‘God Only Knows’A Reason To Smile
This song was written almost 60 years ago, but “God Only Knows” seems an appropriate title for our current state of affairs, doesn’t it? On this Sunday, we’d like to celebrate the extraordinary life of Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson, who wrote the song. Wilson passed away earlier this month, but what an extraordinary library of great music he left for us. Please take a few minutes and enjoy this star-studded cover. It is this week’s reason to smile. In 2014, the BBC simulcast this new recording and music video of the 1966 classic to mark the launch of BBC Music. The song was then released as a single, with proceeds going to a British children’s charity. The charming video boasts an array of famous voices, including a cameo of Wilson himself, plus Pharrell, Elton John, Stevie Wonder, One Direction, and a 20-piece orchestra. “I’m just honored that ‘God Only Knows’ was chosen. ‘God Only Knows’ is a very special song. An extremely spiritual song and one of the best I’ve ever written,” Wilson said at the time. Wilson wasn’t simply the founder of the famous band; he was also co-lead vocalist, producer, and songwriter and the embodiment of the southern California pop sound. Wilson excelled at creating complex harmonies and orchestration, beautifully evident on the BBC cover. As the most famous lyric from the song goes: “God only knows what I’d be without you.” I could say the same about our Steady community! Thank you for subscribing. If you want to enjoy all the songs chosen for A Reason To Smile, you can listen to this Spotify playlist, which is updated weekly.
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Sunday, June 29, 2025
‘God Only Knows’
MeidasTouch Is Under Attack by Trump Supporters!!!
MeidasTouch Is Under Attack by Trump Supporters!!!By Ben Meiselas It’s Ben Meiselas here. I am the co-founder of the MeidasTouch Network. I’ll keep this short. As always, let me start by thanking our subscribers to this Substack. MeidasTouch remains the fastest-growing Substack in the world and the most viewed digital network in the world. We are 200 subscribers away from our June goal to grow our independent network, so subscribe right now if you can to this Substack. Next, I wanted to address something many of you have been bringing to our attention. We have indeed noticed the threats, attacks, and harassment toward us by Trump supporters increasing. We do our best to moderate the comment section on this Substack when people start harassing us. Thanks for flagging those for us. We recently gave interviews on both MSNBC and Fox LA and received comments telling us to “drop dead” and other things that I don’t even want to repeat here. You’ve flagged them for us. We are addressing them. Yes, they are vile and disgusting. But we will not let them slow us down in any way. We know the Trump supporters want to shut us down. They’ve made plans in their 4CHAN meeting spaces to attack our business and our advertisers. They’ve tried to hack us. They’ve engaged in death threats. They’ve tried it all. It’s just part of their playbook. I’m reminded of the cowardice of Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski, who said recently at a town hall that she fears retaliation from Trump and is scared to do her job. She just voted to proceed with the disaster budget bill, by the way, after saying how “concerned” she is that 23 percent of people in her state will be kicked off Medicaid. My view of this all is simple. It’s okay to be scared, but don’t pretend to lead if you are scared, and don’t make decisions that impact the lives of others based on your personal fear. We run the MeidasTouch Network fearlessly. We are not afraid of legal or physical or personal threats. We’ve accepted that this is part of what it means to be the top independent news network in the world and the fact we focus on exposing Trump. There is nothing that Trump or his minions can do to make us slow down. It only inspires us to grow the network and pursue more strategic partnerships and acquisitions. As this month comes to a close, we can reflect on major accomplishments together. We led all coverage of the No Kings Protest and the War in Iran. We were the exclusive digital network for Governor Newsom’s address to the nation and for the Democrat Budget Committee’s speech on the budget bill. We still beat Fox and Rogan. We lead all Substacks as the fastest-growing in the world. We average 33 million views on YouTube every 48 hours. I want these numbers to increase. We have goals to double these metrics, just as I’d like to see the size of protests double as well. We can’t get complacent just because we are first in views and beat cable news. We’ve built the network with zero investors. Our competition is backed by right-wing oligarchs pouring in billions to try and destroy us. They won’t, and let me tell you why. We are built by subscribers to this Substack. We are responsive to you. By subscribing, you get great content here, but you also support the independent reporting we do and our expansion as we partner with and acquire other channels and expand our coverage. Help us hit our Substack subscriber goals for June and help us make a major statement to all the Trump supporters who threaten us that their attacks only make us grow faster and stronger. |
Sunday Thought: The One Branch of Government that Trump Wants to Keep Alive
Sunday Thought: The One Branch of Government that Trump Wants to Keep AliveWhile eviscerating the two others
Friends, The hardest part of my nights usually occurs around 3 am when my brain starts obsessing about upsetting things, such as what Trump is doing to America. I’m sure many of you are like me. Our days are filled with all sorts of distractions, but in the wee hours of the morning, we tend to drift back to big and often terrifying realities. Last night I couldn’t get out of my head that Trump is intent on abolishing the two branches of the government with the constitutional duty to constrain him. As every American school kid learns, the U.S. Constitution establishes three branches of government that are supposed to check and balance each other. Every school kid, that is, except Donald Trump and the people around him who have been usurping congressional authority and going to war against the judiciary. Trump and his lackeys want there to be only one branch of government — the executive branch, under Trump. Congress has now all but disappeared because it’s controlled by Republican zombies who will say and do whatever Trump wants. This leaves the federal judiciary as the only remaining check on Trump. So far, federal courts have paused about 80 of Trump’s executive orders until judges have an opportunity to hear arguments and sift through evidence at full trials. But even this is too much for the dictator-in-chief. On Friday, a majority of the Supreme Court — at the prodding of Trump’s Justice Department — decided that federal judges could pause executive actions only for the specific plaintiffs that bring a case. (Previously, any of the nation’s more than 1,000 judges in its 94 district courts could issue nationwide injunctions that immediately halted government policies across all 50 states.) On Tuesday, Trump and his lackeys filed a lawsuit against 15 federal judges who serve on the bench in Maryland, seeking a court order that would block them from making any ruling that might “interfere” in “the president’s powers to enforce the nation’s immigration laws.” Beyond these are Trump’s personal attacks against federal judges who rule against him, calling them “monsters” who want America to “go to hell,” and “radical left lunatics” or worse — even demanding their impeachment. These attacks have incited some Trump followers to threaten the lives of federal judges and their families. Threats have surged in recent months, including bomb threats and swatting incidents. For Trump and his lackeys, all who push back against what they want to do — including federal judges — are considered the “opposition.” Attorney General Pam Bondi even accuses federal judges of “meddling in our government.” But the federal judiciary is not an opposing party. It’s an inherent part of the government. Federal court rulings don’t “interfere” in a president’s powers. They determine what those powers are. Federal judges don’t “meddle” in government. They are a vital part of government. We were supposed to have learned this in school. Apparently Trump and his coterie — including Trump’s appointees to the Supreme Court — never learned it. Or now that they’re in power, have erased it from their minds. If all of this makes you pessimistic, I understand. The immediate future does look bleak. But please do not become cynical. Don’t lose hope. Don’t give up the fight. Pessimism is different from cynicism. Pessimists believe an outcome will be bad. But cynics don’t even try for a different outcome because they’ve lost all hope. Trump and his lackeys want us to be cynical because then we’ll stop fighting. If we stop fighting, they win everything — not just the entire government but our entire society. It looks dark today, but it will not remain dark. The Caligula on the Potomac is getting nowhere on tariffs. Inflation threatens. The vast majority of Americans oppose his plan to cut Medicaid and give the rich a huge tax cut. His popularity continues to plummet. He is facing mounting opposition from the rest of the world. Do not succumb to cynicism. We must keep fighting. Too much is at stake. We will prevail. |
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