I went to the April 19 Patriots' Day Protest in Portland and boy do I have some advice
RantWoman is quite happy to let someone else hand out advice about the protesting scene!
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Saturday, April 19, 2025
Footwashing? Happy Easter to all who observe.
Sermon for Maundy Thursday | Alison Leary Estep | April 17, 2025
RantWoman periodically makes some effort to hold the President in the Light. Most of the time the best RantWoman can do is to stay away from some of the gross and dehumanizing ways he is referred to in social media.
Plus the President already had one jarring run-in with a female Episcopal priest at the inauguration.
But the sermon above inspired RantWoman to TRY to imagine the President washing the feet of anyone else, not to mention the general concept of Servant leader.
This did not go well.
The President definitely needs to be held in the Light,
Would reading more than "Two Corinthians" make a difference???
And posted without further RantWoman commentary beyond "I will notmention cognitive dissonance. I will not mention cognitive dissonance. I will not mention cognitive dissonance." or "We live in a multifaith democracy. We live in a multifaith democracy We live in a multifaith democracy...."
Via Hindustan Times
Thursday, April 17, 2025
Resistance! Starring Republican appointed judges: Senator Van Hollen meets with Kilmar Abrego Garcia !
My Hero: Lawrence Odonell.
RantWoman comments:
President Bukele looks REALLY silly to me.
How many hundreds of thousands of Salvadorans are working in the US? What percentage of El Salvador's economy depends on remittances from Salvadorans working in the US? Why is President Bukele showing no indication that he is even concerned about whether his countrymen may be s affected by all the anti-immigrant HATE ginned up by this US administration and its idiotic mass deportation promises????
And even assuming President Bukele is actually concerned about Mr. Abrego Garcia as a Salvadoran citizen, the prisons for hire gig is just GROSS. Why if he wants to protect Salvadoran sovereignty does he have to go ask the US embassy for permission to do anything? Maybe pay attention to the health and welfare of his own citizens both at home and in the US. That should be a MUCH better deal.
RantWoman is not consistently happy with MANY media outlets for different reasons.
Rachel Maddow.
From Meidas Touch
VERY ranty and RantWoman would be cautious about the most inflammatory language.
RantWoman also posted a comment similar to the one at the top of this post.
Great History Cafe presentation about native values and resilience.
History Café: How Native Values Can Teach Resilience
RantWoman could not attend this event in person and is grateful both for people who read her other blog about this event and for SERIOUS accessibility measures, ASL interpreter both in the room and on the video, as well as CART. RantWoman did not find a transcript but that does not mean it wasn't there.
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Harvard, antisemitism, lawyers, due process: happy Passover from the Antisemite In Chief
Posted in case anyone needs another reason for their head to explode. Yeah Harvard. (Yeah Princeton who got the academic defiance ball rolling.)
Lawrence: Donald Trump now has ‘constitutional dementia’ about Harvard
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
And blessed Lenten / Passover meditations to all
Trump Supporters TURN On MAGA Pastor Over Massive Religious Scam
Monday, April 7, 2025
While everyone is basking in the glow of the #HandsOff demos... but MAKE THEM MONTHLY
Russian Oil Revenue Collapses as Massive Protests hit America
Russian idea of "ceasefire:" missile strike on apartment building in Krivyi Rig, Zelensky's home town.
Starting about minute 15 so amazing pictures and commentary about all the #Handsoff protests.
Various other possible catastrophes.
Waiting for Elon's quarterly earnings reports....
Oil price collapse
What if all the countries holding US debt get mad at once?
(RantWoman was wrong: RantWoman predicted based on reading tealeaves basically that by the end of Trump 1.0 the dollar might no longer be the world's reserve currency. RantWoman now revises her estimate and extended the time horizon to the end of Trump 2.0)
The Russian link (with subtitles) is more commentary and less untruth than a lot on Russian TV.
60 minutes on people deported on flights to El Salvador What records show about the migrants sent to Salvadoran mega-prison
And from Tim Miller of the Bulwark: "it's hard to imagine how desperate the situation must be if you think saying you're gay might help."
RantWoman's posted rant
Human rights wise, there is a straight line from Abu Ghraib to kids in cages under #FelonDon 1.0 to these horrific deportations under #DonTheCon 2.0
As many felonies as President #FartsALot weazled out of by abusing every angle of due process he and his half-witted and frequently now disbarred lawyers could come up with, he has NO BUSINESS blubbering about the "criminal invasion" of people driven often by gang violence (fueled by US-made guns). and ignoring any shred of due process.
Is there someone, anyone willing to litigate the question of whether any of this falls outside the parameters of official acts? Please, someone. GROW A SPINE. CONGRESS gets to declare war. Emergency powers still require assent from Congress. The President does not just get to cite legislation intended for wartime when there is no war and Congress has to declare war anyway. Surely even #MAGA nad the #GOP in general are not ready to cede their authority over this idiocy.
For more on this story
Houthis vs US military vessels?
#NuclearWeapons #JCPOA #Iran
Have The Houthis Just Crippled A US Warship?
RantWoman does not even pretend to be an expert on the Houthis but is collecting some background.
RantWoman appreciates a diversity of views but always recommends ingesting YouTube videos with caution.
The immediate impetus: the bombing campaign that is the subject of #SignalGate. RantWoman may or may not get around to meditations about who hates who, various spy vs spy angles of the whole episodes, and of course relentless spin, spin, spin.
RantWoman also recommends the What's Going on with Shipping Channel.
Report from 6 months ago about Houthis attacks on shipping in the Red Sea
Also ad for free AI master class.
Costs of US naval operations
More recent updates
summary of back and forth of international policy
Multiple Arab Countries refuse to allow US to use their airspace to attack Iran
RantWoman will try to look at more on the Preston Stewart channel
RantWoman will try to find the Navy channel documenting several US military actions in response to Houthis attacks on US military vessels. RantWoman knows nothing about radar or ships' radar signatures, but one video RantWoman now cannot find suggested that Houthis may have been misled about what they were shooting at in one incident.
The rest of these are YOuTUbe offerings. For more focused research, use the search bar.
no verbal audio.
rah rah US military
(Isn't it "lovely" to have some world crises to distract one from personal medical matters????)
Saturday, April 5, 2025
"Sit yo black ass down."
Black People Sitting Out April 5th National Day of Action?
RantWoman considers it very important to have the voices here in the conversation about the global Hands Off marches.
Even though weather forecasts predict a fabulous day, pollen or no pollen, RantWoman is also on the verge of cueing something like Phil Ochs "I ain't marching anymore."
Instead, besides resting in the midst of some medical STUFF and devouring YouTube about related topics, RantWoman may be doing any or all of the following:
--Lifting up the Black Panthers. RantWoman is not that into open carry no matter who does it, but shout out for feeding hungry kids and setting profound standards around civil rights for people with disabilities.
--laying fingers to keyboard about academic freedom and looking back on college life and protesting.
--contributing some content to a big transportation related Ai / Machine learning venture all in the name of a cleaner, more sustainable transportation network that better serves LOTS of people
--Reading up on Alexander Dugin, disgusting Russian ultranationalist described in some quarters as a public intellectual.
--Reading up some commentary that came to her in Elon's sandbox from people who apparently are not fans of former Costa Rican President and Nobel peace prize awardee Oscar Arias Sanchez. Arias is in the news because the current regime is (choose one) thin-skinned and petty enough to revoke President Arias' visa and / or or deathly afraid of a democratic voice from a small country that does not even have an army.
Anyway, be safe out there y'all and get fired up for everything that needs doing after the rallies!
Friday, April 4, 2025
Real ID
News item possibly of interest to Friends wanting to fly to Missoula for Annual Session (or any other domestic destination) after May 7, 2025
WSDOL blog post from 2024
REAL ID countdown begins: New air travel ID rules just 1 year away – Licensing Express
Acceptable forms of ID are explained in English and several other languages.
RantWoman ran into 1 accessibility quirk on a questionnaire, but the "try again" algorithm resolved whatever the problem was.
The federal requirements apply in any state.
NO HUMAN BEING IS ILLEGAL. Propitiating bureaucracy is a different matter.
Thursday, April 3, 2025
Anyone have a leading to dialogue with Christian mationalists about white Jesus
Trump Defense Sec CAUGHT in SICK Naval Academy SCHEME
original headline
Pete Hegseth being an arrogant misogynist is not news and Naval Academy staff sheltering him from images of Jackie Robinson and women grads from the Naval academy is another sad instance of obeying in advance, caving to nonsense.
But all that is an opener for a discussion of a new book that does not quite make it on to RantWoman's mean to read list but might speak to others.
Ada County ID must be quite the environment
OH BOY!.
ID state Rep. Michelson stands up to ICE
Idaho lawmaker's family farm raided by ICE
Sunday, March 30, 2025
Thought crime: Arrests at Westminster Quaker Meeting House for planning resistance????
HOLY SHIT.
Is there some kind of global epidemic of police doing high drama smash and grabs????
Some other news links "on the other side" as some media voices are wont to say.
First some background.
RantWoman has a new fave Quaker Channel., Quaker It Up.
"It's in British" to quote a weighty friend decades ago.
RantWoman has not yet dipped her toes into BlueSky partly because RantWoman spends a certain amount of online time defending principles such as freedom of religion and religious pluralism in a certain billionaire's electronic sandbox.
In any case, the news as it's understood tonight.
RantWoman is intrigued by a video that makes a lot of points in Quakerese and says NOTHING about why police raided a Quaker meetinghouse.
Links, in order of what RantWoman considers most responsible media outlets
(PS if you have a few dollars to help keep the Guardian afloat, reliable info is extremely valuable.
RantWoman might have posted more links but at this point, the computer she regularly uses did one of its periodic Microsoft Edge hiccups and RantWoman had to retrace her steps. So onward!
Free speech standards and laws are different in the UK. This commentary mentions a recently enacted "anti-protest legislation."
Saturday, March 29, 2025
How to get hooked on Quaker theology? Barclay's Apology: A Deep Dive
The Quakerism of the 17th century: not the quakerism of the 21st century
"The first book of Quaker theology I reand...and I'm still here."
Friday, March 21, 2025
Who knew? "Everyone is Welcome here" could be controversial
RantWoman's usual grab of YouTube links.
RantWoman is also buying a T-shirt, partly because she needs to replace a slightly different shirt from a LONG time ago.
Monday, March 10, 2025
Climate Choir flashmob calls for rewilding for 30% of Church of England properties
RantWoman finds this video VERY cheering..
RantWoman STRONGLY advises any faith community considering property changes to consider what it can do for LEED gold or silver, carbon sequestration, biodiversity within the locations and projects under consideration.
Friday, March 7, 2025
Quaker Parrot Talking
RantWoman is in some respects a very bad Friend. That is "faithful to divine leading sometimes RantWoman in directions not immediately comprehensible. Or perhaps the faithfulness comes across as too much of the Truth.
Consider for example the quaker parrot.
Sooner or later when one goes about grazing via search engine, one encounters not the inspiring historical background or varieties of Quaker Practice.
And sometimes one encounters ... Quaker PARROTS.
Quaker parrots earned their name because they do indeed shake their heads in a way labelled quaking. RantWoman has decided to take various YouTube channels' word for this and not try too hard to see for herself.
Quaker parrots are known to be cantankerous but also responsive to humans.
RantWoman is not even going to go near matters of habitat vs life in captivity. Save that for some other research excursion.
RantWoman invites readers to cleanse their frazzled nerves with some Quaker parrot videos
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Positively Brezhnevian Address to Joint Session of Congress
RantWoman has not found the intestinal fortitude to attempt to interact with very much of #DelusionalDonOld President #FartsALot Velveeta Voldemort's address to the joint session of Congress.
Digression: RantWoman does not exactly apologize for the cutesy wootsey nicknames. He started it and RantWoman strives to avoid euphemisms that she considers too objectionable.
RantWoman is pretty sure that voters did NOT vote for the President to go toe to toe in speech length against Russian President Putin let alone the late great Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev. RantWoman is not sure she wants to know what would happen if someone were to congratulate the President on being positively Brezhnevian.
RantWoman actually thinks it's FINE that Democrats could not come up with a unified protest strategy. The more people on ALL sides able and willing to vote their conscience, the better.
With that, a video and a bit of snark as a chaser.
RantWoman's comment
3 things that Trumpty Dumpty could say that would THRILL this Democrat:
1. I refuse any longer to let the richest man in the world whose wealth is built heavily on suckking at governments' teats tell me that the only way to federal budget sanity is maximal screwing of poor peiople.
2. I hereby rescind all my illegal executive orders and resolve to work WITH Congress instead of against it.
3. I resign!
Leaving analysis to late night comics
Monday, March 3, 2025
Russia GO HOME. Get out of Crimea.
#Russia #Ukraine #BlackSea #Crimea
Okay, Friends, RantWoman knows perfectly well that many Friends might not consider the course of military campaigns standard peace testimony fare. This video is also clearly propaganda mde by someone but RantWoman is not going to track down who. The video reflects a number of points RantWoman has seen addressed in other, as yet unposted videos. RantWoman considers the video credible and reliable enough to post as partial counterpoint to the disinformation disaster in the Oval Office last week.
RantWoman has more to say about the MANY ways that Putin's "Special military operation" is going VERY badly for Russia. This is partly due to Ukrainian military genius, partly ever tightening international sanctions, partly intelligence help from Elon's Starlink satellite system, and of course US military aid. This video for instance if anything understates the meaning of Ukraine successfully driving the Black Sea fleet back to Russian waters.
RantWoman is VERY tired of "Rah Rah America" about events in the White House. Multiple commentators have pointed out that usually diplomatic negotiations occur behind closed doors, but the Friday events were clearly designed to make a public splash with the President trying to browbeat President Zelenskyy into signing a bad giveaway deal about mineral wealth.
Pin here, from the wayback machine, the President in his first term both trying to withhold aid Congress had designated for Ukraine and getting snared in blowback from trying to get Pres. Zelenskyy to lie about Hunter Biden. In other words, the President is still big mad.
Professional diplomats would also not give away the entire Ukrainian store without demanding something from Putin. Today's proffer from the US administration: lift international sanctions on Russia. Uhhhh, suppose Russia were to just pull back. Partial lift. Pull back further and STAY longer: more sanctions go away. In other words, Putin is scared. RantWoman is not a professional diplomat and has no reliable off-the-cuff read about all the complexities of different European and NATO countries' positions. RantWoman is also DEEPLY alarmed by other reports, but for now, RantWoman invites readers just to chew on this video.
Sunday, March 2, 2025
Book Presentation: To Hear and Respond- the Quakers’ Groundbreaking Push for Gay Liberation. TODAY March 2 HYBRID
Via FLGBTQC
This Sunday Brian Blackmore director of Quaker Engagement from AFSC will give a presentation about his book: To Hear and Respond- the Quakers’ Groundbreaking Push for Gay Liberation. This will be a hybrid presentation from 09:30-10:30am PST.
In preprint, according to Amazon Amazon.com: To Hear and to Respond: The Quakers' Groundbreaking Push for Gay Liberation, 1946-1973 (Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences): 9789004727601: T Blackmore, Brian: Books
RantWoman's plea as long as the book is in pre-publication, Please, PLEASE make sure there is an audio or e-reader version available and / or that readings can be found on an audio channel such as YouTube. RantWoman KNOWS this may be a lift for some authors and publishers, but RantWoman is NOT going to recommend the book unless she can also recommend it to other queer blind / print disabled people.
More about the book:
Despite the prevailing assumption that religious groups are antagonistic towards LGBTQIA+ people, in the mid-twentieth century Quakers established the first social service organization for gay people in the United States, wrote the first public and positive evaluation of homosexuality from a religious perspective, and composed the first public statement in support of bisexuality from a religious assembly.
In the 1960s and 1970s, many gay rights activists were trained by Quakers in nonviolent resistance, some influential gay rights leaders were Quakers themselves, and a few important gay rights organizations operated out of Quaker-owned properties. Eye-witness reports state that Quakers were present at the Stonewall riots. They were also the only religious group to march in the first gay pride parade.
This book tells the story of Quaker support for gay liberation between 1946-1973 as demonstrated through Quaker experiments in criminal justice reform, challenges to Christian moral codes, and advocacy for attitudinal change within the Religious Society of Friends.
If anyone wants to join, the zoom link is https://us06web.zoom.us/j/2065476449 .
If anyone wants to join, the zoom link is https://us06web.zoom.us/j/2065
AND from AFSC Quaker Engagement
Dear Friend,
You are invited to join an AFSC presentation hosted by University Friends Meeting on Sunday, March 2. Brian Blackmore, AFSC's Director of Quaker Engagement, will provide an overview of AFSC's work to build peace around the globe, and share opportunities for Friends to engage with our work and programs.
As the Director of Quaker Engagement, Brian's work concentrates on leading AFSC’s efforts to build nurturing, trusting, and engaged relationships with Quaker faith communities, schools, and organizations in the U.S. and around the world.
Friends from Seattle are welcome to join for meeting for worship at 11 a.m. before the presentation at 12:30 p.m. Please feel free to share this invitation with members of your community.
Sunday, March 2: University Friends Meeting 12:30 p.m. 4001 9th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98105 |
In Peace,
AFSC Quaker Engagement |
Putin in Pink Hair! Russia is more WOKE than Trump's America, if virulent rhetoric doesn't count
RantWoman has A LOT to say about this week's Oval Office meltdown featuring the US President, Vice President and Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky.
All RantWoman is going to say here: MAYBE events would have made more sense if the vibe were just Professional Wrestling and everyone were in tights and the level of trash-talking were obvious to everyone. At least professional wrestling usually does not involve a total body count of over a million counting both sides.
In any case, RantWoman directs readers' attention to a rant by one of RantWoman's favorite YouTube from exile channels and a guy named Roman. AT LEAST FOR NOW, while the US military is busy trying to rid itself of trans troops and the current administration is finding every way it can to erase transgender identities, Russia is a TINY bit ahead of the US about one small civic recognition of the existence of trans people.
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
When someone clearly carrying a burden finds her voice
EXTREME CONTENT WARNING
A bout 10 minutes in, a couple lovely clear statements and then the speech begins
Rep. Nancy Mace makes SHOCKING allegations on U.S. House Floor - YouTube
THANK YOU for speaking your truth in the language of your heart. I pray that speaking out will bring healing and justice. I pray that Congress can unite about legislation that will make a difference. I also pray that justice can come without sensationalizing and oppressing people who have done nothing to hurt you or anyone else except try to live their truth. That is a lot to pray about but praying i a start.
And unsurprisinc follow-up from The Damage Report
Nancy Mace's Hotline Stunt COLLAPSES As Crushing Truth Revealed
Thursday, February 6, 2025
Friday, January 31, 2025
Quakers Sue to Block ICE Agents from Houses of Worship This Weekend
from "quakers sue Trump" search
RantWoman speaking for herself.
1. I personally think my time will be better used on social media than direct involvement in discerning what position NPYM or MM's should take.
2. I wholeheartedly endorse Friends' efforts to discern collective action.
3. I think individual Friends can have tremendous influence just talking to people we know, paying attention to, and participating in social media and I wonder whether there are Friends who might like some ongoing back and forth about what we see and post.
I do not apologize for blunt judgmental language in some of the comments below. Sometimes i aspire to do differently, sometimes I figure maybe people need to hear the exact language)
Some social media themes from Elon's sandboxand points I am discerning about usefulness
--Everyone who crossed the border illegally is ALL CRIMINALS so law enforcement should do whatever is necessary.
(If you have ever run a red light, should we consider you a CRIMINAL too? What about tax evasion...? Immigrants are vital to our economy. Basic human dignity. Congressional paralysis about needed reforms, hopes of DREAMErs..._
--They're sending their worst...
(Yes, anyone close to work with immigrant populations knows there ARE immigrant criminals, but since the President just pardoned 1500 violent cop-beating thugs, maybe have some perspective)
--Part of "their sending their worst is VERY explicitly ableist, and distraction like the President's comments in connection with the DC plane crash about #DEI and FAA hiring practices.
To say more about social media, some examples of comments I have offered recently:
--First amendment provisions of the Constitution support free exercise of religion and religious pluralism, (contrary to Christian Nationalism)
--The DoD serves all of the US, not just people who pray any specific way.
(Rant available about why Quakers should even care about the DoD)
--The US does NOT need any more drunk allegedly Christian rapists in high office.
--Other posts based on the themes above.
RantWoman is always interested in what people outside of Quakers understand about Quakers.
Plane Crash BOMBSHELL from FOX NEWS !?!?!
IN the fine Quaker tradition as publishers of truth
and fighting back, INCLUDING on Social Media
And from RantWoman's YouTube menu
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Announcing...
RantWoman is taking a break from social media fever swamps, electronic scrapbook and opinionated commentary with the following announcement.
RantWoman has created a CaringBridge site.
caringbridge.org/site/
The page says why.
In Light and faithfulness
Saturday, January 25, 2025
An assassination and Trump Ukraine Russia Peace Transition Team
Catty aside: nothing like idiomatic English and human pronunciation to dispel any impression that at least THIS video was done by humans and not by AI or only machine translation.
RantWoman has no basis beyond this video for opinion about the assassination described
RantWoman has been too busy paying attention to the onset of the new regime in the US to wander too far into the #Russia #Ukraine war but Jake Broe hits a bunch of different topics.
(RantWoman still wishes he would take pronunciation lessons about Russian place names, but RantWoman just has to COPE)
Military situation, Trump and Putin both go off on peace negotiations, oil prices.
Friday, January 24, 2025
Finding Courage: A Call to Act | Bishop Marianne Edgar Budde
An example clip
The whole sermone--With the ASL interpreter in an inset in the lower right
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Petty Pentagon Portrait "Shock and Awe" BS
Gen. Mark Milley’s portrait removed from Pentagon hallway
Politicized military personnel decisions are just working out SO well for Russia's "special military operation" in Ukraine. #CadetBoneSpurs MUST NOT follow Putin's example. #AdviseAndConsent means saying NO to terrible ideas such as the #PeteHegseth nomination.
And Putin should NOT come crying to the new President to bail him out of what is a really stupid war in the first place. Both of these guys are old, rigid, and dangerous.
RantWoman further comment: it is entirely consistent both vigorously object to wars and to want knowledgable competent carefully nonpolitical generals who do in fact often help keep nations out of wars.
Oh and...
Monday, January 20, 2025
The really important stuff today: #MLKday2025
So much JOY!
Readers who want to see RantWoman curate the rest of the nonsense, check out RantWoman's other blog available in the blog roll.
With one additional note: a few words from Brother Timothy Snyder
Look for openings (and be honest for when institutions are also imperfect.)
Oh wait, there was an HBCU at the Inauguration "parade" too.
Sunday, January 19, 2025
President Biden grants mass pardons do address sentencing discrepancies
Something to really appreciate.
The Healing Heart of Lushootseed: Special Seattle Performance March 7. Sign up early
RantWoman apologizes for the slightly jumbled presentation.
1. For information about a special Seattle Symphony performance March 7 of a sympony inspired by the leading of a native elder, click on the link below for the Seattle Symphony calendar.
The performance will occur as ceremony. Therefore, admission is free but it's a good idea to sign up early as the venue may fill.
2. For more information about the Healing Heart project, there is more than one link.
 | Vi Hilbert's THE HEALING HEART OF LUSHOOTSEED A DOCUMENTARY FILM FEATURING: UPPER SKAGIT ELDER Vi taqwšəblu Hilbert COMPOSER Bruce Ruddell MAESTRO Gerard Schwarz THE SEATTLE Symphony The Healing |
Trailer for the original documentary
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Smashing through the camouflage ceiling" What if it's time to have a FEMALE #SecDef????
TL;DR: the Semate should reject the Pete Hegseth nomination to be Secretary of Defense. The incoming President should appoint Senator Joni Ernst R, IA to be #SecDef and she can hire Pete Hegseth as come kind of spokesguy.
RantWoman, WHAT is a nice pinko peacenik like you doing wading into the confirmation for the incoming President's Secretary of Defense?
Uhhh, God told me to?
As a Princeton alum I am well qualified to tell the world that merely having a Princeton degree or even a Princeton degree and another one from Harvard as both #PeteHegseth and #MichelleObama do is not sufficient to make one qualified to be Secretary of Defense?
With that,
What if it's time to bust through the "camouflage ceiling?"
Joni Ernst for #SecDef!!!!
#PeteHegseth can have the amazing opportunity to have a woman boss!"
President Elect Gropesaurus MIGHT be able to overcome his horrendous sexism and MAYBE grab some change agent vibes by breaking with age old practive of having a mal #SecDef.
All the #MAGA boys might have a fit, but probably they should not argue with someone in command of a major military arsenal.
Joni Ernst would have a job and not have to worry about getting primaried in 2026. IA is a dep red state so her replacement would not change the balance of power in the Senate.
Do I think some #GOP men in the Senate should be able to grow a spine and not leave women senators to have to stand up against military sexual violence.
OMG: some actual SUBSTANTIVE questions!
An assortment of other views
Chris Cuomo goes off on multiple issues.
Sunday, January 12, 2025
WEBINAR Sunday Jan. 19: *"Silent No More: The Two-Spirit Journey"*
Reprinted as is from email with appreciation for some important background at the bottom.
My work (Toward Right Relationship with Native Peoples,
friendspeaceteams.org/trr) is putting on this webinar in two weeks, and I
thought many of y'all might be interested!
*"Silent No More: The Two-Spirit Journey"*
Candi Brings Plenty (they/she) is a trans, nonbinary, Two Spirit, Lakota
parent. They are a Healing Justice practitioner whose parents are survivors
of the boarding schools.
Jordan Decker (he/him) is a Cherokee trans guy. He is passionate about both
trauma healing work and youth suicide prevention.
Candi and Jordan are offering this powerful webinar to teach about their
ancestral history, to expose the harm of today’s political climate, and to
help participants learn how to change our future. They model simple
language to speak to people who say ignorant or hateful things about Two
Spirit folks -- from a place of confidence, compassion, and heartfelt
communication.
*Sunday, January 19, 4-6 pm ET; 3-5pm CT; 2-4pm MT; 1-3pm PT*
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Please spread the word to friends and Friends, as led. This event is for
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work inbox: trr.support@friendspeaceteams.
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Appreciate y'all!
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I live on Duwamish land, aka Seattle, in the Lake
Washington-Cedar-Sammamish watershed. I'm near the Salish Sea (Puget Sound)
and the volcano called Tahoma (Mt Rainier). The Duwamish are one of many
Coast Salish nations, and the language native to this region is Lushootseed
(learn
<https://tulaliplushootseed.co
The Duwamish signed the 1855 Treaty of Point Elliott, but the white
settlers failed to hold up their side of that treaty. Now, the federal
government refuses to even acknowledge the Duwamish Tribe, claiming that 10
years of missing records means that they no longer exist. The Duwamish
people <https://www.duwamishtribe.org
recognition, and have created a program called "Real Rent
<https://www.realrentduwamish.
back to the Tribe.
Find out whose land you are on. <https://native-land.ca/>
Saturday, January 11, 2025
Freed Russian political prisoner Kara-Murza urges strong response to Putin
Timeline cleanse: Educated optimism
STILL trying to pray for President Elect Gropesaurus
RantWoman is simply collecting an assortment of video clips about the sentencing to #FelonDon.
‘Humiliation’: Trump's now the first president-elect to be a convicted felon
Trump CRUMBLES Under Crushing Defeat in NY Court!
Hear it: Felon Trump finally sentenced after losing appeal (Court audio & Melber on Trump reckoning)
Donald Trump sentenced in hush money case (full audio)
And for anyone TRYING to hold #FelonDon in the Light, the parade of Presidential entries to the funeral for #JimmyCarter, with a special bout of attempted comedy writing from OK Sen. Markwayne Mullin
Trump IGNORED BY EVERYONE at President Carter's Funeral (except by his babysitter, Obama)
Friday, January 10, 2025
President Jimmy Carter Is Still Praying For Donald Trump
Day of mourning! #JimmyCarter
And a young opinionated voice
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
Vlad Vexler on Tulsi Gabbard
RantWoman, what's a nice peacenik like you doing even CARING about who President Elect Gropesaurus names for national security roles?
Uh
1. Lives are at stake
2. International relations are messy
3. Experience + Expertise is a good place to start, a better start than mindless ideologue and obsequious yes-man for #DelusionalDonOld.
Let's take one-time Congresswoman and former democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard, nominated to be the Director of the office of national intelligence.
(Scathing opinion about what is meant by "intelligence" brewing, but in the meantime...)
This clip provided by political philosopher Vlad Vexler is a good place to start.
Some of Tulsi's ideas, such as support for the #JCPOA, the Iran nuclear agreement not mentioned here sound sensible. Other times she just blithers, for example about now ousted Syrian dictator Bashar Assad. Twitter /X by itself should never be one's only frame of reference, but there is enough bile there to imagine that Tulsi would never command respect from people even RantWoman considers it important to be able to talk to if one is going to muck around in the torrents of info coming at someone in a high-level national security position.
What sets RantWoman off here is exactly the same thing that annoys her about uber-bloviator Noam Chomsky: a sense of "it's all doom and gloom and no place for people to plug in and make a difference."
Vlad and the grumpiness police
Tulsi!
Monday, January 6, 2025
‘An extraordinary human being’: Sen. Warnock remembers #JimmyCarter
RantWoman probably is going to let this video suffice for the occasion of #January6
Enjoy
Sunday, January 5, 2025
Queries for the new year: South Seattle ARE
RantWoman is posting the bare queries.
Before small group breakouts
- What worries you (personal, community or broader world) for the coming year?
- What will ground you?
- What are you excited about?
- What do you want to learn?
Sharing in the whole group
- What's your approach to choosing what to get involved in? Do you dip your toes in the water on many issues and opportunities, or do you take a deep dive?
- What has worked to help you choose how you spend your time and stay focused?
- How has your faith impacted how you choose to spend your time?- Share any thoughts or strategies you have or commitments you are ready to make as you move into the new year.
- How will your faith support you in the new year?
Once more in the same small breakout groups
- Share any thoughts or strategies you have or commitments you are ready to make as you move into the new year.
- How will your faith support you in the new year?
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