Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
2:15 PM ET, January 5, 2022

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Burgess Everett / Politico:
McConnell cracks door to Electoral Count Act reform  —  Mitch McConnell is signaling he's open to reforming the Electoral Count Act, one year after a mass of Republicans objected to certification of President Joe Biden's win ahead of an attempted insurrection.
RELATED:
CNN:
Ex-White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham to meet with 1/6 committee  —  (CNN)Former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham will meet Wednesday evening on Capitol Hill with the select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection, according to multiple sources familiar with the meeting.
Matt Fuller / The Daily Beast:
The Real Tragedy of Jan. 6 Is That It's Still Not Over  —  I had a front-row seat to the riot.  A year later, one thing is clear: Nothing has changed. … It was around noon on Jan. 6, 2021, and I was already late.  —  I was supposed to be covering the counting of the electoral votes …
Francis Fukuyama / New York Times:
One Single Day.  That's All It Took for the World to Look Away From Us.  —  Mr. Fukuyama is the author of the forthcoming book “Liberalism and Its Discontents.”  —  The Jan. 6 attack on Congress by a mob inspired by former President Donald Trump marked an ominous precedent for U.S. politics.
Washington Post:
How Congress can fix the Electoral Count Act  —  Edward B. Foley is a professor of constitutional law at Ohio State University, where he heads the university's election law program.  Michael W. McConnell, formerly a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit …
Discussion: Reason and Election Law Blog
Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
Did the January 6 Coup Fail?  —  By warping the Republican party, Trump made another coup attempt possible.  —  January 6th should have been the point of no return, the pivot point at which even the most blinkered sugarcoaters of Trumpism recoiled in disgust from what they had wrought.
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
How to get real accountability for Jan. 6
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Prosecutors Move Quickly on Jan. 6 Cases, but One Big Question Remains
Alex Gangitano / The Hill:
Psaki says Biden will address Trump's role in Capitol riot
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
CNN:
What is Sean Hannity hiding?
CNN:
Fact check: Five enduring lies about the Capitol insurrection
New York Times:
How Trump Kept His Grip After Jan. 6
David Wasserman / Cook Political Report:
2022 House Overview: Still a GOP Advantage, but Redistricting Looks Like a Wash  —  The surprising good news for Democrats: on the current trajectory, there will be a few more Biden-won districts after redistricting than there are now — producing a congressional map slightly less biased in the GOP's favor than the last decade's.
RELATED:
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Surprise: Democrats dodged a gerrymandering fiasco.  A top analyst explains why.  —  The long-awaited, long-feared Gerrymandering Apocalypse of 2021 has not materialized for Democrats after all.  —  Throughout last year, many analysts and panicked Democrats alike concluded that Republicans …
Discussion: Sacramento Bee
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Omicron Is Milder  —  How should that affect your behavior?  —  The details of the Omicron variant are becoming clearer, and they are encouraging.  —  They're not entirely encouraging, and I will get into some detail about one of the biggest problems — the stress on hospitals …
Discussion: HotAir, Bloomberg and The Racket News
Alex Nester / Washington Free Beacon:
Chicago Schools Close After Teachers' Union Votes for Remote Learning  —  Kids shut out of classrooms as union clashes with district officials  —  More than 290,000 kids in Chicago Public Schools were shut out of the classroom Wednesday after the city's teachers' union voted against returning to in-person learning.
RELATED:
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Lawmakers begin early talks about another round of coronavirus relief targeting businesses
RELATED:
Matthew Dalton / Wall Street Journal:
France's Macron Rails Against Unvaccinated People
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
The GOP isn't even trying to sound coherent anymore  —  We must stop pretending the GOP is a real political party made up of coherent adults.  To understand why, let's examine a single day this week.  —  On Tuesday, former president Donald Trump, the undisputed head of the party …
Discussion: The Texas Tribune
RELATED:
Brooke Staggs / Orange County Register:
Husband: Kelly Ernby wasn't vaccinated when she died of COVID-19 complications  —  GOP leaders say Ernby's death won't deter them from speaking out against coronavirus vaccine mandates.  —  Deputy District Attorney and GOP activist Kelly Ernby wasn't vaccinated when she died early this week …
Washington Post:
More than 40 percent of Americans live in counties hit by climate disasters in 2021  —  As climate-fueled extreme weather intensified last year, more than 80 percent of Americans experienced a heat wave.  The impacts of fires and severe storms also spread.  —  2021 ended as it began: with disaster.
American Greatness:
The Ridiculous Fantasy of a National Divorce  —  The solution is not some sort of secession or civil war.  The solution is for the Right to stop being rank amateurs when it comes to politics and governance.  —  Every now and then an absurd idea enters the discourse and picks up a sort of memetic traction in spite of itself.
U.S. Department of the Treasury:
Treasury Sanctions Milorad Dodik and Associated Media Platform for Destabilizing and Corrupt Activity  —  Dodik's Destabilizing and Corrupt Activities Undermine 26 years of Progress Since the Dayton Peace Accords  —  WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control …
Discussion: OFAC, Politico, The Guardian and Al Jazeera
Sonny Bunch / The Bulwark:
J.D. Vance Versus Film Twitter  —  How film critics helped send the ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ author off the cliff.  —  I'd be remiss if I didn't note, briefly, that the online collective known as Film Twitter—critics, Letterboxd users, and sundry others—managed to completely break Ohio Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance's brain.
Discussion: Althouse and Washington Post
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Don't Look Up Doesn't Get the Climate Crisis  —  Don't Look Up is an obscenely overlong, occasionally funny satire of American media and politics.  But it aspires to be something more.  —  As he has emphasized in interviews, director Adam McKay conceived of the film as an allegory for the climate crisis.
Discussion: The Dispatch
Alejandro Alvarez / WTOP News:
I-95 in Va. reopens as motorists battle bailout traffic jam on Route 1  —  Have you or someone you know been stuck on I-95?  Tell WTOP about your experiences.  —  Listen to WTOP live online and on the radio at 103.5 FM.  Download the free WTOP News app for Android and Apple phones to sign up for custom traffic and weather alerts.
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 2:15 PM ET, January 5, 2022.

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: 
Kevin T. Dugan / New York Magazine:
The Dark Side of COVID Testing
Nathanael Blake / The Federalist:
Leaked Biden Plan Would House Violent Men In Women's Prison Cells
Loren Grush / The Verge:
NASA successfully deploys complex sunshield on James Webb Space Telescope
Discussion: Behind The Black
 Earlier Items: 
TIME:
January 6th May Have Been Only the First Wave of Christian Nationalist Violence
Discussion: Raw Story
Jeremy Herb / CNN:
How January 6 changed what it means to be a Republican in one Pennsylvania county
Discussion: Raw Story
Douglas Murray / Common Sense:
When the Right Plays With Jew-Hate
Wall Street Journal:
New York's Trump Inquisition
Reuters:
Kazakhstan government resigns after violent protests over fuel price
Jim Newell / Slate:
Aw, Apple Made Me a “Memory” of the Time I Hid From Rioters in the U.S. Capitol
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe, a music distributor in 50+ countries, and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, accusing Believe of copyright infringement

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

Fred Imbert / CNBC:
Filing: Trump Media lost $19.2M in Q3, while revenue fell 5.6% YoY to just $1.01M; DJT jumped 18.6% before closing down 1.16% on November 5

 
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