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We never shared a shift report in the early hours of the morning. If we passed each other in a hallway or stood in line for coffee in wrinkled, mismatched scrubs, I wouldn’t have known who you were.

But I knew you.

I knew you by the ache in your feet after twelve hours on the floor. I knew you by the weight you carried in your pocket and your heart. I grieve for you because you knew the cost of caring.

You knew the “nursing bladder” and the missed lunches. You knew the feeling of driving home in silence because the radio was too much noise after twelve hours of alarms and never having a break.

You knew the unique isolation of being surrounded by people all day but feeling entirely alone with the burden of their lives at the end of the day. Holding hands, holding breaths, holding the line between hope and loss, then being expected to clock out and return to the world as if nothing followed you home.

For God’s sake, let’s get to the REAL agenda behind Wednesday’s FBI raid on the Fulton County elections office. IT’S NOT ABOUT THE 2020 ELECTION. The warrant says the FBI wants the envelopes from the 2020 election to hunt for crimes. But that’s just the legal excuse for the storm trooping.

This is NOT, as the media seems to think, about Trump’s attempt to prove he won the 2020 race, as if he’s some political Captain Ahab trying to chase the Moby Dick of 2020 revenge.

This is all about 2026 and 2028. Look at a map. Fulton County is the heart of “Blacklanta.” And Atlanta is the electoral heart of Georgia. And Georgia is the swingiest of swing states. If Republicans don’t cut down the Black vote in Atlanta, they lose the crucial seat now held by Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff. And in 2028, the GOP, if they don’t suppress the vote in Fulton, they lose the White House. Fulton was the fulcrum of Trump’s loss in 2020 and could spell doomsday for Republicans in 2028.

Our Greep Zoom #254 opens with a first-person report from MYLA RESON on the beating of Mr. James, who’s since disappeared, to which she emphasizes the need to shut the Palo Verde atomic reactors.

Our esteemed US Representative ADELITA GRIJALVA updates us on the latest developments in the US Congress.

From DR. MELISSA BIRD we get an on-the-scene report from the streets of Oregon.

The great former Charlotte Mayor JENNIFER ROBERTS gives us a mind-bending view of the ICE attacks in North Carolina, and thanks the country as “it’s the people who’re going to safe us."

From HEDY TRIPP in St. Cloud tells us that the resistance in MN is holding strong and that she is facing personal danger of the first magnitude.

.From MICKIE LEADER we get an exhortation to study our history’s Underground Railroad for saving oppressed citizens.

Media mogul DAVID SALTMAN wonders why the government would shut in the middle of this crisis & why our Amendments—2, 4, 9 and others—are being ignored.

Solar owner PAUL NEWMAN demands the Democrats obstruct the Republican coup.

The history of American power is, in many ways, the history of reinventing rules—or designing new ones—to fit US strategic interests.

This may sound harsh, but it is a necessary realization, particularly in light of US President Donald Trump’s latest political invention: the so-called Board of Peace.

And here I am, an American, staring at the border again . . . and slowly coming to realize the paradox of it. Borders don’t actually exist. They’re invisible lies. They’re also virtually everywhere.

Consider the border Alex Pretti crossed on Jan. 24, on a street in Minneapolis, as he stepped between some U.S. Border Patrol agents and the woman they had just pushed down. He crossed the border that separates ordinary people from the federal Proud Boys (or whoever they are), the masked invaders who were occupying the city to enforce The Law. Pretti interfered with them! He dared to try to protect the fallen woman, who herself had just crossed the same border. In so doing, they both went from being ordinary citizens to “domestic terrorists.”

“Yet our greatest threat isn’t the outsiders among us, but those among us who never look within.”

Calls for U.S. military intervention to bring democracy to Iran rest on a dangerous illusion: that democracy is something foreign powers can install from the outside. History suggests the opposite. When democracy is imposed through force, it rarely produces freedom—and often strengthens authoritarianism.

Democracy is not just a set of institutions like elections or constitutions. At its core, it is about collective self-rule. A people is free only when it participates in shaping the laws and institutions that govern it. When political systems are imposed by foreign powers, even in the name of liberation, that basic principle is violated.

President Trump has a long history of inflammatory rhetoric targeting Muslims. Ever since he won the presidential election in in 2016, his first Executive Order was a total Muslim ban to America, which struck the car as illegal. For the last three months, Trump has been targeting US Rep. Ilhan Omar and the entire Somali American community and using them as punching bags. Yesterday, he called Somali Americans very low. Really? Trump should be the last person to talk shit about Somali Americans. I explain why.

Trump has a four-year degree from the University of Pennsylvania. His grades and transcripts are secret. Reason is, he graduated with half-ass grades from college.

Michael Cohen, once Trump's personal attorney, gave a testimony to Congress where he revealed that, under the direction of President Trump, he had sent letters to Trump’s high schools, colleges, and the College Board (creator of the SAT), threatening them with legal action and jail time if they ever released Trump’s academic records. Ever wonder why? If he got straight As, he does not keep it secret. Think about it for a minute. All what he is doing is trying to save face and avoid being ridiculed.

This video, from Substack "Kathy" should be required viewing.  Please log onto Substack to view.  https://substack.com/@parislychee/note/c-204980477

Jesus Christ. This is Israel to the fucking ‘T’. Palestine is the laboratory. Now it's home in the good ol’ fucking USofA.

A leaked video from an ICE detention site shows fifty human beings jammed into a single cell with no beds, no bathrooms, nothing. Some of them are U.S. citizens.

"They hit his face. They beat him until he can no longer stand."

"They have been here more than ten days without bathing and enduring hunger."

"Look how they have us here. Look at what kind of immigration they have us under, people who are legal, people who are not legal, people who are losing their families, they are kidnapping us."

ICE is only supposed to use cells like this for short-term processing, not to run secret long-term holding sites in the shadows.

The footage was recorded inside the ICE Baltimore Field Office at 31 Hopkins Plaza in Baltimore, Maryland.