Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
5:25 AM ET, February 12, 2017

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Helaine Olen / Slate:
Meet the Teacher Whose Powerful, Christian Defense of Obamacare Made a GOP Town Hall Go Viral  —  Jessi Bohon was more than a bit tired when I called her Friday.  The 35-year-old high-school French teacher who lives in Cookeville, Tennessee, didn't expect her first real moment of political activism to go national.
RELATED:
David Weigel / Washington Post:
GOP official in viral town hall video is known for sharing misleading stories, bigoted jokes  —  As news networks have scrambled to put cameras in congressional town hall meetings, a few of their attendees and speakers have earned short bursts of fame — or infamy.
Karoli Kuns / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
VIDEO: GOP Official Shouted Down For ‘Death Panel’ Claim At Town Hall  —  Republicans really have no soul.  Watch Bill Akins, a Florida Republican official, tell the crowd what his problems are with the Affordable Care Act.  —  “And there is a provision in there, that when you're 74 …
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Report: 72 convicted of terrorism from ‘Trump 7’ mostly Muslim countries  —  Since 9/11, 72 individuals from the seven mostly Muslim countries covered by President Trump's “extreme vetting” executive order have been convicted of terrorism, bolstering the administration's immigration ban.
RELATED:
Jessica Vaughan / Center for Immigration Studies:
Study Reveals 72 Terrorists Came From Countries Covered by Trump Vetting Order  —  A review of information compiled by a Senate committee in 2016 reveals that 72 individuals from the seven countries covered in President Trump's vetting executive order have been convicted in terror cases since the 9/11 attacks.
Herb Jackson / USA Today:
Congressman: Rarely used law could make Trump tax returns public  —  A New Jersey congressman says a rarely invoked 1924 law could be used to examine President Donald Trump's tax returns for possible conflicts of interest and Constitutional violations.  —  Rep. Bill Pascrell …
Discussion: CANNONFIRE, Daily Kos and RedState
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
When it comes to his contacts with Russia, Michael Flynn has bigger problems than the Logan Act  —  Michael Flynn's real problem isn't the Logan Act, an obscure and probably unenforceable 1799 statute that bars private meddling in foreign policy disputes.  It's whether President Trump's …
RELATED:
Wall Street Journal:
Gary Cohn Has Emerged as an Economic-Policy Powerhouse in Trump Administration  —  Gary Cohn, a former Goldman Sachs executive and commodities trader, is emerging as President Donald Trump's most powerful economic policy maker during the early days of the administration, capitalizing on a vacuum created while other top posts sit vacant.
RELATED:
Kate Kelly / New York Times:
Trump's Economic Cabinet Is Mostly Bare. This Man Fills the Void.
Discussion: Axios
Rod Dreher / The American Conservative:
Georgetown Prof Defends Islamic Slavery  —  An academic reader writes: … What's he talking about?  News that Jonathan Brown, a tenured Georgetown professor and holder of the Al-Waleed bin Talal Chair in Islamic Civilization at Georgetown University, has delivered a lecture defending slavery and non-consensual sex.
Discussion: Power Line
John Amato / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
New Poll: Trump Supporters Believe ‘Bowling Green Massacre’ Was Real … A new PPP poll shows that 51% of Trump supporters believe that two Iraqis perpetrated the fictitious “Bowling Green Massacre.”  —  Words do matter, Kellyanne.  —  This is an important reason why Trump voters say “Trump's immigration policy is needed.”
Associated Press:
A Family Thing: Don't Mess With Political Dads and Daughters  —  After Nordstrom dropped Ivanka Trump's fashion line, President Donald Trump quickly tweeted his disapproval.  A day later, the president was the target of venom from Meghan McCain, angry over Trump's criticism of her father, Arizona Sen. John McCain.
Discussion: Politico
RELATED:
Wall Street Journal:
Internal Nordstrom Data Show Sales Decline for Ivanka Trump Brand
Discussion: Mediaite, Axios and Political Wire
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Trump Says Refugees Are Flooding U.S. in Misleading Allusion  —  JUPITER, Fla. — President Trump said on Saturday that judicial decisions that halted his executive order banning travel from seven predominantly Muslim countries had allowed a flood of refugees to pour into the country.
New York Times:
Stephen Miller Is a ‘True Believer’ Behind Core Trump Policies  —  WASHINGTON — Staff members on Capitol Hill recall Stephen Miller, the 31-year-old White House adviser behind many of President Trump's most contentious executive orders, as the guy from Jeff Sessions's office who made their inboxes cry for mercy.
Bob Price / Breitbart:
ICE Rounds Up 44 Criminal Aliens in Texas Capital  —  AUSTIN, Texas — Enforcement actions underway in Texas as part of the nationwide Operation Cross Check have landed 44 criminal aliens in federal detention this week.  —  Following news about criminal aliens being arrested in Austin …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
New York Times:
State G.O.P. Leaders Move Swiftly as Party Bickers in Congress  —  When Republicans in Kentucky seized total control of the state government last year, Damon Thayer, the majority leader in the State Senate, began asking around for advice from counterparts in other capitals where the party already dominated …
Stefanie Marsh / The Guardian:
'It's the breaking of a taboo': the parents who regret having children  —  Why some mothers (and fathers) feel they made a mistake  —  t was coming up to Christmas 2015 when a query popped up on Victoria Elder's home computer screen.  It was from the question-and-answer site Quora, to which she had only recently subscribed.
Discussion: Althouse
Ray Sanchez / CNN:
After ICE arrests, fear spreads among undocumented immigrants  —  (CNN)Across the United States, some unauthorized immigrants are keeping their children home from school.  Others have suspended after-school visits to the public library.  They have given up coffee shop trips and weekend restaurant dinners with family.
Discussion: WGN-TV and KTLA
Michael Wines / New York Times:
Illegal Voting Gets Texas Woman 8 Years in Prison, and Certain Deportation  —  Despite repeated statements by Republican political leaders that American elections are rife with illegal voting, credible reports of fraud have been hard to find and convictions rarer still.
Andy Campbell / The Huffington Post:
Justice Department Begins Rollback Of Transgender Students' Bathroom Rights  —  Fears among the LGBTQ community are already being realized.  —  The Trump administration appears to be moving backward on transgender rights and defying the Obama administration that was looking to expand them.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Washington Post
New York Times:
‘A Sense of Dread’ for Civil Servants Shaken by Trump Transition  —  WASHINGTON — Across the vast federal bureaucracy, Donald J. Trump's arrival in the White House has spread anxiety, frustration, fear and resistance among many of the two million nonpolitical civil servants who say they work for the public, not a particular president.
Tobias Holden / New York Times:
Get My Racist Ancestor's Name Off of Yale's Campus  —  NEW HAVEN — Being black, I have a difficult relationship with my home state of South Carolina and its slaveholding history, epitomized by John C. Calhoun.  Schools, churches and towns throughout the state are named for this 19th-century politician …
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 5:25 AM ET, February 12, 2017.

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: 
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Administration Begins Deportation Raids Across the U.S.
Discussion: IJR
David Ferguson / Raw Story:
Kmart and Sears drop Trump Home line of products from websites
Bloomberg:
UN Chief Names Palestinian to Libya Post, Risking U.S. Objection
Discussion: The Geller Report and CNN
Kathleen Parker / Washington Post:
Trump's two-year presidency
Jerome Hudson / Breitbart:
Michael Moore: U.S. ‘Sh*ts On Their Own’ People More than Any Other Country
Joel Connelly / seattlepi.com:
Website for disabled kids disappears as DeVos takes office
Matt Novak / Gizmodo:
These Pathetic Tweets Are Just How Our Government Works Now
 Earlier Items: 
Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Ex-spy chief: I don't know of any intel that proves need for travel ban
Raw Story:
Trump's surprise cost-cutting target: The first lady's staff
Allister Heath / Telegraph:
Fake news is killing people's minds, says Apple boss Tim Cook
Larry Celona / New York Post:
Woman falls to her death at World Trade Center's Oculus
Lisa Riley Roche / Deseret News:
Chaffetz says town hall crowd tried ‘bullying and intimidation’
Santiago Pérez / Wall Street Journal:
Mexicans Vow to Fight Trump by Jamming U.S. Courts
Discussion: TheBlaze and Axios
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
The Atlantic is profitable, has 1M subscribers, and revenue grew 10% in 2023 thanks to a 50% price hike, a harder paywall, and a shift to in-depth reporting

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
How MowPod, which sells podcast advertising tools, uses mobile game ads to incentivize gamers to follow shows on Apple Podcasts in order to earn in-game tokens

New York Times:
The NBC News-Ronna McDaniel saga highlights the perks and perils of partisan talk TV; a source says McDaniel is now seeking $600K+ for her two year deal

 
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