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Tuesday Evening Open Thread: Some Good News, If We Can Keep It

by Anne Laurie|  March 19, 20247:06 pm| 75 Comments

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We have an obligation to the Afghan allies and their families who aided us during 20 years of war. Cutting back on the number of visas available to them sends a message to the world: just because you stand by us doesn’t mean we’ll stand by you. https://t.co/l5UlJjUjv4

— Senator Chris Coons (@ChrisCoons) March 14, 2024

Not soon enough, not nearly as many as required… but still good news.

Breaking news: The White House and congressional leaders have agreed to grant 12,000 Special Immigrant Visas for Afghan nationals who assisted the United States, according to six sources.

The provision is tucked into the State Department and Foreign Operations funding bill

— Max Cohen (@maxpcohen) March 19, 2024

Per the Associated Press, “Senators warn more visas are urgently needed for Afghans who aided the US in the war”:

… In a letter obtained by The Associated Press, more than a dozen Republican and Democratic senators said Congress needs to raise the limit on the number of special immigrant visas the U.S. can process for Afghans. They said an additional 20,000 are needed before the end of the fiscal year in September.

“This critical program has already saved the lives of thousands of Afghans who served with bravery and honor alongside United States troops and diplomats in support of the mission in Afghanistan,” the lawmakers, led by Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, a New Hampshire Democrat, wrote in the letter to Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. “We must now uphold our commitment to these individuals and ensure that those qualified applicants are able to find safety in the United States.”

The Biden administration has also called on Congress to act swiftly. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters [last] Thursday that “even though our war in Afghanistan ended, our commitment to Afghans and our commitment to those who helped us in that war has not ended.” …

The special immigrant visa, or SIV, program allows eligible Afghans who helped Americans despite great personal risk to themselves and their loved ones to apply for entry into America with their families. Eligible Afghans include interpreters for the U.S. military as well as individuals integral to the American embassy in Kabul.

While the program has existed since 2009, the number of applicants skyrocketed after the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021. With the Taliban now back in power, advocates say Afghans who helped the U.S. are often living in hiding and facing torture and death if they’re found.

Shaheen and her fellow Democratic Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware have been focused on this issue since the withdrawal, working closely with advocates — so far with no success — to tailor legislation to the varying needs of allies. In a statement to the AP, Coons pointed to the urgency of the issue, saying that “every day that passes without Congress taking action, we risk the lives of Afghan partners who deserve our thanks.”…

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    1. 1.

      rikyrah

      March 19, 2024 at 7:16 pm

      This is good news.

      Reply
    2. 2.

      Shalimar

      March 19, 2024 at 7:21 pm

      Why did it take this long?  Why only 12,000?  It has overwhelming public support, so who is blocking it from being more?  I’m guessing Mike Lee and Rand Paul, but I am willing to hate more assholes if some reporter will just name names.

      Reply
    3. 3.

      Jackie

      March 19, 2024 at 7:21 pm

      That is WONDERFUL news! 👏🏻👏🏻  👏🏻👏🏻

      Reply
    4. 4.

      sab

      March 19, 2024 at 7:21 pm

      Do not tell me that cutting back on Afghan supporters’ visas was a Biden idea, because I was not born yesterday and I was born into a  Republican family.

      Somebody ( RW) tied up funding.

      Reply
    5. 5.

      Kristine

      March 19, 2024 at 7:21 pm

      Very good news.

      Reply
    6. 6.

      comrade scotts agenda of rage

      March 19, 2024 at 7:22 pm

      I would assume such Afghans are still in Afghanistan and if so, are they alive?  I would have assumed the retribution by the Taliban wouldn’t have been nice as referred to in the piece.  And now, if Afghans there trying to hide their previous association with the infidel are expected to come out of the woodwork?

      We don’t even have an open embassy there.

      This is obviously good news and something we shoulda done a while back but man, the proverbial devil is in the details on making this come to fruition.

      Reply
    7. 7.

      Jackie

      March 19, 2024 at 7:22 pm

      @Shalimar: Celebrate the positive! Sheesh

      12,000 is hopefully the beginning – not the end.

      Reply
    8. 8.

      Jeffro

      March 19, 2024 at 7:23 pm

      VERY good news!

      Now that their impeachment BS has failed, look to the GOP to try and resurrect complaints about Biden getting us out of that forever war (instead of just…helping…by raising the # of visas)

      Reply
    9. 9.

      Rusty

      March 19, 2024 at 7:25 pm

      Senator Shaheen did a solid.  She was considered the most vulnerable senator last cycle, but Sununu didn’t run and the Republicans put up a wack job instead.  Glad we will have her for a while longer.

      Reply
    10. 10.

      Shalimar

      March 19, 2024 at 7:26 pm

      @Jackie: I am happy for the 12,000, but that line about needing an estimated 20,000 more in the next 6 months really bothers me.  Because this is clearly the compromise to get something done.  I really don’t think there will be more.

      Reply
    11. 11.

      Jeffro

      March 19, 2024 at 7:29 pm

      OT but a good overall reminder (and well worth putting in your RWNJ relatives’ faces, hint hint): if you want to know what trumpov would do in a 2nd term…just listen to what he’s saying:

      PSYCHO REVENGE TOUR

      One of the most enduring bits of folk wisdom about American politics is the notion that a promise made on the campaign trail is almost never a promise kept. The only thing you can count on from a politician, and especially a presidential candidate, is that you can’t count on anything.

      This isn’t actually true. There is, in fact, a strong connection between what a candidate says on the campaign trail and what a president does in office.  [Clinton, W, Obama examples]…

      …With these truths in hand, let’s look at the rhetoric of Trump’s current campaign for the White House. At rallies and in interviews, the former president rails against his political opponents as enemies of the nation.

      “The threat from outside forces,” Trump said at a rally last year in New Hampshire, “is far less sinister, dangerous and grave than the threat from within.” He said that one critic, Mark Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, deserved to be executed for his actions during Trump’s final month in office*. To Trump, any attempt to contain his authority was tantamount to treason.

      *this has not received nearly the attention it should…we’re talking about an American president having an American general (excuse me, General) executed for being more loyal to the Constitution than to trumpov.

      We may not be able to give an exact accounting of the consequences of Trump’s violent and fascistic rhetoric if he were granted a second term in office, but rest assured, there would be consequences. Given the power of the federal government and the total backing of the Republican Party, invested with the legitimacy granted by the Constitution, freed from the shackles of legal scrutiny and consumed with a thirst for vengeance — “I am your retribution,” he tells his supporters — there is no question that Trump would act on the desires he has expressed on the campaign trail.

      As promised, he would free the Jan. 6 rioters who were prosecuted and imprisoned. As promised, he would unleash federal law enforcement on his political opponents. As promised, he would do something about the people he says are “poisoning the blood of our country.” He would try to be, as he has said to much applause from his supporters, a dictator “only on Day 1.”

      No more double standards for trumpov’s violent rhetoric!

      Reply
    12. 12.

      Omnes Omnibus

      March 19, 2024 at 7:31 pm

      @Shalimar: Maybe no more under this Congress.  What about the next?

      Reply
    13. 13.

      Jackie

      March 19, 2024 at 7:32 pm

      @Jeffro: It’s already began 😡

      The House Foreign Affairs Committee hammered the administration on Tuesday for its 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, seeking to keep the chaotic exit in the public eye even as the two retired generals who oversaw the evacuation offered few new details.

      https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/19/republicans-afghanistan-withdrawal-00147886

      Just the first paragraph of what we can expect to read/hear for X number of days.

      Reply
    14. 14.

      Jay

      March 19, 2024 at 7:32 pm

      @comrade scotts agenda of rage:

      Many of them got out with their families, to Iran, Kazakhistan, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, etc, and are basically stranded in refugee camps.

      Reply
    15. 15.

      comrade scotts agenda of rage

      March 19, 2024 at 7:38 pm

      @Jay:

      Ah, okay.  Hopefully this will expedite their entry.

      Reply
    16. 16.

      Hoppie

      March 19, 2024 at 7:52 pm

      @Jeffro: Yeah, those appallingly hypocritical, craven, lying attacks on Biden for carrying through the lovely parting gift bigly deal tffg had made before leaving office.

      Reply
    17. 17.

      HumboldtBlue

      March 19, 2024 at 7:55 pm

      Hillary Clinton: Multiple indictments and half a billion dollars in civil liability later, pretty much the only person who can say they were better off four years ago is Donald Trump.

      Reply
    18. 18.

      Bill Arnold

      March 19, 2024 at 7:58 pm

      @Hoppie:

      the lovely parting gift bigly deal tffg had made before leaving office.

      That deal was also a quid pro quo deal, for Trump’s perceived political gain – no attacks on American forces in Afghanistan during the 2020 election cycle, in return for withdrawal of US forces.
      A withdrawal which Trump boasted about Spring 2021; he bragged about tying the hands of his successor.

      Reply
    19. 19.

      NotMax

      March 19, 2024 at 7:58 pm

      FYI.

      Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been indicted for allegedly falsifying his own COVID-19 vaccination data, marking the first time he faces potential criminal charges since leaving office.

      The embattled leader is accused of entering false information into country’s public health database to make it seem as though he, his 12-year-old daughter, and several others in his inner circle received the COVID-19 vaccine, according to police documents released by the country’s Supreme Court.

      The changes to the database appear to have been made shortly before Bolsonaro traveled to the U.S. in December 2022, when he would have required a vaccination certificate to enter the country.

      If convicted of falsifying the data, Bolsonaro could face up to 12 years in prison, the Associated Press reported. Source

      Reply
    20. 20.

      Baud

      March 19, 2024 at 8:00 pm

      @NotMax:

      LOL

      Reply
    21. 21.

      Ohio Mom

      March 19, 2024 at 8:01 pm

      There is one Afghani resturant in Cincinnati. It is in a strip mall in an far off (to us) exurb, and when we asked the proprietor how he came to live in Cincinnati, he gave a roundabout answer that suggested he had helped American soldiers.

      It’s good food and reasonably priced. I’m not sure it’s the best neighborhood for him, there weren’t a lot of other customers the two night we were there. But he’s made it this far…

      Reply
    22. 22.

      Jackie

      March 19, 2024 at 8:04 pm

      @NotMax: 🤞🏻🤞🏻👏🏻👏🏻

      Reply
    23. 23.

      Dan B

      March 19, 2024 at 8:04 pm

      I’d hope that LGBT+ Afghans could get Visas.  There are stories of what the Taliban did.  And it wouldn’t be safe for them in Refugee camps.  I believe that there is a group in Canada working to get them to safety.

      Reply
    24. 24.

      Nukular Biskits

      March 19, 2024 at 8:05 pm

      @rikyrah:

      This is good news.

      Indeed. We owe those Afghans who assisted us a huge debt of gratitude and this is the least we could do.

      @Shalimar:

      Why did it take this long?  Why only 12,000?  It has overwhelming public support, so who is blocking it from being more?  I’m guessing Mike Lee and Rand Paul, but I am willing to hate more assholes if some reporter will just name names.

      Good question.  The AP piece doesn’t say.  I did a quick check on my Congresscritters to see if they had anything to say one way or another but they’re mum.

      Reply
    25. 25.

      Shalimar

      March 19, 2024 at 8:08 pm

      @Omnes Omnibus: That is my understanding of the story, though I don’t see it noted explicitly.  The new fiscal year starting in October brings a new quota, and new opportunity to increase it to finally cover everyone.  It isn’t hopeless, but Democrats have to win because Republicans cannot be trusted to do anything positive.

      Reply
    26. 26.

      Martin

      March 19, 2024 at 8:09 pm

      Happy Peter Navarro Reports to Federal Prison Day to all who celebrate. I’ve requested a postage stamp be issued to commemorate.

      It’s an interesting feeling for someone you know personally to go to prison and to be elated by that news, but that’s where I am. I hope his prison stay is free from abuse, and yet still be as miserable as possible.

      Reply
    27. 27.

      Martin

      March 19, 2024 at 8:11 pm

      @NotMax: Jesus, how committed to the cause do you have to be to face a decade in prison to avoid a very small, free shot.

      Reply
    28. 28.

      schrodingers_cat

      March 19, 2024 at 8:12 pm

      @Martin: Does he still have tenure?

      Reply
    29. 29.

      HumboldtBlue

      March 19, 2024 at 8:15 pm

      JUST IN: The Senate just confirmed Nicole Berner, a longtime SEIU lawyer and former Planned Parenthood litigator, to a lifetime federal judgeship on a U.S. appeals court.

      Reply
    30. 30.

      Jay

      March 19, 2024 at 8:15 pm

      @Dan B:

      https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/news/2022/06/canada-celebrates-pride-month-by-helping-afghan-lgbtq2-individuals.html

      There are links.

      Reply
    31. 31.

      Jeffro

      March 19, 2024 at 8:16 pm

      @Martin:Happy Peter Navarro Reports to Federal Prison Day to all who celebrate

      I’m trying to pace myself – good chance of a LOT of champagne evenings ahead this year – but I did have a second glass of wine this evening with dinner!  ;)

      There will be so very many new holidays on the calendar by the time we’re done here, peeps.  It’s exciting to *hic* think about!

      Reply
    32. 32.

      Martin

      March 19, 2024 at 8:17 pm

      @schrodingers_cat: He’s emeritus, so no. He did try and come back to teach a summer class (bypasses the typical hiring process) after they lost the election and someone who will remain nameless made sure that everyone who would be outraged by that was notified. That idea lasted about 3 days before enough pressure was applied for it to be cancelled.

      Reply
    33. 33.

      Omnes Omnibus

      March 19, 2024 at 8:17 pm

      @Shalimar: Add it to the fucking list of reasons that we need to win.

      Reply
    34. 34.

      Jeffro

      March 19, 2024 at 8:17 pm

      @HumboldtBlue: pedal to the metal, Senate!  confirm your brains out!!

      Reply
    35. 35.

      TS

      March 19, 2024 at 8:18 pm

      @Nukular Biskits:

       so who is blocking it from being more?

      I would assume the man who currently tells GOP members of congress how to vote. He also did some pot/kettle/black in relation to the Australian ambassador

      Donald Trump has insulted Australian ambassador to the US Kevin Rudd as “not the brightest bulb”, and suggested he might not remain in the role if the former president is re-elected.

      https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-20/donald-trump-kevin-rudd-aukus-nigel-farage-interview/103608274

      Rudd is not my favorite politician but he is highly educated and intelligent. He’s also a micro manager which was his downfall in Australia.

      Reply
    36. 36.

      schrodingers_cat

      March 19, 2024 at 8:21 pm

      @Martin: Thank you nameless person! Was Navarro always such a crackpot?

      Reply
    37. 37.

      Miss Bianca

      March 19, 2024 at 8:21 pm

      @HumboldtBlue: Woot!

      Reply
    38. 38.

      Jeffro

      March 19, 2024 at 8:22 pm

      @Jackie:

      @Hoppie:

      @Bill Arnold:

      to which I can only add, I hope that Biden/Harris 2024 is ready to respond with (and only with) the clip of trumpov bragging about tying Biden’s hands with the withdrawal.

      I know the snooze media will belabor and ‘both sides’ it all, and of course the lying Republicans will lie endlessly, but if even a fraction of the country hears the real truth, it’ll help.

      99% of Americans have no idea of the truth about any of it, I’m sure.

      Reply
    39. 39.

      Jackie

      March 19, 2024 at 8:23 pm

      @HumboldtBlue: 👍🏻

      Reply
    40. 40.

      Pete Downunder

      March 19, 2024 at 8:24 pm

      @TS: Rudd was always a controversial figure as PM (twice) in Labor governments. He is fluent in Mandarin and definitely smart but has a personal style which annoyed almost everyone who worked with him. He loathes Trump.

      Reply
    41. 41.

      AlaskaReader

      March 19, 2024 at 8:25 pm

      178. Veronica Escobar
      Texas
      16

      179. Sharice Davids
      Kansas
      03

      180. Mary Sattler Peltola
      Alaska
      00

      181. Dean Phillips
      Minnesota
      03

      182. Katie Porter
      California
      47

       

      If you took Traveler’s advice and wrote your reps about signing discharge petition 9, be advised that these reps signed today.  Thanks for the nudge Traveler

      Full list of signers here.

      Reply
    42. 42.

      rekoob

      March 19, 2024 at 8:27 pm

      @HumboldtBlue: @Jeffro: (Soon-to-be) Judge Berner will be an excellent addition to the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals!

      Now I wish we could get to 13 Justices (to match the number of circuits). Two to be appointed by the President elected on 5 November 2024, and another two to be appointed by the President elected on 7 November 2028.

      Reply
    43. 43.

      Hoppie

      March 19, 2024 at 8:27 pm

      @Martin: We’re celebrating the Equinox, but an extra toast or two is lagniappe!

      Reply
    44. 44.

      Jackie

      March 19, 2024 at 8:29 pm

      @Jeffro: Yes! I remember that! “Let’s leave it for the next guy.”

      (Which could also be used as evidence in the Elections Interference trial that TIFG KNEW he’d lost the election!)

      Reply
    45. 45.

      Jeffro

      March 19, 2024 at 8:32 pm

      @rekoob: 110% on expanding to 13 Justices!

      Here’s hoping that in Biden II (Ice Cream Boogaloo), we get an expanded SCOTUS, an expanded House, and several more states!

      Reply
    46. 46.

      bbleh

      March 19, 2024 at 8:39 pm

      NYT just called OH Rep Senate primary for the Trumpist crazy.

      i think that counts as good. Iirc Brown does.

      Reply
    47. 47.

      Kathleen

      March 19, 2024 at 8:42 pm

      Trump endorsed Moreno won primary in Ohio. ETA: I’m curious to see which Rethug won primary in OH#2. 11 candidates ran. One of them would not be bad at all (the son of the doctor who invented the Heimlich maneuver).

      Reply
    48. 48.

      West of the Rockies

      March 19, 2024 at 8:44 pm

      @Martin:

      You know that vile dude?  I bet he’s a hoot at parties. //

      Reply
    49. 49.

      Another Scott

      March 19, 2024 at 8:44 pm

      Fight for 15!!

      Meanwhile, … RFERL.org:

      Now journalists and at least one election researcher applied Shpilkin’s model to the just-concluded election that officials say Putin won with nearly 87 percent of the vote, a record for Putin in his 25 years as the country’s preeminent leader.

      The Findings?

      Novaya Gazeta Europe said Putin received at least 31.6 million fraudulent votes, out of about 75 million votes cast. Important Stories, meanwhile, concluded that around 22 million bad votes were given to Putin. Important Stories explained its lower estimate by saying it excluded Moscow’s vote tallies because officials combined in-person votes with electronic online voting, and that may have distorted the analysis.

      “Never before have we seen a presidential campaign that fell so far short of constitutional standards,” Golos, a now-banned election watchdog organization, wrote in its summary report.

      I’m shocked, shocked.

      Cheers,
      Scott.

      Reply
    50. 50.

      Ohio Mom

      March 19, 2024 at 8:52 pm

      @Kathleen: Yeah, Pete Heimlich is a proud Never Trumper. Would I have asked for a Republican ballot to support him if I was still in the second district? I am glad I never had to wrestle with that question.

      Reply
    51. 51.

      Kayla Rudbek

      March 19, 2024 at 8:54 pm

      @AlaskaReader: thanks for the list, and I should go thank my representative for signing.

      Reply
    52. 52.

      AlaskaReader

      March 19, 2024 at 8:56 pm

      @Kathleen: Sorry, if they haven’t renounced their Party by now they have no redeeming value at all, …none.

      Reply
    53. 53.

      Eunicecycle

      March 19, 2024 at 8:57 pm

      @bbleh: I know the theory that Moreno will be easiest to beat, and I guess Democrats were pushing him for this reason. I kinda hate that theory, though, because didn’t we think Trump was the easiest to beat in 2016? We could end up with Moreno winning! I know state politics are different, the electoral college, etc and Sherrod is very popular, but I still don’t like it.

      Reply
    54. 54.

      AlaskaReader

      March 19, 2024 at 9:02 pm

      @Ohio Mom: Isn’t it Phil and not Pete who ran?

      Reply
    55. 55.

      Delk

      March 19, 2024 at 9:07 pm

      Jeff Bezo’s ex-wife was in the news today in Chicago. She gave 35 million to various local groups. The article did casually mention it was part of the 640 million* she was handing out. Pocket change to real billionaires not so for you know who.
      * she has given away 16.5 billion

      Reply
    56. 56.

      Harrison Wesley

      March 19, 2024 at 9:09 pm

      The Goon Squad I find here in FL is a high-octane local beer sold in Publix.  The MS Goon Squad is a rather different creature, and sounds like it’s about to have a long-overdue encounter with Consequences.

      https://apnews.com/article/mississippi-goon-squad-sentencing-d2eb6ba7e2f337ac1f17035cc97f2934

      Reply
    57. 57.

      Jackie

      March 19, 2024 at 9:13 pm

      I see TIFG won in FL. I’m waiting to see if Haley got more votes than Pudd’n Boots – assuming they were still on the ballot. I’m hoping Nikki got more 😁

      Reply
    58. 58.

      mrmoshpotato

      March 19, 2024 at 9:13 pm

      @Shalimar:

      but I am willing to hate more assholes if some reporter will just name names. 

      Nominated!  (I really hope it isn’t too long for a rotating tag because LOL!)

      Reply
    59. 59.

      Mr. Bemused Senior

      March 19, 2024 at 9:18 pm

      @Jackie: your wish is granted
      [WaPo gift link]

      Reply
    60. 60.

      bbleh

      March 19, 2024 at 9:18 pm

      @Eunicecycle: point taken, but I think there’s a world of difference in this case, including that many (including Brown iirc) think Moreno is most likely to alienate non-MAGA voters and that Dems were indeed complacent in 2016 but definitely are NOT so now.

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    61. 61.

      Eunicecycle

      March 19, 2024 at 9:18 pm

      @Delk: a nonprofit in my area received a grant from the former Mrs. Bezos. The organization got a call one day from her staff, and the executive director thought it was a joke!

      Reply
    62. 62.

      Eunicecycle

      March 19, 2024 at 9:21 pm

      @bbleh: oh I am very hopeful about the outcome but I never want to feel again like I felt that fateful November 2016 day.

      Reply
    63. 63.

      bbleh

      March 19, 2024 at 9:24 pm

      @Eunicecycle: lol indeed, but I think there are tens of millions of Dems who feel exactly the same way, and fear is a great motivator.

      Reply
    64. 64.

      Lyrebird

      March 19, 2024 at 9:26 pm

      @AlaskaReader: Thanks for the list and for keeping that topic in the comments!  I had called my Rep. a month or so ago, happy to see him on there.  And Tom Suozzi signed on the first day, too, HAH!

      I forget how many signers they need in total, is it 216?

      Reply
    65. 65.

      mrmoshpotato

      March 19, 2024 at 9:30 pm

      @Jeffro:

      this has not received nearly the attention it should…we’re talking about a traitorous, fascistic, orange shitstain who sucks dictators’ assholes and was elected an American president through Russian electoral interference and misogyny having an American general (excuse me, General) executed for being more loyal to the Constitution than to trumpov. 

      Added details for clarity.

      Reply
    66. 66.

      cain

      March 19, 2024 at 9:31 pm

      @Harrison Wesley: I was assured by Chief Justice Roberts that we no longer live in a racist world – was he wrong?

      Reply
    67. 67.

      AlaskaReader

      March 19, 2024 at 9:38 pm

      @Lyrebird:  I think it’s 218 but I’m no expert.

       

      Link PDF

      Reply
    68. 68.

      mrmoshpotato

      March 19, 2024 at 9:40 pm

      @Martin:

      Happy Peter Navarro Reports to Federal Prison Day to all who celebrate. I’ve requested a postage stamp be issued to commemorate. 

      I’ll continue drinking my beer to that!

      Reply
    69. 69.

      Harrison Wesley

      March 19, 2024 at 9:40 pm

      @cain: Now, that’s not fair – you’re taking him literally.  And might be thinking of some “woke” definition of “racism.”  It’s these sorts of terrible verbal injuries that FL’s Puddinghands of the White Boots seeks to prevent, so that impressionable white school children don’t have their feelings hurt.

      Reply
    70. 70.

      Fake Irishman

      March 19, 2024 at 9:53 pm

      @Jeffro: at least two more district court judges this week, maybe as many as four. (Two would be in Texas)

      Biden has gotten 41 appeals court judges through. That’s not as many as Trump, but solid for this point in a presidency.

      Reply
    71. 71.

      Jackie

      March 19, 2024 at 9:57 pm

      @Mr. Bemused Senior: YAY! 😂

      Haley beat Pudd’n Boots by 10 pts!😂🤣😂

      Reply
    72. 72.

      Fake Irishman

      March 19, 2024 at 9:58 pm

      @Jeffro:

      we could probably flip 2-3 appeals courts too, and take some of the crazy out of the fifth and eighth circuits.

      Reply
    73. 73.

      Quadrillipede

      March 19, 2024 at 10:18 pm

      Just spent about 24 hours travelling with my son to Taiwan to catch up with my wife & her side of the family for a couple weeks, so I get the UTC+8 Balloon Juice experience rather than my traditional UTC-8 one (yes, I know, but PDT is an abomination). I’m sure I’ll have lots of spare time to enjoy Failure To Post Bond Day next week…

      By the way, has anyone seen this tweet? I suppose could be an AI Hoacks Which Hunt, but it  looks a lot like TFG caught on a hot mic praising his BFF Kim Jong-Un:

      • https://twitter.com/mjfree/status/1769426745122238519
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    74. 74.

      Quadrillipede

      March 19, 2024 at 10:21 pm

      @Harrison Wesley: so that impressionable white school children don’t have their feelings hurt.

      Or develop empathy, but I’m sure that’s just an unfortunate oversight… 😵

      Reply
    75. 75.

      Kathleen

      March 20, 2024 at 3:10 am

      @Ohio Mom: I thought about that too!

      Reply

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