memeorandum: Taking Out the Trash? That's Still a Man's Job, Even for the Liberal Coastal Elite (Rachel Levin/New York Times)

10:05 AM ET, December 31, 2017

Top Items:

Why Can't the American Media Cover the Protests in Iran? — As widespread anti-regime protests in Iran continue on into their third day, American news audiences are starting to wonder why the US media has devoted so little coverage to such dramatic—and possibly history-making—events.

Discussion: Instapundit

Philip Gordon / New York Times:

How Can Trump Help Iran's Protesters? Be Quiet. — WASHINGTON — As anti-government rallies gather momentum across Iran — taking outside analysts and the Iranian government alike by surprise — President Trump and his foreign policy advisers are likely asking what they can do to support the protesters.

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News, KTLA, Breitbart, Weekly Standard, IJR, twitchy.com and The Daily Caller

BBC:

Iran protests: ‘Iron fist’ threatened if unrest continues — Iran's Revolutionary Guards have warned anti-government protesters they will face the nation's “iron fist” if political unrest continues. — Three days of demonstrations over falling living standards have become the biggest show …

Discussion: Politico, The Guardian, NPR, Informed Comment and Washington Free Beacon, more at Mediagazer »

Farnaz Fassihi / Wall Street Journal:

Five Things to Know About the Iranian Protests — Protesters bypass demands for reform, call for Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to step down — Protesters in Iran are challenging the nearly four-decade clerical rule of the Islamic Republic. The protests—the largest …

Discussion: Breitbart, Instapundit, NBC News, IJR, The Guardian, Sputnik International, RedState, Al Jazeera English, AOL, Mediaite and CNN

Thomas Erdbrink / New York Times:

Iran Confronts 3rd Day of Protests, With Calls for Khamenei to Quit — Iran's leaders were confronted by unauthorized protests in major cities for the third straight day on Saturday, with crowds aiming their anger at the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and some demanding that he step down.

Discussion: Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, BBC, Associated Press, Althouse, US Department of State, ThinkProgress and Axios, more at Techmeme »

Maziar Bahari / Washington Post:
A second revolution in Iran? Not yet.

Discussion: Weekly Standard

Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:

Devin Nunes, targeting Mueller and the FBI, alarms Democrats and some Republicans with his tactics — Rep. Devin Nunes, once sidelined by an ethics inquiry from leading the House Intelligence Committee's Russia probe, is reasserting the full authority of his position as chairman …

Rachel Levin / New York Times:

Taking Out the Trash? That's Still a Man's Job, Even for the Liberal Coastal Elite — On a recent Monday night in San Francisco, as I lounged in the living room watching “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” out of the corner of my eye I also watched my husband, Josh, march around our house …

Daniel Strauss / Politico:

The top 10 governor's races of 2018 — The battle over the House majority has taken center stage in Washington. But Democrats face another critical test at the state level in 2018, with the party hoping to rebuild its power in governor's mansions around the country after several years of decline.

Josh Delk / The Hill:

Trump campaign aide prompted Russia investigation in drunken revelation: report — Former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos — reportedly prompted the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election by drunkenly revealing knowledge of Russian opposition research …

Discussion: The Guardian, Business Insider, Hullabaloo, RedState, Mediaite, Mother Jones, Politicus USA, archive.is, Raw Story, CANNONFIRE and The Week

Daniella Diaz / CNN:
NYT: Former Trump campaign adviser told Australian diplomat Russia had dirt on Clinton

Discussion: Washington Monthly, The Guardian, The Gateway Pundit, RedState, New York Magazine, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Power Line

Peter Baker / New York Times:

Trump's Way: For Trump, a Year of Reinventing the Presidency — For Trump, a Year of Reinventing the Presidency — In ways that were once unimaginable, President Trump has discarded the conventions and norms established by his predecessors. Will that change the institution permanently?

New York Times:

Judge Says Pennsylvania Election Districts Give Republicans an Edge, but Are Not Illegal — A Pennsylvania judge said Friday the state's Congressional districts were drawn to give Republicans an advantage, but they did not violate the state Constitution, ruling in a high-profile gerrymandering case …

Pam Key / Breitbart:

Bill Nye: Blue States Will ‘Impose Economic Sanctions’ Against Climate Change-Denying States — Friday on MSNBC, climate activist Bill Nye warned conservatives to “watch out,” saying progressive blue states will “address climate change” on their own. — Nye said, “Only 40 percent of people …

Discussion: The Deplorable Climate … and Watts Up With That?

Katie Halper / New York Magazine:

Erica Garner Never Stopped Fighting — In July 2014, when Erica Garner was 23 years old, her father was killed by police officers on Staten Island. In a video taken by an onlooker, white NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo places Eric in a chokehold, pressing his face to the ground while he is handcuffed …

Holman W. Jenkins, Jr / Wall Street Journal:

A Year in Trump-Russia Hysteria — What the country can learn from ‘Z’ and ‘Seven Days in May.’ — Not all writers on the left succumbed to Trump-Russia panic in 2017. January saw Masha Gessen in the New York Review of Books dissecting the “muddled thinking” behind the U.S. intelligence …

CNN:

Police kill a man at his home while responding to a fake call — (CNN)A prank call to police led to a man's death at a home in Wichita, Kansas — and a man in California has been arrested in connection with the crime. — It's another example of swatting, or a prank in which people falsely …

Discussion: Washington Post, The Week, KAKE-TV and KTLA