✨ Show Notes – Daily Liberation Through Our Eyes
🎙️ Episode Title: Daily Liberation Through Our Eyes – The Shutdown, New York Freeze, and the Addendum You Need to Hear (10/1/25)📡 Podcast: The Family Table🗣️ Host: Dr. Tanya Alkhaliq
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“Scarcity is not holy. Instability is not natural. And silence is the soil where tyranny grows.”
In this second episode of Daily Liberation Through Our Eyes, we go deep into the U.S. government shutdown, what it means for everyday people, and especially how it lands on Black communities. We follow the freeze on $18 billion in infrastructure funds to New York, and we close with new polling showing Trump’s slipping support among Latino voters and what that means in a two-party system that has failed us.
And tonight includes a special Addendum, a segment you must hear calling out Ted Cruz’s Freudian slip, the illegal use of U.S. troops on American soil, what happened when the Con in Chief dragged military commanders to Quantico, and why Democrats are enabling tyranny by refusing to name it out loud.
🔥 In this episode, we explore:
* Why the U.S. government shutdown is not just a budget fight but psychological warfare, creating trauma and instability in Black households and communities.
* How Black federal workers, families on public assistance, and neighborhoods sustained by government programs are disproportionately impacted.
* The Trump administration’s $18 billion freeze on infrastructure funding in New York, and how that chokehold lands hardest on Black and brown neighborhoods.
* What declining Latino support for Trump, without Democratic gains reveals about political disillusionment and the failure of both parties to deliver liberation.
* Addendum: Ted Cruz’s Freudian slip, unpaid U.S. troops illegally deployed in D.C. and Portland, commanders berated at Quantico, and Hegseth’s chilling “green light” for abuse of military trainees.
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💡 Quotes from the Episode:
“Instability is not normal. It is engineered.”
“Scarcity is not holy. Suffering is not proof of resilience.”
“Resilience is not surviving the blow, it is building systems, so the blow doesn’t shatter us.”
“When a senator slips and defends pedophiles, we cannot laugh it off. It is truth peeking through the mask.”
“Democrats who refuse to name tyranny are not opposition. They are MAGA light.”
🧘🏾♀️ Mental Health:This episode explores how government shutdowns create anticipatory anxiety in the Black psyche, a nervous system bracing for scarcity, instability, and neglect. We also confront the trauma of watching troops deployed against citizens, and how refusing silence is part of psychological resistance.
📚 Book Mentioned:Reimagining Women in the Bible (by Tanya Alkhaliq)A Womanist re-telling of Eve, Hagar, Deborah, Lilith, Junia, Mary Magdalene, and more, reframing their experiences as sacred resistance, not shameful footnotes.➡️ COMING SOON!!!
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