Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
4:30 PM ET, September 3, 2021

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Kari Paul / The Guardian:
TikTokers flood Texas abortion whistleblower site with Shrek memes, fake reports and porn  —  Critics of Texas' new law have been filing hundreds of fake reports to the whistleblowing website in hopes of crashing it  —  Pro-choice users on TikTok and Reddit have launched a guerrilla effort …
RELATED:
Wall Street Journal:
Texas's Abortion Law Blunder  —  The Supreme Court was right not to interfere for now, but the statute won't survive scrutiny on the merits.  —  By The Editorial Board  —  America is back fighting its endless legal war over abortion.  A new front opened late Wednesday when five Justices issued …
Axios:
1 big thing: Biden wants abortion fight  —  President Biden is eager for a fight over abortion — an issue he sees as politically advantageous after the conservative Supreme Court left in place the near-ban in Texas, senior officials tell Axios.  — Why it matters: The Supreme Court appears …
Carlie Porterfield / Forbes:
Bumble, Match Launch Funds To Cover Abortion Costs In Texas
Joshua C. Wilson / Washington Post:
In Texas abortion law, conservatives adopted the progressive playbook — and used it against them
Discussion: Slate, The Dispatch and Mediaite
Mia Brett / The Editorial Board:
Abortion is virtually banned in Texas. The upside? Roe still rules for now in the other 49 states
John Kruzel / The Hill:
Senate panel will probe Supreme Court's Texas abortion ruling, ‘shadow docket’
Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Says He Is Unlikely to Get Covid-19 Vaccine Booster Shot  —  Former president has urged his supporters to get vaccinated but tells WSJ he 'probably won't' get a booster shot when it is available  —  WASHINGTON—Former President Donald Trump, who received a Covid-19 vaccination …
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
RELATED:
New York Times:
Health Officials Advise White House to Scale Back Booster Plan for Now  —  Federal regulators warned on Thursday they may not have enough data to recommend boosters for anyone except certain recipients of the Pfizer vaccine by late September.  —  WASHINGTON — Top federal health officials …
Wall Street Journal:
Covid-19 Vaccine Booster Launch Could Be Delayed
Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
It's Still All About COVID  —  For the last couple of weeks, I've been watching focus groups.  Two of those groups included independent-leaning voters who don't align themselves strongly with either party.  One other group was comprised of so-called Democratic “surge” voters …
RELATED:
KVOA-TV:
Police on-scene at Vail elementary school after group threatens to zip-tie principal over COVID-19 protocols
Discussion: Washington Post, The Hill and Raw Story
Tina Reed / Axios:   America's in a COVID funk
RELATED:
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
House moderates send demands on $3.5 trillion budget bill to Pelosi
Discussion: Politico, CNBC and Fox News
Washington Post:
Americans support Afghanistan pullout — but not the way it was done, a Post-ABC poll finds  —  Americans overwhelmingly support President Biden's decision to end the war in Afghanistan, but by a 2-to-1 margin they disapprove of how he handled the chaotic and ultimately deadly withdrawal …
RELATED:
Jim Huylebroek / New York Times:
The Two Afghanistans  —  The journalist Anand Gopal has long reported for The New York Times …
Tamara Keith / NPR:
The Share Of U.S. Adults Willing To Get Vaccinated Ticks Up, A New Poll Finds
Discussion: HotAir and WV MetroNews
Adela Suliman / Washington Post:
Here's what we know about the mu variant … A coronavirus variant known as “mu” or “B.1.621” was designated by the World Health Organization as a “variant of interest” earlier this week and will be monitored by the global health body as cases continue to emerge across parts of the world.
Katelyn Ogle / KFOR-TV:
Patients overdosing on ivermectin backing up rural Oklahoma hospitals, ambulances  —  SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA, Okla. (KFOR) - A rural Oklahoma doctor said patients who are taking the horse de-wormer medication, ivermectin, to fight COVID-19 are causing emergency room and ambulance back ups.
Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
Horned, Furred, and Face-Painted ‘Shaman’ of the U.S. Capitol Siege Pleads Guilty in Federal Court  —  The man who stood behind former Vice President Mike Pence's Senate dais in a horned, coyote-fur headdress, red, white and blue face paint and a shirtless display of his tattooed torso dropped his ceremony of innocence on Friday.
RELATED:
Marshall Cohen / CNN:
‘QAnon Shaman’ Jacob Chansley pleads guilty to felony in US Capitol riot
Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: Sen. Joni Ernst falsely claims Biden has ‘not once’ expressed gratitude to troops who fought in the last 20 years  —  Senator falsely claims Biden ‘not once’ thanked overseas veterans  —  Washington (CNN)Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa, a veteran of the war in Iraq and a member …
Discussion: Raw Story and Bangor Daily News
Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
Misinformation on Facebook got six times more clicks than factual news during the 2020 election, study says  —  Right-leaning pages also produce more misinformation, the forthcoming study found.  —  A new study of user behavior on Facebook around the 2020 election is likely …
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
At odds with boss, some Biden aides privately alarmed as millions of workers head over jobless benefits cliff  —  Some White House officials are split on what will happen when the benefits cease next week, but advisers downplayed any rift.  —  The Biden administration faces internal dissatisfaction …
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Jobs report disappoints — only 235,000 positions added vs. expectations of 720,000  —  Job creation for August was a huge disappointment, with the economy adding just 235,000 positions, the Labor Department reported Friday.  —  Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been looking for 720,000 new hires.
RELATED:
Washington Post:
Trump Tower's key tenants have fallen behind on rent and moved out.  But Trump has one reliable customer: His own PAC.  —  NEW YORK — Inside Trump Tower, swank suit-maker Marcraft Clothes once rented the entire 18th floor, outfitting its offices with fireplaces, mahogany-lined closets and two bars for schmoozing customers.
Katherine J. Wu / The Atlantic:
What We Actually Know About Waning Immunity  —  Reports of vaccines' decline have been greatly overstated.  —  Vaccines don't last forever.  This is by design: Like many of the microbes they mimic, the contents of the shots stick around only as long as it takes the body to eliminate them …
Discussion: medRxiv
Ellie Silverman / Washington Post:
Former Trump campaign operative plans rally for those charged in Capitol riot  —  Law enforcement authorities are monitoring plans by supporters of former president Donald Trump to rally outside the U.S. Capitol later this month to argue that the hundreds of people charged in the Jan. 6 insurrection …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Audacy:
Caitlyn Jenner polling at 1% in race for California governor  —  California gubernatorial recall candidate Caitlyn Jenner described herself as a moderate alternative to rival Larry Elder in an interview with KNX on Thursday.  —  “I've known Larry for years,” the gold-medal Olympian and reality TV star said …
Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
Afghan evacuation raises concerns about child trafficking  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials are looking into reports that in the frantic evacuation of desperate Afghans from Kabul, older men were admitted together with young girls they claimed as “brides” or otherwise sexually abused.
Discussion: Townhall
Sarah Chayes / Foreign Affairs:
Afghanistan's Corruption Was Made in America … In 2005, I visited a branch of Afghanistan's national bank in Kandahar to make a deposit.  I was launching a cooperative that would craft skin-care products for export, using oils extracted from local almonds and apricot kernels …
Discussion: CoinDesk and Bloomberg
CNN:
‘This is imaginary’: CNN fact-checks Kevin McCarthy's Fox News interview claim  —  CNN's Daniel Dale fact-checks a claim made by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy during a Fox News interview where he asserted thousands of Taliban fighters left Afghanistan and are trying to enter the US.Source: CNN
Discussion: The Daily Caller, TheBlaze, IJR and Fox News
CNN:
Trump administration deliberately slowed entry of Afghan allies  —  (CNN)Stephen Miller seemed floored by the idea, raised during a fall Cabinet meeting in 2018, of  keeping open the doors for Afghan allies and other Middle East refugees to enter the US.   —  “What do you guys want?”
Discussion: Raw Story and spectatorworld.com
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Biden signs executive order requiring review, release of some classified 9/11 documents  —  President Biden on Friday signed an executive order that would require the review, declassification and release of classified government documents related to the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
Andrew Solender / Forbes:
Ethics Watchdog Requests Probe Into Kevin McCarthy, Marjorie Taylor Greene For ‘Threatening’ Telecom Firms  —  The ethics watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) on Friday asked the Office of Congressional Ethics to investigate whether House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy …
Discussion: The Hill and Mediaite
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 4:30 PM ET, September 3, 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: 
Mary Margaret Olohan / The Daily Caller:
Biden Says He Respects Those Who Believe Life Begins At Conception, But Doesn't Agree
Discussion: Townhall
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Byron York's Daily Memo: The mortal threat to Democrats' progressive dreams, cont'd
The Federalist:
Arizona Needs Real Leaders On Election Reform, Not Passive Politicians Like Attorney General Mark Brnovich
Discussion: TheBlaze
Fabiola Cineas / Vox:
Critical race theory bans are making teaching much harder
Kelly Laco / Fox News:
DHS promises to ‘swiftly and safely’ resettle Afghans into US, confirms some flagged evacuees denied entry
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Paul P. Murphy / CNN:
Colorado county election official allegedly pressured employees to not cooperate with investigation into security breach
Discussion: Raw Story
 Earlier Items: 
Chris Moody / Washington Post:
Seeking out Alaska's Denali National Park in a summer of overcrowded outdoor spaces
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Texas now a “small Soviet republic” after abortion bill, says MSNBC's Reid
Discussion: TheBlaze and Twitchy
Christine Chung / THE CITY:
NYC Basement Apartment Storm Deaths Renew Housing Advocates' Calls for Legalization
Discussion: New York Times, Mother Jones and Curbed
Elliot Smith / CNBC:
Retiring GOP Sen. Toomey says Trump should not lead ticket in 2024
Discussion: The Hill, Axios, HotAir and Raw Story
Politico:
The Dangerous Legal Illusion of ‘Parental Rights’
Discussion: The Federalist
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
Why Isn't Anyone Trying to Seduce the Never Trumpers?
Discussion: HotAir and Raw Story