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Daniel Webster
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Gun violence researcher & professor @ Johns Hopkins | baseball nerd and Orioles & Nationals fan | dog lover

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Daniel W. Webster is an American health policy researcher and the distinguished research scholar of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is also the deputy director for research at the Johns Hopkins Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence, and the first Bloomberg Professor of American Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In 2016, he became the director of the Johns Hopkins-Baltimore Collaborative for Violence Reduction, a joint crime-fighting effort between Johns Hopkins and the Baltimore Police Department. .. more

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Daniel Webster @daniel-webster.bsky.social · 3d
The same is true for Meta and other social media platforms tolerating threats of gun violence.
joncooper-us.bsky.social Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 3d
Sex trafficking on Meta platforms was both difficult to report and widely tolerated. Instagram’s former head of safety testified that when she joined Meta in 2020 she was shocked to learn the company had a “17x” strike policy for accounts that engaged in the “trafficking of humans for sex.”
7 Allegations Against Meta in Newly Unsealed Filings
Court filings allege Meta tolerated sex trafficking, hid harms to teens, and prioritized growth over user safety for years.
time.com

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Daniel Webster @daniel-webster.bsky.social · 3d
I saw this exchange. I thought PoliticsGirl was going to burst into flames with anger or strangle the Trump apologists who CNN invited to the table. I wish PoliticsGirl would have been given more time to nail those weasels more than she did.

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Daniel Webster @daniel-webster.bsky.social · 3d
No other country tolerates our levels of gun violence, the lives lost and the trauma that never leaves the survivors.
momsdemand.bsky.social Moms Demand Action @momsdemand.bsky.social · 4d
On this day three years ago, an employee of the Walmart Supercenter in Chesapeake, Virginia opened fire on a group of co-workers with a Taurus 9mm pistol and high-capacity magazines he had just purchased. Six people were killed and six more were wounded.

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Daniel Webster @daniel-webster.bsky.social · 3d
Another innocent life snuffed out because the gun lobby and gun worshipers want to carry loaded firearms with them at all times in case something scares or troubles them, they can kill. RIP Jordan and praise to @mcbath.house.gov for her courage & leadership to end this nonsense.
momsdemand.bsky.social Moms Demand Action @momsdemand.bsky.social · 3d
Thirteen years ago, Jordan Davis, 17, was shot and killed by a white man because he and his friends were playing “loud music” at a Florida gas station. After his death, Jordan’s mother, @mcbath.house.gov, dedicated her life to #EndGunViolence, becoming a national leader with Moms Demand Action.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
CROW: We wanted to start a conversation about the dangerous rhetoric this president is using and threats he's made to use our military in an unlawful way

BRENNAN: Specifically what?

CROW: Send troops into Chicago, into polling stations, kill terrorists' families, shoot peaceful protesters ...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
CASSIDY: I know it's titillating, but I think we need to move beyond the titillation

TAPPER: This isn't about titillation. This is about the fact that you are the chairman of the health committee and you voted to confirm somebody that by all accounts is actually making America less healthy

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Moms Demand Action @momsdemand.bsky.social · 3d
Thirteen years ago, Jordan Davis, 17, was shot and killed by a white man because he and his friends were playing “loud music” at a Florida gas station. After his death, Jordan’s mother, @mcbath.house.gov, dedicated her life to #EndGunViolence, becoming a national leader with Moms Demand Action.

Reposted by Daniel Webster, Karen Benjamin Guzzo

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 3d
Sex trafficking on Meta platforms was both difficult to report and widely tolerated. Instagram’s former head of safety testified that when she joined Meta in 2020 she was shocked to learn the company had a “17x” strike policy for accounts that engaged in the “trafficking of humans for sex.”
7 Allegations Against Meta in Newly Unsealed Filings
Court filings allege Meta tolerated sex trafficking, hid harms to teens, and prioritized growth over user safety for years.
time.com

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Moms Demand Action @momsdemand.bsky.social · 4d
On this day three years ago, an employee of the Walmart Supercenter in Chesapeake, Virginia opened fire on a group of co-workers with a Taurus 9mm pistol and high-capacity magazines he had just purchased. Six people were killed and six more were wounded.

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Daniel Webster @daniel-webster.bsky.social · 4d
This!
lyndab08.bsky.social Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 4d
I think the detainment of U.S. citizens/legal residents is part of the story. I think the bigger one is how the Supreme Court paved the way for racial profiling that allows for undocumented residents to be taken en masse b/c they can just take the brown ppl & later release those w/ legal documents.

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 4d
I think the detainment of U.S. citizens/legal residents is part of the story. I think the bigger one is how the Supreme Court paved the way for racial profiling that allows for undocumented residents to be taken en masse b/c they can just take the brown ppl & later release those w/ legal documents.

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Be SMART for Kids @besmartforkids.bsky.social · 5d
A 5-year-old boy fatally shot himself while playing with his father's unsecured firearm in Jackson, Mississippi.

Tragedies like this are preventable. Adults are always responsible for ensuring the safety of the children in their care by storing guns unloaded, locked, and separate from ammunition.

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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 8d
NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation.

The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.

The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.

Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.

A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro

www.propublica.org/article/andr...

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Daniel Webster @daniel-webster.bsky.social · 9d
Of course. Trump has used violence and the threat of violence to keep from being impeached. His first move 2nd term was to pardon the violent J6ers and treat them as patriot heroes.
robertmaguire.bsky.social Robert Maguire @robertmaguire.bsky.social · 9d
10/ Been a while since I updated this thread, but I don't think you can understand our current politics without understanding that even the president's closest allies are worried about physical harm or death if they break with him in any way
Marjorie Taylor Greene blasts Trump for 'vicious' attacks after saying her company received a pipe bomb threat
The Republican congresswoman warned that Trump and other conservatives calling her a traitor "could ultimately lead to a harmful or even deadly outcome."
www.nbcnews.com

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Robert Maguire @robertmaguire.bsky.social · 9d
10/ Been a while since I updated this thread, but I don't think you can understand our current politics without understanding that even the president's closest allies are worried about physical harm or death if they break with him in any way
Marjorie Taylor Greene blasts Trump for 'vicious' attacks after saying her company received a pipe bomb threat
The Republican congresswoman warned that Trump and other conservatives calling her a traitor "could ultimately lead to a harmful or even deadly outcome."
www.nbcnews.com

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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 9d
A president who claims to care about law and order just erased a gun conviction for a January 6th insurrectionist. Twice.

This is how you normalize extremism and arm it. It’s dangerous and every American should be alarmed.
Trump re-pardons a Jan. 6 defendant to erase unrelated gun conviction
The new pardon ends a legal clash over the limits of Trump’s sweeping Day One clemency for those who stormed the Capitol.
www.politico.com

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Daniel Webster @daniel-webster.bsky.social · 10d
Same goes for investigating international crime and terrorism. Outside of DHS, a significant share of ATF officers normally tasked with gun dealer oversight and gun trafficking are diverted to immigration enforcement. This Administration and Congress are making us less safe.
johnsipher.bsky.social John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 10d
“Homeland security agents investigating sexual crimes against children…have been redeployed to the immigrant crackdown…hampering their pursuit of child predators…efforts to combat human smuggling and sex trafficking have languished…”

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
The Department of Deportation
www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Daniel Webster, Michael D. McDonald, Andrew Rudalevige

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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 10d
“Homeland security agents investigating sexual crimes against children…have been redeployed to the immigrant crackdown…hampering their pursuit of child predators…efforts to combat human smuggling and sex trafficking have languished…”

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
The Department of Deportation
www.nytimes.com

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Daniel Webster @daniel-webster.bsky.social · 17d
They haven’t worked; they shouldn’t be paid.

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Sonali Rajan @sonalirajan.bsky.social · 19d
The discourse on active shooter drills, particularly in K-12 schools, is complex. Thank you to Time for this piece, for referencing our recent NASEM consensus study findings, and for including myself and many of my wonderful colleagues in this reporting:

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How to Make Active Shooter Drills Less Traumatizing
Research shows there are best practices for how to prepare students for active shooters in schools.
time.com

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Daniel Webster @daniel-webster.bsky.social · 19d
Jeff, Are you getting overall totals of shootings (counts) or do you have incident-level data with geocodes?

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Daniel Webster @daniel-webster.bsky.social · 22d
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Nice piece from NPR on our new paper from a JAMA Summit on firearm violence and injury prevention. There are clear political headwinds now, but my esteemed colleagues & I feel that it is especially important to set out a vision for substantial reductions in gun violence.
A gun violence 'action plan' calls for a new emphasis on prevention
Dozens of leaders in medicine, criminal justice and more issued an urgent call for collective action to tackle the gun violence crisis in the U.S.
www.npr.org

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Daniel Webster @daniel-webster.bsky.social · 23d
I’m thrilled to contribute to this effort to think big and longterm about a path to substantial reductions in gun violence, suicides, and injuries in the US. Solutions depend not only on good data and science as a guide, but on political and social change for a whole govt and society approach.

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Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions @jhucgvs.bsky.social · 23d
New @jama.com report, “Toward a Safer World by 2040: The JAMA Summit Report on Reducing Firearm Violence and Harms,” co-authored by @daniel-webster.bsky.social & @drcrifasi.bsky.social is now available! A safer country will require long-term investments in solutions that center those most affected.
A Roadmap to a Safer Future: JAMA Summit Charts Bold Path to Reduce Firearm Harms by 2040 | Center for Gun Violence Solutions
The JAMA report concludes that a safer nation will require long-term investments in solutions that center the people and communities most affected by firearm violence.
publichealth.jhu.edu

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Daniel Webster @daniel-webster.bsky.social · 24d
Yes!

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25d
When it comes to murdering fishermen on the high seas, Donald is lawless and careless, but when it comes to finding excuses not to feed Americans, he's a precise bureaucrat, obsessed with following the law.

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Daniel Webster @daniel-webster.bsky.social · 29d
Blue Jays manager and coaches have kept them from winning this game. Schneider had no chance to be safe at home running against one of the best OF arms he was out by 15 feet. Guerrero would have hit with runners on 3rd and 2nd. Hard to watch.

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Daniel Webster @daniel-webster.bsky.social · 29d
Jays manager hasn’t figured it out. Dominguez can’t be trusted to locate as directed. Probably the worst control on their staff. IBB was the call. And don’t put in an inexperienced, average LP in place of a HoF P. I don’t care if Ohtani got him last time.

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Daniel Webster @daniel-webster.bsky.social · 29d
Better to sub in an average LP with little playoff experience to handle the best hitter in baseball?!?

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Daniel Webster @daniel-webster.bsky.social · 29d
Disagree. Maybe if you had an excellent, shutdown LP to bring in sure; but that wasn’t the case. Very average P expected to get Ohtani, Betts and Freeman. I’d trust the HoF pitcher pitching a pretty good game to that point.