Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
3:45 PM ET, April 24, 2024

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Tara Suter / The Hill:
GOP senator: Greene ‘dragging our brand down’  —  Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) took a shot at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) Tuesday, saying she is “dragging our brand down.”  —  “She is a horrible leader,” Tillis said of Greene, according to audio played on CNN's “Erin Burnett OutFront.”
Discussion: Alternet.org and Mediaite
RELATED:
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Congress Pokes Trump, Putin in Eye  —  The foreign aid bill—$95 billion for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, plus other sundries like a possible ban on TikTok—is headed to Joe Biden's desk after the Senate approved it 79-18 last night.  —  A quick reminder: It was only months ago …
Marc A. Caputo / The Bulwark:
How “The Nelson Mandela of America” Is Making Bank Off His Criminal Trial  —  IN THE FIRST WEEK OF HIS CRIMINAL TRIAL, Donald Trump raised about $5.6 million online by warning his small dollar-donors that the “Deep State” was out to lock him up.  —  “I JUST STORMED INTO COURT,” …
CNN:
Biden signs foreign aid bill providing crucial military assistance to Ukraine
Politico:
How McConnell and Schumer beat hardline conservatives on Ukraine
Stephen Neukam / Axios:
Trump allies zero in on hush-money prosecutor
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Politico:   Why Biden's blasé about campus turmoil
New York Times:
Three Takeaways From the Pennsylvania Primaries
Myah Ward / Politico:   Biden hails foreign aid bill's passage, pledges to get arms shipped within ‘hours’
Meridith McGraw / Politico:
How Donald Trump Gets His News  —  The former president is a voracious press consumer.  Here's how his media diet has changed since his last presidential campaign.  —  Donald Trump has always had a symbiotic relationship with the media.  Back when he was a Manhattan bachelor and real estate mogul …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
RELATED:
Laura Romero / ABC News:
Trump, Giuliani, Meadows are unindicted co-conspirators in Michigan fake elector case, hearing reveals  —  The Michigan AG last year charged 16 Republicans with being “fake electors.”  —  Former President Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a Farmers for Trump campaign event …
RELATED:
Craig Mauger / The Detroit News:
Trump is a co-conspirator in Michigan's 2020 false electors plot, state investigator says  —  Lansing — Michigan prosecutors consider former President Donald Trump and some of his top aides co-conspirators in the plot to submit a certificate falsely claiming he won Michigan's 2020 election …
Discussion: Bloomberg, PoliticusUSA and Raw Story
David Koenig / HuffPost:
Airlines Required To Give Automatic Cash Refunds For Canceled And Delayed Flights  —  The Biden administration is defining a significant delay as lasting at least three hours for domestic flights and six hours for international ones.  —  LOADING  —  The Biden administration issued final rules Wednesday …
RELATED:
Oriana Pawlyk / Politico:
Biden administration makes it easier for flyers to get refunds
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Why is Trump giving someone a ‘key to the White House’?  —  From Jan. 20, 2017, until Jan. 20, 2021, Donald Trump was president of the United States.  This is a position that includes many perks, offered to the person who was selected by American voters to serve as chief executive.
Discussion: Raw Story
CNN:
How the House GOP's Biden impeachment effort fell apart  —  House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer was eager to take the reins of a high-stakes investigation into President Joe Biden and his family, seen as central to the House Republican agenda - a coveted perch that brought the added benefit of elevating his national profile.
RELATED:
Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
Sean Hannity hasn't mentioned the GOP impeachment probe on Fox in over a month
Discussion: Raw Story
Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to President Biden's desk … A bill that would force China-based company ByteDance to sell TikTok — or else face a US ban of the platform — is all but certain to become law after the Senate passed a foreign aid package including the measure.
RELATED:
Brian Fung / CNN:
Biden just signed a potential TikTok ban into law. Here's what happens next
Washington Post:10 minutes ago
Arizona House votes to repeal abortion ban, advancing issue to state Senate  —  PHOENIX — The Arizona House voted Wednesday to repeal a Civil War-era ban on nearly all abortions that is set to take effect as early as June 8.  The measure now heads to the state Senate, which could grant final passage next week.
Washington Post:
Live updates Supreme Court hears arguments in case over emergency abortion care  —  The Supreme Court is currently hearing arguments Wednesday over whether the federal government has the power to penalize hospitals that fail to provide emergency abortions even in states with strict bans on the procedure.
Ankush Khardori / Politico:
How to Know If the Supreme Court Is in the Tank for Trump  —  Trump's bid for immunity from prosecution in Washington is an absurd farce.  Will the court's conservatives bail him out?  —  This week at the Supreme Court, a simple question will sound difficult: Can a former president …
Mychael Schnell / The Hill:
New Jersey Rep. Donald Payne Jr. dead at 65  —  Rep. Donald Payne Jr. (D-N.J.), who represented New Jersey in the House for more than a decade, has died at the age of 65.  —  New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) confirmed Payne's death in a statement on Wednesday.
Bonchie / RedState:
DISGUSTING: Hamas Releases Propaganda Video of American Hostage Missing His Arm  —  Hamas has released a propaganda video featuring one of the American hostages it holds.  In it, Hersh Goldberg-Polin is seen reading a pre-prepared script blaming Israel for October 7th and everything that has transpired since.
Edward Zitron / Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At:
The Man Who Killed Google Search  —  This is the story of how Google Search died, and the people responsible for killing it.  —  The story begins on February 5th 2019, when Ben Gomes, Google's head of search, had a problem. … For those unfamiliar with Google's internal scientology-esque jargon, let me explain.
Declan Harty / Politico:
Trump Media CEO calls on GOP lawmakers for help in Wall Street fight  —  The letter marks a new salvo in Trump Media's claims that the company's stock is being manipulated by professional traders betting on its downfall.  —  Trump Media & Technology Group CEO Devin Nunes is escalating …
Discussion: CNBC, CBS News, Raw Story and The Guardian
Quinnipiac University Poll:
2024 Race: Dead Heat: Biden 46%, Trump 46%, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Support For Legal Abortion Reaches All-Time High  —  mail_outline  —  If the election for president were being held today, the race would be a dead heat between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump …
Discussion: PoliticusUSA
Alex Thompson / Axios:
Exclusive: Trump brothers Eric and Don Jr. emerge as loyalty czars … - Don Jr.'s goal “is to keep the John Boltons of the world outside a second Trump administration,” a person close to him told Axios, referring to Donald Trump's hawkish former national security adviser who wrote a bestselling book lambasting the former president.
Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
George W. Bush was a terrible president  —  Looking back at the last — disastrous — era of efficacious conservative policymaking  —  If you're in the DC area, I'm hosting a book talk for Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld about their new book “The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics.”
Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
Trump's New Legal Bills Are Hiding an $8 Million Mystery  —  CONCEALED CARRY  —  Trump is using a GOP compliance firm as a go-between to pay lawyers, allowing him to hide who he's actually paying.  Experts have real questions whether he can do that.
Discussion: Raw Story
Jason Beeferman / Politico:
New York governor to Mike Johnson: Stay in Washington  —  New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said House Speaker Mike Johnson should be focusing on Washington instead of “politicizing” the ongoing crisis at Columbia University.  —  ALBANY, New York — Gov. Kathy Hochul doesn't see the benefit …
 
 
 New Item Finder: 
35 minutes ago
Jason Beeferman / Politico:
New York governor to Mike Johnson: Stay in Washington   Find
 
 See Also: 
memeorandum River: reverse chronological memeorandum
memeorandum Mobile: for phones
memeorandum Leaderboard: memeorandum's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
memeorandum RSS feed
memeorandum on Mastodon
 
 Archives: 
 
 
 More Items: 
Bloomberg:
Spain's Sanchez Says He's Considering Quitting as Premier
Discussion: Reuters and RTÉ
New York Times:
After Tense Night, Columbia Says Student Protesters Agree to More Talks
Victoria Prodeline / Monmouth University …:
Opinion Divided on Foreign Aid Package
Discussion: The Hill and Political Wire
 Earlier Items: 
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
UN Calls For Independent Investigation Into Gaza Mass Graves
New Republic:
How Trump and the GOP are Using RFK Jr. to Pull a Big Scam
Tina Reed / Axios:
New ban on noncompetes could have big impact on health care
Michael Ian Black / The Daily Beast:
Trump Diapers Would Be a MAGA Phenomenon
Discussion: New York Times
Politico:
Yo, NBC, where's our invite?
Discussion: HotAir
Gregory Korte / Bloomberg:
Biden's Gains Against Trump Vanish on Deep Economic Pessimism, Poll Shows
 

 
From Techmeme:

Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
President Biden signs the ByteDance-TikTok divest-or-ban bill into law, after the Senate passed it by 79-18; the House passed the legislation 360-58 on April 20

Joanna Nelius / The Verge:
Qualcomm details its Snapdragon X Plus and X Elite chips; benchmarks from a demo suggest the chips match Apple's M3, Intel's Core Ultra 9, and AMD's Ryzen 9

Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft begins rolling out Windows 11 Start menu ads that show app “recommendations” from “a small set of curated developers”; users can disable the ads

 
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