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Scientists worry there will be immediate harm from the Trump administration's latest federal workforce cuts, which hit NOAA and the National Weather Service.

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Former talk show host Dr. Mehmet Oz became a household name dispensing questionable medical advice. Now, as Trump’s nominee to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, he would preside over the program that pays most shooting victims’ hospitals bills.

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The Real-Time Crime Index is now updated with 351 agencies covering more than 81 million people with data through December 2024. The preliminary findings: Murder -16% Violent Crime -5% Property Crime -9% Motor Vehicle Theft -22% See realtimecrimeindex.com

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New this week: open data from NYPD shows a clear drop in traffic accidents, especially in Manhattan, since congestion pricing was implemented last month. jasher.substack.com/p/traffic-ac...

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ShotStoppers, a program that prevents violence through collaboration, proved to be crucial to Detroit’s gun violence turnaround in 2024. But now that the $10 million initiative, funded with federal dollars from the American Rescue Plan Act, is set to expire this year, activists are worried.

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In a new executive order, President Donald Trump directed the attorney general to review several of President Joe Biden’s gun violence reduction efforts, including ghost gun regulations, expanded background checks on gun sales, and tougher oversight of lawbreaking gun dealers.

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Trump ordered a DOJ review of its defense of Biden’s regulations — but other gun-related cases, too. Refusing to defend longstanding gun laws would be an extraordinary move, significantly increasing the chances of them being struck down.

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“Efforts by Trump officials to control the publication have stalled the release of three studies about bird flu for weeks, as the virus continues spreading through wild birds, poultry farms and cows around the country.” www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-o...

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On the campaign trail, President Donald Trump vowed to roll back a host of the Biden administration’s gun reforms. He took the first steps toward fulfilling that promise on Friday, with an order that puts some of his predecessor’s highest-profile violence prevention efforts on the chopping block.

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President Donald Trump issued an executive order on February 7 in an apparent step toward fulfilling his campaign promises to roll back four years of gun reforms under his predecessor.

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President Trump has signed an executive order directing AG Pam Bondi to “review” much of the Biden administration’s actions on guns. That review will include ATF regulations and the reports of the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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New: A 2nd DOGE staffer has amplified extremists online, including Nick Fuentes and Andrew Tate www.reuters.com/world/us/sta...

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This is the most important story in the United States right now. www.wired.com/story/treasu...

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New Orleans is part of a growing list of cities hamstrung by state legislatures hostile to gun regulation. Local police and officials have tried to find workarounds to protect citizens.

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DOE's general counsel and IT offices told DOE Sec. Chris Wright that giving DOGE rep Luke Farritor IT access was a "bad idea" bc he hadn’t had a standard background investigation needed to access the department’s system, per a source. Wright granted him access anyways. www.cnn.com/2025/02/06/c...

submitted 25 days ago • 78 comments

The Legacy of the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention www.thetrace.org/2025/02/whit... @bychipbrownlee.com @thetrace.org

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Leaders in Russia, Hungary and El Salvador welcomed the Trump administration’s assault on USAID, which many authoritarians have seen as a threat.

submitted 26 days ago • 44 comments

On January 30, a panel of the New Orleans-based 5th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the federal ban on licensed gun dealers selling handguns to people between the ages of 18 and 20.

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A day after signing steep new tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China, President Trump acknowledged what economists, members of Congress and even some of his own aides – in their previous lives – have been saying: Americans may find themselves paying the costs.

submitted 29 days ago • 348 comments

Top headlines: Guardian: Trump’s disregard for US constitution ‘a blitzkrieg on the law’, NYT: Trump’s Tariffs Would Reverse Decades of Integration With Mexico Washington Post: Trump’s fierce attacks on DEI reflect a longtime GOP focus US media is not giving a sense of the scale of the threats

submitted 30 days ago • 45 comments

Rumors that CDC.gov is disappearing are greatly exaggerated, but it’s true that lots of information has been taken down, some for cleansing of “gender ideology,” and some permanently www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/h...

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This is where the legacy media’s “both sides” tap dance has gotten them

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People between the ages of 18 and 21 suffer more fatal shootings per capita than any other age group. www.thetrace.org/2025/01/hand...

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Listing of transgender or LGBTQ+ status has nothing to do with "gender ideology" or DEI. It is simply statistical data used to inform important public health research and decisions. Removing it is literally harmful to people's health. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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I’m feeling sick. BRFSS is one of the most basic public health survey datasets. There is no conceivable reason to take it down.

submitted 31 days ago • 5 comments

The CDC's data portal — data.cdc.gov — is officially down. This site had so much important public health data, including data on gun violence, suicides, and injuries.

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Sad. I chaired the nonpartisan working group that developed this map, which included law enforcement officials, CVI leaders, academics and more. It was evidence- and community-informed. Fortunately, you can still find it here: counciloncj.org/10-essential...

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The DOJ has blocked access to the Bureau of Justice Assistance's Violent Crime Reduction Roadmap, which was a "one-stop-shop" to assist local jurisdictions in developing, implementing, and evaluating community gun violence prevention strategies. bja.ojp.gov/violent-crim...

submitted 31 days ago • 3 comments

CDC's Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) -- which, since 1990, has tracked high school students' behaviors that can influence health and social outcomes (like smoking, drug use, and dietary habits) -- is now offline

submitted 31 days ago • 9 comments

This is a big deal, y'all. Federal health websites are being stripped of content or removed in their entirety. Stick with this thread for a look at what's disappeared so far! 1/x

submitted 31 days ago • 324 comments

Just got this email from the NIJ, cancelling ALL posted notices of funding. This is THE main agency for criminology/criminal justice research in the country. Funding for research on gun violence, violence against women, improving forensic science, and hate crimes ALL removed from the site.

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The Justice Department appears to have archived the website of its community-based violence intervention and prevention grant initiative. The 2022 Bipartisan Safer Communities Act required a CVI grant initiative and set a baseline of funding for it through at least 2026. ojp.gov/archive/topi...

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Visual Investigation: Many of the Jan. 6 rioters who President Trump pardoned attacked Capitol police officers, video shows.

submitted 38 days ago • 59 comments