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WASHINGTON (AP) — A North Carolina man who claimed to have a bomb in a pickup truck near the U.S. Capitol surrendered to law enforcement after an hourslong standoff Thursday that prompted a massive police response and the evacuations of government buildings in the area.

The suggestion that Afghans who worked with American forces shouldn't be evacuated because they're all secretly terrorists is so deeply racist and stupid I can't even fathom someone would say it.

— Ben Domenech (@bdomenech) August 19, 2021

Ron DeSantis is a governor uninterested in actually governing, a lawyer with little respect for the law, an anti-elitist with an Ivy League education and a hypocrite unbothered by inconsistency. Populist politics, not public policy, is his long suit. So it is not surprising that he has made a monumental mess of masking in public schools.

Ensuring the long-term survival of Afghan forces and the evacuation of Afghan interpreters were lower priorities than a fast withdrawal with no U.S. casualties.

'The entire process is broken,' Biden transition official. ‘We never had a normal transition and had to play catch up…Now Cruz is holding everyone… And there’s no end in sight.’

A member of our well regulated militia leaves multiple loaded guns “easily accessible” to the children in his home. One of the children shoots another child, 4, in the shoulder. https://t.co/Gcam7EcZup

— WellRegulatedMilitia (@Well_Regulated_) August 18, 2021

A member of our well regulated militia leaves a loaded gun in a bedroom, accessible to two kids, 10 and 7. The 10 year old shoots the 7 year old in the face, and wounds their own face as well. https://t.co/yWPfyi2jg6

— WellRegulatedMilitia (@Well_Regulated_) August 19, 2021

While most Republicans focus blame on President Biden, some former Trump officials are pointing to the deal that Biden's predecessor signed.

The Taliban will be looking for the people in those pictures

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I was worried long before Trump and the Capitol riot, as political jousting turned zealous and well-off friends called America a disastrous mess.