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1 week ago | 
thebulwark.com | William Kristol |Andrew Egger |Will Selber |Jim Swift
The Senate confirmation of Ed Martin, Trump’s loyalist pick for U.S. Attorney for D.C., looks like it may be in trouble. The Washington Post reports:Sen. Thom Tillis (R-North Carolina) said he informed the White House that he opposed naming Trump’s interim appointee to a full four-year term. “If Mr. Martin were being put forth as a U.S. attorney for any district except the district where Jan.
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2 weeks ago | 
gcvfriends.com | Will Selber
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2 weeks ago | 
thebulwark.com | William Kristol |Andrew Egger |Will Selber
The White House got an early start this morning.
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3 weeks ago | 
thebulwark.com | Will Selber
OVER THE PAST FEW WEEKS, the Trump administration has begun laying the groundwork for a possible mass deportation of the nearly 90,000 Afghans living in the United States, most of whom came during or shortly after the fall of Afghanistan in August 2021.
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3 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Will Selber
OVER THE PAST FEW WEEKS, the Trump administration has begun laying the groundwork for a possible mass deportation of the nearly 90,000 Afghans living in the United States, most of whom came during or shortly after the fall of Afghanistan in August 2021.
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3 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Will Selber
4 hours agoPresident Donald Trump wants us to believe he's making America safer by targeting refugees. It's all a lie. Mujib Mehrdad, 40, and his wife, Aria Mushahed, 35, were supposed to be on their honeymoon when Afghanistan collapsed in 2021. Instead of leaving the country for a romantic getaway, they were …
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3 weeks ago | 
longwarjournal.org | Will Selber
On April 17, Abdullah Haji Zada, an 18-year-old Afghan citizen and legal permanent resident of the US, pled guilty to conspiring to receive firearms intended for an election-day terrorist attack in the US on behalf of the Islamic State. Zada and his co-conspirator, Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, were arrested in October 2024. Zada, who was 17 at the time of his arrest, will be sentenced as an adult and faces up to 15 years in prison.
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3 weeks ago | 
thebulwark.com | Tim Miller |Will Selber
Bulwark+ Takes brings you bite-sized takes on the news of the day from the entire Bulwark team. This is the home to ad-free video shorts, Bulwark+ member-only livestreams, and live event archives. The news cycle doesn’t slow down, and neither do we. Bulwark+ Takes brings you bite-sized takes on the news of the day from the entire Bulwark team. This is the home to ad-free video shorts, Bulwark+ member-only livestreams, and live event archives. The news cycle doesn’t slow down, and neither do we.
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1 month ago | 
gcvfriends.com | Will Selber
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1 month ago | 
fdd.org | Reagan Easter |Will Selber |Bill Roggio
The Trump administration appears to be continuing its previous policy of engagement with the Taliban, which led to the 2020 Doha Agreement that paved the way for the Biden administration’s 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan. Last week, the US State Department erased Sirajuddin Haqqani’s $10 million bounty, while former American Ambassador to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalizad, the architect of the Doha Agreement, returned to the Afghan stage.
