Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
12:40 PM ET, August 3, 2023

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Sam Baker / Axios:
Trump's First Amendment defense in Jan. 6 case is shaky, experts say  —  Former President Trump's legal team says he's been indicted for actions that are protected by the First Amendment — and that the First Amendment will ultimately exonerate him. … - “Donald Trump had every right …
RELATED:
Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
Indictment Mystery: Did Someone Spill About the Trump-McCarthy Jan. 6 Call?  —  It's one of the more intriguing mysteries about the new Trump indictment: Why are details about Trump's call with McCarthy on Jan. 6 unsourced?  What could it mean?  —  The 45-page federal indictment …
Washington Examiner:
Jack Smith's dangerous criminalization of dissent  —  “The attack on our nation's capital on Jan. 6, 2021, was an unprecedented assault on the seat of American democracy,” special counsel Jack Smith said on Tuesday as he unveiled his latest indictment of former President Donald Trump.
New York Times:
Trump Election Charges Set Up Clash of Lies Versus Free Speech  —  The indictment of former President Donald J. Trump over his efforts to retain power accuses him of conspiracies built on knowing falsehoods.  His supporters say he is protected by the First Amendment.
Marc Elias / Democracy Docket:
Trump, Five Lawyers and Their Conspiracy Against Our Democracy  —  Former President Donald Trump has again been indicted by a federal grand jury.  The four-count indictment lays out how Trump refused to accept that he lost the 2020 election.  It describes how he contested the election in court and …
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
Jeffrey Clark plotted to reverse Trump's loss.  Now he's a GOP luminary.  —  After trying to use the Justice Department to delegitimize the 2020 vote, Clark has become a rising legal star for Republicans  —  In a conference room near the Capitol, young conservatives gathered in April …
Philip Rotner / The Bulwark:
Coup Indictment: Here's Why Trump's Usual Defenses Won't Work
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Trump's Threat to Democracy Is Now Systemic
New York Times:
Trump 2024: Running for President, and to Beat the Rap
Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
Trump Prepares to Make Familiar Trip to Courthouse, This Time in Washington
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
DeSantis vows to ‘start slitting throats on day one’  —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Sunday said he would “start slitting throats on day one” when it comes to taking on the “deep state.”  —  DeSantis made the remarks at a barbecue campaign event in Rye, N.H., hosted by former Sen. Scott Brown (R-N.H.).
Discussion: Mother Jones
RELATED:
Josh Rogers / New Hampshire Public Radio:
NH Republicans size up DeSantis, as he offers harsh rhetoric in primary campaign  —  Every Republican running for president not named Donald Trump has to hope they benefit from the former president's latest criminal indictments.  But no candidate may need the lift more than the one every poll shows …
Axios:
Scoop: DeSantis' state-funded office hires ousted campaign aides
Discussion: Raw Story
NBC News:
Ron DeSantis agrees to debate Gavin Newsom
Jared Gans / The Hill:
35 South Carolina lawmakers, leaders endorse DeSantis White House bid
CNN:
CNN Poll: Percentage of Republicans who think Biden's 2020 win was illegitimate ticks back up near 70%  —  The share of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents who believe that President Joe Biden's 2020 election win was not legitimate has ticked back up, according to a new CNN poll fielded throughout July.
RELATED:
CNN:
CNN Poll: Half of Americans think the economy is getting worse, despite months of stronger economic news  —  Despite months of increasingly positive economic indicators, the American public remains negative about the state of the nation's economy, with 51% saying they think the economy is still …
Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
Three-quarters of Republicans prioritize the economy over climate change
Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Beast:
‘So Sad!’  Trumpworld Delights That This Aide May Be in Legal Trouble  —  Trump's aides maintain that the former president is totally innocent and the latest indictment is a witch hunt.  They're also happy to see one aide potentially in trouble. … When the latest indictment of Donald Trump came …
Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
Arizona Republicans wanted to hand-count ballots.  Then they saw the price tag — and the errors.  —  Election workers spent three days counting 850 ballots in Mohave County.  They made errors in 46 races.  —  An Arizona county has decided not to hand-count its ballots in next year's elections …
Discussion: Salon and Outside the Beltway
Raheem J. Kassam / The National Pulse+:
EXCLUSIVE: Capitol Police Chief Called Jan 6 Events ‘A Cover Up’ in Tucker Carlson Interview HIDDEN By Fox News.  —  Former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund told then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson that events surrounding the January 6th riots at the U.S. Capitol appear to have been a “cover up …
RELATED:
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Majority in U.S. Say Biden Administration Ethics Are Subpar  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans rate the ethics of “top Biden administration officials” more negatively than positively in Gallup's first measure of this assessment since President Joe Biden took office.
Lauren Sforza / The Hill:
2 expelled Tennessee lawmakers vying to win back seats in Thursday special election  —  Two Tennessee lawmakers who were expelled from the state Legislature earlier this year are vying to win back their seats in a special election Thursday.  —  Tennessee state Reps. Justin Jones (D-Nashville) …
Noble Predictive:
The Sinema Situation: Gallego's Edge and the Enigma of Sinema's Independent Run  —  Sinema's Third-Party Run Does Not Guarantee a GOP Victory in Arizona Senate Race  —  As the 2024 Arizona Senate race looms, recent public opinion polling data from Noble Predictive Insights' (NPI) …
Discussion: The Hill and Political Wire
Cami Mondeaux / Washington Examiner:
Dan Bishop to run for attorney general in North Carolina, leaving House seat open  —  Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC) is set to run for attorney general next year, forgoing a third term in the House and leaving open a reliably red seat ahead of a crucial election cycle, the Republican freshman announced on Thursday.
Reuters:
Russia fines Apple for not deleting ‘inaccurate’ content on Ukraine conflict  — This content was produced in Russia where the law restricts coverage of Russian military operations in Ukraine  —  A Moscow court fined Apple (AAPL.O) 400,000 roubles ($4,274) on Thursday for not deleting …
Discussion: Politico, The Messenger and TASS
Sarah Ferris / Politico:
Democrats' last anti-abortion lawmaker gets leadership endorsements  —  After getting exiled by most of his party in 2022, Henry Cuellar, Democrats' last anti-abortion incumbent, was left to fend for himself against a progressive primary challenger — the biggest scare of his career.
Discussion: Fox News, Insider and The Texas Tribune
William Bredderman / The Daily Beast:
Cornel West Owes More Than Half a Million in Unpaid Taxes  —  The presidential candidate has made raising taxes on the rich a fixture of his campaign.  He's shorted the IRS more than the median salary in six of the last 20 years. … Veteran Ivy League professor and bestselling author …
Ryan Bort / Rolling Stone:
Rudy Giuliani in Vile New Audio Transcripts: ‘Jewish Men Have Small Cocks’  —  The transcripts were filed on Tuesday by Noelle Dunphy, who is suing the former Trump lawyer for sexual harassment  —  RUDY GIULIANI WAS sued for sexual harassment earlier this year by Noelle Dunphy, a former staffer at his firm.
Reese Gorman / Washington Examiner:
Biden investigation: Full Devon Archer testimony released  —  The House Oversight Committee released the full transcript from Monday's Devon Archer interview, in which he testified that Hunter Biden had his father on speakerphone 20 times around business associates and that Burisma officials …
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 12:40 PM ET, August 3, 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: 
Fox News:
Hunter Biden laid out ‘price of power’ in texts with Devon Archer: ‘you are a Biden’
Discussion: RedState and BizPac Review
Reuters:
US weekly jobless claims rise moderately; layoffs drop to 11-month low
Discussion: The Hill
FlashAlert.net:
FBI Portland Seeking Additional Victims After Woman Escaped Makeshift Cinderblock Cell in Klamath Falls, OR (Photo)
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Biden beefs up his finance team with 3 senior hires
Hugh Hewitt / Washington Post:
The hard left took over American institutions. It doesn't have to last.
 Earlier Items: 
Andrea Shalal / Reuters:
US sees price cap on Russian oil working despite upturn in prices
Muvija M / Reuters:
Protesters drape home of UK PM Sunak in black fabric over oil policy
Jo Yurcaba / NBC News:
Gay Louisiana doctor says he's leaving the state over its ‘discriminatory’ legislation
Discussion: WDSU-TV
Maia Pandey / NBC News:
Toxic bacteria detected in several of Zion National Park's waterways
Leah Remini / Leah's Substack:
I am suing Scientology and David Miscavige
 

 
From Techmeme:

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Qualcomm made a takeover approach to Intel in recent days, but a deal is far from certain; Intel's market cap is ~$93B and Qualcomm's is ~$188B

Timothy B Lee / Understanding AI:
OpenAI's o1 models are dramatically better at reasoning than previous LLMs, but they struggle with spatial reasoning and are far from human-level intelligence

Kylie Robison / The Verge:
Email: Linda Yaccarino announces X is launching a “video tab” feature and an X-exclusive women's soccer reality show, The Offseason, produced by Alexis Ohanian
 
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