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