Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
9:30 PM ET, June 26, 2025

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate referee rejects key Medicaid cuts in Trump's ‘big, beautiful bill’  —  Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough has rejected key Medicaid provisions in the Senate GOP megabill, a ruling that appears to strike a major blow to Republicans' strategy for cutting federal spending.
RELATED:
Politico:
Thune says Senate won't overrule parliamentarian  —  Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Thursday the Senate would not move to overrule its parliamentarian after she advised that including key provisions in the GOP's domestic-policy megabill would expose it to a fatal Democratic filibuster.
NPR:
Medicaid changes don't meet Senate rules in ‘big, beautiful bill’ says parliamentarian
Grace Yarrow / Politico:   Senate parliamentarian approves tweaked SNAP cost-share plan
Jasmine Li / Wall Street Journal:
Who Is the Senate Parliamentarian and Why Do Some Republicans Want Her Fired?
Edward-Isaac Dovere / CNN:
Cuomo will stay on NYC mayor's ballot after conceding Democratic primary to Mamdani, sources tell CNN  —  Andrew Cuomo will not drop out of the New York City mayoral race by the Friday deadline to remove himself from the general election ballot, sources tell CNN.
Discussion: New York Post, Townhall and Bloomberg
RELATED:
New York Times:
Eric Adams Meets With Business Leaders Desperate to Stop Mamdani's Rise  —  Daniel Loeb, the hedge fund manager, and some other New York City business leaders are aghast at Zohran Mamdani's success in the Democratic mayoral primary and are considering backing Mr. Adams in the general election.
James Bickerton / Newsweek:
Republicans Ask Donald Trump to Revoke Zohran Mamdani's Citizenship
Frazier Moore / Associated Press:
Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary turned acclaimed TV journalist, dead at 91  —  Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary who became one of television's most honored journalists, masterfully using a visual medium to illuminate a world of ideas, died Thursday at age 91.
RELATED:
Fred A. Bernstein / Washington Post:
Bill Moyers, eminence of public affairs broadcasting, dies at 91  —  He was White House press secretary under Lyndon B. Johnson and Newsday publisher before becoming an acclaimed television journalist, mostly for PBS.  —  Bill Moyers, who served as press secretary to President Lyndon B. Johnson and then …
CNN:   Bill Moyers, former press secretary turned acclaimed journalist, dead at 91
Carmel Dagan / Variety:   Bill Moyers, Elder Statesman of PBS Journalists, Dies at 91
Lindsay Whitehurst / Associated Press:
States can cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, the Supreme Court rules  —  A divided Supreme Court allowed states to cut off Medicaid money to Planned Parenthood in a ruling handed down Thursday amid a wider Republican-backed push to defund the country's biggest abortion provider.
RELATED:
Nina Totenberg / NPR:
Supreme Court upholds South Carolina's ban on Medicaid funds for Planned Parenthood
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The Supreme Court's disastrous new abortion decision, explained
Discussion: Slate, JURIST and The Daily Caller
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Trump Threatens to Sue The Times and CNN Over Iran Reporting  —  The president has criticized media coverage of a preliminary classified report that ran counter to his assertion that U.S. strikes had “obliterated” Iran's nuclear program.  —  President Trump on Wednesday threatened to sue …
RELATED:
Bill Goodykoontz / Arizona Republic:
Why did Pete Hegseth attack Fox News' Jennifer Griffin for being right?
Shawn Fleetwood / The Federalist:
CNN ‘Stand[s] 100% Behind’ Natasha Bertrand's Serial Disinformation On Foreign Affairs
New York Times:
Trump Justice Dept. Pressuring University of Virginia President to Resign  —  The Justice Department has demanded that James E. Ryan step down to help resolve a civil rights investigation into the school, three people familiar with the matter said.  —  The Trump administration has privately demanded …
Pew Research Center:
Behind Trump's 2024 Victory, a More Racially and Ethnically Diverse Voter Coalition  —  A study of the 2024 election, based on validated voters  —  Table of Contents Table of Contents  —  Pew Research Center conducted this study to better understand which voters cast ballots in the 2024 presidential election and how they voted.
RELATED:
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
If Everyone Had Voted, Harris Still Would Have Lost
Discussion: Pew Research Center
Jose Pagliery / NOTUS:
ICE Plans to Send Abrego Garcia to an Unnamed Nation That Isn't El Salvador  —  A government lawyer laid out a plan in court Thursday, but without a clear timeline.  — Copy  —  Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, back in the United States after the Trump administration mistakenly deported …
RELATED:
Ben Finley / Associated Press:
US plans to deport Abrego Garcia to a country that's not El Salvador, prosecutor tells judge
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Why Trump regime shattered the Constitution to crush a 29-year-old Maryland laborer
Discussion: WUSA
Wired:
‘Big Balls’ Is Now at the Social Security Administration  —  Edward “Big Balls” Coristine's placement at the SSA comes after a White House official told WIRED on Tuesday that the 19-year-old had resigned from his position in government.  —  Edward “Big Balls” Coristine …
Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Kennedy's New Advisers Rescind Recommendations for Some Flu Vaccines  —  Critics saw in the move the beginnings of a more restrictive approach to providing vaccines to Americans.  —  An advisory panel recently appointed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. voted on Thursday to walk …
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show  —  Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is using a new mobile phone app that can identify someone based on their fingerprints or face by simply pointing a smartphone camera at them, according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media.
more at Techmeme »
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Former Supreme Court Justice Kennedy says ‘democracy is at risk’  —  The retired Reagan appointee joined a forum on threats to judges and the rule of law.  —  Former Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy warned Thursday that acrimonious political discourse and threats to judges are eroding …
Discussion: Mediaite
Robert Brodsky / Newsday:
Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, former congresswoman and prominent gun control advocate, dies at 81  —  Automated narration.  Learn more  —  Carolyn McCarthy, whose personal tragedy propelled her to national prominence after her husband was killed during the 1993 Long Island Rail Road massacre …
Discussion: Politico, Raw Story and New York Post
RELATED:
Laurence Arnold / Bloomberg:
Carolyn McCarthy, NY's ‘Gun Lady’ in Congress, Dies at 81
Michael Lowry / Eye on the Tropics:
Critical Hurricane Forecast Tool Abruptly Terminated  —  On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Defense announced it would immediately stop ingesting, processing, and transmitting data essential to most hurricane forecasts.  —  The announcement was formalized on Wednesday when NOAA distributed …
Discussion: NOAA OSPO, Bloomberg, Mediaite and NOTUS
Paul Krugman:
Mamdani and the Moguls of Madness  —  Will he be a good mayor?  Nobody knows.  But the hysteria is revealing.  —  I was in mid-air when NYC's election results came in, and I'm still not quite home.  So again, not a proper post.  But a few late-morning reactions from the road.
Discussion: Jacobin, Fortune and The Cross Section
Josh Fiallo / The Daily Beast:
Gabbard Dropped From Intelligence Briefing as Trump Rages Over Leak  —  SIDELINED  —  The director of national intelligence is being left out after a leaked assessment said the president's strikes on Iran had set the country's nuclear program back just a few months.
Miami Herald:
Canadian man awaiting deportation dies at detention facility in downtown Miami  —  Johnny Noviello moved from Canada to Daytona Beach when he was 10 years old.  He grew up in Florida and became a lawful permanent resident.  —  On Monday, June 23, he died at the Federal Detention Center in downtown Miami …
Dan Katz / TPR:
ICE arrested a 6-year-old boy with leukemia at immigration court.  His family is suing.  —  A Honduran mother and her two children — ages 6 and 9 — sued the Trump administration over their arrest at Los Angeles Immigration Court, the first lawsuit challenging the arrests of children under a new ICE directive targeting courthouses.
WWD:
American Vogue Seeks New Head of Editorial Content  —  Anna Wintour will continue in her roles as chief content officer for Condé Nast and global editorial director, Vogue.  —  It's the end of an era. … Wintour, 75, will remain chief content officer for Condé Nast and global editorial director, Vogue.
CNN:
Exclusive: Details emerge of secret diplomatic efforts to restart Iran talks  —  The Trump administration has discussed possibly helping Iran access as much as $30 billion to build a civilian-energy-producing nuclear program, easing sanctions, and freeing up billions of dollars in restricted Iranian funds …
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Michael C. Bender / New York Times:
Justice Dept. Opens Inquiry Into University of California Hiring Practices  —  The Trump administration has targeted the state system as part of its broad effort to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and programs.  —  The Trump administration on Thursday targeted California's …
Matt Vespa / Townhall:
Jamaal Bowman Might Have Said the Most Insane Thing on CNN Last Night  —  The panel on CNN was discussing the supposed Islamophobic attacks hurled at New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, who recently won the Democratic primary, besting former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Andrew Sullivan / New York Times:
How the Gay Rights Movement Radicalized, and Lost Its Way  —  Ten years ago Thursday, the movement for gay and lesbian equality scored a victory that only a decade before had seemed unimaginable.  We won equal rights to civil marriage in every state in the country.  In 2020 came another stunning win.
Discussion: New York Post, Slow Boring and HotAir
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 9:30 PM ET, June 26, 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: 
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
The Criminals Are Running DOJ
Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
Scoop: Pro-Trump group unleashes first TV ad against Massie
Discussion: Jewish Insider
Kevin Jennings / Advocate:
After 10 years of marriage equality, the fight continues for LGBTQ+ rights
Elaine Mallon / Washington Examiner:
Egyptian man pleads guilty to kicking CBP dog at DC airport
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and twitchy.com
Sarah D. Wire / USA Today:
How long will you wait for Social Security help? Why it's anybody's guess.
Benjamin Wittes / Lawfare:
The Situation: The Talented Mr. Bove
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
Inside the Mind of a Never Trump War Hawk
 Earlier Items: 
Ella Lee / The Hill:
Ex-Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro disbarred in New York
Discussion: NBC News, Raw Story and New York Times
Anthony Adragna / Politico:
Parliamentarian requests AI moratorium rewrite
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
Airline-Owned Data Broker Selling Your Flight Info to DHS Finally Registers as a Data Broker
Josh Kovensky / Talking Points Memo:
ICERaid: The App That Asks You To Report Illegal Immigrants For Crypto
 

 
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

Will Sommer / @willsommer:
The Blaze retracts its article accusing a former Capitol Police officer of being the January 6 pipe bomber after the FBI arrested a different person
 
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