The biggest immediate threat to both the Americans and the Taliban as the U.S. escalates its evacuation efforts before an Aug. 31 deadline is a common rival: an ISIS branch in Afghanistan. https://t.co/XgOlGDooFY
— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 25, 2021
Our exclusive from last night: Pentagon may have to cut short the massive evacuation from Kabul airport by the end of the week due to new ISIS threats to the gates and aircraft. DOD briefed lawmakers on new intel yesterday. W/ @alexbward @AndrewDesiderio https://t.co/eEY7YjyP8X
— Lara Seligman (@laraseligman) August 25, 2021
President Biden says there is a "growing risk" of an attack by ISIS-K, an ISIS affiliate in Afghanistan that is also an enemy of the Taliban. He says every day the U.S. remains there is another day that ISIS-K could target the Kabul airport and U.S. forces https://t.co/L7Ta34I7td pic.twitter.com/5Qj1uNpaTS
— CBS News (@CBSNews) August 24, 2021
Around 1,500 American citizens remain in Afghanistan ahead of a rapidly approaching Aug. 31 deadline for the US to withdraw troops from the country, Sec. Blinken says. https://t.co/CKIQKad4rX
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) August 25, 2021
.@PressSec Jen Psaki on Erik Prince offering to fly people out of Kabul for $6,500 each: "I don't think any human being who has a heart and soul would support efforts to profit off of peoples' agony and pain as they're trying to depart a country." https://t.co/qBPWqi4QvV pic.twitter.com/EV2L9QP8c3
— The Hill (@thehill) August 25, 2021
"The CIA has launched clandestine operations to rescue Americans in and outside Kabul in recent days, according to U.S. and other officials. The missions are using American military helicopters but under the control of the CIA."https://t.co/VJI6EuJMSV
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) August 25, 2021
🇦🇫Almost all single-nationality UK citizens who want to leave Afghanistan have been brought home, Dominic Raab has confirmed https://t.co/vjE6vW1T51
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) August 25, 2021
UK Foreign Office urges British nationals in Afghanistan to stay away from Kabul airporthttps://t.co/qFWLw9IxaG
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) August 25, 2021
The UK now telling people to go to Pakistan border. Which may be very dangerous but so is the airport
— Bruno Maçães (@MacaesBruno) August 25, 2021
https://t.co/WnXR0mBu44
Afghanistan: The Sandhurst sisterhood trying to save Afghans https://t.co/fw5OgGGIXT
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) August 25, 2021
It's not only Afghans in Kabul who need our help, so do those who've already reached the UK.
— Caroline Lucas (@CarolineLucas) August 25, 2021
Thousands are trapped in our asylum system. Those granted asylum can't bring close family to join them
Our morally bankrupt system has to change
Me for @MetroUK https://t.co/lEFp16ghFP
Exclusive: Defence Secretary Ben Wallace says British evacuation efforts in Kabul have been 'diverted' by bid to rescue animals cared for by ex-Royal Marine Pen Farthing
— Sam Coates Sky (@SamCoatesSky) August 25, 2021
He told the MPs it was “upsetting”https://t.co/JlxEpWv9zp pic.twitter.com/es9vVIQCRq
Meanwhile…
Gov. Greg Abbott bans Covid vaccine mandates in Texas, regardless of FDA approval status https://t.co/R8fnVZYrdm
— POLITICO (@politico) August 25, 2021
I don’t know the ins and outs of Texas politics, but could there be a Unity ticket on the Democratic ballot next year to save the state from four more years of Abbott? A respected centrist Democrat for governor, former GOP speaker Joe Straus for lt. governor? Something like that? https://t.co/Es0u06HqNv
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) August 25, 2021
BREAKING: Florida has more daily cases, COVID hospitalizations and virus deaths RIGHT NOW than ever before. Ever.
— Ryan Bass (@Ry_Bass) August 25, 2021
26,203 cases
17,164 current hospitalizations
227 deaths per day
All of those totals lead the nation.
BREAKING: In order to ensure a "healthy and ready" military, @SecDef has mandated Covid-19 vaccinations for all members of the U.S. Armed Forces, using FDA-approved vaccines. 💉🇺🇸
— Jon Cooper (@joncoopertweets) August 25, 2021
Ohio State University has announced that all students, faculty and staff will be required to be vaccinated against COVID during the fall semester.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 25, 2021
Big moment: House Dems just fired a missile at the GOP's fortress of minority rule. The John Lewis Act includes provisions limiting SCOTUS rulings against voting rights. That reflects a big idea: Court reform is central to protecting democracy. My latest:https://t.co/bCSRUNUfrd
— Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) August 25, 2021
The Supreme Court’s stunning, radical and terrifying immigration decision and how it departs from the norm and interferes in foreign relations, explained https://t.co/4oGnnR8Sxm via @voxdotcom
— Jill Wine-Banks (now on Threads as jillwinebanks) (@JillWineBanks) August 25, 2021
And…
Food shortages worst I have seen, says supermarket chief >> Murrells, 56, said the crisis was the result of “Brexit and issues caused by Covid”. https://t.co/i4MpKJ2waz
— α∂яιαη 孟安典 (@amonck) August 25, 2021
Brexit latest:
— David Schneider (@davidschneider) August 25, 2021
▪️Xmas supplies threatened by lack of lorry drivers
▪️Stocks in shops at lowest level since records began
▪️Worst supply chain disruption since 70s
▪️Foreign direct investment in UK halved
▪️Lack of agricultural workers leaves food rotting
And that’s just today
One of the greatest false prophecies in the history of modern Britain.
— Dr. Jennifer Cassidy (@OxfordDiplomat) August 25, 2021
"Five years from now Britain will be flourishing as never before and people will look back and wonder why we didn't do this long before” – Daniel Hannan on Brexit in 2016.
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Brexit isn’t just something people did, it’s something people think they *are*. That was the short term genius *and* long term catastrophe of campaigns designed to denigrate facts while stoking feelings of alienation & bogus victimhood. It’s almost impossible to climb down from.
— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) August 25, 2021
The Overnight Note 