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CDC Chaos & Covid-19 Vaccines with Dr. Lucy McBride | Rapid Response #11
Amid CDC upheaval, there's a lot of mis- and disinformation flying around—especially about the Covid-19 vaccines. I got to the bottom of it all with Dr…
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Jesse Damiani
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Dr. Lucy McBride
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Post-Charlie Kirk America: Polycritical Foresight Analysis
A watershed assassination in America means volatility—in a context already increasingly authoritarian—what do we need to watch out for and what can be…
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Jesse Damiani
Regarding the Charlie Kirk Shooting
Flash analysis: this is a powder keg moment—treat it as such.
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Jesse Damiani
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Morgan Phillips & Manda Scott: How We Make it 'Thru'—Transformative Adaptation & Thrutopian Flourishing | #51
If we want to survive the decades to come, we’ll need radical systemic change. But what does that look like in practice? A vibrant conversation about…
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Jesse Damiani
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The (Department of) War on American Cities, Ukraine, Gaza, and the Imperial Boomerang | Rapid Response #10
Historical lessons for American citizens on how colonial violence returns home.
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Jesse Damiani
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The (Department of) War on American Cities, Ukraine, Gaza, and the Imperial Boomerang
Historical lessons for American citizens on how colonial violence returns home.
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Jesse Damiani
Historical Fascist Parallels: Why Tech's Kiss-the-Ring Dinner with Trump at the White House is Worse Than You Think
Even if you already thought it was gross!
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Jesse Damiani
Where Will All the CDC Chaos Take Us? Polycritical Foresight Analysis
An exercise to better understand how the upheaval at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention might unfold, what it means for vaccines in the…
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Jesse Damiani
Liam Young: A Texas-Sized City for 10 Billion People? Rewilding the Globe with 'Planet City' | #50
Amid cascading crises, art & storytelling must provoke new ways of thinking about the human enterprise. Across his work as an artist, filmmaker…
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Jesse Damiani
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Polycritical Foresight: Combining Futures Studies, Threat Modeling, and Systems Thinking for Robust Strategy
From climate finance to biosecurity, polycritical foresight equips leaders with tools to anticipate emerging threats and safeguard resilient futures.
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Jesse Damiani

August 2025

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