Craig Hunter
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Philadelphia is creating a housing plan to build and rehab 30,000 homes over the next four years. Officials and residents hope the initiative will alleviate the city’s long-standing problem of housing affordability — and drive down violent crime. Read more:
Could Philly's $2 Billion Bet on Housing Help Reduce Gun Violence?
Research has found that fixing up abandoned homes can make a city safer. The H.O.M.E Plan calls for building and rehabbing 30,000 homes in four years.
www.thetrace.org
December 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Philadelphia is creating a housing plan to build and rehab 30,000 homes over the next four years. Officials and residents hope the initiative will alleviate the city’s long-standing problem of housing affordability — and drive down violent crime. Read more:
"Sinatra, who died in 1998, adds his seventh Adult Contemporary No. 1 — and first since the chart dated Sept. 30, 1967, when 'The World We Knew (Over and Over)' wrapped a five-week reign."
Frank Sinatra Makes History With First No. 1 on a Billboard Songs Chart Since 1967
Frank Sinatra scores his first No. 1 on a Billboard songs chart since 1967, as his and Pentatonix’s “I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm” tops AC.
www.billboard.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:45 PM
"Sinatra, who died in 1998, adds his seventh Adult Contemporary No. 1 — and first since the chart dated Sept. 30, 1967, when 'The World We Knew (Over and Over)' wrapped a five-week reign."
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Philly is about to embark on an ambitious affordable housing plan, hoping it will help reduce shootings in the years to come.
It's the kind of long-term public health approach to gun violence that experts say city officials should pursue. More from Mensah Dean for @thetrace.org
It's the kind of long-term public health approach to gun violence that experts say city officials should pursue. More from Mensah Dean for @thetrace.org
Could Philly's $2 Billion Bet on Housing Help Reduce Gun Violence?
Research has found that fixing up abandoned homes can make a city safer. The H.O.M.E Plan calls for building and rehabbing 30,000 homes in four years.
www.thetrace.org
December 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Philly is about to embark on an ambitious affordable housing plan, hoping it will help reduce shootings in the years to come.
It's the kind of long-term public health approach to gun violence that experts say city officials should pursue. More from Mensah Dean for @thetrace.org
It's the kind of long-term public health approach to gun violence that experts say city officials should pursue. More from Mensah Dean for @thetrace.org
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Gunfire has become more common at high school sporting events — especially at football games and in the South. While these shootings remain a grim fact of life, gun violence at high school sports events “dramatically dropped” in 2025.
5 Things We Learned About Shootings at High School Sports Events
Most took place at football games — and in the South.
www.thetrace.org
December 11, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Gunfire has become more common at high school sporting events — especially at football games and in the South. While these shootings remain a grim fact of life, gun violence at high school sports events “dramatically dropped” in 2025.
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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In 2016, the country’s best-known suicide prevention group teamed up with the gun industry to tackle the biggest form of gun death.
The effort was good for public relations and raising money, but it never came close to meeting its goal. A trove of internal records shows why.
The effort was good for public relations and raising money, but it never came close to meeting its goal. A trove of internal records shows why.
A Program Backed by the Gun Industry Failed to Reduce Suicide — and Was Secretly Shut Down Early
The country’s best-known suicide prevention group teamed up with the gun industry. The effort was good for public relations and raising money, but it never met its goal, and internal records show why.
www.thetrace.org
December 8, 2025 at 1:17 AM
In 2016, the country’s best-known suicide prevention group teamed up with the gun industry to tackle the biggest form of gun death.
The effort was good for public relations and raising money, but it never came close to meeting its goal. A trove of internal records shows why.
The effort was good for public relations and raising money, but it never came close to meeting its goal. A trove of internal records shows why.
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WOW! AN HONOR! — GCN
December 6, 2025 at 4:16 AM
WOW! AN HONOR! — GCN
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IT’S WORKING: Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and the Michigan Gun Violence Prevention Task Force just issued a powerful, evidence-based roadmap to keep Michigan families safe. 🧵
Assault weapons ban recommended by Whitmer-appointed task force: 4 things to know
Some of the gun control recommendations are likely to face stiff resistance in the Republican-controlled state House.
www.mlive.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:04 PM
IT’S WORKING: Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and the Michigan Gun Violence Prevention Task Force just issued a powerful, evidence-based roadmap to keep Michigan families safe. 🧵
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The Supreme Court Friday agreed to decide whether President Donald Trump can unilaterally limit the constitutional right to citizenship granted to virtually every person born in the United States. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Supreme Court to Hear Trump's Bid To Eliminate Birthright Citizenship
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:38 AM
The Supreme Court Friday agreed to decide whether President Donald Trump can unilaterally limit the constitutional right to citizenship granted to virtually every person born in the United States. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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NEW: Jimmie Duncan spent 27 years on death row, convicted in part based on evidence experts now consider to be junk science.
But even after the overturning of his murder conviction and his release on bail, Louisiana still wants to execute him.
By @richardawebster.bsky.social, w/ @veritenews.org
But even after the overturning of his murder conviction and his release on bail, Louisiana still wants to execute him.
By @richardawebster.bsky.social, w/ @veritenews.org
A Death Row Inmate Was Released on Bail After His Conviction Was Overturned. Louisiana Still Wants to Execute Him.
Months after a judge tossed out his 1998 murder conviction, Jimmie Duncan is free on bail. But prosecutors have asked the Louisiana Supreme Court to reinstate the death penalty for Duncan, even as the...
www.propublica.org
December 3, 2025 at 7:01 PM
NEW: Jimmie Duncan spent 27 years on death row, convicted in part based on evidence experts now consider to be junk science.
But even after the overturning of his murder conviction and his release on bail, Louisiana still wants to execute him.
By @richardawebster.bsky.social, w/ @veritenews.org
But even after the overturning of his murder conviction and his release on bail, Louisiana still wants to execute him.
By @richardawebster.bsky.social, w/ @veritenews.org
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This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ Sues Six More States in Sweeping Push to Obtain Unredacted Voter Rolls
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM
This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Experts say top FDA official’s claim that Covid vaccines caused kids’ deaths requires more evidence www.statnews.com/2025/11/29/c... via @statnews.com
Experts say top FDA official’s claim that Covid vaccines caused kids’ deaths requires more evidence
The FDA’s top vaccine regulator asserted in a staff email that the Covid vaccine caused at least 10 kids' deaths, but experts told STAT they are skeptical of the “extraordinary” claim because it was n...
www.statnews.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Experts say top FDA official’s claim that Covid vaccines caused kids’ deaths requires more evidence www.statnews.com/2025/11/29/c... via @statnews.com
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Reposting my @cafedotcom.bsky.social piece from October ICYMI open.substack.com/pub/asharang...
So You've Decided to Target Random People with Military Force
Here's why it's illegal.
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Reposting my @cafedotcom.bsky.social piece from October ICYMI open.substack.com/pub/asharang...
"Even if the U.S. were at war with the traffickers, an order to kill all the boat’s occupants if they were no longer able to fight 'would in essence be an order to show no quarter, which would be a war crime.'” - Todd Huntley, Georgetown Law (Gift article)
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
wapo.st
November 28, 2025 at 7:43 PM
"Even if the U.S. were at war with the traffickers, an order to kill all the boat’s occupants if they were no longer able to fight 'would in essence be an order to show no quarter, which would be a war crime.'” - Todd Huntley, Georgetown Law (Gift article)
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Israeli forces fatally shot two Palestinian men at point-blank range moments after they appeared to surrender in the northern West Bank city of Jenin on Thursday in an incident captured on camera.
Israeli forces fatally shoot 2 Palestinians after they appeared to surrender
Israel opened a formal probe into the killings after footage of the incident circulated that showed two men shot at close range as they lay on the ground.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Israeli forces fatally shot two Palestinian men at point-blank range moments after they appeared to surrender in the northern West Bank city of Jenin on Thursday in an incident captured on camera.
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KFF Health News and @thetrace.org are talking to people who’ve been wounded or families of those killed by gun violence to better understand how insurance affects such medical care.
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Help Us Investigate Medical Care for Gunshot Wounds - KFF Health News
We’d like to talk to people who’ve been wounded or families of those killed by gun violence to better understand how insurance affects such medical care.
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November 19, 2025 at 6:25 PM
KFF Health News and @thetrace.org are talking to people who’ve been wounded or families of those killed by gun violence to better understand how insurance affects such medical care.
Click below to reach our reporting team ⤵️ kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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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]
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]
He Patrolled the Neighborhoods Where His Sons Were Drawn into Violence
Despite Adlone Morris's best attempts, he couldn't keep his sons from joining a gang as teenagers. Now they all work to make Detroit safer.
www.thetrace.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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]
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]
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I don't think legacy media is reading the room correctly on the Epstein Files. Many of us are asking why they have ignored this story for the last decade? Why did they dismiss all of us who were concerned that Trump might be compromised? And where is their fucking contrition and apology now?
November 12, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I don't think legacy media is reading the room correctly on the Epstein Files. Many of us are asking why they have ignored this story for the last decade? Why did they dismiss all of us who were concerned that Trump might be compromised? And where is their fucking contrition and apology now?
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This thread is horrifying, and is only happening with the complicity of Congress and the Supreme Court
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This thread is horrifying, and is only happening with the complicity of Congress and the Supreme Court
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Since 2000, gunfire has killed more than 800,000 people in the U.S. @fairrionam.bsky.social breaks down what experts say it'll take to reverse the trend by 2040
A Blueprint for Reducing Gun Violence by 2040, According to Experts
The JAMA Summit on Firearm Violence convened thought leaders from a wide array of disciplines to discuss ideas for preventing shooting deaths and injuries.
www.thetrace.org
November 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Since 2000, gunfire has killed more than 800,000 people in the U.S. @fairrionam.bsky.social breaks down what experts say it'll take to reverse the trend by 2040
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Chicago's progress on gun violence has been historic. But for residents in West Garfield Park, it's a different story.
Great piece here by Rita Oceguera for @thetrace.org
Great piece here by Rita Oceguera for @thetrace.org
Gun Violence Is Plummeting in Chicago, But One Neighborhood Feels Left Behind
West Garfield Park has sustained the smallest reduction in gun violence this year. Residents say they need more help.
www.thetrace.org
October 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Chicago's progress on gun violence has been historic. But for residents in West Garfield Park, it's a different story.
Great piece here by Rita Oceguera for @thetrace.org
Great piece here by Rita Oceguera for @thetrace.org
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Donald Trump keeps posting images of him as a king and the legacy media ignores it as if it is normal. It is not. It is dangerous.
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October 19, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Donald Trump keeps posting images of him as a king and the legacy media ignores it as if it is normal. It is not. It is dangerous.
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The New Jersey Attorney General’s Office has filed a lawsuit against the gunmaker SIG Sauer, demanding the company stop selling its flagship P320 pistol amid increasing concern that the gun can fire without the trigger being pulled. SIG has maintained that the gun is safe to use.
Trace Investigation Prompts New Jersey to Sue Gunmaker Over Allegedly Defective Pistols
New Jersey's attorney general is demanding that SIG Sauer recall its P320 pistol after the gun was involved in several unintentional shootings in the state.
www.thetrace.org
October 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The New Jersey Attorney General’s Office has filed a lawsuit against the gunmaker SIG Sauer, demanding the company stop selling its flagship P320 pistol amid increasing concern that the gun can fire without the trigger being pulled. SIG has maintained that the gun is safe to use.
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In many parts of the United States, gun violence is down to pre-pandemic rates. In some places, shootings are at historic lows. In others, the drop is still out of reach.
Explore more than 434,000 shootings to see how gun violence has marked your corner of the country:
Explore more than 434,000 shootings to see how gun violence has marked your corner of the country:
Gun Violence Map: How Many People Have Been Shot Near You?
Explore data on more than 434,000 shootings in the United States.
projects.thetrace.org
October 16, 2025 at 12:17 AM
In many parts of the United States, gun violence is down to pre-pandemic rates. In some places, shootings are at historic lows. In others, the drop is still out of reach.
Explore more than 434,000 shootings to see how gun violence has marked your corner of the country:
Explore more than 434,000 shootings to see how gun violence has marked your corner of the country:
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I am sounding the alarm that the GOP is engaged in an all out attack voting rights and free and fair elections. Voter suppression, gerrymandering, and troops in blue cities are just some of the ways they are using to try to rig the rules to keep power in 2026 and beyond.
Pay attention and act!
Pay attention and act!
October 15, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I am sounding the alarm that the GOP is engaged in an all out attack voting rights and free and fair elections. Voter suppression, gerrymandering, and troops in blue cities are just some of the ways they are using to try to rig the rules to keep power in 2026 and beyond.
Pay attention and act!
Pay attention and act!