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Ben Meiselas and Michael Popok head the top-rated Legal AF podcast and tonight address a series of historic firsts from this week: the first federal judge to declare Trump’s relentless attacks on an independent bar and legal professionals unconstitutional; the first federal judge to rule Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act unconstitutional and an abuse of power; the first standing ovation in the Supreme Court led by its Justices in defense of the Rule of Law during the Trump era; the first standing ovation given to a sitting Supreme Court Justice for her withering rebuke of Trump for attacking judges; and so much more at the intersection of law and politics.
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I've had facebook for years and received the following message when trying to logon to my account.
Confirm your identity with a video selfie
To make sure you’re a real person, we need you to record a video selfie. We’ll ask you to move your head during the recording to help us capture your face at different angles.
I'm not going to send you a video. I have no reason to believe that it would be secure. I'm 84 years old and I don't know every rule and communication restriction you have. I did not use the site to send any youtube advertisements. The Youtube videos I placed on my site were strictly political. I thought we had free speech in our country but I know now with this new administration that it's only freedom of speech for them, not everyone else.
My wife and I will miss Marketplace but I'll not, after all these years, send a video. I've checked other family members and their facebook sites have not received this video request.
I was singled out because of my political views. I'm a veteran and have done my time in Vietnam fighting for this country and I'll not have my photo or video show up on the internet, after all, you admit there is a security problem or else you wouldn't be using the excuse that you need my video to verify who I am. If you don't know me by now, you never will. I've lived many years without facebook and can live without it again.
Bob, don't submit your video. It sounds like a fishy request. Is MAGA trolling people and trying to gain your information and picture to go after you? It's great that you are being very cautious.
It's anyone's guess but I don't trust them or anyone with my privacy. One has to wonder today if they really use the video to pass on to ICE or someone at DHC. I'm a veteran and 84 yrs. old, born and raised here but apparently from the news they don't really care who they pick up.
Don’t do it! Biggest scam around!
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ABOVE jmt is SPAM
do not engage
What a crock. They are way out of line. Sorry they are doing this to you. It's probably coming from tRump. Trying to silence everyone.
Yes or scare us. I don't scare easily. I survived Vietnam and other things and I'll get by with this. I'll miss taking to family and friends but there are other methods to communicate with them. I'm 84 yrs. old and not very good with computers, which I told them, I didn't know all they're rules an such. Anyway we move on. Thanks for your support though. It's nice to see that other people still have feelings for one another.
I was asked in 2014 to provide a non-redacted government issued picture is to confirm my identity get into my FB account... told them to keep the account... this was just before Cambridge Analytica and the Russian bit troll farms stole American ID's for the 2016 "election"... also my pet account on IG was deleted last year for dangerous organizations after I posted a picture of my cat wishing her a Meowy Purrthday... FUCK FUCK
FUCK ZUCK
Don't do it. I was actually kicked off Facebook and am not allowed back on because of all the anti Trump views I posted.
Yes, they only believe in Freedom of speech if it's their speech. They are like personalized robots, trained to react to only things that make the Orange Blob happy.
I believe that's why I was kicked off but I think it's more than that. Them demanding a video selfie is meant for what??
I would ask them what the hell for?
Their reply was to verify I wasn't an AI. I called them hypocrites on our CHAT because they use AI all the time to censure us. I told them I was concerned with my security and what they would do with my video. They said they could assure me that I was talking to a person. I told them to send me a video so I could verify who I was talking to. Of course that didn't happen. Our rights mean nothing to them anymore. Only meant something when FB was getting started. Now that they are rich and powerful, we are nothing and have no say. The only thing we can do is stop using Meta things like FB and Messenger to lower their income. They make their income every time you send a FB page to your family or friends you are sending them advertisement. They have so much money it would take thousands to cancel service to put a dent in their operation.
I'm 83 and know what could be and what was. Not what is now. Thank you for your service. I don't do Facebook, but know lots of people that do. Not my thing. I am not computer savey either, but just plug along. I do have opinions about what is happening today and want to leave this world a better place than it is today. Not the whole world, mostly, the USA. God Bless.
You are welcome: I understand what you mean and I let my political feeling be known and I believe that's a major reason they blocked me. I guess the truth was just too much for them. I felt like I served my country and had a right to express my dislikes as to the direction our country is now headed. You can't explain feeling to a robot and that's how they handled my account. I agree, this isn't the kind of world most of us want to live in but the rich and powerful have bought our government with they're big money in putting the leaders in office to serve their greedy needs. I knew years ago that Campaign Finance reform was drastically needed if we were going to turn our government around where we the people control whom we want to represent us. Now we have no choice.
I am with you Bon, no way on God's green earth would I send facebook a video of myself. No way. Don't give them your phone number either.
They won't get anything from me but a hard time now. After having an account with them for at least 12 years and they done this to me. It's them trying to help this dictatorship for more power and money.
Wow! That is actually terrifying! Are they making a “list” of people to go after and round up for ElSalvador or some other God-forsaken place?! I’m even more relieved now that I left Facebook several months ago when they started censoring and deleting my political posts.
I’m glad you didn’t send a video. I hope nobody else falls for this.
It's not beyond them to do whatever they want with them to please the Orange Blob. It's all about money and power and buying power to enrich themselves.
You're being very smart. Any video like that, I would imagine, can be put into a data base and used for facial recognition at airports or points of entry to and from the country. No thank you. As much as they already have infiltrate our privacy with every smart device we own and all of the chip technology in our credit cards and magnetic strips on our driver's licenses why voluntarily give them anything else that they can use against us. And today I heard a normal-looking public USB-C Lightning cable can also spy on your laptop, phone, or tablet and collect our data. No, I say preserve as much privacy about yourself as you can. I wouldn't even use biometrics (fingerprint of facial recognition) to unlock my phone or laptop. I keep my cameras (facing me) on my cell phone and laptop covered when not in use.
Good for you!
Thanks Christy. You are right and thanks for your advice.
Bob get on BLUE SKY
Come back to me once you are on it and I will help you out about finding interesting people to follow on Blue Sky
Is Blue Sky useable on a PC? I see many others are only for smartphones and I'm not into smartphones.
Bob you can access BlueSky on a web browser, that is how I do it. I hate adding in more and more apps. Just open a browser and copy and paste in the link below.
Here is the link:
https://bsky.app/
OK, thanks I'll try it
OK, I'm on. User BoRumm
Bob, I more or less stopped posting on Facebook over 10 years ago when they announced a new policy all the pictures you post on Facebook now become the property of facebook. Young parents who post pictures of their babies for grandma and grandpa to see, yup Facebook now owns your child's picture, not you, Facebook owns it because you posted it on facebook.
Yes, I believe you. Once they get the videos or photos you'd have to fight them in court and none of us could afford going up against them. Our country is going down hill more each day.
So tell me how many millions and millions of dollars have to be wasted on security for the judges? All because Trump doesn’t like the law being applied!! Someone somewhere has got to put a stop to all this wasteful spending because of Trump and Elon!! They are going to run the debt over the cliff!!
I would rather spend $ on protecting judges and not on the president or his cabinet. They should pay for their own, since they are ripping us off. tRump should be paying for his golf trips, not the public.
I agree with that since each trip to FL costs millions of dollars! Think about-jet fuel & maintenance, security details, helicopter from airfield to his MAR, salaries for pilots & staff. Money better used for funding free lunches for children and Meals on Wheels for seniors!
I agree 💯%. I never in my life seen any stupid shit like this until Trump and his wannabe MAGA bullies came along!!
I agree because of trumpy extra security us needed. These judges who follow the rule of law and do not bend to trumpy deserve protection
Oh I’m not saying they don’t. They sure do. I’m pointing out because of the bullying he’s doing it’s costing the tax payers millions of dollars. They want to take away from our seniors,veterans and children and for what?
I agree
We’ll be lucky if we get out of this by only wasting millions of dollars and not millions of lives. Trump now says he wants to turn Alcatraz into a concentration camp.
I am SO glad to be a natural born Citizen of these United States!
And SO proud that so many justices in SO many courts are standing strong against this awful DJT administration!
I still firmly believe that the Orange Monster must be IMPEACHED by the House and ultimately CONVICTED
by the Senate, at the very least for all
his many “crimes and misdemeanors.”
Donald J. Trump is AN IDIOT
AND A CRIMINAL,
NOT A KING!
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If the SCOTUS finds that Trump was violating the constitution, what can be done? SCOTUS has no police, military control? What would that plan be? Another insurrection directed by Trump?
I heard the U.S. Marshalls would be called in to do it. Funny, though, they're considered part of the Executive Branch. Yet it is believed that if called upon they WILL do it.
Most of this, in particular the standing ovations at the Supreme Court, I did not know. Only Meidas+ is getting the truth to the American people:
“the first federal judge to declare Trump’s relentless attacks on an independent bar and legal professionals unconstitutional; the first federal judge to rule Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act unconstitutional and an abuse of power; the first standing ovation in the Supreme Court led by its Justices in defense of the Rule of Law during the Trump era; the first standing ovation given to a sitting Supreme Court Justice for her withering rebuke of Trump for attacking judges; and so much more at the intersection of law and politics.”
A standing ovation by the Supreme Court Injustices is meaningless in the face of the support afforded Trump by Roberts, Alito, and Thomas, with Gorsuch, Barrett, and Kavanaugh joining in that support at times. Roberts is just trying to make himself and "his" court look good. They don't care about someone standing up to Trump as SCOTUS is probably the single greatest enabler of him.
I didn't know it either. Maybe there is hope with SCOTUS.
No, there is no hope with SCOTUS as long as Alito and Thomas are Injustices.
Stephen Miller needs to be "disappeared"!!!!!!!!!
Just make sure he is exposed to sunlight. It always works on vampires.
KBJ in Puerto Rico??? Damn, wouldve loved to attend! Next chief justice!
That's not how becoming Chief Justice works.
When will someone total the amount of money these unlawful executive orders are costing the American taxpayers. We are paying for the DOJ to send lawyers to court knowing there is no valid constitutional defense. These order should be rejected on the grounds that spending the taxpayers money on defending them is fraud. The DOJ should not bother going to court or spending a dime of our money on these cases. Please calculate all the costs of illegal executive orders and report that to the public.
Don't forget the golf trips and birthday parade.
That parade! After having said he wanted to cut the DOD budget by half! And after Trump eliminated a program that helps save a vet's home if they miss a couple of payments on a home loan rather then letting them move the payments to the end of their loan, and cutting funding and staffing levels at the VA, including psychiatric care, by insisting all doctors come into the workplace rather than do the helpful and efficient remote visits, AND canceled the suicide hotlines. How was that wasteful spending???
VETS, Canada has offered a suicide hotline in its place. Do not suffer alone. Reach out of you need it. You deserve it!
I know, right? His hand-picked, loyal cabinet heads and staff are enforcing them nonetheless. Whoever doesn't cater to him, for instance, in the DOJ, are gone.
I know I’m just speaking from my depressed state, but what good are all these court wins if he just keeps ignoring them? *sigh* 😞
I suspect that at some point he will not be able to ignore them.
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Historical FACT—
ONCE YOU PEACEFULLY INSTALL A FASCIST, YOU CANNOT PEACEFULLY REMOVE THEM
The “Untrustworthy Box of American Norms” are no match for a blatantly corrupt —out of control lawless Russian backed cabal….
aka The Republican Party—
Enemies Of The State
Why are they not treated as such?
Fighting GOP corruption using the institutions Democrats & WTP have allowed GOP to corrupt is nonsensical
It doesn’t matter how many court cases GOP loses when there is NO follow up of accountability-
Republicans have already successfully participated or been complicit in an insurrection w/the consequences being rewarding them with seats of power
Do I blve in the usual “American Judicial Process”
JFC
No intelligent adult would blve in a process that has failed the Country for over a decade
Whatever the courts say at this point is merely laughed at by Republicans…
Maddow:
DON’T LISTEN TO WHAT THEY SAY
WATCH WHAT THEY DO
You're not just speaking from a depressed state. These "wins" are meaningless as is SCOTUS's standing ovation. The latter is also shockingly hypocritical, just an attempt by Roberts to make "his" court look good.
deleted my FB as Zuck is supporting con man with $$$$$$
Isn't it unconstitutional to release private information of Social Security recipients? Especially to a non-citizen billionaire thief??
Bad people made bad lawyers and even the smartest can be bad.
phony emergency like war... so we cant vote
You put out too much about getting people to go with a paid subscription. It’s off-putting and tends to make me ignore all your posts.
Dude, if you like it, don’t come here, this is an important way for them to stay in business!
Several substacks I contribute to always thank me at the beginning of the post.
Thank God for the Meidas Touch! Paying for a subscription is a still your choice however, they do have costs and are perfectly within their rights to put a "paid option" out there!
Those "paid" subscribers help keep this grass roots, wonderful, fearless, truthful group alive! It's not only not "off putting" it's necessary!
They need to make a living too. You don't have to pay to watch. As little as $5 can be given.
Sorry you feel that way. I'm sure that it costs a lot of money to bring us the truth. I have very little money, but supporting Meidas is the best thing I have done with my money, in one hell of a long time. Truth and fighting for our Constitution and Democracy is worth every penny of it. There are new people on the site all of the time and wouldn't know about supporting it, without the paid subscription notices.
I hear what you're saying but I'm not sure it costs much money to find out the truth, and while it's great if people CAN pay to receive the news in this way, during THESE scary times, I sure am grateful for the channels and substacks who don't charge because you'd need to follow more than one to get the best insights and guidance and not everyone can afford to do that, which then feels like we're right back to the "us and them" game, which got us in this present position, but this time it's WITHIN the one camp.
Be well!🇺🇲💪🏼❤️🔥🙏
Is there any way to get Bondi disbarred? She certainly is not telling the truth and I thought lawyers had to tell the truth. Is that only in front of a judge?
Right? They sure do have a code of ethics with which they are supposed to operate. It's her blatant partisanship from a seat that is intended to be NON-partisan, for instance, her publicizing the arrest of that female Judge. Her bias is evident. And sending out what seemed to amount to a threat if anyone gave Elon or Tesla a hard time.
Do any of these names raise any comparison to Trump’s reign?
Putin, Kim Yung Un, Mao, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Pinochet…..I think so….
Has anyone heard from their congress people when phoning them? I haven't, neither Dems of Republicans. Too many Dems don't want to talk to us, either. I wonder why they thought that they elected. Many to line their pockets and ignore the public.
Shared.
I would not trust any untoward requests by Trump’s oligarchs; Namely, Zuckerberg, Musk, etc.etc.
Just a thought….If you can go to a site that does not answer to Dictator Trump.
So why aren’t the men being returned immediately???
The Judges said to do it and they are in danger
Who can be arrested until they are returned?
Norm? Bondi? Rubio? tRump?
WHY ARE WE THE TAXPAYERS PAYING FOR THESE INTENTIONAL WRONGFUL ACTIONS?.. Bondi miller musk Trump must pay!
There’s right and there’s wrong. Trump and his cult are WRONG!!! Karma is right around the corner
I don't usually cheer about losses, but his are the best losses, many people have said that, no one does losses like him, totally happy when he's loosing!
Michael, Can you explain how Steven Miller was able to be an owner of a law firm even though he is not a lawyer? It must have been in a state that allows that. His situation is likely to be an example why states don’t allow it. I’m guessing he pressured the lawyers to do things that defy ethics rules.
They need to lock him up with NO DUE PROCESS!!!!
We were listening to a pod cast in which Malcolm Nance was the guest.
What Amazing information he had relating to the relationship of Putin and Trump and we were interested to hear your thoughts of Malcolm Nance.. Might you invite him on one of your shows?
Some lawyer needs to get a group of old folks on Social Security and on their behalf, go to SCOTUS. We do not give Musk, an unelected possibly illegal immigrant, permission to access or private data. Someone needscto sue for those people!
Popok, when you are spelling out your firms name or for your youtube channel, the closed captions invariably get the spelling wrong. I suggest you either hold up a sign with it all spelled out or in some other way put it on the screen. I personally do much better reading the spelling than hearing it. Just wanting the best for your business, because you are a man who does 'Good works'.
Fantastic content here!! Thanks 🙏🏼 so MUCH!! Can’t wait for more! ✊🏼😄
Tren is pronounced “train” as in English and means the same.
Thankful the Judges are doing something UNLIKE the Dems. VOTE CONGRESS OUT. Multi-party system NOW. Campaign finance reform NOW
What difference does it make that courts are making decisions counter to Trump's orders, since he is ignoring the courts and does whatever he wishes? Yesterday, he even said that he doesn't know if he has to abide by the constitution.
So with the judges finding that Trump and Pam are finding against them, is this leading to impeachment on Trump and Pam and the whole Mega team?
What about dicktator admitting to the 2024 election being rigged? He neeeds to be arrested immediately
You all are doing a fantastic job giving us news. Of course the bias shows, but you always bring the receipts. Thanks for all your work.
Excellent show, I love the breakdowns and Annalise, thank goodness the courts and judges are holding the line or our democracy would already be through....
Trump is pushing the envelope of the True Justice System… namely the True Court System. The problem is the enforcement of Judge’s orders… we have a DOJ system made up of Sycophants that answer only to the Heritage Group running the show through Trump. So far, Trump thinks he is above the Law….
This is why we have to make our voices heard. Demonstrate, use your knowledge of Democracy… even speaking to those that voted for this guy. We need a consortium of peoples that believe in the Constitution. We the people can enforce the constitution with our votes and voices. Be well and safe all!!!!
Just an important note for accuracy. The former deputy US solicitor general Edwin Kneedler did not resign in some kind of protest against Trump. He is 79 and retired after arguing his 160th case before SCOTUS. He was a phenomenal mentor and a stalwart civil servant, but he also clearly noted in response to one pointed question about partisanship—that he represented the U. S. and that it was up to each administration to determine what the best interests of the U. S. were. It seemed like Ben read something, associated it with a good talking point, and then made stuff up. That kind of careless shit undermines the credibility of what the network is trying to build. That isn’t the first time I’ve seen that happen. Ben is usually the one exaggerating or stretching a fact to fit his narrative. When does that on an episode with his brothers, usually Brett will correct him. Anyway, MTN is important enough in the landscape of democracy to take the trouble to get shit right.
Absolutely right on point. You’re the best out there!
From the MPRE website which almost all states require for membership to the bar or at least a qualifying grade in a class. No excuses for these mafia style goons in the regime:
“The law governing the conduct of lawyers in these roles is applied in disciplinary and bar admission procedures, and by courts in dealing with issues of appearance, representation, privilege, disqualification, and contempt or other censure, and in lawsuits seeking to establish liability for malpractice and other civil or criminal wrongs committed by a lawyer while acting in a professional capacity.”
Awesome job guys 👍
‘We lost because we told ourselves we lost.’
Tolstoj
Rather than use the term "due process", maybe go with "innocent until PROVEN guilty". I think it would be more meaningful
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I don't agree. If everyone in the DOJ walked off the job when trumptard was elected, then trump would have been stopped. On the spot!!!
If they stayed. They are 2025 Natzi's.
Just the simple truth.
I know eh lololol
I just watched john mulaney’s snl episode before the fateful day and they had a good show warning the american people, but the magas don’t watch snl, and guess the others who did not vote thought it would be just another 4 years, so that’s how we got here.
Thank you and Amen! No debates! We are America!
This admin are threatening the judges and their families.
Prez Bonespures and his cohorts consider themselves above the law. So what are WE going to do about it ?
Actions speak louder than words!
The emergency is that he hasn't the money to pay off all his billionaire cronies because Elon lied to him re the cuts savings infact they cost huge amounts of tax payers mone y& has made off with billions in governmental contracts and the dues to the others are being called in. HE IS TOTAL PANIC MODE
Trump has no clue what the laws are, that is disgusting!!!
Or worse, he does and just doesn’t care because he considers himself above the rule of law & the constitution and our corrupt politicians won’t do a damn thing about it!
Elon Musk has no Business looking into anyone’s information from social security!!! This idiot was not even a elected by the people to even have that type of power!!!!
I have noticed those debates by an anchor and a guest in mainstream media actually are part of a systematic repetition to redefine what “due process “means. One of the anchors will say there was a process involved in getting criminal immigrants onto the list of people to be deported. Therefore, there was a “process”. These so-called “debates” are a conversational style of propaganda to posture as teachers demonstrating a so-called “reasonable explanation” for viewers. The propaganda continues in many forms!!
In Austria we celebrated today the 80th anniversary of freeing the inmates of the concentration camp Mauthausen.
Obviously you are trying to build some so I heard. This is ignorance to history and your path is becoming more dangerous by the day.
This is so confusing.
Here on Meidas+ this is the title to the video-
"Legal AF on Historic Court Smackdowns of Trump’s Power Grabs + More (Ad-Free)"
Posted on May 4th
So I go to Apple podcast to find the podcast and I find an episode called-
Legal AF Full Episode 5/3/2025
This was posted on Apple Podcast on May 4th
Why do you call the episode May 3 in the title to the Episode on Apple Podcast? It never shows up until May 4th.
See how confusing this is, on one platform Meidas+ it has a different title than on another platform, Apple Podcast.
And then the title on Apple Podcasts says it is from May 3rd, however it never even shows up until May 4th. So why isn't this the May 4th podcast? When it is title May 3rd but doesn't show up in podcast until May 4th I immediately think, "Oh another late episode on Apple Podcast." It''s a day old already.
I really really wish Michael would get consistency across platforms what the episode is titled. I wonder what it is called on YouTube? I don't know I don't watch him on You Tube.
The way I have to figure it out is to go look and read the start of both transcripts to see if they are the same episode, both a video and a podcast, I have to go find and read the transcripts. You know how annoying that is?
I agree with Popok the judges need to stop giving in to Trump’s emergency when there is NO emergency He’s like the boy who cried “wolf”.
Your putting more and more of you content behind pay walls, that is what they are. I am 75 yo, living on $1100.00 a month, after they take out my medicare. Creating more of a class system than we already had. I'm disappointed, I have been watching since you barely had 1 M subs. I would love to be able to pay you $5 a month, to have access. Just another cable subscription. Too bad I can't afford the news. I have to pay for internet just to get this much.
Where did the money go from these law firms go?
When are you filing the $20 billion lawsuit against NBC for editing out portions of the recent Trump interview?
I'm a bit concerned they Ancient Orange will have this Texas judge deported.
Mush was ok with wrecking Federal Agencies. With laying off 225,000 Federal career essential Employees. Without notice and without cause. With wanting to access our Social Security data bases. holding confidential and restricted data on every American citizen. Now one of Donnie's corrupt lawyers has an emergency "letter" begging the Supreme Court for access. As his DOGE "big balls" engineers removed 10 Gigabytes of resstricted data from the National Labor Relations Board. After DOGe had left the Board an unknown person with a Russian IP address and a DOGE user ID and DOGE password accessed that system. Before the DOGE engineers had finished and left the Board building. They turned off all the security protocols on that system. If was also discovered Mush has installed a Star Link antenna on the roof of that same building. One Mega byte in a text file format produces about 500 to 1000 pages of plain text.
Avelos Airlines has contracted with the Department of Homeland Security. To deport immigrants to South America and or the Bahamas. They operate commericially on the East and West coasts. How much Krusty has paid under this contract with Avelos. The Executiv
es at Avelos refuse to answer questions from the media.
Mush was ok with wrecking Federal Agencies. With laying off 225,000 Federal career essential Employees. Without notice and without cause. With wanting to access our Social Security data bases. holding confidential and restricted data on every American citizen. Now one of Donnie's corrupt lawyers has an emergency "letter" begging the Supreme Court for access. As his DOGE "big balls" engineers removed 10 Gigabytes of resstricted data from the National Labor Relations Board. After DOGe had left the Board an unknown person with a Russian IP address and a DOGE user ID and DOGE password accessed that system. Before the DOGE engineers had finished and left the Board building. They turned off all the security protocols on that system. If was also discovered Mush has installed a Star Link antenna on the roof of that same building. One Mega byte in a text file format produces about 500 to 1000 pages of plain text.
Grateful to you guys for telling the truth💙💙💙
Some Emergency. Mush and his "Big Balls" college drop out "engineers". Appears they want to create a massive data base on every American system. With data scraped form Agency data bases they have stolen data from. Perhaps to be used by Donnie the demented despot. Lawless Donnie would use to attack his "enemies". There is no reason to give Mush's DOGE data thieves and wreckers any access to restricted and confidential our data owned by every American as their private data, Which they voluntarily gave to receive their earned benfits they worked decades for in their jobs and gave to the Government should not be granted..
Mush was ok with wrecking Federal Agencies. With laying off 225,000 Federal career essential Employees. Without notice and without cause. With wanting to access our Social Security data bases. holding confidential and restricted data on every American citizen. Now one of Donnie's corrupt lawyers has an emergency "letter" begging the Supreme Court for access. As his DOGE "big balls" engineers removed 10 Gigabytes of resstricted data from the National Labor Relations Board. After DOGe had left the Board an unknown person with a Russian IP address and a DOGE user ID and DOGE password accessed that system. Before the DOGE engineers had finished and left the Board building. They turned off all the security protocols on that system. If was also discovered Mush has installed a Star Link antenna on the roof of that same building. One Mega byte in a text file format produces about 500 to 1000 pages of plain text.
Greetings!
I am so grateful for you and all your many extensions! O have a question that I trust you will answer in truth! Please, could someone help me and a few more with me to understand that we've been hearing that our forefathers wrote protections in our "Constitution, protecting us from enemies to our democracy both foreign and domestic, correct? Then it's very obvious that Donald Trump and his minions are enemies to this very thing! So, is it written in the Constitution that in order to overcome this, the people need to rise up and fight? Or, just how does the Constitution have written portions to protect us as so many state? When and where's the enforcement that our forefathers incorporated into the Constitutional protections kick in? Why if we have these preconceived protections are we soo afraid? If I'm not assuming incorrectly, picketing/protesting was not around when our Constitution was written. Thank you for taking the time to read and prayerfully respond.
I've been a Meidas Mighty for quite a few years! Just lost my husband and going through major adjustments will eventually return to being a "paid" subscriber soon INSHALLAH (if it be GODS Will) I have loved and enjoyed you and your many extensions since initial discovery.
Wishing you continued success greater than any could possibly imagine! Thank you for everything!
Sherina Aqeel
When the Scotus pontificated that a President may have leeway as part of the role to do illegal things, Trump quite understandably interpreted this to mean " I am free to do whatever I like and whatever I do is therefore legal".
It seems that Scotus will have to now decide what is legal and what is not. That is going to be unpredictable and scary.
In the meanwhile, Trump has logically moved on. "If what he does is legal then any opposition whether by judges, politicians or ordinary civilians is therefore criminal and has to be dealt with. "
The ride has gone beyond white knuckle!
Hey, Ben!
You're definitely on your way up! Just, as you grow, please don't lose the lessons we've learned from many of the tech billionaires - stay close to your values and remember your original mission, no matter how big you get, or greed can take over, and no amount will be enough.
I'm a little worried that you keep saying, "Let's get to "x" number of subscribers." I know you'd like to reach as many people as possible, just please don't let it get to your heads. Hopefully, you and your brothers will keep each other in check.
Best to you guys!
🇺🇲💪🏼❤️🔥🙏
ATTN POPOK: The closed caption print put up the wrong spelling of your website as you were talking. They put a "c" in your last name. You might want to see if you can get them to correct it. In the meantime, I'll put it here. www.thepopokfirm.com.
Fantastic episode with Ben and Michael. The insights of both hosts have renewed my faith in the judicial arm of our democracy (it has wavered with some of the Supreme Court’s recent decisions)…but given the Congress majority’s pathetic lack of response the Executive branch’s blatant disregard to the Constitution along the insights from both MeidasTouch and Legal AF I am optimistic that the courts could actually save our country.
I love the historians on Legal Af
What seems an analogy to the play of jurisprudence, while the profession of law has been poisoned by the ill-nature of egregious excesses of global financial wealth, is a lesson in social responsibility exhibited in Chinese history.
The Chinese written language was strictly controlled in the use and creation of the language characters. As scribes became numerous and bold, the license to create and install characters to the written script of irresponsible structure which led to a massive increase of characters in the language from 2000 highly meaningful characters to over 10,000 vague characters impossible to master.
The result was a diminished ability to make meaningful discourse in writing and forced a reconsideration of the written language characters.
Today there are approximately 4000 characters in Chinese, and newer more expedient writing systems created in the more recent century.
The ethics and mores of jurisprudence have been debased by wealth in concentrations leading to a poisoning of the living Constitution and democracy.
It is not the language it the law that must be reconsidered, but the characters and the scribes pushing system of moneyed influence in all affairs upon the body of jurisprudence.
Michael Popock you are never going to win a Webby award for Legal AF until you get your content uploaded to Appel podcasts sooner. You have this out on YouTube EIGHT HOURS ago, yet it is still not on Apple Podcast. Trump moves fast, the news is FAST now, I no longer listen to every episode because you are slow getting the content up on Apple Podcast and so I get the same information from other sources, by the time your podcast is uploaded it is already old news for me.
For the ppl who listen on YouTube that is fine, but you will never maintain your listeners to your podcast if you continue to put up the podcasts so late. Oh sure you still see me as a subscriber, I'm not quitting my subscription to your podcast, however you have lost me as a regular listener, now I skip some of your podcasts as it is old news by the time it is up.
You were really good during all the Trump court cases, E Jean Carol, classified documents, etc. But now you do not get your content up fast like you used to. I hope this information is of help to you. I am trying to help you.
Make sure to sign the draft form to rid ourselves of badlyBondi
http://www.change.org/impeach_now My petition is gaining momentum now that Rep. Thanedar's Impeachment Articles have been filed. Rep. Green has promised to file his Articles of Impeachment tomorrow -5/5/25. The petition is up to 2330+ signers! I want to hit 5000 by next Sunday. If you have not signed it, please check it out: http://www.change.org/impeach_now In solidarity and strength, SCSM
Due process… first.
Ditch the badly…
Send this to Senate…
https://substack.com/@wearespeaking/note/p-161760433?r=4sg1xs&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
Yet we have a felon as a president! He sees all the evil in mother’s and none in himself
I find the ambulance-chasing ads on Legal AF very distasteful, and I am sorry, as a paid subscriber, that I am subjected to them.
So this was made 4 hours ago and it is NOT up on Apple Podcasts?
Why not?
You know how important podcasts are to your network, why, oh why, is there always such a LONG DELAY in getting the YouTube content posted as a podcast on Apple Podcasts?
This is quite obviously not a priority for you.
Too bad, it SHOULD be a priority, the delay in posting the content to Apple Podcasts is inexcusable. I'm not watching the video I only want the content on a podcast and am mad about the long delay every single time. I am mad about it. 😡
It’s suchha relief and comfort to know that good lawyers are passionate and “locked in” on the topic of trump, and that they give a damn about America. Thank you so much Meidastouch. Thank you so much LegalAF. Thank you Ben and Popok. I love this Substack.
Also, as an aside and because I would like for everyone to hear your message: It appears that many readers of posts on r/Meidas (?) have a short attention span and are sensitive to the use of click bait, maybe too sensitive. They are past the point of impatience for trump and his minions to finally get their due. It might be helpful if these posts on Reditt were edited by a talented editor, and also more straightforwardly titled. I’m writing this without knowledge of who the OP is on Reditt, but I thought the folks at Meidastouch might want to hear this observance and advice.
I want to add, that it also seems like it’s the longer videos that get passed over or receive undue criticism, whereas the written posts get more attention. Also, I’m aware that the details are probably the most important part of your podcasts, so maybe this is an observation that should be ignored and instead maybe opt to keep them as they are to give redittors time to adjust and discover the worth of posts. I still encourage the modification of click bait titles.
Worst is yet to come. Donald "The Beast" Trump is building a wall once again. Colossal tariff wall that is the beginning of the end for the system of down. At first the beast will pull the plug out of the global economy. The worst financial crisis of human history will pull a swarm of the banks underwater and the bank run begins. Then the beast will collapse a mountain of debt shattering the backbone of the monetary system causing a systemic risk to realize. Finally the beast will cast American citizens into a system slavery under the name of Ronald Wilson Reagan, just to "honor his legacy" count the number. After the destruction a new world order will be established in the US. And the Golden Age begins from the ruins of the world wide collapse. All of the system slaves will love it. No more cash - just digital transactions. No more traditional criminal activity. No more tax evasion. No more transactions without the "all seeing eye". Outcasts will hate the world without freedom, hope and privacy. To cover up the mess and distract the public by smoke and mirrors, the beast will engage in a war with Iran. Lies and deceit, corruption and decay, dancing on the graves will continue. Until; Black hole sun, won't you come, won't you come... I want to play a game. Time has come to opt out of the empire of filth. Live or die...
DO NOT provide more that your opinion. A video isn't necessary 4 that!
tRump wanted to be a president, then a king and now a Pope. Who will he want to be next? I don't think Putin will share his job with him. How about he be what he is - a felon, grifter, liar, cheat, sexual predator, corrupt and so many other things. We all know him for what he is. I have a suggestion for him. Why don't you try be honest, be the president that you were elected to be, do good for the country, quit taking so much away, pay your taxes, quit suing everyone and anything (the next thing you will be doing is suing the penguins because they don't like you.) Instead you are a vile, corrupt man that does nothing that pertains to the job of a president. I don't expect you to change, because that is beyond you.
Critical Thinking class
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJnvehWcrhY&index=1&list=PLJoQ7Zvu65p29mTO1emlOG8gwl7IcX8wh