The Big bad Bonkers budget busting billionaire bailout boondoggle.

Posted with minimal comment in a spirit of listening.

But wait: WHO THE HECK believes anything the White House says, and do people who voted for the bill even take minimal responsibility for knowing what is in it?

Some interesting points for WA

RantWoman has serious issues with a certain South African billionaire owning and controlling all the things he controls, but RantWoman is wondering whether a Musk challenge would energize democrats enough...?

Congressman describes meeting with Trump about 'One Big Beautiful Bill' ...

As an aside, Dan Newhouse WA04 is one of two remaining Republicans who voted to impeach President Orange in 2020.

Really important channel about military and national guard issues.

Trump’s Secret Blueprint BLOWN WIDE OPEN by VETERAN

LOTS of really specific insight about the national guard, the Marines, the President, and LOTS of signalling.

30% of national guard in CA are either foreign born or from foreign born families.

REALLY important comments about what is interpreted as violence and pretexts for various actions.

Further rant available about how the military exploits people's dedication and yet further rant about how this plays out for interpreters who take HUGE risks to themselves and their families and then get treated like crap in bureaucratic hell when they try to hold the US military to its promises.

Riot fencing

Saturday evening, RantWoman learned that the US Senate has passed whatever its final rendition of the President's Big Bad Bonkers Budget Busting Billionaire Bailout Boondoggle.

RantWoman assumes all this fencing is going up in anticipation of public reaction, although one voice here commented that #IndependenceDay will also soon be upon us.

Week 4 Pre-Annual Session Worship Sharing

 Queries as received for Week 4

At the beginning of each session read: Rumi poem and Isaac Pennington quote 

Fourth meeting: 

• Do I give over my own willing, running, and desiring in order to sink down to the seed within me? How can I use my time at annual session to practice this?

See comments for weeks 1,2,3 as led.

RantWoman and the RSOF: Clerk's letter from Sierra Cascade YM annual session

I offer these simple queries as you prepare for our gathering. 

● How has Love shown up for you lately? 

● What helps you center Love in your interactions with others? 

RantWoman and the RSOF: My Friend. Poem by Nikai Sherlock

This all of course is probably way too much and RantWoman has not even gotten to all the themes making her head explode, but this has to be enough for today.

Clerk's letter from Sierra Cascade YM annual session

RantWoman was just going to slurp the queries to nourish this year's pre-annual-Session Zoom worship group. But RantWoman decided the whole text is needed to help clear out some fog for RantWoman. 

RantWoman intended to Zoom to some of the SCYM Annual Session. That has not happened, except hopefully for closing worship in a few hours.

 Clerk’s Message 

How many times have you attended a SCYMF gathering? Maybe this will be your very first one. Or maybe. Like me, you’ve attended every annual sessions since our formative gathering in July of 2017 and every gathering since then. We’ve seen, heard, experienced, learned, and grown together over these years. We’ve worshipped, sung songs, grieved, discerned, tried new ways of being a community, made mistakes, grown—and still we gather. I always look forward to our time together, which is never long enough. 

For me this year’s theme, Centered in Love, builds on all our other sessions. It builds on what we strive for in our local meetings. It builds on what our world needs from us. We face what seems like uncharted territory, but Friends have faced similar crises over the centuries with faithfulness and love. Matt Boswell will lead us in worship and reflection as we trust Spirit to open to us our next steps. 

This is my final meeting for business to co-clerk for SCYMF. I have cherished co-clerking with Mike Huber and Erin Craig. My relationships with many people in the yearly meeting have deepened as we have worked together at better becoming the beloved community we are to be. I have such appreciation for the faithfulness of so many who volunteer to serve on committees, host gatherings, represent SCYMF to other organizations, and who take care of each other. I will continue to walk alongside you as we continue to grow into a stronger, more loving, community that values curiosity, recognizes harm and is willing to respect the perspectives and experiences of others with love. 

I offer these simple queries as you prepare for our gathering. 

● How has Love shown up for you lately? 

● What helps you center Love in your interactions with others? 

Norma Silliman, she/her, Presiding Co-clerk

Sierra-Cascades Yearly Meeting of Friends

Getting to Zero: practicality, mysticism, culture, practicality

RantWoman hopes the following item will be intriguing even for people who do not automatically associate math with mystical experience.

RantWoman dissents from the title because part of the wonder of zero is its dissemination and proliferation.

Why only ONE ancient CIVILIZATION invented the true number ZERO!

European bison revive a dying landscape

Please enjoy the video. Readers who need more explanation of RantWoman's approach to self-soothing, catch some opinions on the other side.

Europe Released Bison Into a Dying Forest, One Year Later, No One Could ...

Basically, anything to do with actual science, history, volcanoes, sometimes music, sometimes cats, sometimes humor can work to pry RantWoman out of fixations amid the daily news torrents. So here's to some grazing bison!