Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
3:25 AM ET, June 14, 2009

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Juan Cole / Informed Comment:
Stealing the Iranian Election  —  Top Pieces of Evidence that the Iranian Presidential Election Was Stolen  —  1. It is claimed that Ahmadinejad won the city of Tabriz with 57%.  His main opponent, Mir Hossein Mousavi, is an Azeri from Azerbaijan province, of which Tabriz is the capital.
RELATED:
Michael J. Totten:
Iran on Fire (Continuously updated)  —  The BBC says clashes between demonstrators and police in Tehran are the most violent in a decade.  —  Video below shows a human wave of demonstrators chasing frightened police officers.  —  Here is another video.  These protests are huge.
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Statistical Report Purporting to Show Rigged Iranian Election Is Flawed  —  Like most Americans, there are few things I would like to see more than Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's hateful President, to be voted out of office.  Elections in thuggish, authoritarian states like Iran need be treated with the utmost skepticism and scrutiny.
gary's choices:
Iran's political coup  —  If the reports coming out of Tehran about an electoral coup are sustained, then Iran has entered an entirely new phase of its post-revolution history.  One characteristic that has always distinguished Iran from the crude dictators in much of the rest of the Middle East …
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Revolution Will Be Twittered  —  Mock not.  As the regime shut down other forms of communication, Twitter survived.  With some remarkable results.  Those rooftop chants that were becoming deafening in Tehran?  A few hours ago, this concept of resistance was spread by a twitter message.
BBC:
Violent clashes in Tehran  —  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been re-elected as president of Iran in a resounding victory, the interior minister says.  —  He won some 62.6% of the vote in an election marked by a high turnout of 85%, official figures show.  —  Supporters of pro-reform candidate …
tehranbureau:
Alerts from Tehran  —  *Hour/time given U.S. Eastern (unless otherwise noted)  —  from Iran sent 9:23 AM Tehran-time  —  The banks are all closed. most with windows smashed up. its morning now and it seems to be business as usual for people going to work, but everyone is very angry …
John Podhoretz / Commentary:
Tehran Tienanmen?  —  For more than a decade, we've been hearing about the real Iran—the one whose youth is Westernized, desirous of connection with the United States, and tired of living in a theocracy.  It's too soon to know whether the protests today in Iran represent the fruition …
Discussion: The Daily Dish
Nahid Siamdoust / Reuters:
After a Disputed Election, Tehran's Streets Become a Battleground  —  It's way past midnight in Tehran, but this city is not sleeping.  Outside on the streets, people are honking their horns in protest and stretching their hands out of cars making peace signs — a sign of support for Mir-Hossein Mousavi …
Discussion: Harry's Place and Time
Gateway Pundit:
Madness!  Obama Administration Silent As Iranian Students …
Laura Secor / News Desk:   Iran's Stolen Election
Spencer Ackerman / ATTACKERMAN:
Iran: Don't Lead, Don't Follow, And Instead Get Out Of The Way
Discussion: CNN and Washington Monthly
Bill Keller / New York Times:
Reverberations as Door Slams on Hopes of Change
Associated Press:   Election Battles Turn Into Street Fights in Iran
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:   Follow-Up On Earlier Posts
New York Times:
Protests Roil Tehran After Disputed Vote
Associated Press:
Terrorist can sue over torture memos  —  First time a government lawyer has been held potentially liable for abuse  —  SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A convicted terrorist can sue a former Bush administration lawyer for drafting the legal theories that led to his alleged torture …
Discussion: The Jawa Report and Macsmind
RELATED:
John Schwartz / New York Times:   Judge Allows Civil Lawsuit Over Claims of Torture
KVOA-TV:
Head of a minuteman group arrested for double homicide  —  TUCSON, AZ - Three people have been arrested in connection with last months deadly double homicide in Arivaca that left a nine-year-old and her father dead.  One of the people arrested for the homicide is the National Executive Director …
RELATED:
Ezra Levant:
Jennifer Lynch tries to bully CTV into cancelling my appearance on the news  —  This evening, Jennifer Lynch, the chief commissar of the Canadian Human Rights Commission, tried to have CTV Newsnet kick me off their interview program Power Play, hosted by Tom Clark.
Discussion: five feet of fury. and Jay Currie
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
The Take: GOP Comeback Limited by Demographics, Political Forces  —  There has been much chatter about who now speaks for the Republican Party, and whether the GOP has a message or an agenda to combat President Obama's popularity.  Those questions are important to the party's future …
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 3:25 AM ET, June 14, 2009.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 Who's Hiring in Media? 
 
 See Also: 
memeorandum: site main
memeorandum River: reverse chronological memeorandum
memeorandum Mobile: for phones
memeorandum Leaderboard: memeorandum's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
memeorandum RSS feed
memeorandum on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
Associated Press:
Carter honored by PA government
Discussion: Israel Matzav and Weasel Zippers
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
Twittering The Iran Election — And The Coverage
 Earlier Items: 
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
WHEN DESPERATION GETS UGLY.... The conservative drive …
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
As the NYT Tech Guild goes on strike, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas offers the AI company's services to The NYT to help ensure election coverage is available

Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Around 75% of the largest US newspapers aren't endorsing anyone for president this year, as publishers try not to annoy any sliver of their remaining customers

Alyson Krueger / New York Times:
A profile of Town & Country EIC Stellene Volandes, who is trying to keep the Hearst-owned 178-year-old magazine relevant via social media and its website

 
Sister Sites:

Techmeme
 Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web
Mediagazer
 Top news and commentary for media professionals from all around the web
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page