108 Comments
User's avatar
Wendy Shelley's avatar

Thanks, Meidas. We need to have more of these posts from people outside our usual columns. Thank you for your support of nurses everywhere.

Mark Walker's avatar

Thank you, Justin, for your honesty, character, and unyielding morality - in the face of all this evil

Joanne Gatsis's avatar

Thank you, Justin for your post! Nurses are the rock of the healthcare system!

Lance T. Weil's avatar

Lance T. W

Author/Manager @ LynDance, LLC. | B. A. Cum Laude, Juris Doctor

January 26, 2026

www.linkedin.com/in/lance-t-weil-129a511b

When I saw this image, I nearly cried. I am a grown man. Seventy-one years old, and I teared up over a perfect ANIMATION that recaptures our streets today.

As they say when the shots have been fired: SHAME, SHAME, SHAAAAAMMMMEE!

My God, people, this was one of America's best. You don't make them better than a practicing nurse, which means every day for the rest of their lives, helping others. I should know. I am married to one, and I have seen her alight from my car to run to the aid of a hapless homeless guy who fell in the roadway.

Pat Robinson's avatar

And she would have done that if he had had on an ICE vest. Because that's who nurses are.

Lance T. Weil's avatar

God bless them. And I'm an atheist.

Virginia Giles's avatar

I was heart broken to see our colleague Alex Pretti murdered while trying to g to help

Maria's avatar

that’s very bad

Maria's avatar

that’s very bad

Nancy Richardson's avatar

Nurses are PROFESSIONALS in every conceivable way. I’ve spent many years in healthcare and know first hand how important nurses are. This article was spot on. Thank you for speaking up!

Sue Stjohn's avatar

It takes a special person to be a nurse. My mother was in the hospital many times and I watched how hard they work at keeping the patients comfortable, clean, fed, provide medicine, record data on their medical charts and before they leave, they ask if there is anything they can get for you. They are constantly moving and they work 12hr days with a smile on their face. I appreciate their choice to become a nurse and I tell them that. It saddens my heart that we lost Alex Pretti. A person with a kind and caring heart. 🙏🏻🙏🏻

Marilyn Sommers's avatar

Thanks for your column but I think it’s important to note that nurses can stand up for ourselves. I know you are a nurse, too, and I appreciate Meidas’s team’s support. But I would have worded the headline differently- that Meidas supports nurses, but nurses do not need meidas for help to stand up. We have been standing up for decades ourselves. We just need people to join in our support. Again, thanks, but we stand up quite well on our own two feet.

Maria's avatar

That’s true

Barb O's avatar

However, in over 40 years of nursing, now retired, political activity has rarely been promoted or encouraged, but rather, we had been dissuaded from taking stands. The vast majority of nurses I've encountered (travel nurse for 4 years in addition to long term positions) had little to no interest in policy and politics. It's been frustrating. Better days ahead?

Carol Knauff's avatar

Thank you Justin for your words! Thank you Meidas for supporting nurses!

Pablo Manríquez's avatar

Thank you Justin and nurses everywhere

Robert Lawrence Gioia's avatar

My sister is a nurse and my great uncle is a retired nurse. My sister was shocked and said, "It's too risky to vote for a Republican."

Stop the BS247's avatar

Stand up. I'm not much of a sitter.

Protect the Vote's avatar

WE the People Remember How Eichmann's First Fascist Progrom Worked Out And Ended

WE remember the horrific display of immigrant intolerance with the immigration enforcement strategy implemented by Cheeto's regime from 2017 to 2018 in the hands of Adolph Eichmann aka Stephen Miller Children in cages separated from their parents with pictures of young children "crying mommy" as callous agents took children out of their mother's arms

WE thought that such obscene cruelty wouldn't ever occur again But now WE're witnessing Eichmann take his inhumanity to another level by the blatant open murderous attack on American citizens

Just Dance Vance, Peter Theil, and Cheeto want an authoritarian regime to succeed and Eichmann is their partner in crime against the American people But WE all know the public outrage that occurred with that progrom and WE will shut down Eichmann's atrocities again And then WE will take them all out in November 2026 The DNC better be ready because WE the People power have shown up and WE will hold D's accountable as well The is French Revolution 2.0 American style baby!!

Pegasus's avatar

Thank you for this post and for all that you’re doing. I’ve sent this to my daughter who’s a nurse in Seattle, and hopefully she’ll share it with her friends and colleagues.

Hats off to nurses!

Pegasus's avatar

There is a vigil for Alex Pretti this evening in Seattle:

Harborview Park

Harborview Medical

Center

Seattle, WA

01/26/2026, 4PM - 8PM