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Dru Stevenson

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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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Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · Jul 3

The dogs

Lucy, my Brittany, is the the foreground, and Rosie, our Goldendoodle, is in the background.

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Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 1h

My favorite tv cop character at the moment is the one played by Rossif Sutherland in Murder In A Small Town. Season 2 is finally underway. Very different from cops in Dick Wolf shows like Law & Order

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Richard Kay @richardkay80.bsky.social · 4h

It's hard to overstate Searle's influence on 20th century philosophy. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/b...

John Searle, Philosopher Who Wrestled With A.I., Dies at 93

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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 3h

Happy to share that I’m now officially an affiliated faculty at Harvard Law School

Firmly believe law is where the most important conversations are happening, and am looking forward to building connections between law, policy, and politics. Thanks to those who helped make this happen!

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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 2h

This is the whole ballgame: “A candidate in today’s day and age needs to be able to explain ideas in a 30-second vertical social media video, a three-minute television hit and a three-hour long-form podcast.”

Can’t do all 3? Can’t hang in 2025. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/m...

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

www.nytimes.com

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Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 5h

But then there's the occasional genius like MrBeast

Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 5h

Wait, I thought the fascism was God's judgment on us but now this seems like something from the Book of Revelation as well

Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 16h

This sort of reminded me of the internal struggles going on in the Democratic Party right now, in terms of divergent perceptions about what voters want.

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Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 20h

Check it out

GVPedia @gvpedia.bsky.social · 20h

Each quarter — with the help of our colleague Dru Stevenson — we will bring you The Legal List, a concise inventory of recent GVP-related cases from across the country to help you see where we stand in our battle against the gun lobby.
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The Legal List

Our new feature listing recent GVP-related court decisions

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Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 20h

I've been influenced a lot by writings of ancients who spent a lot of time in solitude (desert fathers, hermits, or religious writers who were bedridden for extended periods with chronic illness or debilitating injuries). I appreciate collective action endeavors but there is another valid path.

Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 20h

I do not agree with Robert Reich on this point, although I often do find myself in agreement with him. There are, of course, benefits to collective action, but I think one *can* live a moral life alone in an age of bullies, without participating in organized activities, protests, petitions, etc.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20h

Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.

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Claude Monet @monet.bsky.social · 1d

Monet’s work at Giverny wasn’t just about lilies.
He also created a flower garden (the Clos Normand) and a Japanese-inspired water garden. 🌺🌊

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Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 1d

I wish the reporter had followed up with, "You mean you want to let Trump do whatever he likes without binding yourself, so that you can do the opposite when a Democrat is in the WH and the same issue arises? Is that another way of expressing what you just said?"

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Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 1d

I had to Google each of those names to find out who they are! Sports talkers, it seems.

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Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 2d

I'm at a smaller standalone law school, where there are plenty of complaints about this. I've wondered why all the work doesn't get outsourced to some firm that specializes in handling this for schools.

Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 2d

Cruel people feel a rush of power when they mistreat people. It's both intoxicating and addictive.

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Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social · 2d

Some GOOD NEWS we are breaking on Inside Medicine on a Saturday night.

insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

Breaking News: RIFs in reverse. Some CDC workers have been brought back, in latest whiplash.

This is breaking news.

insidemedicine.substack.com

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Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 2d

#2A #GVP another episode brought to you by your "well-regulated militia"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Six people dead with multiple injured in three shootings at Mississippi homecoming weekends

Four people were killed in an attack in Leland, while two were killed in Heidelberg, amid a third attack in Rolling Fork

www.theguardian.com

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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UC Davis Centers for Violence Prevention @ucdaviscvp.bsky.social · 3d

Seeking study participants!

CVP researchers want to hear your perspectives about gun violence and its prevention.

Our goal is to connect with people who are impacted by—but often left out of conversations about—gun violence.

ucdavis.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Alani Golanski @alanigolanski.bsky.social · 3d

The Nobel Museum borrowed Amartya Sen's bicycle, upon which he'd ridden from 1945 to 1998 to collect data on local wages and prices, to transport a scale for weighing boys and girls in various villages to suss out gender-based deprivation, to run a night school, and so on.

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Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 3d

I don't see where I said people are trespassing. Also, I've interacted with that toxic individual before, and he is one of the reasons I left the Musk platform.

Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 3d

Sorry, I don't argue with anonymous accounts.

Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 4d

On Thursdays after dinner my wife and I sit and watch Abbott Elementary together, now that the new season is underway.

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 5d

More, from Willamette Week www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Milwaukie Man Says ICE Abducted and Held Him for Hours Despite His Proving Citizenship

The case may be the first incidence of a documented Oregonian and U.S. citizen being swept up by ICE in an immigration raid.

www.wweek.com

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 5d

Here is ostrich town crier Katie explaining how she has antibodies to H5N1 because of the “harmless” H5N1 she got from her mom’s infected ostriches & how we’d all be seropositive for H5N1 if we were tested.

Using ostrich expert Steven Pelech’s test, that’s probably true 🧵

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