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December — Peace, Rhetoric, and the Choice We Make
December is supposed to be different. It’s the time of year when, historically, people lower their defenses. When old grievances are set aside, at least briefly, in favor of peace, family, and shared humanity. Across cultures and generations, the holidays have carried an unspoken agreement: we pause the fighting. This year, we wanted to test →
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December — The Questions We Ask When the Noise Fades
December arrived differently. Not louder. Not faster. Quieter — but heavier. After a year spent observing patterns, tracking narrative shifts, and documenting consequences, December wasn’t about the next crisis. It was about what had already changed. What had settled in while we were distracted. What had become normal without ever being fully debated. This was →
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Why Stories Outlast Facts — and Why That Matters Now
In November, we changed how we told stories. Not because facts stopped mattering—but because we realized facts weren’t surviving on their own. Over the year, we’d tracked policies, incentives, outcomes, and consequences. We’d followed healthcare costs, government shutdowns, and the accelerating impact of AI. The information was there. The solutions were there. But something wasn’t →
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HWTA: How Did They Want You to Feel This Week?
Week Ending January 31, 2026 This week wasn’t about novelty. It was about pressure. A federal shooting in Minneapolis. A historic winter storm. Public protests. Allied backlash over NATO comments. None of these stories were obscure. What mattered wasn’t what happened, but how the media instructed Americans to emotionally process a country under visible strain. →
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November — The Cost of Refusing to Solve What We Already Understand
A conversation with Miles Carter and Beth (ChatGPT) Teaser The United States spends more on healthcare than any country on Earth — yet refuses to cover everyone. This isn’t a mystery or a failure of imagination. The solutions already exist. What’s missing isn’t knowledge. It’s the willingness to confront who profits from keeping the system →
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November — What Remains When the Noise Settles
By November, the escalation slowed — not because the problems were resolved, but because the costs had become unavoidable. The government reopened, but no one won. The shutdown ended without fixing healthcare, without restoring trust, and without addressing the moral damage it exposed. Families went hungry. Workers missed paychecks. Access to care became a bargaining →
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I Was Told
I was told a man was pulled over todayI was told that people like him commit crimeI was told to fear people like himI was told people like him are not like meI was told people like him are terrorists I was told that people like him are not protected by lawsI was told that my →
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Why We Defend the Undefendable
Minnesota, Video Evidence, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves A conversation with Miles Carter and Beth (ChatGPT) Teaser Two federal shootings in Minnesota. Clear video evidence. And official narratives that don’t match what people can plainly see. This isn’t just about use of force — it’s about why, as a society, we so often rush →
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HWTA: How Did They Want You to Feel This Week?
Week Ending: Late January 2026Guest Outlet: The New York Times Every week, the same question matters more than the headlines themselves: What were they trying to make you feel? Because modern news doesn’t just report reality. It assigns emotional posture. And this week, the assignment was unusually clear. I. The Week in One Sentence This →
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October — When Observation Turns Into Consequence
Throughout the year, the work changed. We began with observation — noticing patterns, asking questions, testing assumptions. Then we moved into monitoring — tracking how narratives shifted, how institutions responded, how information bent under pressure. By October, we were no longer watching change happen. We were living with the results of it. Military forces appeared →
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October — The Bill Comes Due
When “Could They?” Becomes “What Does It Cost?” I’m lucky enough to have a friend who will stop his day once in a while so we can walk the neighborhood and solve the problems of the world. Sometimes those problems are small — a washing machine that didn’t get fixed properly, a service call that →
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September — Narrative Capture
When Reality Becomes Optional By September, something more dangerous than disagreement had taken hold. This was no longer about policy differences or partisan spin. It was about whether shared reality still existed at all. The assumption that debate begins with common facts had quietly collapsed, and people were being told—explicitly—not to trust what they could →
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September — Escalation
When the Fight Becomes the Strategy In September, we came back to a different world. Leadership had given way to open conflict. Not disagreement. Not debate. An all-out brawl. Our leaders weren’t leading anymore—they were fighting. And in the process, they pulled the country into the fight with them. We, the people, were fighting too. →
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Week Ending January 10, 2026
A composite analysis integrating Beth (ChatGPT), Grok (xAI), and Gemini (Google) I. The Week in One Sentence The second week of 2026 revolved around the legitimacy of state power at home and abroad, with each outlet instructing its audience whether to trust it, fear it, or slow down and examine it. Fox framed power as →
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August — When Solutions Exist, But Willpower Fails
By August, the problem was no longer ignorance. Solutions existed. Not abstract ones. Not academic ones. Practical, proven solutions—already implemented in pieces across the world and even within our own systems. The obstacle wasn’t feasibility. It was priority. If we decide to put people first—if we decide that people should win—we can sustain everyone. That →
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Weekly Emotional Framing Analysis
Week Ending January 3, 2026A composite analysis integrating Beth (ChatGPT), Grok (xAI), and Gemini (Google) I. The Week in One Sentence The first week of 2026 marked a sharp pivot from year-end reflection to high-intensity power projection abroad and fear calibration at home, with each outlet deliberately choosing how hot to run its audience. Fox →
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May 2025 — When Understanding Becomes Weight
A Year in Review By May, something changed. March taught me how to ask better questions. April forced me to confront what those questions revealed. May was the month when understanding stopped feeling neutral. The weight of it settled in. I was no longer trying to keep up with the news cycle. I wasn’t interested →
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April 2025 — Engagement
A Year in Review: When Curiosity Met Power April was the month when questions stopped feeling theoretical. March taught me how to ask better questions. April showed me what those questions uncover—and why answers carry weight. The month began by finishing a series on artificial intelligence. Much of the feedback centered on fear: Would AI →
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Weekly Bias Monitor — Week Ending December 28, 2025
A conversation with Miles Carter and Beth (ChatGPT) — edits by Grok and Gemini This week gave us one of the clearest ideological spreads between our three models: Beth (ChatGPT), Grok, and Gemini. With fixed inputs and no story selection bias, the differences weren’t subtle. They were structural. A contested power struggle in Washington, renewed →
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Weekly Emotional Framing Analysis
Week Ending: December 27, 2025A composite analysis integrating Beth (ChatGPT), Grok (xAI), and Gemini (Google) The Week in One Sentence As 2025 closed, the news cycle combined institutional credibility crises, geopolitical theater, and real-world disruption—and the major outlets used the moment to push three distinct emotional endgames: Fox rallied and defended, CNN scrutinized and alarmed, →
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A Christmas Message Across Time
Voices from the Past Ronald Reagan, Christmas 1982: “At Christmas, we pause to celebrate the birth of a child, but more than that, we celebrate a way of life. With Christmas comes a message of peace and goodwill… Perhaps if we think of these things, not just at Christmas, but all year long, we might →
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Weekly Emotional Framing Analysis
Week Ending: December 20, 2025A composite analysis integrating Beth (ChatGPT), Grok (xAI), and Gemini (Google) I. The Week in One Sentence (Consensus View) This was a week where violence and secrecy dominated the headlines, and the media responded not by calming the public, but by choosing three very different emotional survival strategies: All three models →
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Caring Enough to Fix the Problem
A conversation with Miles Carter and Beth (ChatGPT) Teaser The holiday season reminds us what we care about most. The real question is whether we care enough to stop arguing—and start fixing the systems that affect everyone. Main Conversation Miles’ Reflection Beth, the season is about caring. We want to care for our families, care →
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Can We Leave the Hate Behind—At Least for the Holidays?
A conversation with Miles Carter and Beth (ChatGPT) Teaser In a season meant for gathering, a hard question gives way to a hopeful answer: what if the path out of anger isn’t louder voices—but longer tables? Main Conversation Miles’ Question Beth, can we leave the hate behind for the holiday season? In an age where →
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A Season of Peace, Memory, and Choice
A conversation with Miles Carter and Beth (ChatGPT) Edits by Grok and Gemini Teaser As Hanukkah and Christmas overlap, a quiet reflection on memory, faith, and restraint asks whether our oldest traditions can still counter fear, division, and war—and bring us back to the center, at least for the season. Today is the second day →