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National Council on Aging @ncoaging.bsky.social · 10h

This Mental Illness Awareness Week, we urge everyone to break the silence around mental health & aging.

Too often, suicide among older adults stays hidden. But gun suicides among older Americans are rising. Read more in GQ.

#MIAW #MentalHealth #Aging

Why Are Gun Suicides Soaring Among Older American Men?

More and more older Americans are dying by gun suicide--especially white men, whose rates far outpace other groups, a new analysis from The Trace and GQ reveals.

www.gq.com

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 1d

🤳EXCLUSIVE: We analyzed real data from over 800 U.S. TikTok users to reveal how the app transforms casual users into power users.

Extremely proud of this one, over a year in the making w/ @richardsima.bsky.social Leslie Shapiro @asteckelberg.bsky.social @ence.bsky.social

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Here’s how TikTok ‘power users’ end up scrolling 4 hours a day or more

Washington Post reporters analyzed data from over 800 TikTok users to learn how the app turns people into power users, some of whom spend hours per day scrolling.

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Aaron Mendelson @amendelson.bsky.social · 5h

el mismo artículo en Español laist.com/news/housing...

California quiere oír testimonios de los inquilinos de Mike Nijjar y más como parte de demanda judicial en curso

Este junio, California demanadó al proprietario Mike Nijjar por discriminación y condiciones de viva antihigiénicas e inseguras adentro de sus viviendas. Ahora, el fiscal general de California, Rob Bo...

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Aaron Mendelson @amendelson.bsky.social · 5h

In an LA press conference, @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov asked tenants who have experience with mega-landlord Mike Nijjar and his companies to share complaints
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California wants to hear from Mike Nijjar’s tenants and more as part of ongoing lawsuit

Attorney General Rob Bonta is asking tenants who have experience with Mike Nijjar, one of the state's biggest landlords, to share their complaints with his office.

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mikespies.bsky.social @mikespies.bsky.social · 1d

1/My latest story, part 4 of our series “The Secret Files of the Gun Industry,” begins in in 2016, when the country’s best-known suicide prevention group teamed up with the gun industry to tackle the biggest form of gun death + help reduce suicide 20% by 2025 www.thetrace.org/2025/10/gun-...

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

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Aaron Mendelson @amendelson.bsky.social · 1d

"This investigation is the first of its kind to document the cartels’ use of ammunition from the U.S. Army-owned factory in enforcing mass displacement in Mexico" theintercept.com/2025/10/02/t...

Trump Calls Cartel Members “Terrorists.” They’re Armed With Bullets From a U.S. Army Factory.

The president blames Mexico for the flow of drugs into the U.S. — while enabling the flow of guns into Mexico by slashing federal regulators.

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Aaron Mendelson @amendelson.bsky.social · 2d

Powerful story from @wyofile.com on gun suicides in the 70+ population in Wyoming, the state with the highest rate in the entire country.

@andrewgraham88.bsky.social got responses from Gov. Mark Gordon and legislative leaders
wyofile.com/older-wyomin...

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Aaron Mendelson @amendelson.bsky.social · 7d

Real sign of the times with these two CDC website banners:

- praising the Trump Administration's work to end "the Democrat-led government shutdown"
- noting site is "being modified to comply with President Trump's Executive Orders"

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Aaron Mendelson @amendelson.bsky.social · 8d

congrats on a great run!

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Aaron Mendelson @amendelson.bsky.social · 9d

If you're a local journalist interested in reporting on this issue, we've shared a reporting recipe on @thetrace.org's Gun Violence Data Hub
datahub.thetrace.org/resource/how...

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Aaron Mendelson @amendelson.bsky.social · 9d

You can find that data for yourself here
datahub.thetrace.org/dataset/gun-...

Gun Suicides (Age 70+)

Data from The Trace’s deep dive into the issue.

datahub.thetrace.org

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Aaron Mendelson @amendelson.bsky.social · 9d

Sobering story from @themainemonitor.org on the high rates of gun suicides among older Mainers.

They're the first newsroom to use a new Gun Violence Data Hub dataset to localize a story on this subject.
themainemonitor.org/maine-suicid...

How Maine's rates of gun suicide compare to national trends

More older Mainers died by gun suicide than in car crashes over a 15-year period, data that mirrors a troubling trend across the country.

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Aaron Mendelson @amendelson.bsky.social · 13d

well that's not very nice

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Aaron Mendelson @amendelson.bsky.social · 16d

I wrote about the genesis of this story in the Gun Violence Data Hub newsletter last week

mailchi.mp/thetrace/dat...

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Aaron Mendelson @amendelson.bsky.social · 20d

Older Americans have the highest rates of gun suicide of any age group. Not by a little — by a lot.

Why? I spent months exploring this question through data, field reporting, and interviews with experts. Our story is up today on @thetrace.org

www.thetrace.org/2025/09/gun-...

The Quiet Crisis: What’s Driving Gun Suicides Among Older Americans?

More and more older Americans are dying by firearm suicide, a new analysis from The Trace and GQ reveals. Older white men and those in rural areas experience alarmingly high rates.

www.thetrace.org

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The Trace @thetrace.org · 19d

An analysis by The Trace and @gqmagazine.bsky.social provides a sobering look at a widespread phenomenon: We found that Americans age 70 and over had the highest suicide rates of any age group, and that their rates of suicide have increased in recent years.

The Quiet Crisis: What’s Driving Gun Suicides Among Older Americans?

More and more older Americans are dying by firearm suicide, a new analysis from The Trace and GQ reveals. Older white men and those in rural areas experience alarmingly high rates.

www.thetrace.org

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Aaron Mendelson @amendelson.bsky.social · 19d

longest light rail line in the world, baby!

Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 19d

Los Angeles' A Line light rail has been extended today further to the east, with the extension running from Azusa to Pomona, with stops in Glendora, San Dimas, & La Verne.

The A line, from Long Beach to Pomona, is 57.6 miles long, the longest light rail line in the world, with a 2h11 trip time.

Los Angeles Metro A Line route. Source: https://cdn.beta.metro.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/17124631/801_TT_09-21-25.pdf

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rchady.bsky.social @rchady.bsky.social · 20d

More and more older Americans are dying by firearm #suicide. Older white men and those in rural areas experience alarmingly high rates. #gunsense #gunsafety #mentalhealth

The Quiet Crisis: What’s Driving Gun Suicides Among Older Americans?

More and more older Americans are dying by firearm suicide, a new analysis from The Trace and GQ reveals. Older white men and those in rural areas experience alarmingly high rates.

www.thetrace.org

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Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting @pcgvr.org · 19d

"Gun suicide is a greater killer of men over 70 than car crashes, our analysis showed. And if older men are in trouble, older white men are especially in trouble. They die by gun suicide at the highest rate — a rate more than triple that of Black and Latino men of the same age, and 19 times the..."

The Quiet Crisis: What’s Driving Gun Suicides Among Older Americans?

More and more older Americans are dying by firearm suicide, a new analysis from The Trace and GQ reveals. Older white men and those in rural areas experience alarmingly high rates.

www.thetrace.org

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Aaron Mendelson @amendelson.bsky.social · 19d

Reach out if you have questions or would like to collaborate [email protected]

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Aaron Mendelson @amendelson.bsky.social · 19d

We've posted the data behind this story — on the alarming prevalence of gun suicides among older Americans — on the Gun Violence Data Hub.

That includes county- and state-level data that journalists can use to investigate how this issue affects their communities
datahub.thetrace.org/dataset/gun-...

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Aaron Mendelson @amendelson.bsky.social · 20d

This is an issue that hits white men much harder than other demographics

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Aaron Mendelson @amendelson.bsky.social · 20d

We co-published this story with GQ, you can find it on their site here www.gq.com/story/gun-su...

Why Are Gun Suicides Soaring Among Older American Men?

More and more older Americans are dying by gun suicide—especially white men, whose rates far outpace other groups, a new analysis from The Trace and GQ reveals.

www.gq.com

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Joy Resmovits @joyresmo.bsky.social · 20d

Important, sobering story on something we rarely talk about from @amendelson.bsky.social @thetrace.org @gqmagazine.bsky.social.

From our analysis:
-Americans 70+ had the highest suicide rates
-Gun suicides kill more men 70+ than car crashes
-From 2009-23, 63,836 older Americans died by gun suicide

Aaron Mendelson @amendelson.bsky.social · 20d

Older Americans have the highest rates of gun suicide of any age group. Not by a little — by a lot.

Why? I spent months exploring this question through data, field reporting, and interviews with experts. Our story is up today on @thetrace.org

www.thetrace.org/2025/09/gun-...

The Quiet Crisis: What’s Driving Gun Suicides Among Older Americans?

More and more older Americans are dying by firearm suicide, a new analysis from The Trace and GQ reveals. Older white men and those in rural areas experience alarmingly high rates.

www.thetrace.org

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Jennifer Mascia @jenmascia.bsky.social · 20d

Startling new reporting from @amendelson.bsky.social at @thetrace.org:

Americans 70+ have the highest suicide rates of any age group. Gun suicide is a greater killer of men over 70 than car crashes

The Quiet Crisis: What’s Driving Gun Suicides Among Older Americans?

More and more older Americans are dying by firearm suicide, a new analysis from The Trace and GQ reveals. Older white men and those in rural areas experience alarmingly high rates.

www.thetrace.org

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