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NYT > U.S. > Politics43 minutes ago
Biden’s Meeting With Israeli Leader Delayed a Day After Kabul Attack
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s meeting with President Biden, originally scheduled for Thursday morning, was postponed after attacks that killed American service members in Afghanistan. read more
 
Good idea.
 
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Capitol Police Officers Sue Trump and Allies Over Election Lies and Jan. 6
The suit, which took a broad view of the riot’s origins, was the latest effort to hold former President Donald J. Trump accountable for the Capitol attack. read more
 
Trump was responsible.
 
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Israel’s Spy Agency Snubbed the U.S. Can Trust Be Restored?
Israel’s new prime minister, Naftali Bennett, heads to Washington promising better relations and seeking support for covert attacks on Iran’s nuclear program. read more
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan
Trust should not be restored.
 
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U.S. Says 1,500 Americans in Afghanistan as Withdrawal Deadline Nears
The State Department is frantically trying to track down U.S. citizens. Tens of thousands of Afghan allies will all but certainly be left behind. read more
 
Trump set this mess up.
 
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Relief, and Worry, for Arrivals From Afghanistan
Afghan refugees and Americans who recently made it to the Washington area are happy to be in the United States, but they fear for those left behind. read more
 
Some do not want to come now.
Refugee entry to the U.S. is chocked by the Republican congress.
 
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Capitol Police Officers Sue Trump and Allies Over Election Lies and Jan. 6
The suit, which took a broad view of the riot’s origins, was the latest effort to hold former President Donald J. Trump accountable for the Capitol attack. read more
 
An excuse for appeals.
 
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Kamala Harris, in Southeast Asia and in Uniform
The vice president’s solo international trip set a tone, and a standard. read more
 
"Ms. Harris consciously and strategically crafted her image to ensure that it could not distract from the duty at hand." 

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Kamala Harris Pledges U.S. Help for Afghan Women and Children
As she left Southeast Asia, the vice president also delivered a blunt message to China. The United States does not want conflict, she said, but on some issues, “we are going to speak up.” read more
 
Afghanistan is a sovereign country.
The U.N. is the proper place for this action.
 
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U.S. Says 1,500 Americans in Afghanistan as Withdrawal Deadline Nears
The State Department is frantically trying to track down U.S. citizens. Tens of thousands of Afghan allies will all but certainly be left behind. read more
 
"President Biden warned Saturday that another terrorist attack at the Kabul airport sometime in the coming days was “highly likely,” and he promised that the U.S. retaliatory strike for Thursday’s suicide attack would not be the last.

The warning was yet another sign of the chaotic and dangerous situation as the U.S. tried to pull the last remaining Americans and Afghans out of a Taliban-controlled Afghanistan before the Tuesday deadline."

There are very few U.S. citizens left in Afghanistan who wish to leave now.

Afghan nationals are a different matter.

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 Relief, and Worry, for Arrivals From Afghanistan
Afghan refugees and Americans who recently made it to the Washington area are happy to be in the United States, but they fear for those left behind. read more
 
Some Afghan nationals are making their way out.
 
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ISIS-K in Afghanistan Poses Terrorist Threat to Evacuation in Kabul
An Islamic State affiliate that is a sworn enemy of both the Taliban and the United States threatens a large-scale attack against the mission at the airport. read more
 
 Mostly Gaslight.
I do not read minds.

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Biden Falls Short on U.S. Vaccine 'Arsenal' Pledge, Experts Say
Congress appropriated $16 billion to ramp up Covid-19 countermeasures, but a new report found that the Biden administration had spent very little of it on expanding vaccine manufacturing capacity. read more
 

Judge Orders Sanctions Against Pro-Trump Lawyers Over Election Lawsuit
Sidney Powell, L. Lin Wood and seven other lawyers deceived federal courts and debased the judicial process, a federal judge wrote. read more
 
There will be an ocean of Litigation leading toward the Supreme Court.
 
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2 U.S. Representatives Try to Explain Unauthorized Visit to Kabul
Representatives Seth Moulton and Peter Meijer said they could not get answers on the evacuation from the Biden administration, so they went to Afghanistan to see for themselves. read more
 
Congress has the right to investigate.
 
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Biden, Needing a Win, Enters a Sprint for His Economic Agenda
As his poll numbers slide, the president and his aides have mounted an aggressive pitch in Congress and around the country for his spending plans on infrastructure and more. read more
 
Suspected as Gaslighting.
 
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Facebook Said to Consider Forming an Election Commission
The social network has contacted academics to create a group to advise it on thorny election-related decisions, said people with knowledge of the matter. read more
 
The answer is no.
Facebook must change its business model.
 
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Pfizer and BioNTech Press Ahead on Booster Shots
The companies said they will submit their data by the end of the week and ask the F.D.A. to approve a third shot. read more
 
When a booster is available, get the shot.
 
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The Latest G.O.P. Schism: How to Handle Afghan Evacuees
The resettlement of Afghan allies in the U.S. is revealing an internal divide between the party’s anti-immigrant wing and other conservatives who want to help the refugees. read more
 
The U.S. should bring all who wish to come.
The U.S. should move all who need to leave.
 
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House Panel Demands Records of Trump’s Movements on Jan. 6
The request was part of a far-reaching set of documents the select committee sought from seven federal agencies, which suggested the inquiry was focusing on the former president’s role. read more
 
The congress has the right to investigate.
 
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Ian Welsh1 day ago
China is "Totalitarian”, We Couldn’t Do Zero-Covid
[image: Story 470325731] Oh? Here’s a report on how New Zealand handled their latest outbreak. Their contract tracers contacted 13,000 people and stopped 110 chains of transmission (in a week.) They tested 10% of Auckland’s population in a week. The outbreak has been going on for only 10 days, which means they caught it early and jumped on it. They tested wastewater and found infections only in two cities: those two cities get a 14 day lockdown (because that’s the virus cycle) and the rest of the country 10 days, which is long enough for anyone who has it to show symptoms. There... read more
 
Ian Welsh is speaking truth here.
 
 
 
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