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Xplisset's avatar

Ben, this one hits home. Labor Day isn’t just about honoring work. It’s about remembering who really built this country and who still carries it on their backs. From the mines and mills of the last century to the renewable energy workers fighting for our future now, labor has always been America’s engine. That’s why Trump’s war on unions and wages is really nothing more than a war on democracy itself.

Thank you for putting labor at the center of this fight. It reminds me that solidarity isn’t nostalgia. It’s survival. For anyone interested in more reflections connecting past struggles to today, I try to do the same at www.xplisset.com.

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MOIMO's avatar

Many of the laborers were immigrants from many countries. They worked for little money and were often forced to work overtime hours without extra pay. The unions stopped the companies from not paying what the workers were working for or worth. At least close to it. The unions stood up for the workers and they were so helpful in the fight against the owners of the companies.

I say the people that are getting deported some may be criminals some may have come here illegally but many are not the people that should be deported. They deserve the due process our constitution regulates for the people not just citizens only because we do not know each person’s situation and if we are doing the right thing by deporting them. Please help with the governments that have overpowered , overreached and stand in a protest soon. We all need to do our part to make America the democratic republic it was made to be. Make America the best we can make it to be.

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Daniel Solomon's avatar

I worked for DOL for about 20 years and every year, even after retirement was asked to celebrate the day by watching the parade from the roof of Main Labor.

Not this year.

This week we have another chance to ask some Congressional Republicans to stop this. Only need a few. Many Congressional Republicans privately admikt Trump is crazy.

Brian Fitzpatrick is the prototype. https://problemsolverscaucus.house.gov/

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Oaktown's avatar

I'd like to see someone paint a Hitler mustache and a swastika on Bone Spurs' forehead to properly anoint the banner of his hideous face hanging outside the DOL building.

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cnlights2's avatar

Put it on his pic in the oval office😂It would fit his decor and fake image.

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Richard Waddell's avatar

Due Process - that is American. ICE is not.

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Monica B's avatar

💯💯💯💪🏽

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Monica B's avatar

💯💯💯

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Mike Hammer's avatar

Meidas is genius. The coverage of deplorables where nothing needs to be said, is genius. Ben just rolls the tape and without commentary, so he lets you the viewer decide. Minimizing bias is a laudable thing especially in today’s echo chamber environment.

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Marilyn's avatar

So true! Rock on Meidas!

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Richard Waddell's avatar

The idea of 'letting the viewer decide' is to stand aside as the video plays, with less or little commentary afterward, to let the truth sink in...that's what the 'old school' newscasters used to do, and if they wanted to say anything, it might be more facially expressed than with words...

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Dik de Bruijn's avatar

" . . . he lets you the viewer decide." If you're watching "the tape" from Meidas, you've already decided. How many "undecideds" watch or read stuff from Meidas?

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peter's avatar

Jesus ... you are fucking scary dumb

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Scott Albers's avatar

If Ben is such a genius,then why am I, an unpaid subscriber, getting notifications of Stacks that I'm not allowed to view?

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Terry's avatar

That's Substack. Not a Ben issue. Or you could say, it's a you issue since you're not a paid subscriber, yet whining nonetheless.

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Scott Albers's avatar

Shhhh. I wasn't talking to you.

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Shaka Travel Guys's avatar

Support Meidas Touch on Substack, the ACLU, DSCC (Senate Democrats), DCCC (House Democrats), the LGBTQ Victory Fund, Democratic Governors and your local/state Democrats - monthly - FOREVER.

This is going to take a while.

Take back the House. Take back the Senate. Take back the White House. LFG!

And release the EPSTEIN FILES - NOW!

Donald Trump is a corrupt cunt.

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Scott Albers's avatar

Delusional, physically rotting before our very eyes. He's obviously a corrupt, syphilitic cunt at that.

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Chris L's avatar

Hey White House, everyone still wants to see the Epstein list! I wish this channel had localized affiliates to help spread the truth more, but anyways sucks that summer's coming to a close, but we still gotta protest and brave the colder temperatures to send a message to the Trump regime.

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Black Raven's avatar

You three brothers BETTER stay safe! I want nothing else. 💞😊 no excuses. 🙃 we need you guys and team. 💪🙌 I can not wait to see your Lives on YouTube about the upcoming protests. And the victims of the Epstein case. Have a good day everyone. 👋 stay strong and let's continue the fight. 🗽🇺🇸💙

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Catherine Jones's avatar

Ok will be looking for the updates …stay strong, be brave, Power To The People!!!

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Dik de Bruijn's avatar

"The People" put Trump in power.

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Laura_Solidarity✊🏻's avatar

Two whistleblowers from the NSA have come out to say that Madam Kamala and Governor Walz won the 2024 election. Right before the election, there were tens of thousands of voters at her Rallies while tRump was having an issue filling seats at his. Many of us suspected something fishy and the Election Truth Alliance and This Will Hold have Substacks that will explain everything if you want to take a look. The tabulators were tampered with. We did not vote for him or this. They infiltrated our government and lied cheated and stole their way into power! Domestic Terrorists have taken over our country.

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arne link's avatar

That is not exactly true. There was interference. People voted for him, yes, but he did not win. Read "This Will Stand" for more information.

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Laura_Solidarity✊🏻's avatar

I believe it’s “this will hold”! I just wrote the same thing. ✊🏻🌹

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Laura_Solidarity✊🏻's avatar

Thanks for this, Merry! 🌹

Don’t know why I didn’t just post it myself. 😖

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Merry's avatar

And thank you for reminding me! Team work 😊

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Patricia Williamson's avatar

Reading this makes me sick. Now I hate them more.

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Merry's avatar

It’s happening in real time. Fast and furious. Obviously there was a specific plan in place and it’s being implemented. P2025.

DJT is a weapon of mass destruction!

I’m SO exhausted.

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Scott Albers's avatar

Yeah, the stupid people. It's amazing how many of them now regret their choice.

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Dottie Fanning's avatar

None of us want you or your brothers or any members of the MeidasTouch family to become a Martyr to further propell the fight for democracy for the country we all love!!

I personally will be attending a local rally in Illinois, this Labor Day. We ALL need to continue to fight this fascist authoritarian regime with our peaceful rallys and protests.

We need to continue to demand the release of ALL the Epstein files, the whole truth needs to come out.

We need to rid the Whorehouse of the corruption and make it the Whitehouse once more.

We need to restore the world's faith in America.

We need to oust the corrupt SCOTUS that enabled this to happen.

We need to solidify the constitution to protect the freedoms of EVERYONE!

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Scooterboi60's avatar

Immigrants built the USA. Labor Day honours them.

Immigrants built Australia. Labour Day honours them.

Can’t wait for the MeidasTouch launch down under.

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Judith Logue, Ph.D.'s avatar

Thank you! Hopefully we can reach the working class (that Kris Ealy suggests are our "poor white" group) to understand how they are being conned by the criminal and dictator in the White House.

Would you also consider starting a movement for Medical Privacy? It is Not abortion. It is Not forced birth. Medical Privacy is bipartisan and would help all genders, races, and socioeconomic classes. It would better promote physical and mental health for all of us. Thank you for whatever you can do.

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Kezia Sorensen's avatar

Medical privacy could start by not giving out our personal information to so-called providers (even fictitious companies that defraud Medicare) that call us relentlessly to entice us to switch to Advantage plans. I’m not looking for advice on how to block their calls.

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Dik de Bruijn's avatar

"It would better promote physical and mental health for all of us." That is supposedly what RFK Jr. is doing.

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Judith Logue, Ph.D.'s avatar

To clarify. My post is about changing the fact that the government is practicing medicine w/o a license or the education and training. IF that were to change, my opinion is that it would promote more physical and mental health. RFK Jr does not have the education or training as previous officials did. He is part of the kakistocracy

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Tracy Christenson-Nutt's avatar

There is growing sentiment in the whole senate,(including reBUMliCON's) & other cabinet members who are beginning to say outloud that rfk Jr needs to go... I was reading multiple places that quiet whispers are becoming common conversation among many ... we'll see, I guess! I have not delved too deeply myself, I have been watching my grandsons so their mom, my only daughter, can work 3 different gigs while still struggling! Her ex is spotty with child support on top of it all too, he takes the kids,(just turned 11 in June, almost 10 in October, just turned 8 in March), 3 wkends/of 4.. Fridays from 5ish, (but has been as late as 9 before), to Sundays at firm 5!! And complains if she is late or not home to drop them off exactly at 5!

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Aurelia Navarro's avatar

So very grateful for you

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Sandra's avatar

Reading this it deeply saddens me that you even utter the words , ‘if something happens to me or my brothers’. WTAcutalF? How did we get here? It’s ridiculous. And that our elected members of Congress have allowed it. Thank you for all you do.

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Judith Logue, Ph.D.'s avatar

To clarify my concerns: Corporations, insurance companies, attorneys, clergy, and politicians are practicing medicine without a license. The government is telling medical professionals what to prescribe, when to prescribe, and requiring so much documentation that doctors, nurses, Phys Assistants, and staff have too little time for patients.

They are beleaguered and solo practices are being put out of business and bought by corporations b/c profit not health for people is the goal.

Medical Privacy is not just about sharing information, since HIPAA is a farce and means no privacy, as K Sorensen highlights well. Medical privacy is about returning the practice of medicine to people educated/trained for it. The government (politicians and the Supreme Court, etc.) should not be forcing birth or upholding abortion. That is a decision for prospective parents and the medical professional, trained in health care, not the clergy person, state, or federal lawmaker.

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Andy's avatar

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TWO NATIONAL PROTESTS

> > > > > > TODAY < < < < < <

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🏠🏡🌵 Monday September 1st 2025 🌲🏠🏠

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Workers over Billionaires

organized by MayDay/50501

https://maydaystrong.org/

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Workers Labor Day 2025

organized by AFL CIO

https://workerslaborday.org/

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For Canadian Labour Day Protests against the Trump Regime, see:

Made Here, Paid Here

https://workerstogether.ca/events/

JOIN THE DEMOCRACY TRAIN.

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The AFL CIO protest has a slight slant towards worker's rights, while the MayDay protest leans more into civilian rights. Each speaks out against the Trump Regime.

Both have marches and rallies, while the AFL CIO is also hosting picnics and parades. They each share some of the same local events. Why not attend both?

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🍃Rachel Donald

🍃Luke Kemp

🍃

🍃The future is not certain. We don't have a crystal ball. We cannot say for certain that we are in a moment of collapse now. But these are the different trajectories that we could take.

🍃Luke Kemp is a research associate at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge, and has spent the past five years studying the collapse of civilisations throughout history.

🍃Collapse for the 99% | Luke Kemp

https://www.planetcritical.com/p/luke-kemp

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Elbows UP! Everybody 🏒

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the heymacs - If I Were Young Again

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HGdgber6qVU

A note about who the f*ck ARE these guys?!

Introducing the heymacs

https://frustratedboomers.com/2016/02/15/introducing-the-heymacs/

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Keep protests peaceful.

Don't kill anyone.

We DO make a difference.

Here are resistance related guides from around the world:

🇺🇸 Fundamentals of physical surveillance: a guide for uniformed and plainclothes personnel

https://archive.org/details/fundamentalsofph0000silj

The RCMP has its own publications including:

🇨🇦 GCPSG-022 (2025) - Threat and Risk Assessment Guide

GCPSG-010 (2022) - Operational Physical Security Guide

🇨🇦 GCPSG-019 (2023) - Protection, Detection, Response, and Recovery Guide

https://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/physec-secmat/pubs/index-eng.htm

The non-profit Electronic Frontier Foundation also has excellent guides on:

🇺🇸 Street Level Surveillance

https://sls.eff.org

🇺🇸 Surveillance Self-Defense

https://ssd.eff.org/

🇪🇺 🇸🇪⚠️ Resistance Operating Concept

https://jsou.edu/Press/PublicationDashboard/25

🇺🇦 🇺🇲 Radio Free Ukraine Resistance Manual

https://radiofreeukraine.com/3d-flip-book/resistance-manual/

⚠️ Assessing Revolutionary And Insurgent Strategies (ARIS) Studies

Small Wars Journal

Assessing Revolutionary and Insurgent Strategies (ARIS) Project

https://smallwarsjournal.com/2012/08/05/assessing-revolutionary-and-insurgent-strategies-aris-project/

Author's website:

On Resistance, Revolutions, and Insurgencies

https://zimmerer.typepad.com/resistance/

Free PDF download of the book from the original author:

Casebook on Insurgency and Revolutionary Warfare, Volume II 1962 - 2009

http://zimmerer.typepad.com/Documents/ARIS%20Casebook%20Vol%202%202012%20s.pdf

⚠️ Civilian-Based Defense: A Post-Military Weapons System

https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/resource/civilian-based-defense-a-post-military-weapons-system/

🏁 Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States Office of Strategic Services

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184?ref=404media.co

⚠️ Library of Congress

Revelations from the Russian archives: documents in English translation

https://www.loc.gov/item/96024752

🏁 Robert Reich/Resistance School

Communicating Across Difference

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaT8gjnOmQl3dguy0_E0vVCL5ZYEyCTzu

🏁 Bernie Sanders:

https://m.youtube.com/@BernieSanders

🏁 CPJ Committee to Protect Journalists:

Safety Kit

https://cpj.org/safety-kit/

🏁 Activist Handbook:

https://activisthandbook.org/introduction

(⚠️ These are USA sponsored websites. Some publications may have been removed by the Trump regime)

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Sylvia Arrowood's avatar

I was born and raised in Canada. My oldest daughter, husband and two granddaughters live there. I was recently in Canada on vacation. The Canadian people are so friendly.

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Coop's avatar

Thank you, Sylvia.

And....

Elbow Zupp! 🇨🇦

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Andy's avatar

How did you get stranded in the states, away from your family?

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Nancy Richardson's avatar

Ben, when it comes to you and your brothers, I think of Patrick Henry’s famous quote, “Give me liberty, or, give me death.” You are just as tenacious as he was. You stand for speaking truth to power and letting the true facts be known. We are in this fight with you every step of the way. Stay strong, stay safe and God bless you!

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sbchica's avatar

You are loved.

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Jody Gorran's avatar

FIGHT BACK! If YOU Live in a Blue State, follow this link and Contact Your Governor!

https://open.substack.com/pub/jodygorran/p/if-you-live-in-a-blue-state-contact?r=68rn&utm_medium=ios

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Sylvia Arrowood's avatar

Done. Thank you.

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