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Dru Stevenson

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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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Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · Jul 3

The dogs

Lucy, my Brittany, is the the foreground, and Rosie, our Goldendoodle, is in the background.

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Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social · 5h

Some GOOD NEWS we are breaking on Inside Medicine on a Saturday night.

insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

Breaking News: RIFs in reverse. Some CDC workers have been brought back, in latest whiplash.

This is breaking news.

insidemedicine.substack.com

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Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 10h

#2A #GVP another episode brought to you by your "well-regulated militia"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Six people dead with multiple injured in three shootings at Mississippi homecoming weekends

Four people were killed in an attack in Leland, while two were killed in Heidelberg, amid a third attack in Rolling Fork

www.theguardian.com

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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UC Davis Centers for Violence Prevention @ucdaviscvp.bsky.social · 1d

Seeking study participants!

CVP researchers want to hear your perspectives about gun violence and its prevention.

Our goal is to connect with people who are impacted by—but often left out of conversations about—gun violence.

ucdavis.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Alani Golanski @alanigolanski.bsky.social · 1d

The Nobel Museum borrowed Amartya Sen's bicycle, upon which he'd ridden from 1945 to 1998 to collect data on local wages and prices, to transport a scale for weighing boys and girls in various villages to suss out gender-based deprivation, to run a night school, and so on.

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Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 1d

I don't see where I said people are trespassing. Also, I've interacted with that toxic individual before, and he is one of the reasons I left the Musk platform.

Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry, I don't argue with anonymous accounts.

Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 2d

On Thursdays after dinner my wife and I sit and watch Abbott Elementary together, now that the new season is underway.

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 3d

More, from Willamette Week www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Milwaukie Man Says ICE Abducted and Held Him for Hours Despite His Proving Citizenship

The case may be the first incidence of a documented Oregonian and U.S. citizen being swept up by ICE in an immigration raid.

www.wweek.com

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 2d

Here is ostrich town crier Katie explaining how she has antibodies to H5N1 because of the “harmless” H5N1 she got from her mom’s infected ostriches & how we’d all be seropositive for H5N1 if we were tested.

Using ostrich expert Steven Pelech’s test, that’s probably true 🧵

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Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 3d

I'm now following this litigation #2A #GVP
TL;DR - California had to scramble to pass new concealed carry permit laws after the 2022 SCOTUS decision in Bruen. It's taken a long time to develop procedures and hire staff to process the tens of thousands of applications, so delays run 18 mos+

Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 9d

DOJ sues LA sheriff for processing concealed carry gun licenses too slowly

‘Unreasonable delays’ in giving permits violates residents’ second amendment rights, claims justice department

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

DoJ sues LA sheriff for processing concealed carry gun licenses too slowly

‘Unreasonable delays’ in giving permits violates residents’ second amendment rights, claims justice department

www.theguardian.com

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Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 3d

I think it's a close call. The same judge could give a speech about the need for legal reforms at a bar association event or a FedSoc event, and they could use clips from the speech in their film, yes?

Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 3d

I confess I kind of liked the part about Matt Gaetz feeling humiliation, though.

Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 4d

This is Texas, we like BBQ

Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 4d

I *love* Tolstoy's nonfiction writings criticizing patriotism, wars, etc. One of my very favorite writers.

Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 4d

I was re-reading Tolstoy's Patriotism and Government (nonfiction political writings), and was surprised to see near the end that he thought we could have a fully-functional court system without a centralized government, any threat of the government using lethal force, or even a Westphalian state.

Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 4d

I agree with your overall point that we can't rely on the judiciary to save us from authoritarianism. (I lean toward the "Hollow Hope" theory of SCOTUS) I'm a Trump-era convert to the left, and I'm still confused about the left's lack of strategy compared to what I've seen for years on the right.

Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 4d

Looks like the media had a really good year around 2018 for some reason.

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Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 4d

Do you think this is equally true across all levels of the judiciary? I am uncertain that most trial court judges (with a handful of bad-apple exceptions) are as anti-regulator as the highly politicized SCOTUS and the circuit court judges now auditioning for SCOTUS.

Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 4d

I thought that was an interesting question.

Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 4d

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GVPedia @gvpedia.bsky.social · 15d

Join us Tuesday October 7 for a “GVPedia Explores” virtual session with law professor Dru Stevenson to learn more about the legal implications of firearm access in the U.S.
RSVP for the zoom link at substack.com/home/post/p-... @drustevenson.bsky.social

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Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 4d

When a person who regularly destroys things says, "Now let's *do* that thing!"....they don't mean,"Let's undertake that activity in a constructive or productive way."

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Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 4d

I know conservatives who think the only reason people dislike them is their conservative beliefs. Never occurred to them that they are also unlikeable even apart from that.

Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 4d

I'm not surprised that the conservative propaganda ecosystem provides financial incentives; I'm surprised that it appears to be a bottomless money pit that never runs dry. How long can you bilk the same people with the same scam?

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 4d

Toad sat and did nothing. Frog sat with him.

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