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Feds Obstruct Vaccine Delivery
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Feds Obstruct Vaccine Delivery

Pfizer says the administration stopped providing it with destinations for millions of COVID vaccine doses sitting in warehouses. Multiple states, including Virginia, report cuts to promised allotments by up to 50%. This represents an unfathomable level of cruelty and neglect in the midst of America’s worst-ever accumulated mass casualty event. There are only a limited number of possible reasons…

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Cult Exit Counseling: A post-Trump social framework
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Cult Exit Counseling: A post-Trump social framework

Undoubtedly, Donald Trump is a fascist destroying American society. Such mediocre results In the year when Democrats expected to win nationally in a landslide, makes it clear the party needs to invest more resources reaching out to voters enthralled by an authoritarian strongman. This partisan environment has torn many families apart—and many individuals are programmed by conservative media to believe conspiracy theories and propagate misinformation.

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Should Americans Prepare for Civil War?
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Should Americans Prepare for Civil War?

Donald Trump has set America on a path to bloodshed and catastrophe. According to the FBI, white supremacists and other rightwing extremists are responsible for over two-thirds of the domestic terrorist attacks and plots this year, with over half that violence targeting protestors. By contrast, only a single deadly “far-left” attack occurred in 2020 in Portland, according to the centrist think tank the Center for Strategic and International Studies has studied domestic terror attacks since 1994.

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A Resolute Framework: 5 Questions to Evaluate CDC Political Interference
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A Resolute Framework: 5 Questions to Evaluate CDC Political Interference

President Trump exerts undue influence on the CDC through politicized political appointments that undermine public trust in the institution. They are reportedly exerting pressure to issue guidance contradictory to established public health science. This interference is the latest in a series of politicized reports based on questionable science reminiscent of regimes like Brazil or North Korea.

We know that in countries where politics trumps sound public health guidance, fatalities increase, and health outcomes decrease overall. As the quality of CDC guidance is inconsistent, RSG developed a framework to analyze new CDC decisions to determine whether they are likely to result from sound policy or bad politics…

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