Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
8:05 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:
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.
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.
Julian E. Barnes / New York Times:
Intelligence Agencies Did Not Predict Imminence of Afghan Collapse, Officials Say  —  The acknowledgment came as the Biden administration faces heavy criticism over its handling of the withdrawal of American-led forces from Afghanistan.  —  WASHINGTON — Intelligence reports presented …
Discussion: Fox News, HuffPost, Axios and New York Post
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  Many are premature — or alternatively, out of date.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 …
New York Times:
The Taliban respond with force to an outpouring of public anger.
Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
An evasive White House quietly hints that not all Americans will make it out of Afghanistan
Discussion: ABC News, Townhall and Power Line
Tom Rogan / Washington Examiner:
US allies deeply concerned by Biden's detachment
Discussion: Fox News
Axios:
Exclusive: Inside the White House scramble to protect Afghan allies
Discussion: Raw Story
NBC News:
Images of bloodied Afghans contradict Taliban's claims of moderation
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
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 …
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:
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 …
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Biden's ‘I Am Not Sending My Boy Back There’ Comment in Context  —  A lot of people are pointing to Biden's 2010 exchange with Richard Holbrooke as an omen of his decision-making regarding Afghanistan: … Judging by the sequence of events in Holbrooke's book, this meeting was sometime in August 2010 or later.
RELATED:
Andrew Prokop / Vox:
Why Biden was so set on withdrawing from Afghanistan
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.
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 …
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.
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Biden to require nursing homes get staff vaccinated or lose federal funds  —  Surgeon general on Covid-19 boosters: The time is now  —  (CNN)The Biden administration will direct all nursing homes to require their staff be vaccinated against Covid-19 in order to continue receiving Medicare …
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
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.
Ashton Pittman / Mississippi Free Press:
Mississippi Quarantines 20,000 With 5,993 Students Positive For COVID; Teen Deaths Rise  —  With both siblings wearing backpacks, Mkayla Robinson put her arms around her little brother, and the two smiled for a photo on Friday, Aug. 6., as they prepared to leave home to start her final year …
RELATED:
CNN:
Mississippi eighth grader dies a day after positive coronavirus test
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
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 …
Renuka Rayasam / Politico:
Hitting the vax ceiling  —  BOOST, THERE IT IS — Are Covid booster shots going to become a yearly ritual, or is it going to be three jabs and you're out?  Now that the Biden administration is finalizing a plan that would call for Americans to get a third vaccine dose eight months after their last one …
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
Julia Davis / The Daily Beast:
Russia Gushes Over ‘Fun’ Taliban at Theme Park—Then Reports Taliban Burned It Down  —  ‘SO MUCH FUN’  —  Russian state media was quick to fawn over a clip of reported Taliban members enjoying bumper car rides.  But the next day, it claimed the group had burned the amusement park down.
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.
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 8:05 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: 
Kat Stafford / Associated Press:
Movement for Black Lives: Feds targeted BLM protesters
Discussion: The Hill
Courtney Bublé / GovExec.com:
‘All the Signs Have Been There’ Predicting Afghan Security Force Collapse, IG Says
Clay Risen / New York Times:
Glen Ford, Black Journalist Who Lashed the Mainstream, Dies at 71
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: HotAir and Breitbart
VICE:
We Spoke to the Family of the Afghan Teenager Who Fell to His Death From a US Military Plane
Discussion: New York Post
 Earlier Items: 
Timothy Noah / Washington Monthly:
Nobody Cares Who Lost Afghanistan
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:

Om Malik / On my Om:
AI platforms are unlikely to become a major source of traffic or ad revenue for media outlets, with content deals offering only a short-term revenue boost

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 Crunchyroll's challenges, including current and former employees saying its management is out of touch, as Disney and Netflix's expand into anime
 
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