Friday, October 09, 2026
Early October 2026 News.
We should always condemn the October 7th attacks in Israel as terrorism, anti-Semitism, and expose the nature of the wickedness of Hamas. These attacks were more than painful, as Mayor Zohran Mamdani has said. These attacks were barbaric war crimes when men, women, and children were burned and murdered; many women were raped, and human beings were kidnapped as hostages. Also, it is important to note that Netanyahu has been complicit in war crimes against Palestinian people in Gaza, as documented by independent researchers, not just by the United Nations. Now, many West Bank Israeli settlers have vandalized lands and harassed Christians plus other people in the West Bank for the sake of power and control in the West Bank. Do I think what took place in Gaza was genocide? The answer is yes, because the Netanyahu regime used a policy of using overt aggressive war crimes to try to displace Palestinians from the Gaza resulting in the deaths of thousands of people in a systematic fashion. Therefore, both the Netanyahu regime and Hamas have committed war crimes in the Middle East. The innocent Palestinians and the innocent Israelis deserve much better than this. They deserve total equality and liberty wherefore both groups of people can live in true peace.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Guilfoyle pushed a Trump donor to wire $100,000 to an AMEX account. Kimberly Guilfoyle worked in the FOX News Network for years. She is now the U.S. ambassador to Greece and Donald Trump Jr.'s ex-fiancée. She has disputed the authenticity of the text messages published by the Wall Street Journal. The Trump donor has come forward to tell his side of the story. The Trump donor accused Guilfoyle of planning a quid pro quo plan. The donor is a Kentucky Republican radio host. The Wall Street Journal reported that Guilfloyle was owed tons of money to American Express just days before her Senate confirmation hearing. Kimberly Guilfoyle and her attorney have denied all allegations. The allegation is that she texted Eric Deters on July 3, 2025, six days before her hearing. Deters accused Guilfoyle as a grifter and accused the Trump family, including the President, of using their political power to enrich themselves. Deters has released many text messages to the public. With all of the Trump scandals going on now, it is the signs of the times.
Involving health, Dr. Rhonda Patrick is great anti-aging expert. She said that 70 percent of how you are is lifestyle, not genes. Most people are cutting years off their lives by doing many mistakes. They are drinking hot drinks in plastic. Sitting most of the day or being sedentary predicts early death more than diabetes, heart disease, and smoking. People with high cardio fitness live 5 years longer and are 80 percent less likely to die from major diseases. Going hard on cardio can improve the human heart like doing the Norwegian 4x4 4 minutes hard and 4 minutes easy (repeated 4 times). Hard exercise makes lactate being fertilizer for the brain. It can switch on BDNF, which helps the human brain to grow new cells. There is a year long study of adults over 60 showing the hippocampus, your memory center, shrank 1 to 2 percent if that group skipped cardio. The group doing cardio three times a week grew it by 1 to 2 percent. They reversed brain aging. People need to get adequate magnesium needed for DNA repair. Getting omega 3, adequate Vitamin D, getting 7-9 hours of sleep, recover, and other actions improve the cells too in improving human health.
ICE is investigating major voter registration groups. This is part of a campaign trying to discourage non-MAGA people from not voting. The DOJ is recruiting prosecutions to monitor polling places by November. This is wicked, and it is a voting suppression tactic. Today, the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department now are filled with extremists and election deniers. The DOJ have fired innocent people and replaced them with compromised people including a person who was convicted of hacking voting data information in Florida. Trump's DOJ has been overtly compromised. The GOP is filled with extremists. Ken Paxton is allied with Brandon Herrea, who is a Republican nominee in the Texas' 23rd Congressional District. Herrera said the COVID-19 wasn't bad enough, criticized women having the right to vote, and criticized mothers who speak out on politics in 2022. The Republicans are standing by Herrera. That shows me that the choice is clear during this 2026 election. Either we have justice or authoritarianism.
The New York Times reported that Trump advisers are helping a pro-Russia Party in Europe. The White House advisers Chris LaCivita and James Blair advised the Pro-Russian Alliance of the Independent Social Democrats in Republika Srpska. They came to Bosnia and Herzegovina to provide strategic election advice. Trump said that he didn't know about their outside consulting work and threatened to terminate them immediately if a conflict of interest is found. This comes after people have criticized Trump associates working with pro-Russian political factions like former campaign chair Paul Manafort's past disclosures regarding the Ukraine's Party of Regions. This comes as we near the 2026 midterm elections. Now, the Trump polls have been in freefall for many days. The new UK Prime Minister Burnham attacks neoliberal economics that was promoted by Thatcher and Reagan. Burnham wants unions, industrialization, no hedge funds running amok, and strengthening the social safety net.
By Timothy
Wednesday, October 07, 2026
Early October 2026 News.
There is the rise of the far-right person Flavio Bolsonaro in Brazil. Flavio is the son of the convicted criminal former President Jair Bolsonaro (who is serving a 27-year prison sentence for lading the 2022-2023 coup conspiracy). Flavio finished first with 47.0 percent of the valid votes against 45.2 percent for the incumbent President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of the Workers Party (PT). Flavio received 56.1 million votes which was 2.25 million more than incumbent. This comes before the October 25 runoff election. This result was not confined to the presidential race. Bolsonaro's Liberal Party (PL) elected 121 federal deputies, up from 99 in 2022, the largest delegation won by any single party since the 1988 Constitution. In the Senate, it won 19 of the 54 seats in contention and will hold 28 of the 81 seats. That is more than a third of the chamber. The far right has won the first round of the governorships of most of the South and Southeast, the country's economic path.
Trump made the bizarre, evil comment that Iran could take out Los Angeles and San Diego. He does this because he is trying to justify the evil Iranian war that he started. Also, he wants to dehumanize the people of both cities when both cities are filled with human beings of cultural excellence, of grit, of resiliency, of spiritual strength, and of progressive values. It is plainly obviously that the MAGA movement is not a legitimate political movement sent to help humanity. It is a grotesque, obscene political cult that desires bigotry, racism, sexism, xenophobia, and voter suppression to be the order of the day. Trump is disgraceful and out of line to say such rhetoric. His rhetoric should be condemned by people from across the political spectrum. It is flabbergasting to witness how Trump can have any supporters of his policies, but we live in this reality. No American city is expendable and no American city should be destroyed. Los Angeles and San Diego represent a large portion of American culture, and we must always be aware to condemn Trump's views. Trump is the enemy of our democracy by promoting inflating growing tariffs, creating the illegal Iranian war, going about to promote suppression of mail-in voting, and he used slurs against COVID-19 including Mitch McConnell's wife. Trump represents the larger far right global movement which seeks to end democracy and promote the agenda of oligarchy and a new school technocratic monarchical system that suppresses the rights of the people, especially those who are progressives.
We should never support the ignorant, bigoted, and self-hating comments form Abraham Juste that are xenophobic against our black Diasporic brothers and sisters. We black Americans are a compassionate people, and many of us were legitimately outraged at Juste's nonsense. He should be boycotted. Yet, we should never go into the other extreme and show hatred of Africans and Afro-Caribbeans. They are part of our black family, and we African Americans will use Juste's nonsense as motivation to fight the good fight for justice. Two things can be true. Juste is wrong in his views, and the FBA movement has been filled with so much xenophobia, contradiction, and hypocrisy that I will never support the FBA or the ADOS movements at all. I am an African American who can trace my ancestry in America long before 1800. Therefore, we will make an example out of Juste by boycotting him. He should apologize to us black Americans, but I'm not expecting it. His friend, Brandon Brown, came forward to accuse Juste of more anti-black actions and anti-black attitudes. Anti-black sellouts like Juste make us aware that being pro-black is about what you do in favor of black liberation without apology.
Many faith leaders have marched against ICE detention. There has been a 96 mile interfaith pilgrimage against the Trump's immigration crackdown. The immigration policies of Trump are beyond mainstream discourse. It deals with cruelty, bigotry, xenophobia, and basically killings. We have ICE found on videotape killing human beings, both citizens and undocumented immigrants. We know that many ICE members have lax qualifications, and some refuse to turn on their body cameras. This march is taking place in California. The protesters want to close all detention centers and end cruel immigration policies. They have started at the immigration detention facility in the Mojave Desert called Adelanto ICE Processing Center. The facility is run by the Geo Group, a controversial private prison company. A large percentage of people at these detention centers don't have a criminal record. Tons of sources document the deplorable conditions, from sanitation conditions to lax medical service to people. Last September, Ismael Ayala-Uribe died being only 39, as he was denied medical care. It was ignored. Therefore, we need a comprehensive immigration solution that focuses on an orderly process, compassion, and a ban of ICE permanently.
Some sad and breaking news is that the iconic singer Frederick Anthony Jackson passed away on October 5, 2026. He set a large standard for R&B music and soul music. We know of his hit songs of the 1980s like You Are My Lady in 1985 and his song Love Survives with Irene Cara in 1989, which was part of the soundtrack of the 1989 film All Dogs Go to Heaven. He was born up North in Harlem, New York City, on October 2, 1956. He was trained as a gospel singer from an early age as many icons of music were trained in the church. He sang at White Rock Baptist Church of Harlem. He met Paul Lawrence at this church to be his record producer and songwriting partner. He sang in many groups in the 1970s like Laurence Jones Ensemble, the band Mystic Merlin, etc. before he had his solo career by 1981. He made music well into the 21st century like his single A Million Ways in 2019. He lived to be 70 years old. People of a certain age knew of his music during their adulthood. People like us younger folks like who are Older Millennials or younger knew of him from records, TV shows like Unsung, and hearing stories about his music from our parents and grandparents. Freddie Jackson was a private man, and his transcendent legacy is open to the world on how musical excellence will always stand the test of time.
Rest in Power Brother Freddie Jackson.
By Timothy
Tuesday, October 06, 2026
Monday, October 05, 2026
October Updates.
In 2008, Chadwick Boseman moved to Los Angeles to pursue his film and acting career. He had a recurring role on the television role of Lincoln Heights as Nathaniel Ray Taylor, an army veteran with PTSD who was later revealed to be the son of the main character before re-enlisting. He also appeared in his first feature film in 2008, The Express: The Ernie Davis Story, as running back Floyd Little. He landed his first regular role in the 2010 television series Persons Unknown as the Marine Graham McNauire. In July 2013, Boseman's 2nd short film as director was Heaven. It premiered at the HollyShorts Film Festival. Boseman's breakthrough role existed in 2013, which he portrayed the lead role of the baseball icon Jackie Robinton. The film is called 42. Boseman had been directing an off-Broadway play in the East Village when he auditioned for the role and was considering giving up acting to pursue directing full-time. About twenty-five other actors had been seriously considered for the role, but director Brian Helgeland liked Boseman's bravery in choosing to read the most difficult scene, in which Robinson goes down a stadium tunnel and breaks a bat in anger, and cast him after he had auditioned twice. Part of the audition process involved playing baseball; Boseman had been involved with Little League as a child but was primarily a basketball player growing up, saying that in this part the casting directors likely noticed his athleticism rather than specifically baseball skills. Robinson's widow, Rachel Robinson, commented that Boseman's performance was like seeing her husband again. To replicate Robinson's mannerisms, Boseman trained for five months with professional baseball coaches who "would tape [his] practices every few weeks, and they would basically split-screen [his technique] with [Robinson's]" to allow him to compare. After having portrayed football player Little in The Express, Boseman was encouraged by stunt coordinator Allan Graf to approach running bases in the same way, as Robinson had also been a college football player. Upon taking the role, Boseman first spoke with Rachel Robinson, which he said was of great help in discovering the character. The same year, Boseman also starred in the independent film The Kill Hole, which was released in theaters a few weeks before 42.
Critics, even those who viewed the film negatively, felt that Boseman's being a relatively unknown actor was a benefit when playing an icon and an athlete; Mick LaSalle of San Francisco Chronicle wrote that "as [...] played by Chadwick Boseman, Robinson is a hero we can recognize", and Mary Pols for Time said that "Boseman is not a hugely close physical match to Robinson, except for perhaps in the power he conveys, but he's a great choice to play the ball player." The Guardian's Mike McCahill noted that "Boseman hits his key scenes out of the park", but felt the film would not interest people who are not baseball fans, with Dana Stevens of Slate suggesting that the film made black history "squeaky-clean" and did both Robinson and Boseman's performance as him a disservice. I completely disagree with these critics as the film 42 was outstanding and didn't sugarcoat the racism back then.
In 2014, Boseman starred in another sporting film, Draft Day, as fictional football player Vontae Mack. He had workshopped the Tupac Shakur jukebox musical Holler If Ya Hear Me in 2013, but did not continue to Broadway with it in order to take the role of James Brown in 2014's Get on Up. As Brown, Boseman did some singing and all of his own dancing, working with choreographer Aakomon Jones for five to eight hours a day over two months in preparation. Producer Mick Jagger also directed him on interacting with audiences when performing live music. He had not wanted to take a role in another biopic so soon after playing an icon in Robinson, saying he "wasn't looking to do it again for another 15, 20 years", but was sought out as director Tate Taylor's only choice. Co-star Dan Aykroyd, who had known Brown, praised Boseman's performance, saying that it was neither replication nor impression and that he "did not have to squint sitting across from [Boseman] to imagine that [he] was talking to [Brown]." Boseman also stayed in character between filming on set; Taylor said this was not a method acting approach, and more a necessity due to Boseman's holding his vocal cords unnaturally to imitate Brown's southern drawl.
His performance was praised as the highlight of a generally well received movie, with the Rotten Tomatoes critical consensus reading: "With an unforgettable Chadwick Boseman in the starring role, Get On Up offers the Godfather of Soul a fittingly dynamic homage." Among the critics was Time's Richard Corliss (hyperbolically) saying that Boseman "deserves a Pulitzer, a Nobel and instant election to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame." Eulogizing Boseman, Donald Clarke of The Irish Times said that "Get on Up tested every weapon in the actor's arsenal [and his] performance confirmed that, like a star from Hollywood's golden age, Chadwick Boseman could do it all and do it all with style."
Boseman had sold a thriller screenplay to Universal Pictures in 2014, which he continued to collaborate on with creative partner Logan Coles and planned to star in, and told The Guardian that he still wanted to be a director but would explore his acting career first, adding that "maybe it'll be easier if you're a successful actor." In 2016, he starred as Thoth, a deity from Egyptian mythology, in Gods of Egypt. Boseman was one of the few actors of color featured in the film, which had drawn criticism for using a predominantly white cast to portray Egyptian characters. Agreeing with the criticism, Boseman said this had motivated him to accept the role, to ensure one of the film's African characters would be played by someone of African descent. Boseman's own casting was criticized for falling under the "Magical Negro" stereotype. The Independent reported that Boseman shook his head while telling GQ in an interview that "people don't make $140 million movies starring black and brown people." It was his first largely CGI film, and he expressed that he preferred acting alongside people than with blue screens and prop stand-ins. The film was heavily criticized; Jordan Hoffman for The Guardian said that it lacks story or interesting characters, but "Boseman makes for nice comic relief as the witty Thoth", with Will Leitch of The New Republic saying that his then-upcoming Marvel Studios role may have to work "to make you forget he was ever in this movie." Perri Nemiroff for Collider said that Boseman shines as "the only cast member who really seems to understand the movie he's in."
In 2016, Boseman began portraying the Marvel Comics character T'Challa / Black Panther in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Captain America: Civil War was his first film in a five-picture deal with Marvel Entertainment. He did not audition for the role, instead having a "discussion about what [Marvel] wanted to do and how [he] saw it and what [he] wanted to do." While working on Civil War, Boseman learned some Xhosa from John Kani, who played his father, and insisted on using the language for the character. Boseman also developed a Wakandan accent himself, and used it during the entire production "whether he was on camera or not." When asked by journalist Ryan Gilbey if he felt pressure not to "screw up" the beloved comics character, Boseman responded by saying: "It's more positive than that. It's more like: 'Seize it. Enjoy it.'" He told the Associated Press, though, that he more identified with the Black Panther's nemesis, Killmonger, knowing that his roots to his African past had been severed. Producer Kevin Feige explained that the Black Panther was included in Civil War "because [they] needed a third party. [It] needed fresh eyes [of a character] who wasn't embedded with the Avengers and who has a very different point of view than either Tony or Steve." Boseman's performance in Civil War was highly praised, though critics acknowledged the character's inclusion was largely to set up his upcoming headlining movie.
Boseman returned as the Black Panther in Black Panther (2018), directed by Ryan Coogler, which focused on the character and his home country of Wakanda in Africa. The film opened to great anticipation, becoming one of the highest-grossing films. The role earned Boseman a spot on the 2018 Time 100 as one of the world's most influential people, with Sean Combs writing his entry. It is seen as a landmark in being the first mega-budget movie to have a predominantly black cast and director, as well as the first superhero film to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture. The film received universal acclaim and Boseman was praised; Matthew Norman for the Evening Standard said that he "brings a measure of sub-Shakespearean gravitas to T'Challa's struggle to bear the weight of his crown"; Richard Lawson and Sight & Sound's Kelli Weston also noted the strength of gravitas Boseman gave to the performance. Weston added that he, "despite having the more thankless role [out of T'Challa and Killmonger], carries the film with a quiet dignity one might rightfully expect of a man raised to be king." Todd McCarthy and The Village Voice's Kristen Yoonsoo Kim saw that while Boseman played his serious character well, the cast was full of charismatic scene stealers. Peter Travers gave much praise to Boseman as the lead and said that he "digs so deep into T'Challa that you can feel his nerve endings"; LaSalle wrote that "Boseman commands every moment of this film, radiating probity and purpose, and it's only later on that you realize that, with another actor, this wouldn't have been a sure thing."
He reprised the role in both Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, which were released in 2018 and 2019, respectively. Both films were the highest grossing of the year they were released, with Endgame going on to become the highest-grossing film of all time. Infinity War was filmed at the same time as Black Panther, and Boseman and other actors playing Wakandan characters improvised chanting scenes in the former that originated in the latter. Boseman's last physical appearance as Black Panther was in Endgame, at Tony Stark's funeral; he voiced alternate versions of T'Challa in the 2021 Disney+ animated series What If...?.
Boseman portrayed Thurgood Marshall in the biographical film Marshall in 2017. Set years before he became the first African American Supreme Court Justice, the movie focuses on one of Marshall's early cases, the trial of Joseph Spell. It was premiered at Howard University, which both Boseman and Marshall had attended. Boseman was still worried about being put into a "biopic box", and felt that he didn't look enough like the real Marshall, but took the role because he enjoyed the script "separate from the historical relevance"; he had expected big courtroom speeches but found that in the case Marshall was silenced by the judge and had to mentor white co-counsel Sam Friedman (Josh Gad) to take on his first criminal case. He told The New York Times that he liked this element of the story because "it doesn't allow you as an audience member, no matter what color you are, to hide from the issues". Boseman researched Marshall extensively before portraying him, as well as studying videos of him speaking and losing muscle to reflect the younger Marshall's wiry frame. The film opened to an average critical reception, though Boseman's performance was praised. However, Vulture criticized his casting, noting that, unlike Boseman, "the real-life Marshall was a light-skinned man, and his place on the color spectrum undoubtedly influenced how he became such a legend." Boseman had been concerned about their differences before taking the role, but was convinced by the director and producer that as the film was telling an insular story it did not matter as much.
In 2019, he starred in 21 Bridges, an American action thriller film directed by Brian Kirk, as an NYPD detective who shuts down the eponymous twenty-one bridges of Manhattan to find two suspected cop killers. He was approached to work on the film by two of its producers, Avengers directors the Russo brothers, at the Infinity War premiere. While 21 Bridges was filming, the Russos and Boseman were working on Endgame. Boseman was also a producer on 21 Bridges, something he said was made clear to him in his early conversations with the production team; the three producers are given a nod in one of the film's opening lines, when a character is described as an "avenger." All of the film's characters were originally conceived as male and white, with Boseman encouraging amendments to this and other parts of the story. In his capacity as a producer, Boseman sought out Sienna Miller to be his co-star; Miller, who was intending to take a break from acting while her daughter was young, asked for a salary that the studio would not meet, and so Boseman donated the rest from his own pay. He also personally called Stephan James to ask him to play one of the criminals Boseman's detective is hunting; the two actors had been planning to work more together after the film. Boseman said that he and Coles "fought for casting and for actors that brought particular sensibilities and feelings."
As an actor, Boseman developed his character by going on calls with the NYPD and LAPD, which he said influenced the writing after he fed back his experiences, and learning how to fire blanks and handle a gun with a police weapons specialist. While the film received mixed reviews, the cast was praised; Clarisse Loughrey of The Independent wrote that the film was indelicate in its storytelling, but that Boseman "finds a surprising amount to work with in such a basic, stock character", while the Los Angeles Times said that "Chadwick Boseman and thin characters cannot keep 21 Bridges from collapsing." Glenn Kenny of RogerEbert.com was more positive towards the film, writing that "it's no small feat to tie up an intelligent action thriller with such assuredness" and that "Boseman [...] does a lot of running and driving and gun-pointing and car-hood slamming here, but his character also does a lot of thinking – and a lot of maneuvering."
In 2019, Boseman was announced as part of the cast for the Netflix films Da 5 Bloods, directed by Spike Lee, and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, directed by George C. Wolfe. He took these "bucket-list roles" for opportunities to work with Lee and with Ma Rainey producer Denzel Washington, as well as the opportunity to perform in an August Wilson play, telling Entertainment Weekly that he wanted to make these non-superhero films because "if you don't do the films that you plan to do, I think you wouldn't feel fulfilled as an artist." He was also cast in a film telling the story of Yasuke, the only non-Asian samurai and the first black man in Japan, which he was set to co-produce; Boseman said: "[the story is] not just an action movie, [it is] a cultural event, an exchange, and I am excited to be part of it." Time included Boseman on their list of the 10 Best Movie Performances of 2020, for both Da 5 Bloods and Ma Rainey; for Ma Rainey, Boseman received posthumous nominations in the Best Actor category at the Academy Awards, Actor Awards, British Academy Film Awards, and Golden Globe Awards , becoming the eighth person (and seventh man) to receive a posthumous Academy Award acting nomination.
Da 5 Bloods was released on June 12, 2020. Lee, in choosing Boseman for the divine-like character of Stormin' Norman, said: "This character is heroic; he's a superhero. Who do we cast? We cast Jackie Robinson, James Brown, Thurgood Marshall, and we cast T'Challa." Reception of his character was mostly positive; for the Associated Press, Jocelyn Noveck wrote that Boseman played Norman "with movie-star charisma and classic war-movie grit", and Empire's Kambole Campbell said his performance had "regal charisma", while Chuck Bowen of Slant said that he "has a hauntingly gaunt presence, but he's already played too many saints." The A.V. Club's Ashley Ray-Harris felt the lack of digital de-aging for the other characters was unsuccessful in its aims and that "Lee's script doesn't give Boseman much to do outside of this confused, Christ-like characterization and never exposes Norman's own naïveté." Conversely, Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian saw it as a reflection that "[he] has grown not old as those that are left grew old", and a way to show how Norman has been romanticized in his comrades' memories; Odie Henderson of RogerEbert.com had a similar view and said that Boseman was "a perfect casting move", with the actor already carrying such a mythical status in black culture that he does not need to do much to be a believable mythical black icon as Norman.
The film Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, in which Boseman co-stars as trumpeter Levee, was released after the actor's death in 2020. Director Wolfe said that Boseman was excited by the role for the challenge it posed, saying that "it's a monster role and it's a thrilling role, it's a difficult role. All of those things are exhilarating for an actor. And [Boseman] rose to the occasion and more than delivered." The film is based on the August Wilson play of the same name; Boseman was a fan of Wilson and wrote about him and his inspiration on Boseman's own work in a 2013 essay for the Los Angeles Times. According to Chris Jones, Boseman's Levee is "an astonishing, revelatory performance and formidably distinct from the numerous interpretations seen on the stage"; A. O. Scott of The New York Times similarly opined that "it will be hard, from now on, to imagine [...] a Levee to compare with Boseman." Angelica Jade Bastién for Vulture wrote at length on Boseman's performance, saying that "many of the important turns in the film hinge on Boseman's presence at the center. [...] In the first of his lachrymose monologues, Boseman is called to embody [anger and] gives the scene his all." Charlotte O'Sullivan of the Evening Standard said Boseman was brave to take on a "more curdled" role than the heroic leaders he is best known for, and that "as skillful as he was talented, [he] hits the right notes, all the time." Clarisse Loughrey wrote that it was the actor's finest performance and is "delivered with such grace that there's a sense he had another hundred performances like it still in him."
In 2022, Boseman posthumously won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance for the What If...? episode "What If... T'Challa Became a Star-Lord?" at the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards.
There are many golf equipment in golf. Golf clubs are used to hit a golf ball. Each club is composed of a shaft with a lance (or "grip") on the top end and a club head on the bottom. Long clubs, which have a lower degree of loft, are those meant to propel the ball a comparatively longer distance, and short clubs a higher degree of loft and a comparatively shorter distance. The actual physical length of each club is longer or shorter, depending on the distance the club is intended to propel the ball.
Golf clubs have traditionally been arranged into three basic types. Woods are large-headed, long-shafted clubs meant to propel the ball a long distance from relatively "open" lies, such as the teeing ground and fairway. Of particular importance is the driver or "1-wood", which is the lowest lofted wood club, and in modern times has become highly specialized for making extremely long-distance tee shots, up to 300 yards (270 m), or more, in a professional golfer's hands. Traditionally these clubs had heads made of a hardwood, hence the name, but virtually all modern woods are now made of metal such as titanium, or of composite materials. Irons are shorter-shafted clubs with a metal head primarily consisting of a flat, angled striking face. Traditionally the clubhead was forged from iron; modern iron clubheads are investment-cast from a steel alloy. Irons of varying loft are used for a variety of shots from virtually anywhere on the course, but most often for shorter-distance shots approaching the green, or to get the ball out of tricky lies such as sand traps. The third class is the putter, which evolved from the irons to create a low-lofted, balanced club designed to roll the ball along the green and into the hole. Putters are virtually always used on the green or in the surrounding rough/fringe. A fourth class, called hybrids, evolved as a cross between woods and irons, and are typically seen replacing the low-lofted irons with a club that provides similar distance, but a higher launch angle and a more forgiving nature.
A maximum of 14 clubs is allowed in a player's bag at one time during a stipulated round. The choice of clubs is at the golfer's discretion, although every club must be constructed in accordance with parameters outlined in the rules. (Clubs that meet these parameters are usually called "conforming".) Violation of these rules can result in disqualification.
The exact shot hit at any given time on a golf course, and which club is used to accomplish the shot, are always completely at the discretion of the golfer; in other words, there is no restriction whatsoever on which club a golfer may or may not use at any time for any shot.
Golf balls are spherical, usually white (although other colours are allowed), and minutely pock-marked by dimples that decrease aerodynamic drag by increasing air turbulence around the ball in motion, which delays "boundary layer" separation and reduces the drag-inducing "wake" behind the ball, thereby allowing the ball to fly farther. The combination of a soft "boundary layer" and a hard "core" enables both distance and spin.
A tee is allowed only for the first stroke on each hole, unless the player must hit a provisional tee shot or replay their first shot from the tee.
Many golfers wear golf shoes with metal or plastic spikes designed to increase traction, thus allowing for longer and more accurate shots.
A golf bag is used to transport golf clubs and the player's other or personal equipment. Golf bags have several pockets designed for carrying equipment and supplies such as tees, balls, and gloves. Golf bags can be carried, pulled on a trolley or harnessed to a motorized golf cart during play. Golf bags usually have both a hand strap and shoulder strap for carrying, others may be carried over both shoulders like a backpack, and often bags have retractable legs that allow the bag to stand upright when at rest.
Every round of golf is based on playing a number of holes in a given order. A "round" typically consists of 18 holes that are played in the order determined by the course layout. Each hole is played once in the round on a standard course of 18 holes. The game can be played by any number of people, although a typical group will have 1–4 people playing the round. The typical amount of time required for pace of play is about two hours for a 9-hole round and four hours for an 18-hole round.
Playing a hole on a golf course is initiated by putting a ball into play by striking it with a club on the teeing ground (also called the tee box, or simply the tee). For this first shot on each hole, it is allowed but not required for the golfer to place the ball on a tee prior to striking it. A tee is a small peg that can be used to elevate the ball slightly above the ground up to a few centimetres high. Tees are commonly made of wood but may be constructed of any material, including plastic. Traditionally, golfers used mounds of sand to elevate the ball, and containers of sand were provided for the purpose. A few courses still require sand to be used instead of peg tees, to reduce litter and reduce damage to the teeing ground. Tees help reduce the interference of the ground or grass on the movement of the club making the ball easier to hit by elevating the ball from the playing surface.
When the initial shot on a hole is intended to move the ball a long distance, typically more than 225 yards (210 m), the shot is commonly called a "drive" and is generally made with a long-shafted, large-headed wood club called a "driver." Shorter holes may be initiated with other clubs, such as higher-numbered woods or irons. Once the ball comes to rest, the golfer strikes it again as many times as necessary using shots that are variously known as a "lay-up", an "approach", a "pitch", or a "chip", until the ball reaches the green, where the golfer then "putts" the ball into the hole (commonly called "sinking the putt" or "holing out"). The goal of getting the ball into the hole ("holing" the ball) in as few strokes as possible may be impeded by obstacles such as areas of longer grass called "rough" (usually found alongside fairways), which both slows any ball that contacts it and makes it harder to advance a ball that has stopped on it; "doglegs", which are changes in the direction of the fairway that often require shorter shots to play around them; bunkers (or sand traps); and water hazards such as ponds or streams.
In stroke play competitions, each player must play their ball until it is holed, recording the number of strokes made. Conversely in match play, once a player has equaled the number of strokes their opponents took to complete the hole, it is acceptable for them to concede the hole and pick up their ball It is also acceptable in informal stroke play to surrender the hole after hitting three strokes more than the "par" rating of the hole (a "triple bogey" – see below); while technically a violation of Rule 3–2, this practice speeds play as a courtesy to others, and avoids "runaway scores" and excessive frustration. Alternatively, in competition, the committee may designate a maximum score possible for a hole for the same reasons, while formalizing the surrender or "pick-up" rule.
The total distance from the first teeing ground to the 18th green can be quite long; total yardages "through the green" can be in excess of 7,000 yards (6,400 m), and when adding in the travel distance between the green of one hole and the tee of the next, even skilled players may easily travel 5 miles (8.0 km) or more during a round. At some courses, gas or electric golf carts are used to travel between shots, which can speed-up play and allows participation by individuals unable to walk a whole round. On other courses players generally walk the course, either carrying their bag using a shoulder strap or using a "golf trolley" for their bag. These trolleys may or may not be battery assisted. At many amateur tournaments including U.S. high school and college play, players are required to walk and to carry their own bags, but at the professional and top amateur level, as well as at high-level private clubs, players may be accompanied by caddies, who carry and manage the players' equipment and who are allowed by the rules to give advice on the play of the course.
The rules of golf are internationally standardized and are jointly governed by The R&A, spun off in 2004 from The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews (founded 1754), and the United States Golf Association (USGA). With the aim of simplifying the rules, in 2017 the USGA and R&A undertook a complete rewrite. The new rule book came into effect in January 2019.
The underlying principle of the rules is fairness. As stated on the back cover of the official rule book:
Play the ball as it lies, play the course as you find it, and if you cannot do either, do what is fair.
There are strict regulations regarding the amateur status of golfers. Essentially, anybody who has ever received payment or compensation for giving instruction, or played golf for money, is not considered an amateur and may not participate in competitions limited solely to amateurs. However, amateur golfers may receive expenses that comply with strict guidelines and they may accept non-cash prizes within the limits established by the Rules of Amateur Status.
In addition to the officially printed rules, golfers also abide by a set of guidelines called golf etiquette. Etiquette guidelines cover matters such as safety, fairness, pace of play, and a player's obligation to contribute to the care of the course. Though there are no penalties for breach of etiquette rules, players generally follow the rules of golf etiquette in an effort to improve everyone's playing experience.
Penalty strokes are incurred in certain situations and are counted towards a player's score as if there were extra swing(s) at the ball. Either one or two strokes are added for most rule infractions or for taking relief from various situations, with the "general penalty" defined as two-strokes, and disqualification for severe or repeated rule breaches. Examples include:
A lost ball or a ball hit out of bounds (OB) results in a penalty of one stroke and distance (Rule 18.2).
With the exception of certain circumstances, a one-stroke penalty is assessed if a player causes their ball to move (Rule 9.4).
A one-stroke penalty is assessed if a player elects to take relief when their ball comes to rest within a red or yellow penalty area (Rule 17), or from an unplayable lie (Rule 19).
A two-stroke penalty is incurred for making a stroke at the wrong ball (Rule 6.3c).
A two-stroke penalty is incurred for hitting a fellow player's ball if both balls lay on the green prior to the stroke (Rule 11.1a).
Disqualification can result from cheating, signing for a lower score, or failing to adhere to one or more rules that lead to improper play.
NBC or the National Broadcasting Company has a long history. It was created by November 1926 as a radio station. It was formed by General Electric Company, Westinghouse Electric Company, and Radio Corporation of America after buying broadcasting assets from AT&T. It launched its first permanent radio network in America. By 1931, experimental TV broadcasts started to exist from atop the Empire State Building. By 1932, RCA became the sole owner of NBC. in 1949, NBC begins regular television broadcasts in New York City, with the opening of the World's Fair. IN 1941, NBC and CBS stations in New York get the nation's first commercial television licenses. By 1943, ABC gets its start after NBC sells one of its radio networks under pressure from the government. Meet the Press premiered in 1947. By 1948, the comedian Milton Berle became the first television star on "Texaco Star Theater" in 1948. In 1948, television ownership reached 1 million. By 1950, the trademark was granted for the three note NBC chimes. There is the launch of "Today" in 1952, being the first network early morning news show. By 1954, NBC makes the first coast to coast color broadcast of "The Tonight Show' debuting with Steve Allen. Johnny Carson became the Tonight show host in 1962. In 1964, NBC broadcasts its first Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan. Later, Saturday Night Live debuts in 1975. The Cosby Show debuted at NBC in 1984 being TV's biggest hit during the 1980's. GE restored its ties to NBC, becoming its owner after acquiring RCA. A Different World existed on NBC by 1987 too. Seinfield debuted in 1989. ER and Friends debut in 1994. NBC.com ws created in 1995. By 1996, NBC and Microsoft Corp. launch MSNBC on cable TV and the Internet in 1996. In 2002, NBC acquired the Spanish language broadcaster Telemundo and entertainment cable network Bravo. In 2004, NBC Universal was formed after the merger with Vivendi Universal Entertainment. In 2007, Jeff Zuker was named President and chief executive. In 2008, there was the launch of Hulu, an online video joint venture with FOX network owner News Corporation. ABC later joined up. IN 2009, NBC exists, and GE agrees to sell controlling stake in the company to Comcast Corporation.
I think that Jasmine Guy's response to the ageists and haters was very classy, eloquent, and to the point. The situation is that many disrespectful people made offensive comments about Jasmine Guy's physical appearance. Today, Jasmine Guy is in her 60s. First, those comments from these haters have nothing to do with anything but a shallow interpretation of true beauty, ageism, and these extremists embracing self-hatred. Second, Jasmine Guy's appearance has nothing to do with her character. She is a mother, and her life is her own business. Also, third, people should be treated with dignity and with respect, irrespective of someone's image. I do feel that many people believe that beauty must be completely monolithic, Eurocentric, and completely in a certain fashion. That is a lie, because true beauty is very diverse in the Universe. Human diversity is greatness. Getting older is no curse. Getting older is a blessing, as it allows us to grow economically, spiritually, physically, and emotionally to follow the Golden Rule, which is a timeless concept. It is ironic that back in the day, many of the same ones who nearly worshiped Jasmine Guy's appearance decades ago because they embraced the evil of colorism are many of the same ones who want to degrade Jasmine Guy's physical appearance because they have an ageist, featurist, and bigoted mindset on beauty. The fundamental point is that Jasmine Guy is not up for fetishizing or disrespect. She has never owed us to make her image to exactly be like when she was in her 20s or 30s. She created a platform and legacy filled with literature, dance, acting, and expressing a pro-black consciousness. She is entitled to her own dignity and respect, just like the rest of us.
By Timothy
Saturday, October 03, 2026
Friday, October 02, 2026
Friday News.
There is a new survey showing that majorities of Democratic and Republican voters support capping prescription drug costs, banning surprise medical bills, and stopping corporations from buying up homes. Far too often, many people have called these legitimate policy positions as a non-starter. That day is completely over as human lives are on the line literally to live with universal health care. Health care is never a privilege reserved for the very few of our society. Health care is always a human right that should be accessible to all human beings, regardless of color, creed, gender, or background. That is why this reality makes it clear that a rural person, a person from an urban community, and a person from the suburbs have many things in common like our appreciation for quality health care and seeking power to be spread among the people in a fair fashion, not centralized into an oligarchy that reap the benefits of the rest of the people. Economic populism has been very popular in our society. Economic populism is about opposing corporate power who monopolize resources, who hike up prices on many goods and services, and seek to profit with record tax breaks at the expense of the rest of the workers.
The Cornell 7 situation outlines the epidemic of rape in the world society. I don't care if a woman was naked, that woman shouldn't be violated sexually or physically or emotionally. A drunk person can never consent in the world. Therefore, no one should have sexual interaction with a person who is not sober and didn't consent to it. Also, any form of romance has to be consensual. There are group chats from the fraternity and other people exposing how the woman victim was mistreated and violated. There should be no justification for the rape of the woman. Some males want to impress other men to spread misogynistic views and rape culture. Rape culture is not just about rape. It is about the lie that men are entitled to every woman's attention, it is the lie that saying slurs and stereotypes about women is great, and women's autonomy must be subordinate to a male's privilege. No one should go along with manosphere nonsense and rape culture. 57 men was in a chat bragging about the mistreatment of a woman. That is why people can't be silent. Any person should be active to protect human lives, report crimes, stand up for victims of rape (who are women, men, children, and all people of all backgrounds). Predators desire human exploitation, control, evil, and anti-human behavior. The Cornell 7 story proves once again that morality matters, integrity matters, and justice matters too. No one should tolerate rape, abuse, harassment, respectability politics, and other evils that violate human autonomy.
Pete Hegseth is the epitome of bigotry, selfish mediocrity, and a person not qualified to be the Defense Secretary. When a liar like Hegseth said that diversity is not part of our strength, he is completely ignorant of history and truth. There were diverse men and women of every color that took part in the eradication of Nazism in Europe throughout World War II. There was a diversity of men and women of every color and background who came together to work in charities, help victims of natural disasters, and help to improve the lives of humanity in enumerable ways. Hegseth fired qualified women and black people plus other persons of color without any legitimate reason and stalled promotions of these people too. This liar said that he wants no DEI when DEI was established to promote equality not a nefarious system of undue privilege. He loves to use slurs, but he has been accused of sexual assault. Hegseth has banned hundreds of library book, even May Angelou's autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. This is blatant censorship, but MAGA hypocrites lecture us on free speech. We express outrage that this person Trump and his minion Hegseth run wild over the world promoting illegal war, murder in the Caribbean, and support of a far-right Netanyahu. Therefore, we want justice and a pure unadulterated mentality of diversity, truth, honor, and integrity.
Trump has criticized regulation of A.I. technology after meeting with technology oligarchs. He met with Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Gerg Brockman, House Speaker Mike Johnson and other people. He once hosted the leaders of Nvidia, Meta, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and other technology companies for lunch at the White House. This took place in Tuesday. Trump wanted the industry to regulate itself and present a "voluntary" accord with no enforcement mechanism. This is a recipe for disaster, because you need some legitimate government regulation to handle the systems of A.I. and the economy in general. Trump is in league with laissez faire capitalism wherefore the economic is controlled mainly by the oligarchy. Trump believes in self-regulation and some regulation with the Department of Justice, the FBI, and that's about it. Trump met in his lunch with four of the 10 richest people in the world. Musk is worth almost one trillion dollars. A.I. without regulation can ruin jobs and use massive resources and electricity used to create power data centers that harm our water supplies.
The New York Times reported that GOP's Ken Paxton said that Trump has caused his poll numbers to go down in his race against the Democrat Talarico. Many GOP candidates play defense in red states. Texas is known as a ruby red state, but that Senate race is up for grabs, because human beings are tired of high gas prices, an illegal war in Iran, and the affordability crisis (when people struggle to pay for things and food banks are fighting hard to provide suffering people food and water, which we all need to fundamentally survive in this world). Trump is now traveling to red areas to trying to gain votes, but battleground states are in play too. Many Republicans are stuck with Trump, because they voted with Trump on tariffs, on tax law that benefits for the super wealthy, and other reactionary policies. We know which vision works. It is a vision that focuses on morality and that morality and integrity deals with universal health care, voting rights for all Americans who are 18 or older, equality, justice, immigrant rights, black liberation, our civil liberties plus our civil rights strengthened, and seeing a better democratic society where diversity is totally our strength (despite what Hegseth has to say).
By Timothy
Thursday, October 01, 2026
Brain Research.
Today is the Birthday of the late Brother Donny Hathaway. He was a soul singer, keyboardist, songwriter, backing vocalist, and arranger. He was one of the greatest musicians of all time, and he influenced all musicians directly or indirectly in the 21st century. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He was raised by his grandmother, Martha Pitts, known as Martha Crumwell. They lived in the Car Square housing project of St. Louis Missouri. Hathaway started to sing in the church choir with her grandmother, a professional gospel singer, at the age of three. He studied the piano too. He graduated from Vashon High School in 1963. Hathaway then studied music on a fine arts scholarship at Howard University in Washington, D.C. He had a roommate and drummer Ric Powell, who launched Donn's musical career as a member of The Ric Powell Trio. Donny and Ric left Howard and worked in the music business. Hathaway worked in Curtis Mayfield's Curtom Records in Chicago. He was songwriter, session, musician, and producer for Curtis Curtom Records in Chicago. He did the arrangements for hits by the Unifics (Court of Love and The Beginning of My End). He worked with the Staple Singer, Jerry Butler, Aretha Franklin, The Impressions, and Curtis Mayfield himself. The Ghetto, Pt. 1 was his first single. Everything is Everything is his first critically acclaimed LP which was co-produced with Ric Powell and he did the arranging of all the cuts. His 2nd LP was Donny Hathaway with pop, soul, and gospel songs. His third album was Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway. It was an album with duets with former Harvard University associate and label mate, Roberta Flack. He sang back up on her song Killing Me Softly with His Song. Where is the Love was a hit among Hathaway and Flack. It was written by Ralph MacDonald. Live was his album that was great too. Hathaway had the song of This Christmas which was released in 1970 being the standard in holiday songs. Extension of a Man was his final album in 1973. Someday We'll All Be Free was his classic single. The Closer I Get to You was his duet with Robert Flack in 1978. He loved his wife, Eulaulah Vann. He had two daughters of Lalah Hathaway and Kenya Can'Libra Hathaway. Both of her daughters are professional singers. Both of them graduated from the Berklee College of Music. Donny Hathaway was an icon of music being one of the greatest and influential singers of all time. Alicia Keys, Aaliyah, Common, Geroge Benson were inspired by him.
Rest in Power Brother Donny Hathaway.
Pete Hegseth is the epitome of bigotry, selfish mediocrity, and a person not qualified to be the Defense Secretary. When a liar like Hegseth said that diversity is not part of our strength, he is completely ignorant of history and truth. There were diverse men and women of every color that took part in the eradication of Nazism in Europe throughout World War II. There was a diversity of men and women of every color and background who came together to work in charities, help victims of natural disasters, and help to improve the lives of humanity in enumerable ways. Hegseth fired qualified women and black people plus other persons of color without any legitimate reason and stalled promotions of these people too. This liar said that he wants no DEI when DEI was established to promote quality not a nefarious system of undue privilege. He loves to use slurs, but he has been accuses of sexual assault. Hegseth has banned hundreds of library book, even May Angelou's autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. This is blatant censorship, but MAGA hypocrites lecture us on free speech. We express outrage that this person Trump and his minion Hegseth runs wild over the world promoting illegal war, murder in the Caribbean, and support of a far-right Netanyahu. Therefore, we want justice and a pure unadulterated mentality of diversity, truth, honor, and integrity.
Wednesday, September 30, 2026
Information about Our Lives.
The Supreme Court made the bad decision to expand the Homeland Security database to possibly purge voter rolls as the midterm 2026 elections are coming up. This happened on September 25, 2026. This database has information on citizens and noncitizens. The March 2025 Trump executive order wants to purge state voter rolls. This is illegal and immoral, as the truth is that only state and local governments have the power to control election services. The Supreme Court is dominated by a far-right majority. The 1935 Social Security Act and the Privacy Act of 1974 were created to ban formal or de facto databanks or centralized federal information systems built from sensitive personal data. The head of the Department of Homeland Security is Markwayne Mullin. There is no massive voter fraud, and it is against federal law for non-citizens to vote. Yet, Trump wants to expand the SAVE program, or Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlement. Trump has expanded SAVE to include natural-born citizens' records, access Social Security Administration Information, and allow state plus local officials to have bulk searches, rather than only individual checks. The problem is that citizens can be purged by the changing Social Security records. Trump is doing this voter suppression plan because his popularity is at record lows, the Iranian war is very unpopular, and he desires an authoritarian system in American society. We have to fight for our rights.
The new A Different World Series just recently took place. It is a show with many of the previous A Different World actors and actresses, like Jasmine Guy, Kadeem Hardison, Aja Sanders, Karen Malina White, Jenifer Lewis, Dawnn Lewis, Glynn Turman, Jada Pinkett Smith, Cree Summer, Darryl M. Bell, and other people. This show has a new generation of mostly Generation Z actors and actresses like Maleah Joi Moon, Alijah Kai, Cornell Young IV, Jordan Aaron Hall, Kennedi Reece, Chibuikem Uche, and Elijah J. Roberts. The new show was shown on Netflix for the first on September 24, 2026. The first season has 10 episodes filled with discussions of cultural issues, romance, marriage issues, and Brandy performing the theme song of the show. The show relates to both the younger and older generations. The original A Different World were made up of young Baby Boomers and older Generation X members. We, who are older Millennials, saw A Different World when we were in elementary school and on syndication when we were in middle and high school. The new A Different World is filled with a younger generation who wants to establish their own legacies as black people. HBCU culture is one of the foundations of Black Excellence. We have either been to an HBCU as a student, know someone who was educated at an HBCU, researched information about an HBCU, or visited one.
A U.S. ambassador said Trump offered to sell China American arms. Chinese Premier Xi has the upper hand, because Trump is naive enough to try to praise Xi and offer him goods when Xi wants nothing more than global hegemony. Many MAGA bigots make no distinction between most Chinese people who want freedom and justice and the authoritarian regime of Xi. Many phony "progressives" praise all things in the CCP while they omit Xi's massive censorship of the Internet, oppression against the mostly Uyghur people, and their suppression of democratic freedoms in many circumstances. China provides intelligence to Iran, causing Iran to kill American soldiers. Xi is an ally of Putin, who is a murderous war criminal harming the Ukrainian people. Xi is an authoritarian, but he is a very smart person who is playing Trump like a fiddle. Arms sales are part of foreign policy and have consequences for America and its allies. History and life experience document that decades of private equity, hedge funds, asset stripping, speculation, derivatives, crypto, cartels, and oligopolies with falling standards of living won't work. We need investments, industrialization in the right way (with enviornmental protections and labor rights maintained), living wages, universal health care, fair treatment, equality, and justice to make a true path towards human liberation.
Jack Smith gave his testimony to Congress about his past criminal prosecutions of Trump. He spoke before the Senate Judiciary Committee. He spoke about the necessity of his actions and promoting the rule of law. He talked about the men and women who worked for him in sacrificing their time to research the facts. The Republicans were openly hostile to Smith, because they have more of a concern to defend a fascist in the White House than truth and justice. The lie from Trump is that Jack Smith promoted a vindictive vendetta against Trump. The reality is that Trump agitated the January 6th terrorist attack that harmed people and nearly overthrew the American government back in 2021. Jack Smith testified under oath while he was in Capitol Hill. Smith said that the Trump led Justice Department's decision to fire members of his staff as illegal. Republican Schmitt falsely accused Smith of something and Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota refuted Schmitt. Therefore, Jack Smith did his duty and responded to his critics with conviction.
One great point is that we should be consistent. No one has to reinvent the wheel, but there are certain things that people should do to improve their minds and health. Health relates to the cells too. The mitochondria in the cell help to produce energy and convert food into cellular energy that helps powers the body. Large corporations (which includes tobacco companies) fund ultra processed foods and other things for profit, not for the benefit of human beings collectively. We know that the radiation, ultra processed foods, chronic sitting, poor sleep, and massive stress damages mitochondria which increase the risks of illnesses and diseases. Now, about 50 percent of American adults have pre-diabetes or type 2 diabetes. This was unheard of decades ago. Lawsuits from people accusing Ozempic products of causing blindness should tell us that health growth never relies on cutting corners. It has to be done by consistent hard work without quitting. That is why constant walking for life, resistance training, cardio, sprinting, eating whole quality foods, reading, getting occupied in your hobbies, developing social connections with fellow human beings, getting that sunlight, and having quality sleep will make a difference. Even walking 10 minutes after eating food can lower blood glucose responses. Walking all the time every day stabilizes glucose levels along with exercise. People have to get their biomarkers checked out, like fasting glucose, triglycerides, HDL cholesterol, blood pressure, and HbA1c. Slowing down the aging process is about maintaining our telomeres. Folks should never give up. Ernestine Shepherd is in her 80s, in incredible shape who started her health routine journey in her 50s. That should tell everyone that God is merciful to allow us to get that sacrosanct wisdom to improve ourselves.
By Timothy
Tuesday, September 29, 2026
Monday, September 28, 2026
Wisdom and Truth.
It always sounds cliche all of the time, but we have the most important midterms of our lifetimes. We have witnessed clearly an overt clash between fascism (or authoritarianism) and democracy in our society. For example, the bigots of the Afd party and the MAGA movement are far-right extremists who abhor cultural diversity and abhor progressive values in general. Numerous political campaigns have existed from Alaska to Texas (with the race between Talarico and Paxton). We have seen the commercials, the debates, and the political polarization in America. Independent voters are growing in America, as I believe most Americans share both liberal and conservative issues and are not exclusively conservative or exclusively liberal. In our modern-day political lexicon, we know about the terms of gerrymandering, mail in voting, the controversial DSA movement, and the growth of the opposition to the economic affordability crisis. Also, we exist in a generation when more Westerners (not just those who live in Africa, Asia, or the Middle East) support Palestinian human rights today than in any other time in human history. Anti-Semitism is a notorious evil that is in epidemic levels in the world too (as found in vandalization of Jewish synagogues, murder of Jewish people, etc.) that must be eradicated. It is important to note that opposing the policies of the pro-MAGA, far right Netanyahu regime in Israel and supporting the human rights of Palestinian people are never akin to anti-Semitism. When people, among across the political spectrum, oppose the illegal, unconstitutional Iranian War, desire to have lower inflation, want more affordability (involving housing, healthcare, groceries, oil prices, etc.), then we have a problem in America that must be addressed or rectified. The Trump administration's extremism, bigotry, xenophobia, sexism, racism, and narcissism document how evil exists in the Universe, and we must use all progressive, legitimate means to combat this evil by all legitimate, peaceful means necessary.
Genius is found in the late, great Chadwick Boseman's makeup. He lived a life filled with excellence, promise, and compassion. He formed friends for life when he encountered the actors and actresses of the film Black Panther, like Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong'o, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Angela Bassett, Daniel Kaluuya, Forest Whitaker, Ryan Coogler, etc. He had massive strength. His life story proved that strength is never about brutality or reckless actions. Truthfully, strength is about a silent confidence and doing diligent, consistent action to help others. He gave a voice to tons of men, especially black men in outlining that message that you must get tested for diseases like colon cancer, prostate cancer, etc. Cancer and other diseases are killing so many men and women at such young ages unfortunately at many circumstances. Boseman was an expert actor who worked in plays constantly. He mastered the art of showing biographical stories via film. He portrayed numerous black icons like Jackie Robinson, James Brown, and the Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. He had great mentors like Denzel Washington, who funded Boseman's trip to the British American Drama Academy Summer program in 1998. His other mentors are Phylicia Rashad (she was a mentor to him at Harvard, driving him home from plays, and she pushed for his artistic growth), Howard University professor Mike Malone, and Wayne A. I. Frederick. Chadwick Boseman was one of the greatest actors of the 21st century whose gift always motivated us to be our best selves prodigiously.
Chadwick Boseman was born on November 29, 1976, in Anderson, South Carolina. He grew up in Anderson too. His mother, Carolyn, was a nurse. His father, Leroy, worked at a textile factory and managed an upholstery business. During his youth, Boseman studied martial arts and continued his training as an adult. He wanted to be an architect when he was a child. According to Boseman, his DNA testing indicated that some of his ancestors were the Jola people from Guinea-Bissau, Krio people, and Limba people (from Sierra Leone and Yoruba people from Nigeria). Boseman graduated from T. L. Hanna High School in 1995, where he played on the basketball team. In his junior year, he wrote his first play, Crossroads, and staged it at the school after a classmate was shot and killed. He competed in Speech and Debate in the National Speech and Debate Association at T. L. Hanna. He placed eighth in Original Oratory at the 1995 National Tournament. He was recruited to play basketball at college but chose the arts instead, attending college at Howard University in Washington, D.C., and graduating in 2000 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in directing. While at Howard, he worked in an African American–oriented bookstore near the university, which friend Vanessa German said was important and inspirational to him; he drew on his experience there for his play Hieroglyphic Graffiti.
His teachers at Howard included Al Freeman Jr. and Phylicia Rashad, who became a mentor. Rashad helped raise funds, notably from her friend and prominent actor Denzel Washington, so that Boseman and other classmates could attend the Oxford Summer Program of the British American Drama Academy at Balliol College, Oxford, in England, to which they had been accepted. Boseman wanted to write and direct, and initially began studying acting to learn how to relate to actors. He attended the program in 1998, and he developed an appreciation for the playwriting of William Shakespeare; additionally, he studied the works of various dramatists, including Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter. He also traveled to Africa for the first time while at college, working in Ghana with his professor Mike Malone "to preserve and celebrate rituals with performances on a proscenium stage"; he said it was "one of the most significant learning experiences of [his] life." After he returned to the U.S., he took additional course work in film studies, graduating from New York City's Digital Film Academy. Boseman lived in Brooklyn, New York City, at the start of his career. In 2000, he was named a Drama League Directing Fellow. He directed productions including George C. Wolfe's The Colored Museum (Wolfe would later direct Boseman in his final role) and a staging of Amiri Baraka's Dutchman. He worked as the drama instructor in the Schomburg Junior Scholars Program, housed at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem between 2002 and 2009.
He rose to prominence as a playwright and stage actor in 2002, performing in multiple productions and winning an AUDELCO award in 2002 for his part in Ron Milner's Urban Transitions. As a member of the National Shakespeare Company of New York, he played Romeo in Romeo and Juliet and Malcolm in Macbeth. He directed and wrote plays as part of the Hip-hop theater movement; his works included Rhyme Deferred (co-written with Howard classmate Kamilah Forbes), in which he also performed, and Hieroglyphic Graffiti. Rhyme Deferred was commissioned for a national tour, as well as featuring in The Fire This Time anthology of works, while Hieroglyphic Graffiti was produced at a variety of locations, including the National Black Theatre Festival in 2001. Combining modern African-American culture and Egyptian deities, it is set in Washington, D.C., and was picked up by the New York Hip-Hop Theatre Festival and Tennessee State University's summer stock theatre program in 2002. It was also the Kuntu Repertory Theatre's 2002–03 season launch production. At the 2002 Hip-Hop Theatre Festival, Boseman also gave a one-man show called "Red Clay and Carved Concrete."
In 2003, Boseman was cast in his first television role, an episode of Third Watch, and began playing Reggie Montgomery in the daytime soap opera All My Children. He was fired from All My Children after voicing concerns to producers about racist stereotypes in the script; the role was subsequently re-cast, with Boseman's future Black Panther co-star Michael B. Jordan taking the part. Boseman had wanted to work around the stereotypes of the character, feeling that being in a soap opera would give him more room for improvisation as the writers often do not initially plan a full story; his (then-future) agent said that when Boseman was given the second script and learned that his character's parents were a drug addict and an absent father, Boseman confronted the creators. He reflected on the experience in his 2018 commencement address to Howard University, saying that it "seemed to be wrapped up in assumptions about us as black folks [and he] would have to make something out of nothing." His other early television work included episodes of the series Law & Order, Cold Case, CSI: NY, and ER.
Boseman's best-known play, Deep Azure, was commissioned in 2004 by the Congo Square Theatre Company in Chicago. It was nominated for a 2006 Jeff Award for Best New Work. Boseman said at the time that Deep Azure was "a fusion and progression of [his] previous plays", which he did not feel fit wholly in the Hip Hop theater genre. The play – about police brutality, a daring subject in 2004, and largely delivered in rhyme – was workshopped at the Apollo Theater in New York. Drama critic Chris Jones in the Chicago Tribune highly praised the work. In 2008, Boseman turned Deep Azure into a screenplay. Michael Greene, who would become his agent, picked it up and contacted Boseman when Tessa Thompson and Omari Hardwick expressed an interest in playing the lead roles, prompting Boseman's move to Los Angeles. He also directed, wrote, and produced the short film Blood Over a Broken Pawn in 2007, which was honored at the 2008 Hollywood Black Film Festival.
Golf is one of the most unique sports in human history. It relies on patience, finesse, and a sense of geography, because golf exists in some of the most diverse terrain in history. Parks and golf locations showcase all manner of situations involving the sport of golf. Most sports exist on flat surfaces like track and field, football, baseball, hockey, tennis, soccer, rugby, and volleyball. Golf can conversely exist on areas of hills, flat locations, near lakes or ponds, and even on higher elevated locations. That is why people in general to determine the best golf clubs and swinging methods to deal with golf games or golf tournaments. In gold, a player must achieve their goals completely to win the game in the least number of strokes possible. Golf legends exist among every color, nationality, and background. Their names are Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Ben Hogan, Arnold Palmer, Sam Snead, Althea Gibson, Renee Powell, Mariah Stackhouse, Sadena Parks, La'Ree Sugg, Shasta Averyhardt, Cheyenne Woods, Giner Gould, Nelly Korda, Jeeno Thitikul, Annika Sorenstam, Patty Berg, etc.
It has been now over one century since the advent of the news channel of NBC. It has been a staple of news, sports, entertainment, and other forms of information geared to inform the general population. I love NBC's coverage of the Olympic Games, like the recent 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris (being one of the most successful Olympics for American victories) and the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina, Italy. The coverage didn't just show the sporting events. It outlined summaries of the stories, emotions, and mentalities of the athletes who participated in such athletic endeavors. NBC works as a family even among competing franchises like CNN, MS NOW, ABC, etc. In our time, the Trump regime abhors press freedom so much that dissents with him, that Trump once banned CNN, MS Now, and Politico from having access to the White House. Recently, Trump has been petty to ban certain news outlets on certain locations. These actions are so fragrantly anti-free speech and anti-press freedom, that even FOX News condemned Trump's anti-press measures. There were iconic hosts on the Today Show like Barbara Walters, Hoda Kotb, Deborah Norville, Bryant Gumbel, Katie Couric, Tom Brokaw, Jane Pauley, etc. NBC has SNL, Meet the Press with Kristen Welker, and local affiliates like WAVY TV-10 (that I watch on a regular basis) in Hampton Roads, Virginia (or the 757). Then and now, NBC had shown television shows like Cheers, Seinfeld, A Different World, The Cosby show, The West Wing, ER, Law and Order, and Friday Night Lights.
Jackie Joyner Kersee has been a social activist for decades. The Jackie Joyner-Kersee Foundation was created in 1988 in her hometown of East St. Louis, Illinois, to empower the youth and families. The JJK Center is a multi-purpose facility that was created by her to provide safe spaces, after-school programming, athletics, and academic support. She has promoted K-12 development, youth entrepreneurship, and JJK Food, Agriculture, and Nutrition Innovation Center (JJK FAN) to address food access. She partnered with many technology initiatives like Comcast's Internet Essentials to bring high-speed internet to low-income families to promote children's education and digital equity. She has spoken out in favor of civil rights, racial equality, and systemic reform. Jackie Joyner-Kersee promoted Title IX and equal opportunities, funding, and facility access for women athletes. She had severe asthma back then, and she actively campaigns for health education and youth wellness.
Since 1981, the Jesse Owens Award has been given by USATF (and before its renaming, TAC) to the United States' track and field athlete of the year. In 1996, the award was split to be given to the top athlete of each gender. In 2005, Jackie Joyner-Kersee was inducted as a Laureate of The Lincoln Academy of Illinois and awarded the Order of Lincoln (the State's highest honor) by the Governor of Illinois in the area of Sports. In 2010, she was a NCAA Silver Anniversary Awards honoree. In 2011, she received the Dick Enberg Award, College Sports Information Director of America (CoSIDA). By 2021, she received the Webster University Doctor of Humane Letters. In 2013, the female award was renamed the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Award. In March 2023, she was inducted into the International Sports Hall of Fame.
Jackie Joyner Kersee was a great mentor to many athletes. She has mentored the modern-day heptathlete Anna Hall. She calls and texts her with advice, encouragement, and technical mindset tips. Anna Hall was born in the Mountain West in Denver, Colorado on March 23, 2001. She is now 25 years old. She has done the heptathlon, the pentathlon, the 400m, the 400m hurdles, the 800m and the high jump. She was involved in the Florida Gators and the Georgia Bulldogs. She worked hard to win bronze in the heptathlon at the 2022 World Championships in Eugene, Oregon, silver in the same sport in the 2023 World Championships in Budapest, and in the same event at the 2025 Tokyo World Championships with winning gold. She won silver in the World Indoor Championships in the pentathlon in 2026 at Torun, Poland. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in business administration in December 2023. Anna Hall is married to New York Giants player Darius Slayton since April 11, 2026. Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone was coached by the husband of Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Bob Kersee. The torch has been passed from Jackie Joyner-Kersee to many younger Americans and people of many other nationalities to bring the sport of track and field into the 21st century and beyond.
Judge Judy's recent comments are not only wrong but hypocritical. She said that people who want to fundamentally change America should go somewhere else. Using her logic, abolitionists who wanted to fundamentally change America to ban slavery legally should stop doing it. Using her logic, people in the Civil Rights Movement who wanted to fundamentally change America to pass civil rights plus voting rights laws should quit. America was built by 3 groups of people. It was built by us black Americans, by immigrants (and their descendants centuries ago and now), and by the indigenous people. Without us black people, America would never be what it is with its diversity, culture, and excellence. People have the right to disagree with many policies of America as critiquing America is part of the First Amendment via the freedom of speech. People have the right to live in America plus love or not like America. True Patriotism is about improving America not having a hive mind to unconditionally support all things in America. Also, she praises the capitalist system, but we don't live in a completely capitalist society. We live basically in a country of America with a mixed economy. Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, etc. are government created nearly socialist programs. Capitalism, socialism, and communism aren't infallible. For example, when people were starving to death during the Great Depression decades ago, people protested not seeking laissez faire capitalism to handle issues. They wanted a New Deal that expanded the government massively to save human lives literally. Therefore, what works best is a nation with the government having power to provide services and the public sector plus the private sector having legitimate regulations to make sure that we have clean air, clean water, healthcare rights, and human rights in general.
By Timothy
Saturday, September 26, 2026
Friday, September 25, 2026
Friday Updates nearing the end of September 2026.
We have so much historical news. The court ordered the Trump administration to allow journalists from MS Now, Politico, and CNN on White House grounds to report on the news. The First Amendment is rather clear that there is freedom of speech and the freedom of the press shall not be abridged. Trump is hosting China's leader Xi in dealing with trade, A.I. issues, wars overseas, and other domestic plus foreign policy matters. The Navy disclosed that there were 8 suicide attempts tied to the USS Lincoln. We know that the sailors experienced lack of food and other supplies, which has been expressed by the sailors' families for a while. Hegseth weeks ago tried to downplay the suffering of the soldiers in the USS Lincoln. Benjamin Netanyahu gave his speech at the United Nations. He tried to defend his actions involving the war in Gaza and his foreign policy agenda in general. No matter how many passionate prose he may use, there is absolutely no justification for how the Palestinian people are treated in Gaza and the West Bank. We have independent studies (done not just by the U.N. but by human rights organizations) that document the suffering and war crimes inflicted on Palestinians and many Israelis (who were victims of Hamas' terror, rape, and kidnappings). Therefore, Netanyahu being in support of MAGA, being in support of Trump, and desiring a status quo system where no Palestinian state exists represent hypocrisy and a nefarious agenda.
You won't see me supporting Hasan Piker no matter what, despite him being right on some issues. Here are reasons why. He praised hte murderer Luigi Mangione, who killed the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, Brian Thompson. We should have universal healthcare in America plus globally, along with opposing the corruption found in the corporate health care industry. Yet, it is wrong to use murder as a means to do it, as murder is always immoral no matter who does it. I agree with Piker that Netanyahu committed genocide against the Palestinian people. Yet, he called the reality of Hamas raping Israelis "rape fantasies" and "rape hallucinations." Then, he had to backtrack his illogical anti-woman statements. Pike said that he would vote for Hamas over Israel. Hamas is a terrorist organization. Then, he said that he wants a dictatorship of the proletariat when we should have no dictatorship of any kind. He has downplayed the Uyghur concentration camps in China, and he praised Mao Zedong as one of the great leaders of this world. In reality, Mao was a Stalinist murderer who murdered over 60 million of his own Chinese people. Piker embraces a form of campism (or supporting any regime opposed to the West even if that regime is authoritarian). He is related to Cenk Uygur, who once supported Armenian genocide denial until 2016. Uygur opposed the unionization of the TYT staff. In 2016, Uygur defended the Harvard University men's soccer team ranking women students on their sexual appeal on a 1 to 10 scale, which is an overt example of sexism. So, we are consistent in opposing MAGA and these people claiming to be "progressive" but having authoritarian tendencies. Yes, Hasan Piker is the same person who said that America deserved 9/11 (then he backtracked again), which is a sick, wicked comment by him, period. Piker wants Chinese-style communism or Cultural Revolution-type stuff in the Democratic Party. That will never happen as long as I live. We believe in democracy, not the views of Stalin (who was a murderer and anti-Semite) or Mao.
China is indeed supplying jet engines for Russian drones that target civilian trains and apartment buildings. Recently, Russia has seized the assets of Nestle and French firms Auchan and Lorory Merlin. This came from a decree issued by Vladimir Putin. This comes in response to the Western sanctions against Moscow over the Ukraine conflict. Recently, hockey player Alexander Ovechkin appeared in a campaign video for Putin's "United Russia" Party. This is a disgrace, where a dictator Putin is being glorified. Kushner is naive to blame Ukraine for giving Putin what he wants. Putin wants nothing more than Eastern Europe and possibly more areas. Ukraine is a victim of an illegal, immoral Russian invasion period.
Trump's threat to annihilate Iran shows the world why his popularity in America is declining. Even some GOP members are distancing themselves from Trump's Iranian war. Some of them have publicly called for an end to the Iran war. That war is completely unjust, as it was a preemptive strike against its lands without just cause, without Congressional approval, and without a solid moral reason. Trump said these words at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday. He is deciding on whether to destroy the Islamic Republic of Iran or not. Such rhetoric is very similar to Hitler's rhetoric when he waged a Vernichtungskampf, or a war of annihilation, against the Soviet Union. Trump just announces his plans of extermination in public. Hitler gave his plans in private to his generals on March 30, 1941. Trump and Netanyahu executed this war against Iran, causing both Iranian civilians and American soldiers to die needlessly. Trump's criminal war of aggression against Iran has killed at least 3,468 people and wounded more than 26,5000 people by June 10, according to Iran's Health Ministry. A U.N. fact-finding mission found reasonable grounds to believe that America committed war crimes, such as the U.S. missile strike on February 28, 2026, when an elementary school in Minah was destroyed (killing more than 150 people, 120 of them being children). Gaza's Health Ministry found that 73,919 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza. Trump wants to control Venezuelan oil, called Cuba a failed state, and wants Greenland to be controlled by America.
There are many economic news. In July 2026, Trump has reported making 1,100+ trades, including AI companies, defense contractors, and Big Oil (which are all in support of the White House policy). Seattle just became the first city in America to ban grocery stores from engaging in surveillance pricing. This is a major victory for consumers against companies that abuse their personal data to rip them off. Surveillance pricing is about a consumer buying something like TV and someone else buying that TV for a lower price (when you shop online. Many corporations use this personal data as a way to charge people different rates for the same product. That is completely unfair). Former FTC Chair Lina Khan talked about this issue very well. Stopping surveillance pricing is a necessity as this policy can violate the power of our personal information. Some states have introduced bills to ban surveillance pricing like in California, Georgia, etc. People can protect their private data by ending cookies, cleaning search history, and getting a VPN. People have the right to know about how their personal data is being used.
By Timothy
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Thursday, September 24, 2026
Changing Times.
Trump desires to promote Trump TV to promote his propaganda. Trump also said that he desires CNN to not be at the United Nations to report on the news. That shows to the world that he harbors hatred of dissent of his administration's policies and his hostility towards the press in general. This is so bad that some Republicans are eliminating the name of Trump from their campaign websites in order to salvage their campaigns. The 2026 midterms are coming up very soon. The Republicans' great big bill has promoted the tax cuts to the super rich and cuts benefits from the poor and working class. We know that Republicans make the largest cuts from health care in American history. This bill allows the Affordable Care Act subsidies to expire, which will cause premiums to possibly double. Hospitals will then face huge financial losses, causing health care costs to increase massively. There are cuts to food stamps. Trump cut SNAP with the biggest cuts in history, and a growing number of Americans go hungry with food banks struggling to supply people to get food. That is why now the Southeastern Virginia Food Bank is struggling to get more food supplies, and they are asking for people to give them more food via groceries, etc. Farms can suffer too. Energy costs go up, and Trump has cut alternative, renewable energy resources. Trump is the worst President of the 21st century and the top five worst Presidents in American history in my opinion.
Lithuania's main airport is closed due to a drone threat. This is Vilnius Airport. It is no secret that Putin not only wants to conquer Ukraine, but Eastern Europe in general. We now know that Poland has issued an alert in the country's eastern part, as Polish military aircraft have taken to the skies. The reason is that Russian drones have gone into Polish airspace for months now. NATO fighter jets have been scrambled over Latvia. The United Kingdom prepared its households for major disruption as Poland warned of possible Russian strikes. If a peaceful resolution is not reached, we have a high probability of WWIII before the year 2040. This is no hyperbole. This is reality. Russia demanded Japan remove U.S. Typhon missile systems deployed on Kyushu, despite plans to store them with the U.S. military in Japan after September exercises.
Now, MS Now, CNN, and Politico have sued the Trump administration over the Trump regime banning all three of the media organizations from being at the White House. Donald Trump has underestimated democracy. In a true democracy, people are free to disagree with him, and the media has the right to ask him and any President (regardless of party affiliation) tough, uncomfortable questions about policy and strategy. This is about the freedom of the press being maintained in American society. No one should strip the media of the power to do their jobs of reporting the news, analyzing information, and asking political leaders relevant questions about many issues. Many lawmakers have opposed Trump's media ban, like Senator Corey Booker, and other people like Rep. Beatty. The First Amendment says that freedom of speech and freedom of the press can't be banned or totally restricted. Trump doesn't want the press that disagrees with him inside of the White House, which shows Trump's disdain for the press. Obama is right to say that it would be unimaginable if he were to ban FOX News on the White House grounds. The major U.S. networks, including ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, and FOX News, even suspended all coverage of President Trump's public events in protest of the White House revoking press credentials for certain media outlets.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris will campaign for El-Sayed in Michigan. Harris has shown massive class, as many of the Uncommitted voters refused to support Harris in 2024 over the Gaza conflict when Harris publicly condemned the brutal murder of Palestinians in Gaza. These same Uncommitted hypocrites are trying to gain us black people's support. The Uncommitted crowd contributed to the existence of Trump's 2nd Presidential term. Yet, Kamala Harris has shown incredible grace in trying to cause El-Sayed to defeat Mike Rogers. Mike Rogers refused to even debate El-Sayed, which showed Rogers' insecurities about his views and his allegiance to the MAGA cultic movement. We shall see what will happen in Michigan. It is no secret about the elephant in the room. There has been tensions among some members of the black community and some members of the Arabic community for years in Michigan. That tension will take years to heal, but we have to follow the Golden Rule and not embrace bigotry or discrimination. We have to do what is right, and advocate for black liberation at the same time.
By Timothy
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani met with Trump on Monday afternoon. This took place at Gracie Mansion, the mayor's official residence. They had a meeting for an hour behind closed doors. The two walked out together to a podium on the lawn. This comes when Trump has record-low approval ratings. Mamdani is playing coy with Trump insisting that he talked to Trump about improving the lives of New Yorkers and how to use the power of government to take on the cost of living crisis. This is silliness. Trump launched a criminal, illegal war in Iran that has driven gasoline rates up 27 percent in a year. Trump's budget law has caused thousands of residents to be stripped of their SNAP benefits. About 1.5 million people in New York state are stripped of their Medicaid coverage because of the big Trump law. Mamadani said to promote an agreement to create a conversation between City Hall and the White House on building over Sunnyside Yard in Queens. This housing plan will be funded by private developers. Trump wants to promote sanctions against the International Criminal Court (trying to force the ICC to drop its arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu when it is plainly obvious that Netanyahu committed war crimes against the Palestinians as documented by independent researchers). Mamdani said that he didn't encourage New Yorkers to protest Netanyahu's planned visit to the UN General Assembly on Thursday. The reality here is that we can't whitewash Trump or the agenda of fascism and oligarchy that the MAGA movement consists of. We must publicly oppose the MAGA agenda and progressively fight for democracy.
Tuesday, September 22, 2026
Monday, September 21, 2026
Cultural Information.
Trump is an enemy of the First Amendment. By Trump denying MS Now, CNN, and Politico of White House entry violates the freedom of the press explicitly. The press is an occupation protected by the U.S. Constitution. The American press has the right to show the news regardless of if it pleases any administration or not. Critiquing any administration is protected by the First Amendment. The freedom of the press is being violated overtly by Trump and his allies. That is why the press needs to go into court via legal means to change this policy from the Trump administration. One MS NOW reporter on Saturday was denied access to the White House. This is immoral as Trump doesn't agree with the First Amendment or the freedom of speech in general. These media organizations will go into the court, and we all hope that these media institutions will win this case. All three media companies reported of the mistreatment of the American soldiers in the USS Lincoln, the brutal anti-immigration policy of the Trump regime, and the corruption allegations. That is why tons of media reporters and leaders from across the board have stood up against this anti-media policy from the Trump administration.
Jacqueline Joyner Kersee was born on March 3, 1962, in East St. Louis, Illinois. She was named after Jacqueline Kennedy, the First Lady of the United States during that time. She was born into a poor family, and she found her love of running at the age of 9 years old. That was when she joined a special community track program. She played basketball, volleyball, and ran track and field in high school. As a high school athlete at East St. Louis Lincoln Senior High School, she qualified for the finals in the long jump at the 1980 Olympic Trials, finishing 8th behind another high schooler Carol Lewis. She was inspired to compete in multi-disciplinary track and field events after seeing a movie about Babe Didrikson Zaharias (1911-1956). Didrikson (she was of Norwegian descent), the track star, basketball player, and pro golfer, was chosen as the greatest woman athlete of the first half of the 20th century according to some people. Ironically, 15 years later, Sports Illustrated for Women magazine voted Joyner-Kersee as the greatest woman athlete of all time, just ahead of Zaharias. Joyner-Kersee attended college at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) from 1980 to 1985, where she starred in both track and field and basketball. She attended the school on an athletic scholarship. When she was in college, her mother died suddenly of meningitis. Joyner's coach, Bob Kersee, helped Joyner grieve the loss of her mother. After she graduated, the two got married.
In basketball, she was a starter at forward for each of her first three seasons (1980–81, 81–82, and 82–83) as well as in her senior (fifth) year, 1984–1985. She redshirted during the 1983–84 academic year to concentrate on the heptathlon for the 1984 Summer Olympics. She scored 1,167 points during her collegiate career, placing her 19th all time for the Bruins games. The Bruins advanced to the West Regional semifinals of the 1985 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament before losing to eventual runner-up Georgia.
She was honored on February 21, 1998, as one of the 15 greatest players in UCLA women's basketball. In April 2001, Joyner-Kersee was voted the "Top Woman Collegiate Athlete of the Past 25 Years." The vote was conducted among the 976 NCAA member schools. In track, Joyner won the Broderick Award (now the Honda Sports Award) as the nation's best woman collegiate track and field competitor in 1983 and in 1985, and was awarded the Honda-Broderick Cup, given to the nation's best wiman collegiate athlete in 1985. Joyner graduated with a bachelor's degree in history in 1986.
Joyner competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and won the silver medal in the heptathlon. She was the favorite heading into the event, but finished five points behind Australian athlete Glynis Nunn. She also placed fifth in the long jump. Joyner became the first woman to score over 7,000 points in a heptathlon event during the 1986 Goodwill Games. In 1986, she received the James E. Sullivan Award as the top amateur athlete in the United States. Now known as Jackie Joyner-Kersee after marrying her coach Bob Kersee, she entered the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Korea and earned gold medals in both the heptathlon and the long jump. At the Games, she set the still-standing heptathlon world record of 7,291 points. Five days later, Joyner-Kersee won her second gold medal, leaping to an Olympic record of 7.40 m (24 ft 3+1⁄4 in) in the long jump. She was the first American woman to earn a gold medal in long jump as well as the first American woman to earn a gold medal in heptathlon. At the 1988 Games she faced allegations of drug use from Brazilian runner Joaquim Cruz. This continued the following season in 1989 when Darrell Robinson accused Joyner-Kersee's husband and coach, Bobby Kersee, of distributing performance-enhancing drugs. Years later, doping insider Victor Conte asserted that in 1988 he personally witnessed an Olympic official at the Seoul games notifying Bobby Kersee that Joyner-Kersee had tested positive for PED use. Joyner-Kersee has consistently maintained that she competed throughout her career without performance-enhancing drugs.
During the long jump event at the 1991 World Championships, having already won with a 7.32 m (24 ft 1⁄4 in) jump, Joyner-Kersee slipped on the take-off board and careened headfirst into the pit. She strained a hamstring and subsequently pulled out of the heptathlon during the 200 m at the end of the first day. In the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, Joyner-Kersee earned her second Olympic gold medal in the heptathlon. She also won the bronze medal in the long jump which was won by her friend Heike Drechsler of Germany. At the Olympic Trials, Joyner-Kersee sustained an injury to her right hamstring. When the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta began, Joyner-Kersee was not fully recovered by the time the heptathlon started. After running the first event, the 100 m hurdles, she withdrew due to pain. She was able to recover to compete in the long jump; her final jump of 7.00 m (22 ft 11+1⁄2 in) was vaulted into the bronze medal position. In 1996 Joyner-Kersee signed to play pro basketball for the Richmond Rage of the fledgling American Basketball League. She appeared in 17 games, with a high of 15 points scored. There was the historic April 14, 1998 meeting about race nad sports being nationally televised on a ESPN Town Hall Meeting on Race and Sports that was held in Houston, Texas. It wasa live 90 minute forum. Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Jim Brown spoke at the meeting. It wasa necessary, spirited debate over corporate economic responsibility and racial unity. Jim Brown criticized major athletic corporations. He said that companies like Nike heavily benefited from Black athletes without giving enough back. He said that African American athletes should pool their financial resources to invest directly back into the black communities and collectively purchase professional sports franchises. Jackie Joyner-Kersee had a rebutall to strongly defend corporate programs. She said that corporate sponsorship provided critical funding and resources to help underprivileged youth nationwide. She rejected the idea that black athletes should feel an automatic structural oboljiated to spend or pool their money ina specific way. She said that "That's why we live in America because we have choices). The historic town hall was moderated by ESPN's Bob Ley aimed to address minority hiring, racial stereotypes, and commercialism in sports. It featured other prominent people like Georgetown basketball coach John Thompason and NFL coach Dennis Green. The question is that who was right? The answer to that question is more nuisance. Jim Brown was right to say that black athletes have a moral obligation to help our their communities, but far too often, Jim Brown had contradictions. Jim Brown said that he supported black liberation, but he publicly supported the racist Donald Trump. Jim Brown said that there must be economic development in the black community, but we all know that black capitalism benefits no one in the black communities except the upper middle class and the rich of the black communities. Jim Brown even didn't agree with Colin Kaepernick or other NFL players protesting racism and police brutality by knelling. So, Jim Brown was right to advocate for black liberation, but I don't agree with some of his conservative methods in getting that goal accomplishment. Jackie Joyner-Kersee is right that many corporations are helping the poor in America, including poor black people. Kersee is in error to assume that this is the end all be all. Corporations and foundations aren't infallible. You need revolutionary solutions to solve these problems too (like a radical redistribution of economic and political power as the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has advocated). You still need cultural solidarity in the black community. For example, Jewish people, Latino people, Irish people, Greek people, Asian people, Indian people, etc. have their own institutions that they own and control. No one complains when they do it. Black people desiring to form our own power bases or institutions legitimately are criticized by the establishment unjustly. Since 1998, Jackie Joyner Kersee and the late Jim Brown have worked constantly to advocate and fight for racial justice, an end to police brutality, and community development. So, both black people believe in the same goal but different approaches in reaching that same goal of complete black freedom.
Returning to track, Joyner-Kersee won the heptathlon at the 1998 Goodwill Games, scoring 6,502 points. Two years after retiring, Joyner-Kersee tried to qualify for the long jump event at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia. She placed sixth in the trials at 21–10 ¾, and did not make the Olympic team.
My 5th cousin, Cynthia Ann Weeks, was born on May 25, 1963. She was raised in Westbury, New York. That is in an area in Nassau County on Long Island, New York State. Many black people live in Westbury and Oyster Bay, New York in Long Island, too. She attended Westbury High School (Class of 1981) and later joined the U.S. military in 1981. She married Jonathan Douglas Hicks (b. 1962) on July 2, 1988, in Chesapeake, Virginia to May 28, 1993, at Virginia Beach, Virginia. She is currently married to Pastor and Elder Kevin Davis. Cynthia Ann Weeks has many children, who are Cynthia Sewlall (b. 1985), Jasmin Davis, Corey Davis, Kevin Davis, etc. On Ancestry.com, there is a confirmed DNA match between Cynthia's son, Kevin Davis, and me on the paternal side of my family. That is why we are both descendants of 4th great-grandparents of Esther Perkins and George Perkins. My 5th cousin Cynthia Ann Weeks's parents are Thomas William Weeks (b. 1940) and Evelyn Odell Satchell (b. 1942). The parents of my 4th cousin Evelyn Odell Satchell were David Oliver Satchell Jr. (1919-1996) and Odell Cornelius Beckett (1923-1987). The parents of David Oliver Satchell Jr. were David Satchell (1900-1985) and Ellen C. Satchell (b. 1900). The parents of David Satchell were Jackson Satchel (b. 1845) and Harriet Susan Kelley (1860-1927). The parents of Harriet Susan Kelley were George Kelly (b. 1830) and Easter Perkins (1840-1910). The parents of Easter Perkins were George Perkins (b. 1815) and Esther Perkins (b. 1816). Cynthia Ann Weeks Davis now lives in Germantown, Maryland. Her cousins are Jacqueline Sample-Munfor
Trump is an enemy of the First Amendment. By Trump denying MS Now, CNN, and Politico of White House entry violates the freedom of the press explicitly. The press is an occupation protected by the U.S. Constitution. The American press has the right to show the news regardless of if it pleases any administration or not. Critiquing any administration is protected by the First Amendment. The freedom of the press is being violated overtly by Trump and his allies. That is why the press needs to go into court via legal means to change this policy from the Trump administration. One MS NOW reporter on Saturday was denied access to the White House. This is immoral as Trump doesn't agree with the First Amendment or the freedom of speech in general. These media organizations will go into the court, and we all hope that these media institutions will win this case. All three media companies reported of the mistreatment of the American soldiers in the USS Lincoln, the brutal anti-immigration policy of the Trump regime, and the corruption allegations. That is why tons of media reporters and leaders from across the board have stood up against this anti-media policy from the Trump administration.
Jacqueline Joyner Kersee was born on March 3, 1962, in East St. Louis, Illinois. She was named after Jacqueline Kennedy, the First Lady of the United States during that time. She was born into a poor family, and she found her love of running at the age of 9 years old. That was when she joined a special community track program. She played basketball, volleyball, and ran track and field in high school. As a high school athlete at East St. Louis Lincoln Senior High School, she qualified for the finals in the long jump at the 1980 Olympic Trials, finishing 8th behind another high schooler Carol Lewis. She was inspired to compete in multi-disciplinary track and field events after seeing a movie about Babe Didrikson Zaharias (1911-1956). Didrikson (she was of Norwegian descent), the track star, basketball player, and pro golfer, was chosen as the greatest woman athlete of the first half of the 20th century according to some people. Ironically, 15 years later, Sports Illustrated for Women magazine voted Joyner-Kersee as the greatest woman athlete of all time, just ahead of Zaharias. Joyner-Kersee attended college at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) from 1980 to 1985, where she starred in both track and field and basketball. She attended the school on an athletic scholarship. When she was in college, her mother died suddenly of meningitis. Joyner's coach, Bob Kersee, helped Joyner grieve the loss of her mother. After she graduated, the two got married.
In basketball, she was a starter at forward for each of her first three seasons (1980–81, 81–82, and 82–83) as well as in her senior (fifth) year, 1984–1985. She redshirted during the 1983–84 academic year to concentrate on the heptathlon for the 1984 Summer Olympics. She scored 1,167 points during her collegiate career, placing her 19th all time for the Bruins games. The Bruins advanced to the West Regional semifinals of the 1985 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament before losing to eventual runner-up Georgia.
She was honored on February 21, 1998, as one of the 15 greatest players in UCLA women's basketball. In April 2001, Joyner-Kersee was voted the "Top Woman Collegiate Athlete of the Past 25 Years." The vote was conducted among the 976 NCAA member schools. In track, Joyner won the Broderick Award (now the Honda Sports Award) as the nation's best woman collegiate track and field competitor in 1983 and in 1985, and was awarded the Honda-Broderick Cup, given to the nation's best wiman collegiate athlete in 1985. Joyner graduated with a bachelor's degree in history in 1986.
Joyner competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and won the silver medal in the heptathlon. She was the favorite heading into the event, but finished five points behind Australian athlete Glynis Nunn. She also placed fifth in the long jump. Joyner became the first woman to score over 7,000 points in a heptathlon event during the 1986 Goodwill Games. In 1986, she received the James E. Sullivan Award as the top amateur athlete in the United States. Now known as Jackie Joyner-Kersee after marrying her coach Bob Kersee, she entered the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Korea and earned gold medals in both the heptathlon and the long jump. At the Games, she set the still-standing heptathlon world record of 7,291 points. Five days later, Joyner-Kersee won her second gold medal, leaping to an Olympic record of 7.40 m (24 ft 3+1⁄4 in) in the long jump. She was the first American woman to earn a gold medal in long jump as well as the first American woman to earn a gold medal in heptathlon. At the 1988 Games she faced allegations of drug use from Brazilian runner Joaquim Cruz. This continued the following season in 1989 when Darrell Robinson accused Joyner-Kersee's husband and coach, Bobby Kersee, of distributing performance-enhancing drugs. Years later, doping insider Victor Conte asserted that in 1988 he personally witnessed an Olympic official at the Seoul games notifying Bobby Kersee that Joyner-Kersee had tested positive for PED use. Joyner-Kersee has consistently maintained that she competed throughout her career without performance-enhancing drugs.
During the long jump event at the 1991 World Championships, having already won with a 7.32 m (24 ft 1⁄4 in) jump, Joyner-Kersee slipped on the take-off board and careened headfirst into the pit. She strained a hamstring and subsequently pulled out of the heptathlon during the 200 m at the end of the first day. In the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, Joyner-Kersee earned her second Olympic gold medal in the heptathlon. She also won the bronze medal in the long jump which was won by her friend Heike Drechsler of Germany. At the Olympic Trials, Joyner-Kersee sustained an injury to her right hamstring. When the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta began, Joyner-Kersee was not fully recovered by the time the heptathlon started. After running the first event, the 100 m hurdles, she withdrew due to pain. She was able to recover to compete in the long jump; her final jump of 7.00 m (22 ft 11+1⁄2 in) was vaulted into the bronze medal position. In 1996 Joyner-Kersee signed to play pro basketball for the Richmond Rage of the fledgling American Basketball League. She appeared in 17 games, with a high of 15 points scored. There was the historic April 14, 1998 meeting about race and sports being nationally televised on a ESPN Town Hall Meeting on Race and Sports that was held in Houston, Texas. It was a live 90 minute forum. Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Jim Brown spoke at the meeting. It was a necessary, spirited debate over corporate economic responsibility and racial unity. Jim Brown criticized major athletic corporations. He said that companies like Nike heavily benefited from Black athletes without giving enough back. He said that African American athletes should pool their financial resources to invest directly back into the black communities and collectively purchase professional sports franchises. Jackie Joyner-Kersee had a rebutal to strongly defend corporate programs. She said that corporate sponsorship provided critical funding and resources to help underprivileged youth nationwide. She rejected the idea that black athletes should feel an automatic structural obligated to spend or pool their money in a specific way. She said that "That's why we live in America because we have choices)." The historic town hall was moderated by ESPN's Bob Ley aimed to address minority hiring, racial stereotypes, and commercialism in sports. It featured other prominent people like Georgetown basketball coach John Thompason and NFL coach Dennis Green. The question is that who was right? The answer to that question is more nuisance. Jim Brown was right to say that black athletes have a moral obligation to help our their communities, but far too often, Jim Brown had contradictions. Jim Brown said that he supported black liberation, but he publicly supported the racist Donald Trump. Jim Brown said that there must be economic development in the black community, but we all know that black capitalism benefits no one in the black communities except the upper middle class and the rich of the black communities. Jim Brown even didn't agree with Colin Kaepernick or other NFL players protesting racism and police brutality by knelling. So, Jim Brown was right to advocate for black liberation, but I don't agree with some of his conservative methods in getting that goal or accomplishment. Jackie Joyner-Kersee is right that many corporations are helping the poor in America, including poor black people. Kersee is in error to assume that this is the end all be all. Corporations and foundations aren't infallible. You need revolutionary solutions to solve these problems too (like a radical redistribution of economic and political power as the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has advocated). You still need cultural solidarity in the black community along with grassroots organizing. For example, Jewish people, Latino people, Irish people, Greek people, Asian people, Indian people, etc. have their own institutions that they own and control. No one complains when they do it. Black people desiring to form our own power bases or institutions legitimately are criticized by the establishment unjustly. Since 1998, Jackie Joyner Kersee and the late Jim Brown have worked constantly to advocate and fight for racial justice, an end to police brutality, and community development. So, both black people believe in the same goal but different approaches in reaching that same goal of complete black freedom.
Returning to track, Joyner-Kersee won the heptathlon at the 1998 Goodwill Games, scoring 6,502 points. Two years after retiring, Joyner-Kersee tried to qualify for the long jump event at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia. She placed sixth in the trials at 21–10 ¾, and did not make the Olympic team.
My 5th cousin, Cynthia Ann Weeks, was born on May 25, 1963. She was raised in Westbury, New York. That is in an area in Nassau County on Long Island, New York State. Many black people live in Westbury and Oyster Bay, New York in Long Island, too. She attended Westbury High School (Class of 1981) and later joined the U.S. military in 1981. She married Jonathan Douglas Hicks (b. 1962) on July 2, 1988, in Chesapeake, Virginia to May 28, 1993, at Virginia Beach, Virginia. She is currently married to Pastor and Elder Kevin Davis. Cynthia Ann Weeks has many children, who are Cynthia Sewlall (b. 1985), Jasmin Davis, Corey Davis, Kevin Davis, etc. On Ancestry.com, there is a confirmed DNA match between Cynthia's son, Kevin Davis, and me on the paternal side of my family. That is why we are both descendants of 4th great-grandparents of Esther Perkins and George Perkins. My 5th cousin Cynthia Ann Weeks's parents are Thomas William Weeks (b. 1940) and Evelyn Odell Satchell (b. 1942). The parents of my 4th cousin Evelyn Odell Satchell were David Oliver Satchell Jr. (1919-1996) and Odell Cornelius Beckett (1923-1987). The parents of David Oliver Satchell Jr. were David Satchell (1900-1985) and Ellen C. Satchell (b. 1900). The parents of David Satchell were Jackson Satchel (b. 1845) and Harriet Susan Kelley (1860-1927). The parents of Harriet Susan Kelley were George Kelly (b. 1830) and Easter Perkins (1840-1910). The parents of Easter Perkins were George Perkins (b. 1815) and Esther Perkins (b. 1816). Cynthia Ann Weeks Davis now lives in Germantown, Maryland. Her cousins are Jacqueline Sample-Munford, Donald Baker, and Sandra Harmon Williams.
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