Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
11:20 AM ET, October 21, 2024

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Susan Page / USA Today:
Harris leads Trump 2-1 among the earliest voters, many driven by abortion access: new poll  —  Democrat Kamala Harris has a sweeping lead over Republican Donald Trump − among voters who have already cast their ballots, that is.  —  A new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll shows …
RELATED:
New York Times:
Kamala Harris Has an Unexpected Ally  —  Bret Stephens: Please don't tell me you're going to ask how I'm going to vote.  —  Gail Collins: Well, Bret, why would you imagine such a thing?  Just because I keep getting stopped by people on the street, demanding to know whether you're going to support Kamala Harris.
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
“I started to learn what patriarchy was”: How Donald Trump pushed Republican women out of the GOP  —  Former Republican women explain why they finally broke with Trump: “I was ashamed”  —  PHILADELPHIA — Melanie Barton-Gauss, a retired teacher from Florida, traveled to the City of Brotherly Love …
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
Republicans set stage for PA vote counting shenanigans  —  If you can't beat 'em, destroy the system. … 🍟  —  There's no question that for the 2024 election, Pennsylvania is currently ground zero, so it's unsurprising that both campaigns are campaigning hard in the state.
RELATED:
Steven Shepard / Politico:   Where are the polls?  —  Just by looking at the polls, you wouldn't know Election Day is 16 days away.
USA Today:
Exclusive poll: Harris and Trump tied amid battle for Latino and Black voters
Discussion: Fox News
Washington Post:
Trump serves McDonald's fries to supporters in stage-managed campaign stop  —  Trump didn't answer a question on the minimum wage, instead promoting his unsubstantiated claim that Kamala Harris never worked at the burger chain.  —  Trump works fry station at McDonald's in Pennsylvania
RELATED:
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Supreme Court Rejects Bid to Let President Fire Agency Leaders  — Case could have stripped SEC, FTC, CPSC of independence  — Appeal pressed by research groups represented by Don McGahn … The appeal, pressed by two research organizations in a case involving the Consumer Product Safety Commission …
Discussion: CBS News and The Hill
Tom D'Angelo / Palm Beach Post:
Arnold Palmer's daughter on what he would think of Donald Trump today: 'I think he'd cringe'  —  Donald Trump's opening at his rally Saturday in Latrobe, Pa., birthplace of the late Arnold Palmer, was a boast about how close he was to the legendary golfer.  —  But that relationship …
RELATED:
Sean Craig / The Daily Beast:
Arnold Palmer Was ‘Appalled’ by ‘Crude’ Trump, Who Praised the Late Golfer's Genitals
Sarah Rainsford / BBC:
Moldova says ‘Yes’ to pro-EU constitutional changes by tiny margin  —  BBC Eastern Europe correspondent, Chisinau  —  People in Moldova have backed the Eastern European country's proposed changes to its constitution and commitment to joining the EU by the thinnest of margins in a referendum.
CBS News:
A statement from 60 Minutes  —  Former President Donald Trump is accusing 60 Minutes of deceitful editing of our Oct. 7 interview with Vice President Kamala Harris.  That is false.  —  60 Minutes gave an excerpt of our interview to Face the Nation that used a longer section of her answer than that on 60 Minutes.
RELATED:
Popular Information:
TD Bank executives oversee $670 billion drug money laundering scheme, avoid jail  —  On March 7, 2024, Attorney General Merrick Garland, speaking at the American Bar Association's 39th Annual White Collar Institute, gave an impassioned soliloquy on the importance of criminally prosecuting …
CBS News:
“Election protection” activist says he plans to flag voters with “Hispanic-sounding” names as “suspicious”  —  In a video obtained by CBS News, the leader of an “election protection” activist group of 1,800 volunteers in North Carolina is seen instructing attendees at a virtual meeting to flag voters with …
Steven Shepard / Politico:
He Runs Fox News' Decision Desk.  Here's How He Sees Election Night Coming.  —  In a new interview, Arnon Mishkin opens up about controversial election calls and makes some predictions for what's to come.  —  Arnon Mishkin poses for a photo at the Fox News headquarters on Oct. 16 in New York.
Michael Kransz / MLive.com:
Gerald Ford's daughter endorses Kamala Harris for president  —  GRAND RAPIDS, MI - The daughter of Michigan's only president, Gerald R. Ford, has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris.The youngest child of the late Republican president, Susan Ford Bales, issued the endorsement Monday, Oct. 21 …
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court rejects Michael Cohen's civil rights claim against Trump  —  The justices turned away Cohen's appeal over his claim that Trump and other officials put him in solitary confinement in order to silence him.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected disbarred lawyer Michael Cohen's …
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The thin veneer over Trump's fascistic rhetoric  —  The former president knows what he's not supposed to say, but he often can't help saying it anyway.  —  Former president Donald Trump participated in an interview that aired on Fox News on Sunday.  If so inclined, as many Fox News viewers presumably …
Juliegrace Brufke / Axios:
Scoop: Mike Johnson's tense text messages with Liz Cheney … - Johnson said the two “agreed to disagree” over whether Trump is a threat to democracy.  — Cheney disputed Johnson's characterization of the exchange, telling Axios that she and the speaker “used to be friends, but we did not ‘agree to disagree.’”
Discussion: Raw Story, New York Post and Reuters
Wall Street Journal:
The ‘Fascist’ Meme Returns  —  Why the public isn't buying this Democratic claim about Trump.  —  No doubt it was inevitable.  As Election Day nears, and the progressive panic over Donald Trump escalates, Democrats are closing their campaign with a favorite theme: Mr. Trump is a threat to the Constitution …
Russell Contreras / Axios:
1 in 5 Republicans want Trump to call election invalid if he loses … - The survey from the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and the Brookings Institution is the latest sign of how Trump's grievances and conspiracy theories have reshaped his party — and whipped up its most disaffected, far-right elements.
Discussion: The Independent
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
AS ATTACKS INTENSIFY, TRUMP BECOMES MORE POPULAR.  It's hard to measure the intensity of negative media coverage of former President Donald Trump, but it's safe to say it is rising as Election Day approaches.  What's interesting to note is that in the face of unrelentingly negative coverage …
Zoe Tillman / Bloomberg:
Trump Faces Defamation Suit From Exonerated ‘Central Park Five’  — Trump is sued over comments he made in presidential debate  — Five teenagers wrongfully convicted in 1989 jogger rape case  —  Donald Trump is facing a defamation lawsuit over comments he made during …
Discussion: Forbes, The Hill and CNBC
Axios:
McConnell backed Jack Smith, wanted Trump to “pay” for Jan. 6 … - “If he hasn't committed indictable offenses, I don't know what one is,” the longest-serving Republican leader told journalist Michael Tackett in an interview for “The Price of Power,” weeks after Smith brought the charges against Trump in August 2023.
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Biden to Propose That Insurers Cover Over-the-Counter Birth Control  —  The new rules under the Affordable Care Act would include emergency contraception, a newly approved nonprescription birth control pill, spermicides and condoms.  —  The White House announced on Monday that it would propose …
Discussion: The Hill and The White House
RELATED:
Chandelis Duster / NPR:
Biden administration proposes a rule to make over-the-counter birth control free
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 11:20 AM ET, October 21, 2024.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 Who's Hiring in Media? 
 
 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: 
Lee Moran / HuffPost:
Donald Trump Biographers Call Out All The Signs Of His Possible Cognitive Decline
Discussion: Twitchy
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
October 20, 2024  —  I had hoped to write tonight about the farm bill, which Eric Hovde …
Andrew Prokop / Vox:
What happened to the progressive revolution?
Discussion: The Guardian
Jakob Hanke Vela / Politico:
EU's game plan for Trump trade war: ‘Hit back fast and hard’
Discussion: Fortune
John Della Volpe / New York Times:
Trump's Bro-Whispering Could Cost Democrats Too Many Young Men
Discussion: American Prospect and Raw Story
Julie Zauzmer Weil / Washington Post:
Trump proposals could drain Social Security in 6 years, budget group says
Discussion: Raw Story and Democrats
 Earlier Items: 
Charlotte Klein / New York Magazine:
Can the Media Survive? … On and off the record with:  —  Imran Amed, founder and editor-in-chief, The Business of Fashion.
Madison Fernandez / Politico:
The GOP has been using a campaign finance loophole to save on TV ads. Now Dems are getting in on it.
Discussion: The Message Box
Noah Bierman / Los Angeles Times:
Campaign Notebook: I spent 3 days in the ‘blue wall’ states. Here's what voters told me
Jessica Piper / Politico:
Harris outraised Trump more than 3-to-1 in September
Discussion: CBS News, Associated Press and The Hill
Crooks and Liars:
Trump's Brain Is Broken And JD Vance Is The Real Candidate
Dan Froomkin / Salon:
If Trump wins, blame the New York Times
Discussion: Breitbart
 

 
From Techmeme:

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Anthropic raised another $4B from Amazon, will make AWS its primary training partner, and is working with Annapurna Labs to develop new Trainium accelerators

Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Researchers detail a “nearest neighbor attack” by Russia's APT28, which remotely breached a target's Wi-Fi by hijacking a laptop in a building across the street

Carly Page / TechCrunch:
Palo Alto Networks says it has observed exploitation of two zero-days in its PAN-OS firewall OS; researchers say hackers have compromised 2,000+ firewalls

 
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