Wendell Berry on Gardening

#RIP

 Rest in Power Wendell Berry

One of the most awesome Dolly Parton tributes on the Internet

 #SummerOfJustice #Imagination Library $allyship

Keep filling the internet with Dolly Love!

What are you doing when no one is looking?

Pete Hegseth picks on Canadian youth at SUMMER CAMP

Who says President #StableGenius gets to be the only US public figure antagonizing Canada, HOEPFULLY still one of the US closest allies and trading partners?

Look! Here comes Pete Hegseth, strong competitor if not champion "Worst #SecDef ever dissing girls and young women at summer camp!

So manly. Such strategery! Excellent way to win friends and influence people.

J Michael Luttig interviewed on The Court of History about January 3, 2027

 #GOP #elections

What happens on January 3, 2027 after the November 2026 elections.

What can possibly be more pathetic than the #GOP struggle to elect a speaker in 2025? Oh, just imagine. Starting with the role of the House Clerk.

Multiple narratives available about things that can happen before and right after the elections.

They Tried To Keep This A Secret

Lawrence O'Donnell on The President's lust for vengeance

Lawrence: Trump-endorsed primary losses show Trump might not pick the next GOP presidential nominee

 RantWoman appreciates both Lawrence O'Donnell's wisdom and the narrative he sometimes shares about different phases of his career. 

RantWoman enjoys imagining Mr. O'Donnell as a young Senate staffer and thinking about all he has seen and spoken about.

Enjoy the video and catch a RantWoman aside on the other side.

As an aside

RantWoman for eccentric reasons is observing the #SCsen #GOP runoff between Darline Graham (Nordone) and Roger Norman. RantWoman Has Opinions. For now suffice it to say, to RantWoman after watching a whole lot of candidates endorsed by President #StableGenius lose in their primaries, after watching the President sink and sink and sink in the polls, it must be hard to stay someone's friend and still try to chart a course that is good for the country and for one's state.

Even if a Democratic candidate looks good, RantWoman also HATES a sense of being extorted: "Vote for the Democrats or else." RantWoman is still angling for a sense of a Congress willing to work on serious problems, not just get mad and go out of town whenever things get too hard. Plus, RantWoman does not care whether it sounds sexist to say that it would just be cool for once to have strong women candidates from both parties. 

OK, RantWoman has a vivid imagination, and does not vote in SC and ...

Speaking of a 25th anniversary: words from an official "Emotional Support Canadian"

 Tod Maffin, RantWoman's favorite "emotional support canadian" speaking about Gander Newfoundland, the most famouse but apparently not the only Canadian city that received planes that could not land in the US on September 11, 2001.

RantWoman will probably try to produce some anniversary reflections and does not even want to speculate about what will come from other directions.

And more random Tod Maffin

JD Vance is an idiot, and I have the data to prove it. 

Data Centers are electoral poison

 #AI #China #DataCenters

RantWoman is heartened by all the local communities rising up and fighting to keep data centers AWAY.

Aside from general peeves about electricity and water demands, noise and pollution, RantWoman has the following serious beefs with AI showing up EVERYWHERE.

--A lot of the time, RantWoman does not, Not, NOT want multiple lines of description pablum. She just wants a direct link to what the organization she is searching for chooses to say THEMSELVES.

--RantWoman already has plenty to read / filter in her email. RantWoman does not, Not, NOT need Gemini adding more verbiage to wade through.

--RantWoman does not, Not, NOT want AI help in composing obituaries about RantMom. RantWoman wants clear pricing based on word counts and the time and space to edit her own dang postings and / or more importantly to experience the thrills of sibling bonding while collaborating with Little Sister.

And one more thing: rare books are ARTIFACTS in their own right and deserve protection from the barbarians at Amazon who cut them apart to feed into their AI models. 

Yabloko: the only antiwar party running in the Russian parliamentary elections

 #Russia #elections #Yabloko #USSR #Ukraine

Some background

Remembering 1989 protests in Dresden and Putin dispersing protestors before the 1991 fall of the Berlin Wall 

Fareed Zakaria: Inside the mind of Vladimir Putin

On a different theme

Why MAGA is turning on Russia | If You're Listening

Flamingo Schadenfreude

 #Albania #Iran #Kushner #MoneyLaundering

Russia tries to crack down on Russians who have left the country

 #Russia #Citizenship #Passport #ConsularServices

RantWoman is NOT nostalgic for the late summer of 1991 when the Soviet union was falling apart, much less for the Soviet history of many measures just like this.

Spin Spin Spin: blame Biden, Fauci for everything

#Measles #Vaccines #Autism 

Welcome to your new job Mr. Batta charya

Andy Ogles fantasy bio and lost his primary including his own home county

 #GOP #TNpol #CultureWar #Islamophobia

Once again PResidnt #StableGenius helps tank someone he endorsed

Let's talk about Trump, dummymaders, Tennessee, and endorsements....

"We Didn't Start the Fire" gets a workout and other parodies

 RantWoman deeply appreciates The Dangerous Ones curation of the vast content on social media

The Zen of Iceland: one person's voice

 Gorgeous photos, car rental advice and tips about Iceland on a budget

Justice Kavanagh and immigration and presumption and ...

 #ICE #SCOTUS #Tariffs #GOP

"He likes me" Umm, BELIEVE THE WARNINGS

 #Yellowstone #Bison

DO NOT try to pet the bison! GIVE THEM SPACE!

RantWoman is always OUTRAGED to hear about some dumb tourist not respecting wild animals.

This video is much kinder but also blunter about realities.

Scary bison attack DECODED | Yellowstone National Park | Wild animal attack

Rutting season!

While we are at it, some other animals have their moment.

Man Taking Selfie With Bison Instantly Regrets It - Yellowstone Tourists Are Idiots

Man Approaching Bison Instantly Regrets It - Yellowstone Tourists Are Idiots

Adios Copa Mundial

#FIFA #FIFA2026 #CopaMundial

Inspired by all of RantWoman's connections who watched the World Cup final.

 Was it a good game?

For the side that won. The other side played badly.

So RantWoman heard.

Also, President #StableGenius got booed. He also fell asleep. He was rooting for Argentina. Was this because Argentine president Javier Milei is a giant groupie of #DonSnorelone while Spain has firmly said "No" about lending airspace to ill-advised military campaigns? Is the curse of the President's team preferences? On the bright side, someone managed to herd #DementiaDon off camera during the trophy presentation.

RantWoman loved the idea of turning whole sections of cities into giant watch parties. RantWoman also avoided travel around watch parties she did not care to attend. RantWoman loves the idea of nerding out about one sport and getting more fulsome national stories than the olympics where there are dozens of sports and hundreds of athletes.

Dear World

Thank you very much for coming. 

Lots of people in the US hope that next time around we will have a better-behaved President. 

Also, please take home some Ranch dressing.

Elegant election LIES reality check

 There. A speech dissected without RantWoman just wanting to throw things.

What Tr*mp's sad little speech was and wasn't. 

That Was A Complete F*cking Joke

Bad Bunny's Halftime show nominated for multiple Emmys

 

Not By Sight News

RantWoman is posting this item here rather in her other, more explicitly religion-themed blog because this voice from a blind guy is calling out the faith tradition he grew up in. 

The themes here about blindness and otherwise are, in RantWoman's experience, not unusual in many faith traditions.

RantWoman is posting this here for other people who might need its messages.