CombatDemographer

CombatDemographer

@combatdemographer.bsky.social

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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www.nature.com/articles/s41... "non-survivable conditions are occurring during present-day #heat events, all of which are below 35C wet-bulb #temperature" End #oil #coal #gas Get #solar #wind #batteries #EV #walk #bike #bus #train #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #extinction

nature.comDeadly heat stress conditions are already occurring - Nature CommunicationsThe authors use a physiological approach, finding recent extreme heat events had deadly heat stress conditions, particularly for fully exposed older people. Conditions were well below wet-bulb tempera...

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The college at which I'm employed, which has signed a contract with the AI firm that stole books from 131 colleagues & me, paid a student to write an op-ed for the student paper promoting AI, guided the writing of it, and did not disclose this to the paper. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...

thedartmouth.comCollege approached and paid student to write op-ed in The DartmouthThe Dartmouth ran the article on Nov. 17 without knowledge that the College had been involved. 

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First they came for California And I did not speak out Because I was not a Californian Then they came for Minnesota And I did not speak out Because I was not a Minnesotan Then they came for Maine And I did not speak out Because I was not a Mainer Then they came for my state...

Everyone should read this

Nate Brought@usfreepressspain.bsky.social

Attached is the letter I sent this afternoon to State Secretary Belio (Spain), and Mrs. Roberta Metsola (President of the European Parliament) regarding recent events in the United States, asking them to take action to preserve the dignity and sanctity of human life and to preserve global democracy.

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BREAKING: A young doctor who lives near where Alex Pretti, a nurse, was killed by ICE says in a declaration he saw the shooting, went out to help, was not let through at first then patted down before being let by, and was apparently the first to try and provide any medical assistance to Pretti.

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Every American should read this and ask themselves why they are allowing this to occur.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social

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-...

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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

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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.

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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/...

nytimes.comOpinion | 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.

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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...

newrepublic.comWe Better Pray That No Unexpected Crisis Hits While Trump Is PresidentIt’s a world exploding with crises waiting to happen. Donald Trump has made us less prepared for every one of them.

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“This is intimidation. It’s authoritarianism. And it’s a betrayal of our Constitution.” — USMC Veteran Keegan Evans He served in Iraq. He helped fight wildfires in California. Now he’s sounding the alarm as Troops are deployed into U.S. cities over the will of local officials.

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"Senior officials at the US Department of Veterans Affairs have ordered that VA physicians and scientists not publish in medical journals or speak with the public without first seeking clearance from political appointees of Donald Trump, the Guardian has learned."

theguardian.comExclusive: US veterans agency orders scientists not to publish in journals without clearanceMove that seeks political control of doctors’ and scientists’ published research fits a pattern of censorship by the Trump administration, veterans advocates say