Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
12:00 PM ET, April 30, 2025

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
RELATED:
Axios:
U.S. economy shrinks at 0.3% rate in first Trump-era GDP report  —  The U.S. economy contracted at an annualized 0.3% rate in the first quarter, as a rush to import goods ahead of President Trump's tariffs weighed on economic growth, the Commerce Department said on Wednesday.
Discussion: Decrypt
The Economist:
America may be just weeks away from a mighty economic shock  —  Trade between China and America is already sinking  —  Editor's note (April 30th 2025): America's gdp shrank by an annualised 0.3% in the first quarter because businesses rushed to import goods before tariffs took effect.
Harriet Torry / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Economy Contracts at 0.3% Rate in First Quarter  —  The reading fell short of the 0.4% growth that economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal expected  —  The U.S. economy contracted in the first three months of 2025, as businesses rushed to stock up on imports ahead of tariffs and consumers eased their pace of spending.
Abha Bhattarai / Washington Post:
U.S. economy shrank in early 2025 as tariffs sapped growth and imports surged  —  GDP contracted at an annual rate of 0.3 percent, a new report shows, as panic purchases ahead of tariffs fueled imports.  —  The U.S. economy shrank in the first three months of 2025, contracting by an annualized rate …
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
U.S. economy shrank 0.3% in the first quarter as Trump policy uncertainty weighed on businesses
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump blames Biden after GDP shrinks in first quarter, says growth will ‘take a while’
Max Zahn / ABC News:
US economy shrank at start of Trump's 2nd term
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Axios
Politico:
Judge frees Columbia student activist whom Trump administration wants to deport  —  Mohsen Mahdawi was arrested by immigration authorities as part of a crackdown on foreign students who were legally studying in the United States.  —  BURLINGTON, Vermont — A federal judge on Wednesday ordered …
RELATED:
NBC News:
Judge orders Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi to be released  —  Mohsen Mahdawi, a 34-year-old U.S. permanent resident who was raised in a refugee camp in the West Bank, was detained during his April 14 naturalization interview in Vermont.  —  A judge ordered Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi …
Julia Angwin / New York Times:
Musk's Parting Gift: The Construction of a Surveillance State  —  Elon Musk may be stepping back from running the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, but his legacy there is already secured.  DOGE is assembling a sprawling domestic surveillance system for the Trump administration …
RELATED:
HuffPost:
DOGE Started As A Joke.  100 Days Later, Nobody's Laughing.  —  Elon Musk's special project has fueled mass layoffs, widespread confusion and may not have even saved a dime.  —  WASHINGTON ― It was all memes and shit-posting when billionaire Elon Musk first suggested in August he could lead a …
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Trump's Tirade at Reporter Wrecks His Own Case Against Abrego Garcia  —  President Donald Trump grew angry as a reporter persistently questioned him about his refusal to bring back Kilmar Abrego Garcia from a prison in El Salvador—and in so doing, Trump accidentally demolished his whole case …
RELATED:
Zolan Kanno-Youngs / New York Times:
Trump Says He Could Free Abrego Garcia From El Salvador, but Won't
Bloomberg:
Amazon Denies Tariff Label Plans After Trump Called to Complain … “The team that runs our ultra low cost Amazon Haul store has considered the idea of listing import charges on certain products,” the company said in a statement.  “Teams discuss ideas all the time.
RELATED:
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
How to Prepare For Trump's Next 1,361 Days  —  Bad business days loom, Reuters reports: … Sounds bad, but probably nothing a few more whiplash-inducing tariff changes won't fix.  You've got to let the guy cook, right?  Happy Wednesday.  —  Days 101 to 1,461 Matter Too  —  by William Kristol
Politico:
‘Are you out of your fricking mind?’  Republicans balk at new passenger car fee proposal  —  A proposal to create a new $20 fee on most passenger cars to help pay for Trump administration priorities may already be in danger thanks to Republicans loathe to create a new fee.
Discussion: Raw Story and The Hill
RELATED:
Politico:
Capitol agenda: The megabill has mega issues
Discussion: Bloomberg and The Hill
Chris Marquette / Politico:
Republicans pull passenger vehicle fee after GOP blowback
RELATED:
Asawin Suebsaeng / Rolling Stone:
Trump, Who Owes His Freedom to Due Process, Is Destroying It for Everyone Else  —  The president owes his freedom to due process.  Now, he's shredding this foundational American right for the rest of us  —  Donald Trump owes his continued freedom — and very likely his second term as president …
Discussion: Florida Politics and NPR
RELATED:
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:   GOP lawmakers unnerved by Trump's intensifying fight with judiciary
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
Trump is losing his war on democracy  —  Trump's power grabs are dangerous.  But he's going about them all wrong — and facing effective resistance as a result. … In the first 100 days of Donald Trump's second term, his administration has proven exceptionally good at breaking things.
Discussion: New Statesman
Seb Starcevic / Politico:
Elon Musk takes hit as Europeans ditch X in droves  —  The right-wing billionaire's platform has recently lost about 10 percent of its European user base.  —  Europeans are fleeing X en masse, according to a new report from Elon Musk's social media platform.
Discussion: Mashable and New York Daily News
Adrian Carrasquillo / The Bulwark:
Jeffries Wants Dems to Put an End to the El Salvador Trips  —  HOUSE MINORITY LEADER Hakeem Jeffries was asked Monday whether Democrats should continue to advocate for the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and the other men wrongly shipped to El Salvador, by making the trip to the country to put a spotlight on the issue.
Discussion: Mediaite and NBC News
Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
Johnson cracks door to congressional action on tariffs  —  Speaker Mike Johnson said Wednesday that Congress could intervene to curtail President Donald Trump's global tariff regime — but only, he said, if there's an “imbalance” in the relative powers of the executive and legislative branches.
Discussion: Axios
RELATED:
RELATED:
Daryna Krasnolutska / Bloomberg:
Ukraine Ready to Sign US Resources Deal in a Matter of Hours
Discussion: CNN, Associated Press and Semafor
Financial Times:
Top Trump adviser struggles to soothe investors in talks after market tumult  —  Stephen Miran met hedge funds and big asset managers after tariffs sparked Wall Street turmoil  —  Donald Trump's top economic adviser Stephen Miran struggled to reassure leading bond investors in a meeting …
John Wilkerson / STAT:
STAT+: GOP Senator Collins says Trump's layoffs of scientists, cuts to biomedical research ‘must be reversed’  —  WASHINGTON — Sen. Susan Collins (Maine), the Republican chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, rebuked the Trump administration for cutting federal biomedical research funding …
Liz Dye / Public Notice:
Trump demands states obey law he just announced via tweet  —  🏙️ 🚕 💨 With corporate outlets obeying in advance, supporting independent political media is more important right now than ever.  Public Notice is possible thanks to paid subscribers.
Discussion: Scripps News
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
“Still no Epstein files”: MAGA conspiracy theory in crisis after victim's death  —  It's getting tougher to believe that Trump will expose the secret satanic Democratic cabal ruling the world  —  It seemed as though QAnon was everywhere a few years ago, but in recent months …
Evan Perez / CNN:
Exclusive: FBI reassigns agents from iconic photo of them kneeling during George Floyd protest  —  The Federal Bureau of Investigation has reassigned several agents who were photographed kneeling with demonstrators during a 2020 protest in the wake of police killing of George Floyd, people briefed on the matter told CNN.
Edgar Sandoval / New York Times:
Trump Administration Live Updates: President Says He Could Bring Back Wrongly Deported Man, but Won't  —  Where Things Stand  — Deportations: President Trump said that he does have the ability to bring back Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was wrongly deported to El Salvador …
Discussion: The Hill
Jacob Kornbluh / The Forward:
Why the Antisemitism Awareness Act now has a religious liberty clause to protect ‘Jews killed Jesus’ statements  —  New language in antisemitism bill clarifies First Amendment protections  —  Senate Republicans added an amendment to bipartisan legislation addressing rising antisemitism …
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 12:00 PM ET, April 30, 2025.

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: 
Jennifer Rubin / The Contrarian:
Trump Refuses to Fold a Losing Hand
Deirdre Heavey / Fox News:
Walz says Harris picked him for VP to ‘code talk to White guys’
Discussion: Townhall, IJR and Twitchy
Chris Stein / The Guardian:
Trump border pick accused of ‘cover-up’ over death of man beaten by US agents
Discussion: The Hill and Breitbart
Washington Post:
Federal workers required to report their daily location, email says
 Earlier Items: 
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis:
Gross Domestic Product, 1st Quarter 2025 (Advance Estimate)
Discussion: The Hill, New York Post and IJR
Ben Casselman / New York Times:
Trump's Cuts to Science Funding Could Hurt U.S. Economy, Study Shows
Discussion: Florida Politics
Barak Ravid / Axios:
What Zelensky told Trump at Pope Francis' funeral
Discussion: The Kyiv Independent and Raw Story
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
AJC poll: Trump's support sinks in Georgia as economic fears rise
Joe Cash / Reuters:
‘Never kneel’: China taps Korean War and AI memes to hit back at Trump tariffs
Discussion: USA Today
Ilana Arougheti / Kansas City Star:
Kansas woman went to KC for a green card interview. Now, she faces deportation
Associated Press:
Wisconsin high court suspends Milwaukee judge accused of helping man evade immigration authorities
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Netflix agrees to acquire WBD's studios and streaming business in an $82.7B cash-and-stock deal, set to close after WBD splits into two companies in Q3 2026

Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
The Chicago Tribune sues Perplexity for copyright infringement, alleging Perplexity's platforms lift Tribune content verbatim and divert traffic from the paper

David Pierce / The Verge:
Yahoo launches Game Breakdowns in beta, offering AI-generated game summaries, stats, and play recaps, all updated live, to Yahoo Fantasy Plus subscribers
 
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