Watch now   Meidas Pod on Trump's Ghislaine Admission and Dems WINNING the Shutdown Battle - 10/7/25 (Ad-Free) Watch the latest episode of the MeidasTouch Podcast ad-free right here on the Meidas+ Substack! Brett Meiselas, Ben Meiselas, Jordy Meiselas, and MeidasTouch Network Oct 7 The latest episode of The MeidasTouch Podcast is now available ad-free exclusively for Meidas+ Substack subscribers. To support ad-free episodes like this, please consider joining as a paid subscriber today! Meidas+ is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. On this episode of the MeidasTouch Podcast, the brothers break down another chaotic day under Donald Trump’s government shutdown as the president and Republicans face growing backlash from Americans demanding they reopen the government and extend Affordable Care Act subsidies. They also discuss Trump’s troubling admission about Ghislaine Maxwell. We examine Trump’s escalating attempt to deploy the National Guard into Democratic-led cities, with multiple court battles erupting over his authority to do so, and the mounting economic damage caused by his reckless tariffs that continue to hammer U.S. manufacturing and consumer prices. Plus, we cover the latest political and legal fallout as Trump’s desperate power plays push the country deeper into crisis. Ben, Brett, and Jordy break it all down. MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 10/7/25 The MeidasTouch Podcast 1:09:03 Remember to add the MeidasTouch Podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. MAGA MAGGOTS on VACATION? Aren't they always on VACATION?  They are incapable of GOVERNING!  How many time did MAGA REPUBLICANS vote to eliminate ACA?  SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN, dying of BRAIN CANCER, cast the deiciding vote to PROTECT ACA!  The ORANGE TURD has promised endlessly to provide an 'improved version of HEALTH CARE' WHERE? WHEN?  THE SOLUTION IS MEDICARE FOR ALL & eliminating the FOR PROFIT SCAM!  AMERICANS SHOULD HAVE UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE...CANADA does.  MASSACHUSETTS, among other states, were abused by the STEWARD HEALTH CARE SCAM that invested heavily in EMERGENCY CARE because INSURANCE APPROVAL is not required in EMERGENCIES. They can conduct expensive unnecessary tests. In auto accidents, they exhaust your car insurance. MASSACHUSETTS has already approved outrageous increases in HEALTH CARE PREMIUMS just based on projections that will increased with reality.  MEDICARE was also attacked in the BIG BEAUTIFUL DISASTER & reimbursements were slashed.  THANK YOU DEMOCRATS FOR FORCING THIS ISSUE NOW BEFORE IT BECAME CATASTROPHIC!  The ORANGE TURD is DELUSIONAL!  Should be IMPEACHED & confined to MAR-A-LARDO to read all of the TOP SECRET DOCUMENTS he concealed.  TARIFF BABBLE!  TRUMP BABBLE!  "Just Dance" Vance: another LOSER!  MASKED ARMED ICE GASTAPO is ASSAULTING & ABUSING FAMILIES & CHILDREN - NAKED CHILD ZIP TIED?  THANK YOU BROS for continuing to report TRUTH!  REPUBLICANS, MAGA GOP & TRUMP are failing! The EPSTEIN COVER-UP just defines their LIES.  AMERICANS WILL DIE WITHOUT HEALTH CARE! THIS WAS POSTED ON COMMON DREAMS: ‘I’m Terrified I’ll Die’: Bernie Sanders Unveils Report on Healthcare Devastation Looming for American Families “I live in fear of whether or not I will be able to afford my life saving treatment,” one woman told Sanders’ office. https://www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-sanders-healthcare-report?utm_source=Common+Dreams&utm_campaign=c3fa296459-Top+News%3A+Tues.+10%2F7%2F25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-c56d0ea580-600713157 Union Fury After Trump Suggests Not All Furloughed Workers Will Receive Shutdown Pay “The livelihoods of the patriotic Americans serving their country in the federal government are not bargaining chips in a political game,” said the president of the country’s largest union of federal employees. Stephen Prager Oct 07, 2025 https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-furloughed-employees-back-pay?utm_source=Common+Dreams&utm_campaign=c3fa296459-Top+News%3A+Tues.+10%2F7%2F25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-c56d0ea580-600713157 ‘Reality Breaking Through,’ Says Casar, as MTG Scolds Fellow Republicans Over Healthcare “Not a single Republican in leadership... has given us a plan to help Americans deal with their health insurance premiums DOUBLING!!!” wrote MAGA firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene. Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Greg Casar said Tuesday that “reality” was finally starting to hit some Republicans in Congress about the catastrophic results of reopening the government without a plan to extend tax credits that help tens of millions of Americans afford healthcare. The government shut down this past Wednesday after Democrats refused to vote for a GOP funding bill that did not extend Biden-era subsidies for the more than 24 million Americans who purchase health insurance on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace. https://www.commondreams.org/news/mtg-scolds-gop-over-healthcare?utm_source=Common+Dreams&utm_campaign=c3fa296459-Top+News%3A+Tues.+10%2F7%2F25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-c56d0ea580-600713157 GOP Senator Calls ICE Comments by Pritzker, Chicago Mayor Criminal Incitements to Violence The two Democratic leaders have strongly condemned “Operation Midway Blitz,” in which immigration agents have violently raided homes and cracked down on peaceful protests. excerpt:  The campaign has involved the deployment of more than 200 US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and other federal immigration authorities who have officially been directed to arrest undocumented immigrants with violent criminal records. More than 1,000 people have been arrested since ICE arrived in the nation’s third-largest city in September. Nationally, the libertarian CATO Institute found in June that about 65% of people detained by ICE this year have not had any criminal conviction. In Chicago over the past month, US citizens, immigrants with legal status, and children have been swept up in raids and violence. ICE agents have been filmed throwing a congressional candidate to the ground at a protest; a journalist reported being attacked with a pepper ball by a masked agent “absolutely unprovoked” outside a detention facility where she was covering protests; and body camera footage has cast doubt on the Department of Homeland Security’s justification for the fatal shooting of Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez. https://www.commondreams.org/news/ice-raids-in-chicago?utm_source=Common+Dreams&utm_campaign=c3fa296459-Top+News%3A+Tues.+10%2F7%2F25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-c56d0ea580-600713157 WE DON'T HAVE $$$ FOR HEALTH CARE FOR AMERICANS, BUT $21 BILLION FOR ISRAEL'S GENOCIDE & TAX CUTS FOR THE WEALTHY?  ISRAEL IS THE LARGEST US RECIPIENT OF WELFARE!  Israel’s Destruction of Gaza Over Last 2 Years ‘Would Not Have Been Possible’ Without $21.7 Billion From US “Our research highlights numbers, but we must never lose sight of this key fact: What we’re talking about is human suffering.” https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-aid-to-israel-2024?utm_source=Common+Dreams&utm_campaign=c3fa296459-Top+News%3A+Tues.+10%2F7%2F25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-c56d0ea580-600713157 As a side note not unrelated to WRONG HEADED TRUMP POLICIES, there have been several detailed programs on PBS about CHINA'S CHEAP SOLAR ENERGY PACKAGES that include SOLAR COLLECTORS & BATTERY BACK-UPS that are so inexpensive that poor communities are able to install systems - CHINA is prospering while TRUMP wallows in DIRTY ENERGY $$$.  The last NEW HAMPSHIRE COAL FIRED POWER PLANT in NEW ENGLAND was just SHUT DOWN!  The WORLD is moving forward without MAGA & TRUMP!  Renewables Surging Worldwide—But Going Backward in US Under Trump Despite US backsliding, solar and wind generated more electricity than coal worldwide for the first time this year. excerpt:  Led by Chinese expansion, global adoption of renewable energy is accelerating, with the world’s wind and solar farms generating more electricity than coal for the first time this year—however, the US embrace of fossil fuels under President Donald Trump is proving a drag on humanity’s transition to clean power. The climate think tank Ember on Tuesday published its Global Electricity Mid-Year Insights report, which found that solar and wind outpaced demand growth in the first half of 2025. Solar generation grew by a record 306 terawatt-hours (TWh)—a 31% increase—with China accounting for more than half the world’s increase. In a major milestone, solar and wind overtook coal electricity generation for the first time ever, as renewables grew by 363 TWh (+7.7%) to reach 5,072 TWh, while coal generation decreased by 31 TWh to 4,896 TWh. “This analysis confirms what we are witnessing on the ground: Solar and wind are no longer marginal technologies—they are driving the global power system forward,” Global Solar Council CEO Sonia Dunlop said in a statement Tuesday. “The fact that renewables have overtaken coal for the first time marks a historic shift,” Dunlop added. “But to lock in this progress, governments and industry must accelerate investment in solar, wind, and battery storage, ensuring that clean, affordable, and reliable electricity reaches communities everywhere.” https://www.commondreams.org/news/global-transition-to-renewable-energy?utm_source=Common+Dreams&utm_campaign=c3fa296459-Top+News%3A+Tues.+10%2F7%2F25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-c56d0ea580-600713157