At least one person on my reading list had the bright idea

to write to her senators demanding they don't consider a vote for any SCOTUS nomination but Garland.

I've been slacking somewhat, and that's bad. Can somebody give me the updated list of the 1,652,374.5 things I'm supposed to write/call my congresscritters about? I've got all weekend to send these letters and make these calls.

On the plus side....

if society utterly collapses and we've got to resort to cannibalism, we've got an embarrassment of riches here. Lots of jerky jerks to make jerky out of.

I've got a little list.

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U.S. Building Blocks of the Border Crisis (There's a longer list of interventions in Latin America here, though it was posted in 96.)

Note: This sort of intervention isn't limited to Latin America, of course, it's just that we're separated from Africa and Asia and the Mideast by an awful lot of ocean, so it's harder for the people we here in those places to get here.