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· 13 Elul 5781 (Saturday 21 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

I still wonder how many deleterious effects we’ve experienced and will continue to experience because we didn’t have a normal presidential transition. It started the admin off on their back foot, and the GOP continues to slow walk new nominees further eroding institutions.
— Jean-Michel Connard (@torriangray) August 19, 2021

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· 13 Elul 5781 (Saturday 21 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

"We screwed over the people who helped us and our own citizens because we were afraid of what they'd say about us on Fox."

Fuck you. Of all the cowardly, chickenshit horse excrement floated to duck responsibility for doing your basic duty, this takes the cake.
— Avi Woolf, Wilderness Conservative🐺 (@AviWoolf) August 19, 2021

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· 13 Elul 5781 (Saturday 21 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

Trump’s “Deal” With the Taliban Set the Stage for Afghanistan’s Collapse by Mark Follman

Taliban fighters take control of the Afghan presidential palace in Kabul on August 15, 2021.Zabi Karimi/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter. The weeks ahead will bring exhaustive debate about the grim developments in Afgha...

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· 13 Elul 5781 (Saturday 21 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

Man surrenders after claiming to have bomb near US Capitol by Eric Tucker, Michael Balsamo, Colleen Long

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.

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· 13 Elul 5781 (Saturday 21 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

Our Own Worst Enemy with Tom Nichols from podcasts.apple.com(51 minutes 53 seconds)

Host Reed Galen is joined by Author and Contributing Writer at The Atlantic Tom Nichols to discuss the lead-up and aftermath of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, the mass disbelief in the medical community, and the state of our nation’s democracy through the lens of Tom’s new book, Our Own Worst…

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· 13 Elul 5781 (Saturday 21 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

Republican governor welcomes Afghan refugees disparaged as a "scourge" by right-wing media by Zachary Petrizzo

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· 13 Elul 5781 (Saturday 21 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

Right-wing media already bored with bashing Biden over Afghanistan, return to the culture wars by Amanda Marcotte

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· 13 Elul 5781 (Saturday 21 August 2021) · 1 minute to read

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

I’m really glad you said this out loud and everything but seriously you really should go check the shitty website you edit because the call is coming from inside the house.

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· 13 Elul 5781 (Saturday 21 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

Do you even read your own shitty website? https://t.co/2XtMZbj1VT
— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) August 19, 2021

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· 13 Elul 5781 (Saturday 21 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

Those dangerous Afghan refu... https://t.co/ZgdQbx6xfY
— masked byker (@bykerseven) August 19, 2021

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· 13 Elul 5781 (Saturday 21 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

Maybe if you call the unvaccinated "common carriers" Republicans will suddenly be interested in regulating them. https://t.co/LX3L3oeN38
— Ari Cohn (@AriCohn) August 20, 2021

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· 13 Elul 5781 (Saturday 21 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

Ron DeSantis has ‘made a monumental mess of masking in public schools’ | Column by Mac Stipanovich

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.

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· 13 Elul 5781 (Saturday 21 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

White House orders for a speedy military withdrawal put pressure on beleaguered Afghans as the Taliban surged by Greg Jaffe, Dan Lamothe

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.

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· 13 Elul 5781 (Saturday 21 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

Afghan crisis reveals broken US confirmation process by Laura Rozen

'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.’

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· 13 Elul 5781 (Saturday 21 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

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

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· 13 Elul 5781 (Saturday 21 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

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

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· 13 Elul 5781 (Saturday 21 August 2021) · 1 minute to read

Let’s be clear. Our scorn is not directed against the unvaccinated. It’s against the purveyors of antivaccine antiscience aggression and disinformation who exploit innocent and trusting victims for personal gain or political expediency https://t.co/1UodSfDiba
— Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD (@PeterHotez) August 20, 2021

Actually my scorn is absolutely directed at those who choose to remain unvaccinated against Covid for no other reason than “I don’t wanna!”. It’s also directed at the people mentioned in this tweet. And no Tucker, (can we just start calling him Fucker yet?), scorn of the defiantly unvaccinated and their enablers is not just like lynchings.

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· 12 Elul 5781 (Friday 20 August 2021) · 1 minute to read

Judge rejects Larry Nassar’s bid to keep prison money, orders it turned over to his victims by Devlin Barrett

The former USA Gymnastics doctor said he had followed Bureau of Prisons rules in paying $300 to his victims while spending more than $10,000 on himself.

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· 12 Elul 5781 (Friday 20 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

Georgia Gov. Kemp allows businesses to ignore local COVID mandates by Jacob Knutson

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· 12 Elul 5781 (Friday 20 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

Trump officials scramble for distance from his Taliban deal by Aaron Blake

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