MeidasTouch Founder Has URGENT MESSAGE!!!

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May 22, 2025

By Ben Meiselas

I haven’t gotten much sleep and I have 7 back-to-back interviews today, so I must be brief.

Yesterday, I personally interviewed a total of 17 Members of Congress and Senators on the budget bill and other topics. That’s the most interviews I’ve done in a single day so far in my career.

MeidasTouch led all coverage on Trump’s budget disaster.

Republicans tried to hide what was in the bill by ramming it through at 1 AM like the scammers they are.

The MeidasTouch Network had our team of researchers, lawyers, editors, clippers, writers, and support staff working around the clock.

We read every page and every amendment of the bill. We covered every second of the Rules Committee.

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I feel confident we’ve been able to inform Americans on what’s at stake right now (Remember to add the MeidasTouch Podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and tell a friend).

The House Republicans are sick and demented scumbags whose entire existence is to please their dear leader, so I don’t expect them to ever do the right thing.

They are not my audience.

My audience is the people.

And my job is to deliver the truth, and do what the corporate media refused to do—and is antagonistic to doing.

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Politics can be used for good—to deliver things that help improve the lives of people.

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The commas, periods, redlines, and punctuation in a bill puncture lives and families.

This is life and death for people. I don’t treat our coverage as some game. I treat it as life or death.

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Graduation Days Joyce Vance May 21 Today I’m recovering from the graduation tour, one in Boulder and one in Boston in the last two weeks, and getting back into the groove of writing as I continue to work on my book (which I hope you’ll preorder if you haven’t already). The graduations came at a good moment. Watching my kids graduate, one from college and one with a master’s in science, was an emotional experience—the culmination of their years of hard work, sacrifice, and growth, all captured in a single walk across the stage. They, like their friends, my law students, and amazing students across the county, now enter society as adults. Even beyond the individual stories of hardships overcome and perseverance, witnessing these rites of passage makes me feel profoundly hopeful. The intelligence and commitment of the students—many of whom are already tackling big problems and imagining new, bold solutions—gives me a level of confidence about what comes next for our country. In a time when it’s easy to get discouraged, their commitment and idealism stands as a powerful reminder that they are ready to take on the mess we have left them. The kids are alright, even though they shouldn’t have to be. Talking with them makes me think they will find a way, even if it’s unfair to ask it of them and despite the fact that their path will be more difficult than it should be. Courage is contagious, and they seem to have caught it. Their educations have prepared them for the future we all find ourselves in now. As students across the country prepared to graduate this year, Trump released his so-called “skinny budget.” If that’s how they want to frame it, then education has been put on a starvation diet—at least the kind of education that develops independent thinkers who thrive in an environment where questions are asked and answered. Trump pitches the budget as “gut[ting] a weaponized deep state while providing historic increases for defense and border security.” Defense spending would increase by 13% under his proposal. The plan for education is titled, “Streamline K-12 Education Funding and Promote Parental Choice.” Among its provisions, the announcement focuses on the following items: “The Budget continues the process of shutting down the Department of Education.” “The Budget also invests $500 million, a $60 million increase, to expand the number of high-quality charter schools, that have a proven track record of improving students’ academic achievement and giving parents more choice in the education of their children.” As we discussed in March, none of this is a surprise. Trump is implementing the Project 2025 plan. In December of 2024, I wrote about how essential it is to dumb down the electorate if you’re someone like Donald Trump and you want to succeed. A rich discussion in our forums followed. At the time I wrote, “Voters who lack the backbone of a solid education in civics can be manipulated. That takes us to Trump’s plans for the Department of Education.” But it’s really true for the entirety of democracy. Explaining the expanded funding for charter schools, a newly written section of the Department of Education website reads more like political propaganda than education information: “The U.S. Department of Education announced today that it has reigned in the federal government’s influence over state Charter School Program (CSP) grant awards. The Department removed a requirement set by the Biden Administration that the U.S. Secretary of Education review information on how states approve select entities’ (e.g., private colleges and universities) authorization of charter schools in states where they are already lawful authorizers. This action returns educational authority to the states, reduces burdensome red tape, and expands school choice options for students and families.” There are already 37 lawsuits related to Trump’s changes to education. Uncertainty is no way to educate America’s children. Cutting funding for research because you want to score political points about DEI or climate change is no way to ensure we nurture future scientists and other thinkers and doers. In a March interview on PBS “NewsHour,” John King, the chancellor at The State University of New York, was asked about the Trump administration’s position that “the federal Department of Education has failed in its mission, and thus it can be dismantled.” His response was telling. “Unfortunately,” he said, “they have got it exactly backwards … The Education Department has played a key role in the progress we have made over the last 40 years in terms of student performance. It's when the federal government is leaning in, providing clear accountability, mobilizing the country to improve outcomes, particularly for low-income students, students with disabilities, other vulnerable student populations, that we have seen the most progress. Where we stalled was when the first Trump administration took office, and then certainly COVID set the whole country back.” I am reminded again of George Orwell’s words: “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” The historians among us, and those who delve into history, will play a key role in getting us through this. Our love and understanding of history can help us stay grounded, understanding who we are, who we don’t want to become, and why the rule of law matters so damn much to all of it. This morning at 1 am, yes, that’s 1 AM, to take up what they’ve titled, I kid you not “The Big, Beautiful Budget Bill.” If you can, set your alarm and watch. There is no way we’re letting them get away with this. Here’s the number you call to let your elected officials know how you feel: 202-224-3121 Thanks for being here with me and for supporting Civil Discourse by reading and subscribing. Your paid subscriptions make it possible for me to devote the time and resources necessary to do this work, and I am deeply grateful for them. We’re in this together, Joyce

Urgent Message from Meidas Founder!!! CORPORATE MEDIA NOT REPORTING MAGA GOP TAX SCAM & MASSIVE DEFICITS! 1 AM HEARING?

 

Urgent Message from Meidas Founder!!!

Ben Meiselas and MeidasTouch Network May 21

By Ben Meiselas

I am pissed right now. Trump and the MAGA Republicans are criminals. Let’s not mince words. Trump is a felon, a fraud, and sexual abuser. Republicans in Congress are his accomplices. These are sick demented people. Last night they schedule a hearing at 1 AM to rush through their tax bill that is over 1,000 pages so Americans wouldn’t pay attention to it. Guess what, our MeidasTouch team was reading through all the text and covering all the proceedings starting at 1AM. Thank you to our tireless research team.

Trump, the demented felon, and the MAGA Republicans, are rushing through their tax scam that adds at least $6 trillion to the deficit, cuts healthcare for 13 million Americans, cuts food stamps, and gives trillions in tax cuts for billionaires. I estimate that that the full impact of this ad scam will eventually increase the deficit by $20 trillion. This tax scam is the largest redistribution of wealth in history, streaming from low income Americans to give to the rich. This is the most dangerous piece of legislation in history.

Where the hell is the media? Too busy defaming Biden? Too busy selling their brain rot books? Too busy trying to curry favor and access with Trump the sexual abuser and felon. Screw the corporate news. The pathetic vile state regime complicit mouthpieces.

The MeidasTouch Network has a team working around the clock now to go through this bill. I have a dozen interviews set up today with Members of Congress to get you all the info you need about this bill. We are going to do the work the corporate media refuses to do.

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I am sorry if this post is shorter than usual. I have to dig into this text and report back to you on what’s going on. I want to make sure we lead all coverage on this tax scam today since we know corporate news will try to cover everything up.

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