Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
4:30 PM ET, September 11, 2021

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
NBC News:
Biden, former presidents honor heroes, lives lost as nation marks 20th anniversary of 9/11  —  Six moments of silence will mark the times of the 9/11 attacks on Saturday, the 20th anniversary of one of America's darkest days.  —  President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden joined …
Discussion: Mother Jones
RELATED:
Ivan Pereira / ABC News:
9/11 20 years live updates: Former presidents joined Biden to honor lives lost
Discussion: Spectrum News NY1 and IJR
Dean Rotbart / Wall Street Journal:   How The Wall Street Journal Published on 9/11
Jerry Dunleavy / Washington Examiner:
Sister of NYC firefighter who died on 9/11 calls for ‘resolution’ in Gitmo trial 20 years later
Hadley Hitson / USA Today:
Alabama man dies of cardiac event after 43 hospitals with full ICUs turned him away  —  The family of a man who died of heart issues in Mississippi is asking people to get vaccinated for COVID-19 after 43 hospitals across three states were unable to accept him because of full cardiac ICUs.
Mar / New York Times:
Coronavirus in the U.S.: Latest Map and Case Count  —  New reported cases  —  These are days with a reporting anomaly.  Read more here.  —  Daily Avg. on Sept. 10 14-Day Change Total Reported  —  Cases  —  145,666  —7%  —  Tests  —  1,620,212  —  +21%  —  Hospitalized  —  100,465
Walter Olson / Reason:
Where Does Biden Get the Authority To Mandate Vaccination?  —  President Joe Biden decreed on Thursday that private companies with more than 100 workers would have to make it a condition of employment for them to get vaccinated—either that, or take weekly tests for the virus.
RELATED:
Andrew C. McCarthy / New York Post:
Biden knows his vax mandates are unconstitutional — but just doesn't care
Discussion: National Review
Colin Campbell / Yahoo News:
‘The nation I know’: George W. Bush's powerful address commemorating the 20th anniversary of 9/11  —  Former President George W. Bush spoke Saturday at the Flight 93 National Memorial, where one of many events was being held to commemorate the  —  Bush, who was president at the time of the attacks …
RELATED:
Tom Fish / Newsweek:
Texas Man Killed Prominent Lawyer Because She Voted for Joe Biden: Police  —  A police affidavit has revealed the extreme motivations allegedly driving the assault and murder of a prominent El Paso lawyer couple.  —  Joseph Angel Alvarez, 38, was arrrested on Wednesday in connection …
Discussion: El Paso Times
RELATED:
Ruth Graham / New York Times:
Vaccine Resisters Seek Religious Exemptions.  But What Counts as Religious?  —  Major denominations are essentially unanimous in their support of the vaccines against Covid-19, but individuals who object are citing their personal faith for support.  —  When Crisann Holmes's employer announced …
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Salesforce offers to relocate employees and their families after Texas abortion law goes into effect  — Salesforce committed to helping employees and their families relocate if they're concerned about the ability to seek reproductive care, after a Texas abortion law went into effect.
Isabella Murray / MLive.com:
‘COVID kills moms’: 8 pregnant women dead in Mississippi  —  Eight pregnant women have recently died of COVID-19 in Mississippi, State Health Department officials said during a Wednesday news conference, with all the babies born premature but alive.  —  The eight women who died from the virus …
Dylan Matthews / Vox:
20 years, $6 trillion, 900,000 lives  —  The enormous costs and elusive benefits of the war on terror.  —  Graphics by Christina Animashaun  —  On the evening of September 11, 2001, hours after two hijacked airliners had destroyed the World Trade Center towers and a third had hit the Pentagon building …
Discussion: Common Dreams and UnHerd
RELATED:
Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Are we safer now than we were on 9/11?  —  GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba — Two decades …
Discussion: New York Times
Robert Snell / Detroit News:
FBI fires Whitmer kidnap case agent amid wife beating allegations  —  The FBI has fired one of the lead agents credited with thwarting a plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer after he was charged with beating his wife following a swingers party, The Detroit News has learned.
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Stephen Kinzer / New York Times:
Abimael Guzmán, Leader of Guerrilla Group That Terrorized Peru, Dies at 86  —  Mr. Guzmán's Maoist movement, Shining Path, killed tens of thousands in the 1980s and '90s.  He sought to bring the world to a “higher stage of Marxism.”  —  Abimael Guzmán …
Dean Obeidallah / MSNBC:
After 9/11 Trump weaponized anti-Muslim hate — yet praises Jan. 6 insurrectionists … In post-9/11 America, Republican politicians made the lives of Muslim Americans a living hell all in the name of appealing to the GOP base.  Lies and accusations against us ranged from insisting that we knew …
Discussion: McSweeney's and Jezebel
Craig Timberg / Washington Post:
A secretive Pentagon program that started on Trump's last day in office just ended.  The mystery has not.  —  Control of a remarkable 6 percent of the Internet was handed over to a Florida company as part of a cybersecurity pilot project.  Now the Pentagon has taken all 175 million IP address spaces back.
Mark Fischer / New York Post:
Transgender fighter Alana McLaughlin wins MMA debut  —  Alana McLaughlin, the second openly transgender woman to compete in MMA in the United States, won her debut Friday night via submission at the Combate Global prelims in Miami, Fla.  —  The 38-year-old used a rear-naked choke …
New York Times:
Times Investigation: In U.S. Drone Strike, Evidence Suggests No ISIS Bomb  —  U.S. officials said a Reaper drone followed a car for hours and then fired based on evidence it was carrying explosives.  But in-depth video analysis and interviews at the site cast doubt on that account.
RELATED:
New York Times:
Federal Research Bolsters the Case for Vaccine Mandates  —  Scientists believe the administration's new measures may tamp down the pandemic, although the effects will not immediately be obvious.  —  Just a day after President Biden issued broad mandates aimed at encouraging American workers …
Discussion: HotAir, UPI, New York Post and CBS News
RELATED:
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 4:30 PM ET, September 11, 2021.

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: 
Wall Street Journal:
Afghan Pilots Who Sought Safety in Uzbekistan Poised for U.S. Transfer Under New Agreement
Discussion: Jacobin
Karol Markowicz / New York Post:
The heroes of 9/11 — and long after  —  “There he is.  My man!  He never takes his eyes off the road.”
Julia Azari / Mischiefs of Faction:
How the politics of 9/11 became American politics
Cory Stieg / CNBC:
Delta Air Lines' $200 per month experiment for changing unvaccinated employees' minds seems to be working
Discussion: PIX11 and Bloomberg
Nahal Toosi / Politico:
Biden unlikely to formally recognize Taliban government
Discussion: CBS News
Elizabeth Williamson / New York Times:
Top National Security Posts Sit Empty, Mired in Senate ‘Purgatory’
Matt Naham / Law & Crime:
Judge Refuses to Let Jacob Chansley Out of Jail Ahead of Sentencing, Calls Him a ‘Mascot’ for QAnon and ‘Hopes’ He's Really Had a Change of Heart
Eric Boehlert / PRESS RUN:
The press fawned over Trump voters in diners. Now they're Covid zombies
 Earlier Items: 
James Politi / Financial Times:
White House officials consider probe into China's industrial subsidies
Discussion: Japan Times
Rachel Louise Ensign / Wall Street Journal:
Bitcoin to Bucks: Crypto Fans Borrow to Buy Homes, Cars—and More Crypto
Zachary Petrizzo / Salon:
Mike Lindell held secret meeting with Trump on “reinstatement day”
Kathy Gannon / Associated Press:
EXCERPT: On 9/11, reporting from Taliban-controlled Kabul
Annie Linskey / Washington Post:
Biden thought he could persuade vaccine skeptics. He couldn't. So he embraced mandates.
Robert Towey / CNBC:
CNBC poll shows very little will persuade unvaccinated Americans to get Covid shots
Discussion: CNN and NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Breyer's airbrushed portrayal of the judicial process
 

 
From Techmeme:

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple and Sony could add PlayStation VR2 controller support to visionOS; Apple has sold fewer than 500K Vision Pro units since its February 2024 debut

Tripp Mickle / New York Times:
Apple faces a lawsuit accusing it of failing to implement a system that detects and removes CSAM from iCloud, despite initially developing such a tool in 2021

Om Malik / Crazy Stupid Tech:
The rise of generative AI will force the web browser to evolve again, just as the web browser evolved for a mobile-first world by contorting itself into apps

 
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