Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
8:30 AM ET, April 3, 2017

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
RELATED:
Donald Trump / Financial Times:
Donald Trump in his own words  —  The US president speaks to Lionel Barber, Gillian Tett and Demetri Sevastopulo  —  Read next … You are the master of ‘the art of the deal’ . .  . can you cut a deal with Xi Jinping when you see him in Mar-a-Lago?  —  I have great respect for him.
NBC News:
North Korean Defector Tells Lester Holt ‘World Should be Ready’  —  SEOUL, South Korea — A senior North Korean defector has told NBC News that the country's “desperate” dictator is prepared to use nuclear weapons to strike the United States and its allies.  —  Thae Yong Ho is the most high …
Discussion: AOL and The Daily Caller
Reuters:
ADVISORY: Story on Kushner visiting Iraq withdrawn  —  The story “Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner visits Iraq, U.S. official says”, the accompanying alert and subsequent update are wrong and are withdrawn.  —  CARACAS Venezuela's opposition lawmakers said on Sunday they will push for the removal …
Discussion: Gizmodo, New York Magazine, The Week and IJR
RELATED:
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Jared Kushner Visits Iraq on Invitation From Joint Chiefs Chairman  —  Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law, made a trip to Iraq over the weekend, visiting the country as the American military is aiding Iraqi forces in their brutal fight to retake Mosul from the Islamic State.
Associated Press:
Jared Kushner travels to Iraq
Discussion: Hot Air, ABC News and New York Times
Axios:
A possible Trumpcare comeback  —  There have been a lot of recent signals that some quiet Trumpcare negotiations are still going on, but what do they really add up to?  My best read, from talking to GOP sources over the weekend: Don't bet on a Trumpcare comeback just yet, but don't be shocked if it happens.
RELATED:
Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
Trump remains the center of attention, but he's increasingly isolated politically
Discussion: Raw Story, IJR, The Daily Caller and NPR
Kailani Koenig / NBC News:
Sen. Schumer Says It's Unlikely Gorsuch Will Reach 60 Votes  —  WASHINGTON — As the Senate gears up to consider President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer predicted Sunday that “it looks like Gorsuch will not reach the 60-vote margin” needed to overcome a filibuster.
RELATED:
Pam Key / Breitbart:
Schumer: Trump Should Ditch Gorsuch for a ‘Mainstream Nominee’
David Edwards / Raw Story:
'That's an absurd question': Mitch McConnell melts down as Chuck Todd grills him for blocking Merrick Garland
Discussion: TheBlaze
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Bill O'Reilly: An awful, awful man  —  As Fox News last year was plowing through the sexual harassment scandal involving now-former network chief Roger Ailes, King of Cable News Bill O'Reilly couldn't have been more dismissive of the victims.  “In this country, every famous, powerful or wealthy person is a target.
RELATED:
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Fox braces for fallout from Bill O'Reilly scandal
Mike Cernovich / Medium:
Susan Rice Requested Unmasking of Incoming Trump Administration Officials  —  Susan Rice, who served as the National Security Adviser under President Obama, has been identified as the official who requested unmasking of incoming Trump officials, Cernovich Media can exclusively report.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Vox Popoli
Juan Williams / The Hill:
Trump's risk of impeachment rises  —  Liberal Democrats could yet see their dreams come true.  —  Last week, a new poll from the liberal outfit Public Policy Polling (PPP) asked Americans if President Trump should resign if evidence emerges that his campaign worked with Russia to help defeat Hillary Clinton
Discussion: Washington Times
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Haley eclipses Tillerson on Trump's foreign policy ladder  —  In Donald Trump's first meeting with Nikki Haley, on November 17, he asked her to serve as his secretary of state.  Haley turned him down, according to two sources familiar with the conversation, telling the president-elect …
Kelefa Sanneh / New Yorker:
Tucker Carlson's Fighting Words  —  On Fox News, an unlikely star thrives in the tumult of Trump-era politics.  —  Tucker Carlson started wearing a bow tie in 1984, when he was in tenth grade at St. George's, a Rhode Island prep school with a dress code.  He stopped wearing a bow tie on April 11 …
Discussion: Axios
Noam Scheiber / New York Times:
How Uber Uses Psychological Tricks to Push Its Drivers' Buttons  —  The secretive ride-hailing giant Uber rarely discusses internal matters in public.  But in March, facing crises on multiple fronts, top officials convened a call for reporters to insist that Uber was changing its culture and would no longer tolerate “brilliant jerks.”
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
The Russiagate Scam Will Blow Up In The Democrats' Smug Faces  —  If you're stressed out about this whole Russian nonsense, relax - Donald Trump didn't do anything wrong, and he's not going be impeached, arrested, or ritually disemboweled.  When the truth comes out and it explodes in the Democrats' soft …
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Former Trump staffers hunt for foreign lobbying work  —  Some of President Donald Trump's former campaign hands are rushing to sign lucrative deals with foreign clients, shrugging off their own pledges to avoid foreign lobbying and the president's vow to “drain the swamp.”
Discussion: Political Wire
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Tom Perez won't apologize for insulting Trump and GOP leaders.  Here's why.  —  On Friday, Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez told activists in New Jersey that their protests were hitting the Trump administration where it hurt.  He pointed to Jan. 21, the day of the Women's March …
Discussion: Fox News
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 8:30 AM ET, April 3, 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: 
New York Times:
Trump Aides' Disclosures Reveal Surge in Lucrative Political Work
France 24:
France's Le Pen, Mélenchon present contrasting visions at campaign rallies
Michael Isikoff / Yahoo:
White House pulled out of meet and greet with ‘conservatives’ favorite Russian' over suspected mob ties
Haroon Siddique / The Guardian:
Drone complaints soar as concerns grow over snooping
Discussion: The Verge
Associated Press:
Atlanta traffic horror: Crews razing fallen highway overpass
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Axios:
Hell Week looms for Republicans
Discussion: Forbes
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
It's 2004 All Over Again  —  Lately we've been hearing a lot about truth.
Discussion: The Guardian and Instapundit
Kali Holloway / Salon:
Vacate Trump Tower: People want Melania Trump to be forced to leave New York City
 Earlier Items: 
Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Trump's budget would hit rural towns especially hard — but they're willing to trust him
Laura Hughes / Telegraph:
Watch | Lord Howard: Theresa May would go to war to defend the sovereignty of Gibraltar
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Naomi Jagoda / The Hill:
IRS chief is unexpected survivor in Trump era
Discussion: Political Wire
Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
Adam Schiff's Weak CNN Interview Supports Nunes, Trump Claims on Surveillance
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Leah McElrath / Shareblue:
Watching the hearings, I learned my “Bernie bro” harassers may have been Russian bots
Discussion: Unfogged
Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
What Makes Sheldon Whitehouse Angry?
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
The Memo: White House staff rise, fall after healthcare loss
 

 
From Techmeme:

Sam Altman / @sama:
Sam Altman says he is embarrassed that there was a provision about potential equity cancellation in exit docs, and OpenAI never took back anyone's vested equity

Renee DiResta / The Guardian:
How a rightwing smear campaign against NPR and its CEO Katherine Maher, who is on Signal Foundation's board, led Elon Musk to malign Signal

Steven Levy / Wired:
Despite some skeptics claiming that AI is an industry-wide delusion, last week's demos from OpenAI and Google show that the rate of AI progress is not slowing

 
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