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There’s a reason JD Vance converted to Catholicism right before entering politics and it had nothing to do with God. This is the same man who once wrote an article calling Trump “America’s Hitler,” and in a 2016 interview, said he’d rather vote for his dog than for Trump.

Now he’s Vice President of the United States, and he is just one blood clot away from taking control. While the legacy media and influencers fixate on Trump’s swollen ankles, slurred words, bruised hands, and mental decline they’re missing the real threat. Something worse is coming, and it’s wearing a crucifix.

“Trump is cultural heroin. He makes some feel better for a bit. But he cannot fix what ails them, and one day they’ll realize it.” — J.D. Vance.

It is always easier—and more profitable—to align oneself with existing wealth and power than to resist it on the principled grounds of justice, equity, or stewardship. While the pursuit of profit rewards speed, scale, and indifference, conservation demands restraint and the acceptance of limits. The incentives are fundamentally lopsided: on one side, the gains from exploitation are immediate, private, and compounding; on the other, the rewards of conservation are delayed, diffused, and socialized. Those who seek profit have the obvious motive and the ample means to dominate the discourse, while those who argue for restraint must expend their own time, resources, and credibility with no hope of reimbursement. It is asymmetrical warfare made personal. 

On a Sunday afternoon in Minneapolis, Patty O’Keefe and Brandon Siguenza, both U.S. citizens who live there, were taking part in an ICE watch. This is a legal activity where people observe and record law enforcement actions in public. It is an activity long protected by the First Amendment. That afternoon ended with them in cuffs after agents moved on them without warning.

The agents who moved on them didn’t knock or even shout orders. The first agent to reach Patty’s side jams a canister nozzle against the air intake vents near the windshield wipers. Inside the car, the air instantly turns caustic. A high-dose stream of pepper spray flooded directly into the sealed cabin, weaponizing the car’s own ventilation system.

This is a tactic that mirrors the times that DHS agents have used pepper spray on the air intake valves of inflatable costumes worn during protests.

GREEP Zoom #233 opens with HEDY TRIPP from St. Cloud, MN, & with a deeply disturbing report from the streets of Minneapolis as it’s assaulted by masked Hitlerian Gestapo storm troopers.

From Corvallis, Oregon, we hear a parallel report of the fascist invasion from Congressional candidate DR. MELISSA BIRD.

Dr. Bird’s report connects with the great JENNIE GAGE with her dire insider view of the MAGA cult & its fascist fanaticism for the Trump assault on public sanity & its abject hatred of all things empathetic.

Co-convenor MYLA RESON raises the vital issue of nuclear power, with an up close/personal eye on the aftermath of Chernobyl.

Atlanta-based organizer RAY MCCLENDON emphasizes the dire need for grassroots organizing in 2026, which could be the last set of elections ever in the US.

From the world of the internet we hear from Op Ed News creator ROB KALL on the need for courageous journalism in the face of fascist repression.

Co-convenor MIKE HERSH raises the issue of how MAGA men focus on trying to break strong women whom they fear to the core.

A shock and awe. The phrase is apt in describing what Israel has done in the occupied West Bank almost immediately following the events of October 7, 2023, and the start of the Israeli genocide in Gaza.

In her book The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein defines “shock and awe” not merely as a military tactic, but as a political and economic strategy that exploits moments of collective trauma—whether caused by war, natural disaster, or economic collapse—to impose radical policies that would otherwise be resisted. According to Klein, societies in a state of shock are rendered disoriented and vulnerable, allowing those in power to push through sweeping transformations while opposition is fragmented or overwhelmed.

After 748 days of committing war crimes in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria, Joshua Boon, who was born in Iowa, United States, committed suicide. He chose to leave home in Idaho to volunteer for the Israel Defense Forces. He is a traitor who enlisted in the Israeli Death Forces instead of the US armed forces.

"Lone Soldier" is a sugarcoated term that the media often uses to refer to Jewish Americans "mercenaries" who enlist in the IDF. However, the same media outlets refer to Muslims who join ISIS or fight against US and NATO occupation force in the Middle East as "terrorists." A Muslim volunteer gets automatically 20 years behind bars whereas a Jewish mercenary receives a hero welcome. 

Many Americans are unaware of the fact that many Jewish high school students chose to enlist in the Israeli Death Forces (IDF) after graduation instead of enlisting in the US armed forces. Those people have taken part in the Gaza genocide and massacres in Lebanon. Some of them were captured on October 7 while armed and in IDF uniform. In fact, you would be more accurate by calling them as "Israeli POWs" instead. That should be an affront to all veterans and patriotic Americans.