Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
12:10 PM ET, January 26, 2025

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Associated Press:
Trump wants Jordan and Egypt to accept more Palestinian refugees and floats plan to ‘clean out’ Gaza  —  President Donald Trump said Saturday he would like to see Jordan, Egypt and other Arab nations increase the number of Palestinian refugees they are accepting from the Gaza Strip …
RELATED:
Emma Graham-Harrison / The Guardian:
Trump suggests Palestinians leave Gaza and ‘we just clean out’ territory  —  US president says he wants people to move to neighbouring nations, after resuming shipments of 2,000lb bombs to Israel  —  Donald Trump has suggested large numbers of Palestinians should leave Gaza to “just clean out” …
Betsy Klein / CNN:
Trump suggests his plan for Gaza Strip is to ‘clean out the whole thing’  —  President Donald Trump indicated Saturday that he had spoken with the king of Jordan about a potential plan to construct housing and move more than 1 million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to other countries …
New York Times:
Trump Says He Wants Jordan and Egypt to Take in Palestinians From Gaza  —  President Trump said he had spoken to Jordan's leader and planned to call Egypt's on Sunday.  Most of Gaza's two million residents have been displaced in 15 months of fighting.  —  President Trump said he told King Abdullah II …
Discussion: Politico
Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:
Trump Floats Forced Relocation of Gazans: ‘Clean Out That Whole Thing’
Discussion: VINnews and Reuters
Marc Caputo / Axios:
Scoop: How Trump's “black box” limits outside influences
Discussion: CNN and Associated Press
Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
South Korea's Impeached Leader Is Indicted on Insurrection Charges  —  President Yoon Suk Yeol will stand trial along with his former defense minister and others who participated in his short-lived imposition of martial law.  —  South Korea's impeached and arrested president, Yoon Suk Yeol …
RELATED:
Hyung-Jin Kim / Associated Press:
South Korean prosecutors indict impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol over his martial law
Discussion: The Hill and Semafor
Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
‘Look in the Mirror’: New Catholic JD Vance Lectures Church Leaders on Faith  —  Vance, who converted to the Catholic Church five years ago, called on a group of bishops to “do better” after they criticized the White House's immigration policies.
Discussion: CBS News and Twitchy
RELATED:
Russell Contreras / Axios:
Musk tells far-right Germany party “past guilt” gets too much focus … - Musk in 2023 faced backlash for endorsing an antisemitic post, as 164 Jewish rabbis and activists upped their calls to companies to stop advertising on the Musk-owned X.  — He's also failed to stop the posting or amplification of pro-Nazi content on X.
RELATED:
CNN:
Trump wiped January 6 convicts' records clean.  Now his DOJ is wiping evidence of rioters' crimes from the internet  —  As President Donald Trump this week sought to rewrite the history of his supporters' attack on the US Capitol, a database detailing the vast array of criminal charges …
Politico:
‘I am terrified’: Workers describe the dark mood inside federal agencies  —  “I would love to leave, but I don't know where I'd go,” said one staffer.  —  President Donald Trump's executive orders targeting the federal workforce have injected a fresh wave of anxiety among employees across the bureaucracy …
Discussion: RedState, Townhall and Twitchy
RELATED:
Alexandra Marquez / NBC News:
Sen. Lindsey Graham says he thinks Trump pardoning violent Jan. 6 defendants was ‘a mistake’  —  In an interview on NBC News' “Meet the Press,” GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham said of the president's decision to pardon those convicted of violent crimes: “I think that's a mistake.”
New York Times:
In 2024 Elections, Most Races Were Over Before They Started  —  A New York Times analysis shows new maps stifled partisan competition for seats in the House of Representatives and state legislatures.  —  Competition is an endangered species in legislative elections.
NBC News:
White House tells Republicans to get behind Trump's nominees — or face political ‘consequences’  —  More Trump nominees with potentially rocky paths to confirmation face hearings in the Senate this week, including Tulsi Gabbard, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Kash Patel.
Discussion: Mediaite, Alternet.org and Bloomberg
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Officials Waste No Time in Justice Department's Rightward Shift  —  As Pam Bondi awaits confirmation as attorney general, interim leaders are moving to wipe out Biden-era policies  —  WASHINGTON—Even before Donald Trump's portrait could be restored to the walls of the Justice Department …
Peter Baker / New York Times:
‘People Will Be Shocked’: Trump Tests the Boundaries of the Presidency  —  Even more than in his first term, President Trump has mounted a fundamental challenge to the norms and expectations of what a president can and should do.  —  On his first full day back in the White House …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The 12 Democrats who make the most sense for 2028  —  There's a vacuum atop an adrift Democratic Party.  Here's who could fill it.  —  Democrats are adrift.  —  The 2024 election was closer than many people realize — and a lot closer than President Donald Trump claims.
Discussion: The Guardian
Wall Street Journal:
Meta's Free-Speech Shift Made It Clear to Advertisers: ‘Brand Safety’ Is Out of Vogue  —  Social-media giant's loosening of speech restrictions is unsettling advertisers, who say a decade of efforts to protect their reputations is at risk  —  When Meta Platforms Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg …
Politico:
Trump's executive actions have more muscle this time around, but many are just posturing  —  The president's early actions are already enacting sweeping changes across the federal government.  But not all of them are likely to result in tangible change.  —  President Donald Trump's first week …
Discussion: Raw Story
Anthony Zurcher / BBC:
Trump says Keir Starmer doing ‘very good job’  —  US President Donald Trump has said Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has done a “very good job thus far” and that the pair have a “very good relationship”.  —  Asked by the BBC on board Air Force One about his relationship with Sir Keir …
Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
The immunity decision does not mean that Trump can do anything now  —  The new administration is extreme, but that is not an excuse to say “there's no point.”  Also: The Trump administration has already started to take action at SCOTUS.  —  It has been a week to remind us of what it means to live during a Trump administration.
Bobby Allyn / NPR:
Exclusive: White House in talks to have Oracle and U.S. investors take over TikTok  —  The Trump administration is working on a plan to save TikTok that involves tapping software company Oracle and a group of outside investors to effectively take control of the app's global operations …
Filip Timotija / The Hill:
Florida Republican urges Trump to spare some migrants under deportation plan  —  Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.) is urging President Trump's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to spare some migrants from Latin America and the Caribbean from being deported under the new administration's immigration guidelines.
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 12:10 PM ET, January 26, 2025.

View the current page or another snapshot:


Page version:
 
 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:
Trump's federal DEI purge puts hundreds on leave, nixes $420M in contracts
Discussion: NBC News
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Trump Doesn't Get to Decide What the Constitution Means
Discussion: The Independent
Auzinea Bacon / CNN:
Expect record-high egg prices for most of the year
Arwa Mahdawi / The Guardian:
After his executive order on sex, is Trump legally the first female president?
Discussion: Twitchy
New York Post:
Florida man arrested for allegedly making ‘violent’ threats against President Trump
 Earlier Items: 
Clara Ence Morse / Washington Post:
5 ways Project 2025 appeared in Trump's presidential directives
Discussion: Twitchy
Politico:
CIA now says Covid-19 is more likely to have originated from a lab leak
Washington Post:
Trump's first-week strategy: ‘Flood the zone.’ Repeat.
Jason Alatidd / The Topeka Capital-Journal:
Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is now America's largest in recorded history
Fallon Roth / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
A Montgomery County official mimicked Elon Musk's controversial ‘salute,’ sparking outrage online and her resignation from the local library and a nonprofit
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Wall Street Journal:
WBD adds Anton Levy, former co-president of PE firm General Atlantic, to its board, a source says due to pressure from activist shareholder Sessa Capital

Max Goldbart / Deadline:
The BBC says its content spend will fall by £150M to £2.5B in the next 12 months as it faces an “unprecedented content funding challenge”

Megan Graham / Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo hires Josh Line, who was most recently Paramount Global's chief brand officer, as its CMO to revive its brand as “one of the OGs of the internet”

 
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