Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
1:50 PM ET, January 20, 2018

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
New York Times:
How Trump and Schumer Came Close to a Deal Over Cheeseburgers  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump and Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the top Democrat in the Senate, came close to an agreement to avert a government shutdown over lunch on Friday.  But their consensus broke down later …
RELATED:
The Daily Beast Latest Articles:
Trump Whines: Shutdown Fight Could Make Me Miss ‘My Party’  —  You would tweet too if it happened to you.  —  LACHLAN MARKAY, ASAWIN SUEBSAENG1.19.18 10:25 PM ET  —  On the eve of a possible government shutdown, President Donald Trump privately vented frustrations that the political impasse …
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Congress returns to work as lawmakers press to keep shutdown short-lived … Congress prepared to return to work Saturday as negotiators pressed for a budget deal to keep a government shutdown that began at midnight short-lived.  —  Agencies shut down for the first time in more than four years late Friday …
New York Times:
How Every Senator Voted on the Government Shutdown  —  Senate Democrats appeared to have blocked a spending bill on Friday night that would have prevented a government shutdown.  The procedural motion to advance the bill needs 60 votes to pass.
Annie Karni / Politico:
Who's in and who's out as the West Wing grapples with shutdown  —  The press wranglers have gone home.  The in-house White House makeup artist isn't expected to report to work on Monday.  Assistants to senior White House staffers are getting an unexpected, unpaid vacation from work.
David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Trump plans gala at Mar-a-Lago tonight, again renting a ballroom from himself  —  PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Trump's posh Mar-a-Lago Club is set to host a high-priced gala on Saturday night intended to celebrate Trump's first year in office and raise money for his reelection campaign and the Republican National Committee.
Discussion: thecut, Mediaite and Raw Story
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Shutdown?  It Could Be Forgotten in a Trumpian Flash  —  WASHINGTON — In the fall of 2013, Republican hard-liners engineered a 16-day shutdown of the federal government, implausibly insisting that President Barack Obama acquiesce to their demand that the Affordable Care Act be stripped of all funding.
Politico:
Whose Fault Is the Shutdown?  —  After weeks of negotiating the federal budget, Republicans, Democrats and the White House couldn't strike a deal but could agree on this: A government shutdown was a horrible idea, and if it happened, it would be the other side's fault, 100 percent.
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Brandon Carter / The Hill:
GOP senator amid looming shutdown: Country ‘being run by idiots’
Discussion: Washington Press
CNN:
Government shuts down as lawmakers still searching for a deal
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
In spending fight, Republicans embrace Trump's hard-line stand on immigration
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Republicans are fooling themselves if they think they have a shutdown leg up [Updated]
Discussion: NBC News and Vox
Jake Pearson / Associated Press:
Tabloid held porn star's 2011 interview after Trump threat  —  NEW YORK (AP) — A tabloid magazine held back from publishing an adult film star's 2011 account of an alleged affair with Donald Trump after the future president's personal lawyer threatened to sue, four former employees of the tabloid's publisher told The Associated Press.
Discussion: CNNMoney, twitchy.com and Mediaite
RELATED:
RELATED:
Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
House GOPers Say A Secret Memo Could End The Trump-Russia Probe.  Their Staff Wrote It.  —  #ReleaseTheMemo is the latest way Republicans on Capitol Hill are trying to undermine the Mueller probe.  —  WASHINGTON House Republicans spent the end of the workweek telling everyone who would listen …
Mollie Ziegler Hemingway / Washington Post:
I wasn't a Trump supporter.  I am now.  —  This may seem like an odd moment for saying so, but a year into the presidency of Donald Trump, I'm elated.  —  Trump was not my first or even second choice for president, but a full two years ago I predicted he would win.
Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
Trump lashes out as #TrumpShutdown trends worldwide on inauguration anniversary  —  Trump launched a hashtag war on Saturday morning.  Things did not go as planned.  —  As Republicans readied to shut down the government Friday night, Donald Trump and his allies were busy trying to pin …
Discussion: Vox, New York Times and ABC News
RELATED:
Brandon Carter / The Hill:   TrumpShutdown becomes top trending hashtag worldwide
New Yorker:
Jared Kushner Is China's Trump Card  —  How the President's son-in-law, despite his inexperience in diplomacy and his lack of security clearance, became Beijing's primary point of interest.  —  In early 2017, shortly after Jared Kushner moved into his new office in the West Wing of the White House, he began receiving guests.
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast Latest Articles:
President Trump Is Having an Affair ‘Right Now,’ Michael Wolff Tells Bill Maher … The last time we saw Bill Maher on HBO's Real Time, he was defending his friend Al Franken and condemning his ideological enemy Roy Moore.  Three months later, neither man is serving in the U.S. Senate …
Discussion: theGrio and Raw Story
Bryan Logan / Business Insider:
Twitter found more than 50,000 Russia-linked accounts that actively shared election-related material — and Trump interacted with them hundreds of times  — Twitter says it found more Russia-linked accounts that shared US election-related material during the 2016 race for the White House.
RELATED:
Twitter:
Update on Twitter's Review of the 2016 U.S. Election
Joe Coscarelli / New York Times:
Tom Petty Died From Accidental Drug Overdose Involving Opioids, Coroner Says  —  Tom Petty, the chart-topping singer and songwriter, died in October from an accidental drug overdose as a result of mixing medications that included opioids, the medical examiner-coroner for the county …
RELATED:
Matthew Chapman / Shareblue Media:
Unhinged Fox host tries to distract from Trump's shutdown by stalking Hillary Clinton  —  With the threat of a government shutdown looming at midnight on Friday, Donald Trump has created a national crisis completely out of thin air in his determination to block legal status for young immigrants …
Chicago Tribune:
More than 250,000 descend on downtown for second Women's March in Chicago: organizers  —  Sandra Whitmore attended her first protest in 1968.  Then 30, she joined others in San Francisco to publicly burn their bras, she said.  —  The experience was so intoxicating, Whitmore said …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Pushback
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 1:50 PM ET, January 20, 2018.

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: 
Wall Street Journal:
Judging the Travel Ban—and Judges
Discussion: National Review
John Bowden / The Hill:
Arpaio files appeal to have criminal conviction removed
Discussion: RedState and KTAR.com
Stan Collender / Forbes:
Government Shutdowns Have Just Become The New Standard Operating Procedure In Washington
Discussion: Raw Story
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
President Trump made 2,140 false or misleading claims in his first year
President Donald J. Trump / Washington Examiner:
President Trump: A year of real change
Casey Michel / ThinkProgress:
The bizarre rise and dramatic fall of Louise Mensch and her ‘Blue Detectives’
CNNMoney:
CNN boss Jeff Zucker may be in mix for ESPN job
Discussion: Deadline and Mediaite
Matthew Spalding / The Hill:
Jeff Flake's Stalin-Trump comparison needs a fat dose of facts
 Earlier Items: 
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Clueless Versus Trump
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Corker says Senate leaders on verge of deal
Discussion: National Review
Kurt Wagner / Recode:
Justine Sacco, the PR exec who was fired from IAC for her tweets, has landed back at IAC's Match Group
Marwa Eltagouri / Washington Post:
She was expelled from college after her racist rants went viral. Her mother thinks she deserves it.
Discussion: Washington Press, Raw Story and theGrio
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
NSA deleted surveillance data it pledged to preserve
 

 
From Techmeme:

Shakeel Hashim / Transformer:
Musk v. Altman: email shows Brockman and Sutskever had concerns about Altman in 2017, Musk claims Altman proposed OpenAI sell its own cryptocurrency, and more

Jay Peters / The Verge:
Bluesky says it has “no intention” of taking user content to train AI tools, ahead of X implementing new terms of service that let it train AI on user content

Ari Levy / CNBC:
Palantir stock jumps 11% after announcing a move from the NYSE to the Nasdaq; its stock is up 50%+ since reporting better-than-expected earnings on November 4
 
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