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11:25 PM ET, August 22, 2021

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NBC News:
Afghan staff at U.S. Embassy losing faith in evacuation efforts, diplomatic cable says  —  WASHINGTON — Local staff members at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul are “deeply disheartened” by U.S. evacuation efforts and have expressed a sense of betrayal and distrust in the American government …
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Reuters:
U.S. ‘unwavering’ in Afghanistan evacuations, Biden says; Taliban beat back crowd at airport  —  The United States has an “unwavering commitment” to get U.S. citizens and at-risk Afghans to safety out of Afghanistan, President Joe Biden said, as Taliban fighters beat back thousands desperate to flee outside Kabul airport on Sunday.
Axios:
Biden doesn't plan to fire anyone over Kabul chaos, sources say  —  Biden isn't inclined to fire any senior national security officials over the chaos in Kabul unless the situation drastically deteriorates.
Discussion: Breitbart
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
‘What traitors do’: Trump slammed for praising Taliban at Alabama rally  —  During his 90-minute speech in Alabama on Saturday night, former president Donald Trump praised the Taliban and talked up his relationship with them at the same time that President Joe Biden is attempting to conduct …
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Allan Smith / NBC News:
Trump booed at Alabama rally after telling supporters to get vaccinated … Former President Donald Trump was booed at a rally on Saturday in Alabama after telling supporters they should get vaccinated.  —  “And you know what?  I believe totally in your freedoms.  I do.
Josie Ensor / Telegraph:
Joe Biden's aides ‘too afraid’ to tell him he was wrong on Afghanistan, say White House insiders  —  The US president is facing the greatest crisis of his tenure  —  President Joe Biden's aides were “too scared” to question him on key decisions made in the run-up to the US withdrawal from Afghanistan …
Martin E. Comas / Associated Press:
U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz marries girlfriend in California elopement  —  MIAMI (AP) — U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fort Walton Beach, eloped to Southern California and married his girlfriend Ginger Luckey on Saturday in a small ceremony on Catalina Island.  —  The controversial 39-year-old Republican …
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Biden began to rebut negative story lines about Afghanistan  —  President Biden's Friday speech on Afghanistan, and even more so his answers to reporters' questions, ended the week on a decidedly more positive note than it began.  While on Monday the focus was on harrowing scenes …
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Dexter Filkins / New Yorker:   What We Left Behind in Afghanistan
Dominic Green / The Spectator World:
Biden must go  —  (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
Discussion: Instapundit
E.J. Dionne / Washington Post:
The Afghanistan outcome is ugly. Biden was still right to say: Enough.
New York Times:
Hospitals and Insurers Didn't Want You to See These Prices.  Here's Why.  —  The price for an M.R.I. at Mass General is ...  Do you have a medical bill we should investigate?  Share it with us.  —  This year, the federal government ordered hospitals to begin publishing a prized secret …
Brian Kahn / Gizmodo:
Trump's Border Wall Torn Apart by Arizona Monsoon Rains  —  Record monsoon rains have blown floodgates off their hinges as Trump's border wall breaks down.  —  Alerts  —  It turns out ignoring bedrock environmental laws may not have been the best choice for a multibillion-dollar construction project.
Discussion: Raw Story
Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
Hundreds of Afghans arrive at Northern Virginia Community College, greeted by outpouring of support  —  They kept coming: people carrying bags of clothes, bags of toiletries, bags of diapers and baby formula and toys and books.  —  All were donations for the hundreds of Afghan refugees …
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Silas House / The Atlantic:
Some Americans No Longer Believe in the Common Good  —  They now are thinking only of themselves.  —  About the author: Silas House, a writer based in Kentucky, is the author of six novels, including, most recently, Southernmost.  —  As a child in eastern Kentucky, I often helped …
Discussion: TheBlaze
Jon Craig / Sky News:
Afghanistan: Tony Blair slams President Biden for ‘imbecilic’ military pullout and says crisis risks relegating UK to ‘second division of global powers’  —  The former prime minister, who sent British troops into Afghanistan in 2001, said the “abandonment of Afghanistan and its people is tragic, dangerous [and] unnecessary”.
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Financial Times:
Johnson to host G7 talks on Afghanistan with role sought for China and Russia
Discussion: UnHerd
Harry Enten / CNN:
How the political environment is moving toward Republicans  —  (CNN)Republicans gained a seat in the Connecticut state Senate this week.  They won a special election in a district that President Joe Biden won by more than 20 points in 2020.  —  Any individual special election such as this one comes …
Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
Democrats scramble to reclaim lost ground in statehouse battles  —  Arizona state Sen. Lela Alston (D) was sitting at home on Nov. 3 last year huddled with her campaign advisers on Zoom with “huge expectations” that her party could flip at least one chamber of the state legislature.
Adam Elmahrek / Los Angeles Times:
State officials open investigation into whether Larry Elder failed to disclose income sources  —  California regulators have launched an investigation into whether recall election gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder failed to properly disclose his income sources, a spokesman …
Discussion: The Hill
Devan Cole / CNN:
GOP congressman places blame on Trump admin for crisis in Afghanistan: ‘They set this up to fail’  —  Brianna Keilar presses official: Why is Biden misleading with his words here?  —  Washington (CNN)Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger on Sunday placed blame on the Trump administration …
Discussion: Raw Story
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CNN:
Fact check: Trump administration officials try to rewrite their own Afghanistan history
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
CNN:
Tennessee flooding leaves 21 people dead and around 20 others missing  —  (CNN)The death toll from severe flooding in Humphreys County in Middle Tennessee, has risen to 21, according to local officials.  —  About 20 people are still missing, Grant Gillespie, the police and fire chief of Waverly …
Yeganeh Torbati / Washington Post:
In Florida, DeSantis cut jobless aid just as virus began terrifying new wave  —  Unemployed residents struggling to survive on low state benefits are a preview of what could come nationwide as federal pandemic aid programs expire  —  DAVENPORT, Fla. — By June, Meli Feliciano's family appeared …
Charles Gaba / ACA Signups:
A month later, let's check in on the GOP's (supposed) COVID vaccination messaging 180º turnaround  —  Exactly a month ago I posted an in-depth analysis in which I broke out all 3,114 counties, parishes, boroughs & census areas throughout the 50 United States (+DC) into a 3x3 grid as follows:
Noah Feldman / Bloomberg:
Kavanaugh Is the Last Hope for Abortion Rights  —  Liberals have reviled the conservative Supreme Court justice since his confirmation hearing, but now hope that he still cherishes the reputation for moderation that he cultivated.  —  For the first time in 30 years — a legal generation …
 
 
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Howie Carr / Boston Herald:
Biden voters — are you tired of losing yet?
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
How the U.S. vaccination drive came to rely on an army of consultants
Bruce Haring / Deadline:
Fox News Rescues Afghan Nationals Who Aided Correspondents
Discussion: Fox News and RedState
Courtney Zubowski / Click2Houston.com:
'I've never seen anything like this': ER doctor says hundreds of patients are waiting to be admitted into hospitals, but there are no beds
David French / The Dispatch:
They Held the Line  —  The sacrifice in Afghanistan was not in vain.
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
The Noisy Minority  —  The connection between Republican political views and skepticism …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Raw Story
 Earlier Items: 
New York Times:
Why Are So Many Hesitant to Get the Covid Vaccine in This Arkansas Town?
Sam Sokol / Haaretz:
A medical worker prepares to administer a patient's third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at a Clalit HMO in Jerusalem.Credit: Ammar Awad/Reuters
Discussion: New York Post, The Guardian and 77 WABC
U.S. Department of Defense:
Department of Defense Activates Civil Reserve Air Fleet to Assist With Afghanistan Efforts
ABC News:
US special operations forces race to save former Afghan comrades in jeopardy
Wall Street Journal:
More Kids Are Hospitalized With Covid-19, and Doctors Fear It Will Get Worse
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
New York Times:
As Biden Faces a Political Crisis, His Party Looks On in Alarm
Discussion: Politico and Breitbart
 

 
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