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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump getting banned from Saudi Arabian air bases and air space after announcing Project Freedom. CarShield is offering 20% OFF with the code MEIDAS at https://CarShield.com/Meidas Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! MeidasTouch relies on SnapStream to record, watch, monitor, and clip the news. Get a FREE TRIAL of SnapStream by clicking here: https://go.snapstream.com/affiliate/m... Support the MeidasTouch Network:   / meidastouch   Add the MeidasTouch Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Buy MeidasTouch Merch: https://store.meidastouch.com Follow MeidasTouch on Twitter:   / meidastouch   Follow MeidasTouch on Facebook:   / meidastouch   Follow MeidasTouch on Instagram:   / meidastouch   Follow MeidasTouch on TikTok:   / meidastouch  

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Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Thursday Afternoon News Updates: Trump's Own CIA Just Called Him a Liar — 5/7/26 Here's the latest... Ben Meiselas and MeidasTouch Network May 7 ∙ Preview Hi all, Ben here. It’s Thursday. We’re almost at the end of the week, and as usual, the news cycle is showing no signs of slowing down. First, the headlines: Trump’s own CIA leaked a devastating assessment contradicting everything he’s claimed about Iran Iran rejects U.S. proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, calls it “unrealistic” Iran formalizes new toll rules for Strait of Hormuz transit Project Freedom collapses after Saudi Arabia and Kuwait block U.S. military access Trump cabinet members insist gas prices are great while Americans pay $4.55+ at the pump Trump’s counterterrorism strategy classifies “anti-fascists” and transgender people alongside ISIS Kash Patel allegedly handing out personalized bourbon bottles, transported on DOJ aircraft French prosecutors open criminal investigation into Elon Musk and X Hantavirus update: WHO confirms 7 cases, cases spreading internationally FDA authorizes fruit-flavored vapes after Trump reportedly pressured the commissioner… MAHA! Upgrade to paid Before I go any further, I want to thank all our paid subscribers for helping to grow this platform. If you’re already a Meidas+ paid Substack subscriber, thank you. If not, consider stepping up now and join us today to support our unapologetic reporting...

                  

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Hi there, It’s Thursday. New polling shows more than 80 percent of voters want age caps for members of Congress. An argument for including Substacks into a new category for the Pulitzer Prizes. And new analysis shows how much of an abject failure Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement surge has been, with U.S.-born workers no better off as a result of ICE raids. What was framed as a decisive show of force is revealing itself as a policy that cannot meet its own goals without causing widespread harm. Yet too much media coverage continues to focus on the rhetoric of enforcement—raids, numbers, and political messaging—without examining whether the strategy is actually working. When an administration promotes an aggressive policy that fails to deliver results while creating economic and social fallout, the story is not just enforcement—it is failure. 🖊️ Add your name to call on major news organizations to cover the immigration surge as a failed policy experiment—investigating its real outcomes, its impact on workers and communities, and the disconnect between political claims and actual results...SUBSCRIBE TO CIVIC SHOUT AND JOIN WITH OTHERS TO SPEAK OUT on issues that are important to YOU The public deserves reporting that evaluates effectiveness, not just intent. Read about this, and more, with today’s stories: Trump’s Mass Deportation Machine Isn’t Helping Native-Born Workers (The New Republic) In a new poll, Americans voice broad bipartisan support for age caps in Congress (NPR) First Thing: Uncertainty looms as last oil tanker from Middle East arrives in California (The Guardian) Lawyer on EEOC’s New York Times Lawsuit Has History Battling Discrimination Against Men (The Intercept) We Need a Pulitzer for Substacks (The American Prospect) When Do ‘Detention Centers’ Become ‘Concentration Camps’? Experts Look to History (The Marshall Project) Until next time, Harry from The Hound P.S. Do you know someone who would appreciate The Hound? If you can, forward this email and encourage them to subscribe! Let’s stay informed, together.

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TELL Congress: Trump declared an "emergency" to bypass Congress and send Israel over 10,000 laser-guided rockets. But support is building in Congress to stop arms sales to Israel. Sign the petition: Oppose Trump’s "emergency" precision kill weapons shipment to Israel.

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Trump is trying to bypass Congress AGAIN to send Israel $1 billion worth of weapons. This time it's 10,000 laser-guided rockets equipped with the U.S.'s Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System.^1,2

The White House declared an "emergency" to skip Congressional oversight and send arms to Israel as the Israeli military commits atrocities in Lebanon and Gaza.³

Senator Bernie Sanders has helped build historic opposition in Congress to our government's continued funding and weapons support for Israel.⁴ Our lawmakers must reject more taxpayer dollars and U.S. arms going to fuel Israel's genocidal violence.

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Israel has killed over 2,500 people in Lebanon since early March, including dozens of people since reaching a so-called ceasefire deal. Israel is destroying villages and occupying parts of southern Lebanon.⁵

"The fate of southern Lebanon will be the same as that of Gaza," said the Israeli defense minister recently.⁶ This is the terror Trump and Congress are supporting when the U.S. government sends weapons to Israel.

In addition to making the moral case against supplying weapons for Israel's atrocities in Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran, Sen. Sanders has also noted that sending weapons to Israel is a violation of American law — "our government cannot provide weapons to any country that violates internationally recognized human rights or prohibits the delivery of U.S. humanitarian aid."^7,8

Congress must prevent Trump from sending more military aid to Israel NOW.

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Sources:

1. U.S. State Department, "Israel – Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System," May 1, 2026.
2. Common Dreams, "Trump Rebuked for Bypassing Congress With $8.6 Billion Weapons Sale to Israel and Gulf Allies," May 3, 2026.
3. Ibid.
4. Politico, "How Bernie Sanders convinced Democrats to oppose arming Israel," April 28, 2026.
5. BBC, "Israeli attacks kill dozens within days in Lebanon despite ceasefire," May 4, 2026.
6. NPR, "Mirroring Gaza, Israel is destroying towns and villages in southern Lebanon," April 30, 2026.
7. MS Now on Youtube, "‘They’re losing ground’: Bernie says Trump in a ‘panic’ as Iran war spirals,” March 19, 2026.
8. Sen. Sanders Press Release, "No More Arms Sales to Netanyahu,” November 18, 2024.

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Elephant Trophy Imports Are Soaring Under Trump A new Center for Biological Diversity case study shows the Trump administration allowed the import of more than 300 elephant trophies last year, based on federal records we obtained via the U.S. Freedom of Information Act. The first Trump administration, for comparison, reported importing 114 elephant trophies in 2018, following the president’s 2017 tweet calling elephant trophy hunting “a horror show.”   “Why is a president who once decried elephant-hunting rolling out the red carpet for the elitist practice of killing these beloved animals for decor?” said Tanya Sanerib, the Center’s international legal director. “With so many trophy hunters coming from the United States, our government should be helping to police the trophy trade, but instead Trump officials are rubberstamping imports of tusks and heads.”    Help our work to defend elephants and other animals from the trophy trade with a gift to the Center’s Future for the Wild Fund.

Endangered Wolf Crosses the Border Into Mexico For the first time in decades, a radio-collared wolf has relocated from the United States to Mexico. Dubbed “Cedar,” he crossed through the last stretch of southern New Mexico without a border wall in the remote Bootheel region.  U.S. Customs and Border Protection has begun extending the wall where Cedar crossed, which would block wildlife in the future. “Cedar could be the last lobo to truly roam freely if Trump completes his destructive border wall,” said the Center’s Michael Robinson. “Since time immemorial wolves effortlessly loped through these borderless grasslands with their eyes open for jackrabbits and their snouts sniffing for other wolves. We’ll keep fighting to preserve Mexican wolves’ freedom to roam.”

The Struggle for Oak Flat Goes On Conservation organizations and Tribal advocates have filed a new petition to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals asking a larger panel of judges to reconsider a March ruling that cleared the way for the transfer of Oak Flat — a holy land to the Apache and other Tribes in Arizona — to the mining company Resolution Copper. “We strongly believe that the judges should reconsider this deeply contentious decision,” said Russ McSpadden, Southwest conservation advocate at the Center. “Oak Flat is a sacred place and an ecological treasure that has long been public land belonging to all of us. Allowing its destruction would be a profound and entirely avoidable mistake.” On a parallel track, we’re urging Gov. Katie Hobbs to halt plans to turn thousands of acres of state trust land into a dumping ground for 1.4 billion tons of waste from the future mine.

Trump Sued Over Northeast Marine Monument The Center and allies are suing the Trump administration over its destructive move to open the precious Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument to commercial fishing.   The Atlantic Ocean’s first and only marine national monument, Canyons and Seamounts is a biodiversity hotspot sheltering endangered whales, undiscovered deep-sea creatures, and cold-water corals that can take centuries to grow. Allowing commercial fishing within its boundaries would cause irreparable damage.   “Atlantic whales and corals have so few refuges off our coast, they can’t afford to battle it out with commercial fishing operations,” said Kristen Monsell, our oceans legal director. “We won’t accept this abuse of power and threat to imperiled marine life.”

Pandering to Pesticide Makers: AOC v. Zeldin At a congressional hearing last week, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) grilled Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin on his dealings with Roundup herbicide manufacturer Bayer. Roundup is the subject of tens of thousands of cancer lawsuits.   Citing emails penned by a senior Zeldin advisor, obtained by the Center through the Freedom of Information Act, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez exposed backroom dealings that led to the EPA writing a letter saying it wouldn’t OK California’s move to label glyphosate pesticide products with cancer warnings — a letter then used by Bayer to press its case before the U.S. Supreme Court that it should be shielded from liability against cancer claims from its product users. Bayer promised to “provide a small thanks” to Zeldin for his help.

Revelator: The Tortoise Guardians of Nagaland In northern India’s Nagaland, once-abundant Asian giant tortoises have become critically endangered — and now Zeliang youth near their community reserve are helping bring them back.   With only about 250 mature individuals still surviving in the wild, these two-foot-long tortoises need all the help they can get (especially since they were traditionally hunted for food).   Read more in The Revelator.   And if you haven’t yet, make sure you’re subscribed to The Revelator’s free weekly newsletter.

That's Wild: Hedgehogs Hear Ultrasound European hedgehogs are suffering calamitous declines due to vehicle traffic, which they didn’t evolve to avoid — like all animals.   Now scientists have discovered an aspect of their physiology that could help save them. A new report in Biology Letters reveals that hedgehogs can hear high-frequency ultrasound — even higher than cats and dogs — which suggests that devices emitting frequencies above the ranges of these common pets might be used to keep the prickly little creatures away from dangers like roads.    “This could be a game changer for hedgehog conservation,” wrote lead author Sophie Lund Rasmussen of the University of Oxford. Have a friend who'd like this email? Forward it.

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