Vincent Staggs
@vss.bsky.social
Sr Scientist (biostatistician), former academic med center prof
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The thing she doesn't seem to grasp is that Trump turned the Republican Party into a personalist political movement without any firm or defining ideological/policy content. Only personal loyalty
November 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The thing she doesn't seem to grasp is that Trump turned the Republican Party into a personalist political movement without any firm or defining ideological/policy content. Only personal loyalty
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Gonna talk in entomology class today about how Jewish scientists forced to work in Nazi concentration camps secretly sent fake vaccines to the eastern front and managed to kill 4,000 Nazis with typhus.
Vaccine subterfuge: How vaccine-makers fooled the Nazis from inside a concentration camp lab
Confined first at Auschwitz then Buchenwald, a Jewish microbiologist conspired with a ragtag team of scientists and rebels to send dud typhus vaccines to the German soldiers on the eastern front.
www.gavi.org
October 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Gonna talk in entomology class today about how Jewish scientists forced to work in Nazi concentration camps secretly sent fake vaccines to the eastern front and managed to kill 4,000 Nazis with typhus.
"that great law ... which ordains that men whose malign and brutal propensities preponderate over their moral and intellectual endowments shall naturally fall into the employments which promise the largest gratification to their predominating instincts or propensities."--Frederick Douglass
October 25, 2025 at 3:28 AM
"that great law ... which ordains that men whose malign and brutal propensities preponderate over their moral and intellectual endowments shall naturally fall into the employments which promise the largest gratification to their predominating instincts or propensities."--Frederick Douglass
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NEW STUDY PUBLISHED IN NATURE: People who got an mRNA COVID vaccine within ~3 months before or after starting immunotherapy for cancer lived longer overall than those who didn’t get the vaccine.
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
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October 23, 2025 at 11:51 PM
NEW STUDY PUBLISHED IN NATURE: People who got an mRNA COVID vaccine within ~3 months before or after starting immunotherapy for cancer lived longer overall than those who didn’t get the vaccine.
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
From KCMO No Kings protest
October 19, 2025 at 9:01 PM
From KCMO No Kings protest
No Kings, KCMO
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October 19, 2025 at 12:34 AM
No Kings, KCMO
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One of my kid's teachers is out for months because governor mobilized MO Nat'l Guard to cosplay in Trump's 3rd-grade-quality production of "America On Fire Because Brown People, Anti-Fascists, and a 95-Year-Old Philanthropist/Holocaust Survivor."
October 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
One of my kid's teachers is out for months because governor mobilized MO Nat'l Guard to cosplay in Trump's 3rd-grade-quality production of "America On Fire Because Brown People, Anti-Fascists, and a 95-Year-Old Philanthropist/Holocaust Survivor."
10 yrs in, part of me still can't understand how an Evangelical like Mike Johnson can look into cameras and knowingly lie. Or how Kristi Noem's lie about meeting N Korea's dictator is in the same passage in her book where she mentions being a children's pastor. I could go on, and on.
October 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
10 yrs in, part of me still can't understand how an Evangelical like Mike Johnson can look into cameras and knowingly lie. Or how Kristi Noem's lie about meeting N Korea's dictator is in the same passage in her book where she mentions being a children's pastor. I could go on, and on.
Soldiers, Marines, FBI, local police, county sheriffs, state police, and even unarmed prosecutors and judges don't hide behind masks. Armed men who won't show their face are cowards.
October 6, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Soldiers, Marines, FBI, local police, county sheriffs, state police, and even unarmed prosecutors and judges don't hide behind masks. Armed men who won't show their face are cowards.
Is Mike Johnson using Hegseth's makeup studio?
October 2, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Is Mike Johnson using Hegseth's makeup studio?
Hegseth's hubris in thinking he's qualified to lecture general/flag officers is breathtaking.
October 1, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Hegseth's hubris in thinking he's qualified to lecture general/flag officers is breathtaking.
These generals and admirals know the small, foolish men pontificating/lecturing them today have no respect for the rule of law or Constitution they swore to defend.
September 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
These generals and admirals know the small, foolish men pontificating/lecturing them today have no respect for the rule of law or Constitution they swore to defend.
One wonders if the moral collapse on display this AM could have been avoided had more white Evangelicals been willing to listen, with open mind and heart, to their Black coreligionists over the past 70 years.
September 22, 2025 at 3:33 AM
One wonders if the moral collapse on display this AM could have been avoided had more white Evangelicals been willing to listen, with open mind and heart, to their Black coreligionists over the past 70 years.
Honest question: How far do we let this authoritarianism go before we shut the country down with nonviolent action (protests, strikes, boycotts)?
September 18, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Honest question: How far do we let this authoritarianism go before we shut the country down with nonviolent action (protests, strikes, boycotts)?
We've faced down depraved men who enjoy harming the powerless they've dehumanized before. The "soft sons of democracy" beat the Confederacy and Third Reich. This clown car kakistocracy will lose if those who cherish democracy, liberty, and justice for all will summon the courage to resist.
August 29, 2025 at 9:52 PM
We've faced down depraved men who enjoy harming the powerless they've dehumanized before. The "soft sons of democracy" beat the Confederacy and Third Reich. This clown car kakistocracy will lose if those who cherish democracy, liberty, and justice for all will summon the courage to resist.
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Robert E. Lee killed more U.S. troops in battle than Adolph Hitler and Osama bin Laden combined
The Pentagon is restoring a portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee, which includes a slave guiding the Confederate general’s horse in the background, to the West Point library three years after a congressionally mandated commission ordered it removed, officials said.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u...
Pentagon Is Reinstalling Portrait of Confederate General at West Point Library
www.nytimes.com
August 29, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Robert E. Lee killed more U.S. troops in battle than Adolph Hitler and Osama bin Laden combined
Americans do not long suffer men who would be king.
August 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Americans do not long suffer men who would be king.
Don't like the weak job numbers? Find someone who'll lie about them for you, making them worthless going forward. This is how fools operate, surrounding themselves with people who tell them what they want to hear instead of the facts they need for informed decision-making.
Trump Orders Firing of BLS Chief
President Trump said he directed his team to fire the top Bureau of Labor Statistics official after the bureau issued a weak jobs report on Friday.
Trump in a social media post said Erika McEntarfer, ...
www.wsj.com
August 1, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Don't like the weak job numbers? Find someone who'll lie about them for you, making them worthless going forward. This is how fools operate, surrounding themselves with people who tell them what they want to hear instead of the facts they need for informed decision-making.
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The current leader who best epitomizes the spirit of the Declaration of Independence is Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
July 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The current leader who best epitomizes the spirit of the Declaration of Independence is Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
"Hispanic Mennonite Church cancels 2025 biennial meeting in person ... in light of the current risks—raids, disturbances, surveillance."
www.mennoniteusa.org/menoticias/p...
www.mennoniteusa.org/menoticias/p...
Iglesia Menonita Hispana cancela reunión bienal 2025 en presencia. | Mennonite Church USA
La Iglesia Menonita Hispana llevará a cabo una Asamblea Bienal Menonita 2025 virtual, el 30 de agosto, de 10:00 a.m. a 3:00 p.m.
www.mennoniteusa.org
July 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
"Hispanic Mennonite Church cancels 2025 biennial meeting in person ... in light of the current risks—raids, disturbances, surveillance."
www.mennoniteusa.org/menoticias/p...
www.mennoniteusa.org/menoticias/p...
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KC protest today. I'd estimate several thousands. Didn't see a single police officer; there was no need.
June 14, 2025 at 10:46 PM
KC protest today. I'd estimate several thousands. Didn't see a single police officer; there was no need.
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Major new study: gun deaths of children have gone up in States with loosened gun laws but have NOT gone up in States that didn't loosen gun laws.
Gun Deaths of Children Rose in States That Loosened Gun Laws, Study Finds www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...
Gun Deaths of Children Rose in States That Loosened Gun Laws, Study Finds www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...
June 10, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Major new study: gun deaths of children have gone up in States with loosened gun laws but have NOT gone up in States that didn't loosen gun laws.
Gun Deaths of Children Rose in States That Loosened Gun Laws, Study Finds www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...
Gun Deaths of Children Rose in States That Loosened Gun Laws, Study Finds www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...