France and the world

 #France #FuelPrices #Xenophobia #Europe #Education 

RantWoman is starting out with TYT and will strive to collect some other perspectives.

🚨FRANCE Just Taught America A VERY HARD LESSON

The chaotic non-evacuation of the US Naval base in Bahrain

 #Bahrain #USNavalBase #IncompetentLeadership #Iran

How many more ways can President #StableGenius and the Secretary of #WarCrimes find to completely disrespect ordinary members of the US military?

What a strategic disgrace. What an embarrassment on SO many levels.

Who on earth can be induced to join a military that so blatantly disregards the realities of our troops' family lives? Not that RantWoman is a big fan of people joining the military. RantWoman trusts that our troops are SUPPOSED to get training about responsible actions. Also, RantWoman does not think people should get sent off to STUPID WARS in the first place.

Yet another way the current administration finds to screw ordinary people.

EXCLUSIVE: Military families ABANDONED by Hegseth describe HARROWING evacuation caused by Trump war

Will the BBC actually get to have Jack Smith sit for a deposition????

#J6 #JackSmith #BBC 

Where the HELL has the #GOP been? Here we are in the land of the rebellious colonials depending the Brits, The Guardian, Reuters, the BBC to tell us the truth about our own government! Thank you to the BBC for having more backbone than ABC and all the legal firms that just rolled over at the beginning of President #StableGenius 2.0 Thank you to Reuters for looking at satellite images of all the damage to oil production infrastructure at the beginning of the US / Israel assault on Iran. And thank you to the Guardian for relentless attention to LOTS of important issues.

And some more comments

Trump's Excuse for Dodging BBC Deposition BACKFIRES

Trump PANICS As Judge DEMANDS Answers Over DODGED DEPOSITION In $10 BILLION BBC Case!!

Jack Smith Tells BBC He Will WAIVE the 5th and Gladly TESTIFY About Trump Crimes!!!

Trump has a RUSSIA problem and the Lindsary Graham sanctions act leaves WAY too much up to the President

 #Russia #Putin #Trump #Sanctions #Diesel #Ukraine

Trump Engages in TREASON, Labeled a TRAITOR, as Russia Declares CHECKMATE!!

And in news from Ukraine

St Petersburg on FIRE after 1,000 Drone Attack from Ukraine

The NY Post of all places says no relation between Ukraine strikes and diesel prices. 

Stepping back from a "must build naval ships" drumbeat

#Shipbuilding #IceBreakers 

The stupidest "October surprise" ever.

 Elections2026 #Midterms #Disinformation #Fearmongering

Dear voters. 

USE YOUR COMMON SENSE.

There is probably more nonsense coming!

The Secretary of #WarCrimes, a gay Prussian, drone operators, and #AI

 RantWoman is posting this item as history without comment about MANY themes

ICE's own data about in-custody death

 #EmergencyResponse #Recordkeeping #Accountability 

President #StableGenius intends .....?

 #Russia #Ukraine #DieselPrices #Starlink

Waste, Fraud, Abuse, trafficking: all the things

 #SNAP #HighCrimeArea #Trafficking

Posted without further comment

Oh look. It's Never Trump Republicans at the Bitchuation Room

 #TheBulwark #LizCheney

Full disclosure. RantWoman is a fan of Francesca Florentini and definitely shares a concern about anyone being too close to Liz Cheney and thinking she is their friend instead of a sometimes valuable ally.

Why take advice from people who lost to Trump TWICE?"

Thoughts for everyone promising to deal with extremists even when the "extremists" win elections by speaking to what voters want.

Firing squad livestreamed? And other outrages

#FiringSquad #Livestream #SecretaryOfDEFENSE #PeteHegseth #MilitarySlamPoetry

Some redundant themes but also recapitulation of old themes

Is executing a guy in a wheelchair by firing squad on livestream just to grotesque for President #StableGenius? 

Hegseth Thrown UNDER THE BUS As Trump Panics Over Execution Backlash

Hegseth Visibly Shaken after BOOS ERUPT!

Something from a while ago

‘I Don’t Wanna Hear Your Speech!’: Sen. Shaheen SHUTS DOWN Hegseth Over Missing Billions

And Thomas Massie explaining articles of impeachment against the Secretary of #WarCrimes

'Nobody Came To Save Him' Massie Traps Hegseth From All Ends, Unleashes Hell On War Chief

Trump's Pentagon FORCED To Admit Pete Hegseth LIED About This

Singaporean container ship sunk in Strait Hormuz

#StraitOfHormuz #Centcom #OilPrices

Multiple container and tanker ships struck. One other known to have sunk.

Trying to reality check info put out by US Centcom

Fuel prices so high because cost per barrel up 10-17 times over last year.

Deficit in reserves from oil not coming out at usual levels over summer.

At some point, risk is going to get too high even for companies willing to run risks for the price.

Against all this background, the diesel deal President #StableGenius allegedly cooked up will not make a dent in prices for US consumers.

NOT solvable militarily. NEED POLITICAL resolution.

The Diesel discussion: Putin trolling the West

 #Iran #Putin #StraitOfHormuz #Russia #Diesel #Midterms #Ukraine #PerformativePolitics #NATO #LowInformationVoters #DaysOfOurTransatlanticism #Europe

Senators say no.

Iran mediating between Saudi and the Houthis???

 #Iran #SaudiArabia #Houthis

No bull prize and a very own US version of a beheading video

Please bear with RantWoman's spell of VERY BAD FRIEND commentary

The Nobel Prize

Once again, the Nobel committee has bypassed President #StableGenius, this year recognizing an indefatigable judge on the International Criminal Court. A WOMAN. No country to invade but unfortunately for the rule of law another justice-related organization for the US government to harass.

Further Quaker specific snark: President #StableGenius still has a long way to go to top Quaker luminary Floyd Schmoe's decades-long campaign of entitlement based on his work rebuilding houses in Hiroshima after the US dropped the atomic bomb on the city. If President #StableGenius started practicing Quaker worship, would his odds improve? How much repentance and Quaker worship would it take???

The Execution of Major Hasan

Redundant but RantWoman is going to say it anyway: The world is justifiably outraged that the Secretary of #WarCrimes wants to livestream the execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan, the arguably severely mentally ill army psychiatrist responsible for a mass shooting at Fort Hood. (tagging #NDEAM)

RantWoman cannot imagine what it must have been like to be in his shoes trying to treat people responsible for terrible violence against his co-religionists and we are not even going near the wisdom of any war in the first place.

RantWoman is also moved by social media posts by trauma responders who patched him up in the middle of a mass casualty event when no one knew who was who. RantWoman admires the standard of "that's what we do."

Most of all, Mr. Hasan cannot be allowed to become a martyr. The US already has more than enough enemies in the Muslim world and only really SICK people want our very own US version of beheading videos!

Oh No. No Russian bots for the midterms and other forms of Cyberwar

 #Yandex #Russia #Ukraine #Cyberwar #HybridWarfare

Will the Russian bots be back online in time for the US midterms? Who else has bots cranking out disinformation?

And who is behind the attack on French refrigerators?

Large question: who needs nukes to cause havoc when we have hybrid warfare?

Strike On Russian Data Center Leads To Massive Drop In ‘Bot’ Traffic

is it really bots or general Yandex performance issues after Ukraine hits?

More #SCsen debates please?

 #SCsen #China #AI #DataCenters #Wind #Solar #DrillBabyDrill #GasPrices #Nuclear #Regulation

Random snarky comments before attempting to digest nuance:

Libertarians are always good for keeping a conversation out of some possible ruts.

Shout out to Sen. Graham for celebrating the fact that all three people on the stage including the Libertarian are women.

RantWoman promises to find some male candidates whose hair merits opining but does want to observe that all the candidates looked professional. RantWoman especially appreciates that Sen. Graham seems to have gotten a bit of a makeover about both hair and glasses. As an aside, RantWoman will be happy to narrate an exhaustive description of her own visual experience and how with 3X magnification and a 27" monitor she is in a position to comment on people's hair.

RantWoman was not fully tracking the context when Sen. Graham exclaimed "My husband imports toy guns from China." REALLY? Get 'em started early with gun violence training." MAYBE RantWoman will revisit the context.

South Carolina Senate Debate on Iran

Concise Clip about the war on Iran. Senator Graham appears to have drunk the Koolaid being poured out by President #StableGenius and the Secretary of #WarCrimes. Iran was abiding by the #JCPOA until #DonSnoreleone tore up the agreement.

God knows: there is probably no point in trying to insert comments about nuclear deterrence or a global nonproliferation regime into debate time limits. Plus, there are plenty of active wars just now, none of which, THANK HEAVEN, have involved actual nuclear weapons.

This is an interesting presentation of additional commentary intercut with the other candidates' questions. RantWoman did not have a great experience with the audio but is linking it here just as an artifact.

SC U.S Senate Debate - The 4th Candidate

Pyotr Kurzin conversation with historian Tina Fordham

 #Russia #Ukraine #DieselDeal #GreatPower #SpheresOfInfluence

What the Ship--vessel hits and disinfo

 #StraitOfHormuz #Iran #BabAlMandab

Always Check multiple sources and don't automatically trust #AI

Election safety planning advice from J6 officer Michael Fannone

 #ElectionSecurity

Update: Russia's lack of capability but lots of rhetoric

#Russia #Ukraine

Timothy Snyder takes the temperature of US democracy

 #PressFreedom #VoteAnyway #NGOs  #SiliconValley #UStaxDollars

"We don't want sirens!" and "Down with the tsar" at a protest

 #Russia #Ukraine #OilAndGasProduction #Iran #StraitOfHormuz

Beyond "Russia always lies," check other sources about the Irkutsk plague issues

really pointed commentary about the war on Iran, diesel prices, and how President #StableGenius wa is allowing Russia to make way more money on the oil market. 

As for Siberia and authoritarian states and ...

Adventures of RantWoman: It's Tuesday. More lab leak news: a second death, hazmat suits, closed borders...

and the fruits of a whole evening binge watching

Adventures of RantWoman: Lab Leak? Weaponization? ANTI-plague institute working on many pathogens

a few notes that seem important scribbled near some of the links.

Definitely in CONCERNED but try not to panic mode.

Michael Fanone dissects two teens' videos in TX ICE stop

 #ICE #TX #USCitizens

Readers who don't like the way police officers think, just DON'T WATCH THE VIDEO unless you care about endless ICE / DHS efforts to spin, spin, spin rather than provide and interact with facts.

"In my years on the job, cameras were not the enemies."

No lights No radio: a captain's account of transiting the Strait under US escort

 #StraitOfHormuz #USEscort #LowPowerRadar #Phillippines #COVID

LOTS of info about how the US navy appears to conduct escort operations. Lots of tips about what to believe or not believe from different monitoring streams

The amount of oil moving is SLOWLY approaching the pre-war movement levels.

Merchant mariners caught in the crossfire

"I'm very proud. I enjoy my job."

Plague, nuclear super terror, and more of the war on Ukraine

 #Plague #NuclearTerror #Russia #Putin #Ukraine #BioWeapons

If President #StableGenius can threaten nuclear war on Iran, why would we not be hearing rumors of Russian super weapons.

What the Ship--this week

#StraitOfHormuz #WarRiskCosts #ShadowFleet #Sanctions

Who WANTS to need useful information like this?

Escalation and Pickaxe Mountain

 #Iran #NuclearWeapons

High quality rant from Ana Kasparian

President #StableGenius "We're all going to die anyway."

Hours and Hours taking minutes: JOB preparation

The problem with the phrase "Walk in the Light

 

A lighted mobility cane in front of
some kind of artwork

Please read on for why literalist "walk in the Light" is not a fun thing just because one has a "light sword" mobility cane.

Adventures of RantWoman: Blindness gear for Star Wars groupies--and people who just need to get to work?

Why are democrats NOT campaigning on antiwar sentiment?

 Advice and contemplation of this election and the one coming up.

The St. Helena?

 #StraitOfHormuz

Speculation about why 8 Marines were injured on a freighter.

NDEAM: Reprise of Binge blogs past

 It's National Disability Employment Awareness Month, #NDEAM

RantWoman promises binge blog.

Will RantWoman turn reflective?

Um, check out some greatest hits.

RantWoman and the RSOF: Search results for #NDEAM

RantWoman's first binge blog on the topic was in October 2011. Ay-yi-yi. Check it out?

October 2011 before RantWomam started getting all flashy.

Stay tunnnned