memeorandum: UIC student's online threat linked to Laquan McDonald shooting (Chicago Sun Times)

4:40 PM ET, November 30, 2015

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McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:

Whisper Campaigns And “Zipper Problems”: How Jeb Bush's Allies Tried — And Failed — To Stop Marco Rubio — On the night of the 2010 midterm elections, a portly, silver-haired Jeb Bush stood on a stage in the courtyard of Miami's luxe Biltmore Hotel, appearing to choke back tears.

Discussion: Vox, Washington Monthly, Morning Consult, Politico, Mediaite, Hot Air, The Week and Mock Paper Scissors, more at Mediagazer »

Seung Min Kim / Politico:

As Cruz gains, GOP senators rally for Rubio — Ted Cruz has built his Senate career and presidential campaign on his willingness to stick it to the Republican establishment. And now that he's gaining momentum in the primary, his many GOP nemeses in Congress are returning the favor by quietly coalescing behind Marco Rubio.

Discussion: ABC News, Hot Air, The Daily Caller, No More Mister Nice Blog, Trail Blazers Blog, Taylor Marsh, whorunsGov, RedState, Very Very Urban, OnPolitics, Washington Post, Algemeiner.com, The Texas Tribune and New York Times

Glenn Thrush / Politico:

5 takes on 2016 as the campaign kicks into high gear — The untamable 2016 campaign has settled into a kind of comprehensible chaos with 60 days until the Iowa caucuses. — Donald Trump, a contender who embodies the ultimate cross-pollination of politics and entertainment that began with Ronald Reagan …

Discussion: Common Dreams, Hit & Run, Slantpoint and Bloomberg.com news

Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Trump would ‘err on side of security’ in NSA debate

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Herman Cain / Best of Cain:
Politics: Hey Jeb: Before you talk about my ‘fall,’ try getting as far as I got

Discussion: Liberaland, Politico and OnPolitics

Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Hispanic Republican leaders shun Donald Trump

Discussion: Liberaland, Raw Story and whorunsGov

Alissa Scheller / The Huffington Post:

2 Degrees Will Change The World — More Floods, More Drought Inevitable. How Bad Do We Want It To Get? — World leaders are meeting in Paris this month in what amounts to a last-ditch effort to avert the worst ravages of climate change. Climatologists now say that the best case scenario …

Discussion: Slantpoint

Nick Stockton / Wired:
The Paris Climate Talks Will Emit 300,000 Tons of CO2, by Our Math. Hope It's Worth It

Discussion: American Spectator, The Daily Caller and Infowars

Gardiner Harris / New York Times:
Obama, at Conference, Says U.S. Is Partly to Blame for Climate Change

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CNN:
COP21 climate change summit: ‘Never have the stakes been so high’

Discussion: RedState, NPR, UPI, The Daily Caller, Advertising & Branding, PoliticusUSA and Slantpoint

Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed Bill McKibben: What the Paris conference on climate change can do for planet Earth

Discussion: Guardian, CNN, Taylor Marsh, skippy the bush kangaroo, President Obama, New York Times, Washington Monthly and DeSmogBlog

Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Obama casts climate talks as world's last best chance

Discussion: The Hill, ThinkProgress, Breitbart and Independent Journal

Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune:

1 in custody in threat at University of Chicago linked to Laquan McDonald shooting — University of Chicago security officers patrol the Hyde Park campus quad on Nov. 30, 2015. … An online threat to kill 16 white male students or staff in retaliation for the shooting of Laquan McDonald forced …

Discussion: Hit & Run, Crime and Consequences Blog, The Daily Caller, Jezebel, Mediaite, Independent Journal, Mashable and UChicago News

Chicago Sun Times:

UIC student's online threat linked to Laquan McDonald shooting — Sign-up for Chicago Sun-Times newsletters. … A University of Illinois at Chicago student threatened online to shoot 16 individuals at the University of Chicago — one for each time Laquan McDonald was shot — which resulted in U. of C. classes being cancelled Monday.

Discussion: Washington Post and The Week

Vanessa Friedman / New York Times:

The 2016 Pirelli Calendar May Signal a Cultural Shift — When Agnes Gund, the 77-year-old philanthropist and president emerita of the Museum of Modern Art, got the call, she thought: “That's odd. What's that got to do with someone like me?” — When Fran Lebowitz, the 65-year-old author …

Discussion: Slate, Jezebel, The Frisky, New York's PIX11 and WREG-TV

Daily Mail:
Pirelli Calendar 2016 sees Serena Williams, Patti Smith and Amy Schumer pose

Discussion: Independent Journal

Alice Ollstein / ThinkProgress:

Black Pastors Rail Against Closed-Door Meeting With Trump, Citing Racist Language And Incitement — Dozens of African American pastors gathered behind closed doors with GOP frontrunner Donald Trump at his office in New York City on Monday. The Trump campaign originally told press the pastors …

Discussion: New York Times, Independent Journal, Associated Press, Reuters and ABC News

Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Donald Trump's Big Endorsement Event Quietly Becomes a Private Meeting

Discussion: Washington Post, Daily Kos, Mediaite, Politico, The Week, The Daily Beast, Vibe and The Right Scoop

Jill Colvin / Associated Press:
Trump scraps endorsement event after black pastors object

Discussion: PoliticusUSA, Clutch Magazine, Talking Points Memo, Towleroad and Politico

Spiegel Online:

Ex-US Intelligence Chief on Islamic State's Rise: — ‘We Were Too Dumb’ — Interview Conducted By Matthias Gebauer and Holger Stark — Without the Iraq war, Islamic State wouldn't exist today, former US special forces chief Mike Flynn openly admits. In an interview …

Discussion: Raw Story, Common Dreams, Slantpoint, LiberalAmerica.org and Sputnik International

Associated Press:

Clinton opened State Department office to dozens of corporate donors, Dem fundraisers — WASHINGTON - As secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton opened her office to dozens of influential Democratic party fundraisers, former Clinton administration and campaign loyalists …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, ABC News, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Power Line, The Daily Caller, Hot Air, Mediaite, Washington Free Beacon and National Review

Sarah Ferris / The Hill:

GOP chairwoman defends abortion probe after Planned Parenthood shootings — The leader of the GOP-controlled House committee charged with investigating abortion providers is defending its mission in the wake of a deadly rampage at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado.

Discussion: Politico and PoliticusUSA

Jordyn Phelps / ABC News:
After Shooting, Planned Parenthood Blames GOP Rhetoric for ‘Toxic Environment’

Discussion: Politico, The Federalist, Raw Story, Hot Air, Slate, Associated Press, Common Dreams, Guardian, Mediaite, BuzzFeed and New York Times

Walker Bragman / Salon:

More like Reagan than FDR: I'm a millennial and I'll never vote for Hillary Clinton — I never thought I'd be encouraging people to not vote for the Democratic nominee for president. But I am — I am a 27-year-old, politically active, progressive millennial voter.

Discussion: Independent Journal

Jeff Sparrow / Guardian:

We can save atheism from the New Atheists like Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris — There must be another way for nonbelievers than to transform, as Dawkins and Harris have done, into toxic know-it-alls — hy are the New Atheists such jerks? Case in point: Richard Dawkins' continuing pursuit …

Discussion: Friendly Atheist and Eschaton

Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune:

State sues prisoners to pay for their room, board — Melvin Moore is a paroled inmate being sued by the Illinois Department of Corrections to recoup the costs of incarceration. … The $31,690 Johnny Melton received to settle a lawsuit over his mother's death was going to help him start life anew after prison.

Discussion: Mediaite and The Week

Chris Ariens / Advertising & Branding:

How Roger Ailes Built Fox News Into a Media Powerhouse — Roger Ailes' first moon shot came when he was 29 years old. He was in the Oval Office setting up the first interplanetary split screen. “Eagle” had just landed on the moon. — “I had video from the Earth and I realized I could set …

Discussion: Politico, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, Talking Points Memo and BizPac Review

Alexander Bolton / The Hill:

Senate GOP to meet, discuss ObamaCare repeal — Senate Republicans will meet Monday evening to discuss plans to pass an ObamaCare repeal package later this week. — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is convening the meeting to walk through the special budgetary process known …