#StraitOfHormuz #Food #FoodInsecurity
Humanitarian issues and supply chain issues as the #StraitOfHormuz loom WAY larger on RantWoman's fret list than #HantaVirus
On the bright side?
Sunday, May 10, 2026
Saturday, May 9, 2026
Fish wars in the pacific NW
#FishWars
The short version:
After 20 years, the Bolt decision: gave WHITE PEOPLE access to 50% of the NATIVES' fishery.
More of the history.
RantWoman is posting this to allow readers to dip toes into a LONG history of mistreatment of native Americans in connection with PROMISES to allow natives to their historical fishing ground.
There is quaker history that RantWoman is touching imperfectly but does not want to lose track of.
Fish-ins.
Celebration and joy was part of the movement
The Fish Wars: Marlon Brando and the biggest court case in Native US History
Happy (?) Victory Day Russia / Ukraine
#Russia #Ukraine #VictoryDay2026
This video alternately makes RantWoman want to SCREAM and cry.
The SCREAM Part: LOOK IN THE MIRROR. Maybe it is not safe to do that, but the suggestion definitely comes to mind.
The Cry part: US Creators should not need Russia to be able to message well about homeless veterans, pharmaceutical companies. and multiple other national ills. And it is heartbreaking to think right now how much US the reality departs from the images cultivated around the world for decades.
As for why to start a #VictoryDay reflection this way, especially this year. Tackle that on the other side of this video.
Basically, Victory Day will be WAY different from past versions.
RantWoman aspired to pull some points out of the following videos but will not get it done in time to post on the actual days.
Jake Broe
A coup attempt?
No mobile network in Moscow.
Ukraine launched 268+ drones against multiple targets
Moscow coercion, not seriousness about negotiations.
and voila, the actual parade
And a Russian exile encounters Portuguese bureaucracy
Friday, May 8, 2026
Why oh why is this framed as native rights vs renewable energy sources
Posted without further comment beyond the title.
Time for an exorcism: Send in the Seashells? 86 47?
Harry Litman rebels against President #StableGenius plastering himself everywhere.
So time for an exorcism?
Or should we just call in some seashells.
86 47
everywherr. T shirts. Mugs. Bumper stickers ....
I feel sorry for anyone who needs to double down on reasons for people to hate him.
The whole topic conjures up images of the post-communist world swarming around to tear down the Lenin statues.
RantWoman! An exorcism? Really? How will that heal what ails the country?
RantWoman you keep talking about this T-Shirt Idea. If it would be such a great free speech protest why don't you just do it? Make a design. Hook up with one of those online platforms. Set a price and do it. Um, the design has to be something like
86 47
Resign?
Retire?
25th Amendment??
And what do you know, among many examples. No sea shells though
Thursday, May 7, 2026
Finally! Congressmembers ask: What are Israel's red lines about using nuclear weapons. Now....
#Israel #NuclearWeapons #RedLines #Iran #JCPOA
Finally. Finally.
"Everybody" knows Israel has nuclear weapons, and not just from having a grad student with IDF ties for a politics TA once. Israel is not a signatory to the Non-proliferation treaty. Israel has been certain for years that Iran is two weeks away from a nuclear weapon. The inspection and downward enrichment regime agreed to under the #JCPOA proved otherwise. President #StableGenius ripped up the #JCPOA perhaps because of this Israeli certainty, or perhaps because the JCPOA was negotiated over two years by competent diplomats and bore President Obama's signature.
In general, Israel's idea of non-proliferation includes a sense of entitlement to bomb its neighbors' civilian nuclear facilities, Osirak in Iraq and more recently Iran.
Iran understandably took Trump's abandonment of the #JCPOA as an invitation to resume its enrichment program. And President #StableGenius goes on about how crazy leaders should not have nuclear weapons and about "nuclear dust." Probably just as well that no one has tried to explain that uranium hexafluoride is a gas, but oh, honey LOOK IN THE MIRROR.
And by look in the mirror, RantWoman also means DON'T PICK A STUPID FIGHT with Pope Leo XIV, who like multiple previous popes is against ALL nuclear weapons.
RantWoman digresses. What is lighting up RantWoman's keyboard is the following item from Rep. Joaquin Castro onTwitter /X
For nearly six decades the U.S. has voluntarily remained in the dark on Israel's nuclear capabilities.
— Joaquin Castro (@JoaquinCastrotx) May 6, 2026
The ambiguity ends now.
There is too much at stake to accept ignorance. We are at war alongside Israel against Iran without knowing what their red lines are for using a… pic.twitter.com/oe0KF9MnKQ
Rep. Castro did not supply a reasonable link, so RantWoman will go look for the proposal tomorrow. But FINALLY it occurs to someone to think strategically about whether Israel would ever use nuclear weapons for any other reason to threaten its neighbors. This posture is comical: Iran's proxies, Israel's neighbors are clearly not deterred from plenty of non-nuclear mayhem. 19th century German general Clausewitz may or may not be helpful in this situation, but if "war is an extension of politics by another name," could people actually TRY some politics and see whether it would be possible to cut back on the warfare?
Meanwhile, President #StableGenius threatens to use nuclear weapons as if he were saying "pass the salt" at the dinner table. MAYBE wise military officers can still hide the US nuclear codes, but RantWoman would love to go a step further than Rep. Castro. What if the world demanded the same level of inspection and monitoring of Israel as is being demanded of Iran?
There are lots of political steps between where things stand now and resolving nuclear issues. The first step would be to persuade the current administration that backtracking from pointless absolutism and getting on a path that the #JCPOA was going to need anyway would be a victory.
There. Done going off, at least for tonight. RantWoman will try to look at the 14-point plan.
And RantWoman will TRY not to growl too loudly about the State Department just letting 200 senior diplomats go or about having negotiations in the hands of two real estate bros with negligible diplomatic experience...
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