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11:55 AM ET, August 28, 2021

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NBC News:
U.S. retaliates against ISIS with drone strike in Afghanistan  —  U.S. military forces conducted a drone strike on Friday against the Islamic State terrorist group in Afghanistan in an apparent retaliatory attack against those who claimed responsibility for the attack outside Kabul's airport.
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Rachel Maddow / MSNBC:   U.S. hits ISIS target in Afghanistan with ‘over-the-horizon’ drone strike: DOD
Michael Hirsh / Foreign Policy:
Is Islamic Terrorism Coming to the U.S. Again?
Discussion: Insider
Maggie Fox / CNN:
Unvaccinated, unmasked teacher infected more than half of students in class with Covid-19, CDC reports  —  (CNN)An unvaccinated elementary school teacher who took off their mask to read to students ended up infecting more than half of them last May — and they went on to infect other students …
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Cdcmmwr / Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
Outbreak Associated with SARS-CoV-2 B.1.617.2 (Delta) Variant in an Elementary School — Marin County, California, May-June 2021  —  Tracy Lam-Hine, MBA1,2; Stephen A. McCurdy, MD1,3; Lisa Santora, MD1; Lael Duncan, MD1; Russell Corbett-Detig, PhD4; Beatrix Kapusinszky, PhD5; Matthew Willis, MD1 (View author affiliations)
Dania Kalaji / The Red and Black:
UGA professor resigns mid-class after student refuses to wear mask  —  A University of Georgia retiree-rehire professor resigned on Tuesday after one of his students refused to properly wear a mask in an upper division psychology seminar class held at the psychology building.
Discussion: Raw Story
Bob Smietana / Religion News Service:
NRB spokesman Dan Darling fired after pro-vaccine statements on ‘Morning Joe’  —  Daniel Darling, right, appears on MSNBC's “Morning Joe” on Aug. 2, 2021, with host Joe Scarborough.  Video screengrab  —  (RNS) — The spokesman for a major evangelical nonprofit was fired for promoting vaccines on the MSNBC …
New York Times:
At a Children's Hospital, a Wave of Young Patients Struggling to Breathe  —  A federal “surge team” is helping exhausted doctors and nurses through one of the most trying periods in the history of Children's Hospital New Orleans.  —  NEW ORLEANS — Helpless to improve her infant son's breathing …
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Tampa Bay Times:
Doctor advising DeSantis promoted ivermectin to treat COVID-19 despite FDA warnings  —  'Any physician that espouses this should be reported to the state medical association," one medical expert said.  —  Updated Just now  —  A California psychiatrist who has advised Gov. Ron DeSantis …
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Vera Bergengruen / TIME:
How 'America's Frontline Doctors' Sold Access to Bogus COVID-19 Treatments—and Left Patients in the Lurch
Discussion: Gizmodo
James Clark / Task & Purpose:
Marine commander says he's been relieved over his viral video calling out military leaders for Afghanistan withdrawal [UPDATED]  —  On Thursday, a Marine infantry officer and battalion commander took to social media to air his frustrations with senior military leadership over their handling …
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Matt Dixon / Politico:
Florida starts turning on DeSantis  —  TALLAHASSEE — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been untouchable for the past year as he commanded the Republican culture wars to become heir apparent to Donald Trump.  The latest coronavirus surge is starting to change that.
Discussion: Raw Story, National Review and Mediaite
Brad Reed / Raw Story:
Georgia cop who pushed people to take horse dewormer instead of vaccine dies from COVID-19  —  A captain at the Wayne County Sheriff's Office who promoted anti-vaccination propaganda on his Facebook page has died from COVID-19.  —  Local news station WSAV reports that Capt. Joe Manning died …
Discussion: WSAV-TV
Tom Jackman / Washington Post:
California parole panel votes in favor of release from prison for Sirhan Sirhan  —  Parole for 77-year-old convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy still must be approved by full board, governor  —  A California parole board panel on Friday voted in favor of Sirhan B. Sirhan's request …
Andrea Salcedo / Washington Post:
Wife hospitalized for covid gets home to find husband dead from the same virus: ‘It was like walking into a horror movie’  —  Lisa Steadman could not wait to go home to her husband.  —  The nail technician had spent more than a week in a Central Florida hospital recovering from a serious case …
Discussion: Insider and Full Feed
Alana Goodman / Washington Free Beacon:
Granholm Chartered Military Jet to Ukraine as US Struggled To Evacuate Americans From Afghanistan  —  Trump administration officials faced allegations of wasteful spending for use of expensive military charters … Granholm's military flight took place amid the United States' frantic effort …
Norm Ornstein / New York Daily News:
A solution to the voter ID standoff  —  Today marks the 58th anniversary of the March on Washington, when Martin Luther King Jr. brought a huge crowd to call for voting rights for all Americans.  Sadly, voter suppression is back, in a big way.  It is taking a wide array of new forms …
Dave Philipps / New York Times:
A Digital Dunkirk: Veterans Online Scramble to Get People Out of Afghanistan  —  Using office software, satellite maps and messaging apps, volunteers are acting like digital guide services to helping American citizens and Afghan allies flee the country.  —  DENVER — Joe Saboe pressed …
MSNBC:
Sen. Murphy: Biden had the courage to break with military-industrial establishment  —  The Afghanistan evacuation shows President Biden is breaking with the ‘military-industrial establishment,’ Sen. Chris Murphy tells Joy Reid.
Harry Enten / CNN:
It's not just Afghanistan — Americans are losing faith in Biden on many issues  —  (CNN)President Joe Biden's approval rating is at its lowest point in his presidency.  In the average of polls, he stands at about 47%.  That's a steady decline from the beginning of this month (51%), last month (52%) and beginning of June (54%).
Zach Everson / Forbes:
Here's Why Trump's Hotel Just Banned Me For Life  —  I went to the Trump International Hotel in Washington Thursday evening to do some investigating.  The rates that night started at $2,400, well above the usual $400 to $700, and I wanted to find out why.  Upon entering, I saw a big sign that read “Arrow Exterminators.”
Discussion: HuffPost, Raw Story and Mother Jones
Susan J. Demas / Michigan Advance:
As COVID surges again in Michigan, Whitmer's leadership shrinks  —  For weeks, terrified parents, anxious teachers and weary administrators have been waiting for Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to step up and be the leader she was at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Kamran Bokhari / Wall Street Journal:
Threatened by ISIS, the Afghan Taliban May Crack Up  —  Without ideological purity, the group won't be able to hold together.  With it, they won't be able to govern.  —  The Taliban's military victory in Afghanistan is only the start of the group's problems.
Washington Examiner:
California wises up and chooses natural gas  —  Eventually, reality catches up with you — even in California.  —  The Golden State has been trying for years to get rid of all of its fossil fuel generation capacity.  Spreading a mythological doom-and-gloom narrative about catastrophic …
Washington Post:
The 13 U.S. service members killed in the Kabul airport attack: What we know so far  —  The U.S. toll from Thursday's terrorist attack in Afghanistan came into sharper focus Friday, as the identities of 13 U.S. service members who were killed began to surface.
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
The Right-Wingers Who Admire the Taliban  —  As the Taliban swept through Afghanistan in August, a Gen Z alt-right group ran a Twitter account devoted to celebrating their progress.  Tweets in Pashto juxtaposed two laughing Taliban fighters with pictures meant to represent American effeminacy.
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo and Raw Story
Antjuan Seawright / The Hill:
58 years after the March on Washington, this is our moment  —  No matter how I find myself moving through history — whether crawling, walking, jogging or sprinting — I have come to understand that America's leaders do not necessarily create movements.  In fact, it's just the opposite.
 
 
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Idrees Ali / Reuters:
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Joshua Zitser / Insider:
Trump's niece says he will run for president in 2024, but there will be no Trump political dynasty because his children lack charisma
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
Calls Grow to Discipline Doctors Spreading Virus Misinformation
Paul Wolfowitz / Wall Street Journal:
The ‘Forever War’ Hasn't Ended
Discussion: The Carpentariat and TheBlaze
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KVUE-TV:
Travis County judge issues injunction against Gov. Abbott mask mandate ban
Discussion: Washington Examiner
New York Times:
U.S. Blew Up a C.I.A. Post Used to Evacuate At-Risk Afghans
Discussion: Insider and Washington Examiner
Scott Waldman / E&E News:
Climate denial newspaper flourishes on Facebook
Discussion: The Verge
Jeff Carter / Points and Figures:
Leading From Fear  —  Worth dissecting where we are with Covid.  Instead of watching the television …
Discussion: National Review