Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
7:30 PM ET, September 29, 2018

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
NBC News:
White House limits scope of the FBI's investigation into the allegations against Brett Kavanaugh  —  The FBI has not been permitted to investigate the claims of Julie Swetnick, a White House official confirmed to NBC News.  —  WASHINGTON — The White House is limiting the scope …
RELATED:
Washington Post:
FBI reaches out to Deborah Ramirez, a woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct  —  The FBI has begun contacting people as part of an additional background investigation of Kavanaugh, according to people familiar with the unfolding investigation.
Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal:
White House Directs FBI to Interview First Two Kavanaugh Accusers, But Not the Third  —  FBI probe won't include interviewing Julie Swetnick, drawing criticism from her attorney  —  The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been instructed by the White House to interview two of the women …
Jim VandeHei / Axios:
The miscalculation haunting Trump, Kavanaugh  —  Imagine if Brett Kavanaugh had offered his emotional, tearful, you-ruined-my-life opening speech to the Judiciary Committee — and then called for a quick FBI probe to clear his name and perhaps find the true assailant.
Discussion: Politico and Hullabaloo
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
Jeff Flake Explains Himself  —  Jeff Flake barely slept the night before he upended the battle for the Supreme Court.  —  The Arizona senator had spent days agonizing over what to do with the explosive allegation that Judge Brett Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted a young woman when he was in high school.
Victoria McGrane / BostonGlobe.com:
Warren says she will ‘take a hard look at running for president’  —  HOLYOKE - US Senator Elizabeth Warren made her most definitive indication to date that she is mulling a run for the White House in 2020, telling a town hall crowd Saturday that she will take a “hard look at running for president” after the Nov. 6 midterm elections.
Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Christine Blasey Ford's friend is not refuting Ford's allegation, will cooperate with FBI, lawyer says  —  (CNN)Leland Ingham Keyser, a friend of the woman accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault when they were at a party in high school, does not refute the veracity of the allegation …
ACLU:
In Rare Move, ACLU to Oppose Kavanaugh for Supreme Court  —  NEW YORK — In the wake of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's sworn testimony of sexual abuse at the hands of Brett Kavanaugh, the American Civil Liberties Union has announced its opposition to his nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Intercept:
The Unbearable Dishonesty of Brett Kavanaugh  —  Many of us who watched Thursday's Senate hearing spent much of the time cataloguing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's lies.  After hours of testimony, during which Dr. Christine Blasey Ford answered questions about her alleged sexual assault …
New York Times:
Kavanaugh Could Help G.O.P. in Senate Midterms.  But Not in House Races.  —  WASHINGTON — By agreeing to delay Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh's nomination in the short term, President Trump and Senate Republicans are making two long-term bets: that a drawn-out confirmation battle will secure …
Sarah Hepola / New York Times:
Kavanaugh and the Blackout Theory  —  It is both easy and common to drink, act and then have no memory of it.  —  Ms. Hepola is the author of the best-selling memoir “Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget.”  —  One of the trickiest things about blackouts is that you don't necessarily know you're having one.
Discussion: The Intercept
Shane Harris / Washington Post:
FBI reaches out to second woman who has accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct  —  The FBI has begun contacting people as part of an additional background investigation of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, including a second woman who alleges that the Supreme Court nominee sexually assaulted her …
Ariel Edwards-Levy / HuffPost:
Fewer Believe Brett Kavanaugh Than His Accuser, Poll Finds
Discussion: Political Wire and Vox
BostonGlobe.com:
The lies that senators must tell themselves to support Brett Kavanaugh
Discussion: The Intercept and emptywheel
Anthony Rivas / ABC News:
Avenatti says client is ‘telling the truth’ about Brett Kavanaugh, waiting for FBI interview
Erik Brady / USA Today:
Is Brett Kavanaugh right that he can no longer coach girls basketball?
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Kavanaugh fight shows us that Washington is sick. Very sick.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Hullabaloo
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
In Plain Terms, Judge Brett Kavanaugh Lies About Everything
The Daily Beast:
Brett Kavanaugh Can Be Saved. Things Don't Look So Good For The Supreme Court Though.
Discussion: Portside
Carlos Garcia / TheBlaze:
Journalists made a damaging Kavanaugh story go viral - but it was too good to be true
Discussion: BuzzFeed News
Sam Baker / Axios:
How to impeach a Supreme Court justice
Discussion: Mediaite, Breitbart and Raw Story
Sara Boboltz / HuffPost:
Christine Blasey Ford's Friend Doesn't Deny Assault Claim, Lawyer Says
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:
America Is Finally Listening to Women. It's Sparking a National Crisis.
Discussion: Vox
NBC News:
What will FBI investigation into Kavanaugh sex-assault allegations entail?
Discussion: Mother Jones
Katherine Tully-McManus / Roll Call:
Threats Against Jeff Flake and Chuck Grassley Prompt Additional Security
Discussion: The Daily Caller, IJR and Daily Wire
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
The Moral-Panic Phase  —  Why is the Kavanaugh nomination causing people to lose their minds?  —  D  —  ear Reader (Including everybody who'd just like a time-out),  —  Maybe it's because I've been getting so much grief from left and right for the alleged sin of “both sides-ism” …
RELATED:
John Bowden / The Hill:
Bannon predicts ‘three-way race’ in 2020  —  Former Trump White House strategist Steve Bannon is predicting that the 2020 presidential race could become a three-way contest.  —  Bannon said on “Real Time with Bill Maher” on Friday night that the race could involve a three-way battle between President Trump …
Katrina Brooker / Fast Company:
Exclusive: Tim Berners-Lee tells us his radical new plan to upend the World Wide Web  —  Last week, Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, asked me to come and see a project he has been working on almost as long as the web itself.  It's a crisp autumn day in Boston, where Berners-Lee works out of an office above a boxing gym.
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 7:30 PM ET, September 29, 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: 
Kelli Kennedy / Yahoo:
Michelle Obama urges young voters to ‘take their power back’
Discussion: Townhall, theGrio and ABC News
Sun-Sentinel:
Help Florida. Elect Andrew Gillum as governor | Editorial
Kathryn Mayorga / Spiegel Online:
The Woman Who Accuses Ronaldo of Rape
Discussion: Awful Announcing and Deadspin
The Babylon Bee:
Senate To Be Replaced With Room Full Of Monkeys Throwing Feces
 Earlier Items: 
Maxwell Strachan / HuffPost:
What It Was Like At C-SPAN As Women Flooded The Network With Stories Of Sexual Abuse
Ben Casselman / New York Times:
Housing Market Slows, as Rising Prices Outpace Wages
Brian Faler / Politico:
Democrats planning to examine Trump's tax returns after the midterms
Discussion: Raw Story
Neil Irwin / New York Times:
The Most Important Least-Noticed Economic Event of the Decade
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Abolish the death penalty
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
An interview with Telegraph Director of Technology Dylan Jacques on the goal of launching 12 significant uses of AI in the newsroom over 12 months

Liam Scott / Voice of America:
Reporters Without Borders sues X in France for “complicity in disseminating false information”, after X failed to block a fake video with RSF's logo

UnHerd:
Scientific American EIC Laura Helmuth is stepping down, following criticism for her social media posts suggesting Trump voters were racist, sexist, and fascist

 
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