News from @PeteWilliamsNBC on the bomb threat outside the Capitol: ‘The man has been identified. He’s a white male from North Carolina, and he is making anti-government statements.’
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) August 19, 2021
Just another TFG supporter 👇 pic.twitter.com/pHSiOf9bMK
— Katayoun Ghods (@katayoun108) August 19, 2021
🚨🚨🇺🇸#Capitol Bomb threat🚨
— Terror Alarm (@terror_alarm) August 19, 2021
VIDEO: the first livestream of the man who is sitting in the pickup truck near the US Capitol pic.twitter.com/0GX49AUJBj
Capitol Police negotiating with man seen with possible detonator near Capitol https://t.co/xtMdeQKUcF pic.twitter.com/rQdzScoAzg
— The Hill (@thehill) August 19, 2021
In video from early Tuesday morning, Capitol bomb threat suspect says he and those like him are the "last generation", says Trump will become President after Biden steps down and Democrats are imprisoned. Says Trump will pardon everyone. He hopes for pardon himself. pic.twitter.com/qljmBePQWW
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) August 19, 2021
New: Man issuing US Capitol bomb threat, seemingly an ardent Trump supporter, said on Facebook Live he was prepared to die for the revolution — adding there are “five of us spreading all across your little DC”
— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) August 19, 2021
The mere existence of this headline just told me that the suspect is white, without having to look it up. https://t.co/haim0tuKUt
— Zack Furness (@punkademic) August 19, 2021
How would this country, especially Republicans, have responded if a Muslim extremist live-streamed his failed attempt to blow up the Library of Congress? What would have been the consequences? Meanwhile, we continue coddling white supremacist terrorism. Maddening.
— Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) August 19, 2021
We were warned that Radical Republican lies would lead to violence. Now, a terrorist is outside the Capitol spewing those lies and claiming to have explosives. Until Kevin McCarthy and GOP leaders denounce the Big Lie our country will remain under assault. https://t.co/PMa9ZSOZY1
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) August 19, 2021
The emerging picture of the person at the Capitol threatening to blow up a couple of city blocks is of someone who believes the election was stolen, and that Democrats are unpatriotic traitors. That is to say, someone who believes standard Fox News/GOP/Trump rhetoric. pic.twitter.com/hxMz6jE6sE
— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) August 19, 2021
"I think there's a real sense of exhaustion among Capitol Police and among the Capitol community more broadly… I heard from a lot of my friends and sources on the hill that this was just kind of one more blow, one more psychic wound" – @GarrettHaake w/ @NicolleDWallace pic.twitter.com/vW8xpjBcDM
— Deadline White House (@DeadlineWH) August 19, 2021
BREAKING: Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) issues statement expressing sympathy for the Trump supporting terrorist who issued a bomb threat at the Capitol this morning: "I understand citizenry anger directed at dictatorial socialism… Bluntly stated, America's future is at risk," he says.
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) August 19, 2021
I wish I had 1990s survey data on this topic. (Looked but couldn’t find it.) I remember the big fear being McVeigh-style attacks by militant Americans. 9/11 shifted perception and priorities, with domestic threats and organized crime ignored as a result — and so they flourished. https://t.co/xVbQOxQQT3
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) August 19, 2021
Meanwhile…
“We gave them all the warning and indication that this was coming. They chose not to listen. I am deeply ashamed of what my country has done.”
— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) August 19, 2021
@TrumanProject fellow @mattczeller says the Biden Administration “wouldn’t listen” to intelligence reports on Afghanistan
#Newsnight pic.twitter.com/HciuQ3nUEL
Biden administration faces big choices as economic calamity hangs over Afghanistan https://t.co/r7mnDuztYq
— Post Politics (@postpolitics) August 19, 2021
U.S. government flights are departing with empty seats even as desperate Afghans cluster at the airport gates. And Afghans can’t simply fly out on their own. https://t.co/PoNEGMMXZ6
— HuffPost Politics (@HuffPostPol) August 19, 2021
The right is trying to make a political liability of bringing Aghan allies here.@McFaul says real problem for Biden is if Afghan women are arrested or killed.
— Annie Karni (@anniekarni) August 18, 2021
“The day they start killing women in Afghanistan: That is their political nightmare."https://t.co/WlpUw66XXf
White House aides and Biden allies say this week's news coverage is overheated and out of step with the American public's views of the matter. Biden critics say the coverage is appropriately channeling moral outrage… https://t.co/XhnGUoPAN3
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) August 19, 2021
In the UK…
🚨 | EXC: Dominic Raab under growing pressure as it emerges crucial phone call delegated to a junior minister never took place pic.twitter.com/aOo43sPLIe
— John Stevens (@johnestevens) August 19, 2021
Former foreign secretary Margaret Beckett says the Raab situation is "is one of the most extraordinary things I have ever heard." Says it is unheard of for foreign secretary to refuse to make urgent call if requested by officials in this kind of situation.https://t.co/IGqQpRgiKC
— Jessica Elgot (@jessicaelgot) August 19, 2021
You couldn’t make it up. #Raab is under intense pressure for being on holiday and not making a call to his Afghan equivalent. So his press pic is Raab… ON THE PHONE! See, he is making calls! Look he’s sorting things! How effing stupid do they take us for? #RaabMustResign pic.twitter.com/PpU86Gy5ft
— Tim McKane (@timmckane) August 19, 2021
https://t.co/3EgMbbOTZr pic.twitter.com/q60bq3bm9t
— Steve Peers (@StevePeers) August 19, 2021
— 😷Mr D Franklin Esq.😷 (@Danieljfranklin) August 19, 2021
Perhaps if it’s that bad you should leave the party and stop moaning. Ex-minister says being in Tory Party is ‘like working for a really s*** company’ https://t.co/Gfr6xtSI4q
— Robert Bob 3.5% #FBPE #RejoinEU. #FBPA (@MrRobertBob1) August 19, 2021
Tory MP, Tobias Ellwood: "Yet when our moment comes, we are found wanting. There are serious questions about what global Britain really means. Authoritarianism is on the rise, yet here we are, complicit in allowing another dictatorship to form as we become more isolationist." ~AA pic.twitter.com/anTvr7lHqs
— Best for Britain (@BestForBritain) August 19, 2021
When James Dyson says "the UK wall fall behind if workers aren't forced to return to offices"; what he actually means is that working from home is harming his commercial property portfolio. pic.twitter.com/pfl0rXW0zv
— Jack Duncan🔻 (@JackDunc1) August 19, 2021
The Overnight Note 