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An Important Sunday Message From Lev: A Miracle of Light You Need to Read

These two holidays share one truth: miracles still happen when people choose to be the light. This week, you didn’t just donate — you became the miracle in Odesa.

Lev Parnas and MeidasTouch Network Dec 22

Guest article by Lev Parnas

Dear LevRemembers/Voice From Ukraine family,

I want to start this from the deepest place in my heart — because some nights you don’t write as a commentator, you write as a human being who’s trying not to break when you see what other human beings are being forced to endure.

Right now, some of you are lighting the candles of Hanukkah — that ancient reminder that when the world tries to snuff out a people, a faith, a future… light still finds a way. Hanukkah is the story of a small flame that was supposed to die out, and instead kept burning. It’s a holiday that teaches us miracles aren’t always thunder from the sky — sometimes they’re quiet. Sometimes they’re stubborn. Sometimes they’re simply the refusal to surrender to darkness.

And for those of you about to celebrate Christmas, the heart of that season is also a miracle — not just the story itself, but what it represents: hope arriving when the world feels cold and afraid, peace entering a place that didn’t look like it could ever hold it, love showing up in the most unexpected way. Christmas is a reminder that even in a broken world, something holy can still be born.

Here’s what these two holidays have in common: they both teach us that miracles happen when people believe light matters — and when people are willing to carry it.

And this week… because of you… I witnessed two miracles that I will never forget.

Miracle #1: Hanukkah light in a city that was forced into darkness

Odesa is a city that’s been attacked, blacked out, and battered — a city where winter isn’t just cold, it’s dangerous. When the lights go out there, it isn’t an inconvenience. It’s fear. It’s families sitting in freezing apartments. It’s elderly people trying to get through another night. It’s children asking questions no child should ever have to ask.

And during this season — during Hanukkah, a holiday literally built around the miracle of light — we were able to secure 40 generators for Odesa.

Let that sink in.

Forty machines that mean heat. Water. Phone chargers. A chance to keep medicine cold. A way to cook food. A way to keep children warm. A way to keep hope alive.

People talk about miracles like they’re abstract. But sometimes a miracle is exactly this: a community, scattered across different cities and different lives, deciding together that strangers will not be left in the dark.

That was the first miracle.

And honestly? That alone would have been enough to leave me speechless.

But God wasn’t finished with us yet.

Miracle #2: A darkened church… an answered prayer… and a generator that had your name on it

After Oleksandr finished delivering generators — to the police department, to families connected to our subscribers, to synagogues, to churches, to children’s homes — he was heading out of town.

He sat down to grab a quick bite to eat. Just a moment to breathe.

And then he looked across the street.

He saw a small church sitting there in complete darkness — blacked out, quiet, battered. The kind of darkness you feel in your chest when you look at it, because you can tell it’s not just “lights out.” It’s survival.

Something pulled him toward it.

He crossed the street and met the pastor.

And the pastor told him the story so many Ukrainians are living right now: they hadn’t had power for days — about a week — and they didn’t have the money for a generator. They were trying to figure it out. They were praying. They were waiting.

And then the pastor did something that broke Oleksandr — and it broke me when I heard it.

He walked him to a spot they had already prepared… a place they built for the generator they didn’t have yet.

Because they believed one would come.

Imagine the kind of faith it takes to build a place for what you don’t have… while you’re freezing… while you’re in the dark… while the world is moving on.

And as the pastor is explaining this, Oleksandr’s eyes fill with tears. He didn’t hesitate.

He walked back to the truck.

He opened it.

And he pulled out a generator — one of the generators you helped secure — and he handed it to that pastor.

And in that moment, It was a prayer being answered in real time.

It was a pastor staring at the very thing his community had been praying for, appearing in front of him… not because a government moved fast… not because a billionaire wrote a check… but because a group of regular people — my people, your people — chose to be the miracle.

That’s what this is. That’s what we are building.

This is what happens when people stand together

I want you to understand something: what you’re doing isn’t symbolic. It isn’t “a nice gesture.” It is saving lives in real time.

When people say, “Does it even matter?” I want you to picture that church in darkness. Picture that prepared space. Picture that pastor’s face when the generator became real. Picture the children’s homes, the families, the police department — all of it — being touched by a community they may never even meet.

This is what true miracles are: not magic, but movement. Not luck, but love. Not “someone should do something,” but we did something.

And I’m telling you straight from the heart — this is why I built this platform. It started with speaking truth to power. But it has grown into something bigger: speaking truth for the voices that can’t, and turning truth into action when the world tries to numb us into silence.

If this letter is making you emotional, good.

Let it.

Because that emotion is your humanity refusing to die.

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Become a paid subscriber right now — your support keeps this mission alive and turns stories like this into real action.

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Because what happened in Odesa wasn’t an accident. It wasn’t luck. It was a decision — your decision — to become the light.

And in a world that feels darker every day, that might be the greatest miracle of all.

With love and gratitude,

-Lev Parnas

P.S. If you haven’t yet, go to levremembers.com and grab your copy of Shadow Diplomacy — the book that connects the dots to the truth Trump doesn’t want you to know. And while you’re there, grab the Voice From Ukraine/ Enough Is Enough merch to support this movement. This isn’t just a community. It’s a movement. Tell a friend. Re-stack this. And if you can, become a paid subscriber — because paid support is what keeps this truth alive and keeps these miracles happening

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A guest post by Lev Parnas Author “Shadow Diplomacy”,public speaker, political activist, truth teller. And the subject of the Emmy nominated Rachel Maddow documentary “From Russia With Lev”

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THIS WAS AN INTERNATIONAL CHILD SEX TRAFFICKING RING - DON'T STOP 

ASKING QUESTIONS & DEMANDING ANSWERS! 

CHILDREN WERE RECRUITING BASED ON PROMISES OF MODELING CAREERS, 

GROOMED BY EPSTEIN & GHISLAINE MAXWELL, THEIR PASSPORTS CONFISCATED 

& HELD HOSTAGE WITH NO ESCAPE! 

WHO WERE THE WEALTHY PERVERTS WHO RAPED CHILDREN? 

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Lawyer For Eleven Epstein Survivors Has Warning for Trump

My interview with Arick Fudali, who represents eleven Epstein survivors, about his the survivors' response to Trump’s cover-up of the files.

Ben Meiselas and MeidasTouch Network Dec 21

I spoke this week with attorney Arick Fudali, who represents eleven survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse, about what the Trump administration has labeled its “release” of the Epstein files. It was a devastating account of how power continues to protect itself by hiding behind the very people it harmed.

As many predicted, the Trump administration did not meet the requirements of the Epstein Files Transparency Act. The law is not ambiguous. It requires the release of all unclassified Epstein-related records in a searchable format, with any redactions narrowly tailored and legally justified. What the Department of Justice produced instead was a nonfunctional website, thousands of unlabeled files, and a vague promise that this was merely an “initial” step.

The DOJ has attempted to justify this failure by claiming it is acting to protect victims. That assertion is not only legally incorrect. It is morally offensive.

As Fudali told me, survivors’ names are being invoked as a shield for secrecy rather than as a mandate for transparency. The result is that survivors are once again used, not supported. “This is nothing new for them,” Fudali said. “They’ve been wronged by administration after administration, Justice Department after Justice Department, for decades.”

The administration’s conduct is particularly glaring given what we know about the scope of the material being withheld. Public reporting confirms that the FBI and DOJ possess terabytes of Epstein-related data and that tens of thousands of hours were spent reviewing those materials earlier this year. Additional teams of national security lawyers were reportedly pulled into the process. After all of that, the public was handed a digital maze that, at least initially, did not even allow basic name searches.

For survivors, this is a continuation of trauma. Fudali described the current moment as psychologically torturous, reopening wounds for people who have already endured the worst forms of abuse and intimidation. The release was supposed to offer closure. Instead, it has become the beginning of another long battle.

That pattern extends beyond documents. Survivors were not consulted when the DOJ transferred Ghislaine Maxwell from a maximum-security prison to a minimum-security facility. She remains the only person convicted in connection with Epstein’s trafficking operation, despite decades of credible allegations and investigations. The message to survivors is unmistakable: accountability is negotiable.

Fudali’s work underscores how deep that failure runs. One of the survivors he represents, known publicly as Rosa, was trafficked from Uzbekistan by Jean-Luc Brunel under the guise of modeling opportunities, Fudali says. When she arrived in the United States, she was introduced to Epstein while he was wearing an ankle monitor, the product of a plea deal that should never have existed. Had Epstein been fully prosecuted years earlier, Rosa would never have encountered him.

Instead, Epstein used her immigration status, isolation, and fear as tools of control. According to Fudali, that kind of coercion was not incidental. Epstein identified each victim’s vulnerabilities and exploited them relentlessly, threatening family members, livelihoods, and legal status. Many survivors, he said, continue to live in fear long after Epstein’s death, still convinced that his power extends beyond the grave.

What is often lost in the public discourse is the scale and nature of Epstein’s abuse. While there were instances involving other powerful men, Fudali said that Epstein primarily trafficked victims for himself, sometimes abusing multiple girls a day for years. The fixation on political scorekeeping obscures the reality that this was a system built on serial violence, intimidation, and impunity.

The administration’s document dump mirrors that abuse in form, if not in kind. Thousands of files with no context, no organization, and massive redactions that extend far beyond what is legally permissible are not transparency. They are obfuscation. In civil litigation, such tactics are recognized for what they are: attempts to hide the truth in plain sight.

The question now is enforcement. What happens when the very institutions charged with upholding the law are the ones violating it? Fudali made clear that litigation is not off the table. He has already sued the FBI over its historic failures and is exploring further legal action to compel compliance, including possible intervention before federal judges who already have jurisdiction over related matters.

The survivors are not backing down. “They’re the only reason we’ve gotten this far,” Fudali said. “And we’re not going to stop fighting.”

That, ultimately, is the point the administration seems to misunderstand. Survivors are not a convenient excuse for secrecy. They are the reason the law exists. Transparency is not a threat to justice here. It is the only path to it.

Watch my interview with Fudali above, and let’s keep working together to deliver the truth.

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THIS WAS AN INTERNATIONAL CHILD SEX TRAFFICKING RING - DON'T STOP 

ASKING QUESTIONS & DEMANDING ANSWERS! 

CHILDREN WERE RECRUITED BASED ON PROMISES OF MODELING CAREERS, 

GROOMED BY EPSTEIN & GHISLAINE MAXWELL, THEIR PASSPORTS CONFISCATED 

& HELD HOSTAGE WITH NO ESCAPE! 

WHO WERE THE WEALTHY PERVERTS WHO RAPED CHILDREN? 

Where is the investigation of EPSTEIN'S MONEY LAUNDERING? 

BANKS failed to report this including JPMORGAN CHASE that covered this up just as they failed to report BERNIE MADOFF. 

YES! This is about the VICTIMS, but it's also about the WEALTHY PEDOPHILES who RAPED CHILDREN! 

The FBI reported that there were 1,000 VICTIMS! 

They deserve JUSTICE & the disclosure of the WEALTHY PERVERTS who  supported this. 

What was removed from EPSTEIN'S ISLAND by  the FBI? Where is that information? 

This is a WIDE SPREAD COVER-UP! 

The FLORIDA SHERIFF who was a RUSSIAN ASSET fled with EPSTEIN'S TAPES to RUSSIA. PUTIN has EPSTEIN'S VIDEOS. 

Are there more videos? 

KEEP ASKING QUESTIONS ABOUT THESE WEALTHY PERVERTS who  supported EPSTEIN/GHISLAINE MAXWELL. 

There were numerous locations. 

Recently it was made known that ZORRO RANCH in NEW MEXICO was where at least one victim was held & a legislator requested an investigtion. 

The TREASURY has a record of WIRE TRANSFERS to EPSTEIN. Where is that information? 

Ice Kills Thirty In Custody PEOPLE ARE DYING IN ICE GETAPO CUSTODY! 66,000 PEOPLE CURRENTLY DETAINED: WHY?

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Jean Wilson Brutus 41 Haitian DEAD IN NEWARK,Nenko Stanev Gantchev 56 Bulgarian died in Michigan,Delvin Francisco Rodriguez 39 Nicaraguan died in Mississippi,Fouad Saeed Abdulkadir 46 Eritrean, died in Pennsylvania

Ice Kills Thirty In Custody Michael Cohen and MeidasTouch Network Dec 21 Guest article by Michael Cohen. Remember to follow him on Substack for more by clicking here. Michael just hit 500,000 subscribers on YouTube! Subscribe today for free here and let’s keep the momentum going! Newark, NJ, USA - May 10, 2025: Delaney Hall is a secure detention facility near Newark Airport used by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to hold illegal aliens accused of criminal activity. Editorial credit: George Wirt / Shutterstock.com Four people died in ICE custody this week, proving the cruelty isn’t the arrest itself — it’s the neglect, indifference, and silence that follow once the doors lock. I’ve been out of federal custody for a while now, but the memories don’t fade. They linger. They itch. They wake you up at night like a phantom pain from a limb you didn’t even know the government could amputate. Since my release from FCI Otisville, I’ve been very clear — borderline annoying, if you ask my former captors — about what it means to be human warehoused by the United States government. Fifty-one days in solitary confinement. Three days without food. A sink and toilet that didn’t work, which is a polite way of saying I lived with my own waste. A broken window that let rain soak my bed like I was camping, minus the fun and marshmallows. Gnats. No ventilation. Temperatures pushing 100 degrees. And this wasn’t some secret black site in a failed state. This was a federal facility in the United States of America. And here’s the part that matters: I am a U.S. citizen. I was the former personal attorney to the sitting President of the United States. I had a megaphone — family, friends, journalists, celebrities, members of Congress — people who noticed when I coughed, sneezed, or didn’t get fed. If that’s how the system treated someone with visibility, resources, and a last name people recognize, let me ask you something uncomfortable: what do you think happens to the people nobody is watching? Now imagine you’re in ICE detention. This month alone, four people died in immigration detention over the span of four days. December 12. December 14 — twice. December 15. That’s not a coincidence. That’s a pattern. Or, as the ACLU’s Eunice Cho accurately put it, a “red-hot crisis.” When four human beings die in government custody in less than a workweek, the problem isn’t bad luck. It’s bad conditions. The names matter. Jean Wilson Brutus, 41, Haitian, dead one day after entering ICE custody in Newark. Nenko Stanev Gantchev, 56, Bulgarian, died in Michigan. Delvin Francisco Rodriguez, 39, Nicaraguan, died in Mississippi. Fouad Saeed Abdulkadir, 46, Eritrean, died in Pennsylvania. ICE says two died of “natural causes” and two from “medical complications,” which is bureaucratic shorthand for “please don’t ask follow-up questions.” Thirty people — THIRTY — have died in ICE custody in 2025 alone; the highest number since 2004. That tally includes two people killed in a shooting at a Dallas ICE facility, because apparently even detention centers now need active-shooter disclaimers. Nearly 66,000 people are currently detained, a record high, while the Trump administration is asking Congress for $45 billion to expand immigration detention. More beds. More bodies. More risk. More death. At the same time, oversight has been quietly strangled. Watchdog agencies closed, then half-reopened after public backlash. Lawyers and advocates say conditions are deteriorating unchecked. ICE, meanwhile, insists deaths are “less than 1%,” a statistic offered without math, methodology, or shame. Detention, they remind us, isn’t supposed to be punitive. Funny — because the people inside keep dying like it is. Several of these deaths occurred within days of people being taken into custody, raising serious concerns about trauma, medical neglect, and the shock of arrest itself. If you’ve never experienced the moment when the state decides it owns your body, let me assure you — it’s not calming. It’s violent, even without bruises. Members of Congress like Pramila Jayapal and Patty Murray are calling for oversight and accountability, describing the deaths as “appalling and unacceptable.” Lawsuits allege overcrowding, lack of beds, inadequate food, nonexistent medical care. ICE officials respond with press releases and confidence bordering on satire, claiming they maintain “higher standards of care than most prisons that hold U.S. citizens.” Let me translate that for you: Don’t believe your lying eyes. Here’s the truth they don’t want to say out loud. Immigration detention has become a business model built on volume, speed, and indifference. People are processed, parked, and ignored until something goes catastrophically wrong; and then it’s labeled unavoidable. Natural. Complicated. I survived my time in custody only because people were watching. ICE detainees don’t get that luxury. No book deals. No TV hits. No army of reporters asking why the sink doesn’t work or why my medication didn’t arrive. If this is how America treats the most vulnerable people in its care, then the problem isn’t immigration. It’s us. Because silence isn’t neutral; it’s permission. And history has never been kind to societies that confuse detention with justice and cruelty with control. Meidas+ is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. PLEASE HELP GROW THIS COMMUNITY… I’M COUNTING ON YOU! SUPPORT INDEPENDENT JOURNALISTS… SUBSCRIBE. READ. LIKE. RESTACK. Michael Cohen Principal of Crisis-X #1 and #8 NYT Bestseller Author Host of The Mea Culpa Podcast Co-Host of The Political Beatdown Former Personal Attorney To President Donald J. Trump Discharged Felon Yeah, I know; you’re tired. This shit is exhausting. Guess what? Me too. But I’ve spent the last 8 years throwing punches in the dark so truth could get a little daylight. And now I’m asking you to step into the ring with me. Because if you’re still reading this, you already get it: This isn’t just a newsletter. It’s a rally cry. A war drum. A line in the sand. We are not passive observers of the downfall. We are the resistance. We call out the liars. We drag corruption by the collar into the sunlight. We say the quiet parts out loud; and we don’t flinch. But here’s the truth: I can’t do this solo. Not anymore. The storm is already here. We are standing in it. And it’s wearing stars and stripes like camouflage, preaching “freedom” while it sells fascism at retail. So let me ask you: Are. You. In? Because this is not a scroll-and-forget read. This is a living, breathing, fire-breathing movement; and movements don’t move unless you do. We need to be louder than spin, tougher than propaganda, and impossible to gaslight. That takes more than clicks. More than likes. It takes skin in the game. So if you believe truth matters; if you’re sick of the bullshit, if you’re ready to stop screaming into the algorithm and start pushing back with purpose, this is your next step. HERE’S HOW YOU PUT YOUR FOOT ON THE GAS: Become a paid subscriber. Fund fearless, unfiltered journalism that hits back. Share this with the loudest people you know — the ones who never sit down and shut up. Build the community. Amplify the message. Be the damn megaphone. And yeah; Founding Members? The first 240 of you will get a signed, numbered, limited-edition Substack version of Revenge. That’s not just a collector’s item. That’s receipts. Proof you didn’t sit this one out. But let’s be clear: This isn’t about a book. It’s about backbone. It’s about calling out the gaslighters and refusing to be played. It’s about locking arms and saying, “Not. On. Our. Watch.” You want to make a difference? Then make it; right now. Because if we don’t fight for truth, no one will. But if we fight together? They can’t drown us out. Let’s be so loud, they wish we were just angry tweets. Let’s be unshakable. Unignorable. Un-fucking-breakable. Let’s go! Meidas+ is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. A guest post by Michael Cohen Principal of Crisis-X #1 and #8 NYT Bestseller Author Host of The Mea Culpa Podcast Co-Host of The Political Beatdown Former Personal Attorney To President Donald J. Trump and Discharged Felon COMMENTS: This is what this country has become thanks to people who don’t care about anything but guns, money, racism, spite and hatred. It’s disgraceful and sickening. This information literally makes me sick to my stomach. And what makes this whole situation even more disturbing and more despicable is this: “Trump’s budget bill benefits private immigration detention companies that donated to Trump”. “President Trump’s budget bill, the “One Big, Beautiful Bill Act” allocates $45 billion for ICE to pay private contractors to implement mass detention of immigrants, paving the way for a huge windfall to companies that donated big to support Trump. In total, the two largest private immigration detention companies, CoreCivic and GEO Group, and their subsidiaries and executives, donated nearly $2.8 million to Trump’s 2024 election efforts and inaugural fund, according to a CREW analysis of FEC data. “90% of immigration detention in the U.S. is done by private, for-profit corporations that have multi–million dollar contracts with ICE. Expanding the Trump administration’s promised mass deportation of immigrants will depend on further reliance on those companies—and on targeting immigrants who are not criminals. “Since Trump’s inauguration, private ICE detention contractors such as Core Civic and GEO Group have already benefited financially through no-bid detention facility contracts. On April 7, ICE issued a $45 billion Request for Proposals by private contractors to increase capacity for people to be detained. Even before Congress passed the budget bill, by the end of June CoreCivic and GEO Group had already been awarded nine new or expanded contracts, and reopened facilities such as Delaney Hall in New Jersey (run by GEO) and the Dilley and Karnes family detention centers in Texas (run by CoreCivic and GEO). And who’s holding these companies accountable? Full story - https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/trumps-budget-bill-benefits-private-immigration-detention-companies-that-donated-to-trump/#:~:text=President%20Trump's%20budget%20bill%2C%20the,for%20people%20to%20be%20detained. One of your very best pieces. Cuts to the heart of the matter. No hiding the facts. This needs amplifying and you did it. Having been briefly in a similar situation, I know my privilege was what saved my life. It had nothing to do with immigration so that your description cuts my heart when you project how much worse it is unto DEATH. Thank you for “being annoying” about this and never stop. YOUR VOICE on this subject is important. Thank you. When NAZI STEPHEN MILLER promoted FAMILY SEPARATION during the first REIGN OF TERROR, no records were kept.  No one knows where those children are and because parents are in other nations seaarching for their children...WHO KNOWS?  Imagine a PARENT searching for a CHILD!  It is reported that there are now 600 CHILDREN in ICE DETENTION....let's not forget them.  ICE GESTAPO is reportring 60,000 people in ICE GESTAPO DETENTION - they're NOT CRIMINALS!  Why are we DEPORTING NON-CRIMINALS?  Many of these people were WORKING & SUPPORTING THEIR FAMILIES....are they being DEPORTED solely because of their SKIN COLOR? Many have been active in their communities, some own busineses, many are known & well liked in their communities....they are OUR NEIGHBORS!  WE need to RE-THINK this LUNACY!  There were jobs in Massachusetts that went unfilled that immigrants were filling....let's stop the DEPORTATION LUNACY!