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  • Wine Vetaka Terrifying Manager of Accounting

    Wine Vetaka Terrifying Manager of Accounting

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    The first thing I noticed about Wine Vetaka was her eyebrows. They expressed so much sadness and earnestness in the trailer for Enemies with Benefits in scenes that were ostensibly supposed to establish her as this intimidating and strict character. The way she lifted them while expressing pain, or confusion or just clarifying a procedure,…

  • Manut-jai and the Irreplaceability of a Person

    Manut-jai and the Irreplaceability of a Person

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    What is Manut-jai? In considering what makes a character feel like an individual, I have coined a few Thai-based concepts. First, the heart of a character doesn’t quite encapsulate the specificity that I seek to track and recognize. Instead, I have taken the word for human in Thai, manut and the word for a core…

  • The Transition

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    From Newcomer to Church Member. Remember the cards in the deck before this? Those are all still in play, at the same time. Before You Continue This section explores the early stages of becoming deeply immersed in a high-control religious environment, including the rapid development of belonging, friendship, purpose, responsibility, and emotional attachment. As we…

  • How My Research Began to What It’s Become

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    In the beginning to Now When I first started researching Project 2025, I thought I understood what I was looking at. I thought the Heritage Foundation was a think tank that had produced Project 2025, and that Project 2025 was essentially the policy blueprint waiting for a sympathetic administration to implement it. Then I started…

  • Certainty vs. Consideration

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    How do we find ourselves in a world that was never allowed to be ours?  How do we respect a humanity we were taught needed to change?  We listen to their stories.  And we let ourselves linger with the personhood represented. Learning to see people Coming out of evangelicalism can be a strange and lonely…

  • More Full of People

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    A Window into the Vastness I keep falling in love with characters.  I have been doing this for years.  I still do it every time a story settles into me.  And I’ve gradually become fascinated by what that means.  Honestly, I’ve been realizing that I deeply enjoy getting to know them. And I love finding…

  • Exhibit 2 – Executive Branch Institutional Profiles

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    About This Archive This archive is built one institution at a time. Each Institutional Profile is researched individually using publicly available primary sources and supporting documentation. In addition to maintaining these evidence files, LTEC publishes articles that explain the institutions, evidence, and implementation documented throughout this investigation. Because every profile and article is researched, written,…

  • Understanding the Mechanisms: Why Leadership Matters

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    Why Leadership Matters If you’ve read through the previous articles, you may be wondering why so much attention has been given to personnel. It’s a fair question. Every presidential administration appoints people to leadership positions. Cabinet secretaries change. Agency heads change. White House staff changes. None of that, by itself, is unusual. So why spend…

  • Article IV: Independent Agencies, Intelligence & Federal Administration

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    Independent Agencies, Intelligence & Federal Administration (Continued) Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary of Energy: Chris Wright Documented Organizational Connections Sources Why This Position Matters The Secretary of Energy oversees national energy policy, energy research and development, nuclear security programs, energy infrastructure, and federal energy initiatives affecting both domestic and international energy markets. Because of the…

  • Article III: Policy Capture: When Personnel Become Policy

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    Cabinet Departments: Executive Administration In the previous article, we examined appointments within the Executive Office of the President and the first Cabinet departments. This analysis continues through additional Cabinet leadership, documenting publicly available organizational affiliations and examining the positions responsible for implementing federal policy across the executive branch. Department of Defense (DoD) Secretary of Defense:…