While You Were Watching Charlie Kirk”
The Darker Side of the Spectrum – Volume XIII While the country fixates on who shot Charlie Kirk – and conservative pundits rush to blame “the left” despite no confirmed motive – something far more consequential is quietly unfolding behind the scenes. Disability rights are being gutted. Essential educational supports are being erased. And the […]
MAHA Is Starting to Crack
The Make America Healthy Again experiment was always a strange fusion: Trump’s MAGA base plus RFK Jr.’s wellness-skeptic “MAHA moms.” For a while, it worked — uniting vaccine distrust with organic-food activism under one banner. But now the cracks are showing. The White House’s draft MAHA Commission report largely protects the pesticide and food industries. […]
From Rhetoric to Radicalization: How the CDC Became a Target
The Darker Side of the Spectrum – Volume XI From Rhetoric to Radicalization: How the CDC Became a Target On August 8, 2025, a 30-year-old gunman opened fire on the CDC headquarters in Atlanta. He fired more than 180 rounds, piercing even blast-resistant windows. Officer David Rose, a member of the DeKalb County Police assigned […]
The MAHA Blueprint That Isn’t
The long-awaited Make Our Children Healthy Again draft strategy landed this week. This was supposed to be the moment: the major policy blueprint from RFK Jr.’s HHS, the bold plan to tackle childhood chronic disease. Instead, what we got was a document of avoidance. Heavy on rhetoric, light on action. And what it leaves out […]