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2:35 PM ET, August 27, 2021

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James Gordon Meek / ABC News:
US special operations vets carry out daring mission to save Afghan allies  —  At least 13 service members were killed in an attack in Kabul Thursday.  —  With the Taliban growing more violent and adding checkpoints near Kabul's airport, an all-volunteer group of American veterans …
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William Saletan / Slate:
The GOP's Phony Complaints About Afghanistan  —  On Thursday, suicide bombers killed scores of people outside the Kabul airport, including at least 12 American service members.  Congressional Republicans snapped into action, demanding that President Joe Biden resign or be impeached.
The Dispatch:
A Defeat of Choice  —  It did not have to be this way.  —  The attacks Thursday at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, killed 13 U.S. troops, making it the deadliest single day of the war for Americans in more than a decade.  More than 90 Afghans trying to escape …
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall:
Resign  —  Rip those stars off your pathetic nostalgia costumes and resign.  Quit.  Tell that crusty Pinocchio in the White House and the faculty lounge Geppettos tugging his strings that you will have no more to do with his human centipede of failure in Kabul.
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: ‘The worst day of your presidency’
Discussion: HotAir, CNN and NBC News
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: The continuing threat in Kabul
Associated Press:
New urgency to airlift after Kabul blasts kill more than 100
Hunter Walker / New York Magazine:
‘A Total F*cking Disaster’: Inside Seth Moulton's Secret Trip to Kabul Officials condemned the mission as a reckless stunt. …
Alison Durkee / Forbes:
Florida School Mask Mandate Ban Struck Down In Court  —  A state judge in Florida struck down Friday the state's executive order prohibiting school districts from imposing their own mask mandates after a four-day hearing over its fate, ruling they did not have the authority under state law to issue the ban …
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Arian Campo-Flores / Wall Street Journal:
Florida Schools' Covid-19 Mask Mandates Upheld by Judge  —  Judge says Gov. Ron DeSantis overstepped his authority and allows school districts to require students to wear masks  —  A Florida judge said school districts could impose mask mandates and that Gov. Ron DeSantis had overstepped his authority when he banned such rules.
Ana Ceballos / Miami Herald:
DeSantis overreached on school mask ban, judge rules
Discussion: Politico and The Hill
Elizabeth Fry / FOX 13 Tampa Bay:
Governor's school mask-mandate ban illegal and unsupported, judge rules
Kirby Wilson / Miami Herald:
Florida Surgeon General Scott Rivkees to step down next month
Discussion: Raw Story and Florida Politics
Josephine Harvey / Yahoo News:
Texas Anti-Mask ‘Freedom Rally’ Organizer Fighting For His Life With COVID-19  —  A Texas man who helped organize protests against pandemic restrictions is fighting for his life after being hospitalized for nearly a month with COVID-19, the  —  San Angelo Standard-Times reported.
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Justice Breyer on Retirement and the Role of Politics at the Supreme Court  —  In an interview prompted by his new book, the 83-year-old leader of the court's liberal wing said he is working on a decision about when to step down.  —  WASHINGTON — Justice Stephen G. Breyer says he is struggling …
NBC News:
Officer who shot Ashli Babbitt during Capitol riot breaks silence: ‘I saved countless lives’  —  In the chaotic minutes before he shot and killed Ashli Babbitt during the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, Lt. Michael Byrd focused his attention on the glass doors leading into the lobby of the House of Representatives chamber.
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Police report: Herschel Walker's ex-girlfriend claimed he threatened her life  —  A Texas woman who claimed to have a long romantic relationship with Republican U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker told police in 2012 that he threatened to “blow her head off” and then kill himself when she tried to end the relationship.
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Doug Richards / WXIA-TV:   Complaint: Herschel Walker violated campaign law
María Paúl / Washington Post:
A school district opted out of a free meals program, saying students could ‘become spoiled’  —  With two girls in elementary school and a mother who is a teacher, the Dringenburg household in a Milwaukee suburb had been joyous and excited about back-to-school season — until this year …
Josh Kovensky / Talking Points Memo:
EXCLUSIVE: Newly Unsealed Transcript Reveals Crux Of Mueller's Collusion Case  —  Internal Trump campaign polling data from the 2016 election was sent to a person close to Russia's leader, according to recently unsealed statements by a prosecutor from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office.
Sister Toldjah / RedState:
Jen Psaki Says Probably the Worst Thing She Could After Biden's Afghanistan Presser  —  As we reported yesterday, President Joe Biden gave a self-serving speech Thursday afternoon on what was a very dark day for America and her allies in Afghanistan after suicide bombings left, at last count …
Discussion: CNN, The Federalist and The White House
Houston Keene / Fox News:
Democrats attack Supreme Court for blocking Biden eviction moratorium  —  NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio attacked the Supreme Court as a ‘group of right-wing extremists’  —  Biden slammed after releasing info on Americans, allies to Taliban  —  Democrats are lashing out at the Supreme Court …
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New York Times:
Supreme Court Ends Biden's Eviction Moratorium
Ben Winck / Insider:
Inflation is cooling off just as economists, the Fed, and Biden expected  — The PCE inflation measure rose 0.4% in July, signaling a slowdown in price growth from the prior month.  — The print matched the median economist estimate.  It was the slowest price growth since February.
Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
What California's Recall Election Says About America  —  We did not meet at the French Laundry.  —  Gavin Newsom, the California governor who faces a recall election on September 14, hasn't been back to the extravagantly expensive Napa Valley restaurant since he dined there with lobbyists …
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Kaylee Fagan / San Francisco Chronicle:
Trump-inspired conspiracies about voter fraud have infiltrated the California recall. And they may cost supporters votes
Discussion: Raw Story
Gabrielle Fonrouge / New York Post:
First US service member who died in Kabul identified as Navy medic Max Soviak  —  One of the US service members killed in the suicide bombing outside the Kabul airport has been identified, reports said Friday.  —  Max Soviak, a Navy medic believed to be in his early 20s …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Joel Burgess / The Asheville Citizen Times:
GOP senator to Asheville business group: COVID-19 unvaccinated the problem, not immigrants  —  ASHEVILLE - Sen. Thom Tillis told a conservative local business group that anti-pandemic measures should focus on getting North Carolinians vaccinated, not on migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Michael Powell / New York Times:
New York's Private Schools Tackle White Privilege.  It Has Not Been Easy.  —  In this world — where tuition runs as high as $58,000 — the topic has become flammable.  Parents, faculty, students and alumni have all entered the fray.  —  Several years back Grace Church School …
The Columbus Dispatch:
J.D. Vance: Ohio State's vaccine mandate is outrageous ‘invasion of medical privacy’  —  We're all members of The Ohio State University community—either as alumni, students, or parents—and we're outraged that Ohio State will impose a vaccine mandate on its students.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Dana Goldstein / New York Times:
In Britain, Young Children Don't Wear Masks in School  —  During the Delta surge, British schools emphasized other safety measures: quarantining and regular testing for the virus.  —  From late spring into early summer, Britain's elementary and secondary schools were open during an alarming wave of Delta infections.
 
 
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Should the Government Impose a National Vaccination Mandate?
Alex Paterson / Media Matters for America:
Spotify's Joe Rogan and guest Meghan Murphy spread anti-trans vitriol and lie about COVID-19 vaccines
Rep. Vicky Hartzler / Washington Examiner:
Joe Biden must resign
Discussion: The Hill and UnHerd
CNN:
Erin Burnett Outfront
Discussion: HotAir
CNN:
Renewed fears of political violence grip Capitol Hill ahead of right-wing rally
Mark Antonio Wright / National Review:
Why Exactly Did We Abandon Bagram Air Base?
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Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
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Michael Kruse / Politico:
‘It Nearly Killed Me’: Michael Caputo's Life After Years Fighting for Trump
Anne Helen Petersen / Vox:
The staggering, exhausting, invisible costs of caring for America's elderly
Vianney Gomez / Pew Research Center:
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Discussion: Axios