Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
8:20 AM ET, August 12, 2021

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Joseph Clark / Washington Times:
EXCLUSIVE: Cyber expert says his team can't prove Mike Lindell's claims that China hacked election  —  SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — The cyber expert on the “red team” hired by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell now says the key data underpinning the theory that China hacked the 2020 election unveiled at the Cyber Symposium is illegitimate.
RELATED:
Daniel Villarreal / Newsweek:
‘This Is a Mistake’: Steve Bannon Slams Mike Lindell's Symposium for Not Proving Voter Fraud  —  Right-wing media figure Steve Bannon has slammed MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell's cyber symposium for failing to present evidence that actually proves Lindell's long-touted claims of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential elections.
Discussion: Gizmodo
Joseph Marks / Washington Post:
The Cybersecurity 202: The bipartisan infrastructure bill could bring a cyber bounty for state and local governments  —  Anchor of The Cybersecurity 202 newsletter  —  The mammoth bipartisan infrastructure deal that passed the Senate this week includes a $1 billion pot of cybersecurity money …
Discussion: Quartz, Crooks and Liars and Raw Story
NBC News:
Judge rules Dominion case can proceed against Trump allies
Discussion: Reuters
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Judge allows defamation lawsuits against Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani and MyPillow CEO to go forward
New York Times:
Texas Hospitals Are Already Overloaded.  Doctors Are ‘Frightened by What Is Coming.’  —  Across Texas, health officials warned of a growing crisis not seen in months, with more than 10,000 Texans hospitalized and intensive care units stretched thin.  —  SAN ANTONIO — At least two hospitals …
Discussion: The Hill and The Texas Tribune
RELATED:
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
Greg Abbott Surrenders to the Coronavirus  —  A year and a half into the pandemic, Texas is running out of hospital beds.  —  The Texas Tribune reported on Tuesday that nearly 10,000 COVID-19 patients are in intensive-care units, some in areas where hospitals are close to capacity.
Scott Lemieux / Lawyers, Guns & Money:   The Politics of Bad Faith
Katie Benner / New York Times:
Former U.S. attorney in Atlanta says Trump wanted to fire him for not backing election fraud claims.  —  Byung J. Pak, a former U.S. attorney in Atlanta, told congressional investigators on Wednesday that his abrupt resignation in January had been prompted by Justice Department officials' warning …
RELATED:
Washington Post:
What Rosen told U.S. senators: Trump applied ‘persistent’ pressure to get Justice to discredit election  —  Former president Donald Trump's last attorney general has told U.S. senators his boss was “persistent” in trying to pressure the Justice Department to discredit the results of the 2020 election.
Politico:   Emails: Senior DOJ officials wrangled over baseless Trump voter fraud allegations
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
Rand Paul discloses 16 months late that his wife bought stock in company behind covid treatment  —  An aide to the Kentucky Republican said he prepared the disclosure last year and only recently learned that it was never transmitted  —  Sen. Rand Paul revealed Wednesday that his wife bought stock …
Josh Boswell / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: ‘The Russians have videos of me doing crazy f***ing sex!’  Hunter Biden is seen in unearthed footage telling a prostitute that Russian drug dealers stole ANOTHER of his laptops for blackmail while he was close to overdosing in a Vegas hotel room  — Hunter Biden claims Russian …
Ashton Pittman / Mississippi Free Press:
Mississippi's Hospital System Could ‘Fail’ In 10 Days, UMMC Warns As Feds Rush In  —  With COVID-19 patients overflowing at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, including in its pediatric center, hospital leaders are warning that the medical system statewide could be on the verge of failing without drastic intervention.
Discussion: HotAir and Raw Story
RELATED:
Ashton Pittman / Mississippi Free Press:
With Mississippi Hospitals Near Calamity, Gov. Reeves Left State For GOP Political Event
Discussion: Mississippi Today and Raw Story
Charles Gaba / ACA Signups:
U.S. #COVID19 vaccination levels by county OVER TIME  —  As regular readers know, I've become a bit obsessive over tracking COVID-19 vaccination rates at both the state and county levels over the past month or so.  I post the daily rate levels daily on Twitter, and once a week I've been updating …
Discussion: CBS News
RELATED:
CNN:
FDA expected to authorize Covid-19 vaccine booster shots for some immunocompromised people within the next 48 hours
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Giuliani told agents it was okay to ‘throw a fake’ during political campaign  —  Rudolph W. Giuliani's promise of a “big surprise” to help Donald Trump's election in October 2016 led to Democratic accusations the FBI was feeding him secrets about an investigation of Hillary Clinton.
Washington Post:
A majority of Americans in highly vaccinated counties now live in covid hot spots, Post analysis finds  —  Two-thirds of Americans in highly vaccinated counties now live in coronavirus hot spots, according to an analysis by The Washington Post, as outbreaks of the highly transmissible delta variant …
Drake Bennett / Bloomberg:
Business Is Using Less Carrot and More Stick on Vaccinations  —  Forget incentives like paid time off or free concert tickets.  Governments and employers increasingly worry that mandates are the only answer for the fast-spreading delta variant.  —  The belief that vaccination should be a matter …
The Daily Beast:
Trump Keeps Rejecting Pleas From Allies for Pro-Vax Campaign  —  Donald Trump's former allies keep pleading with him to aggressively back the COVID-19 vaccine.  Trump won't do it.  —  It's been more than six months since Donald Trump left office and, despite pleas from multiple friends and advisers …
Discussion: Insider and Raw Story
Shawn Nottingham / CNN:
5th graders at Georgia school are sent home due to Covid-19  —  Fifth graders at one suburban Atlanta elementary school were sent home Wednesday for virtual learning due to high numbers of positive Covid-19 cases, according to a school district email sent to parents and obtained by CNN.
Discussion: Poynter
Politico:
Redistricting sprint begins with major census data drop  —  The Census Bureau's long-awaited release of redistricting data Thursday will unleash a torrent of new state political maps in the weeks and months to come, starting with the handful of states pressed against early fall deadlines to enact new district boundaries.
Discussion: UPI
ABC News:
Gaetz associate providing feds intel, documents as probe into congressman continues: Sources  —  Former tax collector Joel Greenberg is cooperating with investigators.  —  As the federal investigation into Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz continues into the summer, sources tell ABC News that Gaetz's …
Discussion: Raw Story
David Reaboi / Late Republic Nonsense:
Autonomy for Red America, Part 1  —  In biology, an ecosystem is a complex of living organisms and their interrelationships with their physical environment within a particular unit of space.  —  In American politics today, the ecosystem of the Right is no less complex and interwoven.
Samantha Melamed / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
After 50 years in prison — 37 in solitary confinement — Philly man's conviction is vacated  —  In 2017, Arthur “Cetewayo” Johnson won the right to leave solitary confinement after a remarkable 37 years on “restricted release” status in the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections …
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Pelosi's summer squeeze  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  PELOSI FACES DOWN THE MODS — Speaker NANCY PELOSI is calling the House back from summer recess Aug. 23 to vote on the party's $3.5 trillion budget, but she has a problem: Six moderate House Democrats, our ace House reporters Sarah Ferris …
Discussion: Washington Post and New York Post
Marc Caputo / Politico:
White House seizes an opportunity to whack DeSantis  —  MIAMI — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis made himself the national face of the anti-Biden Covid-response resistance.  —  So the president decided to punch it.  —  For the past two weeks, Biden and his allies have publicly escalated a war …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump to meet with former Cheney ally about Wyoming primary challenge  —  The former president has been interviewing potential challengers with an eye toward making an endorsement against Cheney.  —  Former President Donald Trump is poised to sit down with Harriet Hageman …
Discussion: The Hill
Alex Taylor / BBC:
Kate Clanchy: Author to rewrite memoir amid book's race and ableism row  —  Publisher Picador is considering alterations to Kate Clanchy's Orwell prize-winning memoir amid accusations of racial and ableist stereotyping.  —  Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me sparked online criticism …
Ameer Benno / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Jan 6 Prosecutors admit to possession of “images of officers hugging or fist-bumping rioters, posing for photos with rioters, and moving bike racks”  —  Calls into question the trespassing and related non-violent crimes charged against defendants like Cuoy Griffin.  — Parler  — Gab
Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ
Carlos Del Toro / navy.mil:
78th Secretary of the Navy Message to the Fleet  —  To our Sailors, Marines, civilian employees, and their families and loved ones: … Today, together, we again embrace the most sacred duty - defending our nation and working to build a world more defined by peace than conflict.
Bill McKibben / New Yorker:
The U.N. Climate Panel Tries to Cut Through the Smog  —  Our social world is as polluted as our physical one—can we still see what we must?  —  We all live in two worlds: a physical one and a social one.  The new report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was released on Monday …
Golnaz Esfandiari / Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
Iran's Next Foreign Minister: A Diplomat With An ‘IRGC Attitude’  —  Some say the next Iranian foreign minister's views are as hawkish as the fiercest hard-line elements within Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and that improving relations with Western countries will be difficult.
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 8:20 AM ET, August 12, 2021.

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: 
Brendan J. Lyons / Albany Times Union:
Trooper harassed by Cuomo quickly became his driver
Discussion: Political Wire
Sandra Sanchez / KVEO-TV:
Laredo sending busloads of migrants to Austin and Houston without testing for coronavirus
Juan Vasquez / Washington Post:
I am a DACA beneficiary. I can't work as an ER doctor anymore.
Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog
Olivia Little / Media Matters for America:
Far-right conspiracy theories about FEMA's emergency alert system test are going viral on TikTok
Discussion: TechCrunch, WINK NEWS and FEMA.gov
 Earlier Items: 
William A. Galston / Wall Street Journal:
Which Voters Made Joe Biden President?
Carroll Times Herald:
Jefferson coffee shop flooded with applications after raising wage to $15 an hour
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
'We are in harm's way': Election officials fear for their personal safety amid torrent of false claims about voting
Discussion: Raw Story
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Federal judge says Trump's accountants must turn over tax records to House panel
Christopher F. Rufo / New York Post:
Lie of credit — American Express tells its workers capitalism is racist
Discussion: Twitchy and National Review