Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
7:25 AM ET, May 16, 2016

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Associated Press:
Rebuking Trump, Obama Tells Graduates Walls Won't Solve Ills  —  President Barack Obama on Sunday urged college graduates to shun those who want to confront a rapidly changing world by building walls around the United States or by embracing ignorance, as he delivered a sharp and barely concealed critique of Donald Trump.
RELATED:
Gardiner Harris / New York Times:
Obama Swipes at Trump, but Doesn't Name Him, in Speech at Rutgers
Geoff Earle / Daily Mail:
Obama goes after Trump in Rutgers commencement address and slams building ‘walls,’ …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and alan.com
TMZ.com:
Arrested for Allegedly Attacking Bernie Sanders Supporter  —  “The Wire” star Wendell Pierce was arrested Saturday after allegedly physically assaulting a woman supporting Bernie Sanders.  —  Sources at the Loews Hotel in Atlanta tell us the actor struck up a convo with the woman and her boyfriend at around 3:30 AM.
RELATED:
Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Even supporters agree: Clinton has weaknesses as a candidate.  What can she do?  —  Hillary Clinton's declining personal image, ongoing battle to break free of the challenge from Sen. Bernie Sanders and struggle to adapt to an anti-establishment mood among voters this year have become caution signs …
Discussion: CNN, CBS New York and CNNMoney
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Baptism turns violent when Hawaii man is shot in the back at Seventh-day Adventist church  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  A Honolulu church was the scene of a violent Baptism Sunday, when a man was shot in the back at the Samoa-Tokelau Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Wouldn't Have Had the Ready Cash to Self-Finance Entire Campaign — Analysis  —  With Trump now moving to raise big sums, estimate of his 2016 income shows him likely short of the ready cash he would have needed to fund his entire campaign  —  Donald Trump, after long saying …
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Juan Williams / The Hill:
Trump, false promises and the economy  —  “It's the economy, stupid!”  That was Democratic strategist James Carville's famous bottom line on the 1992 presidential election.  —  Fast forward to 2016 and once again it looks like “It's the economy, stupid.”  —  , the likely Democratic nominee …
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Mark Zuckerberg to host Glenn Beck at Facebook  —  Mark Zuckerberg invited prominent conservative media figures, including Glenn Beck and Dana Perino, to a meeting at Facebook's headquarters this week.  —  The meeting, scheduled for Wednesday, is aimed at addressing the alleged suppression …
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Castro moves to stop VP fire from the left  —  Targeted by progressive activists hoping to kill his chances of being Hillary Clinton's running mate, Julián Castro is set this week to announce changes to a hot-button Housing and Urban Development program to sell bad mortgages on its books.
Discussion: Political Wire
New York Times:
Inside Donald Trump's Plans to Attack the Clintons  —  Donald J. Trump plans to attack the character, honesty and authenticity of Hillary and Bill Clinton in the months ahead, in hopes of increasing their unpopularity among voters and deflecting attention from his vulnerabilities.
Michelle Moons / Breitbart:
Ben Carson Reveals Five Names on Trump VP List  —  Dr. Ben Carson confirmed five people on presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump's list of potential vice presidential running mates in a recent interview.  —  Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the 2008 VP running mate to John McCain …
Luciana Lopez / Reuters:
Democrats use Trump as bogeyman to get people to vote  —  Democratic Party activists in some U.S. states are using Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate who has stirred controversy with his comments about illegal immigrants and women, as the centerpiece of their “get out the vote” campaign for the November elections.
Liz Kreutz / ABC News:
Discussion: Associated Press and Politico
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Trump Predicts Refugees With ISIS Phones Will Commit 9/11 Size Attack In The U.S.  —  “Who pays their monthly charges, right?”  —  Nicholas Kamm / AFP / Getty Images  —  w.soundcloud.com  —  Donald Trump said Sunday that he believes refugees will launch a terrorist attack …
Ellen Huet / Bloomberg:
Tech Startups Come Up With Some Creative Definitions for ‘Profitable’  —  Facing a tougher fundraising environment, on-demand companies are touting financial metrics to show the health of their businesses—using whichever definition looks rosiest.  —  Last September, SpoonRocket was running out of money.
National Review:
Exclusive: In Koch World ‘Realignment,’ Less National Politics  —  On a frigid Tuesday in February, a team of top political operatives from the Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce, the umbrella group that controls political activities for the sprawling donor network led by billionaire industrialists Charles …
Sam Knight / New Yorker:
Enter Left  —  The astonishing political emergence of Jeremy Corbyn, the left-wing leader of the British Labour Party, is the sort of thing that passes for normal in Western democracies these days.  Since the economic crash in 2008, anti-establishment types have cropped up everywhere.
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
Disagreements slow Pentagon's plan to allow transgender service members  —  Months before Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter said the Pentagon would take steps toward allowing transgender people to serve openly in the military, Army Staff Sgt. Patricia King last year became what she believes …
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
Clinton's Crimes and Comey's Choice  —  FBI Director James Comey knew he had to make a decision that would change his life, and maybe the history of his country, as he surveyed the piles of papers spread out in his office.  The Deputy Director in charge of the investigation of Hillary Clinton …
Dave Helling / Kansas City Star:
Trade policy issues are blurring old lines, turning politics in 2016 inside out  —  Candidates and their supporters feud over protections for American workers vs. free trade  —  The political lines are scrambled — some Republicans now oppose freer trade, while Democrats support it
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 7:25 AM ET, May 16, 2016.

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: 
Elisabeth Rosenthal / New York Times:
Sorry, We Don't Take Obamacare
Discussion: Viking Pundit
Laura Crimaldi / BostonGlobe.com:
Elizabeth Warren to graduates: embrace the unexpected
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Christopher Williams / Telegraph:
Google faces record-breaking fine for web search monopoly abuse
Discussion: Gizmodo, VentureBeat and The Verge
Nate Eaton / East Idaho News:
Yellowstone tourists put bison calf in car because they're worried it's cold
Kevin Poulsen / Wired:
The Ukrainian Hacker Who Became the FBI's Best Weapon—And Worst Nightmare
South Florida / Sun-Sentinel:
Shark bite in Boca Raton: Woman taken to hospital with nurse shark attached to her arm
Discussion: Associated Press and AOL
The Hill:
Puerto Rico debt becomes constitutional fight on the right
David Barrett / Telegraph:
Beyoncé clothing range is made by ‘sweat shop labourers on £4.30 a day’
 Earlier Items: 
Jenna Wortham / New York Times:
'RuPaul's Drag Race' Highlights the Struggle for Acceptance
Ian Lovett / New York Times:
Squatters See a New Frontier in the Empty Homes of Las Vegas
Discussion: Eschaton
Sheryl Sandberg / BostonGlobe.com:
It's the hard days that determine who you are
Michael Crowley / Politico:
When Donald Trump brought Miss Universe to Moscow
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Socialism Is Dying Everywhere from Europe to South America - Except in the US
Tré Goins-Phillips / TheBlaze.com:
CNN's Jake Tapper Brutally Fact Checks Clinton's Email Claims — See What He Found Out