Jacob Hoopes surrenders to begin serving 900 days in prison

For the record:

1. RantWoman is a judgmental WITCH about any event where a law enforcement officer gets hit in or near the eye because a protestor throws a rock. Doesn't matter the protest. Doesn't matter if the protest is about odious and despicable official behavior. RantWoman as a legally blind / blind / low vision (choose a label) person is just a judgmental WITCH.

2. RantWoman is also a judgmental witch about everything to do with ICE.

3. RantWoman has gone to jail more than once for actions related to protesting. Every single time, RantWoman winds up reflecting on her own privilege, and on the history of early Quakers going to prison for practicing their faith and turning into giant prison reformers. What will that bode, for Jacob and for everyone following his case.

With that as intro:

Hoopes Begins 30-Month Prison Sentence at Minimum-Security Camp in Oregon [Updated] - Friends Journal

from the Daily Bulletin at Annual Session

Dear NPYM Friends,

We dropped our son Jacob Hoopes off at prison in Sheridan, Oregon, this afternoon. Our hearts are heavy, but our spirits are buoyed up by the tremendous love and Light that has been pouring in from all corners of the Earth. Thank you, more than words can say.

We have updated the https://www.900daysoflight.com/ webpage (copy and paste the url) with a brief video of Jacob, which he filmed before surrendering himself. As we said our farewells, Jacob showed his extraordinary courage, present-mindedness, and mettle. I believe in him. And thanks to so much love from so many supporters, he believes in himself, too.

Onward, with love overflowing,

Tom Hoopes

Robert Jacob Hoopes

#98782-511

P.O. Box 6000 – Camp

Sheridan, OR 97378

RantWoman quite likes the "Adopt-a-Day" concept mentioned on the website. RantWoman notes that the earliest available free day is in October. RantWoman would love a way to know what activities will come with every adopted day. RantWoman will continue to spend some part of every day fighting the horrible attitudes among many in the US who have gotten the country and ICE to the outrageous mess where the US currently finds ourselves.

And one venue for this fight: plenty of people in RantWoman's circles who think the country is already full and there are not enough resources that blind people need now so we can't afford to let anyone else in. NO sense at all that defending people's civil rights means defending everyone's civil rights.

Where in the world is Conflict Is A Gift of God Friend?

Spoiler alert: apparently many Friends were wondering whether a certain Friend had perhaps fallen ill. Conflict is a Gift of God Friend was attending a family wedding and did show up in the closing Zoom.

But wait, there's MORE.

Bless your heart to the Friend whose message of hope and reminiscence of events 20+ years ago also, probably unintentionally, summoned Conflict is a Gift of God Friend to RantWoman's mind. The memory: very lumpy ground. Conflict is a Gift Of God Friend dragging RantWoman and newly adopted white cane across lumpy ground instead of respecting RantWoman's preference for reasonable concrete on the sidewalk. 

This was only the first of several Grab the Blind Person and Bless Them moments before RantWoman decided just not ever to try to go walking with Conflict is a Gift of God Friend.

The latest from Karoline Leavitt

 #Economy #SNAP #Affordability

A fresh new crop of lies to bust through.

The base that voted for President #StableGenius is going to take a heavy hit from all the health care medicare cuts and jumps in gas prices, food.

RantWoman frequently finds this channel irritating, but tonight it lays out a whole bunch of points.

How many ways COULD war get worse?

#Iran #Ukraine #russia #NorthKorea 

"It is long past time for Congress to intervene to stop a war that has no real objectives or strategy."

But instead will these hypotheticals be turned into excuses to expand...?

Sal Surveys big shipping stories

 #StraitOfHormuz #BabElMandab #BlackSea #PanamaCanal #ArcticRoute #EuropeanRiverSystem #ClimateChange #Russia #Ukraine

Black Sea Escalation: Ukraine Shifts Tactics to Target the Dark Fleet

TLDR: no country realizes the damage being done to global trade.

Darline Graham is IN, running for a full term!

 #SCpol #DisabilityPrideMonth #SenatorGraham

RantWoman would LOVE to see an all-women Senate Race in SC.

But RantWoman, aren't you being sexist or WOKE or #DEI?

1. People decide all-men races are just fine all the time. It's women's turn. Plus, I dunno, maybe women's insight can help wring justice and accountability out of endless Epstein sludge. But first, get through the primary OF COURSE

2. Woke?

Yep. During the #DonSnoreleone administration, candidates who can stay awake are already ahead of the game.

3. #DEI?

Dignity Enthusiasm Integrity?

Dedication Excellence Influence?

Diligence Equality Investment?

Disability Eagerness Initiative.

What's not to like?

Judging by the interview here, newly appointed Senator Graham already sounds like an astute politician, so much so that RantWoman is going to have to work to contain her reflex desire for anyone endorsed by President #StableGenius to LOSE.

No, that also is not automatically an endorsement. RantWoman has resolved not to give money to partizan campaigns but will definitely be supporting projects to get people registered, fight vote suppression, and stay on top of any efforts to subvert the election process.

RantWoman will also be treading carefully about hopes for voices that undo many of the worst most inhuman policies of the current administration.

Watch the Darline Graham interview. Skip the Mitch McConnell death watch.

Should Darline Graham run in the SC GOP primary?

 #SCpol #GOP #Senate

from elsewhere on Planet RantWoman

Adventures of RantWoman: The President endorses Lindsay Graham's sister in the SC GOP Primary.

True confession: RantWoman is usually THRILLED when a candidate who President #StableGenius has endorsed goes down in flames. In this case RantWoman would be thrilled to see a #GOP woman face off against a Democratic woman. But RantWoman's BS detector kicked in hard once, though. Speaking plainly, a CLUELESS Democratic pol ran for Secretary of State against a #GOP candidate who not only ran elections impeccably but also was well informed about the Talking Book and Braille library, under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of State.

RantWoman has no opinion about what it would take for Senator Graham to win a primary or how to stay competitive in a general election, but yeah two women on the ballot would be COOL!