Daniel Webster
@daniel-webster.bsky.social
Gun violence researcher & professor @ Johns Hopkins | baseball nerd and Orioles & Nationals fan | dog lover
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To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:48 PM
To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.
The same is true for Meta and other social media platforms tolerating threats of gun violence.
Sex trafficking on Meta platforms was both difficult to report and widely tolerated. Instagram’s former head of safety testified that when she joined Meta in 2020 she was shocked to learn the company had a “17x” strike policy for accounts that engaged in the “trafficking of humans for sex.”
7 Allegations Against Meta in Newly Unsealed Filings
Court filings allege Meta tolerated sex trafficking, hid harms to teens, and prioritized growth over user safety for years.
time.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The same is true for Meta and other social media platforms tolerating threats of gun violence.
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CASSIDY: I know it's titillating, but I think we need to move beyond the titillation
TAPPER: This isn't about titillation. This is about the fact that you are the chairman of the health committee and you voted to confirm somebody that by all accounts is actually making America less healthy
TAPPER: This isn't about titillation. This is about the fact that you are the chairman of the health committee and you voted to confirm somebody that by all accounts is actually making America less healthy
November 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
CASSIDY: I know it's titillating, but I think we need to move beyond the titillation
TAPPER: This isn't about titillation. This is about the fact that you are the chairman of the health committee and you voted to confirm somebody that by all accounts is actually making America less healthy
TAPPER: This isn't about titillation. This is about the fact that you are the chairman of the health committee and you voted to confirm somebody that by all accounts is actually making America less healthy
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“If we wait until the moment that he gives a, manifestly, illegal order.. we have failed them.”
CROW: We wanted to start a conversation about the dangerous rhetoric this president is using and threats he's made to use our military in an unlawful way
BRENNAN: Specifically what?
CROW: Send troops into Chicago, into polling stations, kill terrorists' families, shoot peaceful protesters ...
BRENNAN: Specifically what?
CROW: Send troops into Chicago, into polling stations, kill terrorists' families, shoot peaceful protesters ...
November 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
“If we wait until the moment that he gives a, manifestly, illegal order.. we have failed them.”
No other country tolerates our levels of gun violence, the lives lost and the trauma that never leaves the survivors.
On this day three years ago, an employee of the Walmart Supercenter in Chesapeake, Virginia opened fire on a group of co-workers with a Taurus 9mm pistol and high-capacity magazines he had just purchased. Six people were killed and six more were wounded.
November 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
No other country tolerates our levels of gun violence, the lives lost and the trauma that never leaves the survivors.
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A 5-year-old boy fatally shot himself while playing with his father's unsecured firearm in Jackson, Mississippi.
Tragedies like this are preventable. Adults are always responsible for ensuring the safety of the children in their care by storing guns unloaded, locked, and separate from ammunition.
Tragedies like this are preventable. Adults are always responsible for ensuring the safety of the children in their care by storing guns unloaded, locked, and separate from ammunition.
November 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
A 5-year-old boy fatally shot himself while playing with his father's unsecured firearm in Jackson, Mississippi.
Tragedies like this are preventable. Adults are always responsible for ensuring the safety of the children in their care by storing guns unloaded, locked, and separate from ammunition.
Tragedies like this are preventable. Adults are always responsible for ensuring the safety of the children in their care by storing guns unloaded, locked, and separate from ammunition.
Another innocent life snuffed out because the gun lobby and gun worshipers want to carry loaded firearms with them at all times in case something scares or troubles them, they can kill. RIP Jordan and praise to @mcbath.house.gov for her courage & leadership to end this nonsense.
Thirteen years ago, Jordan Davis, 17, was shot and killed by a white man because he and his friends were playing “loud music” at a Florida gas station. After his death, Jordan’s mother, @mcbath.house.gov, dedicated her life to #EndGunViolence, becoming a national leader with Moms Demand Action.
November 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Another innocent life snuffed out because the gun lobby and gun worshipers want to carry loaded firearms with them at all times in case something scares or troubles them, they can kill. RIP Jordan and praise to @mcbath.house.gov for her courage & leadership to end this nonsense.
This!
I think the detainment of U.S. citizens/legal residents is part of the story. I think the bigger one is how the Supreme Court paved the way for racial profiling that allows for undocumented residents to be taken en masse b/c they can just take the brown ppl & later release those w/ legal documents.
November 21, 2025 at 10:48 PM
This!
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NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation.
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
November 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation.
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
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A president who claims to care about law and order just erased a gun conviction for a January 6th insurrectionist. Twice.
This is how you normalize extremism and arm it. It’s dangerous and every American should be alarmed.
This is how you normalize extremism and arm it. It’s dangerous and every American should be alarmed.
Trump re-pardons a Jan. 6 defendant to erase unrelated gun conviction
The new pardon ends a legal clash over the limits of Trump’s sweeping Day One clemency for those who stormed the Capitol.
www.politico.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:56 PM
A president who claims to care about law and order just erased a gun conviction for a January 6th insurrectionist. Twice.
This is how you normalize extremism and arm it. It’s dangerous and every American should be alarmed.
This is how you normalize extremism and arm it. It’s dangerous and every American should be alarmed.
Of course. Trump has used violence and the threat of violence to keep from being impeached. His first move 2nd term was to pardon the violent J6ers and treat them as patriot heroes.
10/ Been a while since I updated this thread, but I don't think you can understand our current politics without understanding that even the president's closest allies are worried about physical harm or death if they break with him in any way
Marjorie Taylor Greene blasts Trump for 'vicious' attacks after saying her company received a pipe bomb threat
The Republican congresswoman warned that Trump and other conservatives calling her a traitor "could ultimately lead to a harmful or even deadly outcome."
www.nbcnews.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Of course. Trump has used violence and the threat of violence to keep from being impeached. His first move 2nd term was to pardon the violent J6ers and treat them as patriot heroes.
Same goes for investigating international crime and terrorism. Outside of DHS, a significant share of ATF officers normally tasked with gun dealer oversight and gun trafficking are diverted to immigration enforcement. This Administration and Congress are making us less safe.
“Homeland security agents investigating sexual crimes against children…have been redeployed to the immigrant crackdown…hampering their pursuit of child predators…efforts to combat human smuggling and sex trafficking have languished…”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
The Department of Deportation
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Same goes for investigating international crime and terrorism. Outside of DHS, a significant share of ATF officers normally tasked with gun dealer oversight and gun trafficking are diverted to immigration enforcement. This Administration and Congress are making us less safe.
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“What we should be calling for is for our elected officials to use the tools that we know work to render these drills obsolete…. The burdens we are putting on our schools & our kids to prepare for the potential of this kind of violence is, frankly, unacceptable.” — @sonalirajan.bsky.social 🛟
The discourse on active shooter drills, particularly in K-12 schools, is complex. Thank you to Time for this piece, for referencing our recent NASEM consensus study findings, and for including myself and many of my wonderful colleagues in this reporting:
time.com/7331491/less...
time.com/7331491/less...
How to Make Active Shooter Drills Less Traumatizing
Research shows there are best practices for how to prepare students for active shooters in schools.
time.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
“What we should be calling for is for our elected officials to use the tools that we know work to render these drills obsolete…. The burdens we are putting on our schools & our kids to prepare for the potential of this kind of violence is, frankly, unacceptable.” — @sonalirajan.bsky.social 🛟
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The discourse on active shooter drills, particularly in K-12 schools, is complex. Thank you to Time for this piece, for referencing our recent NASEM consensus study findings, and for including myself and many of my wonderful colleagues in this reporting:
time.com/7331491/less...
time.com/7331491/less...
How to Make Active Shooter Drills Less Traumatizing
Research shows there are best practices for how to prepare students for active shooters in schools.
time.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The discourse on active shooter drills, particularly in K-12 schools, is complex. Thank you to Time for this piece, for referencing our recent NASEM consensus study findings, and for including myself and many of my wonderful colleagues in this reporting:
time.com/7331491/less...
time.com/7331491/less...
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Nice piece from NPR on our new paper from a JAMA Summit on firearm violence and injury prevention. There are clear political headwinds now, but my esteemed colleagues & I feel that it is especially important to set out a vision for substantial reductions in gun violence.
Nice piece from NPR on our new paper from a JAMA Summit on firearm violence and injury prevention. There are clear political headwinds now, but my esteemed colleagues & I feel that it is especially important to set out a vision for substantial reductions in gun violence.
A gun violence 'action plan' calls for a new emphasis on prevention
Dozens of leaders in medicine, criminal justice and more issued an urgent call for collective action to tackle the gun violence crisis in the U.S.
www.npr.org
November 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Nice piece from NPR on our new paper from a JAMA Summit on firearm violence and injury prevention. There are clear political headwinds now, but my esteemed colleagues & I feel that it is especially important to set out a vision for substantial reductions in gun violence.
Nice piece from NPR on our new paper from a JAMA Summit on firearm violence and injury prevention. There are clear political headwinds now, but my esteemed colleagues & I feel that it is especially important to set out a vision for substantial reductions in gun violence.
I’m thrilled to contribute to this effort to think big and longterm about a path to substantial reductions in gun violence, suicides, and injuries in the US. Solutions depend not only on good data and science as a guide, but on political and social change for a whole govt and society approach.
New @jama.com report, “Toward a Safer World by 2040: The JAMA Summit Report on Reducing Firearm Violence and Harms,” co-authored by @daniel-webster.bsky.social & @drcrifasi.bsky.social is now available! A safer country will require long-term investments in solutions that center those most affected.
A Roadmap to a Safer Future: JAMA Summit Charts Bold Path to Reduce Firearm Harms by 2040 | Center for Gun Violence Solutions
The JAMA report concludes that a safer nation will require long-term investments in solutions that center the people and communities most affected by firearm violence.
publichealth.jhu.edu
November 3, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I’m thrilled to contribute to this effort to think big and longterm about a path to substantial reductions in gun violence, suicides, and injuries in the US. Solutions depend not only on good data and science as a guide, but on political and social change for a whole govt and society approach.
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When it comes to murdering fishermen on the high seas, Donald is lawless and careless, but when it comes to finding excuses not to feed Americans, he's a precise bureaucrat, obsessed with following the law.
October 31, 2025 at 11:23 PM
When it comes to murdering fishermen on the high seas, Donald is lawless and careless, but when it comes to finding excuses not to feed Americans, he's a precise bureaucrat, obsessed with following the law.
Blue Jays manager and coaches have kept them from winning this game. Schneider had no chance to be safe at home running against one of the best OF arms he was out by 15 feet. Guerrero would have hit with runners on 3rd and 2nd. Hard to watch.
October 28, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Blue Jays manager and coaches have kept them from winning this game. Schneider had no chance to be safe at home running against one of the best OF arms he was out by 15 feet. Guerrero would have hit with runners on 3rd and 2nd. Hard to watch.
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It's not all gloomy!. We write about vibrant nonprofit news outlets --both the now big and established ones like @kffhealthnews.org and @propublica.org to excellent small ones popping up and doing great work in smaller communities -- and giving voice to communities that are not always heard
October 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM
It's not all gloomy!. We write about vibrant nonprofit news outlets --both the now big and established ones like @kffhealthnews.org and @propublica.org to excellent small ones popping up and doing great work in smaller communities -- and giving voice to communities that are not always heard
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I haven't been all that active on this site - but maybe publishing a new book is a good time to change that. with @drjoshs.bsky.social and l. Morales. We write about the intertwined crisis of the decline of the US news industry -- and the rise of misinformation and mistrust of public health. I
October 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I haven't been all that active on this site - but maybe publishing a new book is a good time to change that. with @drjoshs.bsky.social and l. Morales. We write about the intertwined crisis of the decline of the US news industry -- and the rise of misinformation and mistrust of public health. I
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Just for the record, in 2020:
- Wray was the FBI director Trump handpicked to replace Comey
- Jack Smith was in the Hague prosecuting Kosovo war crimes
- Garland was an appeals court judge
- Monaco was in private practice in LA
There was no Biden administration yet, crooked or otherwise.
He crazy.
- Wray was the FBI director Trump handpicked to replace Comey
- Jack Smith was in the Hague prosecuting Kosovo war crimes
- Garland was an appeals court judge
- Monaco was in private practice in LA
There was no Biden administration yet, crooked or otherwise.
He crazy.
October 25, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Just for the record, in 2020:
- Wray was the FBI director Trump handpicked to replace Comey
- Jack Smith was in the Hague prosecuting Kosovo war crimes
- Garland was an appeals court judge
- Monaco was in private practice in LA
There was no Biden administration yet, crooked or otherwise.
He crazy.
- Wray was the FBI director Trump handpicked to replace Comey
- Jack Smith was in the Hague prosecuting Kosovo war crimes
- Garland was an appeals court judge
- Monaco was in private practice in LA
There was no Biden administration yet, crooked or otherwise.
He crazy.
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This headline 🤣🤣🤣
October 9, 2025 at 3:46 AM
This headline 🤣🤣🤣
Trump to attend gathering of top generals, upending last-minute plans
This feels ominous. Trump seems to be setting the table to use the U.S. military against American foes. Military leaders will be selected based on their allegiance to Trump and his clan rather than the Constitution.
This feels ominous. Trump seems to be setting the table to use the U.S. military against American foes. Military leaders will be selected based on their allegiance to Trump and his clan rather than the Constitution.
September 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Trump to attend gathering of top generals, upending last-minute plans
This feels ominous. Trump seems to be setting the table to use the U.S. military against American foes. Military leaders will be selected based on their allegiance to Trump and his clan rather than the Constitution.
This feels ominous. Trump seems to be setting the table to use the U.S. military against American foes. Military leaders will be selected based on their allegiance to Trump and his clan rather than the Constitution.
The crime reductions are not 1-year blips and seem to signal a clear shift towards less crime and violence since 2022.
It's not just murder. The US is on track to have the largest one-year percent drops in reported murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, and auto theft this year based on data through July.
September 18, 2025 at 3:07 AM
The crime reductions are not 1-year blips and seem to signal a clear shift towards less crime and violence since 2022.