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CombatDemographer
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Health Demographer, Epidemiologist, Trauma Researcher and Data Science Enthusiast. I study the immediate and long-term consequences of trauma exposure in military and civilian contexts. All statements reflect my own personal opinions.
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Study of over twenty five million people over almost four years finds that COVID vaccines reduced COVID deaths by 74% and increased all-cause deaths by zero. I don’t know how much clearer it can get than that.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality Among Adults in France
This cohort study uses the data from all adults aged 18 to 59 years living in France on November 1, 2021, to evaluate whether there is an association of receipt of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine with long-t...
jamanetwork.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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the Trump admin has a sneaky plan to cut veterans' healthcare and disability benefits. great reporting from Suzanne Gordon and Steve Early: prospect.org/2025/12/08/t...
Trump Is Coming for Veterans’ Disability Benefits - The American Prospect
The veterans disability system has traditionally been a sacred cow for politicians of all stripes. Now, as part of the conservative war on the Department of Veterans Affairs, the administration is fal...
prospect.org
December 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I can hear it now: but does it cause autism???? More compelling evidence that the mRNA vaccines are safe and effective. Population based study in France.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality Among Adults in France
This cohort study uses the data from all adults aged 18 to 59 years living in France on November 1, 2021, to evaluate whether there is an association of receipt of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine with long-t...
jamanetwork.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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“The irony couldn’t be starker: the… programs best equipped to study the social and ethical implications of AI were being defunded, even as the university promoted [its] use…across campus. This isn’t innovation—it’s institutional auto-cannibalism.”

Again, Refuse/Resist is the only reasonable stance
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 3, 2025 at 3:05 AM
U2
The Cure
Billy Joel
New Order
Eagles
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you have seen

Patti Smith
Grateful Dead
Bruce Springsteen
Laurie Anderson
Rickie Lee Jones
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you have seen.

The Osmonds
Neil Diamond
Green Day
Bruce Springsteen
The Rolling Stones
November 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Every American should read this and ask themselves why they are allowing this to occur.
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Large population study published in JAMA last year shows not evidence supporting a link between Tylenol use and autism.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children’s Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability
This nationwide cohort study with sibling control analysis examines the association of acetaminophen use during pregnancy with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability.
jamanetwork.com
September 22, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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If Tylenol caused autism, we’d all be autistic. Almost every pregnant woman in America has taken Tylenol because it’s what doctors recommend during pregnancy.
September 21, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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I was standing on a bridge looking that way when I heard the wind starting to blow down stream and in about 10 seconds time, I had to focus, meter and shoot before I was in a complete white out. One of my all time favorite images. It was 4 degrees F. Once in a lifetime shot
September 16, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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New, from me:
America is no longer a functioning democracy. It is a competitive authoritarian system, hurtling rapidly toward authoritarianism.
This was a hard piece to write but we can't move forward if we don’t acknowledge where we are.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...
The authoritarian checklist
It is time to admit that America is no longer a functioning democracy
donmoynihan.substack.com
August 28, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Totally agree, it’s impossible to deal with
It's tough dealing with how needlessly insane this time period is.

None of this stuff makes any sense.
Will be hard to explain in the future that the US government went antivax, causing a lot of avoidable suffering and death, not in response to any negative incident with vaccines, but to the biggest, fastest, most successful, most impressive vaccine rollout in history.
August 14, 2025 at 2:08 PM
These people are truly sick, this is a GOP candidate for Gov of California
August 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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What really gets me is how embarrassing this all is.

The United States is literally the most powerful nation in all of human history. And it has decided to just blow itself up.
July 30, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Somebody is triggered
July 13, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Most people in Mexico and Canada say the United States is their country's greatest threat
www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/...
July 12, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Summary Table of the massive defunding of biomedical research in the United States
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
July 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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The fact we have secret police whisking people off the streets doesn’t get enough attention. It ain’t normal and we’re further down the road to authoritarianism than you think.
July 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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"The administration has upended the operation of almost every agency that deals with our health & medical care, leaving behind fewer staff members & programs to address critical needs, & changing policies in ways that could endanger us all."
-Steven Woolf
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | How to Wreck the Nation’s Health, by the Numbers (Gift Article)
The administration's cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services are going to do irreparable harm to the nation’s health.
www.nytimes.com
June 30, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Listen to the man.
illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president
June 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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If you live in the US, you are in greater jeopardy today than you were 6 months ago. So is your family. So are your friends & neighbors. Virtually all the important parts of the U.S. gov't created to protect us are being shut down, gutted, or marginalized. My latest. newrepublic.com/article/1968...
We Better Pray That No Unexpected Crisis Hits While Trump Is President
It’s a world exploding with crises waiting to happen. Donald Trump has made us less prepared for every one of them.
newrepublic.com
June 17, 2025 at 11:36 PM