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Good morning! May the Great Spirit bless you 🙏

It's a beautiful, sunny, typical early July day, and I baked a cake 🍰, and I'll eat it too. "Sigh!" ♪♫♭ A lovely sandals and sundress day on the flight deck of the Good Ship 🚢 Lollipop! 🍭 👧

If I were to allow my mind to wallow in the state of the world today, it would be in a garbage can. Chaos and confusion all because of one Orange-Pus Bag and his evil dunce brigade. If I allowed myself, I would be on a gloomy and doomy 🌫 💥 ⛈ ⚡️ 🌊 day that I couldn't do anything about. So I have to put on my cartoon time thinking hat and turn on my Looney Tunes hi-fi stereo and let it all hang out, man! Hey, maybe I invented a new video game, Kink Orange Shmuck and The Dunce Brigade, versus Cartoon Land.

💩👾👅🤣👹😭🪳🤡 🔺versus 😱🧙‍♂️🐿👁🐰🦆😼🐭🥸

Jim Carrey:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEK2duZmO_E

I love just plain old silliness sometimes, like the really ABSURD type. Absurd only to this potential in space-time reality.

Now is the time to pause for prayer and meditation:

Let us pause here for a moment to send prayers and meditate for those in need south of the border. Espacially those that didn't vote for this crap and for those just waking up to the fact that the Kool-Aid was spiked with rattle snake venom.

Let us Pray and Meditate:

God, Great Spirit willing, I intend to continue this prayer meeting, each day I am here to type this prayer notice, until the insanity has ended.

🙏 🌸 ☮️ Ω ~ VIVE LA RESISTANCE ~ Ω ☮️ 🌸 🙏

PSYCHOLOGY OF EMPATHY

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LESLEY University:

The Psychology of Emotional and Cognitive Empathy

The study of empathy is an ongoing area of major interest for psychologists and neuroscientists in many fields, with new research appearing regularly.

Empathy is a broad concept that refers to the cognitive and emotional reactions of an individual to the observed experiences of another. Having empathy increases the likelihood of helping others and showing compassion. "Empathy is a building block of morality—for people to follow the Golden Rule, it helps if they can put themselves in someone else's shoes," according to the Greater Good Science Center, a research institute that studies the psychology, sociology, and neuroscience of well-being. "It is also a key ingredient of successful relationships because it helps us understand the perspectives, needs, and intentions of others."

*Emotional and Cognitive Empathy:*

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More on Psychology of Empathy.

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PSYCHOLOGY OF EMPATHY:

Helping others psychologically and empathically involves understanding and sharing the feelings of another person, and then acting in a way that supports their well-being. It's about recognizing their perspective and emotions, and responding with compassion and helpful actions. This can involve active listening, validating their feelings, and offering support.

Empathy, in psychology, is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another person. It involves both cognitive and emotional components, allowing individuals to not only understand another person's perspective but also to feel some of their emotions. According to Psychology Today, empathy is essential for forming strong relationships, cultivating social connections, and encouraging prosocial behavior.

My personal experience:

My personal experience is that it feels like the other person is an extension of my feelings. Even in an image on TV or a picture, I feel like what the person feels is a part of me. It is very difficult for me to watch the photos we get on TV of the genocide in Gaza. That certainly would keep me awake nights if I didn't let it go, with a prayer. And I do what I can here to lift the spirits of readers, wherever this network reaches. I'm sure there's even someone in the middle of the Sahara desert with a working cellphone. Or even a thousand leagues under the sea.

Or Elon's Starship on Mars.

What about The Delta Quadrant? Neelix reading my Tree House News on his wrist watch while playing cards with Tubok in the engine room aboard Straship Voyager.

Thank you for reading the News.

BREAKING NEWS:

Russian drones swarm Kyiv from all sides in apparent shift of tactics

Hundreds of Russian drones flying from all directions attacked Kyiv overnight into Thursday in an apparent new Russian tactic, marking a second consecutive night of ferocious attacks on Ukraine.

At least two people were killed, including a 22-year-old police officer who was named by authorities as Maria Dziumaha, and more than a dozen were wounded in the attacks, according to authorities. CNN staff on the ground in Kyiv witnessed massive, fiery explosions that illuminated the night sky. Smoke filled the air, creating a burning smell and obscuring the visibility in the city center.

Russia has been intensifying its aerial attacks against Ukraine in recent weeks, but the assault on Thursday appeared to mark a change in approach from Moscow. Russia launched 400 drones and 18 missiles, including eight ballistic and six cruise missiles, according to a telegram post from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky...

• Peace talks going nowhere:

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Updated 9:36 AM EDT, Thu July 10, 2025

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31 workers rescued after partial tunnel collapse in Los Angeles, officials say

Thirty-one people working in a massive underground tunnel in Los Angeles were rescued Wednesday night after a portion of the structure collapsed, officials said.

Those rescued didn’t have any visible injuries, the LAFD said in a statement, shortly after an operation that saw several of those trapped in the industrial tunnel hoisted up to safety by crane. More than 100 Los Angeles Fire Department responders raced to the scene in the city’s Wilmington neighborhood to assist in the operation, including Urban Search and Rescue teams, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said on X.

The collapse occurred approximately five to six miles from the sole entry and exit point of the tunnel and about 400 feet below ground, officials said. The tunnel is part of a municipal wastewater project...

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July 10, 2025 Updated 29 min ago

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It hasn’t been this hard for Americans to find work since 2021

Layoffs may not be mounting, but it’s getting harder to find a job in a labor market where hiring is “anemic” as tariff-driven economic uncertainty has put a chill on some employers.

New data released Thursday showed that initial claims for unemployment benefits — considered a proxy for layoffs — fell last week. However, the number of recurring claims made by people who already have filed for unemployment rose to their highest level since November 2021. There were an estimated 227,000 first-time applications for unemployment insurance made during the week that ended on July 5. That’s down 5,000 claims from the prior week.

Economists were expecting claims to move higher to 238,000, according to FactSet. The US labor market has cooled significantly during the past year, and the pullback in job growth has largely been attributed to employers reining in hiring rather than conducting mass layoffs...

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Updated 9:33 AM EDT, Thu July 10, 2025

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The US has a plan to breed millions of flies and drop them from planes. Here’s why

Hundreds of millions of flies dropping from planes in the sky might sound like a horrible nightmare, but experts say such a swarm could be the livestock industry’s best defense against a flesh-eating threat poised to invade the southwestern border of the United States.

An outbreak of New World screwworms — the larval form of a type of fly that’s known to nest in the wounds of warm-blooded animals and slowly eat them alive — has been spreading across Central America since early 2023, with infestations recorded in Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Belize and El Salvador. Most Central American countries hadn’t seen an outbreak in 20 years.

_The strategy — essentially fighting flies with flies — slowly degraded the insects’ populations by preventing them from laying more eggs. Now, as the insects continue to spread north officials are hoping the approach could work again_

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Updated 6:27 AM EDT, Thu July 10, 2025

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CANADIAN NEWS:

Evacuation ordered for Garden Hill Anisininew Nation after wildfire breaches Manitoba fly-in community

Canadian Armed Forces assisting with evacuation of 4,500 residents

Breaking:

Snow Lake residents ordered to evacuate for second time due to fires

Manitoba's largest northern city Thompson declares state of emergency amid wildfires

Northern fires force another evacuation of Lynn Lake, Man.

July 10, 2025 - 43 minutes ago

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First Nations call for Ontario minister to resign over clean drinking water bill

Environment Minister previously asked federal government to steer away from legislation

Several dozen First Nations in Ontario called for the resignation of the province's environment minister Wednesday after he asked the federal government to not reintroduce a bill that would enshrine clean drinking water rights in law. Last month, Todd McCarthy and Alberta Environment Minister Rebecca Schulz wrote to federal Environment Minister Julie Dabrusin asking her to move away from legislation that they say would "delay project development and undermine competitiveness."

They singled out Bill C-61, legislation introduced in the last Parliament that sought to ensure First Nations have access to clean drinking water and can protect fresh water sources on their territories...

• Bill 5 recently passed:

First Nations say this is the latest 'slap in the face'

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Posted: Jul 10, 2025 10:21 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago

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Trump stopped the global fight against HIV/AIDS in its tracks. Canada can help fix it

'A global problem needs a global solution,' says UNAIDS director

Winnie Byanyima is trying to hold onto hope in the face of what she calls unbelievable cruelty. She is the director of UNAIDS, the United Nations agency that, until recently, was on track to meet its target of ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030.

But now, as President Donald Trump's second administration rapidly and dramatically scales back U.S. foreign aid contributions, UNAIDS is instead predicting in a new report that there will be six million new HIV infections and four million additional deaths within the next four years alone. "It's just so cruel," Byanyima told As It Happens host Nil Kӧksal. "It was not necessary to withdraw funding for life-saving services so suddenly."...

• Canada should lead the way, doctors say:
• 'An act of criminal negligence':
• A global disease needs a global solution: UN director:

Posted: Jul 10, 2025 5:30 AM EDT | Last Updated: 6 hours ago:

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♪♫NATURE'S SOUNDS AND MUSIC TO SOOTH THE SOUL♪♫

🎆~ Awaken Third Eye, to Mental Clarity & Open Vision ~🎆

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUvjOFZU2kc