memeorandum: What Does It Mean to be a “Supporter” of a Candidate? (Jonathan V. Last/The Triad)

3:40 PM ET, May 26, 2023

Top Items:

Jonathan Martin / Politico:

Are the Anti-Trump GOP Forces Starting to Implode? — A mission-control breakdown for DeSantis and smooth launch for Scott bode ill for those hoping to thwart the former president. — NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — Will this go down as the week that the grand plan to deny Donald Trump the nomination fell apart?

Discussion: Bulwark+, Raw Story, New York Times, National Review and The Hill

Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:

‘Trump has the charisma of a mortician’: Donald Jr confuses dad with DeSantis — In online show, former president's son also accidentally says father's energy ‘makes Jeb Bush look like an Olympian’ — Donald Trump Jr accidentally insulted his father on Thursday night …

Discussion: The Nation, Mediaite, UPROXX, Insider, Rumble and The Daily Beast, more at Mediagazer »

BBC:

Twitter engineering boss Foad Dabiri quits day after DeSantis launch glitches — An engineering chief at Twitter says he is leaving the company a day after the launch of Ron DeSantis' US presidential campaign on the platform was hit with technical glitches.

Discussion: UPI, Raw Story, RedState, Just The News, The Information and BizPac Review

Shelby Talcott / Semafor:

DeSantis, Day One: Trump ‘turned the country over to Fauci’ — The News — MIAMI, FL - If day one of Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign showed the country anything, it's that COVID is here to stay. — At least in the Republican primaries. — On his first day in the ring …

Discussion: Washington Press, Gothamist, Vanity Fair, IJR, New York Times, The Reload, Forbes, Rolling Stone and Mediaite

Charisma Madarang / Rolling Stone:

DeSantis Signs Bill Shielding Musk's SpaceX From ‘Spaceflight Entity Liability’ — The Florida governor's signature comes a day after his 2024 presidential campaign announcement on Twitter … The law exempts “spaceflight entity from liability for injury to or death of a crew resulting …

Discussion: New Republic, NBC News, Raw Story, Joe.My.God., UPROXX, Balloon Juice, Washington Examiner, Washington Post and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis

Charlie Nash / Mediaite:
‘Not a Big Social Media Guy’: DeSantis Tells Newsmax He'd Rather Watch Cable News ‘Than Be on Some App’ After Disastrous Twitter Launch

Discussion: The Daily Beast, HotAir, The Hill, HuffPost, The Gateway Pundit, Florida Politics and The Wrap

Platformer:
Inside Twitter's failed Space launch

Discussion: HotAir, Joe.My.God., BizPac Review, Washington Examiner, Media Matters for America, New York Times and Mediaite

Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
The DeSantis Doctrine — Column: Ron DeSantis and the battle for the New Right

Discussion: Politico, National Review, Sun-Sentinel, Raw Story, Le Monde.fr, The Daily Caller, Washington Post, Fortune, New York Post and MSNBC

CNN:
DeSantis is going after Trump like never before

Discussion: The Floridian, Sun-Sentinel, Washington Post, Washington Examiner, No More Mister Nice Blog, Plain Dealer and Reuters

Washington Post:

Conservatives revolt as negotiators try to finish debt ceiling deal — Although not yet made public, the emerging agreement between McCarthy and Biden is already coming under fire from the right — Conservative lawmakers have begun mounting a campaign against the emerging deal …

Discussion: Washington Examiner, Politico, Joe.My.God., The Hill, The Guardian, Reuters, WBOY.com and PoliticusUSA

David Dayen / American Prospect:

Reinventing the Sequester — The emerging deal would allow congressional Republicans to enact savage cuts to federal spending without having to ever specify them. — Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy talks with reporters about debt limit negotiations, at the Capitol in Washington, May 25, 2023.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Fox News, The Guardian and New York Times

Lauren Sforza / The Hill:
Bowman on debt ceiling talks with GOP: ‘Why are we gonna negotiate with the economic terrorists’

Discussion: The Wrap, Newsbusters, Twitchy, New Republic, HuffPost and Just The News

Politico:
Where the debt talks stand six days before default deadline

Discussion: Joe.My.God., CBS News, Talking Points Memo and Washington Examiner

Public Notice:
The (many) perils of a debt default, explained by an economist

Discussion: Associated Press

Punchbowl News:
5/26/23 ☀️ Punchbowl News AM

Discussion: RedState, New York Times, Raw Story, Washington Examiner, The Messenger, CNN and Roll Call

Jamilah Lemieux / Slate:

My Nephew's Bathroom Habits Are a Little Unsettling — Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here. — Dear Care and Feeding, — Last week, I took a road trip with my sister “Lasey” and my nephew “Bill.” Bill is 8, and his father isn't in the picture.

Hannah Rabinowitz / CNN:

Jessica Watkins: Oath Keepers member and Army veteran sentenced to 8.5 years in prison for January 6 — Jessica Watkins, an Army veteran and member of the far-right Oath Keepers, was sentenced Friday to 8.5 years in prison for participating in a plot to disrupt the certification …

Discussion: Reuters, ABC News, Plain Dealer, New York Daily News, The Atlantic, WISH-TV, Associated Press, USA Today, New York Post, Political Wire, NBC News, Voice of America and Trending Politics Conservative

NBC News:
Self-proclaimed ‘idiot’ Oath Keeper sentenced to more than 8 years in Jan. 6 case

Discussion: HuffPost, CBS News, UPI, Joe.My.God., Summit News, Law & Crime, The Messenger, Hackwhackers, Daily Montanan, WDTN.com, Metro.co.uk and Clay & Buck's …

Dennis Aftergut / Bulwark+:
Four Messages in the Big Sentence for Oath Keeper Stewart Rhodes

Discussion: Raw Story, Alternet.org, World Socialist Web Site, CBS News, Bloomberg, UPI, CNN, Mother Jones, Courthouse News Service, Al Jazeera, Vox, Fox News, Associated Press and Oregonian

Dan Sullivan / Tampa Bay Times:

Tucker Carlson, Fox News hacks tied to FBI search of Tampa council member's home — The search at City Council member Lynn Hurtak and Tim Burke's home was part of a probe into computer hacks at Fox News. — TAMPA — An FBI search earlier this month at the home of media consultant Tim Burke and his wife …

Discussion: Deadline, The Hill, The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit, The Messenger, Florida Politics, Mediaite and Raw Story, more at Mediagazer »

Rachel Olding / The Daily Beast: FBI Raid on Journo's Home Reportedly Related to Embarrassing Tucker Carlson Vids

Philip Bump / Washington Post:

Evidence grows that Trump hoarded documents — and showed them to people — We have reached one of those points in reporting on Donald Trump's post-presidency retention of documents when it's useful to take a step back. — On Thursday, The Washington Post teased out another aspect of this complicated situation.

Discussion: The Mahablog, Raw Story, CBS News and The Gateway Pundit

New York Times:
Mar-a-Lago Worker Provided Prosecutors New Details in Trump Documents Case

Discussion: The Status Kuo, Raw Story, The Guardian, USA Today, The Hill, Talking Points Memo, New York Daily News, HuffPost and Insider

Meryl Kornfield / Washington Post:

Boebert dismisses antisemitism push as effort to target conservatives — Aftter White House announces effort to combat hatred of Jews, GOP congresswoman says it's a way to ‘go after conservatives’ — President Biden on Thursday released the country's first national strategy for combating antisemitism …

Discussion: Raw Story, Mediaite, HuffPost, The White House, Washington Press, The American Independent, Crooks and Liars, The Messenger, Bloomberg, The Times of Israel, USA Today, BizPac Review, Courthouse News Service and Forbes

Ben Terris / Washington Post:

Meet the ex-food writer advising Tommy Tuberville on national security — As a former college football coach, Tuberville (R-Ala.) is an improbable power player in Washington. But the story of how his top military adviser got here is even stranger. — When Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) …

Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Hackwhackers

Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:

What Does It Mean to be a “Supporter” of a Candidate? — No Triad on Monday—have a great Memorial Day weekend. And please read Will Selber's magnificent, heartrending piece in which he remembers some of his comrades. — Warning: Today's edition is fairly self-indulgent. I hope you'll forgive me.

Discussion: Mediaite, Jezebel and Joe.My.God.

Heather Digby Parton / Salon:

Trump and the Saudis: Is Jack Smith finally looking at this clear-cut corruption? — Trump's links to the Saudi regime and its LIV Golf tour reek of obvious corruption. Maybe Jack Smith has noticed — There's a lot of Trump legal news these days, what with the E. Jean Carroll verdict …

Discussion: Raw Story, USA Today and New York Times

Bob Zeidman / Politico:

How I Won $5 Million From the MyPillow Guy and Saved Democracy — A software forensics expert investigated Mike Lindell's claims that China hacked the 2020 election. He was stunned by what he found. — If you watch TV, especially conservative TV, you know Mike Lindell.

Discussion: UPROXX and Raw Story

Washington Post:

Israeli agents conducted targeted killings in civilian area, killing a child — Videos from a March 16 raid in Jenin show increasingly deadly tactics by Israeli officers — The traffic was barely moving on March 16 in central Jenin, an unusually busy Thursday afternoon in the West Bank.

Washington Post:

How Supreme Court's EPA ruling will affect U.S. wetlands, clean water — The decision could affect tens of thousands of acres of wetlands, including in the Everglades and the Mississippi River basin — Bogs. Marshes. Swamps. Fens. All are examples of wetlands.

Chris Geidner / Law Dork with Chris Geidner:
Brute force and the reactionary SCOTUS majority's assault on clean water

Discussion: Heatmap News, Albuquerque Journal, Fox News and Newsbusters

Kim Bellware / Washington Post:

Doctor in 10-year-old rape victim's abortion could lose license — Indiana's medical licensing board will determine as soon as Thursday whether to take any disciplinary action against a doctor who made headlines last year for performing an abortion for a 10-year-old Ohio rape victim …

John McCormick / Wall Street Journal:

North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum Poised to Enter GOP Presidential Race — Wealthy former software entrepreneur is planning a June 7 announcement in Fargo — North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum is poised to enter the Republican presidential nomination race and is planning a June 7 event in Fargo …

Discussion: Washington Post, Washington Free Beacon, Associated Press, NBC News, Forbes, Outside the Beltway, Fox News, Joe.My.God., CNN and The Daily Caller

Jeffrey Collins / Associated Press:

Judge halts South Carolina's new stricter abortion law until state Supreme Court review — A judge on Friday put a temporary halt to South Carolina's new law banning most abortions around six weeks of pregnancy until the state Supreme Court can review the measure.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, National Review, UPI, CNN, LifeNews.com, Center for Reproductive Rights, Forbes, Fox News, Joe.My.God., Just The News, Courthouse News Service, The Daily Caller, New Republic, Associated Press, The Guardian and The Messenger

Wajahat Ali / The Daily Beast:

CNN Can Never Wash Away the Trump Disaster Stench — Try as it might to move on from the Trump town hall debacle by inviting Haley and Pence to do similar events, CNN can never undo the damage. … Some people decide to climb out after falling into a hole, and then there's CNN.

Discussion: Florida's Voice, Raw Story, The Wrap, Trending Politics Conservative, One America News Network, HuffPost and Just The News

Bill Hutchinson / ABC News:

Unprecedented ruling about releasing evidence in Nashville school shooting could lead to ‘slippery slope’: Experts — “There's no roadmap on this,” one expert said. — A Tennessee judge's unprecedented ruling granting parents the legal right to object to the release of police evidence …

Discussion: New York Times

Michael Gartland / New York Daily News:

NYC Council's Italian-American caucus lodges ethics complaint against Councilman Chi Ossé, cites ethnic slights — The New York City Council's Italian-American caucus has filed a formal complaint with the lawmaking body's Standards and Ethics Committee over remarks made by Councilman Chi Ossé …

Discussion: Fox News

Daniel Lippman / Politico:

Members of a No Labels-allied caucus erupt at No Labels — The group is under fire for its unity presidential bid and for an attack on a Problem Solvers Caucus member. — A group of House Democrats with ties to No Labels is turning on the centrist group after it attacked one of their founding members.

BBC:

Ukraine war: Russia destroys hospital in latest missile attack — At least two people have been killed and 23 injured in a missile strike on a medical clinic in the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro, the regional governor says. — Of the 23 injured, 21 are in hospital and three are in a serious condition.