hopegirl, Author at HopeGirl Blog

Covert Online Operations: How the Playbook Works, and What I Learned the Hard Way

hopegirl — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:58:32 +0000

I went live on Facebook for the first time in about ten years, sitting on my back porch in Marrakech, because so many of you have been messaging me with questions. Some of you are reeling from things happening in online communities you trusted. Some of you want to hear my side of a story that’s been told about me, without me, for two years. This article covers the main points of that live, with the source documents linked at the bottom so you can read them yourself.

First, a Quick Word on Tech Glitches

Many of you have written to say a link won’t open, a cart button doesn’t work, or a video suddenly started speaking Arabic. (That last one was YouTube’s auto-translate feature, not my video.) Our websites are fine. The problem usually sits somewhere between the platform, the app, and your phone, which are constantly being updated without most people noticing.

A few quick fixes: tap the three dots and choose “open in browser,” or try a different browser. Update and restart your phone. Check your spam and promotions folders for our emails. Use a computer if your phone keeps acting up. And if you want to reach us, use the contact forms or email on our own websites. Messages sent through Facebook, Instagram, or TikTok are where things tend to get lost.

Where Psychological Operations Come From: Tavistock

To understand what’s happening online right now, it helps to go back to the source. In The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, the late Dr. John Coleman (whose work influenced writers like David Icke) argues that London’s Tavistock Institute became one of the world’s most influential centers for studying how to shape mass human behavior, and that its methods were handed on to governments, intelligence agencies, and corporations.

Coleman traces the idea back to Wellington House, Britain’s World War I propaganda office, which worked to turn public opinion, including American opinion, in favor of the war. His core claim is that Tavistock studied how people behave under stress, fear, and repeated shock, and that a population under pressure becomes easier to steer. He argues that values can be shifted gradually so the change feels natural rather than imposed.

These are Coleman’s arguments, and you can weigh them for yourself. But his central message is one I can’t stress enough: if you understand the techniques, you can recognize when they’re being used on you and stop reacting on autopilot.

JTRIG: The Government’s Own Training Manual

This is where it stops being theory. JTRIG, the Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group, is a unit inside GCHQ, Britain’s version of the NSA. Its documents were among those in the Snowden archive, and on February 24, 2014, Glenn Greenwald at The Intercept published one of them in full, titled “The Art of Deception: Training for Online Covert Operations.” transcend

According to that reporting, two of JTRIG’s core self-identified purposes were to inject false material onto the internet to destroy the reputation of its targets, and to use social sciences and other techniques to manipulate online discourse and activism toward outcomes it considered desirable. Earlier reporting with NBC News covered the monitoring of YouTube and Blogger and the use of “honey traps,” luring people into compromising situations using sex. The targets weren’t limited to terrorists: many of these techniques were discussed as alternatives to traditional law enforcement against people suspected, but not charged or convicted, of ordinary crimes, or against “hacktivists” who use online protest for political ends. New Snowden Doc Reveals How GCHQ/NSA Use The Internet To ‘Manipulate, Deceive And Destroy Reputations’ +2

The slides themselves read like a playbook: infiltration operations, ruse operations, false flag operations, false rescue operations, disruption operations, sting operations. One slide, “Identifying and Exploiting Fracture Points,” maps out what pulls a group together and what pulls it apart, essentially a blueprint for breaking up communities from the inside. Another lays out “the four D’s”: deny, disrupt, degrade, deceive. And strikingly, the slides use magic tricks and playing cards as a recurring visual theme, which connects directly to what I’ve talked about in my technomancy video: working influence through technology.

The Psychology Behind It

In 2015, The Intercept published another JTRIG document. It was a 42-page report from 2011 titled “Behavioral Science Support for JTRIG’s Effects and Online Humint Operations,” authored by a psychologist, Mandeep K. Dhami. Throughout the report, JTRIG’s reliance on behavioral science research is emphasized as critical to its operations, including detailed discussions of how to foster “obedience” and “conformity.” truthdig The Intercept

The techniques will sound familiar from any persuasion textbook, turned into an operating manual. Social validation shows the target that everyone else is doing it. Foot-in-the-door gets a small yes first, then escalates. Reciprocity and liking build a friendship so the target feels they owe you. Scarcity and secrecy make something feel exclusive or urgent. Creating stress keeps people off balance, because people under pressure are easier to steer. And sense-making feeds people story fragments, repeats them until they become expectations, then swaps real information for false.

You don’t have to take anyone’s theory on faith here. These are the government’s own documents, leaked and published.

The Internet of Behaviors: The Same Goal, Automated

JTRIG shows how agents manipulate people one conversation at a time. The Internet of Behaviors is the same goal running at scale. The term was coined back in 2012 by University of Helsinki psychology professor Göte Nyman, and it went mainstream when Gartner listed it first among its top strategic technology trends for 2021 in October 2020. istart gartner

In Gartner’s own words, the IoB captures the “digital dust” of people’s daily lives, combining technologies like facial recognition, location tracking, and big data and connecting the resulting data to behavioral events such as cash purchases or device usage. Organizations use this data to influence human behavior. Their example: monitoring pandemic health compliance by using computer vision to see whether employees wear masks, or thermal imaging to identify people with a fever. Gartner predicted that by 2023, 40 percent of people worldwide would likely have their individual activities tracked digitally this way. 2020 10 19 gartner identifies the top strategic technology trends for 2021 +2

My opinion: when I watch real people suddenly flip, turning on friends overnight and saying things with no filter and no sense of consequence, I believe this constant stream of influence through our phones and media plays a role. Especially when people only know each other through screens and never have a real phone call or sit across a table from one another. That’s part of why I try so hard to show you our real home and our real lives.

What Happened to Me

For anyone who doesn’t know: Sabrina Wallace became widely known online for her theories about emerging technology and the human body being connected to networks. Around 2022, her videos were being pushed everywhere. People I knew kept sending them to me, and if you searched her name on various platforms and sorted by “most recent,” you’d see the same kinds of comments over and over, often from anonymous accounts, repeating variations of “you have to watch Sabrina.”

My husband Tivon is an electrical engineer, and we’ve researched this field together for about fifteen years. We’re IEEE members and wrote Forbidden Tech in 2017. So when her videos came along, I recognized the same white papers we’d been reading. We became friends, only ever through Telegram messages, for about nine months. Then I cut off contact. This October marks two years since then, and those two years brought a steady stream of attacks on me, my family, and our business, with many people going along with it.

Now her circle has had another major breakup, and many people are saying they were wrong and feel foolish. I want to say clearly: I have love and respect for everyone who got swept up, just as I did. I don’t hold anger. I apologize for anything I said while I was under the pressure of that period, and I forgive those who came after me. I’m sharing this because I was where some of you are right now, and I want to help.

How Technical Jargon Gets Used to Persuade

I personally believe a lot of the technology Sabrina talks about is possible. That isn’t the issue. The issue is the method.

Her “tech metric PDF,” presented as her proof, isn’t a single research paper. It’s a compilation of screenshots and excerpts from unrelated sources: engineering standards, a few academic papers, a government spectrum ruling. Her claim is that these documents prove people are secretly and involuntarily tethered to a hidden network through their own bodies. But when you check the actual sources, several say something different:

The body-area sensor research describes devices a person chooses to wear or have implanted, like a heart monitor or glucose sensor.
The graphene antenna research states in its own words that there’s no working proof yet.
The 6G and space-network papers are written as forward-looking concepts, not descriptions of what’s running today.
The DARPA program cited requires a soldier to voluntarily wear an EEG headset. It doesn’t read anyone from a distance.

There’s a name for this pattern: the Texas sharpshooter fallacy. Someone fires at the side of a barn, then paints a target around wherever the bullets landed. You start with the conclusion, gather scattered real fragments that seem to fit, and leave out whatever doesn’t. Research papers are dense and hard to read if you don’t work in the field, which is exactly what makes this approach persuasive. And in my experience, when qualified engineers pointed out that a paper didn’t say what she claimed, the response was to attack them rather than engage the point.

Setting the Record Straight

Our products do not contain microchips or nanotechnology. Our orgonite is a handmade artisan craft: shungite, brass, quartz crystal, steel, and resin, mixed and left to cure. Everything we use is listed on our website. You could break a pendant open and see for yourself. You’d need a DARPA lab in your backyard to do what was claimed.

We are not being sued, and we never have been. The rumor traces back to a 2015-era reblog on my blog of another site’s story about a free-energy inventor. That original site later shut down, leaving my reblog as one of the only copies online. Years later, someone in an unrelated patent dispute in Ohio listed my blog link in their court filing. That’s all it was: a link to my blog post in someone else’s case, thousands of miles away.

We have a return and refund policy. If you bought something from us and don’t like it, you can return it. Throwing it in the bin because someone told you to only means you lose the money you could have gotten back.

Why Hopelessness Is the Point

Here’s my read, based on what I’ve watched for two years. The message in this kind of content is always the same: the technology is already everywhere, there’s nowhere to run, nothing you do will make a difference. And anyone offering anything practical, whether EMF awareness, grounding, or taking better care of your household, gets treated as the enemy.

I don’t believe that. Education is step one. Step two is taking responsibility for yourself and your family and doing your own research. Not everything works for everyone, and I don’t endorse everything out there. But fear with no way forward isn’t information. It’s a tactic.

Eyes open, hands dirty.

— Hope

Sources and Further Reading

Glenn Greenwald, “How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations,” The Intercept, Feb. 24, 2014: https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/
Glenn Greenwald & Andrew Fishman, “Controversial GCHQ Unit Engaged in Domestic Law Enforcement, Online Propaganda, Psychology Research,” The Intercept, June 22, 2015: https://theintercept.com/2015/06/22/controversial-gchq-unit-domestic-law-enforcement-propaganda/
“Psychologist’s Work for GCHQ Deception Unit Inflames Debate Among Peers,” The Intercept, Aug. 7, 2015: https://theintercept.com/2015/08/07/psychologists-work-gchq-deception-unit-inflames-debate-among-peers/
Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group overview and reference list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Threat_Research_Intelligence_Group
Gartner, “Gartner Identifies the Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2021,” Oct. 19, 2020: https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2020-10-19-gartner-identifies-the-top-strategic-technology-trends-for-2021
Dr. John Coleman, The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations: Shaping the Moral, Spiritual, Cultural, Political and Economic Decline of the United States of America
Our 2019 JTRIG presentation with downloadable slides: [insert link]
My full account, “The Sabrina Wallace Operation: Two Years of Harassment”: [insert HopeGirl Blog link]

Free EMF Awareness Guide
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Technomancy, Chaos Magic, and the Ancient Heresy Underneath It

hopegirl — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:11:04 +0000

My testimony — why I recognize this vocabulary: https://substack.com/@hopegirlblog/note/p-216623470?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=x5hw

Before we get into the history, I want to tell you where I’m coming from, because it matters for everything that follows. I became a Christian in 2016. Before that, I practiced forms of Wicca, or what I thought was being a “good witch,” and I was heavily caught up in New Age doctrine. When I found Jesus, I completely walked away from all of it. I shared that story once before, and I’ve reposted it — free, linked above.

I’m not telling you this to shock you, and I’m not here to mock anyone who’s where I used to be. I’m telling you because that background is why I can recognize this vocabulary when I see it: the words, the symbols, the way the ideas get framed. I hope it helps you recognize it too, and test it against Scripture.

This article is an educational overview of published sources and practitioners’ own descriptions of their own practice. It isn’t an endorsement, and I’m not making claims about any individual.

What Is Technomancy?

According to the community of practitioners who actually use the term, technomancy is, in their words, “the magickal study, practice, or phenomena of mystical occurrences” involving advanced technology (Magick Be). In plain English: it’s magic done through modern technology — anything from keeping a digital Book of Shadows to writing a piece of code designed to activate a spell.

The word itself breaks down neatly: the Greek techne, meaning art, skill, or craft, combined with -mancy, meaning divination or magical practice. Literally, “magic through craft or technology.” Technology is new, so you won’t find the word in any ancient grimoire — it’s being invented in real time as each wave of tech arrives. But the impulse behind it isn’t new. People have always combined magical thinking with the technology of their day.

There’s a documented example that predates the smartphone era by decades. A Minneapolis psychic-arts group called Psinergy Networks ran an educational website from 1993 to 2009, under the tagline “The Practical Use of Psychic Energy.” Archived copies of the site are still available. One page listed what the group called “Gift Senses” — psychic abilities with short definitions. Alongside telepathy and clairvoyance was technomancy, defined there as the ability to get technology to work without necessarily knowing how to operate it (Psinergy Education — Gift Senses List, archived). So the word was already circulating in a psychic-arts curriculum well before it showed up anywhere near a smartphone.

The full outline of that archived curriculum — with sourcing and capture dates for anyone who wants to check it themselves:

Psinergy Education Outline From Archive

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Austin Osman Spare and the Birth of Sigil Magic

To understand where modern technomancy comes from, you have to go back to a man most people have never heard of: Austin Osman Spare (1886–1956), equal parts brilliant artist and radical occultist. While the occult world around him was dressing up in robes and performing elaborate ceremonies inside hierarchical organizations like the Golden Dawn, Spare rejected all of it. His idea was elegantly simple: go straight to the subconscious mind. No intermediaries, no long rituals, no invoking external entities — just direct access to the part of the mind where, in his framework, real power lives. You can read more about his approach at the Hermetic Library.

Out of that came sigil magic, one of the most influential magical techniques of the modern era: a symbol encoded with intent, designed to slip past the conscious mind and plant itself in the subconscious. Spare also built his own personal “sacred alphabet.” What he built, in essence, was a system for hacking your own mind through symbols — and that idea didn’t stay in occultism for long.

Chaos Magic Arrives — 1970s England

The tradition now called chaos magic formally emerged in 1978 in England, driven by two figures: Peter J. Carroll and Ray Sherwin. Carroll’s Liber Null (1978) and Sherwin’s The Book of Results (1978) codified the early system, and the Illuminates of Thanateros (IOT), founded the same year, became the central practitioner network. Through the ‘80s and ‘90s the tradition spread through industrial music culture via Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth (TOPY), eventually bleeding into comic book pop culture (Chaos Magick Forge — History of Chaos Magick).

Chaos magic’s foundational idea is simple to state and enormous in implication: belief is a tool, not a truth. Where ceremonial magic says “follow these specific rules, in this specific order,” chaos magic says “use whatever works.” Results over tradition, pragmatism over dogma (Chaos Magick Forge — What Is Chaos Magick?). It’s sometimes called “postmodern magic” for a reason: just as postmodernism questioned whether any grand narrative was truly authoritative, chaos magic questioned whether any single magical system was truly correct. Its answer was no — all systems are tools, none of them Truth.

The practical implication is paradigm shifting: consciously adopting a belief system, working within it genuinely, then discarding it when it stops being useful. A practitioner might work with Christian language on Monday and something else entirely by Friday, because nothing is ever treated as absolute. Carroll introduced the term “meta-paradigm” for the framework above all frameworks: believe what’s useful, discard what isn’t, never confuse the map for the territory.

One of the least understood pieces of this system is what practitioners call paradigmal piracy — using the effective, credible-sounding elements of another belief system (a religion, a philosophy, a body of research) for magical or persuasive ends, without ever permanently adopting it. According to The Magical Buffet, a practitioner doing this can be genuinely indistinguishable from a sincere member of that tradition, because they engage with it fully while they’re using it.

The Hypersigil, and Moving Onto the Internet

In the late 1990s, comic book author Grant Morrison introduced the concept of the hypersigil: a magical working embedded inside a long-form narrative — a story, a comic series — designed to operate as a large-scale sigil on the culture itself. Morrison used his own series, The Invisibles, exactly this way. It marked a shift from chaos magic operating in underground lodges to chaos magic operating through mass media.

When the internet arrived, chaos magic migrated straight into it. Technomancy and technoshamanism became the dominant forms of the practice for this era — what Chaos Magick Forge documents as the tradition’s “third wave,” moving from physical lodges to cybernetic networks. As Technomancy 101 puts it, technomancers surged with the arrival of smartphones, improvising as fast as the tools evolve.

Within that framework, digital infrastructure — servers, social platforms, email — is treated as a modern ritual chamber. The described methods include writing code as a form of incantation, sending “charged” messages or images, coordinated group workings on forums and livestreams, and “digital servitors” — automated, parameter-driven thought-forms, described in the same language as an “if this, then that” automation script.

Runes fit into this too. The historical runic alphabets — Elder Futhark, Younger Futhark, Anglo-Saxon Futhorc — were never purely decorative; carving or painting a rune was itself considered an act. Practitioners describe combining runes into a merged symbol called a bindrune, treated as a kind of digital “program.” The claim attached to this practice — that a symbol displayed passively during a broadcast is continuously “charged” by viewer attention — is worth pausing on. It’s a claim from inside a belief system. It hasn’t been demonstrated. I’m telling you it exists so you can recognize it if you meet it, not because I’m endorsing it.

Gnosticism: An Ancient Heresy That Never Left

Here’s something that might surprise you — the philosophical framework underneath a lot of this isn’t modern at all. It’s a second-century heresy the early church spent real effort refuting, and it keeps quietly reappearing.

Gnosticism comes from the Greek gnosis, “knowledge.” As documented by the World History Encyclopedia, Gnosticism was a cluster of religious and philosophical movements that flourished in the second and third centuries AD. What unified them wasn’t a single creed but a shared assumption: spirit is good, matter is evil, the physical world (including the human body) is a flawed creation, and salvation comes not through faith in a historical event but through secret knowledge available only to the spiritually enlightened.

The Church Fathers who wrote against it — Irenaeus of Lyons, who called Gnostic texts “full of blasphemy” (Against Heresies), along with Tertullian, Justin Martyr, Origen, and Eusebius — identified five recurring errors:

The body is evil, being made of matter, in contrast to a God who is wholly spirit and wholly good.
Salvation is escape from the body through special knowledge, not faith in Christ.
The God of the Old Testament, who made the physical world, was not the true God.
Jesus didn’t actually have a physical body — he only seemed to (Docetism, from the Greek doceo, “to seem”), directly denying the Incarnation.
Secret knowledge separates the enlightened from ordinary people, creating a spiritual elite.

When a theology concludes the body is spiritually irrelevant, history shows it tends to produce one of two opposite results: harsh asceticism, or its mirror image, libertinism — the idea that since the body doesn’t matter, nothing done with it carries spiritual weight. Central Baptist Theological Seminary documents this pattern among historical Gnostic sects. (Those accounts come largely from Gnosticism’s opponents, so they’re worth holding with some care — but the underlying logic is the point: a low view of the body produces real consequences.)

Reformed theologians like Herman Bavinck have argued Gnosticism isn’t a historical curiosity but a recurring theological impulse — a challenge that resurfaces in a new costume in every era. Place for Truth and Reasons to Believe trace the same structure showing up again and again.

What Scripture Actually Says in Response

Scripture’s answer to all of this is clear and consistent. On the goodness of creation, it opens with God declaring the material world “very good” — Genesis 1:31. On the body specifically, the apostle John wrote that every spirit which confesses Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that doesn’t is not — 1 John 4:2–3, language many scholars connect directly to the early Gnostic debate over Docetism. The Incarnation — God becoming physically human — is the foundation of Christian theology. A system that treats the body as spiritually irrelevant is directly at odds with that.

Chaos magic’s core claim — belief is a tool, not a truth — stands in direct contrast to how Scripture approaches truth. In Acts 17:11, the Bereans are commended for examining the Scriptures daily to check whether what they were told was true. That’s evidence-first faith. And 1 John 4:1 says to test the spirits to see whether they’re from God — testing, not fearing.

A Word on Vocabulary, and Where Words Travel

One more thing, and I want to be precise here. You may see people today using the words “Psinergy” and “Psinergist.” Here’s exactly what I can document: the earlier Minneapolis group’s archived pages don’t use the word “Psinergist,” and they don’t define “Psinergy.” The earliest use of “Psinergist” I’ve found is in online videos from 2023, with a definition published by an online community in June 2024. I haven’t found who first coined the word, and I’m not claiming to know. If you know of an earlier source, I’d genuinely like to see it.

Words travel. A term from a 1990s psychic-arts curriculum can resurface years later in a different setting, with different vocabulary layered around it. That isn’t automatically dishonest, and it doesn’t tell you what any particular person actually believes. It’s a reason to do two things: trace where a word came from, and ask what a specific claim actually rests on. That’s the whole point of this article — the sourcing above is here so you can check it yourself, not so you have to take my word for it.

Where This Leaves Us

Notice the thread running through all of it: sigils built to slip past conscious evaluation, a scientific-sounding vocabulary, a symbol working quietly in the background, secret knowledge reserved for the initiated. Much of it works best when nobody examines it closely. Scripture asks for the opposite.

And notice what Genesis 1:31 says: the physical world — the body, the ground — is very good. I spend a lot of my time with my hands in the dirt, and I don’t think gardening or building or preserving food is spiritually second-rate. Those are ordinary ways of honoring a good creation.

The right response to any of this isn’t panic, and it isn’t mockery either. It’s the same discernment we’re asked to bring to everything: know what a claim actually says, check it against what’s true, and treat the people who hold these ideas — including people who are curious or searching — with the dignity Christ modeled.

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Eyes Open, Hands Dirty.

Sources

Chaos Magic & Technomancy

Chaos Magick Forge — What Is Chaos Magick?
Chaos Magick Forge — History of Chaos Magick
Technomancy 101 — What Is Technomancy?
Magick Be — What Is Technomancy?
Hermetic Library — Austin Osman Spare and His Theory of Sigils
Academia.edu — Chaos Magick and the Legitimacy of Innovation
The Magical Buffet — Paradigmal Piracy Defined
Peter J. Carroll, Liber Null (1978)
Ray Sherwin, The Book of Results (1978)
Grant Morrison, The Invisibles
Tree Carr, Technomancy (2026)

Psinergy Networks (archived)

Psinergy Education — Homepage (archived, 1993–2009)
Psinergy Education — Gift Senses List (archived)

Gnosticism & Theology

World History Encyclopedia — Gnosticism
New Advent — Irenaeus: Against Heresies
Place for Truth — Early Heresies: Gnosticism
Reasons to Believe — Heresies Never Die: Gnosticism
Central Baptist Theological Seminary — Gnosticism: A Christological Heresy
Herman Bavinck, on Gnosticism as recurring theological impulse (via Place for Truth, Reasons to Believe)

Scripture

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Channel Update: 4 Pillars, 1 Christian Perspective

hopegirl — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:05:27 +0000

Where is this channel headed? In this quick update, I explain my plan for four content pillars (homesteading, current events, spiritual and biblical teaching, and advanced technology), what I’ve posted so far, and what’s coming next. Our next video is about technomancy, chaos magic, and Gnosticism. It’s the first in the gold, spiritual and biblical teaching pillar. I’ll keep making homesteading videos too, and I’ll be blending all four pillars together. Every video has a Christian perspective and is meant for everyone, of all beliefs. I find the source documentation, do my best to analyze it, and present my findings so you can make your own decision. I’m not here to convert you, shame you, or make you afraid.

COLOR CODES
Green = Homesteading
Purple = Current Events
Gold = Spiritual and Biblical Teachings
Blue = Advanced Technologies

Each pillar has its own playlist on the channel home page. Watch next: [link to the technomancy video] Eyes open, hands dirty. #ChannelUpdate #Homesteading #ChristianPerspective
0:00 Where this channel is going
0:15 The four pillars
0:40 What’s coming this Tuesday
1:00 How I choose topics
1:20 The color-coded pillars
1:55 How I work: sources and analysis
2:20 Thanks and see you Tuesday

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Why I Make My Own Chicken Broth From Scraps (And How I Can It So It Lasts)

hopegirl — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:57:59 +0000

Broth is what gets made for someone who’s sick and can’t hold down a full meal. It’s what my own family has always reached for when someone’s under the weather — something warm, easy on the stomach, and nourishing without asking much of your body to process it. That’s not a new idea, and it’s not something I need permission from anyone to believe. People have known this for generations, long before anyone got paid to study it.

This week’s video is about making that broth from the cheapest parts in the meat aisle, plus scraps you’d normally throw away, and canning it so it’s shelf-stable whenever you need it.

Why I Actually Make This

I’m not going to stand here and promise this fixes any specific problem — that’s not my place, and it’s not really what this is about anyway. What I know is what I’ve lived: real food, made with your own hands, from parts that would otherwise go to waste, has always served my family well. That’s reason enough for me to make it, and reason enough to can it.

What’s actually in it is simple: real protein, and gelatin that breaks down into amino acids as it simmers for hours. That’s just what happens when you cook bones and meat scraps low and slow — it’s not a trend, it’s just food, made the way it’s always been made.

Save Your Scraps

Here’s a habit that makes broth basically free: every time I cook, I save what most people throw away. Onion peels, carrot peels, the leafy tops of celery — anything with real flavor in it goes into a bag in the freezer instead of the trash. By the time I’m ready to make broth, I’ve usually got a full bag of scraps ready to go, on top of whatever fresh vegetables I add.

What Goes In the Pot

For the meat side, I use the cheapest parts and bones I can find — backs, necks, wings, whatever’s on sale, plus any bones left over from a previous meal. This is also the perfect use for leftover turkey parts from Thanksgiving, so that flavor doesn’t have to disappear the day after the holiday — it can show up in soup all year long.

For aromatics, I add whole garlic cloves, celery (including the leaves), and onion, plus fresh herbs straight from the garden.

The Long, Slow Cook

Here’s the part that takes patience: broth needs to simmer low and slow, anywhere from 3 to 12 hours depending on how deep a flavor you want. That’s genuinely the hardest part of this whole process — not the effort, just the wait. Lamentations 3:25-26 says the Lord is good to those who wait for Him, and that it’s good to wait quietly. Most of what this recipe actually asks of you is exactly that — hours of quiet waiting while something good slowly becomes what it’s supposed to be. There’s no shortcut for broth, and there isn’t always one for the rest of life either.

The Recipe

(makes approximately 4-6 quarts)

• Chicken or turkey parts, bones, and leftovers — 3 to 4 pounds (backs, necks, wings, carcass from a previous meal, or a mix)

• Celery, including leafy tops — 2 to 3 stalks, roughly chopped

• Onion — 1 large, quartered (skins on are fine if using saved scraps)

• Garlic — 4 to 6 whole cloves, smashed

• Carrots — 2 to 3 medium, roughly chopped (peels fine if using saved scraps)

• Fresh parsley — 4 to 5 sprigs

• Fresh thyme — 3 to 4 sprigs

• Fresh rosemary — 1 to 2 sprigs

• Fresh sage — 2 to 3 leaves

• Fresh oregano — 2 to 3 sprigs

• Water — enough to cover everything by 1 to 2 inches (roughly 4 to 5 quarts, depending on stockpot size)

Combine everything in a large stockpot, cover with water, bring to a simmer, then reduce heat and simmer low and slow for 3 to 12 hours. Strain out all solids before canning — the finished broth should be a clear liquid with nothing left in it.

Straining & Canning

Once the simmer’s done, strain out every solid — bones, vegetable scraps, herb stems, all of it.

Here’s how I actually can mine: I let the broth cool completely, fill cold jars with the cooled broth leaving 1 inch of headspace, and load them into a pressure canner that hasn’t been preheated. Then I process for 25 minutes once it comes up to pressure, at 10 pounds weighted gauge or 11 pounds dial gauge, 0 to 1,000 feet elevation.

I want to be straightforward about this: NCHFP’s published Meat Stock recipe is tested specifically as a hot-pack product — hot broth into hot jars, with the canner already prepped, processed 20 minutes for pints or 25 minutes for quarts. What I described above is a cold start, and it hasn’t been separately tested and published as an equivalent method the way the hot-pack version has. I’m telling you how I do it in my own kitchen, not telling you it’s the officially validated USDA process. If you want to follow the tested procedure exactly, that means reheating your broth to boiling and filling hot jars before it goes in — look into that difference yourself and decide what’s right for your kitchen.

One more distinction worth naming: this recipe is for everyday chicken and turkey broth, not the 24-to-48-hour bone broth trend you’ve probably seen online. That’s a different product with its own considerations, and it’ll get its own article and video later.

What To Do With It — Southwestern Pumpkin & Chicken Soup

(serves 4-6)

• 1 quart jar homemade chicken broth

• 1 cup water (adjust to reach your preferred consistency)

• Pumpkin, cubed — about 2 cups (fresh, frozen, or home-canned, from your own garden)

• 1 jar home-canned shredded chicken (or 1 can, about 12-14 oz)

• 1/2 cup diced onion

• 1/2 cup chopped green or red bell pepper

• 1 to 2 teaspoons ground cumin

• 1 to 2 teaspoons ancho chili powder (or southwestern seasoning blend of your choice)

• Salt, to taste

• Optional: 1/4 to 1/2 cup cream, stirred in at the end

Combine the broth, water, pumpkin, onion, and peppers in a pot. Simmer until the pumpkin is soft — about 15 to 20 minutes for fresh or frozen pumpkin, or just a few minutes to heat through if using home-canned pumpkin, since it’s already cooked. Blend the soup right in the pot with an immersion blender (or transfer in batches to a regular blender) until smooth. Stir in the chicken, cumin, ancho chili powder, and salt, and heat through. Stir in cream at the end if using, and adjust seasoning to taste.

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References

National Center for Home Food Preservation — Meat Stock (tested hot-pack canning procedure)

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This Year’s Soup Recalls, and Why I Started Canning My Own

hopegirl — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:15:18 +0000

Soup is supposed to be the easy, safe thing. It’s what gets made when someone’s sick, when it’s cold out, when nobody has the energy to cook anything complicated. So it stung a little to realize how many recalls have hit soup specifically this year — and how much longer the ingredient list on a lot of packaged soup actually is compared to what most of us assume.

Here’s what I found when I looked into it, and why I’ve started canning three simple soups of my own instead.

What Actually Happened

In August 2026, Kettle Cuisine recalled about 3,240 Marketside Tomato Bisque Soup Kits sold exclusively at Walmart, after routine company testing came back presumptive positive for Listeria monocytogenes. The kits had been distributed to select stores across 29 states between June 30 and July 7, with a use-by date of August 22 — meaning some were very likely still sitting in refrigerators when the recall was announced. No illnesses had been confirmed at the time of the notice.

A few weeks earlier, Amy’s Kitchen recalled a single lot of its Organic Lentil Soup — Light in Sodium, covering roughly 184,200 cans across 28 states, after the FDA classified it as a Class II recall tied to a manufacturing defect in the can’s easy-open tab that created a potential for spoilage. The company described it as a voluntary, single-lot recall, and there’s a solid rundown of the details from Food Network here — the FDA’s own record of it lives in their enforcement report database rather than a standalone public notice page, so this is one case where I’m pointing you to careful secondary reporting rather than a direct government link.

And then there’s an older one worth knowing about even though it predates this year: back in April 2025, FSIS issued a public health alert for a whole lineup of soup and bowl products — sold under the Campbell’s, Verve, Health Request, Life Cuisine, Molly’s Kitchen, and Crafted Market names — after wood fragments turned up in a recalled cilantro ingredient used across all of them. One ingredient, from one supplier, ended up touching products sold under six different brand names. Worth noting: Campbell’s stated publicly that the affected items were foodservice/institutional products, not their canned retail soup line.

What’s Actually in a Lot of Processed Soup

None of this means canned or packaged soup is dangerous — a recall happening is the system catching a problem, not failing to catch one. But it’s worth pairing with a separate, unrelated fact: a lot of processed soup carries more in it than most of us assume. The American Heart Association recommends staying under 2,300 milligrams of sodium a day total, and a single cup of some canned soups can run 800 milligrams or more on its own — before you count anything else you eat that day. Preservatives and added sugar show up too, often under names that don’t read as either.

That’s not a reason to panic. It’s a reason to actually read the label on something most of us grab without thinking twice.

Why Homemade Soup Solves This the Simple Way

You know every ingredient in homemade soup because you put it there yourself. There’s also something almost old-fashioned about the whole category — soup has been the thing people make for someone who’s sick, grieving, tired, or just cold for about as long as there’s been a stove. It’s nourishing in a way that’s genuinely hard to put a number on.

How I’m Canning Mine

In this week’s video, I raw pack quart jars — three of a chicken and vegetable base, two of a beef stew base — and pressure can them for 90 minutes at 10 pounds weighted or 11 pounds dial gauge, 0 to 1,000 feet elevation. These are shelf-stable bases only: no dairy, flour, cornstarch, rice, or pasta goes in before processing. Canning dairy at home isn’t safe at any stage — the fat content prevents safe heat penetration — so cream, a roux, noodles, and seasoning all get added fresh, after a jar is opened and heated.

That one rule is also what makes the same base so flexible. Stir in egg noodles for a few minutes and the chicken and vegetable base becomes chicken noodle soup. Stir in cream or a quick butter-and-flour roux and it becomes a creamy chicken and vegetable soup. The beef stew gets a thickener and a few extra ingredients the same way, once the jar’s open.

The Recipes

Full step-by-step video instructions for making each of these — the base and all three finished soups — are in the video embedded in this post. Below are the ingredients and measurements to follow along with.

Chicken and Vegetable Soup Base

(per quart jar, raw pack)

• Chicken or turkey, cubed — 1 cup (about 6 oz)

• Celery, chopped — 1/4 cup

• Carrots, sliced — 1/2 cup

• Green beans, cut into 1-inch pieces — 1/2 cup

• Onion, diced — 1/4 cup

• Garlic — 1 whole clove, peeled

• Chicken bouillon cube — 1 cube

• Dried parsley — 1/2 teaspoon (or 1 tablespoon fresh, chopped)

• Water — to cover, leaving 1 inch headspace (roughly 1 1/2–2 cups)

Pressure can quart jars, raw pack, 90 minutes.

Chicken Noodle Soup

(finishing 1 jar of base — ready in 10 minutes)

• 1 quart jar chicken and vegetable soup base

• Water — 1 to 1 1/2 cups, to thin to your preferred consistency

• Chicken seasoning — 1 teaspoon, or to taste

• Onion powder — 1/2 teaspoon

• Garlic powder — 1/2 teaspoon

• Salt — to taste

• Dried parsley flakes — 1/2 teaspoon

• Ground black pepper — 1/4 teaspoon

• Egg noodles or pasta stars — 1 cup dry

• Optional: 1 jar canned carrots (or other vegetable), to bulk it up

Creamy Chicken & Vegetable Soup

(finishing 1 jar of base — ready in 10 minutes)

• 1 quart jar chicken and vegetable soup base

• Water — 1 cup

• Onion powder — 1/2 teaspoon

• Garlic powder — 1/2 teaspoon

• Salt — to taste

• Dried parsley flakes — 1/2 teaspoon

• Ground black pepper — 1/4 teaspoon

• Optional: 1 jar canned vegetables

• Butter — 2 tablespoons

• Flour — 2 tablespoons, whisked into 1/4 cup cold water to form a slurry

• Fresh garlic — 1–2 cloves, minced

• Parmesan cheese — 1/4 cup, grated

• Heavy cream — 1/2 cup

Beef Stew Base

(per quart jar, raw pack)

• Beef, cubed — 1 to 1 1/4 cups (about 8 oz)

• Potato, cubed — 1/2 cup

• Carrots, sliced — 1/2 cup

• Onion, diced — 1/4 cup

• Garlic — 1 whole clove, peeled

• Beef bouillon cube — 1 cube

• Fresh rosemary — 1 small sprig (or 1/4 teaspoon dried)

• Parsley — 1/2 teaspoon dried (or 1 tablespoon fresh, chopped)

• Water — to cover, leaving 1 inch headspace

Pressure can quart jars, raw pack, 90 minutes.

Beef Stew

(finishing 1 jar of base — ready in 10 minutes)

• 1 quart jar beef stew base

• Optional: red wine — 1/4 cup

• Fresh rosemary — 1 sprig, chopped (or 1/4 teaspoon dried)

• Salt — to taste

• Garlic powder — 1/2 teaspoon

• Onion powder — 1/2 teaspoon

• Cracked black pepper — 1/4 teaspoon

• Optional: 1 extra jar canned meat or vegetables

• Butter — 2 tablespoons

• Fresh garlic — 1–2 cloves, minced

• Flour — 2 tablespoons, whisked into 1/4 cup cold water to form a slurry

• Water or reserved jar liquid — as needed to reach your preferred consistency

What’s Next

This is part of a full home canning series. Next up, I’m going back a step further — I’ll show you how to make your own homemade broth from scratch, so every soup after this one starts with something built from nothing instead of poured out of a box.

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References

• FDA — Kettle Cuisine Recalls Marketside Tomato Bisque Soup Kit — Sold Exclusively at Walmart Stores Because of Possible Health Risk

• Food Network — Amy’s Kitchen Recalls Its Lentil Soup (secondary reporting on an FDA enforcement report; no standalone FDA public notice page exists for this recall)

• USDA FSIS — Public Health Alert for Various Soup & Bowl Products Due to Possible Extraneous Material Contamination (dated April 11, 2025)

• American Heart Association — How Much Sodium Should I Eat Per Day?

• National Center for Home Food Preservation — nchfp.uga.edu

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Two Beef Recalls, One Lab-Grown Meat Headline, and Why I Started Canning My Own Meat

hopegirl — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:08:42 +0000

This year alone, there have been multiple beef recalls in the U.S. — different companies, different months, same basic pattern. I want to walk through what actually happened with both of them, touch on something else worth knowing about even though it isn’t a recall story, and then get into how canning your own meat at home fits into all of it.

What Actually Happened: The Ground Beef Recall

In February 2026, CS Beef Packers, LLC recalled approximately 22,912 pounds of raw ground beef after FSIS testing at a downstream customer turned up E. coli O145. The beef was produced January 14, 2026, and shipped to distributors in California, Idaho, and Oregon. No illnesses were confirmed, and the company caught this before it became an outbreak — but it’s a good example of how a single production run at one plant can end up in three states before anyone outside the company knows there’s a problem.

What Actually Happened: The Deli Meat Recall

A few months later, in August 2026, City Foods, Inc. recalled about 3,215 pounds of ready-to-eat pastrami and corned beef — sold under the Midamar Premium Beef Pastrami and Bea’s Best Cooked Corned Beef Brisket labels — over possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination. FSIS classified it a Class I recall, its highest-risk category. The product was produced July 16, shipped to foodservice locations in Illinois, Iowa, and Michigan, and distributed nationwide from there. Again, no confirmed illnesses, and again: brand names on a deli case that most shoppers would never think to connect back to one Chicago producer.

And Then There’s Lab-Grown Meat

This isn’t a recall story, but it’s worth knowing about, because it’s exactly the kind of development where knowing what’s actually in your food is going to matter more, not less. Lab-grown and 3D-printed meat is real technology, not science fiction — companies are growing animal cells in bioreactors or printing meat layer by layer to mimic the texture of a real cut. As of early 2026, Singapore has approved three cultivated meat products for sale, and the U.S. has cleared five through a joint FDA/USDA review process — though regulatory approval doesn’t automatically mean it’s sitting on a shelf near you; retail availability is still limited to a small number of restaurants and markets. I’m not telling you it’s evil, and I’m not telling you it’s coming for your dinner table next week. I’m telling you it exists, it’s moving fast, and how it gets labeled and regulated long-term is worth watching. (I’ve got a whole series coming after this one on sourcing meat you trust, organizing a chest freezer, and preserving meat the old way through brining and smoking — including homemade cold cuts without the nitrates and fillers standard in most deli meat. This is exactly the kind of thing that series is for.)

Why This Keeps Happening

Two different companies, two different contaminants, two different months — but the same shape every time: a long supply chain, several hands between the animal and your plate, and a contamination event that can travel a long way before it’s traced back to the source. That’s not a flaw unique to either company. It’s just what a national supply chain looks like, and it means one problem at one plant can end up on shelves under several different labels before most people ever hear about it.

How Canning Actually Fits Into This

This connects directly to the video I just posted on canning meat — chicken, turkey, and beef, raw pack versus hot pack. Canning your own meat doesn’t make you immune to contamination; you still have to handle and process everything correctly, which is most of what that video actually covers. What it changes is the chain: you know exactly which animal, which source, and every hand that touched it between there and the jar. No distributor in the middle, no downstream ingredient list, no recall notice three states away that quietly includes something you bought without knowing it.

There’s a direct technical connection too. The whole reason pressure canning exists is to destroy the kind of bacteria involved in recalls like these — E. coli, Listeria, and their relatives. Per the National Center for Home Food Preservation’s tested guidance on meat, strips, cubes, or chunks, that’s not a “better safe than sorry” step — it’s the specific, tested process that makes meat shelf-stable and safe without refrigeration. Raw pack (uncooked meat straight into the jar) and hot pack (partially cooked first) are both fully tested and safe; hot pack just tends to pack a jar a little more densely, which is why NCHFP generally lists it as preferred. Raw pack is simply faster, which is exactly why it’s my go-to for cubed turkey and beef.

Once it’s sealed, that jar keeps its best quality for 12 to 18 months on the shelf — no freezer, no thawing, no extra cooking. My favorite way to actually use it: open a jar, drain it, mix with mayo, mustard, celery, and a squeeze of lemon, and you’ve got chicken salad wraps on the table in five minutes, from a jar that’s been sitting on a shelf since the day I canned it.

The Bigger Picture

1 Timothy 4:4-5 says every good gift from God is to be received with thanksgiving. There’s something about opening a jar of turkey or beef you canned yourself months earlier that makes a simple bowl of soup feel like more than dinner — it’s the work of your own hands, put to use exactly when you need it.

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References

● FSIS — CS Beef Packers, LLC Recalls Ground Beef Products That May Be Contaminated With E. Coli O145

https://www.fsis.usda.gov/recalls-alerts/cs-beef-packers-llc-recalls-ground-beef-products-may-be-contaminated-e–coli-o145

● FSIS — City Foods, Inc. Recalls Ready-To-Eat Pastrami and Corned Beef Products Due To Possible Listeria Contamination

https://www.fsis.usda.gov/recalls-alerts/city-foods-inc–recalls-ready-eat-pastrami-and-corned-beef-products-due-possible

● FoodNavigator — Where Countries Stand on Cultivated Meat Regulation in 2026

https://www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2026/02/18/cultivated-meat-regulation-where-countries-stand-in-2026/

● National Center for Home Food Preservation — Meat, Strips, Cubes or Chunks

https://nchfp.uga.edu/how/can/preparing-and-canning-poultry-red-meats-and-seafoods/meat-strips-cubes-or-chunks/

● National Center for Home Food Preservation — nchfp.uga.edu

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Sabrina Wallace Nonvaxxer Hopegirls side of the Story

hopegirl — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 18:09:46 +0000

I HATE posting stuff like this. I’m trying to direct my content in a different and better direction. But recent events with online groups have me barraged with questions and people reaching out to me asking my side of the story. I’ve told this a million times, in personal responses, comments, DM’s… posted over and over again on X, a couple of videos on my channels. I’ve been screaming this from the rooftops for TWO YEARS. Nobody believed me, instead I was continuously attacked by those who were manipulated by this operation that is Sabrina Wallace. So here I am just ONE MORE TIME posting it on my blog hoping that people are finally ready to WAKE THE F UP, OPEN YOUR EYES, AND REALIZE THE TRUTH about what this woman is involved with and what she is doing to people.

She has a cult following that does her bidding. This isn’t an “Ignore it and it will go away” situation. This is a sophisticated operation currently deployed to disrupt and divide communities of people, some of whom are Christians, that are trying to figure out how to heal from the malevolent forms of modern technology and surveillance.

This is my personal Testimony of what happened.

Last night Dawn Christine on Facebook tagged me in a post with her 75,000 follower FB page. Sabrina made a post on X spreading all kinds of insane accusations… spreading dis-info, defamation, and discord to stir up online fighting. Cause thats what Sabrinas job is. Shes a chaos agent.

Dawn wanted me to explain my side of the story… so below is the transcript from that FB post. Dawn has since deleted it (it was only up for few hours) but I am still getting contacted by people who want me to tell them. So rather than sending back dozens of individual messages, I figured I would just paste it all right here.

Naima Dawn Feagin

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Dawn Christine I’ve got folks contacting me from your page. I would like to know what it is you would like me to do? Do you want me to post something here for all to see? You want me to tell them in DM’s? Or do nothing? Its your page so I’ll let you, let me know whenever. Keep up the good posts and education and I really enjoyed the show with you and Dorian last night. I think it was well organized, easy to follow, entertaining and easy to listen to. You both did a good job covering the info.

Dawn Christine

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Naima Dawn Feagin at this point I think it should all be right here since we have nothing to hide and she’s making a total scene.

Naima Dawn Feagin

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I will state my side of the information in a few posts here:

The First thing I will address is:

My non-relationship with Dawn, No contact until recently as a response to Dawns live
I will give MY FULL ACCOUNT with my history with Sabrina, and Nonvaxxer, so that everyone can hear my side of the story.

Naima Dawn Feagin

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First I will state that Dawn Christine and I never had any kind of contact with each other until she did her live video on FB stating that she had been blocked by Sabrina and Anthony and did not know what had happened. Since I knew what happened, and have a long history of being harassed and targeted by Sabrina I sent some supportive comments towards Dawn. Basically, like a “They did to me the same thing they are now doing to you”. And I told her what happened and why Sabrina decided to block her for no reason.

Naima Dawn Feagin

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Naima Dawn Feagin

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And finally the third thing: MY SIDE OF THE STORY AND MY HISTORY WITH SABRINA WALLACE.

I was friends with Sabrina Wallace through telegram chats only for 9 months. My husband and I run an orgonite business out of Morocco.

Here is what happened. I was paying to support Sabrinas work. In total I lost $12,000 $5,500 paid Nonvaxer and $5,000 paid Heather Moon to post her work and Nonvaxer approached me wanting to sell our products. Sabrina was given for free as a gift $2,000 worth of products for her family and also to Hillbilly heart. Sabrina loved them, her family loved them. They said they wanted to learn how to make them themselves. It was a FREE gift. I told her I didn’t need or want her to promote them. I gave them to her because she was my friend and I thought she would like them.

Then Nonvaxer started harassing all kinds of people in his videos, by name while selling my products in the description. I confronted him about it, saying I can’t have you harassing people publicly while promoting our products because that is NOT appropriate on any level. I was getting tons of emails from all of these folks questioning what the hell was wrong with Nonvaxer. Why was he attacking them. I ended the relationship with Nonvaxer and removed his account with my company.

I told Sabrina about what he was doing. I tried to give her the choice to make the right decision. Sabrina chose to ignore me and continued to make tons of videos praising Nonvaxer. Meanwhile Nonvaxer was now making harssment videos about me, and Sabrina was promoting those videos… all while I was continuing to dole out weekly payments to promote Sabrinas work. So I confronted her, and her telegram group, told them exactly what was going on, and cut off Sabrina. My last message to her was “This is wrong I can’t support this, Goodbye Sabrina” She went ballistic, within that first month she made at least 50 videos lying about me, defaming my business, making up stories about me and putting words in my mouth that I never said. Huge lies too, like I’m getting sued, that I’m putting microchips in my pendants to track people, that my products are hurting people and they are dangerous… all sorts of things that were a direct attack on my small business, trying to take away my livelihood. I am not rich, we work extremely hard and we gave jobs to over two dozen people to hand make our products, local village people and some folks from our church, all of whom are dirt poor and we were trying to lift them up and help them while helpin others. Sabrina was trying to take all of that away from all of them with her constant non stop harassment campaigns and extremely illegal slanderous attacks.

At this same time, Nonvaxer and his bot farm operation managed to get a hold of my PayPal credit card number, the same account I had used to pay him when he was working with us. He hacked the number, made a new card and started making in-store purchases on the card at locations that I tracked back to within a 15 minute drive from his house. I was sitting on my couch in Morocco watching a movie when my phone started going off with notifications of an an in-store purchase that was made on my card 4,000 miles away in Canada. He got another couple thousand dollars from me before I was able to get the card shut off and report it.

If I had hundreds of thousands of dollars to sue her into oblivion I would, but I don’t so I did the next thing I knew to do. Many people were writing to me about Sabrinas harassment campaigns. I put everything I knew with all the evidence into a pdf and I emailed that pdf to several people privately. I never published it anywhere public. I gave people the info they needed to fight back should they want to sue her for her predatory behavior.

Well, I guess that PDF made it to the right person who had way more money and power than I did, and that other person or group of people made that wordpress blog with info from my pdf and additional info. I don’t know who did it, I didn’t write it if I’ve said it a million times, but Sabrina has everyone convinced it was me. She’s pissed off a lot of people.

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Naima Dawn Feagin

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This October marks the 2 year anniversary of when I ended my relationship with Sabrina. I’ve been harassed constantly, Sabrina has made 1,567 videos about me slandering me and my company. Making up stories. Its been extremely painful. The woman is a nasty cut throat operative and she is Vicious. I’ve monitored it all, documented it all, and did background checks that I’ve paid for when I was trying to sue her.

There is an entire body of research showing Sabrina’s websites from the Way back Machine. It describes that she was training in Technomancy, which is essentially casting spells on people using technology. Its what the tech bros are doing with the biodigital convergence. She’s one of them. I’ve written an in depth article on that if anyone wants to know I’ll share the link with all the back up documentation.

And in closing… I apologize to everyone and anyone I might have said a bad thing about or hurt in some way while I was angry and under the influence of this Sabrina Wallace operation. And I forgive everyone and anyone who may have hurt me. I just want to try to move forward, and help people figure out how to survive the nightmare that is what the Tech Bros are doing to our world.

Thank you for allowing me to put this up Dawn Christine. I hope it helped some of your page followers. Blessings.

Note:
I have removed my statement regarding Eileen Mckusick because she contacted me to correct me on it and gave me some more information about herself and her involvement (which is very little to none). I will let Eileen post her own statements if she chooses to on her platform. It was a respectful communication both ways.

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2026’s Lettuce and Jalapeño Recalls Explain Why I Started Canning My Own Vegetables

hopegirl — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:57:14 +0000

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If you’ve eaten at a Taco Bell, Chipotle, or QDOBA any time this summer, there’s a decent chance you crossed paths with one of the two biggest produce recalls of 2026 without ever knowing it. I want to walk through what actually happened, because the specifics matter more than the headline — and then explain why this is exactly the problem home canning is built to solve.

What Actually Happened: The Lettuce

In July 2026, the FDA and CDC opened an investigation into a multistate Cyclospora outbreak tied to iceberg lettuce grown in central Mexico and supplied by Taylor Farms de Mexico. Taylor Fresh Foods voluntarily recalled all iceberg lettuce sourced from that region on July 17. By the FDA’s most recent update, the outbreak had reached over 11,000 confirmed illnesses across 20 states, with roughly 495 hospitalizations and two deaths. The lettuce reached restaurants and grocery stores under names most shoppers would never connect to a recall notice — Marketside-brand bags at Walmart, plus foodservice lettuce served at multiple national chains. Taylor Farms has posted its own recall information here if you want to check lot numbers against anything still in your fridge.

What Actually Happened: The Jalapeños

A few weeks later, a separate outbreak hit. The FDA and CDC traced a Salmonella outbreak to jalapeño peppers grown in Sinaloa, Mexico, and distributed by Coast Citrus Distributors. As of the most recent count, over 400 illnesses had been reported across 32 states. Here’s the part that actually matters for this article: because that pepper gets used as an ingredient, the recall cascaded downstream into salads, dips, guacamole, and prepared foods sold under brand names that never mention jalapeños on the front label. The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service even issued a separate public health alert for meat and poultry products that happened to contain the affected peppers as an ingredient.

Why This Keeps Happening

I want to be careful here, because it would be easy to turn this into a “the food system is out to get you” story, and that’s not what this is. A recall happening is the system catching a problem — it’s supposed to work this way. What’s worth paying attention to is why these particular recalls got so large so fast: a single grower’s produce gets picked up by one distributor, who supplies it to dozens of restaurants, manufacturers, and grocery chains across the country, all before the first person gets sick enough to be diagnosed and traced back to the source. By the time a recall notice goes out, the product has often already been eaten.

That’s not a flaw unique to any one company. It’s just what a long, efficient, national supply chain looks like — and it means a single contamination event at one farm can end up on shelves in 30+ states under a dozen different labels before anyone connects the dots.

How Canning Actually Fits Into This

Here’s where this connects to the video I just posted on pressure canning green beans and carrots. Canning your own vegetables doesn’t make you immune to foodborne illness — you still have to wash and handle everything carefully, and the safety rules I walk through in that video (using tested pressure and time guidelines, never guessing) exist for a reason. What canning at home actually changes is the chain: you know exactly which farm, which garden, or which specific bunch of carrots went into that jar, and every hand that touched it between the ground and the shelf. There’s no distributor in the middle, no downstream ingredient list, no product recall three states away that quietly includes something you bought without knowing it.

And there’s a direct technical connection too — the entire reason pressure canning exists is to destroy the kind of bacteria involved in outbreaks like these. The heat and pressure aren’t a “better safe than sorry” step; per the National Center for Home Food Preservation, it’s the specific, tested process required to make low-acid vegetables shelf-stable and safe. If you want the exact tested times and pressures for canning vegetables at home rather than guessing, that’s where I go — NCHFP’s vegetable canning guidelines are the same source I use for every video in this series.

The Bigger Picture

There’s nothing dramatic about a shelf of home-canned green beans. But Proverbs 6:6-8 points to the ant, gathering food at harvest — not out of panic, but out of quiet, ordinary preparation. That’s really the case for this whole series: not a reaction to any single scary headline, but a steady skill that happens to matter a little more every time a story like this one makes the news.

Watch the Full Video

If you’re just getting started, [Canning 101 Basics] covers the fundamentals this series builds on, and [Canning Vegetables at Home for Beginners] walks through the process this article is based on step by step. Subscribe so you don’t miss what’s coming next — broth, meat, beans, soup, and pickling are all still ahead.

Eyes Open. Hands Dirty.

References

● FDA — Investigation of Multistate Outbreak of Cyclospora Illnesses: Iceberg Lettuce (July 2026)

● FDA — Taylor Fresh Foods Recalls Iceberg Lettuce from Central Mexico Because of Possible Health Risk

● Taylor Farms — Product Recall Information

● FDA — Outbreak Investigation of Salmonella: Jalapeño (August 2026)

● FDA — 2026 Recalls of Food Products Associated with Fresh Jalapeños from Sinaloa, Mexico, Distributed by Coast Citrus Distributors

● USDA FSIS — Public Health Alert for Meat and Poultry Products Containing FDA-Regulated Jalapeños

● National Center for Home Food Preservation — nchfp.uga.edu

● National Center for Home Food Preservation — Recommended Procedures for Home Canning of Vegetables

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Canning 101: The One Rule That Decides Whether You Need a Water Bath Canner or a Pressure Canner

hopegirl — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:51:13 +0000

There are two kinds of canning, and using the wrong one for the wrong food is how people end up in the hospital. So today I’m breaking it down — no confusion, no guesswork.

Right now, feeding a family feels harder than it used to. A family of three grabbing a quick meal at McDonald’s can run you close to $40 — and the quality isn’t even there. That’s not sustainable, and it’s exactly why I’m starting this series. My goal is to give you the real knowledge and the real skills to feed yourself and your family for a fraction of that cost, using food you prepared with your own hands, so you know exactly what went into it. This isn’t about fear — it’s about self-sufficiency. The more of this knowledge you have, the less power any grocery store, any supply chain, or any bad month has over whether your family eats well.

This is the first video in a full canning series, and everything else we cover builds on today’s foundation. If you already can food, or you’ve been wanting to start, this is the one to watch first.

The One Rule Everything Else Is Built On

It’s not about your equipment, your family tradition, or what you feel like using today. It’s about the acidity of the food.

High acid (pH 4.6 or below) can go in a water bath canner — think fruit, jams, jellies, and anything pickled with enough vinegar. Sugar and vinegar create a high-acid environment that keeps bacteria from taking hold.
Low acid (above pH 4.6) must go in a pressure canner — plain vegetables, meat, poultry, seafood, soup, and dried beans. There’s no substitute.

Here’s why it matters so much: boiling water only reaches 212°F at sea level. That’s enough to destroy the organisms that spoil high-acid food, but it’s not hot enough to destroy the spores of Clostridium botulinum — the bacteria behind botulism. Only a pressure canner, sealed and holding 240°F, can do that.

Canning is the one homesteading topic where a mistake can genuinely hurt someone. Improperly canned low-acid food is the classic setup for botulism, and botulism toxin has no taste, smell, or visible warning sign. Every processing time I use comes from the USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning and the National Center for Home Food Preservation — I don’t guess, and neither should you.

Two Non-Negotiables, Every Time

Never alter a tested process. Don’t add thickeners, dairy, or extra ingredients to something that’s been tested without them.
Always adjust for your altitude. Not sure what altitude you’re at? Google your city or zip code plus “elevation” and you’ll have your answer in seconds. Straight from USDA/NCHFP guidance: Weighted-gauge canners: 10 lbs of pressure from 0–1,000 ft, 15 lbs above 1,000 ft. Dial-gauge canners (more precise): 11 lbs from 0–2,000 ft, 12 lbs from 2,001–4,000 ft, 13 lbs from 4,001–6,000 ft, 14 lbs from 6,001–8,000 ft, 15 lbs from 8,001–10,000 ft.

Find your altitude, match it to your gauge type, and use that exact pressure. You’ll get used to it — don’t let it scare you off.

What You Actually Need to Get Started

Water bath canning is the cheap on-ramp: a deep stock pot with a rack in the bottom, tall enough that jars sit under at least an inch of water with room to boil. You can start for well under $100.

Pressure canning requires an actual pressure canner — not a multi-cooker, not an Instant Pot. A true pressure canner holds at least four quart jars, has a dial or weighted gauge, and is built to maintain steady pressure for long processing times. Budget $100–$300 for a reliable one, and taken care of, it will last decades.

Both methods share the same small tools:

Mason jars, in the size you need
New lids every single time (rings are reusable, flat lids are not)
A jar lifter, a bubble remover, and a canning funnel — none of it optional if you want consistent seals

I use a Presto pressure canner, the classic stovetop version — nothing fancy, but reliable, and it’s what most home canners I know actually use. A few things that keep mine running safely year after year:

I replace the rubber sealing ring every 2–3 years (Presto’s own recommendation), sooner if it gets hard, cracked, or stops holding pressure.
I coat it lightly with olive oil each use, which keeps the rubber pliable.
I check every screw and handle is tight before I start, and that the base still sits flat on the counter.

A mistake I made, so you don’t have to: I once ran my flame too high, which pushed my pressure higher than it needed to be. My canner didn’t explode — nothing dramatic — but the bottom bowed out slightly so it no longer sat flat. That’s a well-documented sign of overheating, and once it happens, the canner should be replaced, because a warped bottom doesn’t heat evenly anymore. Now I never let mine sit at high pressure longer than it needs to, and I check the base is flat before every session.

If you ever hit a snag with your own canner, Google it seriously — there are entire communities of home canners who’ve hit the exact same issue and will walk you through it. You’re never troubleshooting alone.

Other things worth grabbing:

A canning accessories kit (jar lifter, funnel, jar wrench, tongs) — don’t improvise this with regular kitchen tools
Actual canning jars, not saved mayonnaise or pickle jars — those aren’t tempered the same way and crack far more easily under heat and pressure. I use Ball jars in the U.S.; here in Morocco I use Quattro Stracci, which is the same quality equivalent.
A splash of white vinegar in your canning water keeps mineral deposits from clouding your jars (purely cosmetic, but it makes a difference)
A simple kitchen timer, so you don’t lose track of time moving between steps

Roughly what it costs to get set up: a larger Presto pressure canner runs about $100–$110, a canning accessories kit about $20, a case of quart jars about $17, a case of pints about $15, and a spare sealing ring about $20 — all in, roughly $175–$190 to have everything you need. That equipment isn’t a one-time purchase; it’s decades of groceries at a fraction of store price.

Raw Pack vs. Hot Pack

Every canning recipe uses one of two packing styles:

Raw pack — food goes into the jar uncooked, liquid added around it.
Hot pack — food is cooked or heated first, then packed hot with hot liquid into a hot jar. Hot pack is usually the safer bet for meat and dense vegetables, since it shrinks the food first so more fits and there’s less risk of floating.

One more mistake to learn from instead of repeat: putting a cold jar straight into hot liquid — even a real canning jar — can crack it. It’s called thermal shock, and it happens because the glass on the inside heats faster than the outside, and the jar can’t handle the uneven stress. Keep your jars warm before you fill them.

Headspace, Venting, and Patience

Headspace — the gap between the food and the rim — matters more than people think. Too little and food can boil out during processing and break the seal; too much and the jar may not seal at all. Most vegetables and meats need 1 inch; most fruits and pickles need ½ inch. Always follow the specific recipe.

For pressure canning, venting is the step people love to skip and shouldn’t: once the canner is on the heat with the weight off, let steam flow steadily out of the vent for a full 10 minutes before adding the weight or closing the petcock. Skip it, and the canner never actually reaches full temperature, even if the gauge says otherwise.

Canning isn’t a background, multitask kind of activity. Once the canner is on, stay present for the whole thing — usually 60–90 minutes. Listen to the sound of the steam or the weight; you’ll learn what “steady” sounds like, and you’ll notice if it changes. You don’t have to stand over the stove — grab a book, sit nearby, stay in earshot. I’ve come to think of it as a little bit of sacred time — one of the few things that forces me to just sit and pay attention to one thing. Tell your family ahead of time: “I’m canning, don’t bother me.” That boundary is allowed.

Once processing is done, let the canner sit undisturbed to cool fully — 12 to 24 hours. While it cools, you’ll hear the lids pop one by one as they seal. Honestly, that sound is one of my favorite parts of canning — it’s the sound of the whole thing just working.

After they’re cooled, rinse the jars in warm soapy water, dry them, label with contents and date, and store in a single layer — never stacked, since the weight can compromise a seal below.

How to Know Your Seal Held

Press the center of the lid. It should be concave and shouldn’t flex or pop when you press it. If it flexes, the seal didn’t take — that jar goes in the fridge to use right away, or gets reprocessed.

One thing to put your mind at ease about: sometimes you’ll open a perfectly sealed, perfectly safe jar and see a little black or dark discoloration on the underside of the lid. That is not botulism — it’s a well-documented, harmless reaction between natural compounds in the food and the lid, most common with tomatoes, beans, and greens. As long as your seal was intact and there’s no unusual smell or foaming, it’s cosmetic, not a safety issue.

For extra peace of mind, boil your home-canned low-acid foods for a full 10 minutes before eating — that’s an actual USDA recommendation, not just a personal habit. And here’s my own go-to test: when you open the jar, listen for the vacuum sound — that pop or whoosh of air rushing in. That means the seal was tight and never broke.

Why We Do Any of This

“The wise store up choice food, while the fool devours all he has.” — Proverbs 21:20

Canning is that verse in physical form. A little extra care today so there’s something set aside for the months ahead. It’s also a picture of following instructions we didn’t write ourselves — the USDA didn’t invent these processing times to make life harder. They tested them so we wouldn’t have to guess. There’s real wisdom in trusting a tested process instead of assuming we know better in the kitchen — and honestly, in a lot of areas of life.

What’s Next in the Series

Next up: water bath canning — pickles and homemade tomato sauce. After that, pressure canning vegetables (green beans, carrots, homemade broth), then canning meat (chicken and beef, raw pack vs. hot pack), canning soup the safe way with no dairy and no thickeners, and we’ll close out the canning series with dried beans and chickpeas. Once we’re through canning, we’re moving into dehydrating and more food storage techniques — all designed to help your family actually survive and thrive in this economy.

Have you ever had a canning close call — a jar that didn’t seal, a batch you weren’t sure about? Drop it in the comments on the video or reply to this post. I read every one.

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Holistic Health vs. The FTC: The Rule Nobody Explained to You

hopegirl — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:47:44 +0000

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There are two very different worlds where people talk about herbal tea, chicken soup, and vitamin C for a cold. In one world, it’s your grandmother, your neighbor, or the homesteading community you belong to — people who’ve relied on these home remedies for generations and pass them down as tradition and personal experience. In the other world, it’s a company printing “boosts your immune system” on a bottle and selling it nationwide. Both worlds are talking about the same ingredients. Only one of them can get fined for it. Understanding why is actually one of the more interesting legal questions in the wellness space right now.

What Actually Happened in 2023

On April 13, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission sent formal warning letters — called Notices of Penalty Offenses — to roughly 670 companies that sell dietary supplements, over-the-counter drugs, homeopathic products, and functional foods. The letters didn’t accuse any of these companies of wrongdoing. They were a warning: if a company makes a health claim (that a product treats, prevents, or reduces a disease or condition) without “competent and reliable scientific evidence” behind it, the company could now face civil penalties of up to roughly $50,000 per violation — which can add up fast when a claim runs in thousands of ads over months or years.

This wasn’t a new law. It was the FTC using an existing legal tool differently, after a 2021 Supreme Court decision (AMG Capital Management v. FTC) stripped the agency of its old ability to claw back money from companies through the courts. The Notice was the FTC’s workaround: put companies on formal notice now, so that if they cross the line later, penalties are easier to pursue.

This built on an earlier, more direct case. In 2020, the FTC sued Teami, LLC, a company selling detox teas, alleging it had claimed — without evidence — that its tea could fight cancer, unclog arteries, reduce migraines, and prevent colds and flu. Teami settled, paid $1 million, and was barred from making those claims again without solid science behind them.

The Rule Companies Are Actually Under

The legal principle behind both actions is called the advertising substantiation doctrine, and it’s been federal law since long before 2023 — see the FTC’s own Health Products Compliance Guidance for the current standard. In plain terms: if a company is going to say a product affects your health, it needs real evidence — ideally clinical research — before it makes the claim, not after. The FTC isn’t saying herbal tea doesn’t do anything. It’s saying a business can’t tell the public “this cures your cold” unless it can prove it.

Why Your Grandmother Isn’t Breaking Any Law

This is the part that gets lost in a lot of online commentary: these rules govern commercial advertising, not personal speech. When your grandmother makes you chicken soup and tells you it’ll help you feel better, or when you post in a homesteading group about the herbal tea you drink when you feel a cold coming on, you are not “advertising a product” in the legal sense the FTC regulates. You’re sharing tradition, personal experience, and folk wisdom — the same way people have for centuries. The FTC’s authority kicks in when someone is selling a product and making a claim about what it does to move that product. It does not reach into your kitchen.

Two Honest Viewpoints

The traditional-remedies view: Millions of people grew up with home remedies — herbal tea, broth, rest, vitamin C, honey — as the first line of care for minor, self-limiting illnesses like the common cold. This isn’t fringe; it’s a documented part of home health culture across cultures and generations, and for a healthy adult with ordinary cold symptoms, plenty of these practices are low-risk and personally meaningful, even where the clinical evidence for a given remedy is thin, mixed, or simply hasn’t been well studied.

The regulatory view: When a company puts a specific claim on a product and sells it to the public at scale, the calculus changes. I’ve relied on home remedies my whole life for the everyday stuff — colds, minor aches, the things the body handles on its own with some help. That’s different from an emergency or something serious, where I want real, appropriate care just like anyone would. The problem with a company slapping “cures X” on a bottle isn’t that natural remedies don’t work — it’s that an exaggerated claim can talk someone out of getting real help for something that actually needed it. That’s a company being dishonest, not proof that home remedies don’t have their place. The FTC’s job is to make sure companies making health claims can back them up — not to police what people do or believe in their own homes.

Both of these things are true at the same time. The tension isn’t “the government vs. your right to take care of yourself.” It’s “how much proof should a business need before it puts a health claim on a label it sells to millions of people” — a much narrower and more answerable question.

Where This Leaves You

If you use herbal tea, chicken soup, or basic vitamins as part of how you take care of your own family for everyday things, that’s a personal and family health choice — rooted in generations of experience — and nothing in these FTC actions changes that. If you’re curious what the actual research says about any specific remedy — honey for cough, zinc for cold duration, vitamin C for cold symptoms — that’s worth its own look, because the evidence varies a lot from one to the next: some have real (if modest) clinical support, others don’t, and either way that doesn’t make the tradition worthless.

What the FTC actions really tell us is something narrower: a company selling a product owes you real evidence before it makes a claim, not the other way around. That’s not an argument for handing your health decisions over to any one institution — it’s just a reminder to be skeptical of a specific commercial claim, especially one that sounds too certain, whether it’s coming from a supplement bottle or anywhere else. You’re still the one who gets to weigh tradition, experience, and evidence for yourself, and reserve urgent or serious situations for the care they actually need.

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Sources

FTC, “FTC Warns Almost 700 Marketing Companies That They Could Face Civil Penalties if They Can’t Back Up Their Product Claims” (April 2023) — https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/04/ftc-warns-almost-700-marketing-companies-they-could-face-civil-penalties-if-they-cant-back-their

AMG Capital Management, LLC v. FTC, 593 U.S. ___ (2021), Supreme Court opinion — https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/19-508_l6gn.pdf

FTC, “Tea Marketer Misled Consumers, Didn’t Adequately Disclose Payments to Well-Known Influencers, FTC Alleges” (March 2020) — FTC v. Teami, LLC settlement — https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2020/03/tea-marketer-misled-consumers-didnt-adequately-disclose-payments

FTC, Health Products Compliance Guidance (December 2022) — https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/health-products-compliance-guidance

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