Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Smashing through the camouflage ceiling" What if it's time to have a FEMAL #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*

*REGISTER: https://friendspeaceteams.org/trr-two-spirit-jan-2025
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Please spread the word to friends and Friends, as led. This event is for
everyone!

If anyone would like to attend without donating, shoot me an email at my
work inbox: trr.support@friendspeaceteams.org. All scholarship requests are
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To check out all our upcoming events related to promoting right
relationships with Indigenous folks, go to
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Appreciate y'all!

Mackenzie Barton-Rowledge
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TRR Program Support & Tech Coordinator
Work email: trr.support@friendspeaceteams.org

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
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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/> continue to fight for federal
recognition, and have created a program called "Real Rent
<https://www.realrentduwamish.org/>" for settlers to redistribute resources
back to the Tribe.

Find out whose land you are on. <https://native-land.ca/>

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