Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
9:35 AM ET, February 22, 2024

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Alabama infertility clinic stops offering IVF, fearing prosecution  —  Judd Legum, Tesnim Zekeria, and Rebecca Crosby  —  The fertility clinic at the University of Alabama at Birmingham announced Wednesday it has stopped offering in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures.
RELATED:
NBC News:
Nikki Haley sides with Alabama Supreme Court on IVF ruling: ‘Embryos, to me, are babies’  —  The Alabama court's recent ruling raised concerns among doctors and patients worried that classifying embryos as children could restrict in-vitro fertilization.  —  NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. …
Politico:
Playbook: What the GOP would prefer not to discuss  —  With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  WITH ENDORSERS LIKE THESE — Florida Gov. RON DeSANTIS privately criticized DONALD TRUMP and said he wouldn't be Trump's running mate on a call first obtained by the N.Y. Post's Diana Glebova.
Olivia Hampton / NPR:
Nikki Haley says Biden is ‘more dangerous’ than Trump but neither is fit for the job
Jay Kuo / The Status Kuo:
It's Even Worse Than We Imagined  —  Just when you thought it couldn't be worse, here we are.  —  As I reported last week, a star witness for the GOP-led impeachment inquiry, someone Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) had called a “highly credible human source,” was indicted for making false statements and reports.
RELATED:
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Another GOP Biden ‘informant.’ Another indictment and link to Russia.
Discussion: Raw Story
Andrew Feinberg / The Independent:
The Biden ‘bombshells’ all lead back to Trump - and Russia
Discussion: Raw Story
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
10 Republicans who treated the Biden bribery claim like gospel
Steve Karnowski / Associated Press:
Federal judge affirms MyPillow's Mike Lindell must pay $5M in election data dispute  —  A federal judge on Wednesday affirmed a $5 million arbitration award against MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell in favor of a software engineer who challenged data that Lindell said proves China interfered …
RELATED:
Praveena Somasundaram / Washington Post:
Mike Lindell must pay man $5M in ‘Prove Mike Wrong’ challenge, judge says  —  In 2021, MyPillow founder Mike Lindell offered $5 million to anyone who could disprove his claim that he had data showing voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election.  —  Now, he must pay a 64-year-old from Nevada that award …
Discussion: Mediaite and HuffPost
Nick Penzenstadler / USA Today:
Commander, Biden's banished German shepherd, had at least 25 biting incidents in a year  —  President Biden's now-banished German shepherd Commander inflicted more damage with bite incidents than previously known.  —  Newly released records from the United States Secret Service to USA TODAY reveal …
Discussion: Florida Politics
RELATED:
Stephen Robinson / Public Notice:
From anti-anti-Putin to openly pro-Putin  —  Tucker Carlson finally takes the mask off. … Tucker Carlson's recent grand tour of Russia was easy to mock.  —  A far less pleasant version of Rick Steves, Carlson wandered around Moscow, gushing over the clean, efficient subways …
Troy Matthews / MeidasTouch:
Republicans Furious as Speaker Johnson Turns GOP Leadership Meeting Into Religious Revival  —  They just wanted to hear plans for keeping their extremely slim House majority  —  Members of House Republican leadership expressed frustration at Speaker Mike Johnson after a GOP leadership retreat …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
RELATED:
Politico:
Mike Johnson invoked God in a GOP presentation on keeping the majority. It didn't land well.
Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story
Nick Robertson / The Hill:
Arizona prosecutor refuses to extradite murder suspect to New York  —  An Arizona prosecutor said she will not extradite a New York murder suspect to the state on Wednesday, claiming Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg could not be trusted to keep the man behind bars.
Henry J. Gomez / NBC News:
Ron DeSantis shares his concerns about Trump in a private call with supporters  —  The Florida governor, who endorsed Trump after ending his own White House bid last month, said the former president should not use “identity politics” to pick a running mate.  —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis told backers …
Lisa Kashinsky / Politico:
Haley bashes Trump on Russia as she seeks to gain ground in GOP primary  —  The former U.N. ambassador is seizing on Alexei Navalny's death as a persistent line of attack on Donald Trump.  —  NORTH AUGUSTA, South Carolina — Nikki Haley has found her closing message in South Carolina: Russia, Russia, Russia.
RELATED:
David Corn / Mother Jones:
The Great Forgotten Betrayal of the Trump Years
Discussion: Slate and Digby's Hullabaloo
Kevin Breuninger / NBC News:
'Who's going to do that?':  Trump faces hurdles in securing appeal bond for fraud case  —  Former President Donald Trump will need to secure a massive bond as he appeals the ruling ordering him to pay more than $450 million in penalties and interest.  —  Former President Donald Trump …
David Ingram / NBC News:
Elon Musk quietly visited the Biden White House in September  —  Musk and President Joe Biden, who didn't meet during the visit, have had a frosty relationship driven by differing views on labor unions and more.  —  Tech billionaire Elon Musk quietly visited the White House in September …
Myah Ward / Politico:
Biden considering major new executive actions for migrant crisis  —  The policies under consideration include changes to asylum standards and stricter points of entry.  —  The Biden administration is considering a string of new executive actions and federal regulations in an effort …
Lauren Kaori Gurley / Washington Post:
Teamsters give GOP first major donation in years with $45,000 to RNC  —  The Teamsters' political committee has given $45,000 to the Republican National Committee, according to federal records, a significant departure for a powerful organized labor group that has more recently supported Democrats …
Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
New Matt Schlapp Subpoenas Target Document-Shredding at CPAC  —  New subpoenas in the sexual assault lawsuit against CPAC leader Matt Schlapp have gone out to key witnesses, including one official who allegedly oversaw shredding in the office. … As the once-storied Conservative Political …
Associated Press:
US man pleads not guilty after two-year-old daughter accidentally shoots herself  —  Michael Tolbert, 44, of Flint becomes first person charged under Michigan's new law requiring safe storage of guns  —  A Michigan man whose two-year-old daughter shot herself in the head with his revolver …
Discussion: KTAR.com
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 9:35 AM ET, February 22, 2024.

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: 
Pam Belluck / New York Times:
Abortion Shield Laws: A New War Between the States
Mike Allen / Axios:
Exclusive: N.Y. Times reporters plan fall exposé on Trump's taxes
Kirk Siegler / NPR:
Federal appeals court revokes Obama-era ban on coal leasing
Discussion: Twin Cities and Fox News
 Earlier Items: 
Shan Wu / The Daily Beast:
Alvin Bragg's Case Against Trump Is Stronger Than You Think
Discussion: Raw Story and Fox News
Kevin Collier / NBC News:
West Virginia's top election official embraces conspiracy theories and election denial
Natasha Korecki / NBC News:
Amy Brown, wife of GOP Senate candidate Sam Brown, opens up about her abortion for the first time publicly
Brian Cheung / NBC News:
Consumers are tired of price increases. Big brands are paying attention.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Josh Fiallo / The Daily Beast:
Florida School Rocked by More Cases of Measles as Parents Skip Vax
 

 
From Techmeme:

New York Times:
Analysis of 3.2M+ Telegram messages from 16K+ channels shows how the app is inundated with criminal activity, CSAM, drug dealers, white nationalists, and more

Eva Hartog / Politico:
A profile of Pavel Durov's older brother Nikolai, who is reportedly still in Russia and is responsible for Telegram's encryption standard MTProto protocol

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Payroll startup Warp, part of YC's W23 batch, disavows a racist post from an affiliate X account, amid claims its affiliates on X are posting “engagement bait”
 
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