Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
3:00 PM ET, February 28, 2023

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
Trump Loses It Over Murdoch's Admission About Fox Hosts Endorsing Big Lie  —  ‘KILLING HIS CASE’  —  Donald Trump is furious with his former ally Rupert Murdoch after the media mogul made astonishing admissions that some of his Fox News hosts “endorsed” lies that the 2020 election had been “stolen.”
RELATED:
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The other way Rupert Murdoch tried to tip the scales for Trump  —  Donald Trump couldn't have asked for much more from Fox News over the course of the 2020 presidential election — or, really, over the course of his presidency.  From start to finish, Fox News-viewing Republicans …
Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
Feds Inadvertently Reveal They're Looking Into Trump's Shady ‘Recount’ Campaign  —  It started with a FOIA looking for answers about Trump's recount efforts.  It revealed that the FEC is looking into these questions itself. … When the Federal Elections Commission rejected a recent Freedom …
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
Murdoch Acknowledges Fox News Hosts Endorsed Election Fraud Falsehoods
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Rupert Murdoch's big admission about Fox News
Discussion: Raw Story and emptywheel
Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots:
Paul Ryan, Fox News, and the Future of the GOP
Discussion: Mediaite
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Fox could be on the hook for campaign finance violations after new court docs drop: former FBI agent
Discussion: HuffPost
Tom Porter / Insider:   A Murdoch advisor said the ‘booze’ had got to Giuliani following his ‘unhinged’ rants about the 2020 election
Politico:
Biden to tap Julie Su as next Labor secretary  —  President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday that he would nominate Julie Su to be his next Labor secretary, moving swiftly to fill a coming vacancy within his cabinet.  —  “It is my honor to nominate Julie Su to be our country's next Secretary of Labor,” Biden said in a statement.
RELATED:
Associated Press:
Biden to nominate Julie Su as next US labor secretary  —  President Joe Biden is nominating Julie Su, the current deputy and former California official, as his next labor secretary, replacing the departing incumbent, former Boston Mayor Marty Walsh.  Su, a civil rights attorney and former head …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Live Updates: Supreme Court Skeptical of Biden's Student Loan Cancellation Plan  —  The Biden administration wants to wipe out $400 billion in student debt by forgiving up to $20,000 per borrower.  Six Republican-dominated states — Nebraska, Missouri, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas and South Carolina …
RELATED:
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Supreme Court weighs Biden student loan plan worth billions
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Conservative Supreme Court justices seem skeptical of Biden's student loan forgiveness plan
Politico:
House GOP moving to let Jan. 6 defendants access Capitol security footage  —  House Republicans are moving to provide defendants in Jan. 6-related cases access to thousands of hours of internal Capitol security footage, a move that could influence many of the ongoing prosecutions stemming from 2021's violent attack.
Discussion: Breitbart, Raw Story and The Hill
RELATED:
CNN:
Top Republicans question McCarthy over release of January 6 footage as speaker vows deliberate approach
Discussion: emptywheel
RELATED:
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
DeSantis to Visit Early Primary States, Selling His Florida Record
Discussion: Florida Phoenix and Axios
RELATED:
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
Dropping the creator of ‘Dilbert’ is free speech at work  —  Scott Adams, creator of the once-funny comic strip “Dilbert,” had the right to advise White people to “get the hell away from Black people” — just as the media companies that published Adams's work had the right to get the hell away from him.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Scoop: Jonathan Capehart quits WaPo editorial board, leaving no people of color  —  Jonathan Capehart quit the Washington Post editorial board after a dispute over an editorial about 2024 politics, leaving the paper with an all-white editorial board, Axios has learned.
Matt Lavietes / NBC News:
Tennessee governor appears to have dressed in drag, an art form he wants to restrict  —  By the time Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee confirmed Monday that he would sign a recently passed bill criminalizing drag performances in public and in front of children, a photo that appears to show him dressed …
RELATED:
Josh Keefe / The Tennessean:
Gov. Bill Lee will sign drag bill, reacts to yearbook photo showing him dressed as a woman
Discussion: Washington Post and ibtimes.sg
Mother Jones:
Another Santos Scandal?  He Diverted Voter Registration Money to a GOP-Allied Gay Rights Site  —  Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.  —  During Rep. George Santos' second run for a congressional seat on Long Island …
Beth Reinhard / Washington Post:
As CPAC's head faces sexual assault claim, other leadership concerns emerge  —  Matt Schlapp, who runs the Conservative Political Action Conference, has been backed by prominent Republicans but some staffers complain of a ‘toxic’ culture  —  For nearly a decade, Matt Schlapp has captained …
CBS News:
Government watchdog report finds FBI, Capitol Police identified but didn't share “credible threats” before Jan. 6  —  Federal agencies responsible for protecting the U.S. Capitol did not “fully process” or share critical information — including about militia groups arming themselves ahead of the Jan. 6 …
Associated Press:
Justice Jackson writes 1st Supreme Court majority opinion  —  Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has written her first majority opinion for the Supreme Court.  The opinion released Tuesday in a dispute between states over unclaimed money is one of roughly a half dozen she is expected to write …
Olivia Rubin / ABC News:
Judge overseeing Trump Georgia grand jury speaks after foreperson's controversial interviews  —  The jurors “can talk about” their final report, the judge told ABC News.  —  After the foreperson of the Fulton County, Georgia, grand jury  —  investigating former President Donald Trump
Danielle Allen / Washington Post:
The House was supposed to grow with population.  It didn't.  Let's fix that.  —  What if we increased the size of the House?  —  Given that most of us are pretty frustrated with Congress, this might sound crazy.  But growing the House of Representatives is the key to unlocking …
Jonathan Martin / Politico:
Calling the Police: Lightfoot Needs A Lifeline  —  CHICAGO — In grave danger of becoming the first Chicago mayor defeated in 40 years, Lori Lightfoot stood before an audience of mostly her fellow Black women at a union hall here Saturday and issued a warning about the left-wing challenger who's threatening …
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
DeSantis's ‘Apocalyptic’ Attack on Higher Education  —  In 2017, the government of Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban passed a law intended to drive Central European University, a prestigious school founded by a Hungarian refugee, George Soros, out of the country.
Susie Blann / Associated Press:
Flurry of drone strikes hits Russia as TV, radio are hacked  —  1 of 2  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday ordered officials to tighten control of the border with Ukraine after a spate of drone attacks that Russian authorities blamed on Kyiv delivered a new challenge to Moscow …
David Shepardson / Reuters:
ACLU urges US lawmakers not to ban TikTok, citing free speech  —  The American Civil Liberties Union on Monday urged Congress not to ban the Chinese-owned video app TikTok, saying it would violate the free speech rights of millions of Americans, a day before a U.S. House of Representatives committee is to take up legislation.
Mack Lamoureux / VICE:
Smith and Wesson Forced to Clarify It's Not Advertising With the Proud Boys  —  The gun manufacturer came under fire for tweeting out a photo of a man wearing a black T-shirt with the letters “PB” in yellow.  —  Mack Lamoureux  —  Gun manufacturer Smith and Wesson is under fire for promoting …
Jon Victor / The Information:
Fighting ‘Woke AI,’ Musk Recruits Team to Develop OpenAI Rival  —  Elon Musk has approached artificial intelligence researchers in recent weeks about forming a new research lab to develop an alternative to ChatGPT, the high-profile chatbot made by the startup OpenAI, according to two people …
Sonam Sheth / Insider:
Matt Gaetz unknowingly cites Chinese Communist newspaper during Ukraine military funding hearing  — Rep. Matt Gaetz unknowingly cited from a Chinese propaganda outlet during a congressional hearing.  — Gaetz appeared to recognize his mistake when the Pentagon official he was questioning asked him to clarify the source.
Anil Dash:
The tech tycoon martyrdom charade  —  I've been saying this for a few years now, but it's worth recording here for the record: It's impossible to overstate the degree to which many big tech CEOs and venture capitalists are being radicalized by living within their own cultural and social bubble.
Discussion: Eschaton
Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
National Poll: 71% of Democratic Voters Think Biden Should Be 2024 Nominee  —  Home Polls National Poll: 71% of Democratic Voters Think Biden Should Be 2024 Nominee  —  Trump Maintains Lead While DeSantis Makes Inroads In the Midwest & with Hispanics in GOP Primary
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Underrecognized: Extremist murders are usually from right-wing actors  —  Even before the attack at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, even further back than the Trump administration, federal authorities have been fretting about the threat of violence committed by domestic extremists.
Joe Schoffstall / Fox News:
Cori Bush's campaign paid her husband for security services - but he doesn't have a private security license … Cori Bush calls for government takeover of social media, says Twitter too motivated by profits  —  Former Twitter executives appeared before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee …
Jill Lawrence / The Bulwark:
Josh Hawley's False Choice  —  For a guy who says we should do less for Ukraine and more for America's working people, he sure doesn't support policies that help the working people.  —  Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley has been trending, sadly, for presenting a false and dangerous choice …
Ayana Archie / NPR:
People who think they're attractive are less likely to wear masks, a study shows  —  People are less likely to wear masks to prevent COVID-19 if they see themselves as good-looking, according to a study published earlier this year.  —  Researchers asked 1,030 participants to self-evaluate …
Discussion: Fortune
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Pa. has its own ‘East Palestine.’ It's not a train.  —  After weeks of encouraging bans and restrictions that literally emptied shelves in a few school libraries, Florida governor Ron DeSantis has decided to try something very different on the book front: He wrote one.
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 3:00 PM ET, February 28, 2023.

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: 
NBC News:
Democrats push to end security exemption on Capitol Hill as Republicans demand the right to carry guns
Center for Strategic and International Studies:
Ukrainian Innovation in a War of Attrition
Discussion: New York Times
Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal:
America Is Trying to Electrify. There Aren't Enough Electricians.
 Earlier Items: 
Mike DeForest / WKMG:
DeSantis ‘review’ of public records can add months of delays, newly uncovered log reveals
Steven Mufson / Washington Post:
The conservative battle against ‘woke’ banks is backfiring
Melissa Nann Burke / The Detroit News:
Slotkin raises $1.2M on first day of Senate campaign
Don Van Natta Jr / ESPN:
How a disputed $55M loan plays into feds' probe of Commanders
Discussion: Washington Post
Washington Post:
Little-known scientific team behind new assessment on covid-19 origins
 

 
From Techmeme:

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

Paresh Dave / Wired:
Google says it wouldn't force its device makers, browser, and wireless carrier licensees to distribute Gemini to US users for three years, in a proposed remedy

 
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