Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
2:55 PM ET, December 18, 2018

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Washington Post:
On Twitter, Trump comes out swinging in many directions  —  President Trump lashed out Tuesday morning at threats from many directions, taking aim at the special counsel's Russia inquiry, the Federal Reserve, social media companies and undocumented immigrants in tweets that spanned more than two hours.
RELATED:
Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Michael Flynn Is Owed an Apology  —  One year after he pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, there is still no evidence that he is a traitor.  —  Remember when Michael Flynn was a traitor?  It was early 2017.  Democrats were still stinging from their defeat at the hands of Donald Trump.
Axios:
Judge postpones Michael Flynn's sentencing  —  Lawyers for former national security advisor Michael Flynn asked a federal judge to delay his sentencing until his cooperation with special counsel Robert Mueller's team is complete — setting the next status report on his sentencing for March 13 …
Washington Post:
Michael Flynn, Trump's former national security adviser, scheduled to be sentenced  —  Under questioning from a federal judge, President Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn conceded Tuesday he was aware lying to the FBI was a crime when he did so and declined to withdraw …
Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
Judge Rips Flynn, Asks About Treason Ahead Of Sentencing For Lying To FBI  —  The former national security adviser to President Donald Trump admitted to lying about his contacts with the Russians.  —  WASHINGTON Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump's former national security adviser …
Discussion: Wonkette
New York Times:
Judge Postpones Sentencing of Michael Flynn After Harshly Rebuking Him
Discussion: Contemptor and Mediaite
emptywheel:
Mike Flynn Steps in It: In a Bid to Feed the Frothy Right, He Leads to Release of Damning …
Discussion: CNN, Raw Story and Hullabaloo
NY State Attorney General:
A.G. Underwood Announces Stipulation Dissolving Trump Foundation Under Judicial Supervision, With AG Review Of Recipient Charities  —  News from the New York Attorney General's Office  —  Attorney General's Office Press Office / 212-416-8060  —  nyag.pressoffice@ag.ny.gov
RELATED:
David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Trump agrees to shut down his charity amid allegations he used it for personal and political benefit  —  President Trump has agreed to shut down his embattled personal charity and give away its remaining funds amid allegations that he used it for his personal and political benefit, the New York attorney general announced Tuesday.
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Trump Foundation to Close After Lawsuit by New York Attorney General  —  The Donald J. Trump Foundation has agreed to close following a court decision that allowed a lawsuit against the foundation to move forward, the New York attorney general's office announced Tuesday.
Washington Post:
Trump agrees to shut down his charity amid allegations he used it for personal and political benefit  —  New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood announced Tuesday that the foundation is dissolving and distributing its remaining funds as her office pursues a lawsuit against the charity …
Discussion: Political Wire
Aaron Katersky / ABC News:
Embattled Trump Foundation agrees to dissolve itself in agreement with New York AG
Discussion: Daily Wire
Washington Post:
White House signals it will back down on President Trump's demand for border wall funding and avert a partial government shutdown  —  The Trump administration wants to avoid a partial government shutdown and has found other ways to get the border wall money it wants, spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said Tuesday.
Discussion: Political Wire
RELATED:
Washington Post:
White House says it wants to avoid government shutdown, will find other ways to fund border wall  —  The White House wants to avoid a partial government shutdown and has found other ways to get the border wall President Trump is demanding, spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said Tuesday.
HuffPost:
White House Nightmare: Trump Golfs While His Secret Service Agents Work Without Pay
Discussion: Shareblue Media
Fox News:
Trump, Dems dig in as government shutdown looms: ‘I know of no plan’
Discussion: RedState
Arizona Republic:
Martha McSally will be appointed to John McCain's Senate seat  —  Republican U.S. Rep. Martha McSally will replace retiring U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl to fill for the next two years the Senate seat long held by the late U.S. Sen. John McCain.  —  Gov. Doug Ducey's decision to appoint McSally …
RELATED:
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Arizona governor taps Martha McSally to fill Senate seat once held by McCain
Discussion: Fox News and The Gateway Pundit
Erin Banco / The Daily Beast:
Mueller Ready to Pounce on Trumpworld Concessions to Moscow  —  New court filings by Mueller's office could answer a central question of the Russia investigation: What did the Kremlin hope to get from its political machinations?  —  For more than a year, Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office …
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
Donald Trump Hates Christmas Parties  —  On Monday and Wednesday this week, Donald Trump will leave the Oval Office in the West Wing in the late afternoon and walk eastward to the White House residence, where he will meet Melania Trump.  Together, they will head downstairs at 5:15 to the Grand Foyer …
Discussion: Raw Story
RELATED:
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:   “The Staff Is Fed Up He's Acting Like a Nut”: Trump's West Wing Braces for Christmas Madness …
German Lopez / Vox:
The Trump administration just banned bump stocks for guns  —  More than a year after the Las Vegas mass shooting, bump stocks are officially set to become illegal.  —  President Donald Trump's administration has banned bump stocks, which effectively let semiautomatic weapons mimic machine guns.
RELATED:
Dominic Holden / BuzzFeed News:
Trump Bans Bump Stocks, Saying They Must Be Destroyed Or Surrendered To The Government
Discussion: Townhall and IJR
Laura Jarrett / CNN:
Trump administration officially bans bump stocks
Discussion: Axios and The Week
Dennis McLellan / Los Angeles Times:
Penny Marshall, who played feisty Laverne in ‘Laverne & Shirley’ before directing movies, dies at 75  —  Penny Marshall, who costarred as a Milwaukee brewery worker in the top-rated 1970s and '80s sitcom “Laverne & Shirley” before becoming a director of hit movies such as “Big” and “A League of Their Own,” has died.
RELATED:
New York Daily News:
Penny Marshall dead at 75, best known as TV's Laverne and director of ‘Big,’ ‘A League of Their Own’
Discussion: IndieWire and TMZ.com
Laura Barrón-López / Politico:
Ocasio-Cortez weighs a new primary target: Hakeem Jeffries  —  Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is eyeing a new member of House Democratic leadership as a 2020 primary target: Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.).  —  Ocasio-Cortez, who ousted House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley earlier …
Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
Right to bear ... nunchucks?  Federal judge strikes down ban on weapon as violation of Second Amendment  —  Just blame Bruce Lee.  Back in 1974, New York state decided to ban the possession of nunchucks as lawmakers feared they were becoming enticing tools of violence among hooligan children …
Discussion: Hit & Run and Daily Wire
RELATED:
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
GOP Stuck in a ‘Lose-Lose’ Dilemma With Judge's Obamacare Ruling
Discussion: MSNBC and HuffPost
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Ringing in the New Year with a Recession  —  Should We Be Worried about the U.S. Economy in 2019?  —  After a while, we start to tune out the dramatic swings in the stock market — a huge plunge one day, a rebound the next, an hour-by-hour roller coaster the day after that.
RELATED:
Washington Post:
Russian disinformation teams targeted Robert S. Mueller III, says report prepared for Senate
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump launches unprecedented reelection machine  —  President Donald Trump is planning to roll out an unprecedented structure for his 2020 reelection, a streamlined organization that incorporates the Republican National Committee and the president's campaign into a single entity.
New Yorker:
Senator Amy Klobuchar on How Democrats Can Defeat Trump in 2020  —  As she mulls a run for the Presidency, the Minnesota lawmaker advises potential candidates, “You go not just where it's comfortable but where it's uncomfortable.”  —  Whether we like it or not, the 2020 race for President is on.
Wall Street Journal:
Roger Stone Admits Spreading Lies on InfoWars  —  Trump adviser made the admission in settling a defamation suit brought against him by an exiled Chinese businessman  —  As questions swirl about his credibility, former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone settled a defamation suit seeking $100 million …
Petula Dvorak / Washington Post:
A mother's leap of faith at an African airport, and a 15-year mystery  —  The story of Tom and Maya and Zainab is about trust, about listening to your heart over your mind, and about that gut feeling you have when you meet a good person.  —  And it's a story that could've gone horribly wrong.
Alex Kotch / Sludge:
Beto O'Rourke Removed From ‘No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge’ Following Sludge Report  —  In the wake of a Sludge investigation showing multiple contributions from oil and gas executives, Oil Change USA took O'Rourke's name off the list of political candidates who promised to reject fossil fuel donations over $200.
Discussion: The Atlantic
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
New York Times assailed for Alice Walker interview endorsing ‘anti-Semitic’ conspiracy theorist  —  Critics call it anti-Semitic, saying it places Holocaust revisionism at the center of an odious and addled worldview.  Its title has been borrowed by followers of QAnon, a conspiracy movement …
Howard Berkes / NPR:
An Epidemic Is Killing Thousands Of Coal Miners.  Regulators Could Have Stopped It … Greg Kelly's grandson, Caden, scampers to the tree-shaded creek behind his grandfather's house to catch crawdads, as Kelly shuffles along, trying to keep up.  Kelly's small day pack holds an oxygen tank with a clear tube clipped to his nose.
Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic:
Rising Instagram Stars Are Posting Fake Sponsored Content  —  Tapping through Palak Joshi's Instagram Stories recently, you might have come across a photo that looked like standard sponsored content: a shiny white box emblazoned with the red logo for the Chinese phone manufacturer OnePlus and the number six …
Chris Buskirk / American Greatness:
Death of The Weekly Standard Signals Rebirth of the Right  —  Neoconservatism is dead, long live American conservatism.  That's what I thought when I learned The Weekly Standard would be shuttered by longtime owner Clarity Media.  The Standard was a creature of a particular time and place …
USA Today:
Poll: Most Americans don't believe Trump's denials, setting a rocky landscape ahead  —  WASHINGTON - A USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll has sobering findings for President Trump: Most Americans don't believe his denials that his campaign colluded with Russians in the 2016 campaign.
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 2:55 PM ET, December 18, 2018.

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: 
Daniel Victor / New York Times:
Walt Mossberg, Veteran Technology Journalist, Quits Facebook
Discussion: Walt Mossberg and Mashable
Isabel Kershner / New York Times:
Facebook Blocks Netanyahu's Son, Saying His Posts ‘Included Hate Speech’
Discussion: NewsBusters
Facebook:
An Update on Our Civil Rights Audit
Wall Street Journal:
Covert Saudi Outreach to Israel Sputters After Journalist's Murder
Discussion: Middle East Eye
Washington Post:
An unseen opioid epidemic in the nation's capital
Will Oremus / Slate:
Twitter Has Finally Made It Easy to Set Your Timeline to Reverse-Chronological
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Emerald Robinson's Stupid Lies
 Earlier Items: 
JM Rieger / Washington Post:
Democrats plan to request President Trump's tax returns in 2019. Here's how they'll do it.
Discussion: Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA
Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
Former National Equirer editor claims the tabloid has unpublished ‘embarrassing’ and ‘criminal’ stories on Trump family
Charlie Cooper / Politico:
Troops to be on standby in event of no-deal Brexit
Lawrence Lessig / USA Today:
Democratic House will address most important civil rights issue in half century
Benjamin Hardy / Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times:
Work requirement ends Medicaid coverage for 4,600 more Arkansans in December
Discussion: Vox
Mark Rober / YouTube:
Package Thief vs. Glitter Bomb Trap
Discussion: The Verge and Engadget
Jessica Schulberg / HuffPost:
The Bible-Thumping Tech CEO Who's Proud Of Keeping Neo-Nazis Online