Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
12:25 PM ET, May 26, 2017

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
RELATED:
New York Times:
Live Election Results: Montana's At-Large Congressional District  —  Greg Gianforte, a Republican technology executive who was charged with assault on Wednesday night, faces Rob Quist, the Democratic candidate and folk singer, in a special election for Montana's at-large House seat on Thursday.
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Republicans' 7-point win in last night's Montana election is great news for Democrats
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Law Enforcement Turns on the Law and Order President
Discussion: Raw Story
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
The GOP inherits what Trump has wrought
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
A Journalist Was Body Slammed, but Some Conservatives Want the News Media to Apologize
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump calls Gianforte's victory a ‘great win in Montana’
NBC News:
Jared Kushner Now Under FBI Scrutiny in Russia Probe, Say Officials  —  Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and one of his senior advisers, has come under FBI scrutiny in the Russia investigation, multiple U.S. officials told NBC News.  —  Investigators believe Kushner …
RELATED:
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Bannon's back  —  The escalating crisis surrounding the Russia investigation (with reports last night on FBI interest in Jared Kushner) looks like good news for somebody in the White House: Steve Bannon.  —  Nine sources in the West Wing and within Trump's close orbit said the Russia situation is Bannon's shot at redemption.
David Freedlander / Politico:
Meet the Real Jared Kushner
Washington Post:
Jared Kushner now a focus in Russia investigation
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
DHS chief: If you knew what I knew about terror, you'd ‘never leave the house’  —  Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly on Friday said the terror threat is worse than most realize, saying some people would “never leave the house” if they knew the truth.  —  “I was telling [Fox host] Steve …
Discussion: The Right Scoop
RELATED:
Breitbart Jerusalem / Associated Press:
Report: Gunmen Massacre Coptic Christians in Egypt, Killing at Least 28
Reuters:
Gunmen kill 26 in attack on Christians in Egypt
Discussion: RedState and Al Jazeera English
Amber Ferguson / Washington Post:
Texas teachers give ‘most likely to become a terrorist’ award to 13-year-old  —  Seventh-grader Lizeth Villanueva has been in her school's academic honors program for two years.  She gets good grades and has never been a discipline problem.  Yet on Tuesday, her teacher gave her a “most likely to become a terrorist” award.
Discussion: KFOR-TV, The Daily Caller and Fusion
RELATED:
Rose-Ann Aragon / Click2Houston.com:
Mom furious after teacher names daughter ‘most likely to become a terrorist’
Discussion: RT and vice
Tegna / KHOU-TV:
Teachers name student ‘most likely to become a terrorist’
Discussion: NPR, The Root and myfox8.com
New York Times:
Did the Turkish President's Security Detail Attack Protesters in Washington?  What the Video Shows … The New York Times reviewed videos and photos to track the actions of 24 men, including armed members of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's security detail, who attacked protesters in Washington last week.
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
The conservative mind has become diseased  —  To many observers on the left, the initial embrace of Seth Rich conspiracy theories by conservative media figures was merely a confirmation of the right's deformed soul.  But for those of us who remember that Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity …
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Raw Story
Peter Müller / Spiegel Online:
‘The Germans Are Bad, Very Bad’  —  At a meeting with European Union leaders on Thursday, U.S. President Donald Trump was sharply critical of Germany.  DER SPIEGEL spoke with meeting participants.  —  U.S. President Donald Trump voiced significant displeasure over Germany's trade surplus …
RELATED:
Tom McTague / Politico:
Juncker: Trump wasn't aggressive in saying Germany was ‘very bad’
Discussion: ABC News
Karen Jowers / Military Times:
John Glenn's remains were disrespected at the military's mortuary, Pentagon documents allege  —  WASHINGTON — A senior mortuary employee at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware twice offered horrified inspectors a peek at American icon John Glenn's dead body while the famed astronaut awaited burial earlier …
Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Trump's Allies, Convicted of High Crimes Without a Trial  —  Maybe Flynn committed treason.  But so far no one has presented any evidence, just innuendo.  That's not justice.  —  Heard any good Mike Flynn jokes lately?  —  How about this one from “Morning Joe,” this week?
RELATED:
Josh Margolin / ABC News:
FBI probing attempted hack of Trump Organization, officials say  —  The FBI is investigating an attempted overseas cyberattack against the Trump Organization, summoning President Donald Trump's sons, Don Jr. and Eric, for an emergency session with the bureau's cybersecurity agents and representatives of the CIA, officials tell ABC News.
Scott Feinberg / Hollywood Reporter:
Donald Trump Angled for Soviet Posting in 1980s, Says Nobel Prize Winner (Exclusive)  —  In 1986, the future president met with one of the few Americans who knew Mikhail Gorbachev, seeking information about the USSR's new leader and revealing plans to ask Ronald Reagan to post him to Moscow.
Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story
Valerie Jones / Rigzone:
Former House Speaker Boehner: Trump ‘Still Learning How to be President’  —  John Boehner delivers a fierce keynote in which he shares his view on Trump's presidency, whether or not he'd consider running for president and of course, Russia.  —  Regina Mayor, KPMG's global sector head …
Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
How Republicans Botched Their Drug-Test Legislation  —  The GOP tries to give states more power and hampers them instead.  —  On St. Patrick's Day, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan tweeted a photo of himself and Republican Representative Kevin Brady of Texas, both in green ties …
Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
Trump Is the Antithesis of Christian Values  —  The contrast between a grim-faced pope and the grinning president at the Vatican this past week was not lost on the press or late-night TV.  But they missed the mark, it seems to me.  They noted merely that the two leaders profoundly disagree on …
Max Boot / USA Today:
Trump talks tough to NATO but bows hypocritically to Saudi Arabia  —  His first trip abroad was revealing and not in a good way.  He's picking the wrong best friends for America.  —  At the beginning of his first overseas trip, President Trump spoke in Riyadh on May 21.
Mark Harris / The Guardian:
Revealed: details of Sergey Brin's secret plans to build the world's biggest aircraft  —  Google co-founder is building airship designed to be able to deliver supplies and food on humanitarian missions to remote locations, sources said … Google co-founder Sergey Brin is building …
Discussion: The Verge, Fast Company and Daily Mail
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 12:25 PM ET, May 26, 2017.

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: 
Warner Todd Huston / Breitbart:
Civil War Museum Closes Doors After Politician Demands Confederate Flags Be Eliminated
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Rumsfeld: 'I'm glad' Trump pressed NATO on defense spending
Discussion: RedState
Joy-Ann Reid / The Daily Beast:
Trump, Ryan, Mulvaney, All of Them: Partners in Plutocracy
Angie Han / Mashable:
Alamo Drafthouse announces a women-only screening of ‘Wonder Woman’ and of course men are upset
Matt Dixon / Politico:
White pulls his name from 2022 House speaker's race
Discussion: Florida Politics
 Earlier Items: 
Bill Allison / Bloomberg:
Ted Cruz Failed to Show 2012 Loans From Goldman Sachs, FEC Says
Discussion: Political Wire
The Texas Tribune:
Fearing 2018 losses, Texas Republicans in Congress want special session on redistricting
Discussion: Off the Kuff
Emily Gee / Center for American ProgressCenter …:
CBO-Derived Coverage Losses by State and Congressional District
Neal Rothschild / Axios:
Democrats making major headway in special election losses
Discussion: Political Wire and The Week
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Carrier Sends Jobs to Mexico, Workers Say Trump ‘Misled’ Them
Discussion: Balloon Juice
 

 
From Techmeme:

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

Paresh Dave / Wired:
Google says it wouldn't force its device makers, browser, and wireless carrier licensees to distribute Gemini to US users for three years, in a proposed remedy
 
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