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3:20 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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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 …
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.
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. …
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.
The Daily Beast:
Dad of Marine Slain in Kabul Vents Anger at Military, Biden  —  Kareem Nikoui was one of at least 13 U.S. service members killed in a suicide bombing outside Kabul airport on Thursday.  —  Thursday was “an excruciating day” for California carpenter Steve Nikoui.
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Justin Reyes / KGNS:
Laredoan amongst 13 U.S Service members killed in Kabul attack  —  LAREDO, TX.  (KGNS) - A Laredo Marine is one of the 13 U.S Service members killed in the attack at the Kabul Airport in Afghanistan.  —  According to the New York Times, the reported death toll has risen to at least 170 people with as many as 200 wounded.
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 …
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.
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Alison Durkee / Forbes:
Florida School Mask Mandate Ban Struck Down In Court
Jacob Ogles / Florida Politics:
Lincoln Project lambastes Ron DeSantis for school COVID-19 surge
Discussion: Raw Story
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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Nicholas Wu / Politico:
Jan. 6 investigators demand records from social media companies
Discussion: CNN, Raw Story and Slate
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: The Federalist and The White House
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Rep. Vicky Hartzler / Washington Examiner:
Joe Biden must resign
Discussion: The Hill and UnHerd
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 …
Discussion: Jezebel
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
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
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.
Alex Paterson / Media Matters for America:
Spotify's Joe Rogan and guest Meghan Murphy spread anti-trans vitriol and lie about COVID-19 vaccines  —  Rogan lied that COVID-19 vaccines are “gene therapy” and falsely suggested people who have already contracted the virus should not get vaccines … Spotify's Joe Rogan …
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.
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 …
Meredith Wadman / Science:
Having SARS-CoV-2 once confers much greater immunity than a vaccine—but no infection parties, please  —  The natural immune protection that develops after a SARS-CoV-2 infection offers considerably more of a shield against the Delta variant of the pandemic coronavirus than two doses …
Casper Star-Tribune:
Wyoming Marine among those killed in Afghanistan airport bombing  —  A Marine from Wyoming was among the troops killed Thursday in a suicide bombing attack in Afghanistan.  —  Rylee McCollum had been sent to Afghanistan on his first deployment when the American evacuation began, his sister said …
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
 
 
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Eli Clifton / Responsible Statecraft:
How the defense industry helped prolong the war in Afghanistan
Aamer Madhani / Associated Press:
AP Source: COVID vaccination site opens for arriving Afghans
Discussion: NBC News and 6abc
Ryan Cooper / The Week:
The Republican pandemic response is breaking my brain
Discussion: Eschaton
Kirby Wilson / Miami Herald:
Florida Surgeon General Scott Rivkees to step down next month
Discussion: Raw Story and Florida Politics
Jeannie Suk Gersen / New Yorker:
Should the Government Impose a National Vaccination Mandate?
Dana Goldstein / New York Times:
In Britain, Young Children Don't Wear Masks in School
 Earlier Items: 
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?
Discussion: HotAir and The Daily Caller
Steve Contorno / Tampa Bay Times:
Struggling Hillsborough GOP turns to Marjorie Taylor Greene
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Michael Kruse / Politico:
‘It Nearly Killed Me’: Michael Caputo's Life After Years Fighting for Trump
New York Times:
Supreme Court Ends Biden's Eviction Moratorium