Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
8:40 AM ET, December 24, 2016

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Why Obama broke with Israel at UN  —  The White House's decision to break with decades of U.S. policy and allow the U.N. Security Council to condemn Israeli settlements is the culmination of years of bad blood between President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Discussion: RedState and MichelleMalkin.com
RELATED:
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Trump warns UN after Israel vote: ‘Things will be different’ soon  —  slammed the Obama administration for its decision not to veto a U.N. resolution critical of Israel's settlements, promising that it would be “different” under his presidency.  —  “As to the U.N., things will be different after Jan. 20th,” Trump tweeted Friday.
Scott Johnson / Power Line:
Obama rhymes-with-bucks Israel  —  President Obama checked off another item on his “rhymes with bucket list” today in the United Nations.  The United States abstained in a 14-0 vote by the UN Security Council condemning all Israeli building and activity in the West Bank as “illegal,” …
Discussion: Tablet Magazine
Uri Friedman / The Atlantic:
It's Official: America Has Two Presidents at One Time  —  What happens when the most powerful country in the world effectively has two presidents at once?  Its policy regarding one of the most complex conflicts on the planet collapses into a muddled mess.  —  Or, more precisely …
J Street:
J Street Welcomes US Abstention on UNSC Resolution  —  J Street welcomes the decision today by the Obama administration to abstain from voting on a United Nations Security Council resolution, which reaffirms the need for a two-state solution and calls for a halt to actions by both sides that serve to undermine the prospects for peace.
New York Times:
Rebuffing Israel, U.S. Allows Censure Over Settlements  —  UNITED NATIONS — Defying extraordinary pressure from President-elect Donald J. Trump and furious lobbying by Israel, the Obama administration on Friday allowed the United Nations Security Council to adopt a resolution that condemned Israeli settlement construction.
Elliott Abrams / Weekly Standard:
Obama's Disgraceful and Harmful Legacy on Israel
Discussion: Power Line and Victory Girls Blog
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Obama marks start of Hanukkah
Carol Morello / Washington Post:
U.S. declines to veto U.N. Security Council resolution for Israel to stop Jewish settlement activity
Richard Winton / Los Angeles Times:
Actress Carrie Fisher is in critical condition after a ‘cardiac episode’ on flight from London to L.A.  —  Actress Carrie Fisher, shown in 2007, was taken to a hospital Friday after a “cardiac episode” on a flight from London to Los Angeles.  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
RELATED:
Jennifer Smith / Daily Mail:
Carrie Fisher, 60, suffers heart attack on transatlantic flight where fellow passengers resorted to giving the star CPR  — The 60-year-old was rushed to hospital immediately after landing and is said to be in critical condition  —  Carrie Fisher suffered a massive heart attack on board …
Evelyn Rupert / The Hill:
Trump team: NY co-chair's remarks about Obamas ‘reprehensible’  —  's team condemned the racist comments one of its former state co-chairmen made about the Obamas Thursday.  —  Carl Paladino, the Trump campaign's former New York co-chairman, said in an interview with a Buffalo alternative magazine …
Discussion: RedState
RELATED:
Jon Campbell / USA Today:
N.Y. developer Carl Paladino's ‘gorilla’ remark spurs outrage
Discussion: Mediaite
Jamie Moses / artvoice.com:
WHAT DO WE WANT FOR 2017? We have a Lot of Different Opinions
Will Bunch / Philly.com:
Liberal prof ‘watchlist’ is McCarthyism for the bullying age  —  Anthea Butler thought she'd heard it all before.  —  A religious studies professor at the University of Pennsylvania, a black woman who teaches a class about the religious right in America and has a fiery liberal persona on social media …
Victoria Craw / NEWS.com.au:
French woman wants to marry a robot as expert predicts sex robots to become preferable to humans  —  French woman Lilly wants to marry her robot.  Picture: Twitter.  —  ON THE surface, Lilly seems like a blushing young woman ready to marry the man of her dreams who makes her “totally happy.”
Discussion: Daily Mail, Raw Story, Jezebel and alan.com
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Trump praises Putin's criticism of Democrats in tweet  —  Trump tweeted his praise for Russian president Vladimir Putin's criticism of Hillary Clinton  —  Friday night, agreeing with a statement he made earlier in the day that it was “humiliating” Democrats did not “lose with dignity.”
Eric Schlosser / New Yorker:
World War Three, by Mistake  —  Harsh political rhetoric, combined with the vulnerability of the nuclear command-and-control system, has made the risk of global catastrophe greater than ever.  —  On June 3, 1980, at about two-thirty in the morning, computers at the National Military Command Center …
Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian / The Atlantic:
A Prayer for Peace in Bethlehem  —  Vera Baboun was 24 years old when she first realized that her hometown was truly different from other cities in the world.  —  Her childhood in Bethlehem had seemed normal, even idyllic.  Born in 1963, Baboun attended a Christian school, sang in the church choir, and played tennis.
Discussion: Washington Post
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Pressure grows on Mormon choir over Trump inauguration  —  Thousands of people are backing a petition urging the Mormon Tabernacle Choir not to perform at President-elect Donald Trump  —  's inauguration.  —  The Change.org petition has accumulated more than 6,500 signatures since it was created Thursday.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and RedState
RELATED:
Alan Henry / Broadway World:
Rockettes Union Calls Boycotting Inauguration ‘Invalid’
Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:
Rockettes Parent Company Says Inauguration Participation Is ‘Voluntary’
Discussion: Mashable and Mediaite
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Teen Vogue Writer Battles Tucker Carlson: 'You're Actually Being a Partisan Hack'  —  Teen Vogue writer Lauren Duca faced off with Fox's Tucker Carlson tonight in what became a mesmerizing and fierce back and forth about Ivanka Trump and various things that Duca has written.
Discussion: The Right Scoop, TheBlaze and Mashable
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 8:40 AM ET, December 24, 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: 
Susan Snyder / Philly.com:
Bryn Mawr student hounded after asking to share ride to Trump event
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Instapundit
Camilla Turner / Telegraph:
Some of Britain's top universities are becoming no-go zones for Jews, Baroness Deech claims
Michelle Goldberg / Slate:
Why Did Planned Parenthood Supporters Vote Trump?
Peter Grant / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Names Jason Greenblatt Representative for International Negotiations
Chao Xiong / Star Tribune:
Attorneys for officer in Philando Castile shooting remove judge from case
Discussion: The Root and Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
Sam Brownback Calls on Donald Trump to Mimic His Kansas Tax Plan
Discussion: Mother Jones
 Earlier Items: 
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Radio's Diane Rehm, A Mainstay Of Civil Discourse, Signs Off
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Obama's Midnight Regulation Express
The American Interest:
The Democrats Turn on Obama
Discussion: Infowars and Vox Popoli
Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
The Return of Street Corner Conservatism
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Colbert: Trump win made me throw out all my planned jokes
Discussion: Raw Story
Bloomberg:
GOP Wants Trump to Trim ACA Benefits, Say Congress Aides
Discussion: Daily Kos and Political Wire