Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
8:05 PM ET, February 7, 2026

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Cate Brown / The Guardian:
NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump  —  Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff  —  Last spring, the National Security Agency (NSA) detected evidence …
RELATED:
Julian E. Barnes / New York Times:
Whistle-Blower Report Involved Intelligence About a Trump Contact  —  Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, moved to lock down an intelligence intercept that referred to someone close to President Trump, the report said.  —  Members of Congress were briefed this week …
Discussion: The Independent
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
This Is Just Who Trump Is  —  What motivates President Trump?  —  Not what motivates Trumpism, whatever that is.  Not what motivates his MAGA supporters.  Not what motivates the infrequent and marginal voters who delivered him his victories in 2016 and 2024.  —  No. What specifically motivates Donald J. Trump?
RELATED:
Associated Press:
Congressional Black Caucus chair says Trump's post on the Obamas shows a ‘bigoted and racist regime’  —  Ever since a racist video was posted on President Donald Trump's social media account, the White House has offered shifting responses.  First it dismissed “fake outrage,” then it deleted the post and blamed a staff member.
New York Times:
Washington Post C.E.O. Will Lewis Steps Down After Stormy Tenure  —  Mr. Lewis will be replaced in the interim by Jeff D'Onofrio, formerly the chief financial officer, the company said.  —  Will Lewis, the embattled chief executive and publisher of The Washington Post, has stepped down, the company announced Saturday.
RELATED:
Jon Passantino / Status:
Conflict of Disinterest … Last month, just ahead of the devastating layoffs at The Washington Post, a group of wealthy D.C. locals approached Post publisher and chief executive Will Lewis with a proposal: Would the Jeff Bezos-owned paper consider spinning off its local and sports sections and selling to them?
Miami Herald:
Who were the other men in the Epstein files?  This is the FBI's own list  —  After the Justice Department shut the door on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files in July 2025, FBI agents worked on drafts of a 21-page presentation of all the evidence the FBI had gathered in the case, including a summary of allegations against 11 men.
RELATED:
Amelia Gentleman / The Guardian:
Sex and snacks, but no seat at the table: the role of women in Epstein's sordid men's club
Discussion: Plain Dealer
Ernesto Londoño / New York Times:
Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good's Killing.  Washington Told Them to Stop.  —  Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Ms. Good's vehicle, but Trump administration leaders said to drop it.  About a dozen prosecutors have departed, leaving the Minnesota U.S. attorney's office in turmoil.
Joe Charpentier / The Portland Press Herald:
ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say  —  An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.  —  Communities:  —  9 min readFont size +
Washington Post:
Zelensky says Russia is proposing huge economic deals with U.S.  —  The Ukrainian president said the Trump administration was pushing for a June deadline to end Russia's war.  —  KYIV — Days after negotiations to halt Russia's war in Ukraine ended inconclusively in Abu Dhabi …
RELATED:
Samya Kullab / Associated Press:
US gave Ukraine and Russia a June deadline to reach agreement to end war, Zelenskyy says
Associated Press:
Immigrant whose skull was broken in eight places during ICE arrest says beating was unprovoked  —  Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles …
Discussion: Scripps News
Rylee Kirk / New York Times:
Ohio Man Is Charged With Threatening to Kill JD Vance  —  During the investigation, the man was found to have child sex abuse materials on his phone, federal prosecutors said.  —  An Ohio man was charged with threatening to shoot and kill Vice President JD Vance, federal prosecutors said on Friday.
Discussion: Fox News
RELATED:
US Department of Justice:
Ohio Man Charged for Threatening to Kill the Vice President of the United States
NPR:
State Department will delete X posts from before Trump returned to office  —  The State Department is removing all posts on its public accounts on the social media platform X made before President Trump returned to office on Jan. 20, 2025.  —  The posts will be internally archived …
Discussion: Newsweek and NewsMax.com
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
The Epstein scandal is taking down Europe's political class.  In the US, they're getting a pass. … But as Europe's political class moves to clean up its mess and address its shame concerning ties with the convicted sex offender, it's inadvertently highlighting something else — the comparative lack of accountability in the U.S.
Discussion: Politico
RELATED:
Jill Lawless / Associated Press:
Epstein revelations have toppled top figures in Europe while US fallout is more muted
Discussion: Al Jazeera and Reuters
Geraldine McKelvie / The Guardian:
Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters  —  Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism  —  The global publishing platform Substack is generating revenue from newsletters …
Jacob Knutson / Democracy Docket:
New version of GOP suppression bill would impose nationwide proof of citizenship, photo ID requirements  —  House Republicans Friday unveiled an amended version of their voter suppression bill that, if it became law, would gravely undermine the right to vote in the U.S. ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
Discussion: NewsMax.com and CBS News
Mike Hixenbaugh / NBC News:
Toddler hospitalized with respiratory failure was returned to ICE detention and denied prescribed medication, lawsuit says  —  The 18-month-old was sent back to a South Texas facility after days in intensive care with severe respiratory distress, according to a federal lawsuit.
New York Times:
Top ICE Lawyer in Minnesota Departs as Immigration Lawsuits Overwhelm Courts  —  Jim Stolley, the chief counsel for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minnesota, has left as government prosecutors grapple with a crush of cases.  —  The top lawyer for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement …
Discussion: MS NOW
Dina Doll / Legal AF's Substack:
Ghislaine Maxwell's Bombshell Filing Raises Questions About Epstein's Hidden Network … Buried in a footnote of Ghislaine Maxwell's court filing, she makes the bombshell claim that there twenty-five accomplices of Jeffrey Epstein entered into secret settlements and that there are four unnamed employee co-conspirators of Epstein.
Aaron Rupar / Public Notice:
Anne Applebaum on Trump's betrayal of Europe  —  “They're bewildered we've allowed this to happen.”  —  ∙ Paid  —  Public Notice is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  🧠 Subscribe to PN 🧠  —  Last month's Davos World Economic Forum …
emptywheel:
Marco Rubio Will Let 2.5 Million Children Die so Sarah Rogers Can Fund Far Right Extremists in Europe  —  The last ten days or so provide a slew of examples of what I'm tentatively calling, “the big shift” — very obvious examples where we can show Trump taking funds away from something …
Nate Raymond / Reuters:
Trump administration won't let student deported to Honduras return  —  President Donald Trump's administration on Friday called a judge's proposal that the government issue a student visa to a college student it deported to Honduras in violation of a court order “unfeasible” …
Rachel Wolf / Fox News:
Virginia Democrat gives profanity-laced response to Cruz's criticism of the state's redistricting push  —  ‘You all started it and we f—ing finished it,’ Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore L Louise Lucas said  —  Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore Louise Lucas delivered …
Ryan Mancini / The Hill:
Green Day frontman calls out ICE ahead of Super Bowl: ‘Quit that s-tty job you have’  —  Green Day's lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong on Friday called on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to “quit that s-tty job you have” during a pre-Super Bowl LX party in San Francisco ahead of their performance before Sunday's game.
Spencer Kimball / CNBC:
Trump administration equity stakes pose risks to U.S. companies and markets … The Trump administration's portfolio of equity stakes in U.S. companies has reached a scale that is unprecedented outside economic crisis or wartime.  —  The administration has taken stakes or has agreements …
Philip Bump / How To Read This Chart:
Let's consider some disasters.  —  It has been quite a week in quite a month in quite a year in quite a decade, has it not?  A lot of things have gone sideways, often driven into ditches by distracted drivers.  Happily for us, some interesting data visualizations have emerged as a result.
Andrew Trunsky / New York Times:
Pelosi to Endorse Jack Schlossberg, Again Backing a Kennedy for Congress  —  The former speaker, a prodigious fund-raiser and shrewd campaign strategist, seldom intervenes in primaries but has made an exception for a Kennedy before.  —  Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi is planning to endorse Jack Schlossberg …
Discussion: CBS News and The Independent
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 8:05 PM ET, February 7, 2026.

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: 
Delano Massey / Axios:
As America turns 250, the fight over Black history intensifies
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Netanyahu to hold urgent meeting with Trump Wednesday amid Iran negotiations
Sean Keeley / Awful Announcing:
Pat McAfee blown away to learn San Francisco is not what conservative media makes it out to be
Discussion: New York Times
Samuel Benson / Politico:
A MAGA push to erase a Dem House seat is triggering accusations of fraud and violence in Utah
Discussion: Salt Lake Tribune
Adam Wren / Politico:
Exclusive: Democrats reckon with ICE contractor donations
Discussion: IJR
Politico:
Democrats fear body cameras could be ICE's new mass surveillance tool
 Earlier Items: 
Cory Doctorow / Pluralistic:
Pluralistic: End of the line for video essays (07 Feb 2026)
NBC News:
What X's $1 million creator contest revealed about Musk's platform
New York Times:
The Real Threat Isn't Trump. It's the MAGA Apparatus.
John Hyatt / Forbes:
How Picasso, Van Gogh And Cézanne Helped Finance Epstein Client Leon Black's Billionaire Lifestyle
Devan Cole / CNN:
Appeals court greenlights Trump admin policy of detaining undocumented immigrants without opportunity to seek release
Molly Jong-Fast / New York Times:
Now We Know What All Those People Got From Epstein
Discussion: Washington Post
 

 
From Techmeme:

Rani Molla / Sherwood News:
Apple, whose capital expenditure is just a fraction of its peers, is the only Big Tech company that saw capex decline YoY in Q4, decreasing 19% to $2.37B

Steve Yegge:
After talking with ~40 people at Anthropic, a look at its “Yes, and...” culture where every idea is welcomed and judged based on vibes, like a hive mind

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:
A look at Corning's booming fiber-optic business, boosted by data center demand and a $6B Meta deal, as Nvidia explores Corning's co-packaged optics for servers
 
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