17 Republicans Cross Party Lines In Montana After NB Rep Howell’s Speech...
This dud bill did not even make it out of committee in the MT House.
Original date: April 8. Posted with a current date for the sake of continuity.
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Advice from one protestor to everyone else!
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!
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
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