memeorandum: The Dawn of a New Era in Science (Matthew Francis/The Atlantic)

12:40 PM ET, February 11, 2016

Top Items:

Rubio Eyes Brokered Convention After NH Setback — The best hope of the Republican establishment just a week ago, Marco Rubio suddenly faces a path to his party's presidential nomination that could require a brokered national convention. — That's according to Rubio's campaign manager …

Discussion: Politico, RedState, The Resurgent, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Daily Caller, ABC News, abc11.com and New York Times

Alexander Bolton / The Hill:

GOP doubts grow about Rubio — Congressional Republicans are re-evaluating Marco Rubio's presidential campaign in the wake of his dismal showing in New Hampshire and disastrous debate performance over the weekend. — The GOP establishment rallied around the freshman Florida senator last week …

Discussion: Daily Kos and Talking Points Memo

Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Warning: The dirty tricks are about to start

Discussion: The Resurgent, Mock Paper Scissors and New York Times

Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg Business:
Republican Elites Land in South Carolina With No Plan to Stop Trump

Discussion: CNN and Washington Post

Caitlin Cruz / Talking Points Memo:
Kasich Says He Doesn't ‘Expect To Win’ In South Carolina

Discussion: The Week

Austin Wright / Politico:
Bush: Trump would be worse than Obama

Discussion: New York Times, Mother Jones, The Week, Rush Limbaugh, Washington Monthly, Hot Air and Daily Kos

Bloomberg Politics:
Cruz Interesting, Trump Inevitable in S.C. Focus Group

Discussion: Business Insider

Niall Stanage / The Hill:
GOP asks: Can Trump and Cruz be stopped?

Discussion: Politico

Dana Milbank / Washington Post: Jeb Bush is not dead

Tom LoBianco / CNN:
Carson staying in race, sees South Carolina victory

Discussion: Outside the Beltway and The Week

Les Zaitz / Oregonian:

Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy arrested by FBI in Portland — Cliven Bundy, the Nevada rancher who touched off one armed showdown with federal authorities and applauded another started in Oregon by his sons, was arrested late Wednesday at Portland International Airport and faces federal charges related to the 2014 standoff at his ranch.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Washington Monthly, Vox, KGW-TV, Washington Post, addictinginfo.org, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, LawNewz, Balloon Juice, KOIN-TV, Common Dreams, NBC News, Hot Air, Mediaite, Vocativ, The Week and Hullabaloo

Les Zaitz / Oregonian:

Oregon standoff: FBI moves in on last refuge occupiers — UPDATE: 5 a.m. THURSDAY Franklin Graham, North Carolina evangelist, said on his Facebook page this morning that he was on his way to Oregon to help end the refuge standoff. He said he was on the phone with the remaining four last night as the FBI closed in.

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, Associated Press, KOIN-TV, Great Falls Tribune, alicublog, NBC News, The Daily Banter, The PolitiStick, The Week and Raw Story

OPB:
Live Updates: Oregon Standoff Escalating

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, NPR and The Atlantic

Jane Onyanga-Omara / USA Today:
Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy arrested

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, USA TODAY College, addictinginfo.org and The Daily Caller

Los Angeles Times:
Holdouts at Oregon refuge say they will surrender—carrying American flags

Discussion: Al Jazeera English

Beth Anne Steele / FBI:
FBI Surrounds Occupiers at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, The Atlantic, RT, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, Balloon Juice, Mediaite and Business Insider

Dana Ford / CNN:
Oregon standoff: FBI surrounds occupiers at wildlife refuge

Discussion: Mock Paper Scissors

Jon Ralston / Ralston Reports:

Team Clinton tries to lower Nevada expectations with incredible (i.e. false) claims — After setting up an impressive team of Nevada veterans, including some noteworthy Hispanic operatives, Hillary Clinton arrived in May to lay down a marker on immigration reform. — She met with DREAMERs, who endorsed her last week.

Discussion: America Rising, New York Times, Prairie Weather, The Week, Hot Air and BuzzFeed

ABC News:

The Note: Democratic Fight Night in Wisconsin — Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders will share a stage tonight at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for their sixth debate of the campaign. The two are meeting for the first time since the New Hampshire primary and Iowa caucuses in a debate hosted by PBS News.

Discussion: Politico, NBC News and Political Wire

A.B. Stoddard / The Hill:

Sanders now a threat — In what now seems a mandatory part of any Clinton campaign, panic has set in. Tied in the Iowa caucuses and decimated in the New Hampshire primary, Hillary Clinton's presidential juggernaut has once again veered into a ditch, just like it did eight years ago.

Discussion: Politico and Mock Paper Scissors

Charles M. Blow / New York Times:

Stop Bernie-Splaining to Black Voters — Now that Iowa and New Hampshire are vanishing in the rearview mirror, the Democratic contests shift more West and South — beginning with Nevada and South Carolina, states that have significantly more Hispanic or black voters, respectively …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, AMERICAblog NewsAMERICAblog …, Vox, Common Dreams and AOL

Susan Page / USA Today:
Rep. Clyburn: On Clinton's firewall and McGovern's lessons

Discussion: Washington Post, Politico and NPR

Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Congressional Black Caucus to formally endorse Clinton on Thursday

Discussion: Vox, Shakesville, The Hill, addictinginfo.org and The Week

Dan Merica / CNN:
Sanders campaign touts another endorsement that didn't happen

Discussion: Shakesville

Ktvtdeborah / CBS Dallas:

Sources: Jim Webb May Announce Presidential Candidacy Again — DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - Is he ready to run, again? Former presidential candidate Jim Webb may be ready to get back in the race. He's expected to discuss the possibility right here in North Texas today.

Discussion: The Hill, Hot Air, Allen B. West and CANNONFIRE

Christi Parsons / Los Angeles Times:

Obama interview: ‘Maybe I could have done ... a little better’ — President Barack Obama speaks about partisanship and race Feb. 10, 2016, with colleagues from his time in the Illinois Senate. (Brian Nguyen and Chris Walker/Chicago Tribune) — He had just given an hourlong speech calling …

Discussion: Politico, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, DownWithTyranny!, The Week and Associated Press

Los Angeles Times:
Transcript Obama shares his views on partisanship, working with Congress and his own legacy

Discussion: The Hill and The Daily Caller

Associated Press:

Berlin Film Festival jury questioned over diversity — BERLIN (AP) — The Berlin International Film Festival became embroiled in the debate about diversity in the movie industry Thursday, with jury president Meryl Streep dismissing questions about the all-white panel by telling reporters that “we're all Africans really.”

Discussion: The Week, Mediaite, Mashable and Guardian

Camille Paglia / Salon:

“Sexism has nothing to do with it”: Camille Paglia on Hillary Clinton, Gloria Steinem — and why New Hampshire women broke for Bernie Sanders — Camille Paglia's incisive and iconoclastic writing on politics and pop culture has been part of Salon's fabric from the beginning.

Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money and Althouse

Matthew Francis / The Atlantic:

The Dawn of a New Era in Science — More than a billion years ago, in a galaxy that sits more than a billion light-years away, two black holes spiraled together and collided. We can't see this collision, but we know it happened because, as Albert Einstein predicted a century ago …

Discussion: Guardian, Washington Post and The Daily Banter

Gary Ridley / MLive.com:

Snyder ordered DEQ to withhold Flint lead test results, emails claim — FLINT, MI - Gov. Rick Snyder and other state officials allegedly withheld lead testing results from county health officials while they worked to find ways to present the information to the public, according to emails obtained by The Flint Journal.

Discussion: Detroit Metro Times, ThinkProgress, Timeline Photos, Common Dreams and susiemadrak.com

Pew Research Center / Pew Internet:

15% of American Adults Have Used Online Dating Sites or Mobile Dating Apps — Throughout human history, people have sought assistance from others in meeting romantic partners - and Americans today are increasingly looking for love online by enlisting the services of online dating sites and a new generation of mobile dating apps.

Discussion: The Atlantic, Washington Post and NPR

Allister Heath / Telegraph:

The world can't afford another financial crash - it could destroy capitalism as we know it — A new economic crisis would trigger a political backlash in Britain, Europe and the United States which could drag us all down into poverty — They bounce back after terrorist attacks …