Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
8:20 PM ET, January 13, 2022

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
U.S. Department of Justice:
Leader of Oath Keepers and 10 Other Individuals Indicted in Federal Court for Seditious Conspiracy and Other Offenses Related to U.S. Capitol Breach  —  Eight Others Facing Charges in Two Related Cases  —  A federal grand jury in the District of Columbia returned an indictment yesterday …
RELATED:
Wall Street Journal:
The Capitol Riot Really Was an Insurrection  —  A response to Jeffrey Scott Shapiro on the legal definition in the U.S. Code.  —  Jeffrey Scott Shapiro is correct that insurrection under 18 U.S.C. 2383 is a crime with specific elements ("Stop Calling Jan. 6 an 'Insurrection,'" op-ed, Jan. 6).
Discussion: Washington Post, HotAir and Mediaite
Washington Post:
Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes charged with seditious conspiracy in Jan. 6 Capitol riot  —  Stewart Rhodes — founder and leader of the extremist group Oath Keepers, whose members are accused of being key players in the Jan. 6 attack on Congress — has been indicted and arrested, officials said Thursday.
New York Times:
Oath Keepers Leader Charged With Conspiracy in Jan. 6 Investigation  —  The F.B.I. arrested Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the far-right militia, in a major step forward in the investigation into the attack on the Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump.  —  Stewart Rhodes, the leader and founder …
Associated Press:
Sedition case against Oath Keepers one of few in US history
Fox News:
DOJ charges Oath Keepers founder, 10 others with seditious conspiracy related to Jan. 6 riot
Discussion: Politico and Washington Examiner
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
R.N.C. Signals a Pullout From Presidential Debates  —  The Republican National Committee says it will require candidates to pledge to not participate in debates run by the Commission on Presidential Debates.  What would replace them, if anything, was unclear.
RELATED:
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: Sinema stuns White House with floor speech  —  BREAKING — The FBI today arrested STEWART RHODES, the founder of the Oath Keepers, a far-right militia, and charged him (and 10 others) with seditious conspiracy in connection with the Jan. 6 insurrection, report WaPo's Spencer Hsu and Devlin Barrett.
Fox News:
RNC to require candidates to avoid debates hosted by the Commission on Presidential Debates
Insider:
Sen. Mitt Romney says the Republican National Committee ‘would be nuts’ to block GOP candidates from participating in presidential debates
Discussion: The Hill
James R. Hagerty / Wall Street Journal:
Terry Teachout, Wall Street Journal Drama Critic, Dies at Age 65  —  Missouri-born author and musician wrote biographies of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and H.L. Mencken  —  Terry Teachout, a prolific New York-based biographer and essayist who wrote exuberantly about drama for The Wall Street Journal …
RELATED:
John Podhoretz / Commentary Magazine:
Terry Teachout, 1956-2022  —  Terry Teachout published more pieces in COMMENTARY than any other writer in the magazine's 76-year history.  He was a monthly contributor for a quarter century—first as classical music critic and then as critic-at-large.  On just two occasions in the 13 years …
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court blocks workplace vaccine requirements, allows requirement for health-care workers  —  The Supreme Court on Thursday stopped the Biden administration's vaccination-or-testing requirement on the nation's largest employers, expressing doubt that there is legal authority for such a broad mandate.
RELATED:
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Blocks Biden's Virus Mandate for Large Employers
Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Supreme Court blocks nationwide vaccine and testing mandate for large businesses, allows health care worker vaccine mandate to take effect
BBC:
Prince Andrew loses military titles and use of HRH  —  The Duke of York's military titles and royal patronages have been returned to the Queen, Buckingham Palace has said.  —  Prince Andrew, 61, will also stop using the style His Royal Highness in an official capacity, a royal source said.
RELATED:
Ben Quinn / The Guardian:
Queen strips Prince Andrew of military roles and royal patronages
Mark Landler / New York Times:
Prince Andrew Is Stripped of Military Titles as Sexual Abuse Case Proceeds
Discussion: HotAir, BBC, ABC7 and WINK NEWS
Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Biden hosts Manchin, Sinema at White House to discuss voting rights  —  President Biden met with Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) on Thursday evening about voting rights as the president looks to find a path forward to passing legislation.
RELATED:
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Sinema scuttles hopes for filibuster reform
Washington Post:
Sinema and Manchin confirm opposition to eliminating filibuster, likely dooming Democrats' voting rights push
Gavin Newsom / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed: Newsom: Why I will not release Sirhan Sirhan on parole  —  In 1968, Sirhan Sirhan assassinated Sen. Robert F. Kennedy just moments after Kennedy won the California presidential primary.  Sirhan also shot and injured five bystanders.  Decades later, Sirhan refuses to accept responsibility for the crimes.
RELATED:
Andrew Feinberg / The Independent:
Glenn Beck has Covid again after refusing vaccine: 'It's going into my lungs'  —  Right-wing talk radio personality Glenn Beck on Wednesday said he has contracted Covid-19 for the second time and complained about the disease's effect on his lungs.  —  “It's starting to go into my lungs today and a little disturbing.
Discussion: The Hill
ABC News:
McCarthy doubles down on refusal to cooperate with Jan. 6 probe  —  The GOP leader said he has “nothing else to add” to the committee's probe.  —  House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy doubled down on his refusal to cooperate with the House select committee's probe into the Jan. 6 attack …
RELATED:
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Kevin McCarthy's coverup for Trump may be hiding knowledge of possible crimes
Washington Post:
Jan. 6 committee says tech firms are not cooperating, issues subpoenas
Baltimore Sun:
Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby indicted on federal charges she lied on loan, mortgage documents  —  A federal grand jury has indicted Baltimore's top prosecutor Marilyn J. Mosby on charges she lied on a mortgage loan application to buy a Florida property and made false statements …
Discussion: Fox News and Washington Times
Telegraph:
Two parties held in Downing Street as Queen and country mourned death of Prince Philip  —  The leaving events for No 10 staff were held on the eve of the Duke's funeral and excessive alcohol is believed to have been consumed  —  Downing Street staff drank alcohol into the early hours …
Discussion: Insider, Metro.co.uk and The Guardian
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Michigan woman arrested near Capitol had loaded shotgun, and she wanted to talk about Jan. 6, police say  — U.S. Capitol Police said they arrested a Michigan woman on multiple gun charges after she drove to Washington and told officers she wanted to talk about the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Scores of doctors and scientists sign a statement condemning personal attacks against Fauci.  —  More than 200 leading American doctors and scientists — including four Nobel Prize winners and a former Republican leader — have signed an open letter in support of Dr. Anthony S. Fauci …
RELATED:
Timothy Nerozzi / Fox News:   Lawsuit filed against HHS seeks Fauci's calendar entries at start of pandemic
Yair Rosenberg / The Atlantic:
Your Bubble is Not the Culture  —  I don't have anything against cultural and ideological bubbles.  My family is a bubble.  We have a host of in-jokes that no one else will get, and a bunch of tastes that many others do not share.  We regularly eat a dish called “tuna quiche,” …
Discussion: HotAir and El American
Stacy Cowley / New York Times:
Navient Reaches $1.85 Billion Deal Over Predatory Lending Claims  —  Navient, once one of the country's largest student loan servicing companies, reached a $1.85 billion deal with 39 states to settle claims that it had made predatory loans that saddled borrowers with crushing debts they were highly unlikely to repay.
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 8:20 PM ET, January 13, 2022.

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: 
Mike Brest / Washington Examiner:
Marines grant two religious exemptions, marking first across military branches
Meredith Lee / Politico:
Lawmakers raise health concerns as they quietly seek to replace a House chairman
Discussion: Political Wire
Cameron Cawthorne / Fox News:
NY Gov. Hochul met with Chinese official who called genocide of Uyghur Muslims ‘lies’
Jessie Balmert / The Columbus Dispatch:
The Ohio Supreme Court ordered the redistricting commission to redraw legislative maps. What happens next?
Discussion: Truthout and USA Today
Luke Rosiak / The Daily Wire:
EXCLUSIVE: Virginia's Youngkin Appointing Anti-CRT Firebrand To Key Education Role
 Earlier Items: 
Sabato's Crystal Ball:
House Republicans' Drive to 35
Discussion: Washington Post and Bloomberg
Dan Froomkin / Press Watch:
By their acts, top newsrooms reject calls to be ‘pro-democracy’
Nadia Khomami / The Guardian:
Hollywood stars back Emma Watson after Palestinian solidarity post
Discussion: Algemeiner.com and Al Jazeera
David French / The Atlantic:
How the Right's Rules of Rhetoric Create Racial Provocateurs
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Fubo says TelevisaUnivision has pulled its networks from Fubo and that TelevisaUnivision offered terms “that would increase prices by 25%” for Fubo subscribers

Jon Phillips / PCWorld:
PCWorld executive editor Gordon Mah Ung, former Maximum PC editor-in-chief and renowned PC hardware journalist for 25+ years, died at 58 of pancreatic cancer

Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg:
Riot Games says it spent $250M on an unusual deal to finance two seasons of League of Legends show Arcane on Netflix; sources: there was no plan to recoup costs
 
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