#Iran #JCPOA
RantWoman thinks she has comments but did not note them on the first pass so Jake Sullivan, JCPOA negotiator gets to speak for himself.
Thursday, April 30, 2026
The importance of numbers--and an address by King Charles III
#USA250 #SemiQuincentennial
(RantWoman is a VERY bad friend. Just as a pro free-speech protest, RantWoman would consider making a series of T-shirts that have the offensive numbers and words like RETIRE or "VOTE THEM OUT" or "which nap is the President on so far?" or maybe Impeach, though the third time is not the charm.)
Sorry Your Highness. RantWoman needed the intro and consternation about numbers from Lawrence O'Donnell as an intro ahead of your speech.. We thank you, though, for reminding the #StableGenius in the White House and the Congress about the importance of #ChecksAnd Balances.
And meanwhile the #StableGenius interacts with history.
Banditry at Sea and fireworks at the UN.
#Iran #StraitOfHormux #China #Russa #UN #CommercialShipping #Liberia #FreedomOfNavigation
#Indonesia #NetZero #Climate #StatelessVessels
This item is pretty technical about maritime law and esoterica.
Legal rational for US boardings. Container ship shortage because of ships stranded in the Persian Gulf
Pricing in the trucking industry
UAE withdrawing from OPEC
Whose oil and LNG are going where and why. Who might ship back to coal
Panama canal lock prices go up.
Oil supply disrupted for shipping. "bunker pricing"
The word from the Secretary of #WarCrimes: Democrats are a bigger enemy than...
#Iran #MilitaryAction #SecDef
NO WAY does RantWoman have the intestinal fortitude to sit through the video of this whole hearing.
But it's interesting what different commentators fixate on.
Ana looks at a whole spectrum of costs
Tuesday, April 28, 2026
#DonSnoreleone is SUCH a gangster Zambia edition
Posed FYI without further comment
This is horrifying and barely getting media coverage.
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid) April 29, 2026
Trump set April 30 as a deadline for the Zambian Govt. They must either accept Trump's new health funding agreement to have access to critical AIDS meds—and thus give the USA expanded access to its precious mineral resources…
Ballroom? Which ballroom?
#WHCD #WHCD2026
RantWoman has probably spent too much time down YouTube rabbit holes about the gunman at this year's White House Correspondents' dinner.
RantWoman has not watched every second of all the videos linked here but has tried to pull out points that seem important to her but is seasoning further comment.
Harry Litman outlines a lot of details without all the fluff and angles other sources are chasing.
Link to video above.
WILD New Details Emerge About Trump ASSASSINATION Attempt
Trump SEIZES on Shooting to Push Ballroom Plan
FBI Agent: The WHCD was “staged” by Trump but not in the way many believe
Dean Obeidallah and retired FBI agent Frank Figliuzzi.
Discussion of the shooter's manifesto and moral reasoning.
"Not staged but manipulated immediately afterward."
Why the Presumed Trump Assassination Attempt Will Not Improve His Polling Numbers
Trump Assassinated? Rushed Off Stage After Shooter Opens Fire at White House | Iran Lego Animation
Cenk Explains Everything STRANGE About The WHCD Shooting
🚨MAJOR RED FLAGS Surface on SHOOTING from Trump Admin….
Who actually fired the bullet that hit the Secret service officer?
Paraphrasing: Now we need a taxpayer funded ballroom to respond to the threat environment
great statements from Congressmembers
Hitch funding to the reconciliation bill about DHS
White House Correspondents Dinner Attack Is Not Going Like They Planned
Reese Waters
Comics
Jimmy Kimmel on Melania & Donald Trump Demanding His Firing & The White House Correspondents’ Dinner
John Lovett on Jimmy Kimmel
Jon Lovett on The White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Jimmy Kimmel's Joke & the D.C. Grindr Party
"By the time I heard about it, the conversation was about ballroom....The WH ballroom does not become any more legal because someone did something illegal and stupid at another ballroom."
AI version of security camera video
Manifesto: why is Kash Patel the only person not on the list?
Why buckshot not slugs?
"The best way not to ...is just not to do it."
MAGA started tweeting about the ballroom before the #Stablegenius held his press conference.
Trump Demands Ballroom After WHCD Shooting, Kash Patel "Likely to Be Fired": A Closer Look
Trump Spins Dinner Shooting for Ballroom Agenda & Blitzer Is CNN's One-Shoed Hero | The Daily Show
RantWoman appreciates the audio description
Gun violence? "What about the un-ballroomed rest of us?"
AOC
Trump STUNNED as SHOOTING PLAN BACKFIRES in CAPITOL!!!!
Ken Harbaugh
Trump Press Scheme RAMPS UP after SHOOTING…
And the #WHCD NOT at the White House but possibly not at the Hilton anymore
'It would be inappropriate': Carol Leonnig explains why WHCD wouldn't be held at Trump's ballroom
Sunday, April 26, 2026
The White House Correspondents Dinner according to Cenk Uygur, with an academic digression
#WHCD #WHCD2026 #SovietUnion
Cenk (Jenk) Uygur is as good a source as anyone to go point by point through a bunch of "too early to tell" points about the gunman outside the White House correspondents' dinner. Cenk has not picked up that security was less than usual for a gathering with 5 of 6 people in the Presidential line of succession in attendance.
The last part of the video Cenk heads straight toward all the ways Israel is not held to the same standards as everyone else and reads comments from his channels.
And some media clips
Full disclosure: the Washington Hilton hosts manty academic conferences. RantWoman once attended an area studies conference there. The conference was in November after the 1991 disintegration of the Soviet Union. Aside from a range of humanities topics, there were many papers about pipelines. There was a sense of many people needing to redefine their lives with the national security environment changing. Drug trafficking was on the minds of many as a national security concern.
The moment that most sticks out to RantWoman: the session with a CIA recruiter getting regaled from the lobby / hallway by a flock of women attending a Salvation Army event. As the recruiter was trying to interest area studies scholars in careers, the Salvation Army came through singing "Ain't gonna study war no more."
TRUTH
RantWoman considers this divine intervention rather than a security problem and frets that there might be a much more uptight reaction these days.
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