Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
10:15 AM ET, July 3, 2017

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
New Jersey Online:
PHOTOS: Christie, family soak up sun on N.J. beach he closed to public  —  Gallery: Gov. Chris Christie and family on closed Island Beach State Park in N.J.  —  NJ Advance Media for NJ.com  —  BERKELEY TOWNSHIP — People hoping to visit Island Beach State Park this holiday weekend …
RELATED:
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Bannon pushes tax hike for wealthy  —  Steve Bannon is causing a stir inside the administration by pushing an idea that's anathema to most Republicans: raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans to pay for steep middle and working-class tax cuts.  (Some officials who've heard Bannon's idea …
RELATED:
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
How Low Can Taxes Go?  Outside Washington, Republicans Find Limits  —  WASHINGTON — Something strange has been happening to taxes in Republican-dominated states: They are going up.  —  Conservative lawmakers in Kansas, South Carolina and Tennessee have agreed to significant tax increases …
Discussion: Axios, Hullabaloo and Laffer Center
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
PBS poll: 70 percent say civility has dropped since Trump's election  —  A majority of Americans in a new survey thinks civility has gotten worse since President Trump was elected.  —  A PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist Poll out early Monday found that 70 percent of Americans think civility has gotten worse since Trump's election.
Discussion: RedState
RELATED:
Laura Santhanam / PBS NewsHour:
New poll: 70% of Americans think civility has gotten worse since Trump took office  —  Americans broadly believe their country's political tone has become less civil since Donald Trump was elected president and that fundamental rights are weakening, according to a new PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll.
Discussion: NPR
Helena Horton / Telegraph:
Vagina surgery ‘sought by girls as young as nine’ because of pornography, doctors reveal  —  Girls as young as nine are reportedly seeking surgery on their private parts because of insecurities stemming from adult content such as pornography, according to leading doctors.
New York Times:
Medicaid Worsens Your Health?  That's a Classic Misinterpretation of Research  —  As a program for low-income Americans, Medicaid requires the poor to pay almost nothing for their health care.  Republicans in Congress have made clear that they want to change that equation for many …
Discussion: Vox
Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
GOP lawmaker to CNN: ‘You guys are getting played’ … Rep. Scott Taylor (R-Va.) told CNN early Monday that the media is “getting played” by covering President Trump's tweets.  —  The congressman said the media needs to cover “real issues” instead of Trump's tweets when asked on CNN's …
Niv Elis / The Hill:
GOP leaders have few sure votes on debt ceiling  —  Only 16 House Republicans who are currently in office backed the last “clean” debt hike, and few of them will say they are certain to support it this year.  —  If the debt ceiling is raised with a clean hike — a distinct possibility given …
Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
Deportation a ‘Death Sentence’ to Adoptees After a Lifetime in the U.S.  —  SEOUL, South Korea — Phillip Clay was adopted at 8 into an American family in Philadelphia.  —  Twenty-nine years later, in 2012, after numerous arrests and a struggle with drug addiction, he was deported back to his birth country, South Korea.
ABC:
Donald Trump tweets ‘juvenile’ fake wrestling video of him beating up CNN  —  US President Donald Trump has stepped up his feud with the media by tweeting a mock video of himself tackling and repeatedly striking a man in a business suit, his face replaced by the CNN logo, outside a wrestling ring.
Discussion: Informed Comment
RELATED:
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Trump Tweets a Video of Him Wrestling ‘CNN’ to the Ground
Mark Finkelstein / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
WaPo's Ignatius: Fighters in Syria cheer at mention of Trump name  —  “One Syrian Kurdish commander used a vulgar term, in Spanish it would be cojones, to describe what President Trump has got and why they like him.”  —  On a morning when you would have expected the Morning Joe panel …
Rick Hasen / electionlawblog.org:
Justice Kennedy Tells October 2018 Clerkship Applicants He's Considering Retirement, Right Before 2018 Midterms  —  Big news hiding in Nina Totenberg's story on Justice Gorsuch voting 100% with Justice Thomas: … This would put Justice Kennedy's retirement right before the 2018 midterms …
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 10:15 AM ET, July 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: 
Salena Zito / New York Post:
Why the generation after millennials will vote Republican
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
A Muslim Comes to Rural Minnesota
Discussion: Washington Post
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Independent Press Is Under Siege as Freedom Rings
Avi Selk / Washington Post:
A Reddit user who wrote about stabbing Muslims is claiming credit for Trump's CNN video
Discussion: Quartz and Viking Pundit
Adam Andrzejewski / Forbes:
Trump's Leaner White House Payroll Projected To Save Taxpayers $22 Million
New York Times:
Trump Foot Soldier Sidelined Under Glare of Russia Inquiry
 Earlier Items: 
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Why the media has broken down in the age of Trump
Los Angeles Times:
Thousands march in L.A. for impeachment of President Trump; his supporters hold their own rally
Discussion: The Week and KTLA
Jon Ralston / The Nevada Independent:
Heller caught between distrustful left and angry right
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate GOP pressures budget refs for better score on ObamaCare replacement
Discussion: The Guardian
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
It's Not Just Mike Pence. Americans Are Wary of Being Alone With the Opposite Sex.
Discussion: Althouse and IJR