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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

My Very Dear Ones,

I write to you from near the front lines of war ravaged Portland.

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The Trace @thetrace.org · 2d

Pennsylvania’s preemption law gives the state sole authority to regulate firearms. But Philadelphia, York, Reading, and Harrisburg — the state capital — have passed their own gun restrictions, anyway. A looming state Supreme Court ruling will decide whether they stick.

This Small Pennsylvania City Is Challenging the State’s Control Over Local Gun Laws

A series of shootings prompted York officials to ban ghost guns and machine gun converters. But the laws may not stick.

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Tali Woodward @taliwoodward.bsky.social · 1d

Must-read story from @mikespies.bsky.social about what actually happened to the gun industry's suicide prevention effort

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.

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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 1d

This picture is from 1992 in LA and using it in this post and story shows terrible news judgment.

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 6d

That sounds like a lot of power. I hope we’re doing useful things with ChatGPT. 🙃

OpenAI's New Data Centers Will Draw More Power Than the Entirety of New York City, Sam Altman Says

OpenAI's planned AI data center projects would consume as much as the entire city of New York City and San Diego combined.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 4d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 5d

comic book authors: we invented the punisher as a cautionary tale about vigilante crime fighting
the director of the fbi: at long last, we are implementing the ethos from the classic comic book the punisher

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 5d

reddit occupied government

Ken Dilanian
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The challenge coins being handed out by @FBIDirectorKash. Seems someone put a lot of thought into this.

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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 8d

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ICE agents assault amNewYork reporter at Federal Plaza immigration court; another journalist seriously injured after shove | amNewYork

ICE agents assaulted amNewYork's own Dean Moses, and allegedly attacked another journalist, on Tuesday morning as they were documenting the ongoing arrests of

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The Trace @thetrace.org · 8d

Make a gift to help The Trace inform more people about an issue that affects all of us: thetrace.fundjournalism.org?campaign=701...

Everyone deserves the truth about gun violence. The Trace's reporting has empowered readers for the past decade. Your support will enable us to reach new audiences and spark change. Donate now

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Brian Freskos @brianfreskos.bsky.social · 8d

An estimated 70 percent of people currently detained by ICE have never been convicted of a crime.

Some Immigrants in Chicago Now Fear ICE More Than Gunfire

Donald Trump's deployment of federal agents to cities is based on the disproven claim that immigrants commit a disproportionate number of violent crimes.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 8d

This passage nearly broke me.

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Chip Brownlee @bychipbrownlee.com · 8d

The Michigan attack was at least the 20th high-profile shooting at a house of worship in the U.S. over the past two decades.

Many of the shootings were motivated by hate, while others stemmed from domestic disputes or a grudge the attacker had against the church.

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Shannon Heffernan @shannonheffernan.bsky.social · 9d

No mincing words from Illinois Gov. Pritzker

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · Jul 1

A new paper in The Lancet, one of the world’s foremost peer reviewed medical journals, estimates that USAID prevented 91 million deaths across 133 countries over 20 years.

The paper estimates that Elon Musk’s DOGE funding cuts to USAID will lead to 14 million deaths by 2030 (4.5 million children).

Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis

USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

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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.
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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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Jazmine Ulloa @jazmineulloa.bsky.social · 9d

As immigration agents have escalated their tactics, US citizens, many of them Latino men, have been stopped and in some cases taken into custody by law enforcement officers. Allison, Jenny and I took a closer look at the encounters. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

‘I’m From Here!’: U.S. Citizens Are Ending Up in Trump’s Dragnet

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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 10d

Today I spoke with Greg Bovino, a top U.S. Border Patrol chief, as he led dozens of feds in military gear through downtown Chicago.

He said they were arresting folks based on “how they look.”

“How do they look compared to, say, you?” he said, referring to me.

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Feds march into downtown Chicago; top border agent says people are arrested based on ‘how they look’

Immigration agents wearing tactical gear and carrying long guns made arrests in downtown Chicago and the River North neighborhood Sunday. “This is not making anybody safer — it’s a show of intimidatio...

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Long Lead @longlead.com · 11d

In 2020 President Trump sent 755 federal agents to Portland during the Black Lives Matter protests. A report later revealed law enforcement had neither the proper equipment or training. They misused less lethal projectiles to a staggering degree.

More: rubberbullets.longlead.com/chapter/port...

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 11d

Good new detailed reporting from @washingtonpost.com on Hegseth calling all the brass to Pentagon at great cost and security risk. Here's the last paragraph: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The timing of the event has been of particular concern: The speech is set for Sept. 30, the last day of the fiscal year. If there is a government shutdown, it could leave key staff stranded in Virginia as military commands across the globe are juggling the security implications of Russia’s war against Ukraine, Israel’s renewed offensive in Gaza, new military operations in the Caribbean against drug cartels and the continued threat to U.S. personnel in the Middle East, where the Houthis and other Iranian-backed militias continue to fire missiles and drones at U.S. interests.

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Jennifer Mascia @jenmascia.bsky.social · 13d

Unlike many forms of public gun violence, sniper attacks evade most security measures like metal detectors and armed guards.

It's hard to defend yourself from a bullet coming from 200 yards away.

My latest for @thetrace.org w/ @bychipbrownlee.com and Champe Barton:

The Dallas ICE Shooting Underscores How Hard It Is to Stop Sniper Attacks, Experts Say

“There really is not anything you can do to secure a public place 100 percent,” said Caylen Wojcik, a former Marine sniper.

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The Trace @thetrace.org · 12d

In several recent high-profile shootings, law enforcement has found inscriptions on perpetrators’ weapons and ammunition. The Trace spoke to Adam Lankford, a University of Alabama criminologist and an expert on mass shootings and targeted violence, to unpack what these messages mean.

Why Are High-Profile Shooters Writing on Their Ammo?

Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin and the Dallas ICE shooter both scrawled messages on their rounds. A criminologist breaks down what these inscriptions mean.

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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 13d

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse.

Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.

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The Trace @thetrace.org · 15d

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott has overseen a transformative drop in shootings in his city. Despite threats from President Donald Trump, he thinks he may have arrived at the best recipe yet for violence reduction.

Brandon Scott Pushed Baltimore Shootings to Historic Lows. Now Comes the Hard Part

In his first term, Mayor Scott went all in on violence reduction. Will his political foes topple the peace?

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Tali Woodward @taliwoodward.bsky.social · 13d

Already in the headline.

Tali Woodward @taliwoodward.bsky.social · 13d

Trump talks about crime a lot. And much of what he says is false. @jenmascia.bsky.social breaks it down here
www.thetrace.org/2025/09/trum...

Trump’s Big Crime Lies

As the president prepares to send federal troops into Memphis and Chicago, we debunk a few of his most mendacious talking points.

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