Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
8:15 AM ET, August 16, 2017

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
New York Times:
Trump Gives White Supremacists an Unequivocal Boost  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump buoyed the white nationalist movement on Tuesday as no president has done in generations — equating activists protesting racism with the neo-Nazis and white supremacists who rampaged in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend.
RELATED:
Washington Post:
The nation can only weep  —  TUESDAY WAS a great day for David Duke and racists everywhere.  The president of the United States all but declared that he has their backs.  —  When a white supremacist stands accused of running his car into a crowd of protesters, killing one and injuring 19 …
Politico:
Full text: Trump's comments on white supremacists, ‘alt-left’ in Charlottesville  —  The following is a transcript of President Donald Trump's remarks at a news conference on infrastructure at Trump Tower on Aug. 15 and the Q&A with the media that followed.  —  PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Hello, everybody.
Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:
Did Trump Get His George Washington And Thomas Jefferson Line From Fox News?  —  The night before the president's press conference, Fox's Martha MacCallum and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich discussed the same thing.  —  At a wild, defensive press conference on Tuesday afternoon …
ITV:
Theresa May attacks Donald Trump over refusal to condemn white supremacists  —  Theresa May has attacked Donald Trump for refusing to condemn neo-Nazis after violent protests in the US city of Charlottesville in which a woman was killed.  —  The Prime Minister said those in power …
New York Times:
A Combative Trump Criticizes ‘Alt-Left’ Groups in Charlottesville
Molly Ball / The Atlantic:
‘The President Was Entirely Correct’
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Why Trump Can't Respond to Charlottesville
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Trump goes off script, and white supremacists cheer
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump has not yet reached out to Charlottesville victim's family
Discussion: New York Post and RedState
New York Times:
Mr. Trump Makes a Spectacle of Himself
Discussion: CNN and Fox News
Associated Press:
Lawmakers weigh in on Trump's comments on Charlottesville
Discussion: Politico
Rachel Stoltzfoos / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Hope Hicks To Be Named White House Comms Director  —  Hope Hicks will be named the new White House communications director, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.  —  President Trump has offered the job to Hicks and she has accepted the position, according to a White House insider.
Russell Goldman / New York Times:
Baltimore Removes Confederate Statues in Overnight Operation  —  Statues dedicated to Confederate heroes were swiftly removed across Baltimore in the small hours of Wednesday morning, just days after violence broke out over the removal of a similar monument in neighboring Virginia.
Discussion: The Week and Althouse
RELATED:
Baltimore Sun:
Confederate monuments taken down in Baltimore overnight
Discussion: NPR and CIVIL WAR MEMORY
Jamie Grierson / The Guardian:   Baltimore takes down Confederate statues in middle of night
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
‘Wow’: Stunned TV Hosts Reacted in Real Time to Trump  —  “What I just saw gave me the wrong kind of chills,” a visibly stunned Chuck Todd said on MSNBC.  “Honestly, I'm a bit shaken by what I just heard.”  —  Unable to disguise her disgust, the Fox News host Kat Timpf said …
Discussion: Political Wire
RELATED:
Fox News Insider:
Donald Trump Charlottesville Charles Krauthammer Laura Ingraham Debate Racism  —  Charles Krauthammer and Laura Ingraham exchanged opposing views over President Trump's Q&A about the violence in Charlottesville, Va.  —  Ingraham said Trump would have been better served Tuesday to continue talking …
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Fox host: Trump comments 'one of the biggest messes I've ever seen'
Discussion: The Week, RedState and TheBlaze
David French / National Review:
Donald Trump Just Gave the Press Conference of the Alt-Right's Dreams  —  Let's be very clear about what just happened at Donald Trump's press conference.  He gave the alt-right its greatest national media moment ever.  He even called some of them “very fine people.”  Don't believe me?
Discussion: The Resurgent and The Week
RELATED:
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Trump's horrifying ‘take three’ on Charlottesville  —  MORE FROM: … On Tuesday afternoon we learned yet again that the president of the United States is against neo-Nazis, which is nice.  They're “very rough,” he said at an impromptu Trump Tower press conference — by which he likely meant …
Discussion: The Week, Gizmodo and LewRockwell
CNBC:
Read the transcript of Donald Trump's jaw-dropping press conference
Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Fox News, Daily Caller delete posts encouraging people to drive through protests  —  Months before a man allegedly turned his vehicle into a weapon and plowed through a group of protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, an article that made the rounds in conservative media encouraged readers to do something similar.
Discussion: IJR, Mediaite and Political Wire
RELATED:
New York Times:
Alabama Election Results: Two Republicans Advance, Democrat Wins in U.S. Senate Primaries  —  Roy Moore, a former state Supreme Court justice, and Senator Luther Strange, who was appointed earlier this year, advanced on Tuesday in the Republican primary for the Senate seat in Alabama vacted by Jeff Sessions, now the attorney general.
RELATED:
Aaron Young / Des Moines Register:
This sleepy boy and his heifer at the Iowa State Fair are winning over the internet  —  Mitchell Miner and his heifer, Audri, have spent nearly every day together for the past two months.  They've developed an unspoken connection during that short period of time.  Aaron Young/The Register  —  CONNECT
Discussion: WKRG-TV, WGNO, TheBlaze and FOX News Radio
Vice News:
Watch VICE News Tonight's full episode  —  On Saturday hundreds of white nationalists, alt-righters, and neo-Nazis traveled to Charlottesville, Virginia, to participate in the “Unite the Right” rally.  By Saturday evening three people were dead - one protester and two police officers - and many more injured.
RELATED:
Jack Holmes / Esquire:   This Vice News Documentary from Charlottesville Is Horrifying
John Harwood / CNBC:
Donald Trump has a very clear attitude about morality: He doesn't believe in it  — President Trump, in a raucous press conference, again blamed “both sides” for deadly violence in Charlottesville  — He attacked business leaders who quit a White House panel over Trump's message on the weekend incident
The Texas Tribune:
Federal court invalidates part of Texas congressional map  —  Federal judges have invalidated two of Texas' 36 congressional districts, setting up a scramble to redraw them ahead of the 2018 elections.  —  Editor's note: This story has been updated throughout
Alan Zimmerman / ReformJudaism.org:
In Charlottesville, the Local Jewish Community Presses On  —  At Congregation Beth Israel in Charlottesville, VA, we are deeply grateful for the support and prayers of the broader Reform Jewish community.  Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of Heather Heyer and the two Virginia …
Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
Firing Steve Bannon Won't Change Donald Trump  —  Earlier this year, when Steve Bannon, Donald Trump's chief strategist, was at the peak of his influence, I visited him at the White House.  “This is totally top secret,” he said, ushering me inside his office on a Saturday night in mid-March.
RELATED:
Reuters:   Banish Bannon? Trump weighs his options as top aides feud
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 8:15 AM ET, August 16, 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: 
Holman W. Jenkins, Jr / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Loses Corporate America
Eric Preston / Repairers of the Breach:
The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II Calls On Congress and Elected Officials To End White Supremacist Policies
Mike Allen / Axios:
If a top Trump aide leaves, it could ‘start a run on the bank’
Marist Poll:
8/16: Trump at Lowest Point With 35% Job Approval Rating... Crack at the Base
Discussion: Political Wire
Bloomberg:
PepsiCo's Nooyi Comes Under Fire as Trump Council Splinters
Steve Crump / The Charlotte Observer:
'I'm glad that girl died' during Virginia protest, says NC KKK leader
 Earlier Items: 
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
A teen checked into an Internet-addiction camp in China. He was dead two days later.
Discussion: BBC
Michael Qazvini / Daily Wire:
Leftist Activists Demand New York Museum Take Down Statue of ‘Racist’ Theodore Roosevelt
Albert R. Hunt / Bloomberg:
Democrats Fret as Clinton Book Rollout Looms
Monmouth University:
Monmouth University Polling Institute
Discussion: Washington Post
CBO's Publications:
The Effects of Terminating Payments for Cost-Sharing Reductions
 

 
From Techmeme:

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using its technology to power some features in iOS 18; talks with Google on using Gemini remain ongoing

Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg:
Alphabet closes above a $2T market cap for the first time, reaching a valuation of $2.15T after rising 10% on April 26, its biggest one-day jump since July 2015

Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal:
Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, Jensen Huang, and others join a board for advising the DHS on deploying AI safely within US critical infrastructure

 
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