NBA -- Tuesday 5/5 Detroit at home defeats CLEVELAND 111 - 101

 Game 1 of Play-off schedule (May - June FINALS)

Knicks v. 76ers : 7 p.m. May 4

Spurs v. Timberwolves : 8:30 p.m.

Central, also Monday May 4 

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TUESDAY (Primary voting

day in Midwestern states)

OK City Thunder v. LA Lakers

7:30 p.m. CENTRAL TIME

Detroit PISTONS v. 

Cleveland Cavaliers 6 p.m.

Eastern at Detroit (NBC Sports

Channel)

May 2026 blog statistics 54K +

 May 1 - 31, 2026

First Friday

5/1/             6,516

Sat. 5/2         6,491

Sunday (5/3)    17,468

5/4 (Monday)    18,565

5/5              5,283

until 

Fifth Monday (5/31)

Total for entire month =

54,664

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Last month April 1 - 30

was 

246,825

Tues. Evening : Trump "pauses ship guiding" through STRAIT OF HORMUZ

 Sinclair / CBS / Fox

WSBT dot-com

"President pauses ship guidance

in STRAIT of HORMUZ for a short time"

(unclear whether this is for negotiating

DEAL-Making with theocratic government

ruling Iran with an "iron first")

Blockade "on hold"

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contradicting himself and SECY.State /

National Security Adviser Marco Rubio

Senate BIll that will be forced through RECONCILIATION -- raises the Cost of TRUMP Ballroom to $1 billion

 Carl Hulse,

reporting from Capitol Hill,

for NY TIMES (online article)

2026/05/05 - TrumpNews#

Republicans-immigration-bill-

trump-ballroom

Gwangjang Korean Market (Texas, USA)

 Carrollton, TX

Please pray for the survivors and

the loved ones of those killed in

gunfire at the Korean ethnic

supermarket in a Texas City.

nbcnews. covered this

"Shooting near Dallas leaves

2 dead 3 injured in supermarket"

5/5/2026 afternoon

Today is Cinco de Mayo -- what does it mean? (Writer's Almanac synopsis) - May 5 annually

from Listserv sent by Minnesota Public Radio (Garrison Keillor):

Today is Cinco de Mayo, which commemorates the Mexican victory over the French in the Battle of Puebla in 1862, but is, in a more general way, a celebration of Mexican heritage and culture in the United States.


After a series of wars in the mid-19th-century, Mexico was reeling. President Benito Juarez announced that payment of foreign debts would be temporarily suspended in 1861, and the French navy showed up to demand repayment. As long as they were there anyway, Napoleon III thought it would be a good idea to replace the current government with one more favorable to French interests -- and France could also establish a base of operations to aid the Confederacy in the American Civil War. 

In a David-and-Goliath battle, the 8,000-strong, well-armed French army was routed by 4,000 ill-equipped Mexican soldiers, and though it wasn’t a decisive battle in the course of the war, it became a symbol of Mexican pride. It also kept Napoleon from aiding the cause of the Confederacy.


Cinco de Mayo isn’t widely celebrated in Mexico outside the state of Puebla, but it has been adopted by many Americans regardless of their heritage, much like St. Patrick’s Day and Oktoberfest. It’s been celebrated in California since 1863, and grew in prominence in the rest of the country along with the Chicano movement of the 1940s. 

It wasn’t until beer advertisers decided to promote the holiday heavily in the 1980s that American celebration of Cinco de Mayo became widespread.

Feliz Cinco de Mayo

Have a happy "Cinco de Mayo" holiday on

Cinco de Mayo 2026!