It's always bad policy to start a war.
It's even worse policy to start a war after firing all the most competent, experienced, strategically oriented military officers.
Putin SHOULD have learned that from Stalin.
Whether one approves of a given war or not, it is infuriating and monstrously unfair to the people being sent to war for the Secretary of #WarCrimes and President #StableGenius to be careening full-speed down the same path.
#Seafarers
A report issued every 5 years about who staffs global shipping and need for different categories of workers.
Sal's Recommendation about the US: there is a federal merchant marine academy. Some states have their own academies. There are other academies that produce people who may or may not get relevant licenses. Sal recommends taking a more holistic look at the pipeline. Sal also outlines a bunch of reasons that recruiting young people may be a hard sell.
questions about deaths in custody, medical care
#Iran #Oman #PersianGulf #InternationalMaritimeOrganization
President #StableGenius keeps claiming the #StraitOfHormuz is open. It clearly is not. RantWoman sees no reason that more missiles will help.
This video provides lots of details that may not make it into other reporting.
The commercial ship that was hit by Iran was not following the procedure set up by the International Maritime Organization.
On Day of the Seafarer, remember the 1.5 million seafarers who help move billions of tons of cargo every year.
#Iran #WarPowersResolution #Senate #Decorum
#Iran #StraitOfHormuz #UNHumanitarianMission.
This one gets its own post. Reality is definitely other than as President #StableGenius presents it.
#Ukraine #Russia #Crimea
Lately events in Iran and the Middle East have overshadowed the war in Ukraine in US headlines.
Having real estate goons Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner out of the picture, not trying to push Ukraine into idiotic territorial concessions is, in RantWoman's view, unquestionably a very GOOD thing.
Also Ukraine keeps scoring military gains, attacking Russian oil refineries and fuel depots. Russia's economy is trembling. International sanctions force Russia to sell oil to China at a steep discount. Putin is facing another, increasingly unpopular mobilization. It would be awesome if there were some honest mediators in the picture.
Now to some details RantWoman is behind posting about.
Anyone remember Florence Nightingale and the Crimean War of the 1850's? Sorry, RantWoman does not actually remember a whole lot except the point that Russia has had a troubled relationship with attempts at empire for a LONG time before Putin seized it from post-Soviet Ukraine in 2014.
Now in 2026, Ukraine is on the verge of driving Russia out of Crimea with blatant proclamations that Russia should leave and sooner rather than later while the Kerch bridge Putin built after the 2014 invasion is still standing.
Let's start with Belle.
lesson for the US: modern renewable energy investment helps lessen pain associated with price fluctuation on the global energy market.
#Belarus #Ukraine #Russia #Remilitarization
Belarus? Who? What now? Definitely important commentary about an unpopular dictator and shifting realities with respect to Ukraine and Russia.
The people of Belarus do not like either Lukashenko or the war in Ukraine. Putin trying hard to draw Belarus into the war with Ukraine
If Putin is in trouble, Lukashenko cannot count on Russian support to stay in power.
Is Belarus reaching out to the US?
#Iran #Israel
RantWoman has a complicated reaction to Douglas Macgregor. RantWoman often wishes that military figures would feel freer to share their insights in ways that might make more difference, help shift consensus, for example about what the US does or does not need to fund.
SO RantWoman posts this without further comment.
#GROK #Iran #AI #MSpol #TNpol
Ai ai ai. The events described here are just GROSS on so many levels.
Let's see: the US government admits in a court filing in the NAACP case against a Musk data center in MS that the grok.gov ai model is absolutely necessary for national security including the drone swarm that, among other things, bombed the girls' school??
RantWoman is inclined to double check the court filing and other sources before absolutely pinning the bombing on AI alone, but the suggestion sounds really plausible.
And OF COURSE the people of MS are entitled to a clean environment.
So please help RantWoman out: HOW exactly is untrammeled dumping of pollutants in racially biased patterns #AmericaFirst?
#Iran #Israel #RulesOfEngagement #WarriorCulture #WarCrime
#NTSB #Russia #Ukraine #DarkFleet #LNG #Vladivostok #Venezuela #CarbonFree #GreenCorridor #ShippingRates
Top 5 maritime stories of the week
Worth the listen for lots of background
#IDF #Hezbollah #Lebanon
How DOES one react when a mass murderer meets his demise?
#Iran #Ukraine
RantWoman has been neglecting Ukraine's efforts to eject Russian invaders. #Ukraine has hit a bunch of stuff in and near Moscow. The Kerch bridge is not long for the world. Life is BAD in Russia. RantWoman will find some links.
In the meantime, some more #NatSec guy banter.
The talks in Switzerland have settled down into working groups.
Lebanon.
Starting about minute 32
After bashing Israeli capacity, President #StableGenius offers batsh*t suggestions about how to get the current Syria regime to address Lebanon.
Syria leader used to be a member of Al Qaeda BUT economics and Islam matter.
Comments about Trump Iran comments and Lindsay Graham.
"Help is on the way" the same way help was on the way when Iran was slaughtering protestors
#StraitofHormuz open to Iranian and Chinese vessel.
African American military service for #Juneteenth. Look for book or Netflix The 6888
#FirstNations #NativeIssues #HumanRights #RegulatoryIssues #Minig #IndigenousCommunities
#Iran #Israel #NuclearWeapons
"The US needs meaningfully to restrain Israel"
Does Israel want to drag the US back into conflict?
#Iran #StraitOfHormuz #MemorandumofUnderstanding
RantWoman presents this update as is with little attempt to interpret confusion, shipping volumes or much of anything else.
See the summary in the description
#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #UnitedNations
CW: sexual violence and crimes against children
RantWoman has not gone through all the videos and different themes reflected in these links. The link selection reflects what YouTube serves up.
#Iran #StraitOfHormuz #Oil #DiegoGarcia #ChagosIslands #Mauritius
RantWoman always finds Sen. Kennedy fascinating.
"No military means to open the Strait of Hormuz"
#Iran #comedy
Go look up Jonathan Pie
#NDAA #WarCrimes #DoubleTap
#Albania #Ivanka #Jared
#ObamaAppreciationDay
The Obamas get a 1st look at their official portrait at the new Obama Presidential Center
Surprise event held ahead of Obama Presidential Center's grand opening
Next
Adventures of RantWoman: Excellent High Quality--and DANGED TIRESOME--UFC trash talk.
But is there something to laugh about?
RantWoman goes here gingerly between sweaty bruiser MMA fighters and the lives of people always fighting erasure.
To hear haters tell it, there must be millions of transgender people about.
President #StableGenius thinks a kid can turn transgender in one day at school. To go one step further, he loves the poorly educated so skip school AND ...
#GrandpaSleepyhead even thinks the National Science Foundation is studying transgender instead of TRANSGENIC mice.
The internet has been proclaiming Michelle Obama a man for YEARS and yet she persists in remaining female.
If only all this magical thinking about transgender people ensured that people who actually are transgender found instant ease and comfort as fast as social media waves its magic wand. If only....
#Iran #StraitOfHormuz #NuclearWeapons
Yes, of COURSE RantWoman could have launched her commentary with SERIOUS pieces. Instead RantWoman will be going off on what seem to be the main talking points raised about the beginning, HOPEFULLY, of a path to peace.
Just let the comics at the realities.
#Protest #ICE #Injury
Hoopes Sentenced to More Than Two Years in Prison for Assaulting an ICE Agent - Friends Journal
Article contains clear acceptance of responsibility as well as statements from the government and the judge.
Previously
Hoopes Pleads Guilty to Assaulting an ICE Agent, Faces Up to 20-Year Sentence - Friends Journal
RantWoman's judgmental and possibly unhelpful comments:
DO NOT DO ANYTHING that might be construed as assault at a protest!
Anyone not confident that they can stay centered in a given situation should definitely consider sitting out a protest. There are MANY ways to stand for justice. Know yourself. Know the situation. Know the people you are with. Avoid actions that you might be embarrassed about later.
Even though information suggests the officer's injury was comparatively minor, RantWoman is SEVERELY humor-impaired about any and all injuries around someone's eyes or face.
And at the same time, plenty of undertrained #ICE agents perpetrating the current barbarities, in RantWoman's eyes, also bloody well deserve prison sentences for the many assaults and injuries that come with their nearly lawless operational rules.
#AbolishICE
End the barbaric mass deportation efforts and get our collective legislative and national acts together to do serious immigration reform.
#StraitofHormuz #Iran
The gist:
Travel is still risky enough that insurance rates remain high.
#Iran #GulfOfOman #StraitOfHormuz
#Iran
RantWoman was just going to leave it at that and offer the President a SLIGHT reprive from all the divisive and objectively true content others are spewing on the occasion of the Presidents' birthday, but then the following landed in RantWoman's media streams.
“Tell the court I love my wife, and it is just unfair that I can’t live with her in Virginia.” - Richard Loving
— Fred T. Korematsu Institute (@korematsu) June 12, 2026
June 12 is #LovingDay, commemorating the SCOTUS decision that struck down state laws banning interracial marriage - Loving v. VA (1967). More: https://t.co/3LdOOHOsLT pic.twitter.com/cT6XeRnTeL
#Iran #StraitOfHormuz #blockade
This video is someone who actually knows something putting together information from other sources who actually know something.
The war that is not a war is not a war even though there are still several forms of military action.
The gist of the story: President #StableGenius is not exactly lying when he says ships are moving in the Persian Gulf. Ships are moving. about 10% as many as were moving before the Strait of Hormuz was closed in connection with certain military action.
This video pulls together information from several standard shipping industry sources.
RantWoman posts without further commentary.
#Venezuela #FishingBoat #ColdBloodedMurder
As reported in The Intercept
#Iran
RantWoman is posting as is. An important perspective on many grounds.
#Houthis #Isreal #Yemen
Opening snark aside, more expansion of war
RantWoman means to find a different vid. This one is full of "leopards eating faces" comments about Senator Mike Lee and disappointment that Sen. Tom Tillis still wants to keep his party winning. But afte minutes of commentary, this video does a decent job of explaining the military's proposed new coding of religions.
Spoiler alert: Bless the Mormons' hearts. the Department of DEFENSE job is to defend FREEDOM OF RELIGION for EVERYONE. More expansive commentary after we consider other great moments of the week
Oh Dear,.
1.The Secretary of #WarCrimes has been having just a banger of a week. A virulently xenophobic and disgusting white supremacist speech at a #DDay anniversary commemoration. A speech so vile that, apparently, he is persona non grata in Normandy and was disinvited to a different commemoration.
🚨Hegseth BANNED and KICKED OUT OF COUNTRY after STUNT!!
Retired Army Commander slams Hegseth’s D-Day speech
Speak General Hertling
Iran first and then the #SecDef
'I was embarrassed': John Kirby calls Hegseth's D-Day speech a 'slap in the face'
2. The #Secdef is trying to block promotions of some more highly decorated women and Black officers. Tiresome. Idiotic. Well spoken about by people who have way more military cred than RantWoman.
3. Best of all, he done gone and picked a fight with the Church of Jesus CHRIST of Latter day Saints over who is or is not a Christian. The task: reduce the number of 2-letter codes from 200 or so to about 30 with one catchall category called "other." The revised list explicitly added the word Christian to a bunch of different recognizable Christian denominations, INCLUDING QUAKERS, but not Mormons.
Aside from typing out the full name "Church of Jesus CHRIST of Latter Day Saints, RantWoman devoted a lot of social media time to witnessing about the fact that not all Quakers are Christians. RantWoman would just drop the word Christian entirely even though she can imagine yhowls of concern that Christians are being silenced. And the Mormons are still separated in the list from other Christians.
RantWoman is also jumping up and down about the point that the Secretary of DEFENSE job is to protect people of all faiths, not just virtue signalling and certainly not trying to resolve theological disputes by fiat.
As for social media, lots of people pointed out Sen. Lee's history of promoting certain kinds of discrimination. A few people mentioned that "next they'll be coming for the Catholics (because some evangelical Christians regard Catholics as idol worshippers.)" A few other commenters also get the point about religious liberty in general. A few. Still not the Secretary of #WarCrimes , crusades, and deer in the headlights twitches when certain questions get asked.
MAGA Senators Are Furious After Hegseth's Pentagon Said Their Religion Doesn't Count
The Christian Nationalist Loyalty Test Is Already Here | Unholy Ground
MORMONS ARE MAD #petehegseth #mormon #mormons #exmo #christian #christianity #mikelee #evangelicals
And otherwise
Military Expert Has Had ENOUGH Of Pete Hegseth
But from the past...
The Video Pete Hegseth Doesn’t Want You to See (w/ Andrew Kaczynski) - YouTube
RantWoman has picked up videos from several of the young liberal male creators. If RantWoman gets crazy for balance, there will also be videos from Fox News or Newsmax.
A wholesome break from detailed war coverage.
This video includes:
--history of US Maritime administration.
--Discussion of aging stock in the US cargo fleet and the role of these ships as adjunct to US military capacity
--discussion of the possibility that nuclear powered ships can feed (carbon free) electricity into the grid on land.
--Discussion of DOGE including Jones Act waivers are being handled by the DoD instead of the maritime administration. The Jones Act requires vessels moving cargo between US ports to have US crews, US flag, and US-built construction. Waivers are currently sought without any kind of check whether there might be Jones Act compliant vessels available. The maritime administration does not even get notification of the waivers until 10 days after travel has been completed.
Bottom line: it would be worthwhile for someone more of a budget nerd than RantWoman to sit with this video, consider things that do actually need funding and other concerning policy points. The, don't even excuse me, Secretary of #WarCrimes keeps going off with grandiose visions of more air craft carriers and who knows what else when there are lots of not-sexy basics that probably add a lot more value for both commercial shipping and of course the military. So please, budget nerds, have at it.
Read the description of the video for a more detailed summary and additional resources.
#Russia #Ukraine #Bloomberg #Ceasefire
ATTEMPT ON PUTIN'S LIFE Was Made — Someone From His Inner Circle BETRAYED Him.
Zelenskyy to Putin: why don't you just get out?
(Putin announces nuclear deal with Iran)
A long list of things people in Russia don't like.
Whole letter read
🚨Zelensky BLASTS Trump in POWERFUL OPEN LETTER!!!
‘A tide has turned’ | Former ambassador to Ukraine on Russian gunpowder factory hit in airstrike
And in Ukraine
🚨Meidas Delivers FINAL REPORT from Ukraine Amid DRONE ATTACKS!!
Situation in Kaliningrad ESCALATED DRAMATICALLY — 97.9% Want Out of Russia.
#Russia #Ukraine #Romania #EU #sanctions
#Albania #Jared #Ivanka #Qatar #corruption Lack of Transparancy
"The Flamingo Revolution"
Why Ivanka’s Albanian Dream is a Protestors Nightmare • FRANCE 24 English
Can Trump's family do business abroad without controversy? | DW News
And even coverage from TVP World
Albania erupts over Kushner-backed mega resort | Debora Kolgegaj
Albanian Prime Minister breaks silence on €1.4B resort protests | World News Tonight
#Iran #Lebanon #Israel #Hezbollah #CeaseFire #PersianGulf
War is widening again. Details are confusing. Various perspectives presented RantWoman has not watched every second of all these videos.
RantWoman is not sure what is more troubling, matter of fact reports or RANTING.
Black Man Spy
EMERGENCY US-IRAN COMBAT CAST -DAY 97
37 American Soldiers Were Killed Instantly. Iranian Missiles Struck The Shelter. | Doug Macgregor
An Evacuation Order Was Issued, And Millions Of Israelis Rushed To Leave Tel Aviv. | Jeffrey Sachs
13 minutes #Ukraine content about Europe, #NATO enlargement
"The US should just leave"
Government lies. US keeps bombing in spite of #CeaseFire
Next a bunch of segments from TYT
Cenk: I am worried that Iran is NOT bluffing
Ana "There is no military option to reopen the Strait of Hormuz"
BREAKING NEWS: Iran STRIKES US Bases. Cenk Explains WHY
And
#ORpol #AIPAC #Israel #Iran #NuclearWeapons
Sponsor of the 8th War Powers resolution
#NJ #DelaneyHall #ICE #CivilRights
THIS.
ALL of it!
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