Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
12:55 PM ET, April 29, 2019

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Gabriel Debenedetti / New York Magazine:
Wall Street Democrats Are Absolutely Freaking Out About Their 2020 Candidates  —  One night in early April, roughly 20 of the Democratic Party's highest-profile donors from the financial industry sat down over dinner to discuss how exactly they were feeling about the 2020 presidential race.
Discussion: Splinter
RELATED:
Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Democrats dismiss Biden as front-runner in name only  —  In another election, at another time, the late entrance of a well-funded candidate leading in the polls might send convulsions through the primary field.  —  But Joe Biden's arrival into the 2020 race has not had that effect.
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
The Fickle Over the Faithful  —  Loyal supporters of the Democratic Party deserve answers.
Discussion: TheStreet and National Review
Jazz Shaw / Hot Air:
That Time Joe Biden Voted To Restore Robert E. Lee's Citizenship
Benjamin Wittes / The Atlantic:
Five Things I Learned From the Mueller Report  —  I spent the week after the release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report going through it section by section and writing a kind of diary of the endeavor.  My goal was less to summarize the report than to force myself to think about each factual …
Discussion: Raw Story
RELATED:
Ryan Goodman / Just Security:
Guide to the Mueller Report's Findings on “Collusion”  —  Special Counsel Robert Mueller's final report focuses only on whether crimes were committed.  It addresses two Russian conspiracies to interfere in the 2016 election—one involving a social media influence campaign and the other involving …
Discussion: Political Wire
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's latest moves demand a tougher response. A leading Democrat shows how.
Rachel Stoltzfoos / The Daily Caller:
Combat Vet Who Stopped The Synagogue Shooter: ‘I Scared The Hell Out Of Him’  —  The man who fired a semi-automatic weapon inside the Chabad of Poway synagogue in San Diego on Saturday froze, dropped his gun and sprinted to his car when he saw Oscar Stewart come barreling toward him …
RELATED:
Laura Newberry / Los Angeles Times:
This is the Army veteran who chased the gunman out of the California synagogue
Discussion: Media Matters for America and KTLA
Kristin Lam / USA Today:
Injured California rabbi gets a call from President Donald Trump: ‘He was just so comforting’
Washington Post:
President Trump has made more than 10,000 false or misleading claims  —  It took President Trump 601 days to top 5,000 false and misleading claims in The Fact Checker's database, an average of eight claims a day.  —  But on April 26, just 226 days later, the president crossed the 10,000 mark …
Garrett Haake / NBC News:
Beto O'Rourke releases $5 trillion plan to combat climate crisis  —  The Democratic presidential candidate Monday released his first major policy proposal of the campaign, a four-pillar plan to battle climate change.  —  MODESTO, Calif. — Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke …
RELATED:
Annie Linskey / Washington Post:   Beto O'Rourke's new climate plan: It aims to give the candidate policy heft
Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
Michael Cohen's Last Days of Freedom  —  These days, the President's former lawyer, and the fall guy in his web of misconduct, looks like a victim as well as a perpetrator.  —  It takes some time for Michael Cohen to work his way to a table at the grillroom of the Loews Regency Hotel, on Park Avenue.
Julie Pace / Associated Press:
New group launches to harness political power of women  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Three of the nation's most influential activists are launching an organization that aims to harness the political power of women to influence elections and shape local and national policy priorities.
RELATED:
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Here's what's next for Cecile Richards
Discussion: WTOP
Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Power Up: Trump's handling of illegal immigration is a weakness headed into 2020
Discussion: New York Times
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Napolitano Denies Trump's Allegations in On-Air Response: This is How You Treat a Friend!?  —  Andrew Napolitano accused Donald Trump of mischaracterizing their conversations together when the president swiped at him over the weekend.  —  On Saturday, Trump insulted Napolitano's intelligence …
David Freedlander / Politico:
‘I Want Him on Everything’: Meet the Woman Behind the Buttigieg Media Frenzy  —  If you read through the many, many profiles written of presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg in the past several months, it's hard not to notice just how many reporters happen to have had personal encounters with the candidate …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Why Trump Is Soft on White-Supremacist Terrorism  —  Last week, President Trump repeated his absurd claim that he had never called the Nazi protesters who descended on Charlottesville in 2017 “very fine people.”  On Saturday, yet another white-supremacist attack, on a synagogue in California …
Dexter Filkins / New Yorker:
John Bolton on the Warpath  —  Can Trump's national-security adviser sell the isolationist President on military force?  —  Earlier this year, as Donald Trump prepared to meet the North Korean Supreme Leader, Kim Jong Un, in Vietnam, he took a moment in the State of the Union address …
David Rutz / Washington Free Beacon:
Abrams: I'm Comfortable Saying ‘I Won’ Georgia Governor's Race Because ‘Something Happened’  —  Democrat Stacey Abrams said she is comfortable saying “I won” the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election because “something happened” regarding voter suppression to push Republican Brian Kemp to victory.
RELATED:
Ryan Devereaux / The Intercept:
Homeland Security Used a Private Intelligence Firm to Monitor Family Separation Protests  —  The calls for action were mounting.  It was mid-June, and the Trump administration's “zero tolerance” policy, which saw thousands of migrant children separated from their parents, was producing waves of outrage.
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Trump campaign moving early to keep Arizona from switching to blue in 2020  —  The Republican Party is moving early to build a political firewall around Arizona's critical Electoral College votes, a recognition that the perennial red state is threatening to turn against President Trump in 2020.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Aaron Rupar / Vox:
Coverage of Trump's latest rally shows how major media outlets normalize his worst excesses  —  Lying is still being recast as “reviv[ing] an inaccurate refrain.”  —  President Donald Trump's rally on Saturday night in Green Bay, Wisconsin, was an ugly affair.
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
America's majority minority future  —  By 2045, the U.S. as a whole is projected to become majority minority.  And the changes are already underway: non-white Americans are now the majority of the population in four states, as well as in the most prosperous and powerful U.S. cities.
Discussion: Political Wire
Chuck Grassley / Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Tariffs End or His Trade Deal Dies  —  Congress won't approve USMCA while constituents pay the price for Mexican and Canadian retaliation.  —  Donald Trump bucked decades of Republican orthodoxy by railing against free-trade agreements.  To say I was skeptical of his plans to rip …
The Cut:
The Stolen Kids of Sarah Lawrence What happened to the group of bright college students who fell under the sway of a classmate's father?  —  I.  —  Anyone who spent time with Talia Ray during her first year at Sarah Lawrence College heard her talk about her father.
Discussion: New York Post and Jezebel
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 12:55 PM ET, April 29, 2019.

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: 
Emma Anderson / Politico:
Spanish electoral body blocks Puigdemont from running in EU election
Alan Fram / Associated Press:
GOP warnings about Democratic socialism tap voter unease
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The ‘fake news’ is coming from inside the Trump White House — again
Discussion: CNN, Splinter and Fox News
New York Times:
Who's in the Democratic Debates, and Who's in Danger of Missing Them
Discussion: Political Wire
Maggie Astor / New York Times:
Newtown Wasn't an End for Gun Control. It Was a Beginning.
Discussion: The Trace
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
‘I am proud to be a gay son of God’: Mormon valedictorian comes out in graduation speech
Discussion: New York Post
Associated Press:
The Men Who'll Ask First Iran-Contra Questions Aren't Members of Congress
Matt Bruenig / New York Times:
Universal Health Care Might Cost You Less Than You Think
 Earlier Items: 
Andy Pasztor / Wall Street Journal:
Boeing Didn't Advise Airlines, FAA That It Shut Off Warning System
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Fortune
George Skelton / Los Angeles Times:
Kamala Harris can't afford to be cagey about where she stands on the issues
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: New trade deal faces ‘mounting resistance’
Natasha Bertrand / Politico:
Mueller report reveals Kushner's contacts with a ‘pro-Kremlin’ campaign adviser
Discussion: Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA
Gary Langer / ABC News:
As in 2018, health care ranks among Trump's 2020 challenges (POLL)
Maggie Severns / Politico:
Top Dem strategists launch secret-money group to rebrand party
Discussion: Issues & Insights and Instapundit
Washington Post:
Betsy DeVos emerges a Trump Cabinet survivor
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Bloomberg:
A look at the challenges facing Crunchyroll, as current and ex-staffers say its management is out of touch, amid Disney and Netflix's expansion into anime

Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Trump may erode press protections but the ABC case is not evidence of that as the decision to settle appears reasonable given Stephanopoulos' imprecise remarks

 
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