Mid May Political News.

 

The hantavirus is more lethal than COVID-19, but each virus has differences among each other. The Diamond Princess cruise ship outbreak caused many human beings to know about the hantavirus for the first time in human history. There have been eight cases of Andes virus hantavirus and three deaths have been confirmed abroad the Dutch flagged MV Hondius, the first ship borne cluster of the virus ever recorded. The strain of the hantavirus has a 38-40 percent case fatality rate. That is about 40 times that of COVID-19. There is no FDA approved vaccine, no specific antiviral treatment, and an incubation period that can go up to 8 weeks before symptoms emerge. That is why we need a strong public health and scientific infrastructure to handle the situation not misinformation promoted by Robert Kennedy Jr. Now, 20,000 workers have been fired from the Department of Health and Human Services since February 2026. We have the National Institutes of Health budget cut from $47 billion to $27 billion. An executive order eliminated a program to monitor zoonotic threats. The CDC's Vessel Sanitation Program was eliminated in April (which helped cruise ships). Either we have solutions or more chaos.

According to a poll, about 55 percent Americans believe that the economy and affordability are the most important issues of America. Donald Trump said that he is not worried about the U.S. war against Iran's effect on Americans' financial situations. Trump said that he doesn't think about Americans' financial situation, only about how Iran can't have a nuclear weapon. He said that he doesn't think about anybody. This is the mentality of an aristocrat of the Gilded Age, not a progressive advocate of democracy. The big lie from Trump is that Iran will imminently have a nuclear weapon. Trump meant what he said when he said that he doesn't care about the Iran war's impact on the cost of living for the American people. Trump is aligned with the financial billionaire oligarchs who desire control not freedom. Trump came to Beijing with many of his top aides and supporters like Elon Musk, Tim Cook, Jensen Huang, Larry Fink, Stephen Schwarzman, etc. of the corporate elite. Inflation has grown and real wages fell in April as prices outstripped paychecks. There are gas prices increases. Food and energy prices have increased and most of  the American people are outraged at this nefarious reality (and precarious situation).

Tennessee Democrats stripped of House Committee seats is petty after many MAGA people in Tennessee have stripped black voter representation in the state. This is plain authoritarianism and blatant racism in the South against black voters period. The neo-Confederate movement didn't end years ago. These same extremists like Cameron Sexton want to strip black power in Tennessee. The neo-Confederate agenda and the MAGA movement must be opposed. This is Jim Crow 2.0 being anti-democratic. The stripping of Democrats of House Committee is about a punitive punishment done for racial and political reasons. Pearson was once banned from state Congress unjustly until he was reinstated. MAGA members are craving Memphis up to disenfranchise voters.

Trump has been accused of dodging taxes, but he is suing the IRS for $10 billion. The judge asks Trump is he can sue himself as he has executive power. This 10 billion dollars can be cut from the American taxpayer. Also, Trump met with Chinese Premiere Xi. This meeting will take place in a summit in Beijing. China is the 2nd strongest superpower in the world with advanced communication systems, surveillence systems, and a quasi-capitalist economy since the days of Deng. China wants a multipolar world sharing geopolitical power with America and Russia. Trump wants America to be the supreme geopolitical instrument of the world. The rise of BRICS shows us how the global South is asserting itself. China is sophisticated and wise. They know that years and decades in the future will determine if America or China will be the leading superpowers. China knows that Russia isn't as powerful as China because of Russia struggling against Ukraine. Yet, Russia still has hypersonic missiles, nuclear weapons, and other instruments of destruction. America and China will discuss about the Iranian war, Taiwan, trade including tariffs, the Strait of Hormuz, and other important geopolitical issues.

Kash Patel recently had an important hearing about his behavior as a FBI Director and his rumored alcoholic binge actions. Last year, Kash Patel's FBI has lost 2800 agents. Kash Patel is being a puppet to serve Trump without any independent non-partisan agenda to investigate, fight crime, and promote justice for all people. This comes when Patel orders polygraphs for FBI agents. Kash Patel shows disdain for independent dissent of Trump's policies. Patel, in the hearing lied to Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland in claiming that Hollen has been drinking on the taxpayer dime. The truth is that Abrego Garcia has not been convicted of being in a gang, he wasn't convicted of rape, and the margaritas was a photo staged by El Salvador government officials. There is no evidence that Van Hollen day drink alcohol on taxpayer funds in El Salvador of the Lobby Bar incident. There are checks and balances that out to be enforced. The executive branch is not divine. It must be checked by the legislative and judicial branches of government regardless of what Patel and Trump has to say.

By Timothy 

Black Representation and Voting Rights.

https://apnews.com/article/redistricting-alabama-march-civil-rights-trump-de5f9b55f091649210dcfd176f1eec32

The 7 Benefits of Sprinting.

 https://www.primalplay.com/blog/7-benefits-of-sprinting

The Benefits of Resistance Training.

https://mcpress.mayoclinic.org/healthy-aging/the-many-benefits-of-resistance-training-as-you-age/ 

Alzheimer's

 https://experteditor.com.au/article/s-alzheimers-begins-a-decade-before-memory-loss-the-early-signs-have-nothing-to-do-with-forgetting/?utm_source=spacedaily.com&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_medium=compact_card&utm_content=s-alzheimers-begins-a-decade-before-memory-loss-the-early-signs-have-nothing-to-do-with-forgetting

Some of the Greatest WNBA Players of all time.

https://parisbasketball.com/en/basketball-101/top-10-all-time-best-wnba-players/ 

The war and domestic issues.

 

In our time, we will never give up. Trump denies that his advocacy of a prosecution of James Comey has nothing to do with revenge but justice. Yet, Trump consistently can't stand anyone (especially political figures) dissenting with his policies. Trump has used his pardon power to allow criminals and terrorists like the January 6th terrorists to escape justice. Trump has allowed the DOJ to not be an independent body of investigators and arbitrators of true justice for the American people. The DOJ is now transformed into a person defense attorney system for Donald Trump. The legitimacy of the DOJ has been shattered by the agenda of Trumpism. This is why we have to speak out against the nepotism, corruption, hypocrisy, bigotry, racism, xenophobia, and sexism found in the Trump agenda. While this is going on, millions of Americans struggle to afford massive gas prices due to Trump's war on Iran. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is focused on releasing a road trip reality TV show which is disrespectful to the people struggling to get gas or travel in basic transportation services. The GOP claims to support family values, but many GOP members have fought against paid family and medical leave, universal childcare, universal pre-K, an Expanded Child Tax Credit, and programs to support the rights of minority groups plus women.  That isn't pro-family but pro-authoritarianism and pro-oligarchy to me. 

Pete Hesgeth said that Senator Mark Kelly spoke about in public about depleted munitions in dealing with the Iraq War revealed classified information. This is a lie from Hegseth. The truth, as Senator Kelly, has said, is that the depleted munitions was admitted by Hegseth in a public hearing, not in a classified meeting. This attack by Hegseth targets not only the freedom of speech. It targets our American democracy when Trump officials try to put a spin on the Iranian war. We are nowhere near the era of the conclusion of the Iranian War. Kelly was slandered by MAGA followers as a traitor for just saying that military soldiers should never follow illegal orders. Kelly just spoke commonsense words about a basic fundamental point relating to the inherit integrity of Americans. This once again show how the Trump administration is targeting dissent (in a retribution campaign), not promoting freedom for the human race.

A lot of people don't know about the Hard Hat Riot of 1970. This was when people with hard hats assaulted anti-Vietnam War protesters in April of 1970. Many attackers said America, love it or leave it. Students activists and union leaders were exploited by the Nixon team to promote division in American society. Many police officers supported the attackers. The Hard hats invaded the Pace University and beat students and destroyed property. Nixon praised the hard hat to promote the laissez faire capitalism and cultural issues to cause a division among people of the Democratic Party. Nixon wanted many blue collar workers to get his support, and his plan worked in the 1972 Presidential election. Back in the days of FDR and LBJ, there was a coalition among black people, Jewish people, white collar workers, blue collar workers, progressives, Catholics, and working class people in general to allow New Deal and Great Society programs to be passed. By the time of Nixon, that changed when that coalition was broken apart. Many blue-collar workers had their economic rights violated, so we have to promote economic justice and other people who deserve human liberation. The oligarchs oppress us all. We have common ground on many issues, and it's our responsibility to promote solidarity to advance truth and justice for all. 

When Rep. Jen Kiggans made the racist remark of Hakeem Jeffries, it reveals her hands as being a Trump puppet. There is no excuse for Kiggans' comments at all. Kiggans is from Virginia too, and us from Virginia know racism first hand. Therefore, Kiggans even supported Trump's law that cut Medicare and other social safety net programs. So, she should be voted out. Regardless of how anyone feels about Hakeem Jeffries' politics, it is evil to disrespect his human dignity as a black man.  AOC is also right to say that we can't treat Majorie Taylor Greene and Tucker Carlson as allies because they have criticized the MAGA movement. Greene talked about the anti-Semitic lie of Jewish space lasers and voted to censure Rep. Ihan Omar. She wanted Omar to be deported. Tucker Carlson promoted the lie that the 2020 election was stolen in public but privately didn't believe in that lie. Both of them never apologized for some of the most egregious statements that they have made. 

Days ago was the Birthday of Sister Alyson Williams, and she is 63 years old. She is a R&B singer and on air radio personality. She was born in New York City. She is the daughter of bandleader/trumpeter Bobby Booker. She began her career by singing background vocals for various artists like Curtis Hairston, Melba Moore (in Love's Coming at Ya), B. B. & Q. Band, Cashflow, Unlimited Touch, Bobby Brown, and Barbara Mitchell before joining the group High Fashion (which also featured Meli'sa Morgan). Alyson later sang with the group The Air before moving on into her solo career. Her first single was Yes We Can being released on Profile Records in 1986 (a release on the Def Jam label followed in 1987). She was an in-demand vocalist duetting with many of her label mates like Church Stanley (in the song Make You Mine Tonight), and Oran "Juice" Jones (in the song How to Love Again). Her first album and release was historic as she was the first R&B woman singer signed to Def Jam. Her album Raw was released in 1989. It had singles like My Love is So Raw, etc. It had many quiet storm style songs. In 1986, she portrayed her friend Phyllis Hyman in a musical play called "Thank God, The Beat Goes on," joining the Whispers to tell the story of Hyman's career. She has been an on air radio personality at WCHR-FM 90.3. She is the host of Love Notes with Alyson Williams in The Chill Zone, which air on Tuesdays out of Harlem, NYC. In May 2022, Williams was the featured artist on saxophonist Najee's cover of Norman Connors single, Valentine Love. 

I wish Sister Alyson Williams a Great Birthday.