Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
4:15 PM ET, July 21, 2025

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
RELATED:
Rolling Stone:
Trump's Wildly Fascistic Posting Spree Isn't Just a Distraction From Epstein  —  The president spent Sunday night posting content fantasizing about the arrest of Barack Obama and other Democrats  —  President Donald Trump shared an AI-generated video depicting FBI agents arresting former …
RELATED:
Erica L. Green / New York Times:
How Trump Deflected MAGA's Wrath Over Epstein, at Least for Now  —  By tapping into other grievances, President Trump managed to turn one of the most fractious moments for his base into a unifying one.  —  In the week after the Justice Department walked back its promise to release …
Matthew Mpoke Bigg / New York Times:
Trump Administration Live Updates: Amid Epstein Furor, Trump Posts Fake Obama Arrest Video
Richard Luscombe / The Guardian:
Migrants at Ice jail in Miami made to kneel to eat ‘like dogs’, report alleges  —  Incident in which migrants were shackled with hands tied of one succession of alleged abuses at jails in Florida  —  Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs …
RELATED:
Human Rights Watch:
“You Feel Like Your Life is Over”  —  Abusive Practices at Three Florida Immigration Detention Centers Since January 2025  —  Summary  —  Among the flurry of immigration-related executive orders marking the second presidential administration of Donald Trump is Executive Order 14159 …
Discussion: The Hill, New Republic and Raw Story
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Trump's ‘big beautiful bill’ is projected to add $3.4 trillion to the debt, budget office says  —  The law will also “increase by 10 million the number of people without health insurance” over the coming decade, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated.
Discussion: Bloomberg
RELATED:
CBO Publications:
Estimated Budgetary Effects of Public Law 119-21, to Provide for Reconciliation Pursuant to Title II of H. Con. Res. 14, Relative to CBO's January 2025 Baseline  —  Public Law 119-21 as enacted on July 4, 2025  —  CBO estimates that Public Law 119-21 will result in a net increase …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Politico:
GOP megabill's final score: $3.4T in red ink and 10 million kicked off health insurance, CBO says
Discussion: STAT
Jeff Coltin / Politico:
ICE will ‘flood the zone’ in NYC … The alleged shooter entered the country illegally in 2023 during then-President Joe Biden's tenure and had been arrested and released four times in the years since, Noem said.  She blamed the shooting on New York's sanctuary city policies that limit …
RELATED:
Financial Times:
Scott Bessent calls for probe into ‘the entire Federal Reserve institution’  —  Treasury secretary is latest top Trump administration official to criticise the central bank  —  US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has called for an inquiry into the “entire Federal Reserve institution” …
RELATED:
New York Times:
Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen: The Fed Must Be Independent
Discussion: The Hill, Raw Story and NewsMax.com
Peter M. Shane / The Atlantic:
How John Roberts Built the New American Presidency  —  The country is witnessing the creation of an all-powerful institution, and one man is responsible.  —  No one on the Supreme Court has gone further to enable Donald Trump's extreme exercise of presidential power than the chief justice of the United States, John Roberts.
Justin Jouvenal / Washington Post:
Trump officials accused of defying 1 in 3 judges who ruled against him  —  A comprehensive analysis of hundreds of lawsuits against Trump policies shows dozens of examples of defiance, delay and dishonesty, which experts say pose an unprecedented threat to the U.S. legal system.  —  Just now
Elizabeth Elkind / Fox News:
Fed Chair Jerome Powell hit with criminal referral by House GOP Trump ally  —  Trump allies have been going after the embattled Federal Reserve chief  —  FIRST ON FOX: Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., is referring Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to the Department of Justice (DOJ) …
RELATED:
luna.house.gov:
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna Refers Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell for Criminal Investigation Over False Testimony
Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
House won't vote on Epstein matter this week  —  Speaker Mike Johnson doesn't have any plans to put a non-binding resolution on the floor this week before the August recess — or possibly ever — that would call for the administration to release Jeffrey Epstein-related documents.
RELATED:
Nate Silver / Silver Bulletin:
Why Colbert got canceled  —  Economics played a role.  Politics might have, too.  But mainstream liberal comedy has struggled between the death of mass culture and the rise of Trump.  —  There was a time not so long ago when going on TV with Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert was pretty much the best thing I could imagine.
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump's lawsuit against Wall Street Journal now has a judge — and it's not Aileen Cannon … Trump's new lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and owner Rupert Murdoch seeks an even more audacious sum: $20 billion.  Trump says the newspaper defamed him by reporting last week that Trump …
Alan Blinder / New York Times:
Judge Challenges Trump Administration in Hearing on Harvard Funding  —  In a courtroom in Boston on Monday, a lawyer for Harvard called the Trump administration's case against the school “cooked up.”  —  A federal judge grilled a Trump administration lawyer on Monday during a crucial hearing …
RELATED:
Joy Pullmann / The Federalist:
Declassified Records Show Obama Lied To Americans, Sabotaged Transition Of Power  —  Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released 114 pages of newly declassified Obama administration records Friday.  —  President Barack Obama was among the U.S. leaders directing intelligence agencies …
RELATED:
Fox News:
DOJ receives Gabbard's criminal referral on bombshell claims Obama admin ‘manufactured’ Russian collusion hoax
Leigh Kimmins / The Daily Beast:
JD Vance's Idyllic Vacation in Foreign A-List Hotspot to Be Hijacked by Protests  —  WE'LL BE WAITING  —  The Stop Trump Coalition said the vice president will “find the resistance waiting” on his English summer break, an ocean and almost 4,000 miles from DC.
Department of Homeland Security:
VIDEO: Criminal Illegal Alien with Lengthy Rap Sheet Ambushes and Shoots CBP Officer in New York City  —  The suspect is a criminal illegal alien from the Dominican Republic was apprehended at the southern border and released into the country under the Biden Administration
Ryan King / New York Post:
Hunter Biden says dad Joe was on Ambien during disastrous 2024 debate with Trump  —  WASHINGTON — He really was Sleepy Joe!  —  Former first son Hunter Biden claimed in a new interview Monday that his father's disastrous performance in last year's debate with Donald Trump was due in part …
Wired:
How Trump Killed Cancer Research  —  Attempting to eliminate funding for certain kinds of “woke” studies, the Trump administration erased hundreds of millions of dollars being used for cancer research.  —  When donald trump moved back into the White House, the United States was years …
Discussion: Reuters
Brandon Conradis / The Hill:
Hunter Biden goes off on George Clooney: ‘F‑‑‑ him and everybody around him’  —  Hunter Biden went off on actor George Clooney and other high-profile Democrats in an expletive-filled response to their calls for his father, former President Biden, to drop out of the 2024 election.
Kyle Stokes / Axios:
Omar Fateh wins mayoral endorsement at chaotic DFL convention … - It's also the Minneapolis DFL's first endorsement in any contested mayor's race since at least 1997, per the Star Tribune. … - “We know the status quo are going to do anything and everything to maintain power,” he told his supporters.
ABC News:
FAA says it will investigate incident between SkyWest jet and B-52  —  The incident is under investigation.  —  The pilot of a Delta Connection flight Embraer E175LR aircraft, like the one pictured here, was forced to make an “aggressive” maneuver, July 19, 2025, to avoid a mid-air collision with an Air Force B-22 bomber.
Washington Post:
Divorce, adultery allegations against Paxton jolt Senate race in Texas  —  In one of the biggest GOP primaries of the midterms, Sen. John Cornyn and his allies are attacking Ken Paxton over his personal life, and some backers are rethinking their support.  —  Firebrand Texas Republican Ken …
Discussion: Bloomberg
Paul Krugman:
Enshittification and the Bitterness of Billionaire Bros  —  Hell hath no fury like a tech god scorned  —  One of the many weird, ugly developments in these weird, ugly times has been the MAGAfication of a number of Silicon Valley billionaires.  In a fully functional democracy the views …
Discussion: Programmable Mutter
Patrick Reilly / New York Post:
AOC's Bronx HQ vandalized with red paint after Israel vote: ‘F-K AOC!’  —  Progressive New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Bronx headquarters was vandalized by anti-Israel activists after she voted against cutting US funding for the Jewish state.  —  The office in Westchester Square …
Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge:
This ‘violently racist’ hacker claims to be the source of The New York Times' Mamdani scoop … It's an anime-loving neo-Nazi whose hobbies include furry drawings, posting fan art of a video game character, and hacking universities.  On X, the alleged hacker is followed by New York Times …
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 4:15 PM ET, July 21, 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: 
Trevor Hughes / USA Today:
Dem AGs sue White House to counter cuts to Head Start, Medicaid for immigrants
Discussion: Axios and Associated Press
New York Times:
An Attack on the Medical Establishment Buried in an 1,800-Page Regulation
Wired:
Trump's Commerce Secretary Loves Tariffs. His Former Investment Bank Is Taking Bets Against Them
Jon Fortt / The Verge:
Why tech billionaires want a ‘corporate dictatorship’
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
5 reasons you should care about Texas' Trump-inspired redistricting scheme
Alex Kaplan / Media Matters for America:
QAnon world roiled by Trump opposing releasing the Epstein files
Discussion: RNS
 Earlier Items: 
Miami Herald:
How 7 immigrants came to the U.S. and ended up at Alligator Alcatraz
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
House GOP campaign arm outraises Democrats in second quarter
Discussion: New York Post and NewsMax.com
Toby Buckle / Liberal Currents:
The Politics of Humiliation  —  When I was in middle school I went through a rough patch socially.
Jeff Nesbit / The Contrarian:
What Trump and the GOP have planned next for NPR and PBS should scare you
Andrew Hay / Reuters:
As US wildfires rage, firefighters clean toilets after Trump staff cuts, critics say
New York Times:
The Path to Peace in the Middle East (and a Nobel Prize for Trump)