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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
Pinned
The dogs
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton abandoned legal attempts to restore a law which would have limited firms giving investors ESG-related voting guidance.
Texas Drops Court Bids to Revive ESG Curbs for Proxy Firms
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Monday abandoned legal attempts to restore a law which would have limited firms giving investors ESG-related voting guidance.
bit.ly
November 28, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:

Leeland
Delirious
Petra
Michael Kelly Blanchard
Peter Cetera
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:

- Stevie Ray Vaughan (1990)
- The Replacements (2014)
- Pantera (1992)
- Beastie Boys (1994)
- Def Leppard (1988)
November 27, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I enjoyed this new TED talk
youtu.be/A6hzHov7Kng?...
Why Venting Doesn’t Help You Deal with Anger | Jennifer Parlamis | TED
YouTube video by TED
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Monet #morningart My favorite #turkey painting
November 27, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I think the Twitter-heyday generation is just older, and the new generation uses the video platforms and streaming platforms like Discord. I also don't hang out at the mall anymore or help friends move to a new apartment or play music loud enough for the neighbors to hear. And that's okay.
Before the monstrous transformation of Twitter to X, it was considered normal to be active on academic Twitter. Now, even though we've migrated to Bluesky ("safe space"), I feel that many ppl (including myself) are less active in posting anything. Have you noticed this trend? Or am I imagining this?
November 27, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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🚨🚨We Ain’t Buying It🚨🚨
Good Trouble lives. 1/2
November 25, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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On November 25, 2025, in St. Paul, Minnesota, ICE GOONS threatened a woman while she was on her own property.
November 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I thought the new-ish "Ask & learn" feature on YouTube talk videos was pretty cool, and I wanted to add something like it to my D2L modules for administrative law. Gemini wrote a nice html script for me, but I can't get it to work (but it looks very nice). Now I'm asking our IT dept for help.
November 26, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Can anyone tell me which early 20th-century columnist wrote something like this quote?
"Arguments about food are really arguments about who has better taste. Arguments about art are really arguments about who is more refined. Arguments about politics are really arguments about who is more virtuous"
November 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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F I N A L L Y
Come December, Glock will replace two of its signature pistol lines with a model designed to resist switches. The change comes after the company has denied for years that it can design handguns impervious to the devices.
Facing Legal Pressure, Glock Revamps Pistols To Prevent Machine Gun Conversions
The change comes after The Trace’s reporting informed California’s decision to ban the gunmaker’s products.
www.thetrace.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Elon Musk’s social media site X rolled out a new feature in an effort to increase transparenc and unwittingly revealed that many of the site’s top MAGA influencers are actually foreign actors.

Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Trolls

www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Trolls
Elon Musk’s social media site X has rolled out a new feature in an effort to increase transparency—and unwittingly revealed that many of the site’s top MAGA influencers are actually foreign actors. Th...
www.yahoo.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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NEW: Thousands descend on Washington D.C. for the “Remove the Regime” rally - Sat Nov 22, 2025.

(📸 Vanessa Brito)
November 22, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Rhode Island: “ICE agents then surrounded the judge’s car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply.”
www.wfla.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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What is hilarious here is Mamdani I’d clearly doing the Jim Halpert from the Office face off in every shot.
if i posted photos of someone like this my partner would be texting me with a link to the tweet accompanied solely with “?”
November 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Supreme Court, For Now, Keeps in Place Texas Republican-Friendly Congressional Map www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
Supreme Court, For Now, Keeps in Place Texas Republican-Friendly Congressional Map
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Interestingly, Kelsen likened national law & the dogma of an unrestricted state sovereignty to the Ptolemaic view & linked this to an imperialist political ideology; in contrast, he analogized international law to the Copernican frame of reference, tending to foster pacifism.
November 21, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Working on the edits a journal wants, I find a comment that questions whether I came up with a certain analogy "from my own thoughts," suggests citing another source, and even suggests a source they found saying something similar - apparently not noticing that it was a source I wrote & already cited
November 20, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Does the Supreme Court's Hemani case, addressing the federal ban on unlawful drug users possessing guns, present problems under the canon of constitutional avoidance? Read on for more today on the blog...
firearmslaw.duke.edu/2025/11/shou...
Should Hemani be Decided as a Statutory Case? | Duke Center for Firearms Law
firearmslaw.duke.edu
November 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Check out parts 4-6 of our extensive defensive gun use series, exploring the shoddy research and lax academic oversight of the gun lobby's defensive gun use claims.
#DefensiveGunUse #disinformation #gunviolenceawareness #DGU #gunlobbylies #CrimeStatistics
The Defensive Gun Use Lie - Parts 4-6
The shoddy research and lax academic oversight of the gun lobby's DGU claims
open.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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As far as I can tell, this is the first time someone has used an LLM in a principled, systematic way to place voters on a multi-dimensional ideological space — and also think it's the first time this poll question has been asked in open ended form on a major national survey. Cool!
November 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM