We need to do a whole lot more than cry. Remain active, participate in protests if you are able, donate if you can, contact local media over and over and demand the run stories about how maga is hurting your community, challenge people of faith, at least those who call themselves Christians to stand up for the words of Jesus and feed the hungry, welcome the stranger, heal the sick and love one another, hold town halls on your own if it is safe...let your neighbors know they are not alone, the good guys are in this together.
I have to shop at Walmart. Well sort of...I live in a rural area and the next closest store is about 65 miles away. But I pretty much only buy groceries and health needs there. I did recently buy the cheapest bras I could find....the first ones I've bought in over 15 years (too much sharing) and I probably could have gone on longer with what I had but other than that I really try to stick to things I think I need to have (marmalade for my toast is not a necessity, butter is, coffee is (even though it really isn't) but I've switched to instant. I'm on a relatively low income and have to be careful where and how I spend my money so ordering things on line is often more costly. And then even though I sort of hate my maga neighbors (I'm in a 100% maga area) they are my neighbors and Walmart is a big employer here so I help keep them employed. It does seem like the boycotting of Target has made a difference so maybe the boycotting of Amazon will also make a difference. But even if it doesn't make a difference, I think we should all do it the best we can. Pretty soon there will be sort of natural boycotts as all of us non billionaires will have less to spend due to out h igher taxes and tariffs.
We get it. I lived in a smaller town where it was the only option for 3 months. I hated that. Your comment comes from a real American. The fact that you get it while so many never will or refuse to makes a big difference. Most of us do the best we can. And some of us try to help out those who don't have enough. Thank you.
Agree, somewhat, but it does get their attention. And, in the interim, many people find shopping at alternate sources to be a much better experience. I, for one, have totally stopped shopping at Target since their boycott happened. Don't miss it at all. Other options for HD still exist.
It still helps because they need to see our NUMBERS, just like with protests. Politicians pay immediate attn to new polling numbers; those numbers matter. They also pay attn to the phone calls they receive; those matter. You can't tell me Home Depot doesn't watch their sales numbers on MORE than a monthly basis. Every effort matters.
Member of the Maple Meidas here - boycotting is a great way to not feed the corporations that fund these politicians. I've stopped shopping from Amazon since January; no Walmart; and focusing on Canadian companies and Canadian products. I've read a stat that in Canada, even spending $20 at a local farmers market each week can help generate $130 million into local farmers and products in our province. So now I go to a local farm market each week for my produce and fruit.
As noted by two other people it is difficult to avoid corporations, especially in rural areas.
But think about it: what items can you buy that are not sold from a greedy corporation?
I didn't have high speed internet in my rural area until Musk's Starlink became available. I had to drive 30 minutes into town to use the library's high speed internet. In my area, we have one hardware store - corporate owned, most everything made in China. It's small and well-stocked but we still have order some things online from Amazon. Our privately owned building supply store closed, unable to compete with Home Depot, 60 minutes away. We have one small grocery store, owned by Kroger in my village and two next closest stores, one owned by Kroger and the other by Safeway. We have one small Walmart which offers the lowest prices on mostly unhealthy food and it is where the poorest in my region shops.
Each one of these corporations participate in the politial system by donating money to PACS for both sides. They seek less regulation on labor laws, some engage in social prejudice and all of them want to avoid paying a fair share of taxes. Corporate America owns rural America and while its easy to write about boycotting, it's simply not a reality for the underpaid, the elderly and the rural communities.
I do support my local food producers by buying meat, vegetables and fruit from them. Most importantly, I have greatly reduced my consumption. I just bought several pieces of new clothing: organic cotton & linen, made in America using certified fair labor. Six items cost $550. This will be my only clothing purchase for the year.
I do use Etsy and actually was a seller for a few years. I also use Goodwill and thrift shops. My main point was Americans simply buy too much stuff. Instead of boycotting, we need to by "buycotting."
i've tried no amazon, but now the only place i can seem to get the air filters for our air purifiers is amazon. *sigh*
but i haven't been in a Walmart for a few years now, and Target i've been shaking my head at since they screwed over a lot of Black-owned businesses that sold their wares there.
I think the idea is to do as much boy/buycotting as you can. The supply chain is such now that avoiding some goods from companies or countries that you do not wish to support is at times impossible.
I'm in the same boat sometimes the only way I can get something is to order it from Amazon but I've quit anything else and told the kids for birthdays, Christmas or whatever I'm not giving them any thing, but rather cash for an experience of their choice (for the girls that usually something like a pedicure or eating out so they don't have to cook). I hate doing that as I've always enjoyed listening to things they say all year and getting them something special based on some comment they made, but I refuse to support Amazon unless I have to.
Please go to Change.org The People's Petition For Global Against Authoritarianism. Read the one dated May 5, 2025 and when done reading that, read the one below, dated 5 days ago. If you believe in it, sign it and pass on the information,
Member of the Maple Meidas here - boycotting is a great way to not feed the corporations that fund these politicians. I've stopped shopping from Amazon since January; no Walmart; and focusing on Canadian companies and Canadian products. I've read a stat that in Canada, even spending $20 at a local farmers market each week can help generate $130 million into local farmers and products in our province. So now I go to a local farm market each week for my produce and fruit.
The "foreigners" aren't the ones to be worried about, they have a home to return to... what happens to those whose homes are HERE who get sent to a concentration camp? Are THEY "foreigners" too?
There’s a special place in Hell for everyone in this corrupt regime. It’s not an administration - it’s a regime. I’m just sickened at what they’ve done to our wonderful country and its citizens.
Yes, they are now. And don't kid yourself, after they've rounded up all the immigrants the Blacks and Muslims will be next. They will start saying Blacks are responsible for the violent crime in America and Muslims are all terrorists.
Speaking of the homeless, one of the many horrific ramifications of the BUB (Big Ugly Bill) is that poverty will increase and homelessness along with it. This will give the Trump/Republican cabal an excuse for more mass deportations to inescapable death camps.
Disappearing "undesirables" is a hallmark strategy of all dictatorships.
Fascists come for us all. Women check seniors check. Young people check. Uninsured people check. They come for us all. That means you too. No one is safe!!! People can’t seem to understand this. They will always be able to find a reason to hurt you and the people you love
I'm a proud Black American and this is my promise to America, if they have the balls to come after me, I stay locked and loaded. I promise I will take one or multiples of them out of their dirty misery.
Thank you for your dedication to the cause. Sadly I don't think a one of them is in any kind of misery...they, the entire GOP is thriving on this cruelty and racism. Stay strong and if you can, convince your neighbors and friends to become part of the resistance! I don't know if the polls were accurate but many said young Black men contributed a lot to trump's win and if that's' true maybe we can turn that around if we ever have elections again,, along with the Muslims. Miami Florida just voted to not have upcoming elections (not the voters, they had no say, the GOP City Council) and they know that will go to the SC and they know the SC will side with them and say, no, in America we don't need to have elections anymore.
I cannot believe that in America anyone publicly called for an end to elections. If the SC upheld that position, it would truly be the end of the Republic and all for which it stands.
When did gerrymandering become acceptable? Or voter suppression? Ending elections is the logical progression but surely it would ignite a civil war? At least 66% of America did NOT vote for this.
I agree, pretty surprising that they called for it, even more alarming they passed it without the approval of the voters. What I read is that they are planning for it to go to the SC so the SC can rule that if there are certain conditions (which will be ones trump can satisfy) we can postpone elections. Now I don't know what they will do if no one challenges the rule in Florida and it doesn't go anywhere. I guess they will have to have one of trump's toadies challenge it. I don't know how far Americans will let the dictator take over.
Ben, thank you so much for what you do and for the community you, your brothers, and the MTN have built. What you have created is a form of journalism built on both expertise and heart, on being human and letting your care, your concern, and your clear positioning on the side of democracy and decency for all, shine through. It’s not slick, it’s not fancy; it’s real and substantive. That’s why I love what you do. I suspect others feel the same.
Mine too, Ben. I have many members of my extended family who are naturalized citizens.
Lest we forget, most of us came from families who immigrated from somewhere beyond our shores. (Heck, even the orange man was and is married to an immigrant)
Maybe we should keep reminding him of that fact.
Stay safe and may all your family be safe as well.
Why did you use the word “foreigners” in your comment. We are all “foreigners” in the United States of America as the only natives are the indigenous people who were subjected by whites. Was this a subliminal racial slip up. As a third generation Asian this happened to me on occasion, especially when I am the only non white in the group.
And even the First Nations are originally immigrants if you want to push the paradigm!
The lesson here is: who gets to decide who is undesirable, and why, and do we let them disappear those they deem undesirable without question or check, and worse, to concentration camps?
It is heartbreaking to read your important personal story. It is so very telling: How devastating and painful it is to imagine how people must live with such terror and fear — and how life comes to a standstill for them. I wish above all safety for your extended family, and thank you for the vital work and encouragement you are providing.
Stay strong, Californians!😤💪The old felon is attacking you because of your strength to have wonderful smart people who didn’t vote for the satanic republican scheme! 🇺🇸💪😎
Thank you for your support, Jean in the Netherlands. It means so much to hear the perspective from people around the world who are on the outside looking in. Because, when you see what is going on here and then take the time to let us what you see, it helps validate what those of us who are not in "the cult" already know in our hearts to be true. Otherwise, seeing it with my own eyes would cause me to doubt my own sanity. In that regard, I have almost given into despair due to the Republicans passage on July 1st of the "murder" bill, as Ben Meiselas of the MeidasTouch Network calls it. The America I was born into almost 79 years ago no longer exists. I am in good health physically, though mentally, I am not as well. The one thing I live most for now is to hear "YES!" in answer to the question I am now wearing on a t-shirt: Is He Dead Yet? Living for that day gives me hope that God does still exist.
From outside the country, it is shocking and heart-rending to see your great nation brought to its knees by a cabal of evil persons who have co-opted the Republican party. This is now the party of MAGA, not the Republicans of the 50's and 60's, and is dedicated to creating an authoritarian dictatorship that would make Hitler blush.
Ben, thank you for sharing this deeply personal story from your wife and your family. This makes the USA sound so dystopian right now due to the bigotry and lawlessness of the regime. Being afraid to outside for anything and sending select members to gather food sounds like the Walking Dead or other disaster scenarios.
Vibrant communities like this, Miami, NYC, and other Latino communities are part of the flavor of America and trump is trying to kill it and make it as depressing as his golf courses.
We need to continue standing up, protesting peacefully against this tyrannical regime and pointing out things like their concentration camps in Florida are not what our American values are. We are better than this, we are not Nazi Germany.
Our people deserve better than this and the right to go to work, to shop, to practice their faith, and to feel safe.
When you mentioned his golf courses, how depressing, I thought of how the rose garden was recently paved over. They want to destroy everything alive, vibrant, and beautiful and replace it with gray and pain, cruelty and death.
It’s so unbelievably depressing to see something that was beautiful done by Jackie Kennedy to be ruined by Trump. Now I’m remembering those weird Christmas trees from 2019 that everyone mocked. Everything he touches dies.
In Trump’s first inaugural speech, “American Carnage,” he was talking about what he intended. Americans voted him back; now we have new American concentration camps; the Big Murder Bill funds ICE x5 (!), cuts healthcare and food, and siphons huge $ from bottom to top, sends debt limit to stratosphere.
American carnage is what the GOP House is voting for.
In Nazi Germany it started with telling the Jews to self deport and when most of them didn’t we all know what happened next. Not sure that peaceful protests will stop this evil regime!
I blame Führer tRump for all hell on earth. My hate for Führer tRump and his administration from hell grows every second. I can't believe that there is no one in this country who has the power and the balls to slap a pair of handcuffs on this true homegrown, demented, treasonous criminal terror! I hope that the only way to end his reign DOESN'T include another country dropping bombs on us, like we did to end the Dick Traitor in Germany!
If you would like to earn more money, have affordable housing, education, medical, child and elder care watch Senator Sanders YouTube videos or check out BernieSanders.com and join the movement.
You are so right. Please go or Change.org The People's {etotopm Fpr Global Against Authoritarianism. Read the one dated May 5, 2025. After reading that, read the one just below, dated 5 days ago. If you agree with it, sign it and pass it on. It might be a way to get this regime out of the WH and hold them accountable.
Seeing Trump, DeSantis and Noem almost foaming at the mouth at the opening of Alligator Alcatraz (even that name is disgusting) is beyond belief. I look forward to the day when there will be a reckoning, where these purveyors of evil and their acolytes will be held accountable.
HOW? I just cannot understand it. Thinking there are living, breathing people out there who don’t have any issue with doing this, I can barely catch my breath.
Except the causative factors differ. We all know WW1 was a totally unnecessary war, but Germany had major economic issues following it (as many did) on top of trying to run a government on a system they were not so used to yet. Most Germans had lived under a monarchy. Then, they had multiple parties and didn't know what to do with them. A strong person who made lots of promises naturally fit right in. We, in the US, continue to struggle because we have never fully dealt with the founding precepts of our nation. It was created to care for the property of rich, white men, on the backs of indentured servants, slaves, and non-property owning people. Slavery is ingrained into the American ideal, and we have never truly faced that fact. Just compromised and bumbled out way forward, always pretending we had fixed things. As long as we are not honest with ourselves, we will never be able to climb out of the hole we've dug ourselves into.
The Un-United USA has lost it's democracy. We are now under authoritarian rule. The richest, formally most powerful country in the world, The United States of America has been added to the CIVICUS Monitor Global Human Rights Watchlist, a research tool that publicizes the status of freedoms and threats to civil liberties worldwide, because the US is losing its Basic Human Rights, especially women's rights and our democracy is being destroyed by the trump and his administration from hell!
Führer tRump has launched the initial stages of genocide in America! Everyday for over three years soldiers in Ukraine have been risking their lives and dying to protect their democracy. Families in Gaza are being denied access to food, clean water, medical care or anyone to defend them. Mothers and Fathers are literally watching their children intentionally starved to death. All so the Israeli and US dictators can turn Gaza into a resort town for billionaires. It is not possible to believe in God and support dictators. Shamefully, many Americans are just sitting back watching our democracy crash all around us. Most aren't even aware that the beginning stages of genocide have begun in the USA. Our civil rights are already disappearing. The least we woke Americans can do, is encourage everyone we know, to learn and talk about the resistance, boycott a few billionaire businesses and show up at some peaceful protests!!! BEWARE America if we don't take a stand now we could end up like Ukraine or Gaza!
More URGENT ACTIONS to help end the madness. Here are some ways to help end the reign of the tRump/Musk regime. Don't stop resisting!
~ Help save our Medical Benefits! Use 5calls.org Civil Action website to let your representatives know that you want them to stop the Big Beautiful Bill, the Military Parade, VA benefits and the causes you care most about!
~ Support the national Economic Blackout- Boycott Target, Coors, McDonald’s, Dollar General, Walmart and Sam's Club!
~ Attend the next national mass peaceful protests and bring your people! Check your social media or Mobilize.us for more rallies and events near you.
~ If you want to earn more money and have access to affordable housing, education, medical, child and elder care, learn more at BernieSanders.com and join the movement! He's going to need the power of the people to demand the change we need to take the power away from the billionaire oligarchs, restore our civil rights, rebuild our economy and do save our democracy.
~ Your words (written or spoken) are a powerful tool to aid the resistance. Use these links to learn more and share your new knowledge with everyone you know!
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Go to Change.org The People's Petition For Global Against Authoritarianism. Read the one dated May 5, 2025. Then read the one below it dated, 5 days ago. If you agree, sign it and pass it on. It could be a way to get this regime out of office and held accountable.
The tRump is the leader of the American White Supremacists. When he exposes his hate he unleashes the hate in his entire regime of MAGAts and through the world. I know this first hand because he has unleashed the hate in me. I hate this mother fuckin rapist, racist white supremacist, homegrown treasonous, felonious criminal, crazy ass demented demonic, destructor of democracy, idiotic, imbecile TACO Dick Traitor. I told you that I am filled with hate. There are still too many haters in this country and yes I am one of them. I have been able to control it and I hope I will again someday! The hate is passed down from generation to generation. I was able to end this in my family but not in myself.
My father, who was not black, was a racist. He hated white people because of the way they have historically treated everyone else. Dad's voice has always lived inside my head, spewing his hate. I used his voice to remind me, not to let my kids grow up that way.
I told my children that everyone is good and everyone is bad. Some are more good, some are more bad. But you will never know who is good and who is not until you get a chance to know them. Until you give them a chance to know you. My kids know that you can't tell, the good from the bad, by the way they look. They were taught to take the side of the underdog. I taught them not to let the bad kids influence them. They learned that they didn't need bad kids in their lives no matter how popular they seemed to be. They knew that I would always stand by and advocate for them.
I was shocked by the number of adults who are still afraid to go to the principal's office, even on behalf of their own children. So my kids learned that we are all equal regardless of our status. That the principal, doctors, officers and even the President work for us. We choose them to lead, care, teach and keep us safe! My kids know that we pay them to work for us.
Führer tRump is destroying all of this for the next generation. For the first time, I am glad to know that I will never be a grandmother. Never in my life have I felt so much hate. My Dad's angry voice bitchin about white trash is louder than it has ever been before. I know you can't judge a book by it's cover. I know not all white people are bad but I can't help feeling that - DADDY WAS RIGHT!
The racists, white supremacists, the evil MAGAts, the greedy Oligarchs and wannabe oligarchs. They have come out of the shadows and walk openly upon the earth. They know El tRump will protect them! Some of them belong to the shameful tRump's Gestapo ICE Brigade. They hide their faces, don't wear uniforms, don't carry badges, don't have warrants, drive unmarked cars and the humans they pick up disappear without due process. I believe there are laws about this kind of behavior but of course the Limp Dick Traitor protects those who are evil like him. You would think that our police who have the legal authority to arrest these masked cowards (who are invading peaceful communities across the country) would be making arrests around the clock. Especially now that American citizens are silently disappearing too (see the video below). Unfortunately, we all know we have a problem with hatefilled racist Police Officers too. There must be some officers that really meant there oath to protect and serve all of us. Please real, trained, badge carrying US officials protect us all from these illegal goons posing as public servants. Arrests unidentified ICE thugs. Never be a tRump. Be kind. Be heroes!
Thanks to Substack writer Michele for sharing this story by Christina's Tea Talk.
"...I told her, as I’ve told you, I remain hopeful we will get through this dark period because the spirit of America and our people have not been destroyed.."
An appalling state of affairs currently. By the way , if anyone is interested our Australian Broadcasting Commission ( ABC ) has a long running documentary series called "4 Corners". This week it was a whole program dedicated to the tariffs and how they are affecting American Citizens. Worth watching if you get a chance :)
So sorry, Ben. I’m in the UK and here we are all horrified at the actions of the crime syndicate that is ruining the USA Mafia-style. You can be sure that the Orange Toad will get a very hostile reception if he dares to come here in September. Stay strong - he will be gone!
Excellent question, Candace! The current UK government does not have much of a backbone, but pressure on them is growing: https://stoptrump.org.uk/. I live in hope.
Ben, I’m glad your wife and daughter and your wife’s family were safe. I can’t imagine living under the horrors that naturalized citizens are now living through. Thank you for your honesty, your integrity, your truth telling. I have former friends and people that I know that support the other side and say they were lied to over the last four years. But I can’t see it. I don’t understand what they were lied to about! We had the best economy, we had jobs, we had calmness in the most prestigious office in the United States. I feel like I’m living in a daily reality show that just will never end or be canceled. I have hope things will get better, I do protest when there’s a group and I pray every single day that the people who are voting for this will see the light! continue as a great work and I’ll watch you from Substack and YouTube! Thank you so much for everything!
My husband and I traveled to Holland this past summer and visited Anne Frank’s home. It was a very sobering experience. Now that I’m seeing things escalate in Los Angeles, I’m thinking I would not hesitate to hide a family in my home. I think that everyone here who cares about their neighbors needs to ask themselves that same question. What would you do to help another family stay safe?
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act will lower taxes for hardworking families, seniors and small businesses, protect Medicaid and strengthen America’s border security,” their letter reads. “We are committed to seeing this bill become law on behalf of all Floridians.”
Signing the letter were Aaron Bean, Vern Buchanan, Byron Donalds, Neal Dunn, Randy Fine, Carlos Giménez, Mike Haridopolos, Laurel Lee, Anna Paulina Luna, Brian Mast, Jimmy Patronis, and Daniel Webster.
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Eight Florida House Republicans did not. They are Kat Cammack, Maria Elvira Salazar, Mario Diaz-Balart, Gus Bilirakis, Scott Franklin, Cory Mills, John Rutherford, and Greg Steube.
Gimenez, born in Cuba, was our Democratic county mayor until he flipped to Trump in 2020. In 2016, he supported HRC.
His son worked in the #45 Trump administration.
He has protested about immigration.
But he reads from Republican talking points.
Allegator Alcatraz in in Rep. Mario Diaz Balart's district. He is one of 3 Cuban Amenrican House Republicans who have been protesting Trump immigration policy. We have a Democratic majority. Immigration is certainly not the only issue, but many Republicans here are conflicted.
E.G. Billionaire Miami healthcare CEO Michael “Mike” B. Fernandez wrote the following open letter to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and members of the Republican Cuban-American Miami-Dade congressional delegation: U.S. Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart, Carlos Giménez and Maria Elvira Salazar.
For decades, I have stood with you in defense of the freedoms we cherish, those we were denied in the country of our birth and found in the grace of this one. I know what it means to flee tyranny. Like you, I carry that history in my bones and that pain in my heart. But like a growing number in our community,
I have watched with dismay as the very values we once found sanctuary in are now being attacked by a previously unthinkable threat — the sitting president of the United States.
I called my R Senators yesterday to thank them for voting to kick 16 million people off of healthcare, since this will obviously make the country great again. (sarcasm) The young lady that took the call almost immediately got snippy when I asked her if she got health insurance with her job. Maybe she was tired of being verbally assaulted by constituents who have had enough. Good. Keep up the work. And email, too.
Thank you for sharing your story. This can’t end soon enough! Seeing Trump and Noem and the Florida politicians down at their new “ holding pen” made me sick at heart and sick to my stomach. The reaction and laughing at remarks about alligators as security. And Fox News people all laughing and joking. And people buying hats and T-shirts? It was like being in an alternate reality.
I worked in a level 6, SuperMax prison in Massachusetts as a nurse and the murderers, crazies, and rapists were treated with more dignity than what Alligator Alcatraz appears to have!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🖐️🖐️HANDS OFF!!🇺🇸🇺🇸💪💪ELBOWS UP!!🇨🇦🥰🇺🇸🇺🇸💙💙NO KINGS!!🇺🇸🇺🇸💙💙💙 PUSH BACK AMERICA!!🖐️🖐️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💙💙💙
I live very close to Los Angeles and I watch KTLA. Every morning I see the disgusting Noem commercials. I’ve contacted KTLA a couple times asking them why they are airing this commercial in Los Angeles! Of course I have received no response. Our community is already terrified and this ad just adds fuel to the fire. My question is, how much are these networks getting paid to air these commercials!
She should give up her human card she’s is Trumpbot. They recite their scripts. When they’re questioned, they all recite the exact same responses. It’s sad
I’m sorry. I’m so so sorry. I feel as if my heart is in constant pain. I know you say that there is hope and we have each other. But do you see how every single day things are getting worse? I’m praying for miracles whilst trying to breathe through the pain.
Wow Ben! That’s a heartfelt story. My sadness lies with the children who will suffer because many in their families and communities voted against their own interest by believing the guy who is a known racist and liar…touting and bragging about mass deportation. I continue to look to God for hope that one day America will return to a place of goodness and decency for all🙏🏽
Your personal story truly pains me — that your family has to endure all of this. What worries me even more is the fear that it won’t end — that he’s strengthening his base and surrounding himself with people like Vance and others in his administration, paving the way for his sons to follow. It feels like this could go on for years if they are not stopped soon.
The pain you express so well is palpable. My heart goes out to your family, and all foreigners. The hatred is horrible.
This absolutely makes me cry for you all and our country! It is horrible!🥲❤️💙
We need to do a whole lot more than cry. Remain active, participate in protests if you are able, donate if you can, contact local media over and over and demand the run stories about how maga is hurting your community, challenge people of faith, at least those who call themselves Christians to stand up for the words of Jesus and feed the hungry, welcome the stranger, heal the sick and love one another, hold town halls on your own if it is safe...let your neighbors know they are not alone, the good guys are in this together.
Stop giving greedy corporations your money. Use or don't use your money to protest. No Amazon, no Walmart etc. Keep peacefully protesting!
I have to shop at Walmart. Well sort of...I live in a rural area and the next closest store is about 65 miles away. But I pretty much only buy groceries and health needs there. I did recently buy the cheapest bras I could find....the first ones I've bought in over 15 years (too much sharing) and I probably could have gone on longer with what I had but other than that I really try to stick to things I think I need to have (marmalade for my toast is not a necessity, butter is, coffee is (even though it really isn't) but I've switched to instant. I'm on a relatively low income and have to be careful where and how I spend my money so ordering things on line is often more costly. And then even though I sort of hate my maga neighbors (I'm in a 100% maga area) they are my neighbors and Walmart is a big employer here so I help keep them employed. It does seem like the boycotting of Target has made a difference so maybe the boycotting of Amazon will also make a difference. But even if it doesn't make a difference, I think we should all do it the best we can. Pretty soon there will be sort of natural boycotts as all of us non billionaires will have less to spend due to out h igher taxes and tariffs.
We get it. I lived in a smaller town where it was the only option for 3 months. I hated that. Your comment comes from a real American. The fact that you get it while so many never will or refuse to makes a big difference. Most of us do the best we can. And some of us try to help out those who don't have enough. Thank you.
And no Home Depot the month of July.
Or forever...just stopping for a month doens't help since they make us the business the next month.
Agree, somewhat, but it does get their attention. And, in the interim, many people find shopping at alternate sources to be a much better experience. I, for one, have totally stopped shopping at Target since their boycott happened. Don't miss it at all. Other options for HD still exist.
It still helps because they need to see our NUMBERS, just like with protests. Politicians pay immediate attn to new polling numbers; those numbers matter. They also pay attn to the phone calls they receive; those matter. You can't tell me Home Depot doesn't watch their sales numbers on MORE than a monthly basis. Every effort matters.
Member of the Maple Meidas here - boycotting is a great way to not feed the corporations that fund these politicians. I've stopped shopping from Amazon since January; no Walmart; and focusing on Canadian companies and Canadian products. I've read a stat that in Canada, even spending $20 at a local farmers market each week can help generate $130 million into local farmers and products in our province. So now I go to a local farm market each week for my produce and fruit.
As noted by two other people it is difficult to avoid corporations, especially in rural areas.
But think about it: what items can you buy that are not sold from a greedy corporation?
I didn't have high speed internet in my rural area until Musk's Starlink became available. I had to drive 30 minutes into town to use the library's high speed internet. In my area, we have one hardware store - corporate owned, most everything made in China. It's small and well-stocked but we still have order some things online from Amazon. Our privately owned building supply store closed, unable to compete with Home Depot, 60 minutes away. We have one small grocery store, owned by Kroger in my village and two next closest stores, one owned by Kroger and the other by Safeway. We have one small Walmart which offers the lowest prices on mostly unhealthy food and it is where the poorest in my region shops.
Each one of these corporations participate in the politial system by donating money to PACS for both sides. They seek less regulation on labor laws, some engage in social prejudice and all of them want to avoid paying a fair share of taxes. Corporate America owns rural America and while its easy to write about boycotting, it's simply not a reality for the underpaid, the elderly and the rural communities.
I do support my local food producers by buying meat, vegetables and fruit from them. Most importantly, I have greatly reduced my consumption. I just bought several pieces of new clothing: organic cotton & linen, made in America using certified fair labor. Six items cost $550. This will be my only clothing purchase for the year.
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I understand. If you can, try using Etsy online. They sponsor clothes makers artisans from all over the world and you don’t get gouged by high prices.
I do use Etsy and actually was a seller for a few years. I also use Goodwill and thrift shops. My main point was Americans simply buy too much stuff. Instead of boycotting, we need to by "buycotting."
i've tried no amazon, but now the only place i can seem to get the air filters for our air purifiers is amazon. *sigh*
but i haven't been in a Walmart for a few years now, and Target i've been shaking my head at since they screwed over a lot of Black-owned businesses that sold their wares there.
I think the idea is to do as much boy/buycotting as you can. The supply chain is such now that avoiding some goods from companies or countries that you do not wish to support is at times impossible.
Just do your best!
I'm in the same boat sometimes the only way I can get something is to order it from Amazon but I've quit anything else and told the kids for birthdays, Christmas or whatever I'm not giving them any thing, but rather cash for an experience of their choice (for the girls that usually something like a pedicure or eating out so they don't have to cook). I hate doing that as I've always enjoyed listening to things they say all year and getting them something special based on some comment they made, but I refuse to support Amazon unless I have to.
Please go to Change.org The People's Petition For Global Against Authoritarianism. Read the one dated May 5, 2025 and when done reading that, read the one below, dated 5 days ago. If you believe in it, sign it and pass on the information,
Tears are NOT enough!!! NO KINGS should be happening every other week.
We Canadians understand what it takes!! We declared war on Nazi Germany Sept 3/1939....... 2 years before Japan and Hitler attacked the USA!!!!
We are deep into a travel and purchasing boycott.
You do NOT have a 2 year wake up call this time people......
Are you going to sit and cry as Dog Killer Barbie makes nazi threats!!!
Put down the crying towel and get to work!!!
Perhaps quite some people are doing both... so let's not give up our empathy for those who cry and instead cry with them, WHILE we organize!
Member of the Maple Meidas here - boycotting is a great way to not feed the corporations that fund these politicians. I've stopped shopping from Amazon since January; no Walmart; and focusing on Canadian companies and Canadian products. I've read a stat that in Canada, even spending $20 at a local farmers market each week can help generate $130 million into local farmers and products in our province. So now I go to a local farm market each week for my produce and fruit.
The "foreigners" aren't the ones to be worried about, they have a home to return to... what happens to those whose homes are HERE who get sent to a concentration camp? Are THEY "foreigners" too?
There’s a special place in Hell for everyone in this corrupt regime. It’s not an administration - it’s a regime. I’m just sickened at what they’ve done to our wonderful country and its citizens.
Yes, they are now. And don't kid yourself, after they've rounded up all the immigrants the Blacks and Muslims will be next. They will start saying Blacks are responsible for the violent crime in America and Muslims are all terrorists.
The homeless will be next
You are correct, and the homeless veterans first of those, especially if you are a Black homeless veteran.
Speaking of the homeless, one of the many horrific ramifications of the BUB (Big Ugly Bill) is that poverty will increase and homelessness along with it. This will give the Trump/Republican cabal an excuse for more mass deportations to inescapable death camps.
Disappearing "undesirables" is a hallmark strategy of all dictatorships.
They will go after everyone who refuses to swear undying loyalty to Trump.
Who knows who will be next. It could be Trans or Gays or Muslims or people who think like us and post on these blogs.
Fascists come for us all. Women check seniors check. Young people check. Uninsured people check. They come for us all. That means you too. No one is safe!!! People can’t seem to understand this. They will always be able to find a reason to hurt you and the people you love
I'm a proud Black American and this is my promise to America, if they have the balls to come after me, I stay locked and loaded. I promise I will take one or multiples of them out of their dirty misery.
It seems to be the color of skin that bothers them. Right at the moment it's the "brown" people.
When THEY are all gone, who do you think will be next?
Hint: It WON'T be the "gingers. . . "
Thank you for your dedication to the cause. Sadly I don't think a one of them is in any kind of misery...they, the entire GOP is thriving on this cruelty and racism. Stay strong and if you can, convince your neighbors and friends to become part of the resistance! I don't know if the polls were accurate but many said young Black men contributed a lot to trump's win and if that's' true maybe we can turn that around if we ever have elections again,, along with the Muslims. Miami Florida just voted to not have upcoming elections (not the voters, they had no say, the GOP City Council) and they know that will go to the SC and they know the SC will side with them and say, no, in America we don't need to have elections anymore.
I cannot believe that in America anyone publicly called for an end to elections. If the SC upheld that position, it would truly be the end of the Republic and all for which it stands.
When did gerrymandering become acceptable? Or voter suppression? Ending elections is the logical progression but surely it would ignite a civil war? At least 66% of America did NOT vote for this.
I agree, pretty surprising that they called for it, even more alarming they passed it without the approval of the voters. What I read is that they are planning for it to go to the SC so the SC can rule that if there are certain conditions (which will be ones trump can satisfy) we can postpone elections. Now I don't know what they will do if no one challenges the rule in Florida and it doesn't go anywhere. I guess they will have to have one of trump's toadies challenge it. I don't know how far Americans will let the dictator take over.
I have a grandson in law that I am so worried about!
Ben, thank you so much for what you do and for the community you, your brothers, and the MTN have built. What you have created is a form of journalism built on both expertise and heart, on being human and letting your care, your concern, and your clear positioning on the side of democracy and decency for all, shine through. It’s not slick, it’s not fancy; it’s real and substantive. That’s why I love what you do. I suspect others feel the same.
Yes we do!
Ben and his family are not foreigners! They are Americans! Wake up!
I couldn’t agree more.
Mine too, Ben. I have many members of my extended family who are naturalized citizens.
Lest we forget, most of us came from families who immigrated from somewhere beyond our shores. (Heck, even the orange man was and is married to an immigrant)
Maybe we should keep reminding him of that fact.
Stay safe and may all your family be safe as well.
Very well said 💙
Why did you use the word “foreigners” in your comment. We are all “foreigners” in the United States of America as the only natives are the indigenous people who were subjected by whites. Was this a subliminal racial slip up. As a third generation Asian this happened to me on occasion, especially when I am the only non white in the group.
And even the First Nations are originally immigrants if you want to push the paradigm!
The lesson here is: who gets to decide who is undesirable, and why, and do we let them disappear those they deem undesirable without question or check, and worse, to concentration camps?
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It is heartbreaking to read your important personal story. It is so very telling: How devastating and painful it is to imagine how people must live with such terror and fear — and how life comes to a standstill for them. I wish above all safety for your extended family, and thank you for the vital work and encouragement you are providing.
Stay strong, Californians!😤💪The old felon is attacking you because of your strength to have wonderful smart people who didn’t vote for the satanic republican scheme! 🇺🇸💪😎
I admire your work. It’s very important.
I follow the network daily on YouTube.
I hope the USA will be soon a better place to live
Jean , living in the Netherlands
Thank you for your support, Jean in the Netherlands. It means so much to hear the perspective from people around the world who are on the outside looking in. Because, when you see what is going on here and then take the time to let us what you see, it helps validate what those of us who are not in "the cult" already know in our hearts to be true. Otherwise, seeing it with my own eyes would cause me to doubt my own sanity. In that regard, I have almost given into despair due to the Republicans passage on July 1st of the "murder" bill, as Ben Meiselas of the MeidasTouch Network calls it. The America I was born into almost 79 years ago no longer exists. I am in good health physically, though mentally, I am not as well. The one thing I live most for now is to hear "YES!" in answer to the question I am now wearing on a t-shirt: Is He Dead Yet? Living for that day gives me hope that God does still exist.
From outside the country, it is shocking and heart-rending to see your great nation brought to its knees by a cabal of evil persons who have co-opted the Republican party. This is now the party of MAGA, not the Republicans of the 50's and 60's, and is dedicated to creating an authoritarian dictatorship that would make Hitler blush.
So sad this happening in our country 😢
Ben, thank you for sharing this deeply personal story from your wife and your family. This makes the USA sound so dystopian right now due to the bigotry and lawlessness of the regime. Being afraid to outside for anything and sending select members to gather food sounds like the Walking Dead or other disaster scenarios.
Vibrant communities like this, Miami, NYC, and other Latino communities are part of the flavor of America and trump is trying to kill it and make it as depressing as his golf courses.
We need to continue standing up, protesting peacefully against this tyrannical regime and pointing out things like their concentration camps in Florida are not what our American values are. We are better than this, we are not Nazi Germany.
Our people deserve better than this and the right to go to work, to shop, to practice their faith, and to feel safe.
When you mentioned his golf courses, how depressing, I thought of how the rose garden was recently paved over. They want to destroy everything alive, vibrant, and beautiful and replace it with gray and pain, cruelty and death.
It’s so unbelievably depressing to see something that was beautiful done by Jackie Kennedy to be ruined by Trump. Now I’m remembering those weird Christmas trees from 2019 that everyone mocked. Everything he touches dies.
Since Trump seems to be doing all the decorating in Trump 2.0, I wonder if this year's Christmas trees will be all made out of gold.
In Trump’s first inaugural speech, “American Carnage,” he was talking about what he intended. Americans voted him back; now we have new American concentration camps; the Big Murder Bill funds ICE x5 (!), cuts healthcare and food, and siphons huge $ from bottom to top, sends debt limit to stratosphere.
American carnage is what the GOP House is voting for.
let's blow up his golf courses!
In Nazi Germany it started with telling the Jews to self deport and when most of them didn’t we all know what happened next. Not sure that peaceful protests will stop this evil regime!
I blame Führer tRump for all hell on earth. My hate for Führer tRump and his administration from hell grows every second. I can't believe that there is no one in this country who has the power and the balls to slap a pair of handcuffs on this true homegrown, demented, treasonous criminal terror! I hope that the only way to end his reign DOESN'T include another country dropping bombs on us, like we did to end the Dick Traitor in Germany!
We must continue to protest peacefully. To learn simple ways to support the resistance continue reading - https://open.substack.com/pub/onemommy/p/its-up-to-us?r=113nff&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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A great source for supporting the Anti-tRump Resistance and easy way to send letters to your representatives.
https://open.substack.com/pub/dworkin/p/how-were-fighting-trump?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=113nff
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The General Strike https://onemommy.substack.com/p/the-general-strike?r=113nff
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If you would like to earn more money, have affordable housing, education, medical, child and elder care watch Senator Sanders YouTube videos or check out BernieSanders.com and join the movement.
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It's Up To Us! https://onemommy.substack.com/p/its-up-to-us?r=113nff
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USA is on Human Rights Watch List!
https://onemommy.substack.com/p/usa-on-human-rights-watchlist?r=113nff
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Robert Reich on what to know about the Big Beautiful Bill. https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/what-you-need-to-share-about-the?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=113nffp
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The 3.5% Rule
Studies show that 3.5% of the population (11 million in America) exhibit SUSTAINED RESISTANCE to effectively enact change. Learn more about the 3.5% rule here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=x4syl-hZ9_I&si=jAbBx2kcLf72MZD4
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"She Won" A series of articles about election fraud in 2024, by Substack Publisher, This Will Hold
https://open.substack.com/pub/thiswillhold?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=113nff
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My Weirdo Friend , Our Weirdo Friend asked me to share this emergency broadcast about the current state of our union. Please share this far and wide.
https://open.substack.com/pub/muppetgender/p/this-is-an-emergency-broadcast?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=113nff
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How to spot a state sanctioned kidnapping and what to do about it.
https://open.substack.com/pub/ladylibertie/p/how-to-spot-a-state-sanctioned-kidnappingand?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=113nff
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Watch this beautiful emotional message from our Former Presidents.
https://youtube.com/shorts/xXd20VDrLII?si=N9RlllSrQvaPcMnU
You are so right. Please go or Change.org The People's {etotopm Fpr Global Against Authoritarianism. Read the one dated May 5, 2025. After reading that, read the one just below, dated 5 days ago. If you agree with it, sign it and pass it on. It might be a way to get this regime out of the WH and hold them accountable.
The People's Petition For Global Against Authoritarianism. (Had my fingers on the wrong keys and didn't check what I typed.)
Signed
Thank you. Now please pass in on. Everyone needs to read it and make their own decision to sign it. It's a start and, hopefully a finish.
Seeing Trump, DeSantis and Noem almost foaming at the mouth at the opening of Alligator Alcatraz (even that name is disgusting) is beyond belief. I look forward to the day when there will be a reckoning, where these purveyors of evil and their acolytes will be held accountable.
There was a clip of him saying he wanted people to quit calling it Alligator Auschwitz. He didn’t want it referred to as a nazi camp
A Nazi concentration camp is exactly what it is. Calling it Alligator Auschwitz is spot on.
But that's what is is...let's make sure we keep calling it that.
Let's call it what it is - The Nazi Prison Camp infested with alligators.
HOW? I just cannot understand it. Thinking there are living, breathing people out there who don’t have any issue with doing this, I can barely catch my breath.
These are the exact same tactics use be the Gestapo in NAZI Germany under Hitler.
America is repeating one of Germany's most horrific periods in history. And Donald Trump is doing this with full knowledge of his actions.
Trump and Miller love it.
Except the causative factors differ. We all know WW1 was a totally unnecessary war, but Germany had major economic issues following it (as many did) on top of trying to run a government on a system they were not so used to yet. Most Germans had lived under a monarchy. Then, they had multiple parties and didn't know what to do with them. A strong person who made lots of promises naturally fit right in. We, in the US, continue to struggle because we have never fully dealt with the founding precepts of our nation. It was created to care for the property of rich, white men, on the backs of indentured servants, slaves, and non-property owning people. Slavery is ingrained into the American ideal, and we have never truly faced that fact. Just compromised and bumbled out way forward, always pretending we had fixed things. As long as we are not honest with ourselves, we will never be able to climb out of the hole we've dug ourselves into.
The Un-United USA has lost it's democracy. We are now under authoritarian rule. The richest, formally most powerful country in the world, The United States of America has been added to the CIVICUS Monitor Global Human Rights Watchlist, a research tool that publicizes the status of freedoms and threats to civil liberties worldwide, because the US is losing its Basic Human Rights, especially women's rights and our democracy is being destroyed by the trump and his administration from hell!
Führer tRump has launched the initial stages of genocide in America! Everyday for over three years soldiers in Ukraine have been risking their lives and dying to protect their democracy. Families in Gaza are being denied access to food, clean water, medical care or anyone to defend them. Mothers and Fathers are literally watching their children intentionally starved to death. All so the Israeli and US dictators can turn Gaza into a resort town for billionaires. It is not possible to believe in God and support dictators. Shamefully, many Americans are just sitting back watching our democracy crash all around us. Most aren't even aware that the beginning stages of genocide have begun in the USA. Our civil rights are already disappearing. The least we woke Americans can do, is encourage everyone we know, to learn and talk about the resistance, boycott a few billionaire businesses and show up at some peaceful protests!!! BEWARE America if we don't take a stand now we could end up like Ukraine or Gaza!
More URGENT ACTIONS to help end the madness. Here are some ways to help end the reign of the tRump/Musk regime. Don't stop resisting!
~ Help save our Medical Benefits! Use 5calls.org Civil Action website to let your representatives know that you want them to stop the Big Beautiful Bill, the Military Parade, VA benefits and the causes you care most about!
~ Support the national Economic Blackout- Boycott Target, Coors, McDonald’s, Dollar General, Walmart and Sam's Club!
~ Everyone sign the strike card at GeneralStrikeUS.com
~ Attend the next national mass peaceful protests and bring your people! Check your social media or Mobilize.us for more rallies and events near you.
~ If you want to earn more money and have access to affordable housing, education, medical, child and elder care, learn more at BernieSanders.com and join the movement! He's going to need the power of the people to demand the change we need to take the power away from the billionaire oligarchs, restore our civil rights, rebuild our economy and do save our democracy.
~ Your words (written or spoken) are a powerful tool to aid the resistance. Use these links to learn more and share your new knowledge with everyone you know!
~ Strike! Resist! Boycott! Spread the Word! Use Substack to Keep Learning and Share your new Knowledge with everyone you know. Feel free to copy, forward, restack, repost and talk about these messages…
Go to Change.org The People's Petition For Global Against Authoritarianism. Read the one dated May 5, 2025. Then read the one below it dated, 5 days ago. If you agree, sign it and pass it on. It could be a way to get this regime out of office and held accountable.
The tRump is the leader of the American White Supremacists. When he exposes his hate he unleashes the hate in his entire regime of MAGAts and through the world. I know this first hand because he has unleashed the hate in me. I hate this mother fuckin rapist, racist white supremacist, homegrown treasonous, felonious criminal, crazy ass demented demonic, destructor of democracy, idiotic, imbecile TACO Dick Traitor. I told you that I am filled with hate. There are still too many haters in this country and yes I am one of them. I have been able to control it and I hope I will again someday! The hate is passed down from generation to generation. I was able to end this in my family but not in myself.
My father, who was not black, was a racist. He hated white people because of the way they have historically treated everyone else. Dad's voice has always lived inside my head, spewing his hate. I used his voice to remind me, not to let my kids grow up that way.
I told my children that everyone is good and everyone is bad. Some are more good, some are more bad. But you will never know who is good and who is not until you get a chance to know them. Until you give them a chance to know you. My kids know that you can't tell, the good from the bad, by the way they look. They were taught to take the side of the underdog. I taught them not to let the bad kids influence them. They learned that they didn't need bad kids in their lives no matter how popular they seemed to be. They knew that I would always stand by and advocate for them.
I was shocked by the number of adults who are still afraid to go to the principal's office, even on behalf of their own children. So my kids learned that we are all equal regardless of our status. That the principal, doctors, officers and even the President work for us. We choose them to lead, care, teach and keep us safe! My kids know that we pay them to work for us.
Führer tRump is destroying all of this for the next generation. For the first time, I am glad to know that I will never be a grandmother. Never in my life have I felt so much hate. My Dad's angry voice bitchin about white trash is louder than it has ever been before. I know you can't judge a book by it's cover. I know not all white people are bad but I can't help feeling that - DADDY WAS RIGHT!
The racists, white supremacists, the evil MAGAts, the greedy Oligarchs and wannabe oligarchs. They have come out of the shadows and walk openly upon the earth. They know El tRump will protect them! Some of them belong to the shameful tRump's Gestapo ICE Brigade. They hide their faces, don't wear uniforms, don't carry badges, don't have warrants, drive unmarked cars and the humans they pick up disappear without due process. I believe there are laws about this kind of behavior but of course the Limp Dick Traitor protects those who are evil like him. You would think that our police who have the legal authority to arrest these masked cowards (who are invading peaceful communities across the country) would be making arrests around the clock. Especially now that American citizens are silently disappearing too (see the video below). Unfortunately, we all know we have a problem with hatefilled racist Police Officers too. There must be some officers that really meant there oath to protect and serve all of us. Please real, trained, badge carrying US officials protect us all from these illegal goons posing as public servants. Arrests unidentified ICE thugs. Never be a tRump. Be kind. Be heroes!
Thanks to Substack writer Michele for sharing this story by Christina's Tea Talk.
https://substack.com/@democraticwarrior/note/c-129760815?r=113nff
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ADDITIONAL ANTI-TRUMP PEACEFUL RESISTANCE RESOURCES AND INFORMATION
https://open.substack.com/pub/onemommy/p/anti-trump-peaceful-resistance-resources?r=113nff&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
"...I told her, as I’ve told you, I remain hopeful we will get through this dark period because the spirit of America and our people have not been destroyed.."
An appalling state of affairs currently. By the way , if anyone is interested our Australian Broadcasting Commission ( ABC ) has a long running documentary series called "4 Corners". This week it was a whole program dedicated to the tariffs and how they are affecting American Citizens. Worth watching if you get a chance :)
So sorry, Ben. I’m in the UK and here we are all horrified at the actions of the crime syndicate that is ruining the USA Mafia-style. You can be sure that the Orange Toad will get a very hostile reception if he dares to come here in September. Stay strong - he will be gone!
Thank yo ufor your support! I wish your country and all nations would ban him from coming since he is a convicted felon.
why is your government even letting him into your country. He needs to be spurned like the poisonous toad he is.
Excellent question, Candace! The current UK government does not have much of a backbone, but pressure on them is growing: https://stoptrump.org.uk/. I live in hope.
fingers crossed. I hope that if enough countries turn their backs that his sycophants will wake up to the danger he presents.
Thanks for the link. Expecting our King to meet this piece of slime is criminal.
Agreed! However, it appears King Charles will be 'too busy' to meet him except for the formalities! https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/25/world/trump-uk-state-visit-intl?cid=ios_app
Saw a protest sign, paraphrase: “Scots hated Trump before it was fashionable.” Reference to his golf course?
Very likely!
I haven't caught up with that yet. I'm Australian too and following Meidas Touch. I must watch on iview.
I hope the Americans have noticed - all the Commonwealth countries loathe trump.
Ben, I’m glad your wife and daughter and your wife’s family were safe. I can’t imagine living under the horrors that naturalized citizens are now living through. Thank you for your honesty, your integrity, your truth telling. I have former friends and people that I know that support the other side and say they were lied to over the last four years. But I can’t see it. I don’t understand what they were lied to about! We had the best economy, we had jobs, we had calmness in the most prestigious office in the United States. I feel like I’m living in a daily reality show that just will never end or be canceled. I have hope things will get better, I do protest when there’s a group and I pray every single day that the people who are voting for this will see the light! continue as a great work and I’ll watch you from Substack and YouTube! Thank you so much for everything!
My husband and I traveled to Holland this past summer and visited Anne Frank’s home. It was a very sobering experience. Now that I’m seeing things escalate in Los Angeles, I’m thinking I would not hesitate to hide a family in my home. I think that everyone here who cares about their neighbors needs to ask themselves that same question. What would you do to help another family stay safe?
There's hope for die hard Republican MAGAts. "Leaving MAGA" is on Substack too! Watch this interview with its founder.
https://open.substack.com/pub/leavingmaga/p/my-conversation-with-adam-kinzinger?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=113nff
Debate on the floor starts at 9Am for MAGA Murder Bill.Please call your House Reps!!📲
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Still hoping a few Republican House members come through. At least 20 Republican House members say they're opposed. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/us/politics/house-trump-policy-bill-republicans.html
Several Senators expressed opposition in the early going and then lost their spines. We can hope, but it doesn’t look good.
They will all pass it. Happy 4th Reich of July
Possibles in Florida..
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act will lower taxes for hardworking families, seniors and small businesses, protect Medicaid and strengthen America’s border security,” their letter reads. “We are committed to seeing this bill become law on behalf of all Floridians.”
Signing the letter were Aaron Bean, Vern Buchanan, Byron Donalds, Neal Dunn, Randy Fine, Carlos Giménez, Mike Haridopolos, Laurel Lee, Anna Paulina Luna, Brian Mast, Jimmy Patronis, and Daniel Webster.
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Eight Florida House Republicans did not. They are Kat Cammack, Maria Elvira Salazar, Mario Diaz-Balart, Gus Bilirakis, Scott Franklin, Cory Mills, John Rutherford, and Greg Steube.
https://floridaphoenix.com/2025/06/30/twelve-gop-members-of-floridas-house-delegation-trump-domestic-policy-bill/
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Gimenez, born in Cuba, was our Democratic county mayor until he flipped to Trump in 2020. In 2016, he supported HRC.
His son worked in the #45 Trump administration.
He has protested about immigration.
But he reads from Republican talking points.
Allegator Alcatraz in in Rep. Mario Diaz Balart's district. He is one of 3 Cuban Amenrican House Republicans who have been protesting Trump immigration policy. We have a Democratic majority. Immigration is certainly not the only issue, but many Republicans here are conflicted.
E.G. Billionaire Miami healthcare CEO Michael “Mike” B. Fernandez wrote the following open letter to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and members of the Republican Cuban-American Miami-Dade congressional delegation: U.S. Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart, Carlos Giménez and Maria Elvira Salazar.
For decades, I have stood with you in defense of the freedoms we cherish, those we were denied in the country of our birth and found in the grace of this one. I know what it means to flee tyranny. Like you, I carry that history in my bones and that pain in my heart. But like a growing number in our community,
I have watched with dismay as the very values we once found sanctuary in are now being attacked by a previously unthinkable threat — the sitting president of the United States.
Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-ed/article304271841.html#storylink=cpy
Protest to the Cuban American National Foundation https://www.canf.org/get-involved/contact-us
Hope they hold their ground.. for all 🇺🇸❗️
Not much chance but we need to pressure tham. If you live in the DC area, go to the House.
I called my R Senators yesterday to thank them for voting to kick 16 million people off of healthcare, since this will obviously make the country great again. (sarcasm) The young lady that took the call almost immediately got snippy when I asked her if she got health insurance with her job. Maybe she was tired of being verbally assaulted by constituents who have had enough. Good. Keep up the work. And email, too.
Already done!
Thank you for sharing your story. This can’t end soon enough! Seeing Trump and Noem and the Florida politicians down at their new “ holding pen” made me sick at heart and sick to my stomach. The reaction and laughing at remarks about alligators as security. And Fox News people all laughing and joking. And people buying hats and T-shirts? It was like being in an alternate reality.
I worked in a level 6, SuperMax prison in Massachusetts as a nurse and the murderers, crazies, and rapists were treated with more dignity than what Alligator Alcatraz appears to have!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🖐️🖐️HANDS OFF!!🇺🇸🇺🇸💪💪ELBOWS UP!!🇨🇦🥰🇺🇸🇺🇸💙💙NO KINGS!!🇺🇸🇺🇸💙💙💙 PUSH BACK AMERICA!!🖐️🖐️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💙💙💙
I live very close to Los Angeles and I watch KTLA. Every morning I see the disgusting Noem commercials. I’ve contacted KTLA a couple times asking them why they are airing this commercial in Los Angeles! Of course I have received no response. Our community is already terrified and this ad just adds fuel to the fire. My question is, how much are these networks getting paid to air these commercials!
She should give up her human card she’s is Trumpbot. They recite their scripts. When they’re questioned, they all recite the exact same responses. It’s sad
I’m sorry. I’m so so sorry. I feel as if my heart is in constant pain. I know you say that there is hope and we have each other. But do you see how every single day things are getting worse? I’m praying for miracles whilst trying to breathe through the pain.
Wow Ben! That’s a heartfelt story. My sadness lies with the children who will suffer because many in their families and communities voted against their own interest by believing the guy who is a known racist and liar…touting and bragging about mass deportation. I continue to look to God for hope that one day America will return to a place of goodness and decency for all🙏🏽
Thank you Ben, for all you and Meidas does and continues to do.
My heart breaks for your wife's family, their neighbors, and all the people living in fear here now.
Your personal story truly pains me — that your family has to endure all of this. What worries me even more is the fear that it won’t end — that he’s strengthening his base and surrounding himself with people like Vance and others in his administration, paving the way for his sons to follow. It feels like this could go on for years if they are not stopped soon.
Sending lots of love from a Maple Meidas in Canada 🇨🇦❤️❤️🩹🤗