Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
7:10 PM ET, August 18, 2021

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Sarah Kolinovsky / ABC News:
Biden says he did not see a way to withdraw from Afghanistan without ‘chaos ensuing’  —  In an exclusive ABC News interview, Biden opens up on his decision to withdraw.  —  In an exclusive interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos, and the president's first since the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban …
RELATED:
Ahmad Massoud / Washington Post:
The mujahideen resistance to the Taliban begins now.  But we need help.  —  Ahmad Massoud is the leader of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan.  —  In 1998, when I was 9 years old, my father, the mujahideen commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, gathered his soldiers in a cave in the Panjshir Valley of northern Afghanistan.
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
A primer on false narratives about Afghanistan  —  There are many alarmist headlines pronouncing with certitude what has occurred or will occur in Afghanistan.  Many are premature — or alternatively, out of date.  Others ignore information now available to us that debunks fanciful explanations …
Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
An evasive White House quietly hints that not all Americans will make it out of Afghanistan  —  The White House has little confidence it can evacuate all U.S. nationals from Afghanistan before the Taliban take full control of the country.  —  The administration said as much this week, although not in so many words.
Discussion: ABC News, Townhall and Power Line
New York Times:
The Taliban respond with force to an outpouring of public anger.
Andrew Prokop / Vox:
Why Biden was so set on withdrawing from Afghanistan
Tom Rogan / Washington Examiner:
US allies deeply concerned by Biden's detachment
Discussion: Fox News
Graeme Wood / The Atlantic:
This Is Not the Taliban 2.0  —  When the Taliban first sacked Kabul 25 years ago …
Discussion: CNN and Washington Examiner
U.S. Embassy / U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan:
Security Alert: U.S. Embassy Kabul (August 18, 2021)  —  U.S. government-provided flights are departing.  U.S. citizens, LPRs, and their spouses and unmarried children (under age 21) should consider travelling to Hamid Karzai International Airport.   You should plan to enter the airport at Camp Sullivan.
RELATED:
NBC News:
Images of bloodied Afghans contradict Taliban's claims of moderation
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Biden State Dept Moved to Abolish Crisis Response Bureau Months Before Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan
Discussion: Fox News and The Daily Caller
Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Vaccines' protection against virus infection is waning, C.D.C. studies suggest.  —  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released three studies on Wednesday that federal officials said provided evidence that booster shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna coronavirus vaccines …
Discussion: globalnews.ca, Reason, UPI and Politico
RELATED:
HHS News releases:
Joint Statement from HHS Public Health and Medical Experts on COVID-19 Booster Shots  —  Today, public health and medical experts from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the following statement on the Administration's plan for COVID-19 booster shots for the American people.
RELATED:
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
How Pelosi is trying to jam the rebels threatening to tank Biden's agenda  —  Incredibly, the nine conservative Democrats who have been threatening to derail passage of President Biden's $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill are still at it.  They're still demanding a vote only on the bipartisan …
RELATED:
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Poll finds growing support for voter ID requirements
Discussion: USAFeatures.news and Townhall
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
Democrats have finally identified the greatest threat to voting rights — the Supreme Court
Discussion: Washington Examiner, The 19th and UPI
RELATED:
The White House:
FACT SHEET: President Biden to Announce New Actions to Protect Americans from COVID-⁠19 and Help State and Local Leaders Fight the Virus
Discussion: Fox News and The Daily Caller
Zeke Miller / Associated Press:
AP Source: Biden to require vaccines for nursing home staff
Douglas London / Just Security:
CIA's Former Counterterrorism Chief for the Region: Afghanistan, Not An Intelligence Failure — Something Much Worse  —  While it's certainly convenient to depict the shock and miscalculation U.S. officials claim over Afghanistan's tragic, rapid fall to the Taliban as an intelligence failure, the reality is far worse.
New York Times:
Kushner Friend Who Was Pardoned by Trump Is Charged in New York  —  Ken Kurson, the former editor of The New York Observer, has been charged with two felonies.  Prosecutors said he installed spyware on his former wife's computer in order to surveil her.  —  Seven months after he was pardoned …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump promoted vaccines on Fox.  Then the host goaded him into bashing boosters.  —  Wednesday was a big day in the fight against the coronavirus.  It's the day the U.S. government launched its campaign to get Americans to take booster shots for the vaccines, amid the increasingly challenging situation brought on by the delta variant.
Oli Coleman / Page Six:
Larry David ‘screamed’ at Alan Dershowitz at grocery store over Trump ties  —  It seems that Alan Dershowitz's ties to the Trump administration have made him persona non grata among the Martha's Vineyard elite — including Larry David.  —  A Page Six spy spotted the Harvard Law professor …
Discussion: Raw Story
Jeffrey Morris / Covid Data Science:
Israeli data: How can efficacy vs. severe disease be strong when 60% of hospitalized are vaccinated?  —  A surge involving the rapidly-transmitting Delta variant in heavily vaccinated countries has led to much hand-wringing that the vaccines are not effective against Delta, or vaccine efficacy wanes after 4-6 months.
FiveThirtyEight:
Latest Polls Of The California Recall Election  —  Voters will decide whether to remove Gov. Gavin Newsom and — if removed — whom to replace him with  —  Opponents of Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom of California have gathered enough signatures to trigger a recall election for him on Sept. 14 …
Claire McNear / The Ringer:
“A Smile With Sharp Teeth”: Mike Richards's Rise to ‘Jeopardy!’  Host Sparks Questions About His Past  —  The ‘Jeopardy!’ host search is finally over.  New reporting reveals that concerns about Richards and the show's selection process remain.  —  One day in the fall of 2013, Mike Richards called Ken Jennings.
Heather Long / Washington Post:
The U.S. could be on the verge of a productivity boom, a game-changer for the economy  —  Rapid adoption of robots and artificial intelligence during the pandemic combined with a rebound in government investment is making some economists optimistic about a return of a 1990s economy with widespread benefits
New York Times:
The Biden administration will use a federal civil rights office to deter states from banning universal masking in classrooms.  —  The Biden administration, escalating its fight with Republican governors who are blocking local school districts from requiring masks to protect against the coronavirus …
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 7:10 PM ET, August 18, 2021.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
memeorandum: site main
memeorandum River: reverse chronological memeorandum
memeorandum Mobile: for phones
memeorandum Leaderboard: memeorandum's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
memeorandum RSS feed
memeorandum on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
Julia Davis / The Daily Beast:
Russia Gushes Over ‘Fun’ Taliban at Theme Park—Then Reports Taliban Burned It Down
Discussion: Raw Story
John Sexton / HotAir:
Chris Rufo more than held his own in this NY Times interview on Critical Race Theory
Discussion: New York Times
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The GOP is losing the PR battle on coronavirus mandates
Noah Bierman / Los Angeles Times:
Kamala Harris has touted her role on Afghanistan policy. Now, she owns it too
Discussion: Breitbart
Fox News:
Biden's entire national security team should resign: Rep. Andy Barr
Discussion: The Daily Caller
VICE:
We Spoke to the Family of the Afghan Teenager Who Fell to His Death From a US Military Plane
 Earlier Items: 
Timothy Noah / Washington Monthly:
Nobody Cares Who Lost Afghanistan
Joy Pullmann / The Federalist:
Mark Milley Deserves To Be Fired And Court-Martialed For His Afghanistan Lies
Laura Davison / Bloomberg:
U.S. Households Paying No Income Tax Hit 61% of Total Last Year
Discussion: TaxVox
Bojan Pancevski / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Officials in Germany Hit by Havana Syndrome
Discussion: Politico and Political Wire
BUSR:
2022 Florida Gubernatorial Poll
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Bloomberg:
A look at the challenges facing Crunchyroll, as current and ex-staffers say its management is out of touch, amid Disney and Netflix's expansion into anime

Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Trump may erode press protections but the ABC case is not evidence of that as the decision to settle appears reasonable given Stephanopoulos' imprecise remarks
 
Sister Sites:

Techmeme
 Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web
Mediagazer
 Top news and commentary for media professionals from all around the web
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page