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Joseph Glass's avatar

Donate now and as many times as possible. We must support the organizations that will fight against Trump.

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Public Servant's avatar

Thank you ACLU and mighty Meidas! I wrote a poem about how you are the bravest democracy defenders: https://democracydefender2025.substack.com/p/meidas-touch-poem

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peter's avatar

Oh fuck,.,, writing a poem will stop Trump....you self absorbed piece of shit

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Terry's avatar

You self absorbed piece of shit, they said nothing about stopping trump. They said they wrote a poem about Meidas Touch. Reading comprehension too difficult for you? jfc Go back to magaland, and your self-absorbed like-minded pos magaTs.

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Shellinaya's avatar

He's not MAGA. It's self-absorbed to write a poem about the ACLU and then beg people to read it HERE. Like, make your own website.

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Edith Brideau's avatar

Lighten up. I read the poem and didn't get the impression the poet is self absorbed, just inspired and uninhibited about it.

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Palindrome3777's avatar

trolls are all about not being light

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Dee Joy's avatar

Another ahole expelling gas.

We love Public Servants poems. You're in the wrong place magat - go spread your misery elsewhere

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Michele Rivera's avatar

Go away....you are a negative ass.

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Barry Nelson's avatar

The MAGA's are no less self-absorbed, so locked up they refuse to test a truth they don't already believe told to them by their favorite fakes and liars. Here's what a poem does, been writing them for 55 years. It gets people out of their usual frame of reference, thinking about ideas in new ways, and they get to use their creative minds to solve emotional dilemmas, and explore subjective truths and falsehoods and compare them to objective realities not previously considered. Poems require or demand a flexible mind and there is often a moral question to be solved. Poems make a particular kind of song and vice versa. The mind runs and dreams on metaphors, even creates itself and can motivate people to move in political ways, and they can sustain a person while great social upheavals are occurring in real time and can provide a place of peace where a soul meets itself. Since you are apparently not a self-absorbed "POS", then you were probably able to throw away the Peace Movement of the 1960's. And knowing Dylan's music, or Peter Paul and Mary's song, "If I Had a Hammer", and since you are probably dedicated to killing all your memories of those self-absorbed Peace-Niks, may I suggest the Beatles, "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" or PPM's, Hammer song, and use the hammers of their music to tap some sense into your head. "We have nothing to fear but fear itself", my fellow Americanski.

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T Allen's avatar

Thank you!

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Dee Joy's avatar

Spreading love and light again!

Another asshole expelling gas!

Public Servant's poems are awesome and we love them here - please go hide back under your rock - you're in the wrong place maga moron

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Katherine Patry's avatar

donated

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Barb O's avatar

I hadn't for awhile, but started up again. It's so needed.

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Barbara Rainey's avatar

The ACLU deserves all the support we can afford to give.

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HelmGirl's avatar

Excellent! Have steps been taken regarding Baron Trumps birthright citizenship, given Melania didn’t have citizenship yet?

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Jean Conley's avatar

Ohhhh, Merry....good one! We ABSOLUTELY need to do that. And definitely Melania. By the way, maybe that's why she's not appearing/saying anything on TV, etc.? Where has she been?

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Leah Baum's avatar

Last month Maxine Water filed papers to have her deported.

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Janice Perry's avatar

Good on you Maxine. Everyone needs to bring this to everyone else’s attention. That would piss Trump off! He can’t stand it when people talk about his family, but he don’t mind screwing up everyone else’s family!

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HelmGirl's avatar

Getting her hair done? Picking out hats?

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Rachel C's avatar

With her boyfriend in New York. Would you be anywhere near that pig if you had any other option??👹

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Linda's avatar

The irony here is that Trump doesn’t realize that he would be taking his Father’s own birth right take away because his Grandfather was an immigrant…

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Linda Donahue's avatar

My family and I support ACLU. You can too…

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Chris's avatar

How?

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Chris's avatar

I did it just now. I’m from France 🇫🇷 and so devastated by what’s happening to your country and to the world.

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Shellinaya's avatar

DONATE to them. I donate monthly. They are doing a lot of work against Trump's lawlessness.

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RelentlessJo's avatar

Yea, me too, restarting monthly donations. Don’t buy crap on Amazon…save it for ACLU!

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David A Pitock's avatar

Check the website

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Joy Fisher's avatar

This gives me hope! And I have already donated!!!

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Debra Harber's avatar

THANKS TO THE ACLU and Meidas!!

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Bob Seemueller's avatar

Thanks Ben, Meidas Touch, Anthony Romeo and everyone at the ACLU for all you do to protect America's values and Democracy.

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Nancy Taylor's avatar

Who would have thought lawyers would be amazing heros!!!

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Bill Riley's avatar

Speaking of heroic lawyers, has Emhoff quit his job yet? If not, why not? Just a question from a longtime ACLU member.

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peter's avatar

Why the fuck should he quit his job? Have you tossed the TV, and thrown out all your food... You assoles think you are fighting in France in 1917

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Palindrome3777's avatar

bless your heart

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Carolyn McPherson's avatar

I did, but then, I lived through Watergate.

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AAA M's avatar

Carolyn, I lived through Watergate aaannndd the Cuban Missle Crisis. So scary.

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Carolyn McPherson's avatar

Oh, dear. I left out the Cuban Missile Crisis. In fact, I was 18 when that happened, and an announcer and engineer for WOBC Radio, the "Voice of Oberlin College." I was in the radio station when the teletype machine began ringing like crazy--10 rings in a row--the end of the world.

Forgive me for going off on that tangent: I hadn't thought of that in years!

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Linda's avatar

Difference is that Nixon packed up and left…

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Teresa JV's avatar

Thank you, ACLU!! Thank you, Meidas!!

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James Wilson's avatar

They have been important for decades defending our country against bad actions by the government. But their work is more vital than ever. Thankfully we’re prepared in advance of Trump 2.0

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Keith Gliponeo's avatar

ACLU and the MeidasTouch ELBOWS UP ELBOWS UP ELBOWS UP

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Jeanne Schultz's avatar

That's all Trump does...lie, lie, and lie some more.

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Jerry Yospin's avatar

Trump doesn’t always lie. When he ran for president this last time, he said on day 1 he would be a dictator.

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Janice Perry's avatar

Hahhahaha, so funny. From Canada with love ❤️

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Heather Mikels's avatar

I’ve been supporting ACLU with a monthly donation since all this craziness began. They are doing everything they can for the sake of our democracy. Thank you for sharing this interview.

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Leslie's avatar

Everyone! Go on aclu.org and donate something MONTHLY. What’s happening now in this country is absurd & Criminal. We need to help those organizations taking up the fight. Do it now.

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Lourdes Herrera's avatar

Thanks goodness for ACLU 🙏🏼

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Maurice K Lethbridge's avatar

The ACLU saved our country AGAIN, nuh true! Wake up America!

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AAA M's avatar

Sooooooo.....we should reward him???????

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AAA M's avatar

That was a reply to Jerry Y

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