Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
6:45 PM ET, December 30, 2019

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Explosive new revelations just weakened Trump's impeachment defenses  —  If Mitch McConnell is going to pull off his scheme to turn President Trump's impeachment trial into a quick and painless sham with no witnesses, the Senate majority leader needs the story to be covered …
RELATED:
Colin Kalmbacher / Law & Crime:
WH and DOJ Lawyers Decided Trump Could Withhold Aid, Hide It from Congress Because He's President  —  Attorneys for the White House and the Department of Justice (DOJ) scrambled to piece together a legal justification after President Donald Trump withheld military aid to the Ukraine earlier this year.
CNN:
Joe Biden says he would consider a Republican for his running mate  —  Exeter, New Hampshire (CNN)Joe Biden told voters in New Hampshire on Monday that he would consider choosing a Republican as a running mate, but added, “I can't think of one right now.”  —  Biden discussed the possibility …
RELATED:
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Joe Biden Says He'd Be Open to Picking a Republican Running Mate  —  “The answer is I would, but I can't think of one now,” Biden said during a campaign stop in New Hampshire on Monday.  —  Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden declared on Monday that he'd be open to a Republican …
Discussion: Contemptor
Ed Kilgore / New York Magazine:
The 5 Biggest Surprises of the Democratic Presidential Primary, So Far
Discussion: Progress Pond and NBC News
Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
A Biden-G.O.P. Ticket? He's Open to It, but Doesn't See Options
Discussion: USA Today
Nancy French / Washington Post:
I ignored warnings from friends and family not to marry my husband.  Was I making a big mistake?  —  When I was 20, a man I barely knew proposed without a ring  —  I said yes.  —  Our friends were alarmed about our fast decisions to marry and move from Tennessee to New York City.
Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
Judge dismisses impeachment suit from ex-White House aide  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit from a former White House official who had challenged a congressional subpoena in the impeachment inquiry involving President Donald Trump.
Discussion: Axios and The Hill
RELATED:
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Republican Telemarketer Stiffed the Feds Out of $411K. The Trump White House Gave Him a Job.
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Nearly a third of the days he's been president, Trump has visited a Trump-branded property
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
Suspect in Monsey Stabbings Searched Online for ‘Hitler,’ Charges Say  —  Officials said the suspect, who is charged with hate crimes, also expressed anti-Semitic views in his journal.  —  In his journal, prosecutors said, he wrote about Hitler and “Nazi culture.”
RELATED:
Wall Street Journal:
Sunbelt Set to Gain Congressional Seats, Data Show  —  Americans are moving to states with warm weather, strong job growth and cheaper housing  —  WASHINGTON—New state population totals released Monday offer fresh signs of how the Sunbelt will gain political power after the 2020 census.
Discussion: Redstate and The Hill
RELATED:
US Census / The United States Census Bureau:
2019 U.S. Population Estimates Continue to Show the Nation's Growth Is Slowing
Discussion: National Review
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Census data projects shift in states' congressional power
Discussion: Raw Story and Daily Kos
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Obama, Trump Tie as Most Admired Man in 2019  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Barack Obama and Donald Trump are tied this year as the most admired man.  It is Obama's 12th time in the top spot versus the first for Trump.  Michelle Obama is the most admired woman for the second year in a row.
Joshua Goodman / Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: Trump ally may have broken Venezuela sanctions  —  MIAMI (AP) — Erik Prince, a major Republican donor and founder of controversial security firm Blackwater, has been referred to the U.S. Treasury Department for possible sanctions violations tied to his recent trip to Venezuela …
Discussion: The Hill, Raw Story, Hullabaloo and DNyuz
Aaron Rupar / Vox:
Ivanka Trump's interview on Face the Nation could have aired on Fox News  —  Ivanka Trump talks with her father during a White House reception on December 11, 2019.  Mark Wilson/Getty Images  —  Margaret Brennan claimed Ivanka was a “vocal” opponent of family separation.  The opposite is true.
RELATED:
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Our Year of Trumpschmerz  —  So much for the holidays.  In the quiet of Christmas and New Year's, the President of the United States has repeatedly attacked “Crazy Nancy” Pelosi and her family, inveighed against the “bogus Impeachment Scam” and circulated the alleged name of the C …
Janelle Griffith / NBC News:
West Virginia correctional cadets who gave Nazi salute in photo will all be fired  —  “Now, we must continue to move forward and work diligently to make sure nothing like this ever happens again,” Gov. Jim Justice said in a statement Monday.  —  West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice said Monday …
James Comey / Washington Post:
This is what it is like to be attacked by the president  —  James Comey is a former FBI director and deputy attorney general.  —  What's it like to be personally and publicly attacked by the president of the United States?  Like many others in and out of government, I have some experience.
Discussion: Twitchy, Alternet.org, The Hill and Mediaite
Jonathan Turley / The Hill:
Pelosi's half right constitutional claim leaves the House all wrong  —  Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe penned an editorial column over the weekend in support of the refusal of Speaker Nancy Pelosi to submit House articles of impeachment to the Senate for trial.
Discussion: Twitchy
New York Times:
How Big Companies Won New Tax Breaks From the Trump Administration  —  As the Treasury Department prepared to enact the 2017 Republican tax overhaul, corporate lobbyists swarmed — and won big.  —  The overhaul of the federal tax law in 2017 was the signature legislative achievement of Donald J. Trump's presidency.
RELATED:
Peter Eavis / New York Times:
Why the Impact of the Trump Taxes Remains Partly Hidden
Discussion: The Week and Raw Story
Scott Daugherty / Virginian-Pilot:
Virginia Beach to hold special session to consider “Second Amendment Constitutional City” resolution  —  The Virginia Beach City Council will hold a pair of special sessions next week to discuss — and vote — on becoming a “Second Amendment Constitutional City.”
Madison Dibble / Washington Examiner:
‘Make sure your vote is on target’: Man who stopped Texas church shooter is running for office  —  The man who fired back and saved the lives of his fellow churchgoers in Texas is running for office with the campaign slogan: “Make sure your vote is on target.”
RELATED:
Aaron Rupar / Vox:
Trump's use of homelessness as a political cudgel exposes his cynical disregard for blue states  —  Trump during a visit to California to inspect wildfire damage in November 2018.  SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images  —  It's not coincidental that he's making a big issue out of homelessness in California and New York but not in Florida.
Ian Shapira / Washington Post:
The frantic effort to save lives after a deadly attack on the CIA  —  Joshua Alley and two medical colleagues were getting ready to watch “The Hangover” at their military hospital in eastern Afghanistan when the loudspeaker blared with the worst possible code: Shamrock Black!  Shamrock Black!
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
DNC rejects Yang's request for new polls ahead of next debate  —  The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is rejecting a recent request from tech entrepreneur Andrew Yang to commission new early-state polling ahead of the January presidential primary debate to make up for the lack of surveys during the holiday season.
Yahoo News:
‘Shattered’: Inside the secret battle to save America's undercover spies in the digital age  —  When hackers began slipping into computer systems at the Office of Personnel Management in the spring of 2014, no one inside that federal agency could have predicted the potential scale and magnitude of the damage.
Molly Jong-Fast / The Daily Beast:
Why This Veteran Is Suing One of the Joint Chiefs for Sexual Assault  —  Twenty-eight-year veteran Kathryn Spletstoser couldn't get the military to take her claims against a decorated Air Force general seriously.  Now she's making those claims in court.  —  Army Lt. Col. Kathryn Spletstoser just wanted to fade into retirement.
CBS News:
Seattle public school students barred from returning until they get vaccinations  —  Thousands of students in Seattle have 10 days to get vaccinated or they will not be allowed to go to school.  This comes after Washington state had two measles outbreaks this year, one forcing a state of emergency.
Discussion: Associated Press, Townhall and Disrn
Patrick Marley / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Wisconsin Elections Commission deadlocks, keeps voters on the rolls for now  —  MADISON - The Wisconsin Elections Commission deadlocked Monday over whether to remove the voter registrations of more than 200,000 people in response to a judge's order.  —  The commission's inability to reach …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Raphael Satter / Reuters:
CIA devised way to restrict missiles given to allies, researcher says  —  LEIPZIG, Germany (Reuters) - The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has devised technology to restrict the use of anti-aircraft missiles after they leave American hands, a researcher said, a move that experts say could persuade …
Ally Mutnick / Politico:
Mark Meadows accused of timing retirement to help elect wife's friend  —  Rep. Mark Meadows' shock retirement — revealed just 30 hours before the filing deadline in North Carolina — has roiled some Republicans in the state who suspect he timed his announcement to benefit a friend of his wife.
Discussion: Alternet.org and Raw Story
Mike Allen / Axios:
Axios AM  —  Subscribe  —  Happy Monday!  — Situational awareness: A Chinese scientist who set off an ethical debate with claims that he had made the world's first genetically edited babies was sentenced to three years in prison because of his research.  (AP)
Discussion: Breitbart, Raw Story and The Hill
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 6:45 PM ET, December 30, 2019.

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: 
Craig McCarthy / New York Post:
Bronx wind turbine's blades fly off, smashing car and billboard
Discussion: The Daily Caller and abc7NY
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
How Trump's Twitter obsessions have risen and fallen in the past decade
Discussion: Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA
Cindy Carcamo / Los Angeles Times:
Love in the time of DACA  —  Maria Lopez spotted him at a bachata class.
Warren P. Strobel / Wall Street Journal:
Who's Watching the CIA? A Hawk Named Hudson
Associated Press:
3 years in, no sign of Trump's replacement for Obamacare
Reuters:
Greta Thunberg: 'I wouldn't have wasted my time' talking to Trump about climate change
Discussion: ABC News
 Earlier Items: 
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Google's holiday gift to Devin Nunes
Pat Rynard / Iowa Starting Line:
Pete Buttigieg Shows No Signs Of Slowing Down In Iowa
Discussion: National Review
Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Bloomberg campaign moves headquarters to Times Square
Discussion: The Hill and Florida Politics
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
The Decade We Changed Our Minds
Discussion: Hullabaloo
New York Post:
Woman accused of assaulting 3 Jewish women arrested again day after release
Sarah Scoles / Slate:
The Year UFOs Became a Little More Legit
Zack Stanton / Politico:
The Worst Political Predictions of 2019
Discussion: Althouse