ALERT: Professional news. Nine days after leaving CBS, I have found a new professional home: Chief Washington Correspondent and Anchor for @meidastouch.com

MacFarlane: I’m focused on being an enterprise reporter who gets at the truth and does not abide the whitewashing of history or the erasing of what people have said. We’re not just battling to find news and truth—we’re battling a force that is trying to contaminate and metastasize across all media.

Iran says Trump is lying

TACO Trump is bailing out of his disastrous war and juicing the markets on Monday morning.

@meidasjordy.bsky.social @meiselasb.bsky.social @bmeiselas.bsky.social @meidastouch.com WHO let Ben post a video without fixing his Squiggy curl!!

Ben Meiselas on The MeidasTouch Podcast winning the iHeartPodcast Award: “When we see injustice, we call it out with moral clarity. We’re not afraid to call out fascism when we see it. When we see ICE and Border Patrol on our streets killing our people, we call it out.“

As a Canadian I have to say that Ben Meiselas is the best informed 🇺🇸 person in any media format (mainstream or podcast) on Canadian issues. In 65 years I’ve never seen an American know so much about Canadian news & subjects. That’s impressive.

Meiselas: Trump is a parody in the most extreme sense of the boogeymen MAGA created to go after Dems. He’s quite literally all of it. He covers up the pedo ring. He starts wars everywhere. He uses government to tread on people. He's the most extreme example of what they claimed they wanted to stop.

Thank you to everyone who tuned in to the People’s State of the Union! You made history and completely took the spotlight. 😉 Huge thanks as well to MoveOn and MeidasTouch for putting it together incredible work!

Thank you to everyone who participated in and watched the People’s State of the Union. The event reflected the best of America and fills me with optimism about the future.

Congratulations @meidastouch.com on reaching 6 MILLION subscribers on YouTube! We are all very proud of you. Cc: @meiselasb.bsky.social @bmeiselas.bsky.social @meidasjordy.bsky.social

BREAKING: Sen. Ruben Gallego will NOT attend the SOTU and will instead participate in the People’s State of the Union hosted by MeidasTouch and MoveOn.

I posted my first video with MeidasTouch in March of 2023. It’s been quite a ride. My first reaction was how amazing the community was, I had been working as a legal analyst for a while at that point and there is just NOTHING like the MeidasMighty!!! I believe it is in no small part to 1/2

BREAKING: The MeidasTouch YouTube channel has officially surpassed 6 MILLION subscribers — and that's not all. We’ve just crossed 9 BILLION views on YouTube as well. Thank you to everyone who helped make this happen. Let’s keep building.

Newsom: He’s a weak president — and that weakness is now on display globally. The only card he had left was these tariffs. His entire economic policy has been mass deportations — and that’s beginning to unravel. His broader economic policies have obviously been aided and embedded in these tariffs

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas interviews Epstein survivor Haley Robson who shares her story in this candid and very powerful interview as Meiselas continues to share the stories of survivors at the same time Trump and his DOJ try to silence and defame them.

Great work here from @meiselasb.bsky.social and @meidastouch.com open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

Wow. It certainly took a tremendous amount of courage for Anouska de Georgiou, victim of Jeffrey #Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at 16 years of age, to give this interview to the @meidastouch.com network and Ben Meiselas @meiselasb.bsky.social. #SupportheSurvivors youtu.be/xSkzN7R5VAM?...

2) How the Pentagon is Quietly Building Trump’s Concentration Camps SCOOP: A repurposed Navy contract to funnel tens of billions to ICE for a nationwide "ghost network” of concentration camps—just got a lot bigger. migrantinsider.com/p/how-the-pe...

Folds on the Kennedy Center 3 weeks ago: I was sick to my stomach when I quit because I knew they were going to run it into the ground. No one that they were appointing had any experience in arts administration, but that was never the point. The point was to take that, run over it, and move on.

Whoa. This is from an FBI email with the subect "Re: Epstein - Cellmate Interview" Here are the summaries provided by the FBI agent.

California AG Bonta joined Professor Meiselas’s law class at USC today as a guest lecturer.

"a massive violation of international law" @meiselasb.bsky.social reports on Trump’s ICE forces invading the Ecuadorian consulate and committing massive violation of international law and Meiselas shares other horrors that were committed by ICE including exclusive footage from Status Coup News

Walz: I think Kristi Noem probably should go back to South Dakota, not have any dogs, and just kind of ride things out

Let me try to articulate what I think the central economic issue of the current moment really is.

Wolfers: This is the most interventionist government of my lifetime. It’s the least conservative government of my lifetime. When you are the richest country in the world, maybe you are not the ones who should be tearing down your existing institutions. But that’s exactly what this president is doing

From my FB feed - MeidasTouch Scenes from Nuuk, Greenland today, where Meidas contributor Ken Harbaugh is on the ground for exclusive reporting.

Shuler: So I think your question about augmentation versus replacement is the big question we have. If we can all agree that this is about making our jobs better, safer, easier, and more productive, then we’re all in. But if you’re looking to de-skill, dehumanize, and replace workers…

Healey: Whether it’s ballrooms, or masked agents, or attacks on Europe and Greenland…This is not normal. It’s not normal to have somebody who acts like a two-year-old throwing a tantrum. On any given day, we don’t know what he’s going to do. This shouldn’t be normalized. It’s not right.

Jens-Frederik Nielsen, Prime Minister of Greenland: First of all, nobody other than Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark have the mandate to make deals or agreements about Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark without us. That’s not going to happen.

Jens-Frederik Nielsen, Prime Minister of Greenland: Sovereignty is a red line. Our integrity, our borders, and international law are definitely, definitely a red line that we don’t want anyone to cross.

Canadian PM Carney: Canada and the United States have built a remarkable partnership in the economy, in security, and in rich cultural exchange. But Canada doesn’t live because of the United States. Canada thrives because we are Canadian.

It appears that the White House edited this image using AI

One year into Trump’s second term, working people are paying more and getting less. Costs are up. Wages are down. Jobs are disappearing. Meanwhile, billionaires and Big Tech are cashing in. This is the real Trump economy. Read the full report:

NEWS: Survivor Lisa Phillips backs request by Reps. Khanna and Massie for judge to appoint a special master to release the Epstein files. "I have no confidence that the Department of Justice, already 30 days late in complying with the Act with no end in sight."

Emanuel: We are not going to invade Greenland, and you shouldn’t pay full price for something Denmark would give you for free. They want a closer relationship. This is, again, a glaring example of why Donald Trump’s companies all went bankrupt—because he’s a rotten businessman.

@meiselasb.bsky.social Ben, I love your Scott Bessent Impression!! However, I think you make him look too dignified. To me, he looks like he may be having gastrointestinal problems. The occasional mouth twitches are the giveaway. You need to include the mouth twitches.

Thanks to everyone who came to the overflow @meidascanada.ca townhall in Calgary. Alberta is ground zero of the resistance. We will be building the Meidas network to help the Alberta resistance to the Maple Maga gangsters. @meidastouch.com

I don’t post on YouTube except for things that post automatically there from Substack, so I don’t really get it, but my friend @katiephang.bsky.social is a genius at it, delivering the news we all need. She just hit 500K followers there & I’m so proud of her.

NEW: The DOJ has filed a motion to block the appointment of an independent monitor to release the Epstein files in the Ghislaine Maxwell case. The DOJ argues that federal courts lack the authority to enforce the Epstein Transparency Act… 1/

NEWS: The U.S. Department of Justice has formally moved to block the appointment of an independent monitor or special master to oversee the release of Epstein-related records

A must listen/watch interview with the US former ambassador to Denmark. The man doesn’t mince his words and has a lot to say about the current situation. Again, awesome work by Ben Meiselas @meidastouch.com. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

The week has concluded without release of Epstein Files

🚨BREAKING: ICE is shooting pepper balls at unarmed Minneapolis protesters outside federal building on day 3 of protests following Renee Nicole Good. WE'RE LIVE NOW ⬇️

AOC: What we saw today was a criminal murder a woman while she was trying to flee for her life. What we saw today was a manifestation of every American’s worst nightmare: their government turning into a tyranny.

When the iconic @joyannreid.bsky.social is on your side, you know your doing good things. Thank you Joy for having me on your show to discuss all the latest in health. Grateful for your trust 🙏

.@PabloReports: What do you make of the White House blaming the police for what happened on January 6th? Lieu: The White House’s statement is batshit crazy.

🚨"I'm a police officer you fool!" MAGA supporter pretending to be a cop says in harassing phone call to Somali bakery owner Nur Ahmed. He added: "You're a pirate. Quit stealing, you people are fu*king criminals man!" ICE raided outside Ahmed's bakery 2da. Our full video ⬇️

Gupta: As we age, sometimes we get a CT of the coronary arteries, a coronary calcium scan, which he actually had in 2018. At the time, there was some evidence of calcification in his coronary arteries… Now suddenly it’s completely normal. That doesn’t make a lot of sense.

Angus: We see this attack as setting the stage for an attack where Trump could go anywhere. The same language he’s used against Venezuela, he’s used against Canada—and he sees that we have immense resources. The difference is, good luck thinking that you are going to break the Canadian people.