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It's conundrum season! Pass along your most pressing conundrums here: www.slate.com/conundrum. Our annual Conundrum holiday show is coming soon.This week, Emily, David and John discuss the Trump Administration's efforts to hobble the Biden transition; ethical problems in vaccine distribution; and how to deal with the damage of the election fraud lie.Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:Alex Kalman for the Atlantic: “The Letters That Outgoing Presidents Wrote to Their Successors”John Dickerson for The Atlantic: “Why You Don’t Mess Around With Presidential Transitions”The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine: “A Framework for Equitable Allocation of Vaccine for the Novel Coronavirus”Kathryn Olivarius for The New York Times: “The Dangerous History of Immunoprivilege”Jeanna Smialek and Alan Rappeport for The New York Times: “Mnuchin Cites Principles in Clawing Back Fed Money. Democrats See Politics.”Kevin Roose, Mike Isaac, and Sheera Frenkel for The New York Times: “Roile