constitutionality.
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Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Recommended reading: The latest from Prof Seth Chandler at UH Law legaled.ai/ai-and-legal...
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AI and Legal Education News Brief: August 29, 2026
Remember a few posts ago when I told you I was having a hard time keeping up with everything going on in AI, let alone blogging about it. This post, and some successors, are an imperfect solution. I'm...
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Daniel Webster @daniel-webster.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Regulating civilian concealed gun carrying is different than most other gun laws. But our research at Johns Hopkins has shown that higher standards for who can carry a gun around are most effective and are widely supported by gun owners in our surveys.
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
MMR
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Ancient Rome
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Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"Responding to retaliation" is a very special category of self-defense. 😐
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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
JUST IN: Judge Jeanette Vargas (Biden/SDNY) overturns State Dept 75-country hold on immigrant visas based on concern they could become "public charges" Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Memorandum & Opinion – #83 in Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. v. Rubio (S.D.N.Y., 1:26-cv-00858) – CourtListener.com
Memorandum & Opinion
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Milan Markovic @profmarkovic.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Key recession indicator.
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Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
"Concealed carry permit holders are supposed to be the 'good guys' with guns. In reality, far too many permit holders are a direct threat to public safety." Check out the new, very disturbing report from the Violence Policy Center about concealed carry permitees. #gvp #2A concealedcarrykillers.org
concealedcarrykillers.org
VPC: Concealed Carry Killers
Visit the post for more.
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Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Saw this on LinkedIn today
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Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Sounds like they can't even get 4 to vote for granting cert. I think the conservatives on the Court are not completely on the same page about guns
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Science Magazine @science.org · 20/08/2026
The risk of a yellow fever outbreak in Brazil had been growing, but researchers think a severe drought in 2017 was the tipping point. Learn more: scim.ag/4xIw5Q2
Drought may have driven Brazil’s first yellow fever outbreak in nearly 80 years
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
As More Americans Turn to Cannabis, Problem Use Is Increasing www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/w...
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As More Americans Turn to Cannabis, Problem Use Is Increasing
A growing number of Americans report they are unable to quit or cut down.
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Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Interesting
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