Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
11:25 AM ET, December 21, 2022

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Washington Post:
Zelensky slated to meet Biden, appear in Congress on Wednesday  —  The trip will mark his first public international appearance since Russia invaded Ukraine  —  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday plans to appear in Washington to meet with President Biden and visit Capitol Hill …
RELATED:
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Zelenskyy in Washington, Scalise in waiting  —  With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  HOLIDAY SURPRISE — Ukrainian President VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY is set to visit Washington today in his first known journey outside his besieged nation since Russian troops invaded 300 days ago.
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
Zelensky Knows the Clock Is Ticking  —  Ukraine's president is rushing to the United States for good reason.  —  When Volodymyr Zelensky arrives in Washington—his first time leaving Ukraine since the Russian invasion last winter—he will find a city that is even more obsessed with itself than usual.
David Freedlander / New York Magazine:
Fall of the Progressive Boy King
Discussion: Eschaton and VTDigger
RELATED:
CNN:
Exclusive: Trump's former White House ethics lawyer told Cassidy Hutchinson to give misleading testimony to January 6 committee, sources say  —  The January 6 committee made a startling allegation on Monday, claiming it had evidence that a Trump-backed attorney urged a key witness to mislead the committee about details they recalled.
Josh Meyer / USA Today:
Will Trump loyalist Hope Hicks' Jan. 6 testimony incriminate the former president?  —  The Jan. 6 committee revealed damaging testimony from Trump loyalist Hope Hicks on Monday.  With full report and transcripts coming, does it have more?  —  She has always been one of Donald Trump's most all-knowing and loyal confidantes.
Ja'han Jones / MSNBC:
Ronna McDaniel may have helped bury Trump with Jan. 6 testimony
Discussion: Raw Story and Politico
Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
Four Crimes: The Jan. 6th Committee Recommends Prosecution for Trump
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Informant warned FBI weeks before Jan. 6 that the far-right saw Trump tweet as ‘a call to arms’  —  WASHINGTON — On Dec. 19, 2020, the day that then-President Donald Trump sent a tweet summoning his supporters to a “wild” protest in the nation's capital on Jan. 6, one of the FBI's own …
Discussion: Raw Story
NBC News:
House committee votes to make public Donald Trump's personal and business tax records  —  House committee votes to release Donald Trump's tax returns  —  The House Ways and Means Committee voted Tuesday to make six years of former President Donald Trump's tax returns public …
RELATED:
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
I've Seen Trump's Tax Returns and Now You Can, Too  —  Sometime soon — possibly within the next few days — a congressional committee led by Democrats will begin doling out former President Donald Trump's income tax returns to the public.  The disclosure marks the end of a bitter, multi-year battle to keep the returns under wraps.
RELATED:
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Congress releases major spending bill with election reforms to prevent another Jan. 6
Ryan King / Washington Examiner:
‘Dead on arrival’: McCarthy threatens to tank McConnell's agenda if Senate GOP votes for omnibus
Washington Post:
No conclusive evidence Russia is behind Nord Stream attack  —  World leaders were quick to blame Moscow for explosions along the undersea natural gas pipelines.  But some Western officials now doubt the Kremlin was responsible.  —  After explosions in late September severely damaged undersea pipelines built …
Todd Bensman / CIS.org:
Latin American Media: Migrants Marching North for Title 42's Funeral  —  Never mind last-minute legal delays, untold thousands are already at the international starting line, with many more on the way  —  AUSTIN, Texas - In a “social phenomenon never seen before in the history of the region” …
Discussion: Dallas Morning News and KVIA-TV
RELATED:
Washington Post:
Why the immigration debate is only going to get more tense
Discussion: Fox News
American Prospect:
Ticketmaster's Dark History  —  A 40-year saga of kickbacks, threats, political maneuvering, and the humiliation of Pearl Jam  —  Just over 28 years ago, Taylor Swift was a precocious Montessori preschooler growing up on a Pennsylvania Christmas tree farm, and Eddie Vedder was the Most Important Musician …
Discussion: ABC7, Bloomberg and The Ringer
Natasha Bertrand / CNN:
Exclusive: Biden task force investigating how US tech ends up in Iranian attack drones used against Ukraine  —  The Biden administration has launched an expansive task force to investigate how US and western components, including American-made microelectronics …
Sarah Wallace / NBC New York:
Face Recognition Tech Gets Girl Scout Mom Booted From Rockettes Show — Due to Where She Works  —  A recent incident at Radio City Music Hall involving the mother of a Girl Scout is shedding light on the growing controversy of facial recognition, as critics claim it is being used …
Washington Post:
Skepticism before a search: Inside the Trump Mar-a-Lago documents investigation  —  The FBI was initially reluctant to investigate Donald Trump's possession of classified documents, and cautious when it did so  —  FBI officials had a lot to worry about in late July as they discussed whether …
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Raw Story
Burgess Everett / Politico:
See Romney run?  Trump's top GOP foil eyes Senate reelection  —  Many of Mitt Romney's fellow senators assume his willingness to break from his party — and Donald Trump — means he's planning for only one term.  They may be surprised.  —  The Utahn was the first senator in history to vote …
Discussion: The Hill
Wall Street Journal:
FTX Wants to Claw Back Sam Bankman-Fried's Donations  —  Customer assets were allegedly used for investments, real-estate purchases and political contributions  —  Watch: Sam Bankman-Fried Closer to Extradition After Bahamas Hearing  —  Created with sketchtool. … 1x
RELATED:
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 11:25 AM ET, December 21, 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: 
Axios:
Central Ohio's measles outbreak leads the U.S.
Matt Katz / Gothamist:
Legal filing: NYPD illegally used sealed arrest records in Adams bail reform ‘publicity stunt’
Philip Caldwell / Washington Free Beacon:
Biden Admin to Drop Half a Million on Artificial Intelligence That Detects Microaggressions on Social Media
Haley Byrd Wilt / The Dispatch:
Rep. Mike Gallagher's Plans for the Select Committee on China
Jon Heyman / New York Post:
Carlos Correa agrees to 12-year, $315 million contract with Mets after Giants deal falls through
NBC News:
California police say member of Elon Musk's security team is a suspect following stalker claim
Umair Irfan / Vox:
America's most important EV is also its goofiest
Associated Press:
Police seize on COVID-19 tech to expand global surveillance
Discussion: HotAir and Associated Press
 Earlier Items: 
Antony J. Blinken / United States Department of State:
Standing with Afghanistan's Women and Girls
Discussion: The Guardian, DNyuz and Bloomberg
Annie Linskey / Wall Street Journal:
White House Looks at Benefits to Lure Americans Back Into Workforce
Discussion: The Hill
Mia Jankowicz / Insider:
Marjorie Taylor Greene attacks Lauren Boebert, calls her childish and mocks her struggle to get re-elected
Shannon Osaka / Washington Post:
This little-known bottleneck is blocking clean energy for millions
Discussion: Informed Comment, E&E and Off the Kuff
Politico:
New book says Biden called Harris a ‘work in progress’
Lee Fang / The Intercept:
Twitter Aided the Pentagon in Its Covert Online Propaganda Campaign