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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

I don’t recall signing up for living in a dystopian sci-fi novel.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

American history and black history cannot be separated.

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

“Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.”

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

This is dead girl, live boy, a goat, two wetsuits and a dildo territory.  oh, and pink furry handcuffs.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

The current Supreme Court is a dangerous, rogue court.

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

Fear and negativity are contagious, but so is courage!

Also, are you sure you want people to rate your comments?

Live so that if you miss a day of work people aren’t hoping you’re dead.

We’re watching the self-immolation of the leading world power on a level unprecedented in human history.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

“A king is only a king if we bow down.” – Rev. William Barber

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Operation Blue Arizona – 3x and 6x Matching All Weekend!

by WaterGirl|  September 21, 20242:31 pm| 91 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Political Action, Political Fundraising, Politics, Targeted Political Fundraising 2023-24

On Wisconsin!

Double Angel Matching for the weekend (Saturday and Sunday until midnight)

Let’s keep this really simple.  We have Angel Matches for both organizations and for our AZ Candidates list, and we have an Angel who is willing to match the angles, so double-Angel matching for donations up to $100 for each thermometer, all weekend.

THIS WEEKEND WILL BE OUR LAST ANGEL MATCHING FOR CANDIDATES – UNTIL WE COMPLETE OUR TWO ORGANIZATIONS, which are the most time-sensitive.

Four Directions:  6x  (double-Angel match + external match)

Worker Power:  3x  (double Angel match, no external match)

AZ Candidates:  3x  (double Angel match, no external match)

(No match for the AZ Supreme Court + Abortion Protections.)

As always, for Angel matching, tell us about your donation in the comments or via email to WaterGirl.


If you’re up for helping us get to our goal faster, we have an Operation Blue Arizona fundraising page that you can share with friends and family and on social media.  They won’t get the Angel matches unless the comment, but there Four Directions donations will get the external match.

If you are going to write your own tweet or whatever it’s called on your social media site, please link to this (just below) rather than to this post.  Or just retweet DougJ, because he linked to it in his tweet.

Fundraising: Operation Blue Arizona

It’s easy!  I sent the page to DougJ and he tweeted it, so all you have to do is share his tweet!

If you didn’t get a chance to read all the info about Four Directions and Worker Power and the candidates, you can click on the post below.

 

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Greetings from the Heartland

by Rose Judson|  September 21, 202410:40 am| 232 Comments

This post is in: Foreign Affairs, Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat

The heartland of England, that is. As per W. Shakespeare Blake, it really can be a green and pleasant land. See how it looks from the Malvern Hills?

a view from the malvern hills in central England, with green hills and a sky full of scudding clouds

I’m Rose Judson; I’ve been lurking and sometimes commenting as R-Jud since 2008. I grew up in northeastern Pennsylvania in a haunted bed and breakfast. I lived in Chicago for five years after finishing undergrad in Ithaca, New York (I didn’t go to the fancy school, I went to the other one), and I’ve lived in the English West Midlands for almost exactly 19 years. In fact, tomorrow’s the anniversary of my arrival in the UK. It’s an auspicious date if you’re a fellow Tolkien nerd.

About a month ago, John put out a call on Twitter for new, “young” writers, and I responded. And now I have keys to the front page! So who am I, and what does that mean for you?

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I’m a writer; I work in marketing by day and host a great books podcast by night. I have B-J bona fides: I found the site in 2008 through Andrew Sullivan’s erstwhile blog on The Atlantic’s website, probably while I was trying to find out who exactly this Sarah Palin person was and whether she would prevent my former US senator from becoming president (thank God she didn’t).

If you’ve been here a while, you may remember that way, way back in 2010, my kid was featured on the Balloon-Juice front page for her unorthodox approach to eating cupcakes. She’s 15 now. At her request, I’ll be referring to her as “The Child”, and not posting pictures. She’s given me permission to report things she says, however, “because I understand that adults think I am amusing.”a tuxedo cat gazes sleepily into the distance

I also have pets, of course. I’m a cat person; I currently live with a devastatingly handsome tuxedo cat named Monty (short for Montresor; image left). The Child and I also co-parent her pet corn snake, Cornflake. I understand that some people can’t do snakes, so if you want to see him, you can click here. He’s really much more affectionate than I thought a snake would be. I think it’s the lack of eyelids that makes him seem so shifty.

Here at Balloon-Juice, I’m mostly hoping to help keep the political discussions rolling. I have to be online a lot for my job, and I pick up on many things throughout the day. I’m planning to chime in with some things from an expat perspective.

Why 2024 Matters to Me (and Other B-J Expats)

As of 2022, about 4.4 million Americans have emigrated to live abroad (or were born abroad), according to the Federal Voting Assistance Program. Of those 4.4 million, approximately 2.8 million are old enough to vote.

Here in the UK, Democrats Abroad finally added a West Midlands chapter last year—prior to 2023, everything was run from London, which is something of a schlep for me. When DAUK-WM met up for the first time, everyone in the chapter talked about dual citizenship: who’s got it, who hasn’t? And many of us, in spite of being eligible for it, hadn’t got it.

Reasons for this varied. There’s the cost. There was the fear that the then-Home Secretary would have her minions comb through our applications and find a reason to deport us. There was the fact that, since Brexit, UK citizenship is less valuable than it was thanks to EU restrictions on freedom of movement. But there was also a reason that was harder to articulate. I know that many of us—myself included—never meant to stay abroad as long as we have. But there was also a feeling that accepting British citizenship was somehow disloyal to the homeland.

For my part, I have an irrational belief that if I were to obtain a UK passport, I’d be haunted for the rest of my life by my paternal grandfather’s father. Egisto was a wiry little Italian guy from Umbria. He noped out of Italy in 1921, when Mussolini’s gang was beginning to emerge there. He and my great-grandmother left their eldest daughter behind and, after a long, circuitous, and painful journey through Western Europe and Canada, came at last to Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he would labor in the coal mines for the remainder of his life. (My grandfather was born roughly 45 minutes after his parents had dropped their bags on the ground: anchor baby!)

Imagine that you went through all of that only to have one of your great-granddaughters become British. You’d have thoughts on the matter. Thoughts death itself could not hold back.

But there’s another aspect of citizenship that bothers me this cycle. You don’t need me to remind you that the Trumpistas want to eliminate birthright citizenship. They say this is just for the children of “illegals”, but they’ve also got plans to “denaturalize” foreign-born citizens as they see fit. Obviously, our main concern as voters should be about protecting the rights of immigrants and naturalized citizens living within the US. But what about my kid? She has birthright citizenship, too.

Do you honestly think this parade of fascist clowns will draw up laws that don’t affect her rights? Do you honestly think they’ll respect my right to vote from abroad? As the natives of this island say: pull the other one.

My kid was born in the first few months of the first Obama administration. She’s had two passports since she was four months old. The rights those passports confer upon her mean less than they did 15 years ago, when I, a bleary-eyed but proud new mother, held her up for the photographer. I’m angry about that. There’s not a whole lot I or anyone can do about restoring the British rights, but there’s still time to protect the American ones.

2024 will be a make-or-break year for all Americans, but especially for all immigrants. That includes those who have moved to the US from elsewhere, those of us who have moved away, and those of us who were born abroad and want to live in America someday.

Balloon-Juice has been so helpful for me as a resource and reassurance in all the years I’ve lived abroad. I’m looking forward to making a small contribution to the discussions here to help keep us all focused on November 5th (and beyond). Thanks for having me.

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Saturday Morning Open Thread: It’s the Little Things…

by Anne Laurie|  September 21, 20248:12 am| 160 Comments

This post is in: Elections 2024, Kamala Harris for President, Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat

Hillary Clinton on Morning Joe on Biden stepping aside: "It was a really selfless act of patriotism. I can't imagine the candidate on the other side giving up power under any circumstance. President Biden did." pic.twitter.com/nG0MUIslmM

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 19, 2024

VP Kamala Harris’ closing remarks with Oprah — in this election we are fighting many freedoms including the “freedom to just be.” ?? ?? #UniteForAmerica pic.twitter.com/goaVPLE9Sb

— ?? Madam Auntie VP Kamala Harris for PRESIDENT! (@flywithkamala) September 20, 2024

.@Oprah: For all of you watching who are still on the fence, in the middle, independent as I am, or whether you just still don't know what you're gonna do. This is the moment for all decent and caring people who want the best for yourself and other people. This is the moment for… pic.twitter.com/QCHIHF3oyB

— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) September 20, 2024

Uncovered forum posts by Tim Walz could shake up race. Petri at her best. https://t.co/V5Awvj5LPL

— Wanda (@itsWanda) September 20, 2024


I wouldn’t rate this column as one of Petri’s best, but oh the codicil…:

CNN and ProPublica found that Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz is the owner of an active account on the website HotOrNotDish.net, where he posts under the anonymous username DarthTater, according to an investigative analysis of comments on the forum. The user DarthTater has for more than a decade offered compliments (sometimes accompanied by a flame emoji) under every single photo uploaded to the site for hot dish appreciators.

The account also mentioned the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in one post, in which it wished other HotOrNotDish.net users a “happy MLK weekend!” and hoped they would get to “spend it with family, eating hot dish.”

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Walz appears to have been active under the same username for years on a variety of HotOrNotDish.net’s subforums for other hot dish-related issues, including once posting 24 times in a thread dedicated to the question of “Is hot dish casserole?” DarthTater ultimately concluded, “Sorry, friends. I’ve got to hit the hay. A lot of good points. Food for thought (almost as delicious as hot dish).”…

Update: The website HotOrNotDish.net did not actually exist at the time of publication but has since been set up by an anonymous hot-dish fan to redirect users to Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign website after first showering them with Tater Tots. The Post is not responsible for the website — not even, alas, the tots.

Cards Against Humanity is suing Elon Musk & SpaceX for $15M

They're being accused of trespassing on and damaging company-owned property in Texas

"We bought a plot of land on the US-Mexico border to stop racist billionaire Donald Trump’s dumb wall. But this year, an even… pic.twitter.com/PeKwRNcjBP

— Culture Crave 🍿 (@CultureCrave) September 20, 2024

It is, of course, a mere jape — a pinprick — and yet, if it can be one more half-brick thrown in the war between Musk and his shareholders, well…

Saturday Morning Open Thread:  It's the Little Things...

7 years ago, we bought a plot of land on the US-Mexico border to stop racist billionaire Donald Trump’s dumb wall.

But this year, an even richer, more racist billionaire—@ElonMusk—fucked that land with tractors and garbage, so we’re suing for $15 million. https://t.co/MzNuHAcRIo

— Cards Against Humanity (@CAH) September 20, 2024

Cards against humanity’s website explaining why they’re suing Elon is pretty fucking good pic.twitter.com/T5SIV23mmo

— evan loves worf (@esjesjesj) September 20, 2024

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Our People, Gotta Love the Fire!

by WaterGirl|  September 20, 202410:30 pm| 93 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads

Their people:

New ad we’re now airing across North Carolina https://t.co/NrvGNqaAYo pic.twitter.com/ECIkYpc5w6

— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) September 20, 2024

“It’s about killing a child because you’re not responsible enough to keep your skirt down!”  I think I’ll just say “fuck you, you total fucking pig” and leave it at that.

Our People, Class of 2022, Come On Down!

They were all new to the House in 2022, I believe, and they have already left their mark.   I am 100% sure that someone in the first 5 comments will tell me if I’m wrong, and that’s easier than googling to verify!  They’re smart, they’re fun, they’re fearless, and they have no collective memory of the “collegiality” that no longer exists.

Frost: Are you going after Tim Walz next week? I’m hearing from my staff that you’re planning a hearing on Governor Walz even though he has been Governor for five years and his name hasn’t been uttered in this room until he became the VP nominee

Comer: I’ll have to check pic.twitter.com/C8P9UsJ6Tl

— Acyn (@Acyn) September 19, 2024

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Incredible cut here to Comer when Moskowitz says "the big knish" https://t.co/rjaRfFAucj

— David Weigel (@daveweigel) September 19, 2024

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Crockett: This election is the best example of why you all are so afraid of diversity, equity, and inclusion because then you can’t have a simple minded under qualified white man somehow end up ascending.. instead you got to pay attention to the qualified Black woman.. pic.twitter.com/0P40XAwCVE

— Acyn (@Acyn) September 19, 2024

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HOLY SMOKES!

Rep. Jasmine Crockett just demolished Republicans during today's "US House Hearing on Biden/Harris Policies".

This is viral material. This woman is going places in US politics. pic.twitter.com/k9V3QUz0Kq

— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) September 19, 2024

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War for Ukraine Day 940: Today It Was Odesa’s Turn & Kharkiv Too

by Adam L Silverman|  September 20, 20248:13 pm| 17 Comments

This post is in: Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Military, Open Threads, Russia, Silverman on Security, War, War in Ukraine

Screen shot of painting by NEIVANMADE. It has a grey border. On the left is a Ukrainian apartment block in the background. In the left foreground is an armored forearm and fist blocking incoming Russian rockets and missiles. The Russian rockets and missiles are red and have the "Z" symbol on them. The backgound is black. Above the armored arm and fist, written in white, is "Every Single Day in Ukraine."

(Image by NEIVANMADE)

Three quick housekeeping notes. Rosie is doing great. Thank you all for the good thoughts, well wishes, prayers, and donations. Her next treatment is a week from Monday.

Second, we have made it to Friday. Which is good as I’m fried.

Third, because the whole point should be to NOT make anyone dumber, last night, based on the information reported at the time, I included in the update:

Romania:

⚡️ Romania has called on Ukraine to intercept and shoot down Russian drones that enter its airspace.https://t.co/3oZUxP9J5e

— UNITED24 Media (@United24media) September 19, 2024

Let’s make this really clear: NATO and NATO member states will not shoot down Russian missiles or drones aimed at Ukrainian targets over Ukraine, but a NATO member state is now asking Ukraine to shoot down Russian drones aimed at Romania over Romania.

After I went to bed, Bill Arnold posted in the comments:

Ukraine, Not Romania, Requested Action Against Russian Drones, FAZ Clarifies (Sep 19, 2024)

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) agency made a mistake by writing that Romania asked Ukraine to shoot down Russian drones in Romanian airspace
In fact, it was Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha who, during his visit to Bucharest, asked his Romanian counterpart Luminita Odobescu for Romania to shoot down Russian UAVs in the skies over Ukraine.
Previously, FAZ reported that Romania was the one to call on Ukraine to intercept and shoot down Russian drones that enter its airspace.

Here’s Ukraine’s air defense tally from last night/early this morning:

Ukrainian Air Force says air defense units shot down 61 of 70 Shahed drones fired at Ukraine by Russian overnight, as well as a Kh-59 missile fired at Dnipro. The other 9 Shaheds were disabled by jamming and crashed in various regions of Ukraine. No casualties or damage reported. pic.twitter.com/VbsP2Qs0EP

— Euan MacDonald (@Euan_MacDonald) September 20, 2024

Russia struck Odesa with ballistic missiles this morning:

⚡️ Russian forces attacked Odesa on Sept. 20, injuring four people, Governor Oleh Kiper reported.

According to the preliminary data, Russia launched Iskander-M ballistic missiles, damaging a port and a civilian ship under the Antiguan flag.https://t.co/8qnDhUa1bv

— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) September 20, 2024

The Kyiv Independent has the details:

Editor’s note: This is a developing story.

Russian forces attacked Odesa on Sept. 20, injuring four people, Governor Oleh Kiper reported.

According to the preliminary data, Russia launched Iskander-M ballistic missiles, damaging port and civilian infrastructure, as well as a civilian ship under the Antiguan flag.

An air raid alert sounded in Odesa Oblast at around 2 p.m. local time, and the first explosions were heard in the city a few minutes later.

Odesa Oblast and other southern regions of Ukraine are regular targets of Russian missile and drone attacks.

Russian troops attacked Odesa Oblast with a ballistic missile on July 4, killing one civilian, injuring seven others, and hitting port infrastructure.

Here’s President Zelenskyy’s address from earlier today. Video below, English transcript after the jump.

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We See a Threat from Russia to Our Generation, We Will Counter It – Address by the President

20 September 2024 – 19:35

I wish you good health, fellow Ukrainians!

Today, I held a meeting of the Staff.

The report by Commander-in-Chief Syrskyi focused on the front and on our operation in the Kursk region. Importantly, our combat brigades are holding their positions as steadily as possible. There were reports from the intelligence services. The Defense Intelligence of Ukraine – Budanov. The Foreign Intelligence Service – Ivashchenko. We discussed in great detail, and even with some emotion, the issue of drone production and drone supply to all elements of our Defense and Security Forces. We also addressed today the production of missiles, electronic warfare systems, and relevant cooperation with partners. The reports were presented by Umerov, Sybiha, Fedorov, the military, the Security Service of Ukraine – Maliuk. It was a really detailed conversation. The main point is not just to secure contracts and funding for them, but also to ensure the speed of real production and real delivery. And the energy issue – it was a significant part of today’s Staff meeting. There were reports by Prime Minister Shmyhal and Minister of Energy Galushchenko on the physical protection of facilities and the real situation with restoration. We also discussed the threat we now see from Russia to our energy generation. We will counter it.

The energy issue was also discussed in detail with Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission. Her today’s visit has contributed to the sensitive support of Ukraine. There is a new package for our energy sector from the European Union – EUR 160 million. There is also an agreement to increase electricity imports to Ukraine, which will undoubtedly support our state, our people in difficult situations. We discussed with Ursula the steps that will help us preserve at least a quarter of our generation. Of course, we also talked about our political interaction with the European Union – we have to speed up the process of accession negotiations and preparation of the respective parts of the future agreement. There is an important decision by Ursula on European support for our Ukrainian school meals program. So, in everything from defense to social issues, we have really good results. Ursula, thank you!

And one more thing.

We are actively preparing for negotiations in the US – this includes President Biden, representatives of both parties in Congress, and we expect to meet with both presidential candidates of the United States. In Ukraine, we will always be grateful to the USA for supporting our independence – for all the assistance provided to help Ukraine withstand this war. And now we are going to present a very concrete Plan on how Ukraine can not only endure this war, not only maintain the level of resistance as it is now, but also grow stronger at this very moment – grow stronger in a way that will really bring us closer to a just peace, really bring us closer to victory. Ukraine is counting very heavily on this support. And rightly so. Because when one nation wins the fight for its independence and respect for international law, the whole world wins. This is exactly how it should be.

I thank everyone who stands with us, who stands with Ukraine!

Glory to Ukraine!

The cost:

Yurii Hulchuk, a 22-year-old Ukrainian marine, lost his voice and emotions after enduring brutal torture in russian captivity. Even in his mother’s embrace, he remains silent.

With each passing day, the cruelty of russian forces reaches new depths, as reports of torture and… pic.twitter.com/6YPJrolhQ6

— Iryna Voichuk (@IrynaVoichuk) September 20, 2024

Yurii Hulchuk, a 22-year-old Ukrainian marine, lost his voice and emotions after enduring brutal torture in russian captivity. Even in his mother’s embrace, he remains silent.

With each passing day, the cruelty of russian forces reaches new depths, as reports of torture and brutal executions of Ukrainian POWs continue to surface. At what cost does the world continue to look away?

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Ukrainian Ambassador at Large Olexander Scherba reports that the Russians subjected Hulchuk to electroshock “therapy.”

One of the defenders of Mariupol and a prisoner of war who recently returned to Ukraine. Just look at his arms. I have seen similar images from Nazi concentration camps.

Ukrainian prisoners of war go through hell. They are tortured, raped, castrated.

According to Volodymyr… pic.twitter.com/dR54yAcXlH

— Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇦 (@rshereme) September 18, 2024

One of the defenders of Mariupol and a prisoner of war who recently returned to Ukraine. Just look at his arms. I have seen similar images from Nazi concentration camps.

Ukrainian prisoners of war go through hell. They are tortured, raped, castrated.

According to Volodymyr Osechkin, russia only exchanges the most “presentable” Ukrainian prisoners “to avoid outrage.” Imagine the condition of Ukrainians which russians refuse to exchange.

If you ever wondered what you would have done to stop Hitler and Nazis… you are doing it now to stop Putin and ruzzia.

Denmark:

⚡️The first €40.7 mln from Denmark for direct financing of Ukrainian defence production are already in @DefenceU accounts.

A crucial step in strengthening our defence capabilities. More to come.
Thank you, my friend @troelslundp 🇺🇦🇩🇰
Grateful to Danish leadership and to all… pic.twitter.com/oIRAovKl7y

— Rustem Umerov (@rustem_umerov) September 20, 2024

⚡️The first €40.7 mln from Denmark for direct financing of Ukrainian defence production are already in @DefenceU accounts.

A crucial step in strengthening our defence capabilities. More to come.
Thank you, my friend @troelslundp
🇺🇦🇩🇰
Grateful to Danish leadership and to all Danish people.

Norway:

⚡Norway allocates additional $5.7 billion to Ukraine until 2030.https://t.co/o7rRQHjOo5

— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) September 20, 2024

From The Kyiv Independent:

Norway’s civil and military support program for Ukraine, known as the Nansen program, will be extended until 2030 and will be increased by a further 5 billion kroner ($475 million) this year, Oslo announced on Sept. 20.

The Nansen program will now have a total value of 135 billion kroner ($12.8 billion). The program initially was set to spend 75 billion kroner ($7 billion) from 2023 to 2028.

Oslo’s decision will result in an additional $5.7 billion in Norwegian support for Ukraine until 2030, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on X.

Zelensky said he was grateful to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store and all political parties in the Norwegian Parliament.

“This unwavering commitment will help Ukraine protect lives, defend freedom, and strengthen our resilience,” Zelensky said.

Norwegian news outlet Nettavisen said that the decision to expand the Nansen program came after the government “received massive criticism because Norway’s support for Ukraine has lagged behind, compared to other countries.”

Almost all Norwegian opposition parties demanded a significant increase in support for Ukraine, Nettavisen said.

Norway is ranked 12th in the world in terms of the amount of aid provided to Ukraine, having so far provided $2.6 billion in humanitarian, financial, and military support, according to the Kiel Institute’s Ukraine Support Tracker.

The US:

⚡️The U.S. will provide Ukraine with an additional package of $375 million in military aid, Reuters reported on Sept. 20, citing two unnamed U.S. government officials.https://t.co/GPoEwxpyoR

— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) September 20, 2024

Also, from The Kyiv Independent:

The U.S. will provide Ukraine with an additional package of $375 million in military aid, Reuters reported on Sept. 20, citing two unnamed U.S. government officials.

The announcement of the package is expected sometime next week, the officials said.

Foreign military assistance is crucial for Kyiv as the all-out war with Russia stretches past two and half years, with Russian forces pushing hard in Ukraine’s east.

If confirmed, it would be the largest tranche of military aid the U.S. has sent Ukraine since May earlier this year, when a package worth $275 million was delivered.

The officials said the package would likely include patrol boats, ammunition for high-mobility artillery rocket systems (HIMARS), artillery shells, spare parts, and other military equipment. The exact quantities were not specified.

The previous day, Reuters reported that Congress and the administration of President Joe Biden are close to an agreement on a one-year extension of $5.8 billion in military aid for Ukraine before it expires at the end of September.

After the House of Representatives failed to pass a Republican-backed spending bill on Sept. 18 that did not include the PDA extension, the Democratic-led Senate said it would prepare a new bill to avert a shutdown.

The sources told Reuters that the Senate bill should include the prolongation of the Ukraine aid funds. It remains unclear whether Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson, who delayed a $61 billion aid bill for Kyiv for months earlier this year, will support it.

The $61 billion assistance package was eventually passed in April, allocating some $7.8 billion to the PDA and allowing the release of a number of defense aid tranches since then.

As I’ve mentioned before, thanks to a former client, I get Politico‘s Morning Defense newsletter each AM. This is from today’s:

THE BIG NEWS: Rep. Don Bacon returned from Ukraine this week, and he’s adamant that the U.S. must ease restrictions on using U.S.-donated weapons to strike into Russian territory.

The HASC Republican — who traveled to the war zone with fellow Armed Services Democrats Salud Carbajal and Jimmy Panetta — called out the Biden administration for “making the Ukrainians fight with one arm behind their back.” He spoke with Connor about his visit and meetings with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other top officials.

The takeaways: On top of expanded rules of engagement for the use of Western weapons, Bacon said his discussion with Ukrainian leaders and troops also centered on Ukraine’s need for continued training for its F-16 pilots and more sanctions against Moscow.

“They were all on message, everywhere we went,” Bacon said. “Even the lowest junior ranking people on the ground, they knew: ROEs, F-16 pilots, sanctions on Russia.”

Expanded use of weapons: The delegation visit this weekend came just days after Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his British counterpart David Lammy visited Kyiv. The high-level visits came as Ukrainian leaders push to reconsider a ban on using U.S. long-range missiles to hit targets in Russian territory.

Bipartisan pressure on Capitol Hill is also growing for President Joe Biden to relax the policy. Many of Biden’s critics, Bacon included, argue the rules amount to an unfair fight for Ukraine by taking away major Russian military targets.

Following meetings with Zelenskyy and other top leaders, Bacon said the international discussion “but nothing has happened.”

“The rules of engagement’s really pissing him off,” Bacon said of Zelenskyy. “And I don’t blame him.

“He was pretty clear the restrictions do not help Ukraine and it prolongs the war,” he said. “It costs Ukrainian lives. And we’ve got to take the war to Russia.”

F-16 pilot training: Another pressing priority remains the continued training of Ukrainian F-16 fighter pilots. The planes arrived this summer after months of wrangling.

Ukrainian pilots trained to fly the jets at Morris Air National Guard Base in Arizona. But Bacon argued Ukraine’s F-16 pilots need to continue that training to build up experience on the jets. He contends contractors should train them at a location out of the way of combat.

“We need to find a way [to continue training], like some retired F 16 pilots, have them on contract and fly maybe in a base [in the] very west of Ukraine,” Bacon said. “But we need to help them figure out how to raise the qualifications of the F-16 pilots who graduated. I heard that loud and clear.”

Another supplemental? Other lawmakers have returned from Ukraine in recent months and urged their colleagues to allocate more assistance before the end of the year — a move some supporters see as more urgent with the potential return of Donald Trump to the White House.

Bacon, a proponent of continued aid, said he’s open to more funding to help Ukraine in the lame duck session, but argued “the administration should tell us” what its funding needs are. So far, the White House hasn’t sought more money since lawmakers approved roughly $61 billion this spring to assist Ukraine and replenish U.S. stockpiles.

“They do need to help us know what the need is,” he said. “That said, I want to help Ukraine win.”

The Biden administration has requested lawmakers roll over its authority to transfer nearly $6 billion worth of weapons and equipment to Ukraine as part of a government funding stopgap this month. If the authority isn’t renewed, the Pentagon is warning it won’t be able to supply Ukraine with weapons once the new fiscal year starts on Oct. 1. More on that below.

Following today’s reports of more glide bomb attacks on Kharkiv, killing at least two, this map is next in my feed. These red dots and planes look like urgent targets for immediate action pic.twitter.com/ZDVDk4tK1t

— Maria Avdeeva (@maria_avdv) September 20, 2024

“On Thursday, September 26, President Biden will meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine at the White House. Vice President Harris will also meet separately with President Zelenskyy at the White House.” pic.twitter.com/VFZ9HuBbzI

— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) September 20, 2024

Next week at the White House, I will meet with President Zelenskyy of Ukraine for the seventh time.

President Biden and I have been clear: Our commitment to the Ukrainian people as they fight for their freedom is unshakeable.

— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) September 20, 2024

France:

⚡First group of Ukrainian pilots complete French jet training.

The first cohort of Ukrainian pilots have completed Alpha Jet training in France, the French Armed Forces announced on Sept. 20.https://t.co/YO40Pis8I0

— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) September 20, 2024

Here are the details from The Kyiv Independent:

The first cohort of Ukrainian pilots have completed Alpha Jet training in France, the French Armed Forces announced on Sept. 20.

The French Air Force has been training Ukrainian pilots since March 2024 as part of the international coalition to provide Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets, which was founded at the NATO summit in Vilnius in July 2023.

Kyiv has been calling for its partners to provide F-16s jets since the very first year of the full-scale war in order to bolster its fleet of aircraft, which is otherwise made up of Soviet-made planes.

While Ukraine has been promised nearly 80 jets from the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, and Norway, the training of new pilots has been considered one of the main bottlenecks for expanding Ukraine’s F-16 capabilities.

The French Armed Forces wrote on X that the Alpha Jet training program shows “France’s firm support for the Ukrainian war effort,” but did not provide further details.

French newspaper Le Monde reported in June that the French Air Force had committed to training 26 Ukrainian pilots.

This number is significant as the French Air Force usually certifies around 30 pilots a year, after up to five years of training.

The program began in March with 10 Ukrainian pilots, who are training using Alphajets fitted with a panel that simulates the instruments in the cockpit of an F-16, Le Monde said.

A group of Ukrainian pilots also recently arrived in Romania to start training on F-16 fighter jets, Defense Minister Rustem Umerov said on Sept. 12.

Other Ukrainian pilots have undergone training in the U.S. or Denmark, though Copenhagen said it would not provide instructions to Ukrainian aviators on its territory past 2024.

The EU:

Relentless Russian attacks mean Ukraine needs continued EU support.

The @EU_Commission will provide a loan of up to 35 billion euros to Ukraine as part of the G7 pledge.

This is another major EU contribution to the Ukraine’s recovery.

— Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen) September 20, 2024

Kharkiv:

Russian glide bomb struck near the hospital in the downtown of Kharkiv earlier this evening AND I’ve just heard two more distant explosions.

— Kate from Kharkiv (@BohuslavskaKate) September 20, 2024

Video from a car captures the exact moment of the KAB hit. The streets in Kharkiv are still pitch black pic.twitter.com/7PCe4aFWDg

— Maria Avdeeva (@maria_avdv) September 20, 2024

This evening, Russian aviation struck center of Kharkiv with a guided airbomb, a bomb hit right next to a city hospital.

The medical facility has just been repaired from damage caused by previous attacks.https://t.co/KhjOE3u9yRhttps://t.co/CoCJcU5atl pic.twitter.com/y58D0sPOK2

— Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) September 20, 2024

Sumy:

Russian strike on a nursing home for the elderly in Sumy. https://t.co/vS08QJ2h2M pic.twitter.com/xnG47OMDSn

— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) September 20, 2024

Vovchansk:

Vovchansk is razed because Ukraine couldn’t strike back pic.twitter.com/IGvaNl8owT

— Kate from Kharkiv (@BohuslavskaKate) September 20, 2024

Kurahove:

46th Brigade of Ukraine repels anothe massive Russian attack, which is actually still ongoing:

“Yesterday morning in the area of ​​responsibility of the 46th brigade seemed extremely hot. Russians resorted to another mass assault, which continued with varying intensity… https://t.co/yborSzyY0G pic.twitter.com/tCpJ6xJPTV

— Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) September 20, 2024

46th Brigade of Ukraine repels anothe massive Russian attack, which is actually still ongoing:

“Yesterday morning in the area of ​​responsibility of the 46th brigade seemed extremely hot. Russians resorted to another mass assault, which continued with varying intensity throughout the day. The enemy attacked with tanks, APCs, and IFVs to the accompaniment of guided air bombs. In total, 24 breakthrough attempts were recorded, into which Russians threw 52 pieces of equipment from different directions.

Our paratroopers “warmly greeted the guests” with artillery fire and FPV drones, engaged a tank company and assault groups to clear enemy infantry in shelters. In one word, they burned the hell fire. 8 tanks and BMPs, 4 APCs, one MTLB and one motorcycle were destroyed. 4 BMPs were damaged. The surviving equipment managed to retreat in time. Irreversible and sanitary losses of Russian personnel amounted to 72 infantrymen.”

https://t.me/oaembr46/1022

Kherson Oblast:

“A Baba Yaga drone came, dropped cookies and a life jacket”: unique footage of how the Ukrainian Armed Forces saved a Russian soldier abandoned by his command.

A drone spotted 22-year-old Russian marine Andrey Alimov on an island in Kherson region. He was holding a piece of… pic.twitter.com/z9geVnGKxf

— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) September 20, 2024

“A Baba Yaga drone came, dropped cookies and a life jacket”: unique footage of how the Ukrainian Armed Forces saved a Russian soldier abandoned by his command.

A drone spotted 22-year-old Russian marine Andrey Alimov on an island in Kherson region. He was holding a piece of paper saying: “Can I have something to eat? It’s hard.” As it turned out, he was given one field ration for three weeks but was abandoned for three months. He ate frogs, reed roots, and drank water from the Dnipro River, hoping to be rescued.

“His faith disappeared when he was shot in the leg, and he was fed with promises of evacuation for another two months. When his leg got really bad, he came out and surrendered to a Ukrainian drone,” journalist Yurii Butusov, who posted the video, wrote.

Russian occupied Crimea:

Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski suggested that the issue of Crimea would be key during possible negotiations between Ukraine and Russia, and suggested placing the peninsula under a UN mandate to prepare a referendum, Interfax-Ukraine reports.

— Hromadske Int. (@Hromadske) September 19, 2024

Crimea is Ukraine. Russian invasion and occupation doesn’t change that legal FACT. It’s not up for vote EVER, and definitely not after decades of occupation, torture and murder, population change by transplanting Russians, and genocide.
2/8

— ArianaGic/Аріянॳць (@GicAriana) September 19, 2024

And @sikorskiradek had the gall to complain about Kyiv’s reaction to the ideas he presented while in Ukraine. It’s clear why Kyiv is angry!! Damn good reason!!!
4/8

— ArianaGic/Аріянॳць (@GicAriana) September 19, 2024

We should be asking what the hell is going on with Poland. This should certainly cause more people to look at the illegal blockades at the PL-UA border which amounted to trade embargo with fresh eyes.
6/8

— ArianaGic/Аріянॳць (@GicAriana) September 19, 2024

We should be asking what the hell is going on with Poland. This should certainly cause more people to look at the illegal blockades at the PL-UA border which amounted to trade embargo with fresh eyes.
6/8

— ArianaGic/Аріянॳць (@GicAriana) September 19, 2024

Reacting to the unacceptable proposals on the future status of the Autonomous Republic of #Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine emphasizes one thing: #CrimeaIsUkraine 🇺🇦

No compromises. pic.twitter.com/HXcWCztdG6

— MFA of Ukraine 🇺🇦 (@MFA_Ukraine) September 20, 2024

The Kursk cross border offensive:

Russian commanders anticipated that Ukraine was planning an incursion into Kursk Oblast months before it occurred, the Guardian reported, citing documents that Ukrainian soldiers said they had seized from abandoned Russian positions.https://t.co/nUwFDAwCpt

— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) September 20, 2024

From The Kyiv Independent:

Russian commanders anticipated that Ukraine was planning an incursion into Kursk Oblast months before it occurred, the Guardian reported on Sept. 20, citing a collection of documents that Ukrainian soldiers said they had seized from abandoned Russian positions.

The documents included printed orders and handwritten entries from commanders.

Ukraine launched its cross-border incursion into Russia’s Kursk Oblast in early August, claiming to have seized around 100 settlements and over 1,300 square kilometers (500 square miles).

Russia appeared to have been taken by surprise by the attack, which allowed Ukrainian forces to quickly fan out across the border and move deep into Russian territory.

According to the seized documents, the authenticity of which the Guardian said they “could not independently verify,” Russian commanders had been cautioning that a potential cross-border breakthrough could occur as far back as January 2024.

While the earlier warnings were largely vague, they grew increasingly more detailed — including specific threats that Ukraine would try to seize the town of Sudzha — a warning that was realized after Ukraine captured it in August.

The seized documents also revealed that Russian commanders had attempted to beef up security by the border in Kursk Oblast and “organize additional exercises for the leadership of units and strongpoints regarding the proper organization of defenses” ahead of a possible Ukrainian attack.

Other revelations from the documents were statements from commanders about the deteriorating morale of Russian soldiers in the area.

“The analysis of the current situation regarding suicides shows that the issue of servicemen dying as a result of suicidal incidents remains tense,” one entry read.

Another entry detailed the specifics of one soldier’s suicide.

“The investigation into the incident determined that the cause of the suicide and death was a nervous and psychological breakdown, caused by his prolonged state of depression due to his service in the Russian army,” the entry read.

Commanders also wrote instructions on how to improve morale, including one suggestion that soldiers should receive daily political lessons “aimed at maintaining and raising the political, moral, and psychological condition of the personnel.”

The Toropets ammo dump:

Short video of the first moments of the attack on a Russian Toropets ammunition storage and the panic of local residents. pic.twitter.com/UBN13AL6kV

— Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) September 20, 2024

Ukraine’s drone strike on the arms depot in Russia’s Tver Oblast destroyed two to three months’ worth of munitions, Estonian Colonel Ants Kiviselg, head of the Estonian Defense Forces Intelligence Center, said on Sept. 20.

— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) September 20, 2024

More from The Kyiv Independent:

Ukraine’s drone strike on the arms depot in Russia’s Tver Oblast destroyed two to three months’ worth of munitions, Estonian Colonel Ants Kiviselg, head of the Estonian Defense Forces Intelligence Center, said on Sept. 20.

Ukraine launched an overnight attack on Sept. 18 against one of the largest arsenals in Russia, opened in 2018 and built to withstand a nuclear explosion.

According to Estonian news outlet ERR, Kiviselg commented on the strike during an Estonian Defense Ministry press conference.

Ukraine was able to strike the depot because some of the ammunition was not located inside bunkers, causing a chain of explosions that destroyed 30,000 tons of ammunition to explode, Kiviselg said.

“At an average rate of military action, Russia fires 10,000 shells per week. That is, a two-to-three-month supply of ammunition,”

“We will see the consequences of this loss at the front in the coming weeks,” Kiviselg said.

The arms depot in Topolets stored ballistic missiles, including Iskanders, anti-aircraft missiles, artillery ammunition, and KAB guided bombs, a source in the Security Service of Ukraine told the Kyiv Independent.

Ukraine has long suffered a disadvantage in terms of ammunition supplies compared to Russia.

Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi told CNN on Sept. 5 that Russian forces currently fire shells at a ratio of around 2:1 to 2.5:1 to Ukrainian forces.

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Friday Evening Bigfoot Bait Open Thread: American Apartheid’s Strongest Nepo-Babies

by Anne Laurie|  September 20, 20248:02 pm| 30 Comments

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⬆️ Think this aspect of MAGA billionaire tech leaders does not get covered as much in US media, in part because most Americans — including the reporters — fail to understand how South Africa's apartheid era is secretly viewed with nostalgia from quite a few white South Africans.

— Melissa Chan (@melissakchan) September 19, 2024

Forget South Africans, apartheid is ‘viewed with nostalgia’ by far too many Americans. Most of us, I assume, knew that Apartheid Clyde, his mini-me fanboi David Sacks, and even JD Vance / Blake Masters sugar daddy Peter Thiel spent their formative years in a society where White supremacy was literally enforced by law, but I didn’t know the probable founder of QAnon was also a member of that select club. Per the Financial Times:

Elon Musk lived in apartheid South Africa until he was 17. David Sacks, the venture capitalist who has become a fundraiser for Donald Trump and a troll of Ukraine, left aged five, and grew up in a South African diaspora family in Tennessee. Peter Thiel spent years of childhood in South Africa and Namibia, where his father was involved in uranium mining as part of the apartheid regime’s clandestine drive to acquire nuclear weapons. And Paul Furber, an obscure South African software developer and tech journalist living near Johannesburg, has been identified by two teams of forensic linguists as the originator of the QAnon conspiracy, which helped shape Trump’s Maga movement. (Furber denies being “Q”.)

In short, four of Maga’s most influential voices are fiftysomething white men with formative experiences in apartheid South Africa. This probably isn’t a coincidence…

So what connects these men’s southern African backgrounds with Maga today? Southern Africa under apartheid offered an extreme version of some of the main themes of American life today. First, there was tremendous inequality. The mine where Thiel’s father worked was “known for conditions not far removed from indentured servitude”, writes Thiel’s biographer Max Chafkin. “White managers, like the Thiels, had access to a brand-new medical and dental centre in Swakopmund and membership in the company country club.” The mine’s black migrant workers lived in work camps.

To whites of a certain mindset, this inequality wasn’t due to apartheid. They thought it was inscribed in nature. Certain people were equipped to succeed in capitalism, while others weren’t. That was simply the way it was, and it was pointless to try to mess with nature. Two of Thiel’s contemporaries at Stanford in the 1980s recall him telling them that apartheid “works” and was “economically sound”. His spokesman has denied that he ever supported apartheid.

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The white South African nightmare in the 1980s, hanging over everything, was that one day Black people would rise up and massacre whites. Like the US, South Africa was a violent society and becoming more violent in the 80s. Musk’s teenage recollections of seeing murders on trains may not be entirely factual, but do evoke the atmosphere of the era. He warned in 2023 about potential “genocide of white people in South Africa”. Trump’s recent claim about “American girls being raped and sodomised and murdered by savage criminal aliens” preyed on similar white fears…

If you’re a libertarian who believes that inequality is natural and lives in fear of race war, you will be drawn towards a certain type of American politics. You certainly won’t want government or institutions to try to intervene against racism. In 1995, a year after the ANC began attempting that in South Africa, Thiel and Sacks, who met at Stanford, published The Diversity Myth in the US. It’s a well-written defence of “western civilisation” against “multiculturalism” (or what the right now calls “woke”), written by two white twentysomethings who are sure racism isn’t the problem. Indeed, they explain: “There are almost no real racists . . . in America’s younger generation.”

Three decades later, this duo and Musk, with whom they united in Silicon Valley’s “PayPal mafia”, are backing a white Republican ticket that peddles made-up stories about Black immigrants from Haiti eating pets. The opposing Democrats are fielding a Black presidential candidate for the third time in five elections. The racial aspect of politics is almost as plain as it was in South Africa…

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by @heymistermix.com|  September 20, 20245:10 pm| 119 Comments

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I will never tire of watching Tim Walz and his Scout. He has a ’79, and I’m shocked that he found one with a 345 V-8 that still works. From personal experience, there’s nothing like being 16 and driving that overpowered death trap waaay too fast. They cut the actual fix (to the cruise control) but it doesn’t matter, because there are probably 100 of these still running today, and that’s a high estimate.

A lot of people point out that Walz’ “dad energy” is pretty strong. I can see how he was a good coach, teacher, and sergeant in the Guard. In the video above, he’s really passionate about how you can tell if someone is serious about car maintenance by looking at the air cleaner. When he was on Subway Takes with Kareem, he had a pretty serious riff on home gutter maintenance. Since my last post was about shitty men (and a shitty woman), it’s nice to see a guy who puts his time and energy into something constructive.

If you like watching Walz talk about cars, here’s another video.

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