Author: Let Them Eat Crow
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Article II: White House Leadership & Cabinet Departments
White House Leadership & Cabinet Departments White House Chief of Staff: Susie Wiles Documented Organizational Connections Sources Why This Position Matters The White House Chief of Staff is often described as the gatekeeper to the President and serves as one of the most influential officials within the Executive Office of the President. The position oversees…
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Article I: When Personnel Become Policy: Executive Office of the President: Executive Leadership
Executive Office of the President: Executive Leadership In the previous section, we examined the infrastructure behind personnel capture, including Project 2025’s Personnel Database, Presidential Administration Academy, and the recurring organizational networks that appeared throughout executive branch appointments. The existence of a personnel pipeline does not, by itself, prove institutional capture. Appointments matter because institutions are…
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Why Embodied Storycraft?
Beginning with Coherence Why is it called Embodied Storycraft? Because screenbased stories are told through bodies. Whether animated or acted, every glance, gesture, silence, posture, movement and expression becomes part of how a character’s felt experience is communicated. Televisual stories, moreover, are crafted. They are extraordinarily collaborative human expressions of creativity, built by hundreds of…
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Representation Saves Lives: A Window into Another Life
What is Representation Saves Lives? What do I mean when I say representation saves lives? When we have variety in our media representation it’s more than just getting to see ourselves. Seeing fictional stories that have people we aren’t used to seeing can expand our imagination of what humanity is. When you’re raised like I…
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The Strategy of Narrative Control
Controlling Language and Information When institutions become captured, those exercising power often seek to reshape official narratives in ways that legitimize their authority and delegitimize opposition. One common method is strategic framing: the practice of emphasizing particular words, metaphors, or interpretations so that audiences are more likely to understand events in a preferred way while…
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Vol I: Part II; Sect II The Presidential Personnel Pipeline
The Presidential Personnel Pipeline One of the most significant components of Project 2025 was the Presidential Personnel Database. According to the Heritage Foundation, the database was created to identify, recruit, and vet individuals interested in serving in a future conservative administration. Rather than waiting until after an election to begin searching for personnel, Project 2025…
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The Child Who Learned People Through Stories
How I found humanity in Disney movies As a kid and as a teenager, I liked Jesus and Disney. But I didn’t interact with Disney stories the way people were used to, so they didn’t really know how to process me. I spent hours with them, rewatched them constantly because I was paying attention to…