memeorandum: Major Unions Join Occupy Wall Street Protest (New York Times)

1:55 PM ET, October 6, 2011

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Occupy Wall Street Arrests; Fox 5 Crew and Protesters Hit by Mace, Batons — Protest broadens scope — MYFOXNY.COM - While covering the Occupy Wall Street protests on Wednesday night, Fox 5 photographer Roy Isen was hit in the eyes by mace from a police officer and Fox 5 reporter Dick Brennan was hit by an officer's baton.

Helene Cooper / New York Times:

Obama Says He Would Accept a Surtax on High Incomes — WASHINGTON — President Obama said on Thursday that he was “comfortable” with a Senate proposal to pay for his jobs legislation with a tax surcharge on income above $1 million. — “I'm fine with the approach they have taken,” …

Discussion: ABCNEWS, Associated Press, Guardian and Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog

Dan Merica / CNN:
Dems attempt to harness anger at Wall Street

Discussion: The Hill and The Raw Story

The Politico:
Cordray advances amid GOP worries

Discussion: Washington Monthly

CNN:
Obama: Jobs bill must pass to protect U.S. economy

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, Business Insider, Hot Air, Tax Foundation and iOwnTheWorld.com

Aliyah Shahid / NY Daily News:
Herman Cain to Occupy Wall Street protesters: If you're not rich ‘blame yourself’

Discussion: Vox Popoli, msnbc.com and The Politico

Glenn Thrush / The Politico:
5 questions for President Obama

Discussion: Don Surber

Adrianne Jeffries / The New York Observer:
Occupy Wall Street Megamarch's Violent Aftershocks: Senior Police Officer Beats Protesters With Baton [VIDEO]

Discussion: Business Insider, CNN, The Daily Caller, DownWithTyranny!, Hit & Run, Gawker and Washington Post, more at Mediagazer »

New York Times:
Major Unions Join Occupy Wall Street Protest

Discussion: NewsBusters.org blogs, AFL-CIO NOW BLOG, Rebuild the Dream, City Room, The Agonist, Balloon Juice, Philly.com, CBS New York, Associated Press, NY Daily News, Los Angeles Times, The Democratic Daily and New York Magazine

Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
What They've Come to Find at Occupy Wall Street Is America

Discussion: Rumproast, The Nation, Hot Air and The Huffington Post

David Frum / FrumForum:

Palin: Already Almost Forgotten — “I will continue driving the discussion for freedom and free markets...” — From Sarah Palin's statement announcing her decision not to run for president. — Um, probably not. Sarah Palin's political voice had dwindled well before she announced her decision not to run.

Discussion: Democracy in America, The Atlantic Online, Conservatives4Palin, Rortybomb and The Moderate Voice

Scott Olson / ABCNEWS:

Sarah Palin's Die Hard Supporters ‘Stunned,’ ‘Disappointed’ — Peter Singleton and Michelle McCormick left their jobs, homes, and families to move to Iowa to campaign for Sarah Palin. Wednesday evening they found out they didn't have a candidate. — The former Alaska governor's supporters founded …

Discussion: Crooks and Liars, Balloon Juice, The Politico, New York Magazine and Eschaton

Sarah Palin / marklevinshow.com:
BREAKING NEWS: SARAH PALIN'S 2012 ANNOUNCEMENT

Richard Adams / Guardian:
Sarah Palin: the end of an error

Discussion: Associated Press and The Reaction

Z. Byron Wolf / ABCNEWS:
Sarah Palin Will Not Run for President

John Markoff / New York Times:

Steven P. Jobs, 1955-2011: Steve Jobs of Apple Dies at 56 — Steven P. Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple who helped usher in the era of personal computers and then led a cultural transformation in the way music, movies and mobile communications were experienced in the digital age, died Wednesday.

Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:

A Jobs Agenda — I don't know what Steve Jobs's politics were, I don't much care, and in any case they are beside the point. The late Mr. Jobs stood for something considerably better than politics. He stood for the model of the world that works. The model that made this: — into this:

Discussion: New York Magazine, Betsy's Page, GayPatriot, The Other McCain, The Atlantic Online, Michelle Malkin, Pajamas Media, Hot Air, TechCrunch and Gothamist

Brian Lam / The Wirecutter:

Steve Jobs Was Always Kind To Me (Or, Regrets of An A**hole) — I met Steve Jobs while I worked at Gizmodo. He was always a gentleman. Steve liked me and he liked Gizmodo. And I liked him back. Some of my friends who I used to work with at Gizmodo refer to those days as the Good Old Days.

Discussion: We Blog The World, MediaFile, Babbage, The Moderate Voice, AllThingsD, Boing Boing and New York Magazine, more at Techmeme »

Christopher John Farley / Speakeasy:

Steve Jobs Knew The End Was Near Weeks Ago, Says Coming Biography — Steve Jobs knew that he was dying weeks before the end, according to a coming biography. — Walter Isaacson's book “Steve Jobs” is due out Nov. 21 from Simon & Schuster. Jobs died Wednesday at the age of 56.

Discussion: Media Decoder, GigaOM, 9to5Mac and Poynter, more at Techmeme »

Walt Mossberg / AllThingsD:
The Steve Jobs I Knew

Discussion: Guardian, MediaFile, White House.gov Blog, Business Insider, Gawker, New York Magazine and Poynter, more at Mediagazer »

Mark Hosenball / Reuters:

Secret panel can put Americans on “kill list' — (Reuters) - American militants like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a kill or capture list by a secretive panel of senior government officials, which then informs the president of its decisions, according to officials.

Discussion: emptywheel, Hit & Run, Daily Kos, New York Magazine, Political Mojo, JONATHAN TURLEY, The Politico and Verum Serum

Glenn Greenwald / Salon:

Execution by secret WH committee — Reuters describes the bureaucratic panel that, with no oversight or transparency, orders citizens killed by the CIA — Here is what the Democratic President has created and implemented, and what many party loyalists explicitly endorse (when there's a Democrat in the White House) — from Reuters:

Discussion: The Agonist

Washington Post:
Administration should do more to defend the Awlaki strike

Discussion: The Huffington Post, The Volokh Conspiracy and Lawfare

Noah Bierman / Boston Globe:

Scott Brown quips about Elizabeth Warren's appearance on Boston radio show — Republican Senator Scott Brown made a crack about Democrat Elizabeth Warren's physical appearance on a radio show this morning. — Brown was responding to a crack Warren made in Tuesday's debate …

Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Swampland

Braden / 100.7 WZLX:

Senator Scott Brown Calls In & Thanks Elizabeth Warren For Keeping Her Clothes On — K&M talk with Senator Scott Brown about his plan to help mend unemployment, his views on Sarah Palin's plans for the next election, and his opinion on Elizabeth Warren's recent statements.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Washington Post, Washington Monthly, ABCNEWS, Daily Kos, Gawker and Hotline On Call

Nick Baumann / Political Mojo:
Scott Brown Calls Elizabeth Warren Ugly

Discussion: Business Insider

Roger Simon / The Politico:

Who will be the GOP messiah? — Barack Obama is so doomed politically that he sits behind his desk in the Oval Office with a vulture on each shoulder. And every day at noon, Joe Biden comes in dressed as the Grim Reaper and they all play gin. — I know this because the poll gods tell me this.

Discussion: CNN and Hot Air

Susan Saulny / New York Times:
A Candidate Writing His Own Campaign Rules

Discussion: New York Magazine, Wall Street Journal, ABCNEWS, Patterico's Pontifications, GOP 12, Iowa Caucuses, Outside the Beltway, The Caucus and NewsBusters.org blogs

Mackenzie Weinger / The Politico:
Pollster: 'Trend isn't good' for Obama

Discussion: Hotline On Call, The Daily Caller and GOP 12

Alexander Burns / The Politico:

Mitt Romney camp dodges Nevada calendar-tampering charge — Mitt Romney's campaign declined to confirm or deny a report that the GOP presidential candidate lobbied Nevada Republicans to hold a rule-breaking January presidential caucus. — The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Thursday …

Discussion: GOP 12

Maggie Haberman / Reuters:
Top GOP bundler to Romney camp

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Washington Post, Ben Smith's Blog, GOP 12, Towleroad News #gay and CNN

Laura Myers / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Nevada Republicans set Jan. 14 caucus

Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog, Iowa Caucuses, unionleader.com, Business Insider, Outside the Beltway and msnbc.com

Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:

‘Calm down’ about Fast and Furious gun sting, ATF acting director says — The new acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives announced a major shake-up of his agency Wednesday and urged Washington insiders to “calm down” about the latest revelations surrounding a controversial ATF gun operation.

Discussion: Big Government, The Politico, Associated Press, Examiner, The Gateway Pundit, Los Angeles Times, ATF Online, Sipsey Street Irregulars, Fox News, The Project … and The BLT

New York Post:
‘Furious’ mess has Justice in full panic

Discussion: National Review

Daniel Strauss / The Hill:

Senate Dems to discuss jobs bill with Obama — Top Senate Democrats will meet Thursday with President Obama to discuss his American Jobs Act legislation. — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.), Majority Whip Dick Durbin (Ill.), Sen. Charles Schumer (N.Y.), the top messaging Democrat in the chamber …

Discussion: The Politico

Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
Democrats shift the definition of ‘rich’ in battle over taxes

Discussion: ThinkProgress and Democratic Strategist

Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:

Rachel Maddow: How This Wonky-Tonk Woman Won TV … “Thank you for coming,” says Rachel Maddow to a visiting reporter. “Why are we doing this?” — It's the last Friday in September, and we are walking briskly — at 5-foot-11, Maddow always moves at a near-jog — toward the elevator …

Discussion: Towleroad News #gay and Gay Politics

Fred A. Bernstein / New York Times:

Derrick Bell, Law Professor and Racial Advocate, Dies at 80 — Derrick Bell, a legal scholar who worked to expose the persistence of racism in America through his books and articles and his provocative career moves — he gave up a Harvard Law School professorship to protest the school's hiring practices …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Shakesville, THEROOT.COM, The Atlantic Online, ImmigrationProf Blog, Feministe and Gawker

The U.S. Department of Labor:

Skip to page content — Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis — EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION — Program Contact: — TRANSMISSION OF MATERIAL IN THIS RELEASE IS EMBARGOED UNTIL — (202) 693-4676 — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE WEEKLY CLAIMS REPORT — SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA

Discussion: Reuters, msnbc.com and Hot Air

Williams Jr / ESPN:

ESPN, Hank Williams Jr. part ways — Hank Williams Jr. and his iconic theme song will not return to ESPN's “Monday Night Football,” the network announced Thursday. — In the wake of Williams using an analogy involving Adolf Hitler and President Barack Obama to make a political point …

Discussion: The Spectacle Blog, Big Journalism, American Spectator and Inside TV