I agree with you about the Negativity toward Single Moms. I would comment that the Parent who takes responsibility, and raises the child...should be the Hero, whether one or both. Why they are seen with any negativity makes no sense.
I agree. I was a single mom and was a good one yet my family treated me ( siblings and parents) somewhat disrespectfully. My sisters-in-law chimed in too, then my kids did also . I never did anything to be treated like that.
I keep telling people that is going to pull this crap. Effing scary stuff. And the speed as to which this is coming is so fast. Which is also one of their tactics. My sister is swept up in maga. The well is deep.
It runs super deep. I started going down a rabbit hole of how trad wives like Nara Smith and podcasters like Joe Rogan also are sending people down the alt right pipeline, especially trad wives who post a lot of content about wellness and holistic stuff, they usually hop on the raw milk trend and it’s all anti-vax and RFK Jr. from there! It’s so freaky honestly.
of course! i can really see how much you have worked through this. most other reporters use these things as fear mongering. you actually read and analyzed them, and stay calm about it. i’m very impressed
Thank you so much for noticing that! I try really hard to remain as analytical and descriptive as possible to not spread so much doom. I think when people get very depressed by the news and right wing movements it gets a lot harder to remain proactive!
As an “Elder” I would offer this: Always when examining new proposals, or changes.. Think several steps beyond, the 2nd and 3rd level impact. Sometimes that is the intent, and often it is not, and as now with cancelling USAID… the Farmers of the US, who sell $$Billions of products for USAID to bring to famine struck areas are now looking at the loss of huge parts of their business. Things do not happen isolated from the Systems.
I am thrilled to hear from “the young’uns” - who care so much, and have so much at stake. Keep up the Fight!
I am so interested in your thoughts. Love you, but I drink raw milk because I grew up on a farm. Very conservative background in a rural area. I only drink milk from my critters because I know the whole process and my body has evolved with this food. I also work from home for the government, and have a lovely husband who cooks for our family. We are both disabled veterans with terrible experiences with traditional health care. My personal passion revolves around food.
I would love to chat with you. I value your voice and would love to give some nuance in the system from my observations over my life. Your passion and knowledge is beautiful.
Thank you! I understand drinking raw milk from your own farm etc, but I think the dangers are clear especially with very large farms where there have been a lot of issues with bacteria and illness recently. But I value your perspective and thank you for commenting :) 💕
Finally finished watching. You have some serious stamina. I believe our food systems are very close to broken, with this seeming to be the last straw. People who like to eat but don't produce their own food should find a local farmer to support. Farming has consolidated to several large companies and people are seeing that with eggs currently. I really appreciate your time reading those things and summarizing the content. I am off social media except substack, and have stopped reading the news as well. Just executive orders, and lived experience in the government tells me this is serious and beyond crazy. I really feel for the serious suffering here and around the world at the hands of billionaire extractors of wealth. I am no longer supporting them with my money, but see money being worthless soon.
I had a similar thought, although I didn’t grow up on a farm. As a woman with chronic illness (Epstein Barr Virus), the allopathic medicine industry has failed me over & over again. I have become my own guinea pig, and the healthiest I have ever been in my life was when I was following a specific dietary protocol which included drinking raw milk (which I purchased from a local farm near me). Because of the attacks against raw milk (likely based on the large scale farms without sufficient regulatory oversight), our farm was forced to close. It was very sad, and I am hoping that since NJ recently legalized raw milk, some new local farms may pop up to sell it. I think keeping the arguments focused on the true issues (large scale farms, insufficient oversight, etc), rather than the small issues themselves (raw milk), we can avoid driving people into extremes and susceptibility to believing outright misinformation. Thanks Freya, for your otherwise very in depth analysis & explanation. We need more voices like yours!
Edit: Here’s a link to a google doc with the transcript! At some point spotify and apple should host my transcript in the future, they just don’t yet because I’m new :-)
Musk first went to vice president Kamala Harris and she shut down his “help”. If you want to know when he was on team trump, I would check around the time he approached her.
Excellent work. Regarding f-Elon you may want to research the "PayPal Mafia " for additional background on where Musk is coming from and how far back his association with neo-fascism goes.
While you're assumption that f-Elon Musk would want tax incentives for electric vehicles makes sense, my understanding is it's not actually to. I recall having run across this somewhere over a year ago.
He wanted and was glad to take the subsidies, up until the market for EV's was well established and felt he had achieved market dominance. The reason he doesn't want the subsidies now is that he doesn't want the same advantages he had building Tesla going to any up and comming competitors who might challenge Tesla's EV market dominance.
Likewise, my understanding is that he also doesn't want the government supporting Universal EV Charge Stations (from the Bipartisan Infrastructure bill), essentially because he has his own line of charge stations. In other words, he wants to be the one who owns the infrastructure.
Wikipedia has been relatively whitewashed regarding the "PayPal Mafia". The political "code" is a reference to Peter Thiel, David O. Sacks and Elon Musk who all grew up in South Africa and identity as/with pro Apartheid Afrikaners.
J.D. Vance is a protege of Peter Thiel's and it's plausible Vance was groomed to play a leadership role in the technocratic neo-fascist coup we are dealing with.
I do believe we need to make new apps and social media.. like the five calls app..
But just starting one with the right foundation is all it would take..
We just need a catchy name, but if just every story is verified or removed would be a big first step.. knowing you are on a platform where you can trust everyone and everything you read, is a big first!
I like Substack but I'd still say it could get better, to build on the right foundation is key!
This is my latest, I do hope it will get more understanding across!
Thank you! I agree that we need new social media platforms. I am LOVING Substack and Bluesky, hope there’s more platforms like facebook and instagram that takeoff soon.
You are impressive! Do you have time to chat with me (over Zoom?). I've been looking for someone whom I can network with. I'm in DC, and I'm now am activist. I want to pick your brain on all of your research for Project 2025 and the Executive Orders.
They’re moving SO fast and the whole of the representatives in DC have all but laid down and have decided that he can do anything. He has been posting “he who saves his country; break no laws “
At the peace conference our new leaders snubbed our allies and met with their far right afD? Blew off a meeting with the German president!
Yes! It should auto sort into chapters on YouTube but I’m not sure. I’m figuring it all out now 😂 but starting next week my podcasts will be 45 min long and be a deeper dive into the topic of the weeks article, so it’ll be a bit easier to manage. I just wanted to cover a lot of ground in my first one!
I cannot get through the P2025 manifesto and I had not heard of "The Network State" manifesto. But other reading, from critics of such activities, has lead me to a similar understanding of the technological oligarchs intentions for the rest of us.
Thank you for reading these horrifying documents and sharing your thoughts with us.
Also its on Youtube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts as well :)
Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSXnSrcz86J1lYha-6JW4xw
Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/episode/0Z6407waATwxl7GUgloNzw?si=JZY9ue0fSxySBROqTlaNMg
Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deepdive-with-freya-zank/id1796788166
I agree with you about the Negativity toward Single Moms. I would comment that the Parent who takes responsibility, and raises the child...should be the Hero, whether one or both. Why they are seen with any negativity makes no sense.
You’re 100% right, it’s because they’re trying to push the nuclear family and male heads of household
I agree. I was a single mom and was a good one yet my family treated me ( siblings and parents) somewhat disrespectfully. My sisters-in-law chimed in too, then my kids did also . I never did anything to be treated like that.
I keep telling people that is going to pull this crap. Effing scary stuff. And the speed as to which this is coming is so fast. Which is also one of their tactics. My sister is swept up in maga. The well is deep.
It runs super deep. I started going down a rabbit hole of how trad wives like Nara Smith and podcasters like Joe Rogan also are sending people down the alt right pipeline, especially trad wives who post a lot of content about wellness and holistic stuff, they usually hop on the raw milk trend and it’s all anti-vax and RFK Jr. from there! It’s so freaky honestly.
you are my favorite journalist covering this angle. thanks for all the time you put into it!
Thank you so much!!! That means a lot to me 🥲
of course! i can really see how much you have worked through this. most other reporters use these things as fear mongering. you actually read and analyzed them, and stay calm about it. i’m very impressed
Thank you so much for noticing that! I try really hard to remain as analytical and descriptive as possible to not spread so much doom. I think when people get very depressed by the news and right wing movements it gets a lot harder to remain proactive!
As an “Elder” I would offer this: Always when examining new proposals, or changes.. Think several steps beyond, the 2nd and 3rd level impact. Sometimes that is the intent, and often it is not, and as now with cancelling USAID… the Farmers of the US, who sell $$Billions of products for USAID to bring to famine struck areas are now looking at the loss of huge parts of their business. Things do not happen isolated from the Systems.
I am thrilled to hear from “the young’uns” - who care so much, and have so much at stake. Keep up the Fight!
I am so interested in your thoughts. Love you, but I drink raw milk because I grew up on a farm. Very conservative background in a rural area. I only drink milk from my critters because I know the whole process and my body has evolved with this food. I also work from home for the government, and have a lovely husband who cooks for our family. We are both disabled veterans with terrible experiences with traditional health care. My personal passion revolves around food.
I would love to chat with you. I value your voice and would love to give some nuance in the system from my observations over my life. Your passion and knowledge is beautiful.
Thank you! I understand drinking raw milk from your own farm etc, but I think the dangers are clear especially with very large farms where there have been a lot of issues with bacteria and illness recently. But I value your perspective and thank you for commenting :) 💕
Finally finished watching. You have some serious stamina. I believe our food systems are very close to broken, with this seeming to be the last straw. People who like to eat but don't produce their own food should find a local farmer to support. Farming has consolidated to several large companies and people are seeing that with eggs currently. I really appreciate your time reading those things and summarizing the content. I am off social media except substack, and have stopped reading the news as well. Just executive orders, and lived experience in the government tells me this is serious and beyond crazy. I really feel for the serious suffering here and around the world at the hands of billionaire extractors of wealth. I am no longer supporting them with my money, but see money being worthless soon.
I had a similar thought, although I didn’t grow up on a farm. As a woman with chronic illness (Epstein Barr Virus), the allopathic medicine industry has failed me over & over again. I have become my own guinea pig, and the healthiest I have ever been in my life was when I was following a specific dietary protocol which included drinking raw milk (which I purchased from a local farm near me). Because of the attacks against raw milk (likely based on the large scale farms without sufficient regulatory oversight), our farm was forced to close. It was very sad, and I am hoping that since NJ recently legalized raw milk, some new local farms may pop up to sell it. I think keeping the arguments focused on the true issues (large scale farms, insufficient oversight, etc), rather than the small issues themselves (raw milk), we can avoid driving people into extremes and susceptibility to believing outright misinformation. Thanks Freya, for your otherwise very in depth analysis & explanation. We need more voices like yours!
Exactly! Good way to put it. Because. Science. Most of us have not been exposed to raw milk ever in our lives.
Is there a way to read this? I have trouble just listening to a podcast.
Let me see how I can share the transcript!
Edit: Here’s a link to a google doc with the transcript! At some point spotify and apple should host my transcript in the future, they just don’t yet because I’m new :-)
Did the link not work 🥲 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Xw07_EVqSY4SiCAn-haQW62a8oISOce2IDpsXGGVDak/edit
Musk first went to vice president Kamala Harris and she shut down his “help”. If you want to know when he was on team trump, I would check around the time he approached her.
Excellent work. Regarding f-Elon you may want to research the "PayPal Mafia " for additional background on where Musk is coming from and how far back his association with neo-fascism goes.
While you're assumption that f-Elon Musk would want tax incentives for electric vehicles makes sense, my understanding is it's not actually to. I recall having run across this somewhere over a year ago.
He wanted and was glad to take the subsidies, up until the market for EV's was well established and felt he had achieved market dominance. The reason he doesn't want the subsidies now is that he doesn't want the same advantages he had building Tesla going to any up and comming competitors who might challenge Tesla's EV market dominance.
Likewise, my understanding is that he also doesn't want the government supporting Universal EV Charge Stations (from the Bipartisan Infrastructure bill), essentially because he has his own line of charge stations. In other words, he wants to be the one who owns the infrastructure.
... "not actually true." ...looks like I must have fat fingered "true" and had another sentence mangled by the Artificial Idiocy autocorrect feature.
PayPal is crazy, I think I read that the owner wants to make it like the standard payment system and use it for a new standard currency in the US?
Wikipedia has been relatively whitewashed regarding the "PayPal Mafia". The political "code" is a reference to Peter Thiel, David O. Sacks and Elon Musk who all grew up in South Africa and identity as/with pro Apartheid Afrikaners.
J.D. Vance is a protege of Peter Thiel's and it's plausible Vance was groomed to play a leadership role in the technocratic neo-fascist coup we are dealing with.
BTW they DID tell NATO exactly what you’re saying this past weekend. JD Vance and the hedhog were awful!
It’s so terrible!! Everything in project 2025 they’re trying to pass. They’re not missing a beat
I enjoyed it!
You were well reasoned and calm!
I do believe we need to make new apps and social media.. like the five calls app..
But just starting one with the right foundation is all it would take..
We just need a catchy name, but if just every story is verified or removed would be a big first step.. knowing you are on a platform where you can trust everyone and everything you read, is a big first!
I like Substack but I'd still say it could get better, to build on the right foundation is key!
This is my latest, I do hope it will get more understanding across!
https://open.substack.com/pub/2ndservant/p/the-power-of-the-people?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=36cu3l
Thank you! I agree that we need new social media platforms. I am LOVING Substack and Bluesky, hope there’s more platforms like facebook and instagram that takeoff soon.
What a remarkable analysis. You are so thorough and logical and easy to understand. I hope you will provide frequent updates!
Thank you so much!! Yes I plan on providing updates :)
You are impressive! Do you have time to chat with me (over Zoom?). I've been looking for someone whom I can network with. I'm in DC, and I'm now am activist. I want to pick your brain on all of your research for Project 2025 and the Executive Orders.
Hi Tammy! I just saw this :) shoot me a message
They’re moving SO fast and the whole of the representatives in DC have all but laid down and have decided that he can do anything. He has been posting “he who saves his country; break no laws “
At the peace conference our new leaders snubbed our allies and met with their far right afD? Blew off a meeting with the German president!
Excellent analysis. So much effort you put into this.
I would enjoy seeing you break down the Topics, so I could choose the area I needed to know about, in an order that impacts me.
Perhaps some sort of Chapters? That would also allow us to interact with certain areas and issues… and see other peoples thoughts.
Thank you for all this effort…
Yes! It should auto sort into chapters on YouTube but I’m not sure. I’m figuring it all out now 😂 but starting next week my podcasts will be 45 min long and be a deeper dive into the topic of the weeks article, so it’ll be a bit easier to manage. I just wanted to cover a lot of ground in my first one!
I cannot get through the P2025 manifesto and I had not heard of "The Network State" manifesto. But other reading, from critics of such activities, has lead me to a similar understanding of the technological oligarchs intentions for the rest of us.
Thank you for reading these horrifying documents and sharing your thoughts with us.
Thank you for supporting me!