In an address from the White House, Biden stood by his decision to withdraw from Afghanistan and blamed Afghan leaders for giving up as the Taliban takes control. https://t.co/lzMr8IwqvO

— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) August 16, 2021

"Here's what I believe to my core: It is wrong to order American troops to step up when Afghanistan's own armed forces would not," President Biden says https://t.co/xc80oiC1iW pic.twitter.com/EWMFuQRPKZ

— CNN (@CNN) August 16, 2021

President Biden: "I am president of the United States of America and the buck stops with me. I'm deeply saddened by the facts we now face. But I do not regret my decision to end America's war-fighting in Afghanistan and maintain a laser focus on our counterterrorism missions."

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 16, 2021

Biden says at the White House that the US waited to start the evacuation after the Afghan govt “discouraged us from organizing a mass exodus” that could destroy morale and trigger a crisis of confidence.

— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) August 16, 2021

"as the U.S. military struggles to even secure the airport grounds, thousands of U.S. citizens who didn’t make it there yet are hiding and hoping someone saves them before roaming Taliban gangs find them."

Tell me again this was impossible to prepare forhttps://t.co/SnQ01XE9uJ

— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) August 16, 2021

Biden was asked in July whether a Taliban takeover was inevitable. “No, it is not,” he said, pointing to 300,000 “well-equipped” Afghan security forces. Little more than a month later, the Afghan military collapsed. How did the US training go so wrong?https://t.co/97CEzXiIMr

— Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 (@MaxBoot) August 16, 2021

BREAKING: Donald Trump has deleted statements from his website demanding America withdraw from Afghanistan saying it would be a “wonderful and positive thing to do.”

— Perry Lambert 💎 former Strike Captain (@perry_lambert) August 16, 2021

Biden says human rights center of US policy. A hard sell tonight where im sitting outside the kabul airport.

— Richard Engel (@RichardEngel) August 16, 2021

As awful, as it is symbolic. https://t.co/hxs00PuUEv

— Declan Harvey (@NewsDeclan) August 16, 2021

Another sign of how the politics of this are going to be confused, as half of Republlicans & the right are criticizing Biden for not doing more to bring in Afghans, while the other half are attacking him for bringing in any Afghans https://t.co/l2J6bAufeN

— Steven Lemongello (@SteveLemongello) August 16, 2021

Buried lede: even at this bleak moment and after 48 hrs of insanely negative coverage 49% support Biden’s withdrawal, 37% oppose. https://t.co/uH4sbnszLA

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) August 16, 2021

Who lost Afghanistan? Well, it wasn't ours to lose. But one thing is for certain: everyone lied.https://t.co/1uUKZ4wdgV

— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) August 16, 2021

More than 3,000 U.S. troops will be deployed to Afghanistan to help ensure the safety of officials leaving the country, including those from the U.S. embassy, the Pentagon says.https://t.co/dfzHpujAY2

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) August 12, 2021

The Pentagon is moving thousands of Marines into position for a possible evacuation of the American Embassy and U.S. citizens in Kabul as the Biden administration braces for a possible collapse of the Afghan government within 30 days, officials said. https://t.co/DLdZlvPjNq

— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 12, 2021

If there are clear signs that the Afghan government will not stand long against the Taliban without U.S. support, why is the Biden Administration pressing on with the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan? @sbg1 weighs in. https://t.co/efGvsYtGgY

— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) August 13, 2021

The Biden administration “does not want a Saigon-reminiscent, last-minute rescue of Americans at the embassy.” But that’s pretty much what they’ve got.

⁦>Read @TracyKWilkinson⁩ on an Afghanistan on the brink. https://t.co/AJoyWlu6Up

— Eli Stokols (@EliStokols) August 12, 2021

"The decision marks a tacit admission that the United States is uncertain how long it can ensure the safety of its staff in a country where conditions are changing on a daily, and sometimes hourly, basis." @DanLamothe and me https://t.co/uvDIVqsvDy

— Missy Ryan (@missy_ryan) August 12, 2021

The U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan is urging Washington to evacuate Afghans under threat because of their work with the U.S. government — warning they cannot get out on their own and are in desperate need, according to internal cable obtained by @ABC News. https://t.co/9BSVtUJueF

— ABC News (@ABC) August 12, 2021

In #PostLetters: Bring all the Afghan interpreters over now https://t.co/F2KZCG5BPs

— Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) August 12, 2021

BREAKING: Afghan officials say the Taliban have taken the southern city of Kandahar, the 12th provincial capital out of 34 to fall to the insurgents. https://t.co/nWik3KTm5D

— The Associated Press (@AP) August 12, 2021

Afghanistan gov’t offers to share power with Taliban: Official https://t.co/mWKVJNC3EN

— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) August 12, 2021

Doha talks on Afghanistan end with call for accelerated peace process, halt to attacks https://t.co/0Kr5rItiIc pic.twitter.com/DJFlBDWbhk

— Reuters (@Reuters) August 12, 2021

"new Chinese military and intelligence assessments of the realities on the ground in Afghanistan have prompted leaders in the Chinese Communist Party to prepare to formalize their relationship with the insurgent network" https://t.co/ENP99pdx4M

— Shashank Joshi (@shashj) August 12, 2021

"Imagine what the people of Afghanistan … are feeling. They are trapped," fmr. Afghan Ambassador to the U.S. Roya Rahmani says of the deployment of 3,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan to aid in the withdrawal of American officials as Taliban forces move in. https://t.co/cYhEYoGMAG

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) August 12, 2021

There is much to regret about all of this this, but tonight I’m thinking in particular of Afghanistan’s women and girls 🙏🏽 https://t.co/3KWgmsPRKH

— Pippa Crerar (@PippaCrerar) August 12, 2021

“The United States’ leverage to preserve at least some [women’s rights] and privileges is limited and diminishing. But it is hardly zero.” Read John R. Allen and @VFelbabBrown’s 2020 piece with helpful context on the rights of women in Afghanistan. https://t.co/awafArNLbJ

— The Brookings Institution (@BrookingsInst) August 12, 2021

“There’s fear, there’s concern.”

Afghan journalist @bsarwary tells @faisalislam that events in Afghanistan have “shattered the hope of the Afghan people in the future of the country”#Newsnight

READ MORE: https://t.co/47xQSRXgvj pic.twitter.com/mKljdCNCwu

— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) August 12, 2021

#BREAKING Global News can confirm Canadian Special Operations Forces are gearing up to deploy to Afghanistan and evacuate Canadians at the embassy.

Sources tell Global News the embassy is being shut down and is in full rip out mode.

— Mercedes Stephenson (@MercedesGlobal) August 12, 2021

Britain sends troops to Afghanistan to help evacuate staff and citizens https://t.co/PM9kPdSZAU pic.twitter.com/n6CD3DVPIr

— Reuters (@Reuters) August 12, 2021

The War in Afghanistan was a horrendous waste, a criminal waste, of human lives, human potential and a fortune that could have gone to improving people's lives and was instead grifted by a consortium of arm's manufacturers and their kin. https://t.co/xQoEwuhRnY

— Robert Evans (The Only Robert Evans) (@IwriteOK) August 12, 2021

Afghanistan

20 years of nation-building

2,312 US soldiers killed, 20k + wounded

$2.4 trillion spent — $114,285 for every person in the country, at the time we arrived

Collapses immediately upon the start of withdrawal

— John Robb (@johnrobb) August 12, 2021

A war of nearly two decades’ standing, 3500 Western forces killed, unknown thousands of Afghan civilians with them, two trillion dollars spent and Afghanistan looks to be heading back to something close to where it started. https://t.co/Hs7dFugp5w

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) August 12, 2021

California’s largest single wildfire in recorded history kept pushing through forestlands as fire crews tried to protect rural communities from flames that have destroyed hundreds of homeshttps://t.co/UnBSo3yoaZ

— The Irish Times (@IrishTimes) August 11, 2021

Smoke from Siberia’s wildfires has reached the North Pole for the first time in recorded history.
The fires are larger than those in Greece, Turkey, Italy, the US, and Canada—combined. pic.twitter.com/4ps8TXu8XH

— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) August 11, 2021

"Russia is fighting more than 170 forest fires in Siberia that have closed airports and roads, forced widespread evacuations and sent a pall of smoke across the North Pole. But it has abandoned dozens more fires covering thousands of square miles." https://t.co/hfHLJRkVTh

— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) August 11, 2021

Ouch! Europe has just witnessed its highest temperature in recorded history.

+48.8°C at Siracusa, Sicily (IT) 🇮🇹 pic.twitter.com/seFHDMiM4f

— Scott Duncan (@ScottDuncanWX) August 11, 2021

The Tunisian capital Tunis hit a scorching 120 degrees Fahrenheit (49 degrees Celsius), setting a record for the region https://t.co/trPVLmlgd3 pic.twitter.com/Yslqf2sPO4

— Reuters (@Reuters) August 11, 2021

A series of major wildfires across the world has hit the headlines – how are they linked to climate change? https://t.co/avEra7mOBn

— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) August 11, 2021

📸: Record heat waves propelled by human-caused climate change have triggered a wave of wildfires around the globe this week.

7 countries where wildfires are raging right now:

– Greece
– The U.S.
– Algeria
– Russia
– Canada
– Turkey
– Italyhttps://t.co/ktWO5ZnCHX

— Axios (@axios) August 11, 2021

Hundreds of firefighters from across Europe and the Middle East are working alongside Greek colleagues in rugged terrain to contain flareups of the huge wildfires that have ravaged Greece’s forests. Officials said the blazes mostly had stopped spreading. https://t.co/UC8KGDdD62

— The Associated Press (@AP) August 11, 2021

At least 65 killed in Algerian wildfires, Greece and Italy burn https://t.co/U54d1NpRN4 pic.twitter.com/SbDbIJlJvY

— Reuters (@Reuters) August 11, 2021

Smoke from the Dixie and Bootleg Fires is so bad, it can be seen from space. Satellite images released by NOAA show smoke and heat signatures from the fires across large portions of the U.S. Together, the two wildfires have already burned nearly 1 million acres on the West Coast. pic.twitter.com/AcjE9opSYp

— NowThis Impact (@nowthisimpact) August 11, 2021

California's largest wildfire in recorded history covering 783 square miles https://t.co/8XCxDamipf pic.twitter.com/rcT7NyarXi

— The Hill (@thehill) August 11, 2021

Tick tock, DoJ. Every day Donald Trump is not on trial or in jail is a withering indictment of our justice system and an invitation to future abuses. It puts our system of government at risk. And it makes it impossible to still say that no one is above the law in America. https://t.co/Bd2PHalFKe

— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) August 11, 2021

Points for resigning, hinting at the reasons then, and testifying now. (Although possible points off for not being explicit about the reasons on your way out the door.) https://t.co/TS8MZk9IWl

— Orin Kerr (@OrinKerr) August 11, 2021

"Could Trump's DOJ pressure campaign amount to criminal conspiracy?" via (@TheHillOpinion) https://t.co/yBtMOuJC6Z pic.twitter.com/m7U4DAcxvi

— The Hill (@thehill) August 11, 2021

"As Trump continues to promote the false notion that the 2020 WH race was tainted by fraud, there is mounting evidence that his attacks are curdling the faith that many Americans once had in their elections — and taking a deep toll on the public servants." https://t.co/Qw5ezywGZr

— Amy Siskind 🏳️‍🌈 (@Amy_Siskind) August 11, 2021

HUGE ruling: Federal judge says Dominion's defamation lawsuits CAN PROCEED against Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani & Mike Lindell. These Trump diehards falsely said Dominion rigged the 2020 election. Dominion wants billions in damages. The Judge is a Trump appointee. (h/t @kpolantz)

— Marshall Cohen (@MarshallCohen) August 11, 2021

Judge orders accounting firm to give House panel some of Trump’s tax records https://t.co/TjDXUFxNC3 pic.twitter.com/rqI8hiKwDr

— The Hill (@thehill) August 11, 2021

A Scottish judge opened a path to a possible investigation of Trump’s golf course purchases there. https://t.co/DCyZAD9W2P

— Trip Gabriel (@tripgabriel) August 11, 2021

EARLIER: Andrew Cuomo resigns as governor of New York, effective in 14 days. https://t.co/7Mn4DyM6L6 pic.twitter.com/a4bkItLHC8

— The Hill (@thehill) August 10, 2021

"The best way I can help now is if I step aside and let government get back to governing," said Gov. Andrew Cuomo when he announced his resignation. "Because as we say, 'It’s not about me. It’s about we.'"

Read the full transcript of his speech: https://t.co/wWa1pnclqF pic.twitter.com/m8giZpYULs

— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 10, 2021

The Unbearable Narcissism of Andrew Cuomo https://t.co/annOQ8zhxW

— Joan Walsh (@joanwalsh) August 10, 2021

Andrew Cuomo’s abrupt announcement that he will resign as governor brings what is likely an end to New York’s latest and most enigmatic political dynasty https://t.co/xFpKGVqsXl

— POLITICO (@politico) August 10, 2021

Cuomo was a bully facing retribution from people no longer scared of him.

Don’t get it twisted; his resignation attests only to his certainty that he couldn’t avoid impeachment. There’s no moral awakening here. https://t.co/3fsaZdt6L1

— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) August 10, 2021

“At the current moment the Democrats are a political party, while the Republicans are a personality cult…In the Republican party, criticizing, disappointing, or contradicting the dear leader is an offense worthy of expulsion—if not worse.” https://t.co/OPwseTxCAq

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) August 10, 2021

Cuomo resigns day after Florida Republican proposes naming state’s longest highway after Trump

it’s almost like the two parties have different moral compass

— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) August 10, 2021

When Gov. Andrew Cuomo's approval ratings were soaring in 2020, fans that included celebrities like Trevor Noah and Jimmy Fallon dubbed themselves "Cuomosexuals."

Now, several sellers are removing their Cuomo designs from their shops. https://t.co/cxBZwy4AxE

— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 10, 2021

Cuomo accusers ‘vindicated and relieved’ as New York governor resigns https://t.co/nBMxRcPyHg

— The Guardian (@guardian) August 10, 2021

New Yorkers are growing more curious about Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul, the woman who will replace Gov. Andrew Cuomo after his resignation. She said that his resignation was “the right thing to do."

Here is what you need to know about Hochul: https://t.co/2rKaTmgSKu

— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 10, 2021

Cuomo’s resignation opens the potentially wide-open governor’s race next year

Gov. Cuomo’s resignation set the stage for what could be a political free-for-all next year when candidates vying for governor slug it out @michaelgartland https://t.co/Q9AJdIE8sO

— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) August 10, 2021

FLASHBACK: Kamala Harris believed Joe Biden’s accusers — until she didn’thttps://t.co/OAAncSK7dx#Cuomo #Biden#TaraReade #Harris

— Larry Elder (@larryelder) August 4, 2021

CNN: VP Kamala Harris speaks on bipartisan infrastructure deal

MSNBC: Kamala Harris speaks on bipartisan infrastructure deal

NEWSMAX: Kamala Harris speaks on bipartisan infrastructure deal

FOX NEWS: Cuomo pic.twitter.com/LTMV8ECIxE

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 10, 2021

Prince Andrew accuser Virginia Giuffre files civil lawsuit in US https://t.co/evR12e5SbA

— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) August 10, 2021

Britain's Prince Andrew has been sued in New York by a woman who said she was forced to have sexual encounters with the prominent royal while she was trafficked beginning at age 16 by his friend Jeffrey Epstein https://t.co/fveXrHixqU

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 10, 2021

Alleged Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre sues Prince Andrew https://t.co/6qzmOjEIRO

— The Guardian (@guardian) August 9, 2021

Britain's Prince Andrew is being sued for having allegedly on three occasions sexually abused a woman who has claimed she was trafficked for sex by the late financier Jeffrey Epstein. https://t.co/UznR3Csy1R

— RTÉ News (@rtenews) August 9, 2021

“He can ignore me and he can ignore Virginia… but he can’t ignore judicial process.”

Virginia Giuffre’s lawyer, David Boies, says Prince Andrew and his lawyers have “simply ignored every letter, every phone call, every outreach that we’ve made”. pic.twitter.com/XLBApde3Y0

— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) August 10, 2021

Prince Andrew's sex scandal deserves to sink the monarchy if the Queen won't do right thing and order him to co-operate https://t.co/UzlTja8ufa

— Kevin Maguire (@Kevin_Maguire) August 10, 2021

Guardian front page, 10 August 2021 – Global climate crisis: inevitable, unprecedented and irreversible pic.twitter.com/AruTFXzRyj

— The Guardian (@guardian) August 9, 2021

The United Nations panel on climate change used its strongest terms yet to assert that humans are causing climate change, with the first line of its report summary reading: ‘It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land’ https://t.co/vrPBPVdu1Q pic.twitter.com/uH8bZie6Ah

— Reuters (@Reuters) August 9, 2021

"What is so menacing about this report is it really lays any doubts that anyone had about climate change to the side. And says that all of this is definitively done by human contribution to the atmosphere," @MattMcBradley says on the UN's climate report. https://t.co/EBVTNtG75V

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) August 9, 2021

Five things we have learned from the UN's climate change report https://t.co/tInA6PsK0j

— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) August 9, 2021

"We're seeing already more severe storms, more frequent, more intense. And what this report highlights is that it's only going to continue to get worse," FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell says on the UN climate report. https://t.co/2tnmtWpk7J

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) August 9, 2021

Analysis | The perverse argument against the bipartisan infrastructure bill: It wants to address climate change https://t.co/IrwiwocDRg

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 9, 2021

The question is are we going to tolerate politicians and corporations who deny climate change and kill our species?

A landmark new report from the UN cautions that we’re further into climate change than once thought. @yayitsrob has four takeaways: https://t.co/i0fKi9UvEQ

— Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) August 9, 2021

Today we cover the latest on the infrastructure negotiations, the terrifying new UN climate report and what Biden can do about it, our new @crookedmedia voting and activism initiative and then @sheeraf joins to talk Facebook: https://t.co/kWG6dZPZbV

— Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) August 9, 2021

Ireland hearing about the British potato famine.. pic.twitter.com/GhAUTI7QMq

— Gerry McK (@GMcK2012) August 9, 2021