Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
8:50 AM ET, August 28, 2017

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Mark Landler / New York Times:
Trump to Travel to Texas With Torrential Rain Still in the Forecast  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump on Sunday announced plans to travel to Texas on Tuesday, as millions of people there continued to battle catastrophic flooding and torrential rain that was expected to last for several more days.
RELATED:
Associated Press:
The Latest: Texas governor says he can't reach Houston mayor  —  https://www.apnews.com/4e35f72f72154e8b ab04cb45434e44fa  —  Link copied!  —  CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — The Latest on Tropical Storm Harvey (all times local):  —  Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he hasn't yet spoken …
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Cost of cleaning up Harvey will bring new test of governance for Trump and GOP  —  The catastrophic floods brought by Hurricane Harvey to southeastern Texas will pose an immediate test for the White House and Congress, pressing policymakers to approve billions of dollars in recovery funds …
Discussion: Political Wire, RedState and Daily Kos
CNN:
Harvey's rain ‘beyond anything experienced,’ weather service says  —  Houston (CNN)Flooding from Tropical Storm Harvey is overburdening resources as authorities in and around Houston scramble to save those trapped by the high waters.  —  Hopes for an immediate respite from Harvey's wrath seem unlikely …
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Trump weathers his own storm after pardoning Arpaio
Discussion: Politico, USA Today and Washington Post
Washington Post:
Catastrophic flooding ‘beyond anything experienced’ in Houston and ‘expected to worsen’
HuffPost:
Here's How To Help The Victims Of Hurricane Harvey
Opheli Garcia Lawler / The FADER:
Here's Where You Can Donate To Hurricane Harvey Relief Efforts
Discussion: The Big Picture
Washington Post:
Trump's business sought deal on a Trump Tower in Moscow while he ran for president  —  Donald Trump during a 2005 visit to Colorado to speak at a business convention.  At his right is Felix Sater, a Russian-born real estate developer.  (Cyrus McCrimmon/The Denver Post)
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Exclusive: Trump vents in Oval Office, “I want tariffs.  Bring me some tariffs!”  —  The following is a rare account of President Trump in a small Oval Office meeting, venting at senior staff for sometimes resisting his hawkish trade agenda.  —  This account — confirmed by sources …
RELATED:
Josh Dawsey / Politico:   Trump's prized perk: Oval Office photo ops
San Francisco Chronicle:
Live coverage: Violence at Berkeley rally escalates, police make arrests  —  At least 14 people were arrested during a protest Sunday at Berkeley's Civic Center Park, police said.  Some demonstrators exchanged blows and deployed pepper spray.  Credit: Guy Wathen, Lizzie Johnson
RELATED:
Kyle Swenson / Washington Post:
Black-clad antifa attack peaceful right wing demonstrators in Berkeley  —  Their faces hidden behind black bandannas and hoodies, about a 100 anarchists and antifa — “anti-fascist” — barreled into a protest Sunday afternoon in Berkeley's Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park.
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Trump frustration with Tillerson rising fast  —  There's a ticking problem with Rex Tillerson, and it's growing louder by the day, according to officials inside and close to the White House.  —  President Trump has been growing increasingly frustrated with his Secretary of State.
Discussion: Mediaite
RELATED:
Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Rex Tillerson says Trump ‘speaks for himself’ on values
Discussion: Axios
Associated Press:
Trump prepares to lift limits on military gear for police  —  FILE - In this Aug. 22, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump reacts before speaking at a rally at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix.  The Trump administration is preparing to restore the flow of surplus military equipment to local law enforcement agencies.
RELATED:
Kara Swisher / Recode:
“Truce” choice, Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, will be offered the job as Uber's new CEO  —  And he is likely to take it — though no one from the board of the car-hailing company has told him as yet!  —  The board of Uber has voted and wants Expedia Dara Khosrowshahi to be its next CEO.
RELATED:
Sarah Ellison / Vanity Fair:
Exiles on Pennsylvania Avenue: How Jared and Ivanka Were Repelled by Washington's Elite  —  “What is off-putting about them,” one political veteran told me, “is they do not grasp their essential irrelevance.  They think they are special.”  —  I. AIR FORCE ONE
Discussion: Raw Story
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Team Trump turns to Rove playbook to juice 2018 turnout  —  Donald Trump's White House may take a page from the Karl Rove playbook.  —  The administration has been in talks to put conservative initiatives on the ballot in 2018 midterm battleground states in hopes of energizing base voters dispirited …
Discussion: Raw Story
John Wayne Ferguson / Galveston County Daily News:
15 rescued from Dickinson nursing home  —  Fifteen senior citizens were evacuated from the La Vita Bella nursing home in Dickinson, David Popoff, the city's emergency management coordinator confirmed on Sunday afternoon.  —  A picture of the residents sitting in waist-deep water went viral on Twitter Sunday.
Emanuella Grinberg / CNN:
CNN crew helps pull elderly couple from flooded home  —  Elderly couple rescued from flooded home  —  (CNN)Pam Jones left her home in Friendswood, Texas, on Saturday so she could ride out tropical storm Harvey with her parents in nearby Dickinson.  —  None of them expected the flood waters to keep rising into the night.
Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
For Better or Worse, Trump and the GOP Need Each Other  —  The president can complain about congressional Republicans all he wants but there is no agenda without cooperation.  —  President Trump and his Never Trump antagonists have found something they agree on.  They both want to separate Trump from the Republican Party.
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 8:50 AM ET, August 28, 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: 
Jerusalem Post:
Gorka says McMaster has ‘Obama lens’ on threat of radical Islam
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
‘Dreamer’ Plan That Aided 800,000 Immigrants Is Threatened
Discussion: National Review
Albert R. Hunt / Bloomberg:
America's Getting More Tolerant and Haters Hate It
Todd Gitlin / New York Times:
Who's Afraid of Antifa?
 Earlier Items: 
Eddie Scarry / Washington Examiner:
Hillary Clinton didn't lose because of the media, and her supporters can't accept it
Justin Miller / The Daily Beast:
Watch: Houston TV Crew Saves Truck Driver's Life
Discussion: Business Insider and Raw Story
Colum Lynch / Foreign Policy:
Top State Department Officials Step Down in “Black Friday” Exodus
Discussion: Raw Story and New York Magazine
Doyle McManus / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed Trump is shedding supporters like no other president in modern history
Discussion: Raw Story and Shareblue
 

 
From Techmeme:

Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:
An undisclosed 2023 agreement between Microsoft and OpenAI defines achieving AGI as the point when OpenAI develops AI systems that generate $100B+ in profits

Noah Smith / Noahpinion:
How H-1B workers from India and other countries help the US remain dominant in tech, as some on the new “Tech Right” discover MAGA's racial-nationalist bigotry

Shubham Sharma / VentureBeat:
DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V3, an open-source MoE model of 671B total parameters, with 37B activated per token, claiming it outperforms top models like GPT-4o

 
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