Friday, May 15, 2026
Thursday, May 14, 2026
Wednesday, May 13, 2026
The war and domestic issues.
In our time, we will never give up. Trump denies that his advocacy of a prosecution of James Comey has nothing to do with revenge but justice. Yet, Trump consistently can't stand anyone (especially political figures) dissenting with his policies. Trump has used his pardon power to allow criminals and terrorists like the January 6th terrorists to escape justice. Trump has allowed the DOJ to not be an independent body of investigators and arbitrators of true justice for the American people. The DOJ is now transformed into a person defense attorney system for Donald Trump. The legitimacy of the DOJ has been shattered by the agenda of Trumpism. This is why we have to speak out against the nepotism, corruption, hypocrisy, bigotry, racism, xenophobia, and sexism found in the Trump agenda. While this is going on, millions of Americans struggle to afford massive gas prices due to Trump's war on Iran. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is focused on releasing a road trip reality TV show which is disrespectful to the people struggling to get gas or travel in basic transportation services. The GOP claims to support family values, but many GOP members have fought against paid family and medical leave, universal childcare, universal pre-K, an Expanded Child Tax Credit, and programs to support the rights of minority groups plus women. That isn't pro-family but pro-authoritarianism and pro-oligarchy to me.
Pete Hesgeth said that Senator Mark Kelly spoke about in public about depleted munitions in dealing with the Iraq War revealed classified information. This is a lie from Hegseth. The truth, as Senator Kelly, has said, is that the depleted munitions was admitted by Hegseth in a public hearing, not in a classified meeting. This attack by Hegseth targets not only the freedom of speech. It targets our American democracy when Trump officials try to put a spin on the Iranian war. We are nowhere near the era of the conclusion of the Iranian War. Kelly was slandered by MAGA followers as a traitor for just saying that military soldiers should never follow illegal orders. Kelly just spoke commonsense words about a basic fundamental point relating to the inherit integrity of Americans. This once again show how the Trump administration is targeting dissent (in a retribution campaign), not promoting freedom for the human race.
A lot of people don't know about the Hard Hat Riot of 1970. This was when people with hard hats assaulted anti-Vietnam War protesters in April of 1970. Many attackers said America, love it or leave it. Students activists and union leaders were exploited by the Nixon team to promote division in American society. Many police officers supported the attackers. The Hard hats invaded the Pace University and beat students and destroyed property. Nixon praised the hard hat to promote the laissez faire capitalism and cultural issues to cause a division among people of the Democratic Party. Nixon wanted many blue collar workers to get his support, and his plan worked in the 1972 Presidential election. Back in the days of FDR and LBJ, there was a coalition among black people, Jewish people, white collar workers, blue collar workers, progressives, Catholics, and working class people in general to allow New Deal and Great Society programs to be passed. By the time of Nixon, that changed when that coalition was broken apart. Many blue-collar workers had their economic rights violated, so we have to promote economic justice and other people who deserve human liberation. The oligarchs oppress us all. We have common ground on many issues, and it's our responsibility to promote solidarity to advance truth and justice for all.
When Rep. Jen Kiggans made the racist remark of Hakeem Jeffries, it reveals her hands as being a Trump puppet. There is no excuse for Kiggans' comments at all. Kiggans is from Virginia too, and us from Virginia know racism first hand. Therefore, Kiggans even supported Trump's law that cut Medicare and other social safety net programs. So, she should be voted out. Regardless of how anyone feels about Hakeem Jeffries' politics, it is evil to disrespect his human dignity as a black man. AOC is also right to say that we can't treat Majorie Taylor Greene and Tucker Carlson as allies because they have criticized the MAGA movement. Greene talked about the anti-Semitic lie of Jewish space lasers and voted to censure Rep. Ihan Omar. She wanted Omar to be deported. Tucker Carlson promoted the lie that the 2020 election was stolen in public but privately didn't believe in that lie. Both of them never apologized for some of the most egregious statements that they have made.
Days ago was the Birthday of Sister Alyson Williams, and she is 63 years old. She is a R&B singer and on air radio personality. She was born in New York City. She is the daughter of bandleader/trumpeter Bobby Booker. She began her career by singing background vocals for various artists like Curtis Hairston, Melba Moore (in Love's Coming at Ya), B. B. & Q. Band, Cashflow, Unlimited Touch, Bobby Brown, and Barbara Mitchell before joining the group High Fashion (which also featured Meli'sa Morgan). Alyson later sang with the group The Air before moving on into her solo career. Her first single was Yes We Can being released on Profile Records in 1986 (a release on the Def Jam label followed in 1987). She was an in-demand vocalist duetting with many of her label mates like Church Stanley (in the song Make You Mine Tonight), and Oran "Juice" Jones (in the song How to Love Again). Her first album and release was historic as she was the first R&B woman singer signed to Def Jam. Her album Raw was released in 1989. It had singles like My Love is So Raw, etc. It had many quiet storm style songs. In 1986, she portrayed her friend Phyllis Hyman in a musical play called "Thank God, The Beat Goes on," joining the Whispers to tell the story of Hyman's career. She has been an on air radio personality at WCHR-FM 90.3. She is the host of Love Notes with Alyson Williams in The Chill Zone, which air on Tuesdays out of Harlem, NYC. In May 2022, Williams was the featured artist on saxophonist Najee's cover of Norman Connors single, Valentine Love.
I wish Sister Alyson Williams a Great Birthday.
Monday, May 11, 2026
More May 2026 Updates.
2026 was one of the important years in human history. It is the year of the 250th anniversary of the United States of America (with the signing of the Declaration of Independence from the British Empire). January 1, 2026, was when Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as the 112th Mayor of New York City, being the first Muslim and Asian American to be mayor of New York City too. Books, films, and other works published in 1930 enter the public domain. Also, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting voted to dissolve itself. There was the killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis, Minnesota by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer. By January 2026, the U.S. launched a military raid in Venezuela that captured its president, Nicolas Maduro. The measles outbreak continues in America with more than 2,500 cases are reported nationally in America. In February 2026, the U.S. launched a major attack on Iran with Israel with the stated goal of regime change, killing its leader Ali Khamenei. Domestically, the US underwent two partial government shutdowns, with the first lasting four days, from January 31 to February 3, and the second lasting approximately 76 days, from February 14 to April 30, becoming the longest government shutdown in U.S. history and impacting the US Department of Homeland Security, with the core issue regarding the funding of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In addition, 2026 saw the first major judicial actions against prediction markets, in particular Kalshi and the usage of its platform and other prediction markets to bypass state regulations on sports betting, with Nevada being the first to land a court-enforced ban of Kalshi and Arizona being the first to file criminal charges against Kalshi. In science and technology, the most prominent story so far has been the April 2026 NASA mission Artemis II, the first crewed deep-space mission since 1972. Artemis II sent four astronauts—including the first woman, black person, and Canadian—to circumnavigate the Moon. On April 28, 2026, Former FBI Director James Comey was indicted on federal charges of threatening the president due to a social media post that he made in May 2025 with seashells and numbers. In May 8, 2026, the Pentagon released declassified documents about UFOs and extraterrestrial life. Planned events include the 2026 FIFA World Cup, to be held across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico from June to July; and the 2026 midterms in November.
There are tons of geographic landforms in the Earth. We have mountains being high, rocky areas that rise steeply above the surrounding land. They are often formed by tectonic activity as tectonic plates globally are a large part of the Earth's geological history. There are plateaus which are large, flat, or gently rolling areas of land that are significantly higher than the surrounding terrain. There are plains which are broad, flat stretches of land that are usually low in elevation compared to the surrounding area. Hills are elevated sections of land that are smaller and less steep than mountains. There are coastal landforms too. Valleys and canyons are low lying, often steep walled areas formed by erosion from rivers or glaciers. Valleys have depressions between mountains or hill, often containing a river. Peninsulas are lands surrounding by water on most of its sides. One example is how Hampton and Newport News is in a peninsula region of Hampton Roads, Virginia (757). There are deltas or fan shaped landforms created by the deposition of sediment at the mouth of a river. There are unique lands forms like an archipelago or a collection of islands, atoll being a ring shaped coral reef, and a bay being a recessed, coastal body of water connected to an ocean or lake. A coral reef is an outcrop of rock in the sea formed by the growth and deposite of stony coral skeletons. Landforms are formed by two main forces. One is endogenic processes or internal, tectonic forces that push up mountains and build terrain. Exogenic processes are external forces, such as wind, water, and ice erosion, that wear down the shape the landscape over time.
Between World War I and World War II, many happenings existed in Christianity. By 1914, there was the Welsh Church Act of 1914 being in existence. In 1914, Paul Olaf Bodding completed his translation of the Bible into the Santali language of South Asia. Ellen G. White, the co-founder of the Seventh Day Adventist Church passed away in 1915. Seventh Day Adventists have been debated in Christian churches for a long time. The cult leader Father Divine (who called himself God which is an overt action of blasphemy) grew his powerful movement by the 1910's. 1917 was when many Catholics claimed that Marian apparition took place at Fatima, Portugal (or Mary appeared to children to outline a vision of the future). Now, we respect Mary as being one of the saints of God who sacrificed and inspired humanity in many positive ways. Yet, we don't worship Mary or venerate her. She should be respected and honored as one of God's chosen people, but she shouldn't be venerated. Communists killed Tsar Nicholas III, and his wife in 1918. Those, who were killed, were Orthodox Christians. The KFUO (AM) had the first religious radio station in America by 1924. The Scopes Trial happened in 1925. The trial ended to allow the teachings of Darwinian revolution to be taught in public school. Evolution teaches that natural forces caused all life to exist on Earth spanning billions of years via natural selection and common ancestors. Christians have diverse views of evolution. Some reject evolution outright in believing in young Earth creationism or old Earth creationism. Some believe in the gap theory of gradual creation over billions of years. Some believe in theistic evolution or God allowing evolution to take place over the eons of time. The controversial Caughlin grew his platform on the radio by the 1920s. He spread his message to once supporting fascists and made anti-Semitic remarks (while denying being anti-Semitic). WWI saw Christians and non-Christians alike fighting among all sides. The Allied Forces defeated the Central Powers at the end of WWI. WWII was much different with more bloodshed, more evil, and an important victory for the Allied Powers. Adolf Hitler was a baptized Roman Catholic who was never excommunicated from the Catholic Church. Yet, Hitler and the Nazis murdered Catholics, Protestants, Jewish people, non-Jewish people, the Roma people, black people, biracial people, LGBTQIA2S+ people, Freemasons, and other human beings. Nazism is antithetical to Christianity, because Nazism hates their neighbors (who are not people of white Northern Europeans), it promoted murder, it used unjust violence against innocent people, and it violated basic human plus democratic rights. I want to make that point perfectly clear.
By 1945, times were changing at the end of World War II. Christianity, the religious world in general, and the secular world saw tons of technological advancements in sanitation, engineering, travel, industry, education, health, and other aspects of human living. We saw massive international spiritual growth with the spreading of the Gospel from the Americas to the Motherland of Africa. Also, we saw cultural and social changes in the world. There have been legitimate movements that change the world positively like the Civil Rights Movement, the woman's rights movement, and the environmental rights movement. 1948 was the year of the creation of the modern nation of Israel. Regardless of how one feels about the policies of the government of Israel, this historic event has major significance in world history. Also, we witnessed the increase of the power of the Ecumenical Movement (which has been funded by elitist organizations like the CFR, the Bilderberg Group, the Knights of Malta, high level Freemasonry, the Trilateral Commission, the Pilgrim Society, etc.) that desire Christians to compromise their core religious views to follow the great nefarious myth that all religions (even polytheism and Satanism) are legitimate pathways to the one true God of the Universe. The Ecumenical Movement is pernicious, powerful, and influential, but believers in God have stood up against its false doctrines for years and decades. The age of the Laodicean era is filled with compromise, wickedness, and deception (from the Prosperity Gospel to the freak off parties that existed for millennia). The good news is that the current Laodicean era still has a remnant standing up for righteousness, justice, love, and God's mercy ins desiring people to be saved from sin and evil. Goodness always prevails in the end.
Hantavirus evacuations have begun. We have COVID, the nonovirus, and now hantavirus. 17 U.S. passengers head to a Nebraska quarantine site. The W.H.O. wants a 42-day quarantine for all people with hantavirus. The hantavirus is not COVID, but it is not a game. It is a serious virus that can possibly spread rapidly. As for Iran, Centcom reported that over 20 U.S. warships are enforcing the Strait of Hormuz. Even if the Iranian war ends now, the oil crisis may continue worldwide for months. Some scholars believe that this energy crisis is worse than the one back in the 1970s, because the blockade deals with oil, plastics, and other necessary supplies globally that people need. The U.S. and Iran are continuing in negotiations, but Trump refuses to budge that much.
My distant cousin Debra Louise Claud (b. 1965) has a child with Otis Brown named Mecos R. Claud (b. 1984). She had a child with the late Donald Eugene Ashe (1954-2024) named Travis S. Claud (b. 1986). She had a child with Gaston Wyndham named DeAngelo Pierre Claud (b. 1989). My distant cousin LaRon Markee "Deebo" Claude lived from February 19, 1997 to November 4, 2022. He was 45 years old of Millstone Court, Suffolk, Virginia. His grandparents were Frank Daniel Claude and Mary Clude. His grandmother also was Helen Heloise Bagley. His uncle was Kevin "K.C." Claude of Suffolk, Virginia, and his aunt Gloria Dean Rodgers. He was a class of 1996 graduate of Lakeland High School where he ran track for four years and earned several metals. LaRon also played baseball for the Whaleyville Athletic Association. LaRon worked at Burlington Capital Properties for eight years. He also worked with his family businesses, J&L’s Rentals and L&J Lawn Care Services. LaRon was affectionally known as “DeeBoo and Top Flight”. LaRon loved his grand kids and enjoyed spending time with them outside. He loved football and his favorite team was the Buffalo Bills. He leaves to cherish his memory his wife, Janice Claude; two sons, Trevon and Nyshon Claude; three daughters, Tashmekka Boatwright, Jazzmine Saunders and Jaylah Saunders; mother, Constance D. Bagley; father, Tony X. Bagley (Denise Bagley); two brothers, Antaion X. Bagley Sr (Kamia Bagley). and Ravon D. Bagley; sisters, Stacey Owens, Katrina Robinson and Michelle Jackson; grandchildren, Lyric and Loyal Eason; nephews, Antaion X. Bagley, Jr., Xavier J. Banks, Isaiah Jackson Navar Bagley, Nizayer Bagley, Noah Bagley and Jakarion Hunter; nieces, Kania Bagley, Morgan Stagg and Genevive Owens; Mother-in-law, Janice Lassiter (Michael) and father-in-law, Lindell Hunter (Lisa); brothers-in-law, Lindell and Justin Hunter; special niece and nephews, Jordan Turner, Jaylen Boyette and Kaylah Ward; special sister/manager, Teresah Rasaluah; godsons, Kamari Porter and Noah Brown; goddaughters, Whishes Wilson, Jeliah Wiggins, Kylin Porter and Taylor Smith; a host of other family and friends.
By Timothy
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