✨ Show Notes – Daily Liberation Through Our Eyes
🎙️ Episode Title: Daily Liberation Through Our Eyes – Shutdowns, Raids, and the Unmasking of Fascism (10/3/25)📡 Podcast: The Family Table🗣️ Host: Dr. Tanya Alkhaliq
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“Silence is not safety, and exhaustion is not the end of our story.”
In this powerful special, we take a deep dive into the wave of chaos unfolding in America this week: the shutdown of the federal government, Trump’s militarization of our cities, the scapegoating of immigrants, and the open embrace of fascist rhetoric by Republican leaders.
But this is not just about headlines…it’s about what these events mean for Black minds, Black bodies, and Black futures.
🔥 In this episode, we explore:
* Why the U.S. government shutdown is not “politics as usual” but state violence, leaving Black federal workers, families on assistance, and communities in limbo.
* How scapegoating immigrants is a cover for authoritarian rehearsal and why raids in Chicago signal danger for all of us.
* The Quantico incident - Trump and Hegseth berating generals, threatening military leadership, and trying to turn the armed forces into a personal militia.
* Trump’s declaration of “armed conflict” with drug cartels, and what it really means: more cages, more raids, more profit off Black and brown pain.
* Hegseth’s chilling dismissal of 8,000+ military sexual assault reports and the silencing of survivors.
* Federal courts pushing back on Trump’s attempt to strip FEMA disaster relief, and why the law is never a safe haven for Black people.
* Stephen Miller’s resurgence and the open embrace of Jim Crow 2.0 in policy form.
* Arizona Republican John Gillette’s call for the execution of Rep. Pramila Jayapal and why naming fascism out loud is now a survival strategy.
* The symbolism of Trump’s 90,000-square-foot ballroom built while workers go unpaid and children go hungry.
* What all of this means for Black psychology…exhaustion, anxiety, but also resilience, spirit, and the inheritance of liberation.
🎧 LISTEN NOW:Click to hear the full episode.Bring your journal, your breath, and your fire. This table is sacred, and you belong here.
💡 Quotes from the Episode:
“Suffering is not proof of righteousness, and endurance is not the same as liberation.”
“Immigrant scapegoating is never about immigrants, it’s a rehearsal for authoritarianism.”
“When generals show more courage than Congress, democracy is already on fire.”
“Fascism begins with silencing voices and ends with killing bodies.”
“We are not just survivors of empire; we are architects of liberation.”
🧘🏾♀️ Mental Health:We pause to recognize how shutdowns, raids, and militarization trigger collective trauma in the Black nervous system. Anticipatory anxiety, exhaustion, and despair are real but so is our resilience. Mutual aid, truth-telling, and collective care are not optional. They are the way we breathe through chaos.
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🎶 Music Credit:All music in this episode is used by permission from:🎧 X the Maestro➤ https://soundcloud.com/x-the-maestro
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