memeorandum: The second-most dangerous American (George F. Will/Washington Post)

5:40 PM ET, March 24, 2018

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Cleve R. Wootson Jr / Washington Post:

NRA host taunts Parkland teens: ‘No one would know your names’ if classmates were still alive … As they've stepped out of the hallways of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and into the national spotlight, the Parkland, Fla., teenagers have become Twitter influencers …

Discussion: FOX 4 Kansas City WDAF-TV and CNN

German Lopez / Vox:

Watch: Emma Gonzalez's incredible moment of silence at March for Our Lives — Gonzalez abruptly went silent for minutes to honor the victims of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. — Emma Gonzalez got the March for Our Lives audience riled up.

Discussion: Politico

Justin Carissimo Cbs / CBS News:

March for Our Lives 2018 — live blog — Tens of thousands of protesters are gathering in Washington, D.C., for a rally advocating for stricter gun control. Organizers of the “March for Our Lives” rally are hoping to draw 500,000 protesters to the nation's capital on Saturday.

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Refinery29, The Root, KIRO, NPR, The Guardian, AOL, CBS Miami, Mediaite, Balloon Juice, CBS Los Angeles, fox8.com, Joe.My.God., Mother Jones, NBC News, CBS San Francisco, CBS Chicago and ABC News

New York Times:
March for Our Lives: Students Protesting Guns Say ‘We Just Have Our Lives to Lose’

Discussion: Common Dreams, Hullabaloo, NPR, CBS Miami, Political Wire, Mashable and VICE News

Ray Sanchez / CNN:
Students rally in March for Our Lives events in Washington and across US

Discussion: ThinkProgress, WNEP-TV, FOX31 Denver, KFOR-TV, The Trace, Daily Kos, KTLA, babe and The Hechinger Report

Steve Annear / BostonGlobe.com:
Parkland, Fla., students and families flew to Washington, D.C., on the Patriots' plane

Discussion: Boston Globe, USA Today, thecut, fox8.com, AOL, WSVN-TV, TMZ.com and Washington Post

David Boddiger / Splinter:
Hundreds of Thousands Join March for Our Lives to Show that ‘We Are the Change’ [UPDATING]

Discussion: CNN, twitchy.com, WOFL and IndieWire

Steve Israel / New York Times: First, March. Then, Follow This Gun Reform Battle Plan.

USA Today:
March for our Lives rallies happening in every U.S. state: 'We're here and coming to make a change'

Discussion: The Week

Teen Vogue:
Emma González on Why This Generation Needs Gun Control

Discussion: Mother Jones, ABC News, HuffPost, Marist Poll, Politico, VICE News, CNBC, Raw Story, The FADER and Dispatches

Shannon Watts / The Hill:
March for Our Lives means time is up for Congress to act on guns

Discussion: Breitbart, Deadline, Politico, ABC News, Daily Kos, WSAV-TV, Mashable, The Federalist, fox8.com, Curbed NY, The Guardian and CBS Miami

Edward Felsenthal / TIME:
What We Can Learn From the Student Teachers From Parkland

Discussion: NewsBusters, Mediaite, CBS Los Angeles and Splinter

George F. Will / Washington Post:

The second-most dangerous American — Because John Bolton is five things President Trump is not — intelligent, educated, principled, articulate and experienced — and because of Bolton's West Wing proximity to a president responsive to the most recent thought he has heard emanating …

Discussion: CNN, Vox, New York Magazine, The Nation and The Daily Caller

Wall Street Journal:

Trump Relishes Off-Script Approach — President showcases a more unilateral style, relying on his sense of what the moment requires — WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump signed a $1.3 trillion spending bill early Friday afternoon, but not before leaving both his staff and lawmakers on edge …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, The Hill, RedState, thecut, Political Wire, AOL and Mediaite

Foreign Policy:
Bolton Expected to ‘Clean House’

Discussion: The Hill, RedState, Talking Points Memo, The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit, IJR, Outside the Beltway, AOL, Political Wire and Mediaite

G Salisbury / City & State PA:

Sources: US Rep. Costello to drop out of PA-6 race before May primary — Sources have told City&State PA that Republican U.S. Rep. Ryan Costello has decided not to seek reelection in Pennsylvania's hotly contested Sixth Congressional District. — Despite filing petitions on Tuesday to run …

Discussion: Roll Call

Harry Enten / CNN:

Activists are marching, but the public hasn't punished GOP in polls for inaction on guns — Students prepare to ‘march for their lives’ — (CNN)In the aftermath of the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, the public's support for stricter gun laws shot up to levels not seen in 25 years.

Alana Abramson / TIME:
Republican Donor Launches Gun Control Advocacy Group During the March For Our Lives

Discussion: Axios and The Daily Caller

Olivia Solon / The Guardian:

‘A grand illusion’: seven days that shattered Facebook's facade — Revelations about the depths of Facebook's failure to protect our data has finally pulled back the curtain, observers say … “Dumb fucks.” That's how Mark Zuckerberg described users of Facebook for trusting him with their personal data back in 2004.

Discussion: Los Angeles Times and New York Times

Bloomberg:
Apple's Tim Cook Calls for More Regulations on Data Privacy

Discussion: Mashable, Engadget and The Verge, more at Mediagazer »

New York Times:

Stormy Daniels, Trump's Unlikely Foe, Is ‘Not Someone to Be Underestimated’ — One by one, the honorees came forward to be recognized: the wounded veteran, the tech executive and the noted porn star. — It was the 10-year reunion for Scotlandville Magnet High School's Class of 1997 in Baton Rouge …

Mike Allen / Axios:

Trump infuriates his base with tweeted veto bluff — A former White House official tells me that online conservative ire (Laura Ingraham, Ann Coulter, Mark Levin, etc.). about the spending bill President Trump signed yesterday — after a puzzling tweeted veto feint — “is the hardest I've seen ever seen …

Sophie Tatum / CNN:

Stormy Daniels' lawyer: Disc tweet is ‘warning shot’ to Trump — Washington (CNN)The lawyer representing the porn star suing President Donald Trump called a tweet he posted of an apparent data disc a “warning shot” to the President. — On Thursday night, Michael Avenatti tweeted an image …

Discussion: ThinkProgress, IJR and The Root

The Guardian:

The Brexit whistleblower: ‘Did Vote Leave use me? Was I naive’ — Shahmir Sanni, a volunteer for the Vote Leave, the official pro-Brexit EU referendum campaign, explains how a company linked to Cambridge Analytica played a crucial role in the result, and voices his concerns …

The Daily Beast:

How Close Is Donald Trump to a Psychiatric Breakdown? … NOTE: Due to an editing error, an earlier version of this piece misidentified the professional organization that imposed the gag rule on psychiatric professionals. It is the American Psychiatric Association, not the American Psychological Association.

Discussion: Hullabaloo

Maureen Dowd / New York Times:

‘All Men Are Guilty,’ Says Mega-Mogul Barry Diller — The chairman of IAC and husband of Diane von Furstenberg reflects on pornography, philanthropy and the end of Hollywood as we knew it. — BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Barry Diller knows your weaknesses. — He knows how to intimidate you …

Discussion: Deadline

Bloomberg:

Trump Weighs Expulsion of Russian Envoys Over U.K. Attack — National Security Council has prepared recommendations — White House has been divided over how to respond to Putin — President Donald Trump is preparing to expel dozens of Russian diplomats from the U.S. in response …

Discussion: CNBC, The Daily Caller and Mediaite

Joshua Rhett Miller / New York Post:

Father blocked from taking daughter to her senior prom — There's no such thing as a daddy-daughter prom. — At least that's the stance taken by school officials in Fayette County, Georgia, where a high school senior's wish to take her father to her prom has been rejected, WSB-TV reports.

Discussion: Daily Caller News Foundation