I feel like I'm losing my mind a little: people understand that 'occupying buildings on campus' is, like, one of the most common forms of studen protest for decades and not some devious new ploy devised by professional anarchist plotters, right?

My The New York Times story last week (pinned post in my profile) looked at the work this team is doing in Baton Rouge. This Q&A zooms out for the bigger picture of what they hope to change in the cities they're helping. thetrace.org/2024/04/gun-vi…

CNN's Miguel Marquez: 'I've covered lots of this sort of stuff around the world, and i've never seen this many police moving into one area.'

A handful of elite schools — Brown, Wesleyan, Johns Hopkins — seem to have handled the Palestine protests gracefully.

Their successful approach: don't send cops after students, talk seriously with the protestors, and enforce *preexisting* codes about speech and harassment.

A new rule is designed to end years of ambiguity and allow law enforcement to crack down on unlicensed gun dealers.
thetrace.org/2024/04/biden-…

2004: There’s contention between Tuberville and a Auburn BOT member. Stakes involve SACS and accreditation.

2024: There’s contention between Tuberville and a former Auburn BOT member. Stakes involve NATO and nuclear threats.

I AM FINE

“So I said to them, ‘Let any who have gold take it off.’ So they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf- which can be yours for the low, low price of five easy installments of $19.99”

1/Community Justice Action Fund’s Amber Goodwin interviewed by The Trace’s Chip Brownlee re: current state of community #violence intervention programs (i.e. street outreach teams, hospital-based violence prevention, defuse violence, etc.) in the U.S. & what’s next. bit.ly/4as1TwT

'Serious crimes committed in our subway system have plummeted by 63 percent since 1997. According to NYPD data from 1997 through 2023, major felonies in the subway were lower last year than they were in 2022.'
hellgatenyc.com/hochul-nationa…

It took a 53-year-old woman with good insurance 10 months just to get a referral for top surgery and we're all supposed to believe this is a) too fast and b) even faster for minors.

I was interviewed about the relationship between anti-immigrant politics and gun culture in the US by Chip Brownlee of The Trace. I hope it inspires more research on this important topic! thetrace.org/2024/02/us-gun… U of T Sociology UTSC Sociology @UTSC #guns #Immigration #sociology

so much political dysfunction can be explained by the fact that the average American thinks the president can just snap their fingers and pass laws unilaterally without congress

How much do you know about gun laws in the US? Take this 12-question test from The Trace find out. Some of the answers still shock me, no matter how many times I've heard them.

thetrace.org/2024/02/gun-re…

🥹

What an incredible night.

If ever there was an only-in-America debate over violence policy, this is it. The Trace's Chip Brownlee smartly outlines the many issues that hinge on how we parse the wide variety of mass-casualty gun assaults.
thetrace.org/2024/01/mass-s…

I spoke with Chip Brownlee from The Trace about definitional issues surrounding mass shootings. Motives, means, and outcomes vary and policy solutions must account for this context (including in how we care for and support survivors).
Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium

thetrace.org/2024/01/mass-s…

'In October and November alone, the U.S. exported more than 27,500 handguns to Israel — more than in any full year over the past two decades.'

Chip Brownlee reports for The Trace: thetrace.org/2024/01/israel…

U.S. Handgun Exports to Israel Soar as Civilian Demand Grows 'In October and November alone, the U.S. exported more than 27,500 handguns to Israel' thetrace.org/2024/01/israel…