Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
10:45 PM ET, June 8, 2015

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg Business:
GOP Swiftly Rejects Obama's ‘One-Sentence Fix’ to Obamacare if Supreme Court Voids Subsidies  —  A Supreme Court ruling is expected within weeks.  —  President Barack Obama had barely finished proposing an idea to deal with a far-reaching Supreme Court decision on Obamacare before Republicans fired …
RELATED:
Sarah Wheaton / Politico:
Obama: Supreme Court shouldn't have heard Obamacare challenge  —  President Barack Obama expressed deep frustration with the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, questioning why justices even took up a case that imperils his signature health insurance reform plan.  —  The high court is set to issue …
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
The GOP has 5 plans to fix Obamacare if the Supreme Court blows it up. They're all a mess.
Discussion: New York Magazine and Daily Kos
CNN:
Poll: Trust lacking in Supreme Court over handling of key issues
Discussion: Politico and Daily Kos
Fox News:
Obama says Supreme Court should never have taken up health law case, in blunt challenge
The Hill:
Obama: Supreme Court wrong to take up ObamaCare challenge
Peyton M. Craighill / Washington Post:   Public to Supreme Court: Don't gut Obamacare
Alana Goodman / Washington Free Beacon:
Clinton Donated $100K to New York Times Group the Same Year Paper Endorsed Her  —  A little-known private foundation controlled by Bill and Hillary Clinton donated $100,000 to the New York Times' charitable fund in 2008, the same year the newspaper's editorial page endorsed Clinton …
RELATED:
Dylan Byers / Politico:
The N.Y. Times vs. Washington Free Beacon
Discussion: BuzzFeed
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Clinton Family Foundation Donation To New York Times Charity Came After Endorsement
Discussion: Moe Lane
Alana Goodman / Washington Free Beacon:
‘New York Times’ Won't Reveal When Clintons Donated
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
NYT runs to Politico for comment on embarrassing Free Beacon story ... again
Vanity Fair:   The War on the Times  —  The Sulzberger family would never let go of The New York Times.
K. McDonald / CW33 NewsFix:
15-Year-Old Who Shot McKinney Pool Party Video Speaks Out  —  MCKINNEY, TX - Brandon Brooks, the 15-year-old boy who shot the McKinney pool party video that's being broadcast around the world, is telling his side of the story to NewsFix.  —  “The cops showed up and the parents immediately started yelling …
RELATED:
Bob Price / BREITBART.COM:
Video Emerges of Violence at ‘Innocent Pool Party’ in McKinney, Texas  —  Left media is ablaze with articles condemning the police response to a pool party at a McKinney, Texas, subdivision.  Now a video is emerging showing why police were called to the scene to begin with - violence.
Yoni Appelbaum / The Atlantic:
McKinney, Texas, and the Racial History of American Swimming Pools
Jennifer Gonnerman / New Yorker:
Kalief Browder, 1993-2015  —  Last fall, I wrote about a young man named Kalief Browder, who spent three years on Rikers Island without being convicted of a crime.  He had been arrested in the spring of 2010, at age sixteen, for a robbery he insisted he had not committed.
RELATED:
Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic:
The Brief and Tragic Life of Kalief Browder
Discussion: Common Dreams
Matt Pearce / Los Angeles Times:
Kalief Browder, jailed for 3 years in N.Y. without a trial, commits suicide
Discussion: Gothamist and 89.3 KPCC
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
New doubts on Second Amendment rights  —  Raising significant new questions about how much protection the Constitution's Second Amendment actually gives to gun owners, the Supreme Court on Monday left intact a local ordinance that restricts access to guns even within one's own home.
ABC News:
Dennis Hastert Emerges From Seclusion at Wisconsin Property … With his initial court appearance set for tomorrow, former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert emerged today from his sprawling vacation home in Wisconsin, where he has been secluded from public view, returning to his estate in Plano, Ill.
RELATED:
Matthew Mosk / ABC News:
Dennis Hastert to Be Represented by High-Powered D.C. Attorney Thomas Green
Discussion: Politico and Associated Press
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Why the most informed voters are often the most badly misled  —  The case for Hillary Clinton's proposal to make voter registration automatic is simple: it will make it easier for people to vote.  —  The case against Hillary Clinton's proposal to make voter registration automatic is also simple …
Discussion: Bloomberg View and New York Times
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Cheney: I don't know what makes Obama tick  —  Former Vice President Dick Cheney (R) said on Sunday that he has not figured out what motivates President Obama.  —  “I've tried for a long time, John, to understand what makes him tick, and frankly, I don't know,” Cheney told host John Catsimatidis on AM 970's …
Discussion: Daily Kos
RELATED:
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama: 'We don't yet have a complete strategy' against ISIS
Discussion: Politico, Daily Kos and Balloon Juice
Rupali Srivastava / ThinkProgress:
What's Happening To Players At The Women's World Cup, Where The Artificial Turf Is 120 Degrees  —  Rupali Srivastava is an intern with ThinkProgress at the Center for American Progress Action Fund.  —  The Women's World Cup is being played on artificial turf instead of natural grass.
Bryan Alexander / USA Today:
Spike TV will cut Eastwood's Jenner joke  —  Clint Eastwood is courting controversy again, this time with a Caitlyn Jenner joke at the Spike TV Guys' Choice 2015 awards on Saturday night.  —  USA TODAY has learned that Spike TV will cut an Eastwood joke about Jenner when the show airs Saturday, June 18.
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Ted Cruz: First Thing I'll Do As President Is Send Flowers And Condolences To Reporters Checking Into Therapy  —  He said the second thing he'll do is start planning a pig roast on the South Lawn of the White House.  —  Scott Olson / Getty Images  —  Texas Sen. Ted Cruz poked fun at reporters …
Discussion: Mediaite
Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
Trove Seized in Syria Raid Opens Window on ISIS, U.S. Says  —  WASHINGTON — American intelligence agencies have extracted valuable information about the Islamic State's leadership structure, financial operations and security measures by analyzing materials seized during a Delta Force commando raid …
Business Wire:
Introducing Apple Music — All The Ways You Love Music.  All in One Place.  —  SAN FRANCISCO—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Apple® today unveiled Apple Music™, a single, intuitive app that combines the best ways to enjoy music — all in one place.  Apple Music is a revolutionary streaming music service …
New York Times:
Cleveland Leaders Bypass Prosecutors to Seek Charge in Tamir Rice Case  —  WASHINGTON — Community leaders in Cleveland, distrustful of the criminal justice system, said Monday that they would not wait for prosecutors to decide whether to file charges against the police officers involved …
Discussion: Business Insider and fox8.com
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Fighting the Derp  —  When it comes to economics — and other subjects, but I'll focus on what I know best — we live in an age of derp and cheap cynicism.  And there are powerful forces behind both tendencies.  But those forces can be fought, and the place to start fighting is within yourself.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Emily Lane / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
After 4 decades in solitary, Albert Woodfox's release ordered by federal judge  —  A federal judge in Baton Rouge has called for the unconditional release of Albert Woodfox, the only remaining imprisoned member of the Angola 3.  —  Woodfox, 68, was placed solitary confinement …
Discussion: Hinterland Gazette and Hullabaloo
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 10:45 PM ET, June 8, 2015.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 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: 
Jim Miklaszewski / NBC News:
Army's Public Website Hacked by Unknown Intruders
Discussion: Engadget
Lindsay Abrams / Salon:
Fox News host gets schooled on fracking — and angrily orders his guest off the show
Salon:
Seinfeld slams politically correct students for hurting comedy: “They just want to use these words …
Discussion: RedState
Timothy W. Martin / Wall Street Journal:
Calpers to Cut External Money Managers by Half
Larry Getlen / New York Post:
Book claims Whitney Houston was extorted amid ‘lesbian affair’
Discussion: Daily Mail and theGrio
Emily Smith / Page Six:
Man who bought the world's most expensive sculpture revealed
 Earlier Items: 
Telegraph:
David Cameron in crisis as he backtracks over ‘ministers must quit’ threat - as it happened
Discussion: Business Insider and Vox Popoli
Patrick Wintour / Guardian:
Juncker vents fury over Greek bailout talks at G7 summit
Discussion: American Spectator
Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
Dem senator wants more funds to research Lyme Disease
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Derek Hunter / Townhall.com:
The Cream Of The Crop  —  Mainstream media has expended much ink …
FIRE:
College Declares Haymarket Riot Reference a Violent Threat to College President
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Bloomberg:
A look at the challenges facing Crunchyroll, as current and ex-staffers say its management is out of touch, amid Disney and Netflix's expansion into anime

Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Trump may erode press protections but the ABC case is not evidence of that as the decision to settle appears reasonable given Stephanopoulos' imprecise remarks

 
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