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Dear America

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Meidas+ cross-posted a post from Katie Phang Brett Meiselas Jul 5 · Meidas+ Katie Phang’s letter to America is worth a read Dear America A Love Letter to My Country Katie Phang Jul 5 Dear America, I love you. I don’t say that with blind devotion nor do I say it for purposes of performative patriotism because it’s your birthday. I truly mean it. This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. I’m telling you this because I’m reading articles about how so many people doubt you. So I want you to hear directly from me why you’re so great and why I will always fight for you. So where do I begin? Let’s start with your food. Honestly, America? It’s unhinged. And I mean that as the highest compliment possible. Your airports — places of chaos and anxiety — can smell like heaven because somewhere there is an Auntie Anne’s pretzel calling out to the hurried masses yearning for their flight to just be on time for once. Drip...
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Switzerland has turned its train tracks into solar power plants

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  THE WORLD IS MOVING ON, EXPERIMENTING AND CREATING WHILE  TRUMP ET AL WALLOWS WITH DIRTY ENERGY!!  THE FUTURE IS INNOVATION AND CLEAN ENERGY! POSTED IN DAILY DOSE OF DEMOCRACY: Switzerland has turned its train tracks into solar power plants Jul 6, 2026 The space between railroad tracks doesn’t usually do much of anything. But in a tiny village in Switzerland, Swiss inventors have spent the last year proving it can be used to generate clean electricity. In April 2025, Swiss startup Sun-Ways installed 48 solar panels along a 330-foot stretch of active railway in Buttes, Switzerland. It is the first removable solar power plant on a working rail line anywhere in the world.  Courtesy of Sun-Ways The patented panels were designed to sit between the rails and can be easily removed whenever crews need to do track maintenance. Now, just over a year into their three-year pilot project, the results are in: More than 11,000 trains have rolled directly over the panels at speeds...
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MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 7/7/26 [AD-FREE] THE RAMBLINGS OF A MADMAN THAT REPUBLICANS IGNORE!

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    Watch now   MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 7/7/26 [AD-FREE] Watch the latest episode ad-free on the Meidas+ Substack Brett Meiselas , Ben Meiselas , Jordy Meiselas , and MeidasTouch Network Jul 7 ∙   READ IN APP   The latest episode of The MeidasTouch Podcast is now available ad-free exclusively for Meidas+ Substack paid subscribers. To support ad-free episodes like this, please consider joining as a paid subscriber today! You can also listen to the episode free on podcast platforms like Apple Podcasts , Spotify , and anywhere else podcasts are found. On this episode of the MeidasTouch Podcast, Ben, Brett, and Jordy break down the latest news, from Trump’s bizarre White House luncheon to his Trump Accounts event and more. The brothers also cover alarming developments overseas as China and North Korea test a nuclear-capable missile, Russia escalates its attacks on Kyiv, and Ukraine strikes back with major attacks targeting Omsk and one of Russia’s largest fuel r...
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Trump Went After Your Phone, Your Vote, and Your Paycheck. It Did Not Go Well. SPEAK OUT! REPUBLICANS ARE SILENT!

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  You already power all of this. Two ways to hit back even harder today: upgrade to Founding Member and put more fuel in the tank, or gift a subscription to someone who still thinks resistance is useless—and change their mind for them. Trump Went After Your Phone, Your Vote, and Your Paycheck. It Did Not Go Well. Four times, they reached for something that wasn’t theirs. Four times, they lost. Scott Dworkin Jul 7 Good morning, friend. Pour the coffee and sit with me a second, because I have great news for you today. Before you jump in, tap the like button and restack this edition. Social media platforms are designed to smother these wins with propaganda and lies. Every restack flips that switch, dragging the truth in front of people they’re trying to keep in the dark. And if you haven’t yet, become a paid subscriber today. Because we don’t just report on the fight, we organize and help lead it. The same readers who fund this newsroom have flooded Congress with letters, jammed the p...
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