Global
While universities outlaw education and Israel outlaws indigenous people, ICE outlaws America, and also América. We lighten it up with a Q-Anon limerick and a review of new pro-formaldehyde policies. A seaweed blob is threatening Florida, and the FDA is threatening us with asbestos.
Bonus: a Trump voter calls in to apologize.
Finally: plans to take Europe.
We start GREEP Zoom #256 with HEDY TRIPP and an update from St. Cloud, Minnesota.
Hedy introduces us to AHMED ABDI, an MN-based Somali radio personality with a deeply disturbing report about life under Trump.
From MYLA RESON, Ahmed gets an invite to become part of the Pacifica Radio Network, which carries this GREEP zoom to more than 200 affiliate stations around the US and world.
With the great SUSIE SHANNON we explore Adaptive Re-Use as an internet-era solution to the housing crisis in a nation with more than 770,000 people who have no place to live, but where we have “homeless encampments in the shadow of empty buildings.” The situation, says Susie, is being addressed by US bill #2410. She adds that 7 homeless persons die on the streets of LA every day, while some 70k housing units sit vacant in the face of 41,000 unhoused.
We have a habit in this country of looking at the monsters of history through a telescope, convinced they are a world away. When we see the heavy boots of the state — the raids, the cages, the Department of Homeland Security’s shadow falling over the vulnerable — we cry that it looks like the Gestapo. We say we are “becoming” Nazi Germany.
But there is a far more terrifying truth: Hitler didn’t build his hell from scratch. He didn’t have to. He looked across the Atlantic, and he saw us.
See, the road to the Holocaust did not begin in Berlin. It passed through lecture halls, grant committees, and the Ivy league institutions of America.
Long before 2026, America had already proven that they believe some lives are worth less than others through eugenics programs, laws targeting Native Americans, and Jim Crow laws. In the early 1900s, Yale stood at the center of American eugenics, helping seed the ideology that led to the executions of millions of people.
Direct Audio Link (Thank You WGRN Columbus):
https://grassrootsep.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/grassrootsep-dr.bob-interview260208-020826.mp3
Video Interview from beginning: https://youtu.be/zrUM1sRdR6g?t=4344
Transcript:
Sunny Wasserman: Myla, did you want to jump in?
myla reson: I do, and you know, this is really important to highlight the SAVE Act, which I believe has not yet passed the Senate, and there is a lot of opposition to it. Hopefully it’ll get stopped.
myla reson: But, I just wanted to,
myla reson: go back to the Epstein files, because, you know, Les Wexner’s name has been coming up a lot.
myla reson: And there… and I know that you were, Bob, I think the first person to really do any real reporting on the connection between Les Wexner and… and Jeffrey Epstein, and you… you all… always say that he was referred to as the boyfriend.
Sunny Wasserman: But…
“While there is broad support across the political spectrum for removing criminal aliens . . .”
Screech! My connection to the words I’m reading grinds to a sudden halt, an inner alarm goes off, I look away from my computer screen and briefly clutch my soul. Oh God . . .
The words are from a Forbes article highly critical of Stephen Miller, Trump’s deporter-in-chief. I was mostly in sync with it as I read. Indeed, the above sentence continues, pointing out that “the vast majority of individuals in the country without legal status have not committed serious crimes.”
The 2024 Presidential Election was determined by a shocking shift in Generation Z (those of us born between 1997–2012) — a demographic which polling data revealed skewed toward Trump after years of staunch opposition. Gen Z’s shift was created in large part by the influence of social media and emergent technology, more than in any previous election. Podcasts opened a new domain of political conversation and mobilized a generally disengaged voting demographic. This frontier’s inhabitants — my generation (Z) — shifted to a huge six-point plurality for Trump.
Mr. Anutin's victory is partly a reward for the U.S.-backed military's strong performance against Cambodia during their smoldering border war, which he inherited when became prime minister in September.
Mr. Anutin thanked "all Thais, no matter if you voted for us or not," after his Bhumjaithai (Proud to be Thai) Party's unassailable lead appeared in the vote counting.
When 94 percent of the votes were counted Mr. Anutin's BJT won 193 seats, the People's Party scored 118, the Pheu Thai party took 74, and a new Klatham Party nabbed 58.
The results showed Mr. Anutin's party winning the most seats in parliament's 500-member House of Representatives but not a majority.
In Thailand, if no party scores a majority of at least 251 seats, parliamentarians must agree on a majority coalition and name a prime minister.
It is not for nothing that most of the world both abhors and condemns Israeli behavior, whether it be measured by the never-ending genocide in Gaza or the similarly driven terrorizing and deportation of the Palestinian population on the West Bank. Israel is intent on taking full control of historic Palestine and is willing to do whatever it takes to bring that about and unfortunately the United States has been its all too often enthusiastic accomplice in that effort. Beyond that, Israel has bombed and otherwise killed its neighbors in Lebanon and Syria while also enticing Washington to join in the effort to attack Iran and bring about regime change in Tehran. Apartheid Israel, which has declared itself legally and ethnically a Jewish state, intends to become that in reality by eliminating all non-Jews from its ever expanding territory and it is willing to do whatever it takes to bring that about.