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What are the similar impacts of power lines, data centers and hair dryers?🔥 David Carpenter went into this a skeptic. He was handed $5 million and thirteen studies in 1980 to find out whether power lines cause childhood leukemia — funded bythe New York utilities — and his program replicated the finding against them. Dr. Carpenter is a public health physician and director of the Institute for Health and the Environment at the University at Albany. American citizens fighting transmission lines for private data centers are the reason he's on the show. David reviewed about thirty childhood leukemia studies published since 2000 and sorted them by who paid for the studies. He says plainly that magnetic fields aren't the biggest environmental threat we face, but there is proof that these fields are most likely carcinogenic. David gives practical advice about limiting EMF exposure in the home. On data centers he makes two requests— route the lines away from people, and bury them. Stephanie and Dr. Carpenter cover the difference between electric and magnetic fields, the 300-meter falloff, eminent domain for data centers, the FCC's exposure standards, Wi-Fi and 5G, and what he does in his own house, all from the angle of informed consent.  Chapters:01:44 — From Wadsworth to the NY Power Lines Project05:28 — What Magnetic Fields Do to DNA07:57 — Alzheimer's & the Sewing Machine Study14:55 — Electric Blankets & Hair Dryers16:15 — How Big Is the Risk, Really?24:04 — 30 Studies, Split by Who Funded Them31:16 — Bury the Power Lines33:12 — Data Centers & the 300-Meter Radius39:42 — Wi-Fi, 5G & What Isn't Known45:31 — What He Does in His Own House Institute for Health and the Environment: https://www.albany.edu/iheOwn Your Freedom—It's That Simple🎧 Listen to Own Your Freedom on Substack & all other platforms: https://taplink.cc/fedsforfreedom🇺🇸 Visit our Website: FedsForFreedom.org 🏃 Follow us on Instagram /X /Facebook:  @feds4freedomusa

 Dr. Sara Brenner, Emily Kaplan, Kim Mack Rosenberg, Dr. Meryl Nass, and ShaneStevens take the health panel at the Feds For Freedom National Security Summit. Theydiscuss why America spends more per person on health care than any country on earthand gets the worst outcomes among its peers — and why that may be the system workingas designed rather than failing. Stephanie and the panel then discuss autism prevalence and military accession,nanotechnology and carbon nanotubes, billing codes and peer review, the childhoodvaccine schedule litigation, the anthrax vaccine program, metabolic disease, theJuly 1 COVID emergency-use wind-down, and fraud in the $79 billion health programcovering 8.2 million federal workers. Chapters:00:53 — Dr. Sara Brenner: FDA, HHS & the NSC01:50 — Running the $79 Billion FEHB Program04:29 — Autism at 1 in 3106:11 — 38 Years on the Anthrax Vaccine13:18 — Broken Science: Billing Codes & Peer Review23:19 — Highest Spending, Worst Outcomes30:03 — 1 in 10 Kids Has Fatty Liver37:24 — Health, Resilience & National Security45:48 — Nanotechnology & Carbon Nanotubes54:09 — Why the COVID EUA Ran Until July 156:16 — FEHB Fraud and Where the Money Went1:02:43 — Military Families and the CHD Study Broken Science Initiative:https://brokenscience.orgChildren's Health Defense:https://childrenshealthdefense.orgDoor to Freedom: https://doortofreedom.org Own Your Freedom—It's That Simple🎧 Listen to Own Your Freedom onSubstack & all other platforms: https://taplink.cc/fedsforfreedom🇺🇸 Visit our Website: FedsForFreedom.org 🏃 Follow us on Instagram /X /Facebook:  @feds4freedomusa

Kevin McAfee, president of Feds For Freedom, Army civilian and retired soldier, graces the podcast this week. He discusses his COVID story that led him to Feds For Freedom, his experience with the EEOC, and what he’s seen in the Army recently. Stephanie and Kevin then discuss recent changes in government vaccine policy, the continued flu shot mandate battle in the military, eminent domain, REAL ID, and needed government constitutional training.  Chapters:02:15 — Stationed in Italy07:54 — 200 Meters From Home: Italy's Lockdown Papers09:58 — An EEO Complaint Dismissed 12:33 — Cutting the Department of War Until It Breaks?15:14 — The TDA Problem: Why Positions Don't Come Back17:27 — The Flu Shot Memo and a Guardsman Still Waiting20:36 — Trump's Vaccine Executive Order22:27 — The Fabrizio & McLaughlin & Assoc. Polls24:52 — Why Feds for Freedom Took the Raytheon Case28:39 — The CIA's Counter-Espionage List30:22 — Feds Get ONE Class on the Constitution (If That!) JOIN US OCTOBER 30 — Alexandria Courthouse, Virginia. Press conference at 9:00 a.m., summary judgment hearing at 10:00 a.m. in the Adirim defamation case. https://x.com/feds4freedomusa/status/2114800931585896674 Own Your Freedom—It's That Simple 🎧 Listen to Own Your Freedom onSubstack & all other platforms: https://taplink.cc/fedsforfreedom🇺🇸 Visit our Website: FedsForFreedom.org 🏃 Follow us on Instagram /X /Facebook:  @feds4freedomusa

Ex-CIA operations officer Jim Erdman says intelligence oversight is theater. In this Own Your Freedom episode, host Stephanie Weidle and Erdman break down why government accountability keeps failing — and what the citizens can actually do about it.Jim Erdman is Co-Founder and Director of Development of Feds For Freedom. Jim and Stephanie cover Trump's broken campaign promises, why Congress gets blocked from classified info, Inspectors General independence, rulemaking vs. legislation, whistleblower retaliation and conscientious dissent, anomalous health incidents (AHIs) concern, the Navy’s flu shot mandate, and how a citizen petitions OPM.Chapters: 04:50 — The News Blackout After the Hearing11:06 — The List of Broken Campaign Promises19:10 — Manipulated, or Responsible?21:57 — Why Nonpartisan Is the Point26:23 — CIA Lawsuit: Motion to Dismiss35:40 — How a Citizen Petitions OPM39:50 — AHIs, the DIG, and What Got Blocked44:11 — Oversight is Cosplay48:12 — Holding the System Accountable53:18 — Separating the Inspectors General56:25 — The Importance of Putting Your Name On It1:06:12 — The Navy Flu Shot Exemptions Debacle JOIN US OCTOBER 30 — Alexandria Courthouse, Virginia. Press conference at 9 a.m., summary judgment hearing at 10 a.m. in the Dr. Terry Adirim defamation case, with Ivan Raiklin taking questions afterward. If you're in the DC area, this one to show up for.🎧 Listen to Own Your Freedom onSubstack & all other platforms: https://taplink.cc/fedsforfreedom🇺🇸 Visit our Website: FedsForFreedom.org 🏃 Follow us on Instagram /X /Facebook:  @feds4freedomusa

If you don’t own your freedom, someone else will.Own Your Freedom — formerly The Feds — is the podcast of Feds For Freedom, an organization of federal employees who put the Constitution before the institution.Owning your freedom isn’t waiting for it to be granted. It isn’t asking for your rights to be handed over. It isn’t even reclaiming them — those rights are already yours, and they always have been. The job is never letting them go.Every week, host Stephanie Weidle talks with people who did exactly that. A homeowner told a 185-foot transmission tower was going in her backyard. Employees fired after the religious exemptions their employer had already approved. A former CIA operations officer who took his case to the Senate when every internal channel failed. Federal workers who found out they had more rights than anyone had ever trained them on.Conversations about government overreach, medical freedom, religious liberty, informed consent, whistleblower retaliation, and what accountability actually requires — from the people living it, not the people reporting on it.New episodes weekly.Own Your Freedom—It’s That Simple🎧 Listen to Own Your Freedom on Substack & all other platforms: https://taplink.cc/fedsforfreedom🇺🇸 Visit our Website: FedsForFreedom.org🏃 Follow us on Instagram / X / Facebook: @feds4freedomusa

"Don't panic. For most cancers, you have time to think." Dr. Paul Marik on what he'd tell a patient who just heard they have cancer.Joining the podcast today is Dr. Paul Marik, discussing cancer care, drug approval standards, and the role patients play in their own treatment decisions.The conversation explores his critique of conventional oncology: that drug approvals increasingly rest on surrogate endpoints such as tumor size and biomarkers rather than on whether patients live longer, that the survival gains of the past two decades have been modest relative to their cost, and that patients are given little room to participate in their own treatment planning. Dr. Marik walks us through what the FDA actually requires before approving a cancer drug, what two decades of those approvals have delivered, what some of them cost a patient per month, and why he thinks the one question patients ask most — what should I eat? — gets waved away.He discusses diet, sleep, exercise and stress as factors patients can influence, cautions that certain vitamins and antioxidants may be harmful in cancer patients, and identifies the cancers for which he considers chemotherapy clearly appropriate.Dr. Marik stresses the importance of finding a guide who will walk with the patient through all of these different healing paths.Chapters:00:00 — What Happened to His Career03:53 — From COVID to Cancer06:14 — Two Theories of the Disease10:50 — 4% 15:01 — Who Writes the Protocols17:31 — If You've Just Been Diagnosed21:12 — Where Chemotherapy Genuinely Works26:22 — Sleep, Stress, and the Vitamin Warning29:28 — What's Driving the Increase32:58 — Vaccines and Turbo Cancers43:09 — The Dosing Question47:38 — 10 Minutes With a Patient Follow Dr. Paul Marik:https://paulmarik.substack.com  Own Your Freedom—It’s That Simple🎧 Listen to Own Your Freedom onSubstack & all other platforms: https://taplink.cc/fedsforfreedom🇺🇸 Visit our Website: FedsForFreedom.org 🏃 Follow us on Instagram /X /Facebook:  @feds4freedomusa

 They approved the religious exemption — then fired them anyway.Mike Heyser, retired Air Force veteran who ran Raytheon's Warfighter School, andLisa Leake, a 14-year IT systems analyst on classified programs, both had religious exemptions approved under the COVID vaccine mandate. Both say the accommodations that came with it — masking, weekly testing, travel ban — made approval meaningless. Mike's job required travel. Lisa's exemption explicitly covered testing. There was no appeal and the terms were final.They've been in litigation since 2022. Right-to-sue letters arrived from three different EEOC offices with conflicting deadlines, and the case has been stuck on that timeline fight ever since. Four years in, no court has ruled on whether any of it was lawful.Host Stephanie Weidle talks with Mike and Lisa about religious accommodation under Title VII, defense contractor policy during the federal mandate, EEOC process and right-to-sue delays, litigation costs for individual plaintiffs, workplace privacy, and what reform should look like.Chapters:05:21 — What the Raytheon Merger Changed11:18 — When the COVID Policies Arrived15:27 — Isolated by Design19:46 — Approved, Then Ignored24:00 — The EEOC and the Right-to-Sue Letters36:21 — Dismissed, Then SanctionedFour years of litigation, and not one ruling on the facts. How is that an accident?Mike and Lisa came to Feds For Freedom through the F4F Religious Discrimination Survey. Feds For Freedom is supporting their lawsuit against Raytheon.If you support federal employees and contractors standing up for constitutional rights, subscribe to Feds For Freedom and share this episode of Own Your Freedom.Own Your Freedom—It’s That Simple🎧 Listen to Own Your Freedom onSubstack & all other platforms: https://taplink.cc/fedsforfreedom🇺🇸 Visit our Website: FedsForFreedom.org 🏃 Follow us on Instagram /X /Facebook:  @feds4freedomusa

Most federal employees think they have fewer religious freedom rights at work than everyone else. It's the other way around — and almost nobody has been trained on it. September Secrist, executive director of the Interagency Christian Fellowship and a federal leader of more than twenty years, discusses what the law actually permits inside a federal agency. The First Amendment restrains government — and for two million career civil servants, government is the employer. The standard is equal access: if your agency lets people run a book club, hold a potluck, or talk about baseball, it cannot shut out employees of faith. Those rights aren't new.They were spelled out decades ago, and then nobody taught anyone what they meant. Chapters:02:25 — Why Federal Employees Have More Protection, Not Less05:51 — The Training Gap Nobody Has Filled12:48 — Win People Over, Don't Hit Them With the Law14:11 — Bureaucratic Guerrilla Warfare15:57 — Where Our Rights Come From18:23 — What Interagency Christian Fellowship Does21:39 — Government Quick Wins, Slow Machine27:00 — The October 3 Convocation   The Interagency Christian Fellowship Convocation is October 3 at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC — 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., $45 including museum admission, breakfast, and lunch, with speakers from the EEOC and the Department of Justice. Register here:https://www.interagencychristianfellowship.org/events/fy27-convocation Own Your Freedom—It’s That Simple___________________________________________________________________🎧 Listen to Own Your Freedom onSubstack & all other platforms: https://taplink.cc/fedsforfreedom🇺🇸 Visit our Website: FedsForFreedom.org 🏃 Follow us on Instagram /X /Facebook:  @feds4freedomusa

During COVID, millions of Americans said "but I have rights" — and watched that fail. What if the rights were fine, and the problem was the holes between them?Joining the podcast this week are Danielle Lasher and Sofia Karstens, co-founders of the newly launched Spirit of 1776. Their plan is to rebuild the village — connecting the people, practitioners, schools, and farms that already exist outside failing institutions into something that holds together.They explain why nobody has to move to the woods, how overlapping the rights we already have can cover each other's gaps, and why they believe the next fight over bodily autonomy will be about technology. Chapters:04:24 — What Is Spirit of 1776?08:43 — A Crisis of Institutional Failure11:41 — An Alternative Society, Not a Commune14:20 — Homeschooling Kids With Special Needs18:42 —Rights You Already Have, Fortified22:38 — Surveillance, Biometrics, and Kill Switches29:25 — What It Looks Like Where You Live34:26 — Transhumanism and the Right to Stay Human Spirit of 1776 will hold a press conference on October 5. Learn more: https://thespiritof1776.net Own Your Freedom—It’s That Simple🎧 Listen to Own Your Freedom on Substack & all other platforms: https://taplink.cc/fedsforfreedom🇺🇸 Visit our Website: FedsForFreedom.org 🏃 Follow us on Instagram / X / Facebook:  @feds4freedomusa

Feds For Freedom Releases Adirim Deposition, Calls for Congressional Subpoena and Full DoW Records > > Read full press release here: https://www.fedsforfreedom.org/adirimTerry Adirim, MD, then acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, signed a memo on Sept. 14, 2021, stating that the Pfizer BioNTech EUA shot was interchangeable with the FDA approved Comirnaty. But they were legally distinct- one carries a right of refusal, the other doesn't.After her time at the DOD and Veterans Affairs, Adirim worked at the CIA and was promptly fired in Spring 2025, once President Trump took office. She turned around and sued Ivan Raiklin for defamation (and CIA Dir. Ratcliffe for firing her, claim now dropped), claiming he was the reason she was fired. Feds For Freedom is supporting the defense in the lawsuit Terry Adirim v CIA et al.Ivan Raiklin, constitutional attorney, and Kevin McAfee, president of Feds For Freedom join us to discuss Adirim’s memo and what she revealed in her August 2026 deposition as to how she determined these shots were safe for 2 million servicemembers. Chapters:01:45 — Who Signed the Memo?05:28 — Adirim: Pediatrics to Defense Health Affairs09:04 — Comirnaty, the EUA Product, and "Legally Distinct"15:18 — Kevin McAfee: What the Memo Meant Inside the Force25:01 — The Adirim v. CIA et al Lawsuit and Its Claims32:58 — Discovery and the Adirim’s Deposition44:54 — Liability, Manufacturers, and Why the Distinction Mattered1:04:42 — Participate in AccountabilityRead more: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/09/dr-terry-adirims-legacy-five-years-unraveling-militaryRep. Harris calls for Adirim subpoena: https://harris.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-harris-five-years-after-adirim-mandatory-vaccine-memo-put-her-under-oath What does it mean to Own Your Freedom? It’s not waiting for freedom to be granted to you. It’s not asking for rights to be given, it’s not even reclaiming your rights- as they’re yours and they’ve been yours along- you just need to never let go of your God-given rights. Owning freedom is taking responsibility for your rights and living them out in all facets of life. On this podcast, we interview people who have taken ownership of their freedoms and as a result have made incredible change, whether it be at the federal, state, local levels, or in the home. It’s a way of living. Own Your Freedom. It’s that simple. 🎧 Listen to The Feds on Substack & all other platforms: https://taplink.cc/fedsforfreedom🇺🇸 Visit our Website: FedsForFreedom.org 🏃 Follow us on Instagram / X / Facebook: @feds4freedomusa