Posted in full on protest of certain US military activities "down south"
Let's talk about Trump giving US Intel a black eye (out of five)....
Thursday, November 13, 2025
Saturday, November 8, 2025
Russia? Venezuela? BIZARRE strategic decisions?
#Russia #Ukraine
RantWoman has a backlog of videos about internal resistance, Russian soldiers defecting to Ukraine, effects of secondary sanctions, drones, cruise missiles, blackouts in Moscow, ground stops at Russian airports and division among the oligarchs. Life is not good in Russia.
RantWoman would not be displeased to see Russia forced to move away from fossil fuels. However, freezing in the winter dark is not something to wish on anyone and the do not appear to be good paths out of the bloodshed.
In any case, a digression (?) involving Venezuela
Russian politicians, like their US peers, are prone to saying outrageous things. But is this outrageous?
Russia Just Did Something Utterly Bizarre in Venezuela
another video from William Spaniel
and on top of relentless Ukrainian success attacking Russia's oil production facilities
Russia has not yet managed to take over Pokrovsk
And speaking of trazing on YouTube, The Freedom or Russia legion and railroad sabortage
And morbid science about unnecessary use of tourniquets
Friday, November 7, 2025
Clear Hearts Quaker Fellowship invitation to weekly worship on Zoom, 11:45 Pacific
Clear Hearts Quaker Circle formed out of a need for a Quaker community that
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belonging, reconciliation, justice, and hospitality.
Like FLGBTQC, we know that "radical inclusion and radical love bring
further light to Quaker testimony and life." Our unique experiences of God
or Spirit or the Light or Holy Darkness, or simply the wonders of the
universe, must be received with open hearts and minds.
Also like FLGBTQC, "we are still learning to spread love in the face of
rejection and hostility and to embrace new friends." We want everyone to be
able to be their full, authentic self– if someone does not feel welcome,
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Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Nothing like an armed attack induced flash flood.
#Russia #Ukraine
Ukraine cuts MAJOR transportation link in western Russian / NE Ukraine
FLOOD RUN! Hundreds Russian Tanks Stuck Near River as Surprise Attacks S...
Civil Resistance in Chicago and news from Portland
You need to hear what Chicago is doing to fight back against ICE.
Yes THIS. Resist!
Inconsistency in application of the law by Portland Police Bureau
Creating disinformation for the regime. Right wing influencers can visit ICE facilities but elected representatives cannot.
And ICE is the one initiating violence
And Great Legal mind Stephen Miller calls out "seditious conspiracy"
Competition in the weapons Biz! Sweden has a word
Canada SHOCKED as Sweden’s Gripen OUTPERFORMS the F-35!
President #StableGenius is alienating allies just as US pressure for countries to up their defense "investment" to 2% of GDP, countries are striving for greater independence and freedom from entanglement with the US.
If one is going to build weapons, this seems like a good idea, and competition is good for all sides. Oh Well. The US will need to get into a different line of business. Oh Well.
Monday, October 27, 2025
Dear MAGA, Happy (?) Diwali
Vivek Ramaswamy Never Told Kash About MAGA
RantWoman has gotten a little lazy and is appreciating other voices that say what needs to be said far more bluntly.
Friday, October 24, 2025
General Winter at Russia's doorstep and the war continues to bo badly
#Russia #Ukraine
This Winter Will Be Russia’s Biggest Nightmare
Jake, Jake, Jake. Please Pretty please ask someone to help you pronounce Russian place names correctly.
Interesting comment about change in restrictions on use of long range missiles.
Russians calling on Ukraine to just aim at the Kremlin (?!?)
The summit that was and now isn't
And the latest in internet...
Monday, October 20, 2025
President Stable Genius poops on the populace
#NoKingsDay according to the President
Nicolle Wallace reacts to Donald Trump’s vile social media post over No ...
President #StableGenius is not even competent to vet a propaganda video much less operate so much as a golf cart never mind a nuclear arsenal. I read the video as a dementia patient with overflowing diapers who doesn't even have the sense to put his oxygen mask on correctly. It's like he is begging, pleading for help from the 25th Amendment
Sunday, October 19, 2025
Wounded Knee: the difference between "battle" and "massacre"
Tribal Leaders Push Back Pete Hegseth Decision on Wounded Knee Medals
Mehdi Hasan on the current "cease fire"
#Palestine #Gaza
‘You Will Not Silence Me’: Watch Mehdi’s Defiant Speech on Gaza
and at #NoKingsDayOctober18th
Friday, October 17, 2025
Massive Street protests in St. Petersburg. Meat grinder continues. Ukraine keeps hitting Russian Oil refinery.
RantWoman apologizes.
RantWoman has been busy with Projects and with trying to have a reasonable sleep pattern.
There is also the upcoming #NoKingsDay as well as the doings of the local dementia patient with severe authoritarian tendencies. So, although RantWoman has a whole queue of mean to post items about #Russia, #Ukraine, Belarus....
This post is an attempt to catch up.
Additional videos in abundance on YouTube
FSB Announces Coup Plot in Russia: Putin is About to Be BETRAYED!
"Let the swans dance"
Putin's Home town
"Swan Lake."
The Russian antiwar committee
Belarus
Who else's economy is cratering?
explanation of the "Dutch disease," see also Paul Warburg.
Random things in titles that RantWoman has not even looked at:
Ukraine strikes the Kerch bridge
US arms shipments, UK stepping up to arm #Ukraine...
18-year-olds in the latest mobilization despite Putin's promise not to do that.
Sunday, October 12, 2025
A department of DEFENSE protects everyone. A department of WAR on the other hand....
Let's talk about the GOP taking a holiday instead of paying troops....
I am steamed that our witless #SecDef has proclaimed the department he heads the Department of WAR. He is also cancelling important programs such as the cyber security command. Do not forget firing leaders left and right for being the wrong color or gender. So anyone who wants to contain the defense budget might be forgiven for saying well, as long as the administration is weakening national security in myriad ways, let's not pay the troops either.
If we still had a department of DEFENSE that applied to all of the US, ordinary working people and military families should BOTH get affordable health care. The #GOP leadership needs to grow spines, STOP lying and STOP SENDING THEIR HOUSES ON VACATION and sit down. Get back to work and work across the aisle
Friday, October 10, 2025
TIMELY Opportunity to apply to Quaker Voice legislative fellowship
The Quaker Voice Legislative Fellowship Program encourages the active engagement of fellowship holders in the state legislative process through mentorship, skill development, and partnering with legislative advocates in their work. Participants do not need to be Quakers. The program provides a $500 stipend. The application deadline is October 20.
Quaker Voice Legislative Fellows are young adults ages 16-35 who live or study in the state of Washington (or outside Washington if recommended by a Quaker Meeting), Each Fellow joins a group working to support action in the Washington state legislature on issues in environment, police and prisons, healthcare, affordable housing, immigrant and LGBTQ+ rights, and other justice concerns. The Fellow develops background materials and tracks legislation, in partnership with a mentor who is already a Quaker Voice citizen advocate. Each fellow has an opportunity to see in depth how a lobbyist works by shadowing Paul Benz, our Senior Legislative Advocate, for a day. Travel costs to Olympia for Quaker Lobby Day and the shadow day are covered by the program.
See this page for full information: 2025-26 Legislative Fellowship Program — Quaker Voice
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
New faces and Conscientious Objection
RantWoman posts this info FYI for anyone facing considerations about possible unlawful orders.
Anyone considering decisions should consult legal counsel
UPDATE on US troops DISOBEYING Trump’s ILLEGAL orders
Some Chicago moments
"There's no emergency. There is no justification..."
And in other news
About Face Vets
Sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel is just New Jersey, but You go then I'll go.
Two Lawrence O'Donell vids to keep us somewhere near sanity at least as far as elegantly summarizing outrage and excoriating the current administration.
Lawrence: How many flashes of insanity from a president should we tolerate?
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
Epstein AND the Budget????
Trump DESTROYED as 70 Republicans QUIT to BLOCK His Budget Bill!!
As an aside, RantWoman thinks the best way for the Epstein survivors to get somewhere near justice would be civil lawsuits against everyone even vaguely connected with DISGUSTING Epstein world. RantWoman has ZERO expectation that justice will come from Congress. But RantWoman is not a lawyer and is perhaps missing something.
Kaliningrad Kaliningrad
#Russia #Kaliningrad #Chernobyl #AssymetricWarfare
"Russia is ABOUT TO LOSE Kaliningrad": The Kremlin is VERY CONCERNED Abo...
includes GIANT ad for an AI notetaker
Aside from questions of strategery, ASK THE PEOPLE of Kaliningrad what they want.
Rockets with love from Kazakhstan?
And actual, probably low, accounting of casualties
Ken Harbaugh on a visit to CHERNOBYL
Fascinating economic turn. Along with serious SPIN from Putin.
And another war criminal done in by a Ukrainian drone.
While we're at it, 312 days of protests in Georgia, not MTG's Georgia; the other one.
Friendly reminders from the state of Georgia and also VA
Why this historical overview now?
And is this partly AI?
Hidden Plot EXPOSED Against Trump – Georgia Bombshell Unveiled! 🇺🇸''|| R...
And about getting around to Letitia James and a brave VA Prosecutor who said no to political prosecution
Monday, October 6, 2025
Fish got away with a little help....
Warning: a generous helping of unQuakerly language, but FAR more digestible content than the military raid on the apartment building.
Note with particular scorn the reference to dollar signs for every detention. DISGUSTING that COngress cannot come up with tax credits so ordinary working people can afford health insurance, but it has for YEARS been funding, excuse me over-funding the vast detention apparatus
The Feds Are OUT OF CONTROL in Chicago… People Have HAD ENOUGH
Send in the feds--for a FROG?
Laugh! Breathe. Drink Water Touch Grass. Laugh
Trump Sent Feds to Stop a FROG in Portland... and LOST BADLY
ANd from a few weeks ago
Good news: Things are getting much worse
#Russia #Ukraine
Will posting all the ways that Russia is getting clobbered do amnything for humanitarian relief? Will it create psychic conditions for steps toward PEACE?
Putin's Industrial Collapse: WORSE than you think
And speaking of battleships, Russia?
Sunday, October 5, 2025
Shaman, Shaman?
#Russia #Ukraine
Will culture help Russia end it's STUPID war?
Is all this just the latest in historical Russian mysticism?
Is it just an indication that RantWoman is HOPELESSLY out of touch with the youth of more than one culture???
He Was Trolling All Along
Cultural icons of Russian youth, autotranslated, with layers of irony and mystical symbolism
RantWoman WILL go look up the YouTuber mentioned toward the end.
RantWoman, WHY are you posting this link to a rather different video about Charlie Kirk?
The theme in common: quest for Truth and belief, while also bursting bubbles.
Friday, October 3, 2025
OMG. Pope Leo calls out ....
WATCH: Pope Leo CALLS OUT MAGA Christians In VIRAL MOMENT
Has RantWoman mentioned that she is a GIANT fan of Pope Leo.
It was an Act of GOD that he got elected pope.
He has so many messages that anyone with a soul should relate to.
There are also plenty of moments that remind RantWoman why she is cannot pull off appropriate veneration of the Divine in Catholic terms.
Thursday, October 2, 2025
Russia has already lost?
#Russia #Ukraine
While President #StableGenius and the #DUIhire #Secdef are assembling hundreds of military brass for lectures about hair, #DEI, fat generals, as well as the President's generic word salad, THINGS ARE HAPPENING in Russia's war on Ukraine.
Crimea's Countdown to Collapse
Kazakhstan suspends oil shipments to Russia
Addresses Russian drones flying over Europe and French boarding of a ranker from the Russian shadow fleet: drones shot off the Pushba.
Poorly qualified crew, lack of insurance,
Pro Kremlin voices saying Russia is losing far too many troops.
26% of Russian oil refining capacity has been disabled.
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Christopher Hitchens gets us started with opinions about #Quantico
Dear Readers
Pick any one of the links below.
If one is going to sneer verbally, RantWoman aspires to do so with at least as much panache as Christopher Hitchens even if the accent won't work.
Other reviews
It was one of the strangest and most incoherent addresses ever.
"It's a whole lot of 'n's that (the President) can't say.
It was a monumental wall of idiocy
Some of this nonsense will not work.
Bringing back hazing?
Ending the zero-defect mindset / risk averse command culture
currently less yelling, more teambuilding.
Climate change is literally a safety issue
Trump Goes FULL “Fat Elvis”! Generals HUMILIATED at Quantico! Hegseth's MANIC Tuesday! | Next Level The Bulwark for over an hour
Early in the vid: really disgusting claim about pacifism
More General Hertling
scathing comparison of Hegseth proposed training practices to the horrors of the Russian army.
Hegseth worldview limited to only his own experience, no sense of all the different forces.
The President is oblivious about drones and wants to talk about battleships.
Undermining current composition of armed forces
Undermining "disagreement is not disrespect"
Friendly reminder that President #StableGenius is way too happy to claim credit to a whole bunch of war, some of which, such as Afghanistan vs Azerbaijan, do not even exist.
The WORST white privilege
There is NO WAY RantWoman can stomach the whole video.
BOO sectarian references.
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Happy Orange Shirt Day
Twitter / X advised RantWoman that today is Orange Shirt Day, in remembrance of all the horrors of Indian schools.
September 30 is also International Translators and Interpreters Day.
RantWoman is wearing an orange shirt and honoring both occasions as follows.
Special shout out to all interpreters everywhere who have risked their lives for the US.
Triple Shout-out when the US government was simultaneously suppressing indigenous languages in Indian schools and relying on Native American interpreters.
Blessings all.
Friday, September 26, 2025
Finnish President Alexander Stubb at the UN General Assembly
#Finland #UnitedNations #Prepraredness
Finland’s President Delivers Most Inspiring, Powerful UN Speech Yet on M...
And in the spirit of "Good Fences Make Good Neighbors."
Inside the Most Prepared Country on Earth
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Sunday, September 21, 2025
RIP Charlie Kirk; American CUT THE BULL.
The Venom They Want Sanitized: Kirk's Own Shocking Rhetoric Unmasked
RantWoman will NOT be watching the #CharlieKirk memorial.
RantWoman again expresses condolences to Charlie Kirk's grieving widow and laments that both her kids and all the kids affected by the oh so fashionable deport-a-rama will grow up fatherless.
The Charlie Kirk cult? Who might be behind his assassination?
An assortment of #CharlieKirk vids without too much analysis
Tyler Robinson DENIES Shooting Charlie Kirk
Youtube abounds with theories at this point about why the current Tyler Robinson narrative DOES NOT HOLD WATER.
This post is mostly a sampling of commentary suggesting that Israel is behind the Charlie Kirk Assassination. It adds up to a sense of much crap and danger to be digested but also to the importance of people having space to examine information and principles they are being fed.
Charlie Kirk was starting to speak out against Israel
A bunch of things don't add up.
OMG! YouTube is full of theories.
Reese Waters: Check out his channel
Netanyahu’s desperate clarification video on Charlie Kirk backfires spectacularly |Janta Ka Reporter
Tabitha Speaks: Check out her channel
Chris Hedges: check out his channel
From Roland Martin Another good channel to check out. CW here: many of Charlie Kirk's most disgusting comments all in a super concentrated video
Digression regarding Charlie Kirk's famous line about highly accomplished Black Women not having the brain power to be at places like Princeton and Harvard without "stealing a place from a white man."
1. One of the women referenced by Kirk has in fact said she would not be where she is without Affirmative Action.
RantWoman's interpretation: The Skull and Bones secret society at Yale decided to admit women decades after Yale first went co-ed. At the time someone from Skull and Bones was quoted saying that Skull and Bones was about the smartest people at Yale. (um, George W. Bush?) If they did not admit women, they would not be reaching the smartest people at Yale. SAME THING APPLIES about affirmative action. Never mind some people's sense of entitlement, if an organization does not specifically go looking for the smartest people... Many of the students of color RantWoman met at Princeton had to deal with both the external harassment and sometimes doubts within themselves. Having to do that is BS.
And speaking out referencing several points
Saturday, September 20, 2025
Why? Tyler, Why? And then there is the FBI
WORLD CLASS Ranting. Abundant un-quakerly language and yet nuggets.
Who is Tyler Robinson, Really? Charlie Kirk Shooter Truth EXPOSED
Interesting speculation about lonely kid and family pictures
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Fallout ...and "No evidence of Foul play."
As Pesident #StableGenius attempts to ban mention of slavery at National Parks.
FALLOUT Continues from Kirk Assassination as New DETAILS Rise
from the Legal Diva
about an episode in FL:
The first amendment guarantees you a right to speak but does not guarantee you an audience."
A history moment about Bob Marley and Jamaican politics
RantWoman first saw this on TabithaSpeaks
"No evidence of foul play."
Monday, September 15, 2025
Ukrainian Pacifist Yuri Sheliazhenko: his story.
#Ukraine #Pacifism
RantWoman until now has neglected voices of peace activists in Ukraine. Here is one modest effort to remedy that. RantWoman's main content curation here: links served up by Google. Presented in chronological order
Yuri worships online with Kyiv Friends when he can.
Not surprising that Mr. Sheliazhenko's views are controversial. Here are current requests and then some background
World Beyond War:
"Tell the Ukrainian Government to Drop Prosecution
of Peace Activist Yurii Sheliazhenko"
https://actionnetwork.org/
OR
https://tinyurl.com/YuriiSept
War Resistors' International:
"Ukraine: Stop the proceedings against Yurii Sheliazhenko"
https://wri-irg.org/en/
OR
https://tinyurl.com/Yurii-Sept
"Tell the Ukrainian Government to Drop Prosecution
of Peace Activist Yurii Sheliazhenko"
https://actionnetwork.org/
OR
https://tinyurl.com/YuriiSept
War Resistors' International:
"Ukraine: Stop the proceedings against Yurii Sheliazhenko"
https://wri-irg.org/en/
OR
https://tinyurl.com/Yurii-Sept
Yurii Sheliazhenko - Keynote Speech at the Peace Conference 2022 - Local...
REfreshing to see several other items on the Stop the War website including reference to Russian activist Boris Kagarlitsky.
Saturday, September 13, 2025
Processing the assassination of Charlie Kirk
Pray for this country. Start there.
Go out and touch grass.
The big tech companies are profitting off of... Don't let them.
RantWoman first heard simply that Charlie Kirk had been shot in the neck. RantWoman is not a doctor, but that DID NOT SOUND GOOD.
Next, RantWoman heard THE PRESIDENT announce that Charlie Kirk had died. RantWoman's reflex about anything President #StableGenius says is "if the President says water is wet, demand independent confirmation." Independent confirmation came soon enough.
RantWoman here notes without endorsement several strands of commentary spiced with RantWoman reactions.
"who's that?"
Oh, you lucky age group peers.
Charlie Kirk shooting: Why kill him? | About That
The Canadians set the backgroun.
"It's okay to be relieved if someone actively doing harm can no longer harm anyone."
Heartfelt prayers to Charlie Kirk's wife and children AND ALSO TO ALL THE FAMILIES LEFT FATHERLESS by the current deport-a-rama.
"Say what you will. Charlie lived by his principles."
so liv by the sword? Die by the sward?
Various flavors of whataboutism related to recent assassinations in MN. Why didn't the President fly flags at half-staff for the murders in MN?
Oh come on. President #BoneSpurs couldn't even allow the flags to fly half staff during his inauguration while the country was mourning President Jimmy Carter. Plus, those poor benighted Democrats never raised even a fraction of the money Charlie Kirk raised for Trump.
Retired FBI agent Frank Figlizzi: the shooter was good but an FBI sharpshooter would have aimed slightly differently.
Now Blind former trauma care nurse, echoing what RantWoman already thought, "DON'T look at the video.
"Lock down your accounts because if you say ANYTHING about this supposed apostle of free speech you WILL GET DOXED," with no thanks to MSNBC for firing a key person for saying out loud some of what there is to be said about Charlie Kirk.
Charlie Kirk Shooter Exposes MAJOR Problem
Perhaps something to young men who never fully extracted themselves from internet rabbit holes after the pandemic. Ask a teenager about mobility during the pandemic
RantWoman actually also thought of a comment from an elderly woman on the streets of Moscow after the assassination of Alexie Navalny: "I am sorry for the young people."
And can we elevate the voices of AOC, Jared Moskowitz, Maxwell Frost...?
Charlie Kirk Suspect Came From Inside The House
Reese Waters presents the Groiper themes.
Know you are and stand on it. Don't feed....
Charlie Kirk Suspect was "Extremely Online" | Pivot
The UK will use 30 people to gun violence in a year. The US loses 120 / month.
Charlie Kirk Suspect’s Grandma Says Family Is All MAGA
Utah Governor makes outrageous statementsat press conference for Charlie Kirk suspect.
"I was praying for 33 hours that this would not be one of us."
ACTUALLY, RantWoman interprets the dad turning in his own kid as a sign of some level of sanity.
Interesting Charlie Kirk comments.
Charlie Kirk’s Death Exposed the Biggest Scam in History
🚨Kirk Shooting Scandal WIDENS As Newsweek Drops BOMB
Feud between Charlie Kirk and Nick Fuentes?
Assassination of an Ass | BREAKING NEWS Armageddon Update
Donald Trump Is Over Charlie Kirk and Was It A.I. Or Are Our Eyes Playing Tricks On Us!!
The famous ballroom construction quote.
FBI Drops BOMB About Charlie Kirk SHOOTER’S ROOMMATE🚨
Friday, September 12, 2025
Shipbuilding sort of, North Korean SUBS with thanks to Russia
North Korea Just Exposed China & Russia's Military SCAM
Kind of embarrassing when a ship rolls on its side on its maiden voyage
"A high level of Russian involvement"
This video is the extent of RantWoman's knowledge of North Korean submarine matters, but it is an interesting picture and different from other #Russia related naval questions in the Baltic and Black Seas.
War is bad for Russia and shooting drones at Poland is meant to distract from the front line.
#Russia. #Ukraine
RantWoman has taken to sharing some of what she considers quality YouTube content. Posting does not implay agreement, only different perspectives for the conversation.
The US President appears not to be serious about either forcing President Putin to negotiate or about honoring NATO commitments. He does appear to be happy to SELL US arms to let NATO countries fight with.
It's hard to imagine what positive contribution the US can make to a post-war reconstruction. Also a lot of what will be possible depends on political surges within Russia.
RantWoman has said before and will say again: drones and cruise missles are making some kinds of military materiel obsolete so a "use it or lose it" point of view has some merit.
Russia is QUICKLY Losing its Ability to Wage War
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Pope Leo has a word
RantWoman's morning Twitter featured President #StableGenius spiritual advisor, a woman RantWoman is really tempted to label a falst prophet in a pantsuit. She was going on about downloading heaven and how saying no to the President is saying no to God.
Enter Pope Leo
Pope Leo XIV’s Shocking Warning to Donald Trump America Can’t Ignore
And more from Pope Leo because it never hurts to recognize the language of spiritual warfare no matter where it comes from
There. Now RantWoman will attempt to ground all of this Christian exchange in a nation built on religious freedom, religious pluralism, and a call to find that of God in everyone, most definitely including people of other faiths or no faith.
Monday, September 8, 2025
Trump’s new National Defense Strategy: banana wars 2.0?
Belle is one of RantWoman's fave YouTube commentators, both for conciseness of presentation and for well-thought-out analyses that look beyond the surface of the daily news treadmill.
This Week in Volcano News; Iwo Jima Erupts, Kilauea Lava Fountains
Friday, September 5, 2025
Events and reading from the wider Quaker world
quoted verbatim from Johan Maurer
Can you believe?: Fiercely inspirational a blog always full of stimulating reading that RantWoman does not always get to, as well as a YouTube music clip or two.
Mark Russ and Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre team up for a six-session online course: Whose Friends are we? Mark explains on his blog: "Emerging from my PhD research on Quaker theology and Whiteness, I’ve developed an online course for Woodbrooke reflecting on what it might mean for Quakers to be friends of God, Christ and each other in the 21st century." Mondays, October 13 to November 17. More details here.
Discipline and Punish: Kristin Du Mez assesses James Dobson's legacy.
Cherice Bock explains the background of the chapter she wrote with Catalina Morales Bahena for the new book Hungry for Hope: Letters to the Church from Young Adults, due to be published today. Their chapter is entitled, “Reclaiming ‘Enough’: Away from Scarcity Toward True Abundance.” For more on the book, visit hungryforhopebook.com.
Abolitionism and compromise, a Jay family/Indiana Yearly Meeting case study. (Thanks to Martin Kelley for the link.)
John Kinney at Spokane Friends, speaking on contemplative prayer:
Wednesday, September 3, 2025
Get the GOP the H*LL out of anything to do with sex ed
Feds give Montana a deadline to change language in sex education material
How many other states are dealing with this?
Are there Quakers with strong voices who can stand up...or do Quakers just get to include more responsible discussion of many realities in First Day School and youth programs?
I realize it is not very Quakerly to use hashtags like #GrandOldPedophiles but I am low on quakerese today.
July Protest against ICE in Spokane and ...
Army Combat Veteran Who Peacefully Protested ARRESTED FOR CONSPIRACY AGAINST ICE
RantWoman comments:
This is the only article that turned up on a fast search of the Spokane Spokesman Review website though by now there should be more info about court processes.
RantWoman is going to take a wild guess that both Mr. Mavawallas' military service involved some kind of linguistic and cultural dimension. RantWoman appreciates that the two veterans seem to know and value their rights.
If a felony indictment does not fly for throwing a subway sandwich at a federal officer, neither should any charge involving throwing crowd control munitions back at the officials deploying them.
And more video
Tuesday, September 2, 2025
For everyone's Russia Ukraine war viewing pleasure?
#Russia #Ukraine
At a recent virtual town meeting with Rep. Adam Smith, RantWoman asked a question informed by a whole lot of YouTube about Rep. Smith's position about the situation in Ukraine. Rep, Smith's response was "support Ukraine."
OK. Nuances?
Visions for after the war.?
Probably too much to ask of a town hall answer.
🚨URGENT! UKRAINE SHOCKS! POWERFUL STRIKE DEEP INTO RUSSIA! PUTIN’S PALAC...
Interesting perspective about Ukrainian initiatives while Putin jetted off to the SCO meeting in China
Is Putin trying to keep up with President #StableGenius or the reverse?
On the bright side, the US President probably can't spell VPN
Reprise
Dear national Guard unhappy to deployed in US cities...!
Remember Your Oath: Washington DC
Righteous RAGE
On a different note, and some pointed concerns about Democratic party.
"In blood red MT..."
Saturday, August 30, 2025
We are WAY past "Who would Jesus bomb?" Who would Jesus advise to commit mass murder?
Long ago when RantWoman could officially see, one of her favorite grad school nerd activities was to go and graze intellectually among a wide range of publications in the periodicals room at the library.
Now RantWoman sometimes relies on her eclectic Twitter /X entourage to cull nuggets. Here, thanks to one of RantWoma's X followers, RantWoman offers a concise though still divisive commentary about the school shootings at the church in Minneapolis.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/08/in-defense-of-prayer/
"When people pray, they can find strength in the face of helplessness, wisdom at a time when nothing makes any sense, and comfort when the soul is being drawn into the abyss of grief."
Where is there room for RAGE?
Many in RantWoman's social media streams point out that #ThoughtsAndPrayers don't matter a lot if children were in fact PRAYING. That and the alleged shooter's writings of course also make the crime even more horrific.
RantWoman's perspective: OF COURSE people should pray with everyone mourning a death or sitting along the bedside of the gravely injured and the gravely injured themselves. OF COURSE. No-brainer for anyone who prays at all.
The point is not "Don't pray." The point is not "Stop praying." The point to RantWoman is like God slapping some Old Testament prophet up side of the head with a message like "I have given you ways to stop the slaughter and yet you refuse... and instead worship at the holy altar of political contributions.
As long as RantWoman is providing Dial-a-Tirade services though, RantWoman is going to wade into the other trope that happens every time a transgender person perpetrates a mass shooting: there are social media torrents about how all "transgenders" are mentally ill and presumably prone to mass shootings.
RantWoman emphatically begs to differ.
Can no one say "Religiously themed transphobia sometimes drives people to mass murder?"
Can no one say "a tiny percentage of transgender people commit mass shootings?"
Can no one say "Mass shootings committed by transgender people are a TINY percentage of all the mass shootings that happen in the US every year?"
Can no one say "IT'S STILL THE GUNS?".
Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Russia hitting its own nuclear power plant?
#Russia #Ukraine #NuclearPower #EnergyCrisis
🚨BREAKING: RUSSIAN NUCLEAR PLANT EXPLODES — MOSCOW PARALYZED! AIRPORTS I...
The power plant was set on fire by DRONE DEBRIS taken down by RUSSIA
Russia wants to offer Ukraine security guarantee???
Monday, August 25, 2025
Interesting perspective on the Alaska Meeting
#Russia #Ukraine
RantWoman's Russia Ukraine war daily video diet.
⚡️SHOCK! TRUMP GAVE THE ORDER: UKRAINE’S VICTORY!? IT HAS BEGUN! EUROPE ...
Is there some kind of 4-dimensional chess going on?
Domestic insurrection IN RUSSIA.
(There is an X account called :The Ukrainian Ministry of Accidental Russian Fires. No opinion about any connections.)
💥URGENT! NUCLEAR EXPLOSION SHAKES RUSSIA! VICIOUS PROVOCATION! EXPLOSIONS ACROSS THE COUNTRY!| DASHA
OBserving Ukrainian Independence Day by setting things on fire in Russia
(giant surveillance antenna)
Saturday, August 23, 2025
Emergency Interfaith Protest to Release Mohammed Zahry Chaudhry Sunday August 24, 2 pm, NWDC
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🚨 Emergency Protest for Zahid Chaudhry 🚨
Decorated U.S. veteran, father, husband, & WA CAN member-leader Muhammad Zahid Chaudhry has been unjustly detained at NWDC. His family is suffering, and our community refuses to stay silent.
📍 Northwest Detention Center, 1623 E J St, Tacoma
🗓 Sunday @ 2PM
Join WashingtonCAN, Veterans For Peace, Seattle Anti-War Coalition, Massage Parlor Outreach Project, International Migrant Alliance - Seattle, NIDAL, Puget Sound Sage, Tanggol Migrante Movement, End the WA-DOC Pipeline, One America, AN-NISA Network, Bil-Yad Seattle, ACRS, Khmer Anti-Deportation Advocacy Group, Southend Indivisible, North Seattle Progressives, King County Democrats, ICHRP, CAIR, WA for Peace and Justice, Backbone Campaign, Working WA, Mennonite Action - WA, MCAS (Muslims for Community Action and Support), SUPER (Students United for Palestinian Equality & Return), Seattle DSA, La Alianza, & more to demand Zahid's IMMEDIATE release.
This protest will include speakers from the organizations listed as well as individuals who have worked alongside Zahid and his family. Zahid is a true beacon of hope for our community and an incredible light during these dark times. We are beyond appalled by his kidnapping, and need to act NOW! Bring your voice, your presence, and your power. Together, we'll show that our communities stand with Zahid, Melissa, and their family.
From his wife, Melissa Chaudhry:
“ICE has stolen a beloved husband, a fiercely tender father, and a passionately patriotic American. We are all the poorer for it. My family will suffer every day he is apart from us… Zahid always stood up for the underdog. He always fought for the goodness of our communities. We who know that liberty and justice for all must mean ALL – we know Zahid as the hero we all need… ICE must release this decorated, disabled American veteran – return the heart of my family – and show the world that America still stands for justice and peace.”
✊ RSVP now & stand with Zahid's family
Please email RashellLisowski@washingtoncan.org or text (206) 581-3290 to join the growing list of community organizations and groups engaging and sponsoring this event. Or with any questions about the event.
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