Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
1:10 PM ET, September 20, 2022

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
AJC poll gives Republicans the edge in most races  —  The latest Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll paints a bleak picture for Georgia Democrats in November, with every statewide candidate aside from U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock facing a sizable deficit less than two months before the election.
RELATED:
Barbara Rodriguez / The 19th:
Stacey Abrams: It is ‘wrong’ to compare her refusal to concede with Trump's stolen election rhetoric  —  ATLANTA — Stacey Abrams on Monday cautioned against conflating her refusal to concede in the 2018 Georgia governor's race with former President Donald Trump's false claims of a stolen election …
Marist Poll:
Warnock Edges Walker in U.S. Senate Race, Kemp Leads Abrams for Governor
Discussion: CNN
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
The Jolt: Trump eyeing Georgia rally after Warnock-Walker debate
Discussion: The Hill, Slate and Washington Examiner
Cami Mondeaux / Washington Examiner:
Stacey Abrams rejects comparison of refusal to concede in 2018 to Trump's 2020 claims
Discussion: Townhall
Emma James / Daily Mail:
Special delivery for Joe?  Plane used by Florida Gov. DeSantis to send 50 migrants to Martha's Vineyard is now heading to Delaware airport near Biden's two homes!  — Gov. Ron DeSantis appears to be sending another plane from Florida - this time to President Biden's home state of Delaware
RELATED:
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Texas sheriff to investigate DeSantis flying migrants to Martha's Vineyard
Miami Herald:
Texas sheriff will investigate Florida flying Venezuelan migrants to Martha's Vineyard
Nick Allen / Telegraph:
Donald Trump mocks Joe Biden over seating position at Queen's funeral  —  Former president claims if he was still in the White House he would have been sat nearer the front  —  Donald Trump has mocked Joe Biden over his seating position at the late Queen's state funeral.
RELATED:
New York Times:
Videos Show Trump Allies Handling Georgia Voting Equipment  —  The footage raises new questions about efforts by Trump affiliates in a number of swing states to gain access to and copy sensitive voting software after the 2020 election.  —  Newly released videos show allies …
Discussion: The Hill, CNN and Boston.com
RELATED:
Washington Post:
Video appears to undercut Trump elector's account of alleged voting-data breach in Georgia  —  On Jan. 7, 2021, a group of forensics experts working for lawyers allied with President Donald Trump spent eight hours at a county elections office in southern Georgia, copying sensitive software and data from its voting machines.
Charlotte Alter / TIME:
Conspiracy Theorists Want to Run America's Elections.  These Are the Candidates Standing in Their Way  —  Nobody recognizes Adrian Fontes when he walks into a Phoenix lunch spot near his office.  The former recorder of Maricopa County looks like any other Arizona dad: a neat beard …
RELATED:
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Bret Baier Wanted Fox to Rescind Arizona Call, ‘Put It Back’ in Trump's ‘Column’  —  “The sooner we pull it—even if it gives us major egg—and we put it back in his column the better we are in my opinion,” the “straight-news” anchor told Fox's president by email.
Jessica Piper / Politico:
What the numbers really say about abortion and Democrats in the midterms  —  Democrats have been on a voter registration tear since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.  There's just one problem for them — they are digging out from under major Republican gains in the previous 18 months.
RELATED:
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Was Warned Late Last Year of Potential Legal Peril Over Documents  —  A former White House lawyer sought to impress on him the need to return material he had taken with him upon leaving office.  —  A onetime White House lawyer under President Donald J. Trump warned him late last year …
CNN:
These male politicians are pushing for women who receive abortions to be punished with prison time  —  A businessman turned state representative from rural Oil City, Louisiana, and a Baptist pastor banded together earlier this year on a radical mission.  They were adamant that a woman …
RELATED:
Charlotte Shane / Harper's:
The Right to Not Be Pregnant  —  I've never wanted to be pregnant, and I've been pregnant three times.
Discussion: HotAir and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Dino Grandoni / Washington Post:
Scientists have calculated how many ants are on Earth.  The number is so big it's ‘unimaginable.’  —  A new estimate for the sheer number of ants on Earth comes to an “unimaginable” sum, one researcher said  —  It's the ants' world, and we're just visiting.
Discussion: Fortune and Ace of Spades HQ
Meduza.io:
Russia barrels ahead towards annexation A summary of Russia's ‘referendum’ plans and new mobilization laws  —  After months of uncertainty surrounding the Russian authorities' plans to conduct “referendums” on annexing Ukraine's occupied territories, the Kremlin postponed the project …
Discussion: The Daily Beast
RELATED:
Nick Catoggio / The Dispatch:
The Trump/DeSantis War May Start Sooner Than You Think  —  The best defense is a good offense.  —  Donald Trump is not a patient man.  Patience is a virtue, after all, and Trump has never had much regard for virtue.  But he's been surprisingly patient with his one serious rival …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump discovers he's not in Cannon-land anymore  —  Donald Trump put the Justice Department on its heels, courtesy of a single federal judge who gave him the benefit of almost every doubt as he fought against the FBI's probe of documents seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate.
Washington Post:
Trump's ‘big lie’ fueled a new generation of social media influencers  —  Accounts that rose to prominence spreading disinformation about the 2020 election now drive other polarizing debates, a Washington Post data analysis found  —  Three days after the 2020 election, Kyle Becker …
Suzy Weiss / Common Sense:
‘Crime Is a Construct’: My Morning With the Park Slope Panthers  —  In the last couple of months in Park Slope—the baby bjorn-wearing capital of bourgeois-bohemian New York—a thief absconded with $200,000 worth of jewelry in a smash and grab, three boys stole a bunch of iPhones off of subway riders …
Discussion: National Review
Elena Schneider / Politico:
How Democrats are trying to counter a wave of GOP attacks on crime  —  Democratic candidates across the country are getting hammered on crime and public safety.  The left's best-funded gun safety group thinks they have the answer on how to push back: linking crime to how easy it is to get a gun in America.
RELATED:
Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
The Cheney 2024 conundrum  —  Liberals who lavish praise on Liz Cheney for her defiance of Donald Trump are making one thing crystal clear: Don't expect us to support her for president, or any other political office, for that matter.  —  The Wyoming Republican's anti-Trump maneuvers …
Discussion: National Review
Molly Beck / Journal Sentinel:
Michael Gableman, who produced no evidence of 2020 election fraud in $1 million review, now suggests the country needs revolution  —  MADISON - Former state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman told a group of Republicans this month that a revolution against government officials …
Kate Bennett / CNN:
Elton John will perform at White House on Friday  —  Singer Elton John will perform at the White House Friday night, according to a release from the White House.  —  There is a large tent being erected on the South Lawn for the event, the construction of which began Monday, a White House official told CNN.
Ryan King / Washington Examiner:
‘One of the worst presidential campaigns’: Navarro reflects on why Trump lost  —  EXCLUSIVE — During the home stretch of the 2020 election, former President Donald Trump was rocked by “one of the worst presidential campaigns in modern history,” former White House adviser Peter Navarro claims.
Discussion: Mediaite and The Guardian
Andy Campbell / Hachette Book Group:
Amazon Barnes & Noble Books-A-Million Indiebound Bookshop Target Walmart … A gripping investigation into the nation's most notorious far-right group, revealing how they created a new blueprint for extremism and turned American politics into a blood sport  —  After the 2016 election …
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 1:10 PM ET, September 20, 2022.

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: 
Lara Seligman / Politico:
U.S. looks to trade former Afghan aircraft for counterterrorism help in Central Asia
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Jenna Portnoy / Washington Post:
Hopkins may leave CareFirst network, leaving patients in the lurch
Jesse Scheckner / Florida Politics:
Marco Rubio declines to say whether he'll accept election results, calls Democrats the real election deniers
Mike Stobbe / Associated Press:
‘Out of control’ STD situation prompts call for changes
Discussion: HotAir and The Daily Caller
Chris Bragg / Albany Times Union:
Executive threw Hochul fundraiser weeks before landing $637M deal
Discussion: Fox News and New York Post
Susan J. Demas / Michigan Advance:
Dixon's ‘parents’ rights' message: You're only a real mom if you vote GOP
William McGurn / Wall Street Journal:
The Pope Abandons Cardinal Zen
 Earlier Items: 
Washington Post:
Biden to plug campaign finance bill, head to New York for fundraiser
Discussion: The Hill
Christian Paz / Vox:
Ruben Gallego's ready for a fight — even if the Democratic Party isn't
Discussion: The Hill and Mock Paper Scissors
Associated Press:
Judge holds gun ban for felony defendants unconstitutional
Discussion: HotAir and The Texas Tribune
C.C. McCandless / KNWA FOX24:
Beyond Meat COO arrested for biting man's nose near Razorback Stadium
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Paramount Global's board is preparing to fire CEO Bob Bakish as soon as Monday, after he lost the trust of controlling shareholder Shari Redstone

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
The New York Times is broken, shown by its entitled, petulant reaction to Politico's report on its tense relationship with Biden

Reggie Ugwu / New York Times:
A look at the rise in video podcasts, as YouTube leads in podcast consumption in the US and companies invest in video to gain new audiences and boost ad revenue

 
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