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These Philly high schoolers are using podcasting as a way to slow gun violence Philly high schoolers hope their conversations about trauma, as well as a “deescalation room” at their school, can help prevent gun violence.

“Everybody just goes on to the next day after somebody dies... Like it’s just something we are all supposed to experience one day in our life.”

Feeling incredibly honored to be associated with this team and work:

Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting – Collaborating with journalists, researchers and the survivor community to advance more empathetic, ethical and impactful reporting. Philadelphia has seen encouraging signs of progress in reducing gun violence. But even as incidents decline, researchers say another factor deserves attention: how the news media covers those…

Harmful reporting is common; not evenly distributed: New study led by PCGVR research director

Five years of work. One concise guide. Free to view and download now. – Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting News coverage of gun violence often inadvertently perpetuates stereotypical narratives about the people and communities most impacted. Typical coverage focuses on individual episodes of gun violence…

By changing the way gun violence is covered, reporters can take an active role in minimizing harm to injured people, communities, and society—and even make an important contribution toward preventing gun violence. www.pcgvr.org/toolkit/

Association of Gun Violence Reporters – Covering hard stories, together: We connect reporters working on gun violence to provide support, connection, and resources.

We connect journalists working on gun violence to support, opportunities, and resources.

Request a screening of The Second Trauma - The Second Trauma Watch the trailer About the film This 25-minute documentary shows the effects of episodic gun violence reporting on survivors and co-victims. The documentary offers solutions on how we can do better…

Offers solutions on how we can do better to shift the narrative to a public health focus and give power back to the community:

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Nice Philly sunset just now. #unfiltered

The Survivor Connection | Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting The Survivor Connection is a new tool that helps reporters put the survivor at the center of their coverage.

Gun violence is preventable. Journalists can make a difference.

Six people have died from gun violence in February. - Philadelphia Obituary Project Only six people have passed due to gun violence. Though this is a drastic decline from the last month, these six people still have families, friends and are remembered in their communities. 2/2…

"Though this is a drastic decline from the last month, these six people still have families, friends and are remembered in their communities."

Wow -- as first spotted by @BadFoxGraphics on X, Fox & Friends this morning used *old footage of a previous dignified transfer* to mislead their audience about the fact that Trump wore a baseball cap during the one yesterday

'One year of failure.' The Lancet slams RFK Jr.'s first year as health chief In a scathing review, the top US medical journal's editorial board warned that the "destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 in office might take generations to repair."

In a scathing review, the top US medical journal's editorial board warned that the "destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 in office might take generations to repair."

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Domestic Violence Fatality Review Boards exist in 45 states, red and blue alike. Their purpose is straightforward: examine cases, identify systemic gaps, and recommend strategies to prevent future deaths... They do not seize firearms.... They review tragedies to help us prevent the next one.

How much do they want?

There were still three or four running in a glass closet off the newsroom when I started at the Boston bureau in 1984. Overnight they’d turn that space into a giant wadded ball of paper and in the morning a guy went in and tried to fold all the news of the world back into neat stacks.

JAMA Summit Report on Reducing Firearm Violence and Harms To the Editor As a trauma surgeon and an emergency medicine physician caring for people with firearm injuries every day at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, we are deeply invested in public ...

"We were dismayed to find no discussion of the role that news media must play in changing the narrative." PCGVR research director Dr. @jessicabeard.bsky.social and colleague respond to Toward a Safer World by 2040, last fall's JAMA Summit Report on Reducing Firearm Violence and Harms. (in thread)

Philly Stat 360 Hub Giving Philadelphians a government they can see, feel, and touch.

Homicides in Philadelphia are down by more than half compared to last year, according to city data:

How Many Guns Did Americans Buy Last Month? About 1.2 million guns were sold in February, according to seasonally adjusted estimates.

Americans bought an estimated 1.25 million guns in February 2026, according to an analysis of FBI data:

NRA successfully lobbies against bill taking away guns from abusers - Mississippi Today Republican Sen. Brice Wiggins says he'll try again in the 2027 legislative session to get his NRA-opposed bill passed to get guns out of the hands of domestic violence abusers.

“This bill is for and supported by domestic violence survivors, advocates and people who understand that domestic violence is an epidemic in the state of Mississippi.”

We don’t talk enough about how morally depraved the tech industry turned out to be. Every single ounce of their self-regarding statements of values was an outright lie.

Good thing or a bad thing? What's wrong with you?

Reverend Jesse Jackson called on each of us to be heralds of change, to be messengers of hope; to step forward and say “Send me” wherever we have a chance to make an impact.

How fortunate we were that Jesse Jackson answered that call. What a great debt we owe to him.

Mom’s Last Gun My mother has severe mental illness. Our family has spent decades trying to keep her from using firearms to hurt herself and others.

"And at the quiet suggestion of police officers, I have gone into my mother’s house — twice — to take her guns away. Once, that meant flying cross-country to break in while she was out running errands. The officers didn’t suggest that lightly. They knew it was not legal..."

I have to admit, seeing 3 Tesla cyber trucks parked side-by-side is pretty cool

LA’s program that diverts mental health crisis calls away from police becomes permanent Since launching in 2024, the Unarmed Model of Crisis Response has diverted some 17,000 calls away from police and other first responders.

“We can’t keep deploying armed officers to handle mental health crisis calls because the outcome is Angelenos paying with loss of life and millions of their tax dollars for legal settlements."

In every Republican presidency of my lifetime there's been a recession and a new war in the Middle East.

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed...This is not a way of life...it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.”

-Dwight Eisenhower 1953

OK, that's interesting. I scheduled this for posting on the PCGVR account but the featured image was not visible on the article page itself, as you can see.

Other things Kristi Noem has purchased with your money:

–$172 million for private jets
–$2.4 million for gold-detailed ICE vehicles
–$700,000 for tricked-out trucks for ICE
–$120,000 for 2 Mustangs

Did Trump also authorize these?

Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees - ProPublica Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their de...

NEW: Over the past year, we've been collecting thousands of financial disclosure documents from across the Trump administration. Now we're making them searchable. Look up names, assets, former employers across 1,500+ Trump appointees and 3,000+ ethics documents.

The Government Uses Targeted Advertising to Track Your Location. The online advertising industry has built a massive surveillance machine, and the government can co-opt it to spy on us.

The creepy system that serves you targeted ads has been used by the government to track peoples' locations, new reporting confirms. eff.org/deeplinks/2...