Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
8:15 AM ET, July 30, 2023

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
John L. Dorman / Insider:
GOP Rep. John James, one of the party's highest-profile Black lawmakers, blasts Ron DeSantis over Florida's new slavery curriculum: 'You've gone too far.  Stop.'  — GOP Rep. John James called out Gov. Ron DeSantis over the new slavery curriculum in Florida.
RELATED:
NBC News:
Dozens served in Trump's Cabinet.  Four say he should be re-elected.  —  Several of Trump's former Cabinet members are coy about whether they support his bid to return to the White House.  Others outright oppose it.  —  WASHINGTON — Donald Trump may have put them in the most powerful …
Discussion: The Hill
John McCormick / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Tells Iowa Republicans Not to Take a Chance on DeSantis  —  GOP front-runner makes rare appearance alongside a dozen rivals for the party's presidential nomination  —  DES MOINES, Iowa—As the campaign of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis struggles and former President Donald Trump braces …
Steven Shepard / Politico:
A DeSantis come-from-behind win is looking vanishingly unlikely
Discussion: PoliticusUSA and New York Magazine
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Trump and DeSantis Collide for First Time in Iowa, as Fortunes Diverge
Brandon Gillespie / Fox News:
WATCH: GOP presidential candidate, Trump critic Will Hurd booed off stage at Iowa event
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump shows in Iowa he still rules the GOP — despite his deepening criminal peril
Discussion: The Hill, HotAir and Politico
Juliana Kim / NPR:
Rep. Van Orden gets bipartisan scolding after he cursed at teen Senate pages  —  Rep. Derrick Van Orden, a freshman Republican from Wisconsin, said he was enraged after witnessing a group of high school-age Senate pages “defiling” the Capitol and treating the building like a “frat house common room.”
Julia Shapero / The Hill:
Pentagon investigating Air Force engineer's ‘critical compromise’ of communications across military branch: Forbes  —  The Pentagon is investigating a “critical compromise” of communications within the Air Force, after an engineer at Arnold Air Force Base in Tennessee allegedly gained unauthorized access …
Discussion: Bloomberg
RELATED:
New York Times:
Elon Musk's Unmatched Power in the Stars  —  The tech billionaire has become the dominant power in satellite internet technology.  The ways he is wielding that influence are raising global alarms.  —  On March 17, Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff …
Washington Post:
Trump PAC has spent more than $40 million on legal costs this year for himself, others  —  Donald Trump's political group is financing legal work that has prompted questions from prosecutors about potential conflicts of interest  —  Former president Donald Trump's political group spent …
Isaac Arnsdorf / Washington Post:
Trump calls for conditioning Ukraine aid on congressional Biden probes  —  The demand echoed Trump's withholding Ukraine aid to seek an investigation into Biden, leading to his first impeachment  —  Former president Donald Trump called on congressional Republicans to withhold military support …
Michael Corkery / New York Times:
Fighting for Anthony: The Struggle to Save Portland, Oregon  —  The city has long grappled with street homelessness and a shortage of housing.  Now fentanyl has turned a perennial problem into a deadly crisis and a challenge to the city's progressive identity.  —  Come to Portland, his sister said.
Discussion: HotAir
Reuters:
Colombian President Petro's son arrested in money laundering probe  —  Nicolas Petro, son of Colombian President Gustavo Petro, has been arrested as part of an investigation into money laundering and illicit enrichment, the attorney general's office said early on Saturday.
Tara Suter / The Hill:
4 dead, others injured in Wisconsin after two separate aircraft crashes  —  Four people were killed and two others injured in separate aircraft incidents on Saturday in Oshkosh, Wis., according to officials.  —  The Winnebago County Sheriff's Office announced it received several calls Saturday morning …
Discussion: CBS News and Associated Press
Andrew Zhang / Politico:
Congressional Dems pile on Alito after he says SCOTUS ethics can't be regulated  —  Democrats — especially progressives — have increasingly expressed more anger at the high court in recent years.  —  House Democrats are putting Justice Samuel Alito on blast over his comments that Congress does …
Andrew Zhang / Politico:
Judge dismisses Trump's ‘Big Lie’ lawsuit against CNN  —  The Trump-appointed judge wrote that CNN's statements, while “repugnant,” were not defamatory.  —  A federal judge late Friday dismissed Donald Trump's $475 million defamation lawsuit against CNN, in which the former president argued …
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 8:15 AM ET, July 30, 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: 
Josie Lenora / NPR:
Despite all the talk, no states have active laws banning drag in front of kids
Dan Froomkin / Press Watch:
Our so-called liberal media covers up the right's racism and growing homophobia
 Earlier Items: 
Leila Sackur / NBC News:
Mass shooting near community event leaves 5 injured in Seattle
 

 
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

Financial Times:
Sources: the US FTC plans to investigate allegations that Microsoft is abusing its market power in productivity software to prevent customers from leaving Azure
 
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