Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
11:50 PM ET, March 14, 2022

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
The Guardian:
'We're living a nightmare': life in Russian-occupied southern Ukraine  —  Officials in Berdyansk and Melitopol were removed and local radio reports on ‘liberation from Nazis’  —  Shaun Walker and Isobel Koshiw in Kyiv  —  Russian soldiers patrol the streets of Berdyansk in cars …
RELATED:
Washington Post:
Employee bursts onto live Russian state TV to denounce war: ‘They are lying to you here’  —  A woman burst onto the set of Russian state TV's flagship evening news program Monday, chanting “stop the war” and denouncing government “propaganda” — a striking moment of public protest …
Mauro Orru / Wall Street Journal:
Putin Signs Law to Seize Foreign Aircraft, Redeploy for Domestic Use
Discussion: Washington Examiner
James Stavridis / TIME:   Ukraine Needs More Military Aid from NATO—And Fast
Wall Street Journal:
Russian Forces Kill Civilians, Loot for Supplies in Occupied Ukraine, Residents Say
Eliot A. Cohen / The Atlantic:
America's Hesitation Is Heartbreaking
Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times:
US tells allies China signalled openness to providing Russia with military support  —  Moscow requested equipment including surface-to-air missiles, according to diplomatic cables  —  The US has told allies that China signalled its willingness to provide military assistance …
RELATED:
CNN:
China has expressed some openness to providing military and financial aid to Russia, US cable suggests  —  (CNN)The US has information suggesting China has expressed some openness to providing Russia with requested military and financial assistance as part of its war on Ukraine, a Western official and a US diplomat told CNN.
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Document in Jan. 6 Case Shows Plan to Storm Government Buildings  —  New details from evidence cited in the indictment of Enrique Tarrio, the former head of the far-right Proud Boys, reveal a plan with similarities to what unfolded at the Capitol.  —  A document found by federal prosecutors …
RELATED:
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
DOJ: Film crew was present at Jan. 5 meeting between leaders of Proud Boys, Oath Keepers  —  Prosecutors say a “documentary film crew” was present when Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes met for 30 minutes in an underground parking garage on Jan. 5, 2021.
Bloomberg:
U.S. Sewer Data Warns of a New Bump in Covid Cases After Lull  —  A wastewater network that monitors for Covid-19 trends is warning that cases are once again rising in many parts of the U.S., according to an analysis of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data by Bloomberg.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
How does Ron DeSantis sleep at night?  —  Republicans are killing us.  —  No, really.  —  Until now, we've known that covid-19 death rates were higher among the unvaccinated, and also higher in counties that went for Donald Trump, whose supporters were more likely to resist vaccinations, masks and other pandemic precautions.
RELATED:
Marc Caputo / NBC News:
‘Throwing kerosene on every fire’: DeSantis targets Black-held congressional seats. And his own party.
Discussion: Twitchy, Raw Story and The Root
Rich Lowry / National Review:   Ron DeSantis and the New Republican Party
NBC New York:
NY Woman Punched 125 Times, Foot-Stomped in Brutal Hate Crime Beating: Police  —  A 42-year-old Yonkers man has been arrested on attempted murder as a hate crime and other charges in the vicious caught-on-camera beating of a 67-year-old Asian woman who was attacked as she returned home last week, police said Monday.
Discussion: New York Times, Breitbart, PIX11 and UPI
Stephanie McCrummen / Washington Post:
‘Gutted’: What happened when a Georgia elections office was targeted for takeover by those who claim the 2020 election was a fraud  —  ROME, Ga. — The interim election supervisor took a seat all the way to one side of the meeting room, her back against the wood-paneled wall …
RELATED:
Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
Russian Mogul Is Charged With Donating Illegally to U.S. Campaigns
Discussion: Raw Story and Politico
Sudarsan Raghavan / Washington Post:
How Kyiv's outgunned defenders have kept Russian forces from capturing the capital  —  IRPIN, Ukraine — The bodies of Russian soldiers were scattered by the wreckage of charred military vehicles and shelled buildings.  Twenty feet away, behind tanker trucks, Ukrainian volunteers stood watch …
BBC:
Roman Abramovich: New evidence highlights corrupt deals  —  A BBC investigation has uncovered new evidence about the corrupt deals that made Roman Abramovich's fortune.  —  The Chelsea owner made billions after buying an oil company from the Russian government in a rigged auction in 1995.
Discussion: Insider and Raw Story
Lachlan Cartwright / The Daily Beast:
MSNBC Almost Brought Back Olbermann to Replace Maddow  —  In this week's Source Material we reveal how MSNBC almost filled Maddow's soon-to-be vacant time slot with her own former mentor—until Rachel killed the deal. … To fill its upcoming Rachel Maddow void, MSNBC almost took a time machine back to the good old days of 2011.
Jake Zuckerman / Ohio Capital Journal:
DeWine signs law removing training, background check, permitting requirement to conceal carry  —  Gov. Mike DeWine signed a bill into law Monday removing training, background check and permitting requirements to carry a concealed weapon in Ohio.  —  When the law takes effect in 90 days …
Kevin Daley / Washington Free Beacon:
EXCLUSIVE: Ginni Thomas Wants To Set the Record Straight on January 6  —  Virginia “Ginni” Thomas wants to clear up a few things about January 6.  —  She did not help organize the White House rally that preceded the riot at the Capitol.  She did attend the rally, but got cold and left early.
New York Times:
Two Refugees, Both on Poland's Border.  But Worlds Apart.  —  A young man fleeing war in Sudan and a young woman evacuating Ukraine crossed into Poland at the same time.  They had very different experiences.  —  KUZNICA, Poland — On the day war broke out in Ukraine, Albagir …
Discussion: The Guardian
Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
USPS Truck Contract Prompts Cries for Investigation  —  A plan to purchase up to 165,000 gasoline-powered mail trucks instead of electric models has angered Democrats and the Biden administration.  —  WASHINGTON — A group of House Democrats called Monday for an investigation into a decision …
Kate Scanlon / Washington Examiner:
Trump inadvertently helped AOC win House seat, says former Rep. Joe Crowley  —  In a recent podcast interview, former Rep. Joe Crowley reflected on his upset defeat when Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won a Democratic primary against him, the influence of former President Donald Trump on his own loss …
Katie Herzog / Reason:
How an Academic Grudge Turned Into a #MeToo Panic  —  During normal years, Meliora Weekend at the University of Rochester (U.R.) is one of the biggest events of the fall.  A four-day combination of Homecoming and Family Weekend, parents visit, alumni return to campus, and there's good old-fashioned student debauchery.
Discussion: PLURIBUS
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Election ‘Vigilante’ Group Posing as County Workers, Says New Mexico's State Auditor  —  One of the group's leaders gave a speech in a church about the audit where he said “I want arrests, I want prosecutions, I want firing squads.”  —  Leaders of a far-right Telegram group pledged …
Discussion: Raw Story
Thomas Franck / CNBC:
Manchin comes out against Biden Fed nominee Raskin, throwing her confirmation into doubt  — Sen. Joe Manchin, the most conservative Democrat in the Senate, said Monday that he opposes Sarah Bloom Raskin's nomination to the Federal Reserve.  — “Her previous public statements have failed …
Kate Zernike / New York Times:
Idaho Is First State to Pass Abortion Ban Based on Texas' Law  —  The bill prohibits abortions after about six weeks, and allows family members of a “preborn child” to sue abortion providers.  —  Idaho on Monday became the first state to adopt a copycat of an unusual new Texas law that relies …
Charles Riley / CNN:
Russia could default on its debt within days  —  London (CNN Business)Russia has sent the clearest signal yet that it will soon default — the first time it will have failed to meet its foreign debt obligations since the Bolshevik revolution more than a century ago.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Political Wire
Julie Creswell / New York Times:
He's American, He Oversees Papa John's in Russia and He's Staying  —  Christopher Wynne's company controls the franchise agreements for the 190 Papa John's locations in the country.  “At the end of the day, they appreciate a good pizza,” he said.  —  Papa John's International said last week …
Daniel Nichanian / Bolts:
“The Goal Was to Scare People, but It Could Boomerang.”  —  Pamela Moses, a Memphis activist sentenced to six years in prison for registering to vote, talks about the prosecution and suppression of Black voters in Tennessee.  —  Pamela Moses speaks in front of the Shelby County Justice Center (Photo by Noah Stewart).
Zach Everson / Forbes:
Tulsi Gabbard's Biggest Political Donor In 2021 Is A Putin Apologist  —  The largest individual donor to former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard's (D-Hawaii) PAC in 2021 is an apologist for Vladimir Putin who runs a nonprofit that aims to foster cooperation between the U.S. and Russia.
Seth Mandel / Commentary Magazine:
The Revolution Inside the ADL … When Whoopi Goldberg said that the Holocaust was “not about race” but rather “two white groups of people” fighting, the actress and chat-show maven was shocked by criticism she received.  Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League …
Bill Glauber / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan can't get U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson on the phone and accuses the Oshkosh Republican of being homophobic  —  Democratic U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan is sticking up for his brother and taking on U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, accusing the Oshkosh Republican of being homophobic.
Discussion: Political Wire
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 11:50 PM ET, March 14, 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: 
U.S. Department of Justice:
Seattle Man Pleads Guilty to Attempting to Provide Material Support to a Designated Foreign Terrorist Organization
Discussion: The Hill
Heather Richards / E&E News:
Drilling permits spiked then plunged under Biden
Discussion: Breitbart
John Podhoretz / Commentary Magazine:
Neoconservatism: A Vindication … Mark Twain said that history doesn't repeat itself, but that it often rhymes.
Jason Lemon / Newsweek:
Not Charging Trump Will ‘Destroy’ Legitimacy of US Institutions: Kirschner
Tal Schneider / The Times of Israel:
Iranian missile attack in Erbil struck Israeli training facility, US official tells NYT
Megan Brenan / Gallup:
Americans Rate Canada, Britain, France, Japan Most Favorably
Discussion: Townhall and UPI
Wall Street Journal:
Saudi Arabia Invites China's Xi to Visit Kingdom Amid Strained U.S. Relations
Alex Gault / NNY360:
Biden signs 2022 appropriations bill, including millions of dollars for north country
Discussion: The New Arab
 Earlier Items: 
Natasha Korecki / NBC News:
Democrats to report $14 million fundraising haul in February
Discussion: Fox News
Tom Loveless:
San Francisco's Detracking Experiment
Discussion: HotAir
Jewish Insider:
Amnesty USA Director Paul O'Brien's remarks to the Woman's National Democratic Club
Perry Stein / Washington Post:
These schools did less to contain covid. Their students did better.
Discussion: HotAir
Rachael Bade / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Something unusual is happening between Biden and Congress
 

 
From Techmeme:

Javier Espinoza / Financial Times:
The EU fines Meta €797.72M for tying Facebook Marketplace to Facebook and “imposing unfair trading conditions” on other online classified ads service providers

David Pierce / The Verge:
Google releases a free Gemini app for iOS, letting users ask questions, chat via text, voice, or their camera, and use the conversational mode Gemini Live

Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Sources: the CFPB moves to place Google under formal federal supervision, an extraordinary move that may lead to regular inspections; Google fiercely resisted

 
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