Tuesday, 19 May 2026

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May Great Spirit bless 🙏

Good morning, everyone. I pray that all is well with you, dear readers, and that you are blessed. I pray that each day is better than yesterday, one day at a time 🙏👼

When I do the news, I search for the underlying truth hidden within all the lies and omissions. According to Google Search, we are inundated with global polling showing that over (86\%) of internet users report exposure to false online news. Fake news every day on the news channels and the internet is getting drilled into our minds. It's like real subliminal messaging. The rage of the age back in the 60's. Can subliminal messaging confuse the line between good and bad?

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Question: Subliminal Messaging

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Subliminal messages are hidden signals, images, or audio designed to bypass conscious perception and influence behavior. While widely used in self-help media and advertising, scientific consensus shows they have no real power to force actions, though they can temporarily prime moods or reinforce existing biases

There is no confusion if you stop long enough to let the controversial thoughts take a rest for a couple of minutes, then FEEL WHAT IS TRULY IN YOUR HEART. Confusion is being on the edge of the dark, bottomless precipice. Do you turn right or left? If you are an empath, you have that little alarm bell that warns you. Once that little bell goes off, I can feel my way around or away from that precipice, especially after having the past experience of falling into it a few times in my life. You get to listening to your feelings 😉

Below is a beautiful essay about how to deal with this deranged world.

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The Awakened Souls Collective

Judie Lavender

My heart has been so heavy lately, watching what families are facing in this world. In my 58 years of life, I never imagined we would live in a time with so much division, anger, confusion, and disconnection from one another. Everywhere you turn, it feels like there is pressure, fear, agendas, and constant noise pulling at the hearts and minds of our children and grandchildren.

As a grandmother, it cuts deep. You look around and wonder… where did compassion go? Where did respect go? When did simply loving, guiding, protecting, and teaching our children become so complicated? Parents today are carrying worries so heavy it's affecting their health, their peace, and their spirit.

I try so hard to stay grounded. I try to protect my energy, focus on light, love, and the good that still exists in this world. But some days it's hard. Some days my soul aches for the innocence that feels lost. My insides scream and cry for my grandchildren and the world they are growing up in. 💔

But even in my heartbreak, I refuse to stop believing that good people still exist. I refuse to stop being a light, a safe place, and a voice of love and truth for the people around me. Maybe that's where healing begins — in our homes, in our hearts, in how we treat one another every single day.

Hold your families close. Teach kindness. Teach strength. Teach love. The world may feel heavy, but we do not have to become the darkness we see around us. 🙏✨

My Comment:

Cynthia grlx.

It is very hard to stay grounded these days; it's hard to keep from flying off the handle and end up in the maelstrom of confusion with the rest of the Dunce Brigade out there. Empathy, caring, and love are so crucial during these times, but these qualities feel more like whimsical dreams that can never be realized during this darkness. But it is in times like these that I do my best to share my truth.

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BREAKING NEWS:

The war in Iran so far, moment by moment

From catastrophic and deadly strikes to wars of words: CNN's reporters discuss the war’s inflection points as they happen

Since the opening US-Israeli strikes that killed Iran’s supreme leader, the war in Iran has reshaped the Middle East in real time, with brinkmanship over the Strait of Hormuz and a haphazard final push toward ceasefire.

Through reporting from Tehran, Tel Aviv, Washington and beyond, CNN journalists trace the conflict’s defining moments — the military escalations, devastating human toll, market shocks and political reckonings that altered the course of the war, moment by moment...

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The war in Iran so far, moment by moment

From catastrophic and deadly strikes to wars of words: CNN's reporters discuss the war’s inflection points as they happen...

Published May 19, 2026

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The parable and paradox of Thomas Massie

Thomas Massie says he represents 40% of the GOP. And without him, he thinks those voters will be disenfranchised. He warns that Republicans may be about to make a big mistake.

I’ve been meaning to write this story — with this exact headline — for at least seven years now. It’s been so long that the entire point of the parable has flipped. I first met Thomas Massie sometime in 2013, when I was just a young congressional reporter writing stories that no one outside the Capitol would read. Massie made an impression on me.

He was inarguably an independent voice. He was principled on spending, and obstinate when Republican leaders wanted to use the same old broken processes lawmakers had used for decades to ram through legislation. As people tend to say about Thomas Massie when they’re trying to be polite: I may not have agreed with everything he said, but I appreciated that he spoke his mind.

Only I wasn’t just being polite. When I interviewed him, I found myself nodding along at his points and chuckling at the jokes coming from a baby-faced congressman who was almost twice my age. We got to know each other better over the years. At some point, a leadership staffer tipped me off that Massie — a proud double graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — was basically the godfather of “dildonics,” which is exactly what you think it is...

• “The Precious” referred to his congressional member’s pin. And just like in The Lord of the Rings, Massie contended that if you keep it on too long, it would start to turn you into a worse version of yourself — like Sméagol transforming into Gollum.

• Massie hasn’t actually run away from Trump.

In many ways, he’s doing something more damaging.

• He suggested that, among the roughly 220 Republicans in the House, there are 30 who are “just bad people.”

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May. 19, 2026, 5:00 AM EDT

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GEEZ MAN! GO AHEAD AND ROCK THE DAMNED BOAT! SOMEBODY HAS TO ROCK THOAT!

Make big waves and wash the 💩 out of the brown 💩 🛖 house, and make it the White 🏛️ House again. I don't care if you're a Republican from planet Pluto, I only pray that there is a cold place on Pluto as long as you have a fair and JUST heart.

Canada's annual inflation rate rose to 2.8% in April, thanks to soaring energy prices

When energy prices are ignored, however, core inflation measures rose much slower

Canada's annual inflation rate rose to 2.8 per cent in April, Statistics Canada said on Tuesday, in large part due to soaring prices at the pump. Energy prices overall rose a whopping 19.2 per cent year-over-year in April, following a 3.9 per cent increase the month before.

Statistics Canada said the cost of gasoline specifically rose even quicker, and was 28.6 per cent higher year-over-year, thanks to the supply crunch in the Strait of Hormuz and because of the switch to the more expensive summer blend of gasoline.

The U.S. and Israel's war with Iran has shuttered the strait, which has driven prices for energy up worldwide...

CHART | Annual Inflation Rate In Canada

All items, excluding gas

CHART | Annual Inflation Rate In Canada

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Posted: May 19, 2026 8:38 AM EDT | Last Updated: 39 minutes ago

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