Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
9:50 AM ET, October 10, 2016

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Washington Post:
Trump's debate plan to seat Bill Clinton's accusers in family box was thwarted  —  ST. LOUIS — Donald Trump's campaign sought to intimidate Hillary Clinton and embarrass her husband by seating women who have accused former president Bill Clinton of sexual abuse in the Trump family's box …
RELATED:
Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
UGLIEST DEBATE EVER  —  It was the ugliest debate in American history.  —  For 90 minutes, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton called each other liars, untrustworthy and unfit for office as they sparred not so much about their policy differences as their basic character.
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
The answer is no: We haven't seen anything quite like this  —  ST. LOUIS — The question has been asked so many times over the past 16 months of this presidential election that it has become a cliche: Has anyone ever seen anything quite like this?  And yet, once again, Donald Trump took Campaign 2016 …
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Trump Goes Full Breitbart  —  ST. LOUIS — Donald Trump faced a choice on Sunday.  —  Ahead of one of the highest-stakes debate situations ever after tape emerged showing Trump making grossly sexist remarks that are so damaging that many top Republicans have abandoned him …
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Sources: Ryan discussed revoking Trump endorsement  —  ST. LOUIS — House Speaker Paul Ryan has discussed withdrawing his endorsement of Donald Trump, according to multiple sources familiar with the discussions within his inner circle.  —  Ryan (R-Wis.) has publicly and privately grown dismayed …
Discussion: ABC News, The Moderate Voice and Vox
Associated Press:
Trump Ally Paid Sexual Assault Victim Critical of Clinton  —  A sexual-assault victim who is critical of Hillary Clinton and who appeared alongside Donald Trump before Sunday night's debate was paid $2,500 by a political action committee founded by Trump ally Roger Stone.
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Donald Trump used to make light of Bill Clinton's sex scandals. Now they're his main weapon.
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Notes on the garbage fire that is American politics
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Everything that was said at the second Donald Trump vs. Hillary Clinton debate, highlighted
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
We're Live Blogging Round Two of the Presidential Debates
Will Jordan / YouGov US Opinion Center News:
Post-debate poll: Clinton 47%, Trump 42%  —  YouGov interviewed 812 registered voters who watched the debate … Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton clashed for the second time at a town hall-style debate in St Louis, Missouri on Sunday night.
RELATED:
Madeline Conway / Politico:   CNN poll: 57 percent of viewers say Clinton won the debate
Associated Press:
Trump's 'You'd Be in Jail' Debate Jab at Clinton Condemned
Discussion: Politico and ABC News
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
The 7 nastiest insults of the debate
Discussion: ABC News
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Donald Trump confirmed our worst fears about the kind of president he would be  —  Donald Trump is running for dictator, not for president.  —  At Sunday's debate, Donald Trump revealed that he is not running to be America's president so much as its dictator.  —  The debate's most unnerving moment came early.
RELATED:
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
At Second Debate, Donald Trump Was the Perfect Republican  —  On Saturday, in the wake of a tape of Donald Trump boasting about his repeated sexual assaults, the Republican Party appeared to be in the early stages of a full jailbreak repudiation of its nominee.
New York Times:
Donald Trump Vows Retaliation as Republicans Abandon Him
New York Times:
Transcript of the Second Debate  —  Following is a transcript of the second presidential debate, on Sunday, as transcribed by CQ Transcriptswire.  —  RADDATZ: Ladies and gentlemen the Republican nominee for president, Donald J. Trump, and the Democratic nominee for president, Hillary Clinton.
Discussion: Althouse, Hit & Run and Daily Kos
RELATED:
Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Second Presidential Debate: 11 Moments That Mattered
Discussion: Associated Press and Politico
New York Times:
Presidential Debate: Here's What You Missed
Daniella Diaz / CNN:
Trump campaign manager: He's ‘gracious and a gentleman’  —  Washington (CNN)Donald Trump's campaign manager Kellyanne Conway defended the Republican presidential nominee's comments about what he called “locker room talk,” saying she's been alone with Trump and he's been “gracious and a gentleman.”
Discussion: Jezebel
RELATED:
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
12 most heated moments in an unprecedented debate
Discussion: ABC News
NBC News:
Exclusive: Inside the Trump Campaign's Moment of Crisis
ABC News:
Both Campaigns Spin Debate Performance
Discussion: Politico
Claude Brodesser-Akner / New Jersey Online:
Mike Pence cancels N.J. Trump fundraiser scheduled for Monday in Ocean County  —  TRENTON — Donald Trump's running mate, Mike Pence, has canceled his planned visit to New Jersey scheduled for Monday, several GOP sources tell NJ Advance Media.  —  Pence, the governor of Indiana …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
In The Abuser's House  —  This was a very, very different kind of debate.  Let me begin with a few general observations.  —  First, I think this was the debate the Breitbart crew - Bannon, Bossie and the rest - wanted from Trump.  He hit Bill's history; he was aggressive and slashing …
Foreign Policy:
Hillary Clinton for President of the United States  —  A Donald Trump presidency is among the greatest threats facing America, and the Republican standard-bearer is the worst major-party candidate for the job in U.S. history.  —  In the nearly half century history of Foreign Policy …
RELATED:
al.com:
Endorsement: We're with Hillary Clinton. Frankly, Donald Trump's dangerous.
Discussion: Political Wire
USA Today:
Trump, companies accused of mistreating women in at least 20 lawsuits  —  One woman sued Donald Trump's Miami resort saying she lost her job because she got pregnant.  —  Two others claimed they were fired after complaining that co-workers sexually harassed them.
NBC News:
Poll: More Voters Say Trump Doesn't Respect Women After Lewd Tape Surfaces  —  After a 2005 recording of Donald Trump making lewd comments about women emerged on Friday, 63 percent of likely voters said they do not think the Republican nominee respects women, according to the latest NBC News|
Discussion: Politico
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Trump Wins  —  Some of the rats might want to consider returning to the ship.  Donald Trump came through pretty well tonight, mainly because the focus was on the issues.  As long as issues are being discussed, Trump wins.  —  The moderators came out of the box with questions about Trump's 2005 video …
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 9:50 AM ET, October 10, 2016.

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: 
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
A competent woman just debated a man who has no idea what he's talking about
New York Times:
Mr. Trump Goes Low
Eli Stokols / Politico:
Trump stays alive
Oliver Hart / Nobelprize.org:
The Prize in Economic Sciences 2016
Discussion: The Atlantic and New York Times
 Earlier Items: 
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
In Which I Take a Second Look at Hillary Clinton's Paid Speeches
John Bresnahan / Politico:
House GOP leaders agonize over Trump strategy
Wayne Grudem / Townhall.com:
Trump's Moral Character and the Election
 

 
From Techmeme:

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Apple has been working on its own chip designed to run AI software in data center servers; the project is internally codenamed Project ACDC

Sky News:
Sources: China has hacked a payroll system used by the UK's Ministry of Defence, targeting service personnel; names and bank details have been exposed

Aaron Holmes / The Information:
Sources: Microsoft is training MAI-1, a new, in-house AI model with ~500B parameters, large enough to compete with top models from Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI
 
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