Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
11:06 PM ET, February 28, 2021

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
New York Times:
Trump's Republican Hit List at CPAC Is a Warning Shot to His Party  —  In his first public appearance since leaving office, Donald Trump went through, by name, every Republican who supported his second impeachment and called for them to be ousted.  —  ORLANDO, Fla. — After days of insisting …
RELATED:
New York Times:
Trump Wins CPAC Straw Poll, but Only 68 Percent Want Him to Run Again  —  The Conservative Political Action Conference, made up largely of far-right Trump supporters, held two 2024 presidential straw polls.  Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida won one that did not include Mr. Trump.
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Trump stages GOP comeback at CPAC by refusing to concede 2020 defeat  —  ORLANDO, Florida — Former President Donald Trump teased a 2024 White House bid and relitigated unfounded claims that the November election was stolen, initiating act two of his political career with a rousing speech …
David Siders / Politico:
Trump teases 2024 run in CPAC remarks, as he looks to keep his grip on GOP
Albert Hunt / The Hill:
CPAC, all-in for Trump, is not what it used to be
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
David Siders / Politico:
Trump's baseless election claims march GOP into ‘policy wasteland’
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Rick Scott: GOP is ‘voters’ party,' not Trump's
Carly Roman / Washington Examiner:
Trump vows to CPAC crowd not to start a new party
John Bowden / The Hill:
Cassidy: Trump won't be GOP nominee in 2024
Alex Marquardt / CNN:
Three names mysteriously removed from Khashoggi intelligence report after initial publication  —  U.S. intel report: Saudi Crown Prince approved operation to kill journalist Jamal Khashoggi  —  (CNN)Shortly after the US intelligence community published its long-awaited report on Friday afternoon …
Josefa Velasquez / THE CITY:
Cuomo Sexual Harassment Claims Follow Years of Public Warning Signs — and Anti-Misconduct Training He Mandated  —  Even as the governor advocated a Women's Equality Act that promised to “ban” workplace sexual harassment, female Albany reporters and employees heard a very different message.
RELATED:
Dana Rubinstein / New York Times:
Cuomo Attacked Over His Plan for Review of Sex Harassment Claims
Arya Hodjat / The Daily Beast:
Cuomo Says He's Sorry His ‘Playful’ Banter Was ‘Misinterpreted’ by Harassment Accusers
Discussion: Politico, Fox News and NBC New York
Bradford Betz / Fox News:   Clinton, Harris, Warren all silent on Cuomo after second woman brings sexual misconduct allegations
Ben Terris / Washington Post:
Neera Tanden's confirmation fight is the first morality play of post-Trump Washington  —  All the fighting must be exhausting, really.  —  The fights over her reputation, over how she ran her liberal think tank.  The battles with journalists who published her stolen emails.
Discussion: New York Times
Just Security:
Litigation Tracker: Pending Criminal and Civil Cases Against Donald Trump  —  On both the criminal and civil litigation fronts, former President Donald Trump faces a bevy of lawsuits and investigations, with more cases likely to follow.  Some are civil suits stemming from his pre-presidential business dealings.
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Senior Democrats abandon backup plan on $15 per hour minimum wage hike  —  Lawmakers are backing off a Plan B to raise pay for workers through tax penalties on corporations  —  Senior Democrats are abandoning a backup plan to increase the minimum wage through a corporate tax penalty …
RELATED:
Jordain Carney / The Hill:   Senate mulls changes to $1.9 trillion coronavirus bill
John McWhorter / It Bears Mentioning:
Is it racist to expect black kids to do math for real?  —  Yes, serious people are arguing this.  Make sure they don't infect your school district.  —  1 hr ago  —  There is a document getting around called Dismantling Racism in Mathematics Instruction, a guide put together by a group of educators.
Zachary Petrizzo / Mediaite:
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell Gets MUTED During Live Interview at CPAC as He Spews Vaccine Conspiracy Theories  —  The conservative pro-Trump YouTube channel Right Side Broadcasting Network (RSBN) cut off MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell during an interview at the Conservative Political Action Conference …
Discussion: Twitchy and Crooks and Liars
Kim Lyons / The Verge:
Disinformation experts aren't happy about the trailer for HBO's QAnon series  —  It teases what looks like a Hollywood blockbuster rather than a serious documentary  —  The teaser video for Q: Into the Storm, an upcoming documentary series from HBO about the QAnon conspiracy movement has a lot …
Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez / KQED:
After Leading School Closures, Berkeley Teachers' Union President Spotted Dropping Daughter Off at In-Person Preschool … Parent groups are crying “hypocrisy” after a video surfaced showing the president of the Berkeley teachers union dropping off his two-year-old daughter at an in-person preschool.
Discussion: Fox News and Twitchy
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Border Democrat warns Biden about immigrant fallout  —  A Democratic lawmaker representing a border district warned the Biden administration against easing up too much on unauthorized immigrants, citing their impact on his constituents, local hospitals and their potential to spread the coronavirus.
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Far-Right Platform Gab Has Been Hacked—Including Private Data  —  The transparency group DDoSecrets says it will make the 70GB of passwords, private posts, and more available to researchers, journalists, and social scientists.  —  WHEN TWITTER BANNED Donald Trump and a slew of other far-right users …
Kim Bellware / Washington Post:
‘Three percenters’ truck at Capitol belongs to husband of congresswoman who said, ‘Hitler got one thing right’  —  An Illinois lawmaker married to a member of Congress, who was herself recently criticized for quoting Hitler, is facing his own rebuke for displaying the logo of an extremist movement …
Discussion: The Hill, USA Today and IDCCA
CNN:
Goya Foods CEO falsely says election was illegitimate, Trump is ‘the real, the legitimate, and the still actual president’  —  Washington (CNN)The chief executive officer of Goya Foods, Robert Unanue, made a series of false claims about the 2020 election at the Conservative Political Action Conference …
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Forget ‘Succession.’ You Can Watch ‘90 Day Fiancé’ for 100 Hours Straight.  —  Discovery's new app has taken off largely because viewers love watching people fix houses, tour diners and bicker about their relationships.  —  “Ninety Day Fiancé” is, on some Sunday nights, the most-watched show on television.
more at Mediagazer »
The Hill:
Ex-Trump aide Pierson planning run for Congress  —  A former top strategist for Donald Trump's presidential campaigns is taking steps to run for a U.S. House seat left vacant by the late Rep. Ron Wright (R-Texas), who succumbed to the coronavirus earlier this year.
Peter Loftus / Wall Street Journal:
Covid-19 Vaccines Yield Breakthroughs in Long-Term Fight Against Infectious Disease  —  Researchers in gene-based technology produced a class of vaccines they believe can protect against all manner of outbreaks in the years to come  —  The pandemic has opened a new era for vaccines developed …
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 11:06 PM ET, February 28, 2021.

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: 
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
‘Frightening’: Devin Nunes Says FBI Informant ‘Made Up A Bunch Of Lies’ About Michael Flynn
Natalie Wong / South China Morning Post:
47 Hong Kong opposition activists charged with conspiring to subvert state power
Washington Post:
Two of Biden's top DOJ nominees are subjected to baseless smear campaigns
Discussion: Townhall
Arelis Hernández / Washington Post:
The power is back, but millions of Texans wonder what it will take to fully recover — and who will help them
Casey Michel / NBC News:
Pro-Trump Republican secession rhetoric in Texas and elsewhere is more than a punchline
Discussion: Raw Story
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
CPAC Speaker Angela Stanton King Promotes QAnon From Stage
Discussion: Mediaite
 Earlier Items: 
washingtonsocialist.mdcdsa.org:
The Liberal-to-Ultraleft Pipeline: Breaking the Cycle
Marshall Cohen / CNN:
DOJ charges man who allegedly sprayed chemicals at cops in Capitol riot
Eric Shawn / Fox News:
Jimmy Hoffa FBI files that have been hidden since 1975 must be released, lawmakers tell DOJ
Discussion: BizPac Review
Ed Cumming / The Guardian:
I hate to say it, but Britain's doing OK. Even Germany envies us...
Pjotr Sauer / The Moscow Times:
‘They Will Break You’: Inside Navalny's Notorious New Prison Home
Discussion: TASS
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
4 Minutes With Jill Biden Grieving with the First Family.
Carlos Lozada / Washington Post:
Joe Biden won the presidency by making the most of his lucky breaks
Julia Jacobs / New York Times:
Antoine Hodge, Opera Singer With a Powerful Work Ethic, Dies at 38
 

 
From Techmeme:

Jody Godoy / Reuters:
Filing: Apple asks to participate in the remedial phase of Google's US antitrust case, saying it can't rely on Google to defend their revenue-sharing agreements

Bloomberg:
Iran's Supreme Council of Cyberspace approves lifting its ban on “certain widely used foreign platforms”, naming WhatsApp and Google Play as the first two apps

The Information:
A look at OpenAI's interest in robotics, from investing in startups like Figure and Physical Intelligence to, sources say, considering making a humanoid robot
 
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