Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
2:40 AM ET, May 1, 2024

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
TIME:
Read the Full Transcripts of Donald Trump's Interviews With TIME … Over the course of the interviews, Trump discussed his agenda for a second term, which includes deporting millions of people, cutting the U.S. civil service, and intervening more directly in Justice Department prosecutions than his predecessors.
RELATED:
Eric Cortellessa / TIME:
How Far Trump Would Go  —  The former President, at Mar-a-Lago on April 12, is rallying the right at home and seeking common cause with autocratic leaders abroad.Photograph by Philip Montgomery for TIME  —  Donald Trump thinks he's identified a crucial mistake of his first term: He was too nice.
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
Trump threatens to prosecute Bidens if he's re-elected unless he gets immunity  —  Time magazine called the ex-president's plans ‘an imperial presidency that would reshape America and its role in the world’  —  Donald Trump has warned that Joe Biden and his family could face multiple criminal …
New York Times:
Biden and Democrats Seize on Trump's Striking Interview  —  The president and other top Democrats moved quickly to capitalize politically on Donald J. Trump's interview with Time magazine, particularly his comments on abortion.  —  The Biden campaign is mounting a concerted push …
New York Times:
Here's where campus protesters have been arrested over the past day.  —  Columbia in New York and Portland State University closed their campuses after pro-Palestinian demonstrators took over buildings.  More than 1,100 protesters have been arrested across the country in recent weeks.
RELATED:
Associated Press:
Police clear pro-Palestinian protesters from Columbia University's Hamilton Hall  —  (AP video by Joe Frederick and Jake Offenhartz) (AP produced by Javier Arciga) (May 1)  —  Police on California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, clear protesters and arrest reporter
Lauren Irwin / The Hill:   GOP senator calls for deporting certain foreign student protesters
NBC News:
Campus protests live updates: Columbia closed to nonresidential students, encampments cleared at other schools
Amira McKee / Columbia Daily Spectator:
Dozens occupy Hamilton Hall as pro-Palestinian protests spread across campus
Associated Press:
US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana in a historic shift, AP sources say  —  The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, The Associated Press has learned, a historic shift to generations of American drug policy …
RELATED:
NBC News:
Biden administration plans to reclassify marijuana, easing restrictions nationwide
RELATED:
Lauren Irwin / The Hill:
White House considers admitting some Palestinians from Gaza as refugees
Discussion: CBS News and Foreign Policy
Brady Knox / Washington Examiner:
Biden administration contemplating bringing Palestinian refugees into US: Report
Discussion: Fox News
Bridget Bowman / NBC News:
Democrats win a New York special election, further narrowing the House GOP's majority  —  Democratic state Sen. Tim Kennedy won a special election in the deep blue 26th District in western New York to serve the rest of Brian Higgins' term.  —  Democrats won a special election for a House seat …
Discussion: Politico
RELATED:
Azi Paybarah / Washington Post:
Democrat Tim Kennedy wins New York special election for House seat  —  Once he is sworn in to represent the state's 26th Congressional District, the Republican majority in the chamber will temporarily fall to just one vote.  —  State Sen. Tim Kennedy (D) is projected to win the special election …
Discussion: Mississippi Today
Kevin McGill / Associated Press:
Judges Reject Map That Would Have Given Louisiana New Majority-Black House District  —  The decision is likely to be appealed to the Supreme Court, leaving Louisiana in congressional district limbo for now.  —  LOADING  —  A new congressional district map giving Louisiana …
RELATED:
Zach Montellaro / Politico:   Court tosses map that created second Black House district in Louisiana
Brandi Buchman / Law & Crime:
‘Jeffrey Clark betrayed his oath’: Trump DOJ lawyer behind fake electors plot should be disbarred, disciplinary panel says  —  The District of Columbia's Office of Disciplinary Counsel issued a recommendation this week battering the credibility of former Donald Trump Justice Department attorney Jeffrey Clark …
New York Times:
After Ukraine Aid Vote, Republicans Braced for Backlash Find Little  —  Some Republicans who backed the aid encountered little resistance from voters, who were far more willing to embrace it — and less interested in ousting the speaker over it — than their right-wing colleagues.
Discussion: Fox News and Semafor
RELATED:
NBC News:
Marjorie Taylor Greene struggles to find GOP support for deposing Mike Johnson
Zach Kessel / National Review:
Northwestern Cuts Deal with Encampment Organizers, Establishes Full-Ride Scholarship for Palestinian Students  —  After five days of anti-Israel demonstrators occupying Deering Meadow on Northwestern University's campus, Northwestern president Michael Schill and the rest of the university's leadership decided …
Arp Laszlo / What Was I Doing Again?:
USPol #USPolitics #Politics #Fascism  —  11 thoughts on “#USPol #USPolitics #Politics #Fascism”  —  @ArpComics Peaceful protesters who don't trespass or cause damage to property are for the most part left to protest peacefully.  What is happening now is an embarrassment and is in no way a protest.
ProPublica:
Philips Agrees to Pay $1 Billion to Patients Who Say They Were Injured by Breathing Machines  —  The proposed settlement will effectively end more than 700 lawsuits filed after the 2021 recall of millions of the company's widely used sleep apnea devices and ventilators.  —  Co-published with Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Ken Klippenstein:
Why I'm Resigning From The Intercept  —  I resigned from The Intercept today in order to pursue a new kind of journalism here on Substack, one more hard-hitting than what's possible in the corporate world.  The Intercept has been taken over by suits who have abandoned its founding mission …
Nick Robertson / The Hill:
Barnard president loses vote of no confidence as criticism mounts over protest response  —  The president of Barnard College at Columbia University lost a faculty-wide vote of no confidence on Tuesday, as criticism mounts over the school's response to a pro-Palestine encampment that has sparked …
Jessica Piper / Politico:
Trump quickly fundraises off judge's contempt ruling in hush money case  —  ‘THEY WANT TO SILENCE ME!’  —  Donald Trump's campaign immediately sought to capitalize after the judge in his New York criminal trial ruled him in contempt of court — the latest example of how the former president's campaign …
RELATED:
NBC News:
Judge holds Trump in contempt for violating gag order in hush money trial
William Vaillancourt / The Daily Beast:
Fox Business Host Goes There: Biden's ‘Woke’ Tax Policies Are Anti-White  —  QUIET PART OUT LOUD  —  Larry Kudlow on Tuesday made the assumption that Joe Biden's tax policies are part of a bigger scheme against conservatives.  —  Fox Business Network host and former Trump White House …
Igor Bobic / HuffPost:
'I Didn't Shoot My Dog': Mitt Romney Resents Being Compared To Kristi Noem  —  “I loved my dog and my dog loved me,” the Utah senator said when asked about comparisons between him and South Dakota's GOP governor.  —  LOADING  —  WASHINGTON ― Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) …
Theodore Schleifer / Puck:
Guess Who's Coming to Elon's Dinner  —  A secret billionaire dinner party in Hollywood, convened by Elon Musk and David Sacks, presages a major political realignment as Silicon Valley money turns against Biden and begins flowing to Donald Trump.  —  On a brisk Friday evening earlier this month …
Discussion: Business Insider
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 2:40 AM ET, May 1, 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: 
Ken Bensinger / New York Times:
Law Firm Defending Trump Seeks to Withdraw From a Long-Running Case
Discussion: Raw Story
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trumpworld has a new nonsensical theory of his document-case innocence
Discussion: Raw Story
Roque Planas / HuffPost:
Border Patrol Agents Joked About Killing Migrant Children, Records Show
 Earlier Items: 
Isabela Dias / Mother Jones:
How a Few Secret Donors Are Fueling the New Right-Wing Infrastructure
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Fox News Quietly Deletes Hunter Biden ‘Mock Trial’ Series
Lauren Sforza / The Hill:
Obama says Trump ‘not considered a serious guy’ in New York
New York Times:
Live Updates: Lawyer for Stormy Daniels Takes Stand in Trump Criminal Trial
Byron Tau / NOTUS:
War Zone Surveillance Technology Is Hitting American Streets
 

 
From Techmeme:

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

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
OpenAI says the ChatGPT desktop app for macOS can now read code from some developer-focused apps, including VS Code, Xcode, TextEdit, Terminal, and iTerm2

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
 
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