Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
12:15 AM ET, September 4, 2019

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Stephen Castle / New York Times:
Brexit Vote Goes Against Boris Johnson, and He Calls for an Election  —  LONDON — British lawmakers on Tuesday rose up against Prime Minister Boris Johnson, moving to prevent him from taking the country out of the European Union without a formal agreement.  The epic showdown has Britain on the verge of a snap general election.
Discussion: Hot Air, Slate and The Week
RELATED:
BBC:
Brexit: Tory MP defects ahead of crucial no deal vote  —  Conservative MP Phillip Lee has defected to the Liberal Democrats ahead of a showdown between Boris Johnson and Tory rebels over Brexit.  —  Dr Lee, the MP for Bracknell, took his seat on the opposition benches as the PM addressed the Commons.
BBC:
LIVEBrexit: Government loses Commons majority ahead of key vote  —  Read our main story Tory MP defects ahead of crucial no-deal vote |  Who are Tory rebels set to defy Boris Johnson?  Leo Varadkar says Ireland must stand its ground |  Could there be an early general election?  Can a no-deal Brexit be stopped?
Discussion: ABC News, The Guardian, Axios and BBC
Benjamin Mueller / New York Times:
Britain's Conservatives Erupt Into Civil War as Unlikely Rebels Defy Boris Johnson  —  LONDON — They have been dubbed the Conservative rebels, a group of renegade lawmakers willing to risk their careers to defy their newly chosen leader, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and hobble his leadership over their clashing views on Brexit.
Henry Olsen / Washington Post:   Britain is on the verge of a constitutional crisis
Nick Miller / Sydney Morning Herald:   Boris Johnson loses control as raucous Parliament debates Brexit
Ian Dunt / politics.co.uk:   Historic rebel victory: Parliament moves to stop no-deal
Politico:
Boris Johnson defeated as MPs seek to stop no-deal Brexit
Ned Simons / HuffPost:   Boris Johnson's Party Loses Parliamentary Majority As MP Defects Right In Front Of Him
Washington Post:
Britain may face snap elections after Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffers major loss in Parliament
Bloomberg Law:
Trump Labor Aide Quits After Anti-Semitic Facebook Posts Surface  —  A recently appointed Trump Labor Department official with a history of advancing controversial conservative and faith-based causes in court has resigned after revelations that he wrote a 2016 Facebook post suggesting the Jewish-controlled media “protects their own.”
RELATED:
Josh Blackman / Reason:
Bloomberg Law's False and Misleading Report about Leif Olson
Discussion: twitchy.com and Leif Olson
Dylan Matthews / Vox:
How mocking anti-Semitism got a Trump official falsely accused of actual anti-Semitism
CNN:
Elizabeth Warren embraces Jay Inslee's climate change platform  —  Warren to audience member: You may want to sit for this  —  (CNN)Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday announced she would adopt Washington Gov. Jay Inslee's 10-year climate plan, while also expanding on his blueprint with a series …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
RELATED:
Elizabeth Warren / Medium:
100% Clean Energy for America
Discussion: Politico
Will Doran / Raleigh News & Observer:
Judges strike down NC state legislature lines as unconstitutional gerrymandering  —  North Carolina's political maps for the state legislature are unconstitutional and must be redrawn before the 2020 elections, lawyers for the winning side said Tuesday.  —  The ruling hasn't been posted online yet …
RELATED:
Sam Levine / HuffPost:   North Carolina Court Says The State's Districts Are Illegal Partisan Gerrymanders
New York Times:
North Carolina's Legislative Maps Are Thrown Out by State Court Panel
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Whoopi Goldberg Goes Off on Debra Messing: 'You Don't Have the Right!'  —  “Listen, the last time people did this, people ended up killing themselves,” Goldberg said, referring to Joseph McCarthy's Hollywood blacklist of the 1950s.  —  Whoopi Goldberg is not impressed with actress Debra Messing's call …
Brandon Conradis / The Hill:
Judge orders White House to restore Playboy reporter's press pass  —  A U.S. district judge on Tuesday ordered the White House to restore Playboy correspondent Brian Karem's press credentials after the administration said last month it was revoking his hard pass.
RELATED:
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge tells White House to reinstate reporter's pass
Discussion: Washington Post and Political Wire
Anne D'Innocenzio / Associated Press:
Walmart to stop selling handgun ammunition  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart says it will discontinue the sale of handgun ammunition and also publicly request that customers refrain from openly carrying firearms in stores even where state laws allow it.  —  The announcement comes just days …
RELATED:
Walmart Inc.:
McMillon to Associates: Our Next Steps in Response to the Tragedies in El Paso and Southaven  —  Press Kit  —  A month ago, in El Paso, Texas, a gunman with an assault-style rifle launched a hate-filled attack in our store, shooting 48 people resulting in the loss of 22 innocent lives.
Allison Quinn / The Daily Beast:
Kroger to Customers: No More Open Carry of Firearms in Our Stores
Discussion: CNBC and The Week
Associated Press:
Conversion therapy crusader has something to say: He's gay  —  “Conversion therapy is not just a lie, but it's very harmful,” said McKrae Game, a South Carolinian who founded one of the nation's biggest ex-gay ministries.  —  SPARTANBURG, S.C. - A South Carolina man who founded …
RELATED:
Jessica Campisi / The Hill:   Conversion therapy group founder comes out as gay, apologizes
Summer Eldemire / The Daily Beast:
McConnell Whines About ‘Moscow Mitch’ Nickname: It's ‘Over the Top’  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell complained about the nickname “Moscow Mitch” during a radio interview, calling it “modern day McCarthyism.”  On The Hugh Hewitt Show show Tuesday, the Kentucky Republican said it was …
RELATED:
Justin Wise / The Hill:
McConnell: ‘Over-the-top’ Moscow Mitch nickname effort to ‘smear’ me  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday vehemently denounced political opponents who have dubbed him “Moscow Mitch,” calling the nickname an “over-the-top” effort to “smear” him.
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Trump administration raids military construction projects for border wall  —  The Trump administration is carrying out plans to raid $3.6 billion in military construction projects to build the border wall, further inflaming lawmakers who have accused President Donald Trump of illegally overriding Congress' spending decisions.
RELATED:
Paul Sonne / Washington Post:
Pentagon approves diversion of military construction funds for Trump's wall
Discussion: CNN and UPI
Associated Press:
AP source: Texas shooter purchased AK rifle at private sale  —  ODESSA, Texas (AP) — The gunman in a West Texas rampage that left seven dead obtained his AR-style rifle through a private sale, allowing him to evade a federal background check that previously blocked him from getting a gun …
Ebony Bowden / New York Post:
Rep. Ilhan Omar's husband wants divorce after affair bombshell: source  —  MINNEAPOLIS — Rep. Ilhan Omar's marriage appears to be headed for the rocks, a longtime friend of the couple told The Post.  —  The congresswoman's husband Ahmed Hirsi, the source said, is poised to file for divorce …
RELATED:
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
The wild corruption of Trump's golf courses deserves more scrutiny  —  Photo by Charles McQuillan/Getty Images  —  Mike Pence is staying three hours outside of Dublin so Trump can make money.  —  President Donald Trump canceled a planned state visit to Poland on Thursday …
RELATED:
Allan Smith / NBC News:
Trump made ‘suggestion’ Pence stay at president's Irish golf club, VP's chief of staff says
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Book: Kavanaugh accuser's attack ‘motivated’ by defending Roe v. Wade  —  Christine Blasey Ford and her feminist attorney were “motivated” in their attack on then-federal judge Brett Kavanaugh by their passion to protect abortion rights, not just their “civic duty” to provide information …
RELATED:
Ashe Schow / Daily Wire:   New Book Suggests Kavanaugh Accuser Made Claims To Protect Roe v. Wade
Foreign Policy:
State Department Failed to Shield Its Diplomats From Political Reprisals, Officials Concede  —  But the department's top leaders say they can't sack the Trump appointee at the center of scandal.  —  U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan has acknowledged having failed to act more vigorously …
Jessica Levinson / NBC News:
What GOP Rep. Devin Nunes' Twitter defamation lawsuit says about the future of defamation law  —  The congressman's suit is clearly petty.  But it does ask the legal system to answer questions it will eventually need to tackle.  —  Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., does not much like being the subject of criticism or ridicule.
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Trump's Wacky, Angry, and Extreme August  —  President Trump ended August as he began it, with a blast of angry tweets, ad-hominem insults, and bizarre fulminations that have become so standard that they no longer receive the attention they deserve—emanating, as they do, from the world's most powerful leader.
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 12:15 AM ET, September 4, 2019.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 Who's Hiring in Media? 
 
 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: 
Jacob Kornbluh / Jewish Insider:
Cruz: ‘Deep State’ government employees keeping Iran deal “on life support” until 2021
Discussion: Political Wire
Lydia DePillis / ProPublica:
Everything You Need to Play Baseball Is Made in China — and Getting Hit by Trump's Tariffs
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Why America is losing the information war to Russia
Discussion: Raw Story
Samantha Mandeles / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Investigation: Anti- ICE “Never Again Action” Not The Spontaneous Grassroots Group It Claims To Be
Julie K. Brown / Miami Herald:
After beating by guards, Florida woman is a quadriplegic. She's suing.
Discussion: Raw Story
Graham L Brewer / NPR:
Cherokee Nation Names First Delegate To Congress
David Corn / Mother Jones:
How to Stop Russia From Attacking and Influencing the 2020 Election
Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
New Yorker Fact-Checkers Win Employee Status After Union Push
 Earlier Items: 
The Daily Beast:
The Taliban Scoff at Trump's Afghan Peace Talks Bluff
Discussion: Axios and TOLOnews
Shamlet / RRH Elections:
RRH Elections NC-9 Poll: Bishop (R) Leads McCready (D) 46-45
Discussion: Breitbart and RedState
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Trump's 2020 pitch: A powerless presidency
Justin Wingerter / Denver Post:
Mike Johnston ends his U.S. Senate campaign against Cory Gardner
Ruth Graham / Slate:
The Disgraced Cardinal and the Small Town Where He Was Sent to Disappear
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's favorite rage-attack on Democrats is facing a big test
Discussion: The Hill
Tom Scocca / Slate:
Governing by Owning the Libs
Discussion: American Thinker
 

 
From Techmeme:

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Anthropic raised another $4B from Amazon, will make AWS its primary training partner, and is working with Annapurna Labs to develop new Trainium accelerators

Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Researchers detail a “nearest neighbor attack” by Russia's APT28, which remotely breached a target's Wi-Fi by hijacking a laptop in a building across the street

Carly Page / TechCrunch:
Palo Alto Networks says it has observed exploitation of two zero-days in its PAN-OS firewall OS; researchers say hackers have compromised 2,000+ firewalls

 
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