Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
10:30 AM ET, February 8, 2025

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Shayna Jacobs / Washington Post:
Federal judge blocks Musk's DOGE from access to Treasury Department material  —  The judge also ordered Musk and his team to “immediately destroy any and all copies of material downloaded from Treasury Department's records and systems, if any.”  —  NEW YORK — A federal judge issued …
Discussion: Townhall and CBS News
RELATED:
Wired:
A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’  —  An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”
Washington Post:
Treasury was warned DOGE access to payments marked an ‘insider threat’  —  The assessment, done by the contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, came before Treasury tapped an ally of Elon Musk to oversee the sensitive payment system.  —  The Treasury Department was warned in a confidential assessment …
New York Times:
Judge Halts Access to Treasury Payment Systems by Elon Musk's Team  —  The order came in response to a lawsuit filed by 19 attorneys general accusing the president of failing to faithfully execute the nation's laws when he let DOGE comb through federal computer systems.
Alex Galbraith / Salon:
“The greatest threat we've ever faced”: US Treasury division classifies DOGE staff as extreme danger
Discussion: FedScoop
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Judge orders sweeping restriction on DOGE access to sensitive Treasury payment systems
Discussion: Business Insider and Bloomberg
Michael Stratford / Politico:
Treasury elevates Musk ally to lead government payment system
New York Times:
Advocate of Jan. 6 Rioters Now Runs Office That Investigated Them  —  Ed Martin, a loyal Trump soldier, oversees the U.S. attorney's office, which is likely to help turn the investigative powers of the government on several of the president's perceived enemies.
RELATED:
Darlene Superville / Associated Press:
Trump says he's ending Biden's classified intelligence briefings in payback move
Declan Walsh / New York Times:   Trump and Musk Bring Vast Aid Machinery to a Halt in Africa
Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
With Aid Cutoff, Trump Severs a Lifeline for Millions
Discussion: Bloomberg
grants.nih.gov:
Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates  —  Related Announcements  —  Issued by  —  Office of The Director, National Institutes of Health (OD)  —  Purpose  —  The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awards a large number of grants providing …
RELATED:
Christina Jewett / New York Times:
Deep Cuts to Medical Research Funds Could Hobble University Budgets  —  Grants from the National Institutes of Health come with additional money for overhead.  Proposed funding cuts would leave colleges with large budget gaps.  —  The National Institutes of Health announced a new policy Friday …
Discussion: STAT
Kathryn Watson / CBS News:
Trump fires archivist of the United States, official who oversees government records  —  President Trump has fired Archivist of the United States Colleen J. Shogan, the government official responsible for preserving and providing access to government records.
Discussion: Reuters, ABC News and KRDO
RELATED:
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Trump Fires National Archives Director Colleen Shogan
Discussion: New York Times
Politico:
Trump fires National Archives chief
Discussion: NBC News, Bloomberg and The Hill
New York Times:
Trump Says He Will Dismiss Kennedy Center Board Members and Install Himself as Chair  —  The move by the president, whose authority to make the changes was not clear, is the latest attempt to bring a Washington institution under his control.  —  President Trump announced his intention …
RELATED:
Bloomberg:
Musk's DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets  —  Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm's servers.  Now he has access to sensitive government information.  —  Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old member of Elon Musk's squad that's …
Mother Jones:
Kash Patel Took $25,000 From Russia-Linked Firm to Appear on an Anti-FBI TV Series  —  Last year, Kash Patel, the MAGA provocateur whom Donald Trump has nominated to head the FBI, received $25,000 from a Russia-linked production company to participate in a documentary in which he assailed the FBI and called for closing its headquarters.
RELATED:
Washington Post:
Kash Patel was paid by Russian filmmaker with Kremlin ties, documents show
Discussion: The Independent
Deidre McPhillips / CNN:
Measles outbreak expands in West Texas around county with low vaccination rate  —  A measles outbreak is growing in a rural area of West Texas where vaccination rates are well below the recommended level.  —  In late January, two children in Gaines County were hospitalized for measles.
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
Teen on Musk's DOGE Team Graduated from ‘The Com’  —  Wired reported this week that a 19-year-old working for Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was given access to sensitive US government systems even though his past association with cybercrime communities …
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Did Trump Quietly Kill a Sensitive Pentagon Probe into Elon Musk?  —  In December, more than a month before Donald Trump took the presidential oath of office, The New York Times reported a blockbuster scoop: Elon Musk and his SpaceX company had repeatedly failed to meet federal reporting requirements designed …
Politico:
They still want ‘one big, beautiful bill.’ They're nowhere close.  —  GOP leaders are trying to lasso various factions as the Senate races ahead with its own plan for President Donald Trump's tax cuts and other priorities.  —  House Republicans are still far from finalizing several key details …
RELATED:
Naomi LaChance / Raw Story:
30K tons of food ‘going to waste’ in Houston after Trump halted aid  —  About 30,000 tons of food is stuck at a port in Houston after Trump halted foreign aid for 90 days.  The food, intended to feed people overseas, is stalled at a warehouse,the Houston Chronicle reported.
Casey Michel / The Moscow Times:
Washington Has Given Up the Fight Against Kleptocrats.  Here's What Democracies Should Do  —  On Feb. 6, new U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a series of new directives from President Donald Trump's administration outlining her office's priorities.  Taken together, they represent …
Abdallah Fayyad / Vox:
The real lesson of the DOGE racist tweets scandal  —  On Thursday, the Wall Street Journal reported that a staffer at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) resigned after the paper inquired about some racist social media posts from an account linked to him.
RELATED:
Patrick Svitek / Washington Post:
Musk to rehire DOGE staffer with history of racist tweets
Pew Research Center:
1. Trump's second term: Early ratings and expectations  —  Table of Contents Table of Contents  —  Americans are deeply divided over Donald Trump's plans and the way he is handling his job in the early weeks of his return to the presidency.  —  Overall, 47% of U.S. adults approve …
Alexander Tin / CBS News:
Trump officials exerting unprecedented control over CDC scientific journal  —  Trump administration political appointees have taken steps in recent weeks to exert unprecedented influence over the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's flagship medical research publication …
Discussion: Wired
María Luisa Paúl / Washington Post:
Trump halts aid to South Africa, claiming discrimination against Afrikaners  —  His executive order accuses South Africa's government of seizing property from White landowners and calls for their resettlement as “refugees” in the U.S.  —  President Donald Trump on Friday signed …
New York Times:
Falsehoods Fuel the Right-Wing Crusade Against U.S.A.I.D.  —  As the Trump administration works to dismantle the aid agency, right-wing influencers have flooded the internet with falsehoods about its work.  —  The video falsely claiming that the United States Agency for International …
Fiona Harvey / The Guardian:
‘Backsliding’: most countries to miss vital climate deadline as Cop30 nears  —  Developing countries urge biggest polluters to act as Trump's return to the White House heightens geopolitical turmoil  —  The vast majority of governments are likely to miss a looming deadline to file vital plans …
Wall Street Journal:
The Mood of the American Consumer is Souring  —  Tariff threats, market turbulence causing jitters early in Trump's second term  —  The Trump bump in consumer confidence is already over.  —  Tariff threats, stock market swings and rapidly reversing executive orders are causing Americans across …
Discussion: The Independent and Raw Story
Shawn McCreesh / New York Times:
Will a Time Magazine Cover Drive a Wedge Between Trump and Musk?  —  The cover of the venerable newsweekly, long an object of fixation for the president, put Elon Musk behind the Resolute Desk.  —  The president did not look amused.  He was meeting the Japanese prime minister …
Washington Post:
Lawmakers flooded with calls about Elon Musk: ‘It is a deluge on DOGE’  —  “We can hardly answer the phones fast enough,” one senator said.  —  Constituents have flooded the phone lines at the U.S. Capitol this week, many of them asking questions about billionaire Elon Musk …
Discussion: Raw Story and Crooks and Liars
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
Is Donald Trump Afraid of Elon Musk?  —  The president has long operated without anything resembling worry when it comes to appointments or executive action, but as his most powerful—and richest—political ally chainsaws his way through the federal government, some observers wonder if Trump might be tasting his own medicine.
ProPublica:
The Elite Lawyers Working for Elon Musk's DOGE Include Former Supreme Court Clerks  —  Much attention has been paid to the young Silicon Valley engineers working for Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, but the group has also hired high-powered legal talent.
Lorie Konish / CNBC:
RFK Jr. had up to $1.2 million in credit card debt — what experts say about tackling high balances … Americans' credit card balances soared to a record $1.17 trillion in 2024 — and even the wealthy are not immune from carrying these balances.  —  One example is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. …
Discussion: CBS News
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 10:30 AM ET, February 8, 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: 
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Republicans retool their ‘parents’ rights' playbook for the Virginia governor's race
Aaron Wiener / Washington Post:
Federal workers who took Trump buyout feel fear, regret after judge's order
Discussion: ZeroHedge News and NBC News
Wall Street Journal:
Russell Vought Taking Over as New Acting Head of CFPB
Discussion: Townhall and The Gateway Pundit
Natalia Drozdiak / Bloomberg:
Former Spies Warn Congress Over ‘Insidious’ Aim of CIA Buyouts
 Earlier Items: 
Lisa Lerer / New York Times:
Democrats Take Aim at Elon Musk
Discussion: Jacobin and New York Post
Allison Walker / International Business Times:
Trump Signs Order to Kill Federal Agency Investigating Tesla
Nick Niedzwiadek / Politico:
Judge denies union demand to block DOGE's access to Labor Department data
Antonio Pequeño IV / Forbes:
Pete Hegseth Under Fire From Dems Over Alleged $49,000 ‘Emergency’ Paint Job For Government Home
Discussion: Bloomberg
David Enrich / New York Times:
Trump's New Line of Attack Against the Media Gains Momentum
Discussion: Mercury News and Forbes
Reuters:
Staffer with Elon Musk's DOGE amplified white supremacists online
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Filip Timotija / The Hill:
Source says “most” journalists at Voice of America were put on administrative leave, a day after Trump signed an EO aimed at eliminating the USAGM

Tara Bennett / AV Club:
How Looney Tunes' first original animated feature got released, as WBD's legacy franchise is at a crossroads, all but abandoned by the studio it helped define

Martin Fackler / New York Times:
A look at Japan's first media nonprofit dedicated to investigative journalism, Tokyo Investigative Newsroom Tansa, started eight years ago by Makoto Watanabe

 
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