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| By Mike Allen ·Aug 30, 2021 |
| Hello, Monday. Smart Brevity™ count: 1,196 words ... 4½ minutes. Edited by Zachary Basu. 🇪🇺 Breaking: The EU is expected to remove the U.S. today from the bloc's COVID "safe list," recommending travel restrictions. (N.Y. Times) |
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| ⚜️ 1 big thing: Big Easy blasted |
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| A section of roof was blown off of a building in the French Quarter. Photo: Eric Gay/AP |
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| Ida, one of the strongest hurricanes ever to hit the U.S., left 1 million+ people — including all of New Orleans — sweltering without power as the storm ravaged Louisiana on the 16th anniversary of Katrina's landfall. - The Mississippi River is flowing in reverse in southeastern Louisiana after Ida forced vast volumes of sea water ashore, Bloomberg reports.
Ida makes landfall in Louisiana. Satellite image: CIRA/RAMMB What to watch: Numerous oil and gas facilities and chemical plants were in the path of some of the strongest winds and storm surge — including the strategic Port Fourchon, which is integral to the Gulf of Mexico's oil and gas production, Axios' Andrew Freedman writes. - Damage there and upriver could lead to environmental hazards, as well as delays in oil and gas production in the Gulf.
Satellite image: NOAA via AP Lightning swirls around the eye as Hurricane Ida approaches Louisiana. Photo: Brandon Bell/Getty Images If you've spent time in the French Quarter, you know this is a great photo: Ann Colette Boudreaux comforts her grandson, Abel. |
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| 2. Taliban try to rebrand |
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| A boy sells Taliban flags in Kabul. Photo: Hoshang Hashimi/AFP via Getty |
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| The Taliban insist they've become more humane. But their actions as they've taken control of Afghanistan are harsh reminders of the dreaded early Taliban era, Axios World editor Dave Lawler writes. - With tomorrow as President Biden's departure deadline, the U.S. has to decide how it'll work with the new government.
What's happening: The militants are offering vague assurances that they have changed with the times. - The U.S. will have no influence on the formation of the next government, a senior U.S. official tells Axios.
- But the Taliban's clear desire to avoid sanctions and cultivate normal relations does provide leverage.
Taliban leaders have promised amnesty for people who supported the ousted government or foreign forces, but there are already reprisals. - They have said girls can go to school, women can go to work (once the current unrest subsides) and journalists can hold them to account — all within still-to-be-defined limitations.
- They've said they'll establish an Islamic system — but not how it will be governed or who will lead it.
- It's also unclear to what extent any moves toward moderation by the group's leaders — many of whom spent years in exile after their overthrow in 2001 — will filter down to the rank and file.
Obaidullah Baheer — a lecturer in transitional justice at the American University of Afghanistan, who stayed in Kabul as friends fled — told Axios his interactions with Taliban fighters have been civil, despite his Western clothing. - But he knows of multiple instances of arbitrary beatings.
- "These people who are now in control of Kabul are people who have not experienced governance, but have only fought, for a good 20 years," he said. "And that obviously has a huge impact on the psyche and the group behavior."
What we're watching: Under the ousted government, foreign aid had accounted for 75% of the government's budget and some 40% of GDP. - That sets the U.S. and other foreign powers up for this balancing act: Withhold funding to press the Taliban to respect the rights of women and minorities, without contributing to economic collapse.
Share this story. Scene in Kabul today after rocket attack. Photo: Haroon Sabawoon/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images 🚨 Breaking overnight: As many as five rockets were fired at Kabul's airport today. The White House says "operations continue uninterrupted." - The rockets didn't stop a steady stream of U.S. C-17 cargo jets taking off and landing.
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| 3. Biden raises hammer on Big Tech |
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| Illustration: Annelise Capossela/Axios |
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| Antitrust scrutiny of tech giants will intensify this fall as critics Lina Khan, Tim Wu and Jonathan Kanter take the Biden administration lead on competition policy, Axios' Margaret Harding McGill writes. - Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple face threats from federal regulators, Congress, state attorneys general and the European Union.
- That's four companies, each being challenged from four directions.
Go deeper: Read a company-by-company précis. |
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| 4. America salutes |
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| Photo: Tom Brenner/Reuters |
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| President Biden and Dr. Jill Biden were at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware for the dignified transfer of the remains of service members killed by the suicide bombing in Kabul. Photo: Tom Brenner/Reuters Biden handed souvenir "challenge coins" to members of the Marine Corps Honor Guard before departing Dover on Air Force One. |
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| 5. Bars honor fallen with 13-beer homage |
Photo: Ironwood Cafe via FacebookIronwood Cafe — a sports bar in Westlake, Ohio — posted this photo, and said: "Today we reserved a table for our 13 Americans not coming home." - Several other bars around the country paid similar tributes, USA Today reports: First Line Brewery, outside Buffalo, arrayed 13 pints on a table — and refreshed them throughout the night so they'd stay cold.
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| 6. Marking Boston's role in slavery |
| Photo: Steven Senne/AP In Boston, Cameran Martin (above), a 13-year-old member of the Girlz of Imani dance troupe from the OrigiNation Cultural Arts Center, helped dedicate a Middle Passage Port Marker on Long Wharf yesterday. - The marker salutes the "hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans brought to North America as part of the Middle Passage — including those bought and sold on Boston's waterfront — and more than a million who did not survive the voyage," The Boston Globe reports.
Go deeper: Learn about the marker. |
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| 7. 🗞️ Remembering Ed Asner |
| Ed Asner, as Lou Grant, talks to Mary Richards (played by Mary Tyler Moore) in a scene from "The Mary Tyler Moore Show." Photo: CBS via Getty Images The TV drama "Lou Grant" — modeled on the L.A. Times, which was in our driveway every morning when I was growing up — was one of the early influences that left me addicted to newsrooms. - I loved the excitement, pace and camaraderie — and newsrooms have given me a life I wouldn't trade for anything.
The bald, burly, blustery star of "Lou Grant" was Ed Asner, who died in L.A. yesterday at 91. - Asner became a star in middle age as the gruff but lovable newsman Lou Grant, first in the hit comedy "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and later "Lou Grant," AP reports:
Asner was a journeyman character actor in films and TV when he was hired in 1970 to play Lou Grant on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show." - For seven seasons he was the rumpled boss to Moore's ebullient Mary Richards in a Minneapolis TV newsroom.
- He called her "Mary." She called him "Mr. Grant."
Ed Asner on "Lou Grant" in 1978. Photo: CBS via Getty Images Asner then starred for five years on "Lou Grant," set at "The Trib." - As Screen Actors Guild president, the liberal Asner was caught up in a controversy in 1982, during the Reagan years, when he spoke out against U.S. involvement with repressive governments in Latin America.
- "Lou Grant" was canceled during the furor. CBS blamed ratings.
P.S. Betty White, 99, who played home-show hostess Sue Ann Nivens, is the lone surviving major cast member of "Mary Tyler Moore." |
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| 8. Drop the 🎤 |
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| Photo: NBC News |
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| NBC weather icon Al Roker, 67, clapped back at "folks on Twitter" who questioned why he was getting battered in the surf ahead of Ida: - "I volunteered to come out here," he told MSNBC's Jonathan Capehart. "This is what I do. I've done this for 40 years. ... 'Well, he's too old to be doin' this.' Well, hey, guess what: Screw you! OK? And try to keep up! Keep up, OK?"
"These young punks!" Roker added. "I will come after them. I will drop them like a bag of dirt." |
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