Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
2:20 PM ET, September 19, 2023

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Politico:
House GOP in open warfare over doomed spending plan  —  One Republican summed up the situation neatly as leadership-empowered negotiators faceplanted with days to go before a shutdown: “It's a mess.”  —  As House Republicans began ripping apart their party's latest spending proposal …
RELATED:
Elizabeth Elkind / Fox News:
Chaos and acrimony as House Republicans pull bill to keep government running: ‘multiple games afoot’  —  House Speaker McCarthy in a bind as GOP factions, and factions within factions, at loggerheads  —  An expected procedural vote to advance the stopgap spending bill put together …
The Hill:
House GOP pulls key vote on stopgap spending bill amid conservative opposition  —  House GOP leadership pulled a procedural vote on a proposed short-term funding stopgap that has bitterly divided the Republican conference and elicited opposition from hard-line conservatives.
Rachael Bade / Politico:
McCarthy gets tough with the right  —  Boxed in by conservatives as a shutdown looms, the embattled speaker is punching back.  —  After months tiptoeing around the conservatives who have made his speakership a constant high-wire act, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy appears to be fed up — and ready to fight.
CNN:
Witness testimony disputes IRS whistleblower allegations in Hunter Biden probe as Republicans begin impeachment inquiry  —  New testimony from a number of FBI and Internal Revenue Service officials casts doubt on key claims from an IRS whistleblower who alleges there was political interference …
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Ray Epps, subject of Tucker Carlson's Jan. 6 conspiracy theories, charged by DOJ  —  Epps entered Capitol grounds on Jan. 6 as a supporter of former President Donald Trump.  He told the Jan. 6 committee that the conspiracy theories about him ruined his life.
RELATED:
RELATED:
Arthur Delaney / HuffPost:
House Republicans Downplay Meeting With Key Biden Aide
Michelle Cottle / New York Times:
Maybe Matt Gaetz Is Right  —  The dysfunctional dance taking place in the House between Speaker Kevin McCarthy and his right flank has driven me to consider something I never imagined possible: that Matt Gaetz is right.  —  A House speaker can be successful only with the confidence …
RELATED:
Sophia Cai / Axios:   Indicted Trump claims solidarity with Black voters
TMZ.com:
Rep. Lauren Boebert Says Hookup Theater Guy Won't Get Another Date  —  Rep. Lauren Boebert says it's dunzo between her and the theater groping guy — saying the one-time private moment came and went ... and it sounds like his politics might be at play.  —  The Colorado congresswoman touched …
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Lauren Boebert's sexy adventure: Blame conservatives' push for “traditional marriage”  —  Bari Weiss and Nicholas Kristof amplify GOP calls to marry young — that's just what the Colorado congresswoman did  —  It is a cycle as predictable as the sun rising and setting …
Discussion: Raw Story
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
This is what taking on election deniers really looks like  —  Democrats won a whole lot of elections in 2022, in no small part on their vow to strengthen and defend democracy.  But if they hope to turn the issue into a sustained political winner, they have to deliver on that promise …
Andrew Zhang / Politico:
Giuliani's former lawyers sue him for $1.36M in unpaid legal fees  —  The fees stem from the lawyers defending Giuliani's work with Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election.  —  Rudy Giuliani's ex-lawyers are suing the former New York City mayor for failing to pay legal fees amounting …
RELATED:
Insider:
Rudy Giuliani's ex-lawyers sue him for the $1.4 million they say he owes for defending him in election interference investigations
Bill Mahoney / Politico:
Republicans win a temporary freeze in New York's redistricting fight  —  Democrats have since argued that they should now be allowed to redraft the maps for 2024 rather than rely on the existing ones for the remainder of the decade.  —  ALBANY, N.Y. — Republicans won a preliminary round …
Kayla Gallagher / The Messenger:
Sen. Susan Collins on the New Senate Dress Code: ‘I Plan to Wear a Bikini’  —  Some Republicans are bashing the informal dress code policy change, while other seem to be embracing it  —  A Facebook icon representing an external link to share the article on Facebook.A Twitter icon representing …
Michael Stratford / Politico:
Billions pour into Education Department as student loans restart  —  CASH FLOWS INTO EDUCATION DEPARTMENT AS STUDENT LOANS RESTART: Billions of dollars of payments are flooding into the Education Department as the agency begins turning on the federal student loan system that's largely been frozen since March 2020.
Reem Nadeem / Pew Research Center:
Americans' Dismal Views of the Nation's Politics  —  65% say they always or often feel exhausted when thinking about politics  —  65% say they always or often feel exhausted when thinking about politics  —  How we did this  —  Americans have long been critical of politicians and skeptical of the federal government.
Discussion: The Messenger, CNN, The Atlantic and TIME
CNN:
Federal judge upholds convictions of Oath Keeper associate  —  A federal judge on Tuesday upheld two federal convictions against a Navy veteran and Oath Keeper associate accused of helping the far-right group stash weapons outside Washington, DC, on January 6, 2021.
Lara Seligman / Politico:
Shutdown threatens Ukraine training, weapons deliveries  —  Funding for the shipments of weapons from DOD's stockpiles would continue.  —  The government shutdown looming in two weeks if lawmakers fail to reach a deal could halt shipments of critical weapons and U.S. military training of Ukrainian forces …
Discussion: CNN, The Messenger and Reuters
Pilar Melendez / The Daily Beast:
Alex Murdaugh Agrees to Plead Guilty To Federal Charges  —  He's charged with financial crimes related to bilking his law clients.  —  Alex Murdaugh, the disgraced South Carolina former lawyer convicted of murdering his wife and son to distract from massive fraud, has agreed to plead guilty …
Discussion: Raw Story
Emily Ngo / Politico:
The breakup: Biden and Adams avoid each other in New York  —  The decision by Biden and Adams to avoid each other is a concession to the reality that their relationship is deeply broken, according to several people familiar with the dynamics.  —  NEW YORK — This time last year …
Lingling Wei / Wall Street Journal:
China's Former Foreign Minister Ousted After Alleged Affair, Senior Officials Told  —  Qin Gang remains under investigation for possible national security violations, according to people familiar with the matter  —  NEW YORK—Senior Chinese officials were told that an internal Communist …
RELATED:
Nick Robertson / The Hill:
Pentagon chief urges allies to provide advanced air defense systems for Ukraine
Emma Colton / Fox News:
Democrat governor first in nation to ban her state government from buying this common item  —  Massachusetts will become the first state to ban the purchase of single-use plastic bottles for state agencies  —  Massachusetts is slated to become the first state in the nation to ban state agencies …
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 2:20 PM ET, September 19, 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: 
Noah Chauvin / The Hill:
We can fight fentanyl trafficking without violating Americans' privacy
Associated Press:
Biden tells a Broadway theater packed for fundraiser that Trump is determined to destroy the nation
Alex Marshall / New York Times:
YouTube Blocks Russell Brand From Making Money Through Its Platform
Léonie Chao-Fong / The Guardian:
Biden warns UN against allowing Russia to ‘brutalize’ Ukraine without consequence - live
Caroline Vakil / The Hill:
5 things to know about Pennsylvania's special state House election
Discussion: PoliticsPA
Jake Lahut / The Daily Beast:
The Ultimate Sign of DeSantis' Irrelevance: Trumpworld Is Moving On
 Earlier Items: 
Reuters:
Azerbaijan launches ‘anti-terrorist activities’ in Karabakh to disarm Armenians
New York Times:
Canada Ties Hardeep Singh Nijjar Killing to India
ABC News:
Trump wrote to-do lists for assistant on White House documents marked classified: Sources
 

 
From Techmeme:

Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Filing: Trump asks SCOTUS to pause the law that could ban TikTok, saying the court should give him time to “pursue a political resolution” of the dispute

Bloomberg:
Analysis: 50%+ of the US households showing highly-distorted power readings from February to October were within 20 miles of significant data center activity

Angrej Singh / Axios:
Some conservative critics of Elon Musk allege censorship and claim they were stripped of their X verification badges after challenging his views on H-1B visas
 
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