Dru Stevenson
@drustevenson.bsky.social
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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I thought the new-ish "Ask & learn" feature on YouTube talk videos was pretty cool, and I wanted to add something like it to my D2L modules for administrative law. Gemini wrote a nice html script for me, but I can't get it to work (but it looks very nice). Now I'm asking our IT dept for help.
November 26, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I thought the new-ish "Ask & learn" feature on YouTube talk videos was pretty cool, and I wanted to add something like it to my D2L modules for administrative law. Gemini wrote a nice html script for me, but I can't get it to work (but it looks very nice). Now I'm asking our IT dept for help.
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After hiring a Black woman President & CEO, fierce calls to drop ‘Christianity’ from their name.
Racialized and gendered framing of reactions are explicit: “woke” “Black” “lady” “pastor” — all presented as disqualifying (even sinful) attributes.
Racialized and gendered framing of reactions are explicit: “woke” “Black” “lady” “pastor” — all presented as disqualifying (even sinful) attributes.
Christianity Today hires a Black woman and the right goes nuts
Nicole Massie Martin’s appointment comes during a season of turnover and turmoil at the flagship evangelical magazine.
baptistnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
After hiring a Black woman President & CEO, fierce calls to drop ‘Christianity’ from their name.
Racialized and gendered framing of reactions are explicit: “woke” “Black” “lady” “pastor” — all presented as disqualifying (even sinful) attributes.
Racialized and gendered framing of reactions are explicit: “woke” “Black” “lady” “pastor” — all presented as disqualifying (even sinful) attributes.
Can anyone tell me which early 20th-century columnist wrote something like this quote?
"Arguments about food are really arguments about who has better taste. Arguments about art are really arguments about who is more refined. Arguments about politics are really arguments about who is more virtuous"
"Arguments about food are really arguments about who has better taste. Arguments about art are really arguments about who is more refined. Arguments about politics are really arguments about who is more virtuous"
November 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Can anyone tell me which early 20th-century columnist wrote something like this quote?
"Arguments about food are really arguments about who has better taste. Arguments about art are really arguments about who is more refined. Arguments about politics are really arguments about who is more virtuous"
"Arguments about food are really arguments about who has better taste. Arguments about art are really arguments about who is more refined. Arguments about politics are really arguments about who is more virtuous"
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Mystery from the grave beside Oswald’s, solved /
www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna52723...
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Mystery from the grave beside Oswald’s, solved
For the last 15 years, this curious name has vexed the obsessive assassination buffs who make regular pilgrimages to the Oswald plot here in Fort Worth.
www.nbcnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Mystery from the grave beside Oswald’s, solved /
www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna52723...
www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna52723...
Not sure how to feel about this issue
www.cnn.com/2025/11/24/s...
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New clues hint at early signs of domestication in raccoons that feast on urban trash | CNN
Raccoons have easy access to food in the form of human trash. It could be jump-starting physical and behavioral changes in the masked bandits, new research suggests.
www.cnn.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Not sure how to feel about this issue
www.cnn.com/2025/11/24/s...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/24/s...
New to me
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Conservative justices question the foundation of U.S. colonial rule
Please note that the views of outside contributors do not reflect the official opinions of SCOTUSblog or its staff. Every year, students across the country learn the bedrock principle that […]
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November 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
New to me
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F I N A L L Y
Come December, Glock will replace two of its signature pistol lines with a model designed to resist switches. The change comes after the company has denied for years that it can design handguns impervious to the devices.
Facing Legal Pressure, Glock Revamps Pistols To Prevent Machine Gun Conversions
The change comes after The Trace’s reporting informed California’s decision to ban the gunmaker’s products.
www.thetrace.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
F I N A L L Y
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Elon Musk’s social media site X rolled out a new feature in an effort to increase transparenc and unwittingly revealed that many of the site’s top MAGA influencers are actually foreign actors.
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Trolls
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Trolls
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Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Trolls
Elon Musk’s social media site X has rolled out a new feature in an effort to increase transparency—and unwittingly revealed that many of the site’s top MAGA influencers are actually foreign actors. Th...
www.yahoo.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Elon Musk’s social media site X rolled out a new feature in an effort to increase transparenc and unwittingly revealed that many of the site’s top MAGA influencers are actually foreign actors.
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Trolls
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Trolls
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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NEW: Thousands descend on Washington D.C. for the “Remove the Regime” rally - Sat Nov 22, 2025.
(📸 Vanessa Brito)
(📸 Vanessa Brito)
November 22, 2025 at 11:02 PM
NEW: Thousands descend on Washington D.C. for the “Remove the Regime” rally - Sat Nov 22, 2025.
(📸 Vanessa Brito)
(📸 Vanessa Brito)
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Rhode Island: “ICE agents then surrounded the judge’s car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply.”
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November 22, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Rhode Island: “ICE agents then surrounded the judge’s car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply.”
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What is hilarious here is Mamdani I’d clearly doing the Jim Halpert from the Office face off in every shot.
if i posted photos of someone like this my partner would be texting me with a link to the tweet accompanied solely with “?”
November 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
What is hilarious here is Mamdani I’d clearly doing the Jim Halpert from the Office face off in every shot.
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Supreme Court, For Now, Keeps in Place Texas Republican-Friendly Congressional Map www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
Supreme Court, For Now, Keeps in Place Texas Republican-Friendly Congressional Map
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November 22, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Supreme Court, For Now, Keeps in Place Texas Republican-Friendly Congressional Map www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
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Interestingly, Kelsen likened national law & the dogma of an unrestricted state sovereignty to the Ptolemaic view & linked this to an imperialist political ideology; in contrast, he analogized international law to the Copernican frame of reference, tending to foster pacifism.
November 21, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Interestingly, Kelsen likened national law & the dogma of an unrestricted state sovereignty to the Ptolemaic view & linked this to an imperialist political ideology; in contrast, he analogized international law to the Copernican frame of reference, tending to foster pacifism.
Working on the edits a journal wants, I find a comment that questions whether I came up with a certain analogy "from my own thoughts," suggests citing another source, and even suggests a source they found saying something similar - apparently not noticing that it was a source I wrote & already cited
November 20, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Working on the edits a journal wants, I find a comment that questions whether I came up with a certain analogy "from my own thoughts," suggests citing another source, and even suggests a source they found saying something similar - apparently not noticing that it was a source I wrote & already cited
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Does the Supreme Court's Hemani case, addressing the federal ban on unlawful drug users possessing guns, present problems under the canon of constitutional avoidance? Read on for more today on the blog...
firearmslaw.duke.edu/2025/11/shou...
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Should Hemani be Decided as a Statutory Case? | Duke Center for Firearms Law
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November 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Does the Supreme Court's Hemani case, addressing the federal ban on unlawful drug users possessing guns, present problems under the canon of constitutional avoidance? Read on for more today on the blog...
firearmslaw.duke.edu/2025/11/shou...
firearmslaw.duke.edu/2025/11/shou...
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Check out parts 4-6 of our extensive defensive gun use series, exploring the shoddy research and lax academic oversight of the gun lobby's defensive gun use claims.
#DefensiveGunUse #disinformation #gunviolenceawareness #DGU #gunlobbylies #CrimeStatistics
#DefensiveGunUse #disinformation #gunviolenceawareness #DGU #gunlobbylies #CrimeStatistics
The Defensive Gun Use Lie - Parts 4-6
The shoddy research and lax academic oversight of the gun lobby's DGU claims
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November 20, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Check out parts 4-6 of our extensive defensive gun use series, exploring the shoddy research and lax academic oversight of the gun lobby's defensive gun use claims.
#DefensiveGunUse #disinformation #gunviolenceawareness #DGU #gunlobbylies #CrimeStatistics
#DefensiveGunUse #disinformation #gunviolenceawareness #DGU #gunlobbylies #CrimeStatistics
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As far as I can tell, this is the first time someone has used an LLM in a principled, systematic way to place voters on a multi-dimensional ideological space — and also think it's the first time this poll question has been asked in open ended form on a major national survey. Cool!
November 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
As far as I can tell, this is the first time someone has used an LLM in a principled, systematic way to place voters on a multi-dimensional ideological space — and also think it's the first time this poll question has been asked in open ended form on a major national survey. Cool!
I thought this was cool
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Sometimes, a rare book is interesting because of who owned it in the past. With: @rebecca.romney
YouTube video by SciFri
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November 20, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I thought this was cool
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youtube.com/shorts/zp22V...
I mostly use Google Gemini for quick research questions, but today I discovered that Microsoft CoPilot is much better (seemingly perfect) at formatting my rather messy list of sources into proper Blue Book citation format for law review articles for a footnote.
November 19, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I mostly use Google Gemini for quick research questions, but today I discovered that Microsoft CoPilot is much better (seemingly perfect) at formatting my rather messy list of sources into proper Blue Book citation format for law review articles for a footnote.
This started as an interesting article and then suddenly took a dark turn near the end 😬
Something is changing in Christianity in the US.
Orthodox Christianity is attracting energetic new adherents, especially conservative young men.
Echoing the rhetoric of the manosphere, the converts say it offers them hard truths and affirms their masculinity. 🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...
Orthodox Christianity is attracting energetic new adherents, especially conservative young men.
Echoing the rhetoric of the manosphere, the converts say it offers them hard truths and affirms their masculinity. 🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...
Orthodox Church Pews Are Overflowing With Converts
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:06 PM
This started as an interesting article and then suddenly took a dark turn near the end 😬
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I'm 17 years late to this, but this line in Heller is pretty clearly wrong, right? -- "Under the auspices of the 1671 Game Act, for example, the Catholic Charles II had ordered general disarmaments of regions home to his Protestant enemies."
Charles 2 wasn't Catholic (until his death bed).
Charles 2 wasn't Catholic (until his death bed).
November 18, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I'm 17 years late to this, but this line in Heller is pretty clearly wrong, right? -- "Under the auspices of the 1671 Game Act, for example, the Catholic Charles II had ordered general disarmaments of regions home to his Protestant enemies."
Charles 2 wasn't Catholic (until his death bed).
Charles 2 wasn't Catholic (until his death bed).
Wait, some people LIKE this look?!
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Plastic surgeons wrestle with requests for ‘Mar-a-Lago face’: ‘You’re going to look like Maleficent’
The puffy, artificial look is rising in popularity - thanks to Maga elite such as Kristi Noem and Matt Gaetz
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Wait, some people LIKE this look?!
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
What we need now is a good Bob Dylan song about Clay Higgins
November 18, 2025 at 9:00 PM
What we need now is a good Bob Dylan song about Clay Higgins
Some good news: yesterday, the 2nd Circuit upheld the federal law requiring guns to have serial numbers, 18 U.S.C. § 922(k), against a 2A challenge. United States v. Gomez, 2025 WL 3199468. Gomez argued it was irrelevant under the 2A that he could easily get a legal gun to use for self-defense.
November 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Some good news: yesterday, the 2nd Circuit upheld the federal law requiring guns to have serial numbers, 18 U.S.C. § 922(k), against a 2A challenge. United States v. Gomez, 2025 WL 3199468. Gomez argued it was irrelevant under the 2A that he could easily get a legal gun to use for self-defense.
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Proud to be a source for this one. hls.harvard.edu/today/harvar...
Harvard Law professor launches Case Viewer app for easier access to court decisions - Harvard Law School
Harvard Law Professor Ben Eidelson tapped into a childhood passion to build a tool for lawyers and law students.
hls.harvard.edu
November 18, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Proud to be a source for this one. hls.harvard.edu/today/harvar...