2025-12-21 18:05:33
A list of times the Trump administration tested the limits of the First Amendment during his second term, stoking alarm among civil rights experts and critics (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/politics/free-speech-trump-timeline-vis
A list of times the Trump administration tested the limits of the First Amendment during his second term, stoking alarm among civil rights experts and critics (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/politics/free-speech-trump-timeline-vis
Washington resident dies of complications from bird flu strain never before reported in humans | CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/21/health/washington-bird-flu-death
CBS and CNN Are Being Sacrificed to Trump (Franklin Foer/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/12/trump-paramount-netflix-cnn-cbs/685349/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p58#a251222p58
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
personally directed the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to update its website
to contradict its longtime guidance that vaccines don’t cause autism,
he told The New York Times in an interview published Friday.
His comments provide clarity into who directed the CDC’s website change,
after many current and former staffers at the agency were surprised to see new published guidance on Wednesday
that defies …
❌ Ethics
❌ A moral leg to stand on
✅ Most deadly military in the world
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/18/media/trump-mbs-saudi-prince-abc-mary-bruce-oval-office
Source: Bari Weiss got personally involved with political stories, after Trump criticized 60 Minutes for interviewing Marjorie Taylor Greene earlier this month (Brian Stelter/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2025/12/22/media/bari-weiss-60-minutes-cecot-cbs-alfonsi-…
Na - was ist schon wieder down? Richtig.
"Amazon Web Services has now issued a further update, stating in a post at 10.29 a.m. ET that it is once again experiencing network connectivity issues in the US. "
10.29 a.m. ET == 16:29 CEST
https://cnn.it/4qlp9pk
Fact check: Trump's false claims about the Insurrection Act (Daniel Dale/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/21/politics/fact-check-insurrection-act-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/251021/p145#a251021p145
Holy sh*t, what timing. The National Nuclear Security Administration, or NNSA, is furloughing 1,400 people on a day that I broke the story that a foreign threat actor infiltrated the NNSA's Kansas City manufacturing plant.
This story broke after my exclusive on how foreign threat actors infiltrated the NNSA''s Kansas City plant went live.
I want this "toy": Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/19/tech/folotoy-kumma-ai-bear-scli-intl
You thought Monday’s internet outage was bad? Just wait
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/22/tech/aws-internet-outage-ai-risks
Washington resident dies of complications from bird flu strain never before reported in humans (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/21/health/washington-bird-flu-death
http://www.memeorandum.com/251121/p141#a251121p141
CNN Short Doc on Harvard Departure
CNN ran a short doc on my departure from Harvard. Two versions of the same documentary are embedded below.
https://youtu.be/TRw-SXhkNZ0
"6 universities reject White House funding deal with attached demands. Multiple other schools have yet to respond "
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/16/us/trump-universities-compact-funding
So the Trump admin is trying their "quiproquo" technique with US…
Kimmel's show to return Tuesday, but Sinclair will continue to keep it off its ABC stations (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/22/entertainment/jimmy-kimmel-returning
http://www.memeorandum.com/250923/p6#a250923p6
😂 ICE arrests police officer in Chicago suburb and accuses him of being in US illegally! 😂
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/16/politics/ice-arrests-chicago-suburb-police-officer-hanover-park
For weeks earlier this year, the Army’s top uniformed lawyer had been raising legal concerns inside the Pentagon about some of the new policies being rolled out dictating how the military can be used and staffed.
In late January, Lt. Gen. Joe Berger, who had taken the top posting in July 2024, was asked for his advice about the legality of using Texas National Guard soldiers for immigration enforcement.
Berger told Army chief of staff Gen. Randy George that he was skeptical and wa…
ICE arrests suburban Chicago cop, accusing him of being an unlawful immigrant from Montenegro
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/16/politics/ice-arrests-chicago-suburb-police-officer-hanover-park
Democratic senator protests Trump's 'grave threats' in marathon overnight floor speech (Rashard Rose/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/22/politics/jeff-merkley-senate-floor-speech
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p34#a251022p34
Sources: a White House official discussed cutting CNN hosts that President Trump loathes, with Larry Ellison and running CBS assets like 60 Minutes on CNN (Hugo Lowell/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/2…
have they announced public grave-dancing hours yet or is there, like, a sign-up grid or an app to reserve a slot or something? https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:f7utvjkqbgwfjonqtpfcf5fu/post/3m6235eir5k2c
Learning Scan-Adaptive MRI Undersampling Patterns with Pre-Optimized Mask Supervision
Aryan Dhar, Siddhant Gautam, Saiprasad Ravishankar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16846 https:/…
Study: 15 TikTok accounts posting AI videos of sexualized underage girls have nearly 300K followers and 2M likes; TikTok says 14 accounts don't violate rules (Clare Duffy/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2025/12/11/tech/tiktok-ai-videos-children-report
Arizona sues over Mike Johnson's refusal to swear in Democrats' newest congresswoman (Holmes Lybrand/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/21/politics/adelita-grijalva-lawsuit-sworn-in-house
http://www.memeorandum.com/251021/p141#a251021p141
And the next space launch webcast is on: #NewShepard 37 - see https://www.blueorigin.com/news/new-shepard-ns-37-mission and https://abcnews.go.com/US/1st-time-person-wheelchair-fly-space/story?id=128483608 and https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/18/science/blue-origin-launch-benthaus-koenigsmann for more.
For live updates on #NoKings:
https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/no-kings-protests-trump-news-10-18-25
CNN Short Doc on Harvard Departure http://youtube.com/watch?v=TRw-SXhkNZ0&feature=youtu.be https://
US military strikes boat in Pacific in apparent expansion of campaign against alleged drug trafficking (Natasha Bertrand/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/22/politics/us-military-strike-pacific-8th
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p123#a251022p123
Billionaire Larry Ellison,
the largest shareholder of Paramount,
often speaks to connections at the White House but, in at least one of the calls,
engaged in a dialogue about possibly firing CNN hosts whom Donald Trump is said to loathe, including Erin Burnett and Brianna Keilar.
Senior White House officials have discussed internally their preference for Paramount Skydance to acquire Warner Bros Discovery in recent weeks,
and one official has discussed potentia…
"Rare" weakness? From a dude who's nickname is TACO?
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/17/politics/reverse-course-trump-epstein-files-release-weakness
CBS shelves '60 Minutes' story on Trump deportees at the last minute: 'People are threatening to quit,' staffers say (Brian Stelter/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/12/21/media/60-minutes-cecot-bari-weiss-cbs-sharyn-alfonsi
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p1#a251222p1
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/politics/uk-suspends-caribbean-intelligence-sharing-us
A federal appeals court upholds a lower court's 2023 dismissal of Trump's defamation suit against CNN for calling his 2020 stolen election claims the "Big Lie" (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/11/trump-cnn-lawsuit-dismissed…
Russian alleged cyber-hacker faces extradition to US after arrest in Thailand
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/15/asia/denis-obrezko-russia-hacker-thailand-void-blizzard
#CNN: Pardoned Capitol rioter arrested on charge that he threatened to kill Hakeem Jeffries
Nothing another pardon can't fix. 🫤
#news #uspol #USA #lawAndOrder #pardons #pessimism
CNN plans to launch its All Access streaming subscription tier on October 28 for $6.99 per month or $69.99 per year in the US (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/10/cnn-subscription-service-launch-1236588685/
CNN partners with Kalshi to use the company's real-time prediction data in its reporting, for on-air data tickers, fact-checking, and more (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/02/cnn-kalshi-prediction-market-data
ICE thugs can't handle a little snow.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/us/gregory-bovino-border-patrol-agents-chicago
Democrats are debating how to approach the new Marjorie Taylor Greene (Annie Grayer/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/20/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-democrats
http://www.memeorandum.com/251120/p66#a251120p66
[Update] CNN Short Doc on Harvard…
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Federal appeals court rejects Trump's 'meritless' case against CNN (Brian Stelter/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/18/media/trump-cnn-big-lie-defamation-lawsuit-appeals
http://www.memeorandum.com/251118/p161#a251118p161
Senators Warren and Blumenthal call on AG Bondi to recuse herself from reviewing the WBD deal due to her prior employment with lobbying firm Ballard Partners (Brian Stelter/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/media/warren-bondi-antitrust-warner-bros-netf…
DNC Chair to Democrats: 'Don't hang your head, the wind is at our back' (Dana Bash/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/19/politics/video/dnc-chair-ken-martin-on-government-shutdown-and-new-jersey-governor-race
http://www.memeorandum.com/251020/p94#a251020p94
Trump's response to 'No Kings' marches only proved the protesters' point (Stephen Collinson/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/20/politics/trump-no-kings-protests-vance-cia-analysis
http://www.memeorandum.com/251020/p5#a251020p5
Fox News, ABC News, CBS News, CNN, and NBC News issue a joint statement declining to agree to the Pentagon's new requirements: "the policy is without precedent" (Brian Stelter/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/media/pentagon-hegseth-pre…
Trump talks about neuroses, selecting chairs and his wife's underwear drawer in latest affordability speech (Kevin Liptak/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/12/19/politics/trump-speech-north-carolina
http://www.memeorandum.com/251220/p28#a251220p28
Donald Trump on Wednesday further inserted himself into the drama around the sale of Warner Bros. Discovery,
saying he believes CNN
— one of several cable networks owned by WBD
— should be sold as part of any deal.
While the president doesn't have the power to unilaterally block a merger he doesn't like
— unless there are serious national security concerns pertaining to foreign investments
— his comments do have the ability to sway the decisions of…
Justice Department is investigating handling of Adam Schiff mortgage fraud probe led by Ed Martin and Bill Pulte (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/20/politics/justice-department-adam-schiff-ed-martin-bill-pulte-christine-bish
http://www.memeorandum.com/251120/p74#a251120p74
Prosecutors move to dismiss charges against Chicago woman shot after ramming car at law enforcement vehicle (Nicquel Terry Ellis/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/20/us/chicago-marimar-martinez-shooting-charges
http://www.memeorandum.com/251120/p63#a251120p63
CNN plans a multiplatform initiative called CNN Creators, hoping to attract a younger audience, starting with a 30-minute weekly program on CNN International (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thed…
Inside the quiet, yearslong investigation into John Bolton (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/17/politics/investigation-john-bolton-indictment
http://www.memeorandum.com/251019/p32#a251019p32
CNN revamps its app's homepage with a new Shorts tab that provides a TikTok-style feed of short-form vertical video clips covering news stories (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/816638/cnn-app-shorts-feed-videos-launch
Trump has sparked a fresh frenzy about his health after a very unorthodox CNN interview.
The 79-year-old president gave an exclusive interview to State of the Union host Jake Tapper Sunday,
but bizarrely texted his answers in at an unspecified time before the show
rather than speaking in person or calling
Viewers commented on X:
“What is wrong with Donald Trump so that he is not able to even do a telephone interview?”
Another watcher wrote: “This wasn’t an …
GOP senator says "there would have to be adjustments" to Obamacare subsidies (Dana Bash/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/19/politics/video/gop-alabama-senator-katie-britt-on-obamacare-subsidies-government-shutdown-ivf-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/251019/p57#a251019p57
House moves to repeal controversial 'Arctic Frost' provision that allows GOP senators to seek $500,000 payouts (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/19/politics/arctic-frost-provision-senators-house-vote
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p173#a251119p173
On his two-year anniversary as CNN CEO, Mark Thompson talks about the core value proposition of CNN, cable news, CNN's alleged left-leaning bias, and more (Colby Hall/Mediaite)
https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/exclusive-one-on-one-wit…
Exclusive: Top lawyer for military joint chiefs told chairman that officers should retire if faced with an unlawful order (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/12/19/politics/unlawful-order-caine-widmar-retire
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p27#a251219p27
Judge Boasberg to resume criminal contempt inquiry into Trump officials involved in Alien Enemies Act deportation flights (Devan Cole/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/19/politics/boasberg-contempt-of-court-alien-enemies-act-flights
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p130#a251119p130
The Netflix-WBD deal should quiet concerns, for now, from CNN employees worried about the prospect of Paramount combining CBS News and CNN in a WBD acquisition (John Koblin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/business/media/cnn-net…
Media
-- including Fox News
-- overwhelmingly rejected Hegseth's Pentagon press policy
The network, which is generally supportive of the Trump administration,
has joined ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN in not signing the new Defense Department press policy.
https://w…
George Santos defends commutation: 'If President Trump had pardoned Jesus Christ off the cross, he would have had critics' (Dana Bash/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/19/politics/video/george-santos-on-release-from-prison-trump-commutes-sentence
http://www.memeorandum.com/251019/p69#a251019p69
Source: the BBC board held an unexpected meeting Wednesday after President Trump demanded the BBC retract a Panorama documentary about January 6 and apologize (Brian Stelter/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/media/bbc-trump-board-meeting
Consistent with the United States’ continued slide into an economy powered almost entirely by LLM slop, financialization, and ever-pervasive exploitative gambling,
“prediction market app” Kalshi “entered into an official partnership” with CNN this week
to bring their “data to CNN’s journalism across its television, digital and social channels.”
Soon, CNN will run live odds on world events
where its viewers can gamble on them in real time on their smart phones.
…
Sources: Anderson Cooper has signed a new deal with CNN (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/anderson-cooper-cnn-new-contract-1236603476/
Rachel Tashjian, most recently the fashion critic for The Washington Post, joins CNN as a senior style reporter for a new digital product (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/cnn-rachel-tashjian-fashion-critic-washington-p…
George Santos Is Back on TV Two Days After His Release From Prison (Katherine Rosman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/nyregion/santos-cnn-fox-prison-release.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251019/p60#a251019p60
Person of interest in Brown University shooting served in Army, worked at Arlington National Cemetery (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/12/14/us/benjamin-erickson-brown-university-shooting?Date=20251215&Profile=CNN
http://www.memeorandum.com/251214/p50#a251214p50
A New York appeals court rules that Chris Cuomo can't revive his bid to disqualify the arbitrator overseeing his $125M claim against CNN over his 2021 firing (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
Second near midair collision reported near Venezuela involving US Air Force tanker (Pete Muntean/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/12/16/americas/venezuela-near-collision-intl-latam
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p5#a251217p5
President Trump asks SCOTUS to toss the $5M civil case that found he sexually abused and defamed E. Jean Carroll, after an appeals court denied review in June (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/10/politics/e-jean-carroll-trump-supreme-court
WBD plans to remove live CNN programming from HBO Max on November 17 as CNN prepares to launch a streaming service (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/cnn-pulled-hbo-max-streams-1236392501/…
Media outlets, including Fox News and CNN, refuse to sign Pentagon's press access rules (Brian Stelter/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/media/pentagon-hegseth-press-restrictions-newsmax-fox-news
http://www.memeorandum.com/251014/p117#a251014p117
Joe Rogan is unpleasantly surprised by Trump's actions. He's hardly alone (Aaron Blake/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/16/politics/joe-rogan-trump-surprise-analysis
http://www.memeorandum.com/251017/p3#a251017p3
Trump enters Warner Bros. fight, says it's 'imperative that CNN be sold' (Brian Stelter/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/12/10/media/trump-cnn-sold-paramount-warner-bros-netflix
http://www.memeorandum.com/251210/p142#a251210p142
Ashley Allison, a CNN commentator and Democratic consultant, buys The Root from G/O Media, returning the brand to Black ownership (Brian Stelter/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2025/10/02/media/the-root-go-media-ashley-allison
ICE arrests police officer in Chicago suburb and accuses him of being in US illegally (Holmes Lybrand/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/16/politics/ice-arrests-chicago-suburb-police-officer-hanover-park
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p77#a251016p77
Federal judge demands answers from Trump admin on following order to avoid violent encounters with Chicago protesters (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/16/us/illinois-judge-trump-chicago-protesters
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p63#a251016p63
CNN launches its new All Access streaming subscription tier for $6.99 per month, including live channels and on-demand video, after shutting down CNN in 2022 (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/10/cnn-launches-all-access-streaming-service-w…
Kalshi strikes a deal with CNBC that will integrate Kalshi's prediction data into CNBC's channel, site, and app starting in 2026, days after striking a CNN deal (James Faris/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/kalshi-cnbc-deal-c…
US military strikes 3 more boats in the Pacific Ocean, killing 8 (Piper Hudspeth Blackburn/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/12/15/politics/us-military-strikes-three-boats-pacific
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p144#a251215p144
FBI arrests four people it says were planning to detonate pipe bombs on New Year's Eve in California (Casey Gannon/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/12/15/politics/fbi-los-angeles-turtle-island-bomb-plot
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p76#a251215p76
The value of WBD's cable networks including CNN is a key number for Netflix and Paramount bidders; Ellison says they're worth ~$2.5B, while analysts say ~$10B (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/warner-bros-…
Supreme Court conservatives poised to further gut the Voting Rights Act (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/14/politics/voting-rights-act-supreme-court-conservatives
http://www.memeorandum.com/251014/p108#a251014p108
More redistricting bad news for Republicans: Texas may not net five GOP seats like they planned (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/12/14/politics/texas-redistricting-gop-latinos
http://www.memeorandum.com/251214/p30#a251214p30
Obama rips concessions that businesses and others have made to Trump (Edward-Isaac Dovere/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/politics/barack-obama-marc-maron-podcast
http://www.memeorandum.com/251013/p27#a251013p27
Exclusive: Senior prosecutor removed as Lindsey Halligan reshapes key US attorney's office (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/politics/federal-prosecutor-maggie-cleary-removed
http://www.memeorandum.com/251013/p64#a251013p64
FBI employees ordered to immediately search for records related to Amelia Earhart, sources say (Josh Campbell/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/07/politics/amelia-earhart-fbi-employees-record-search?Date=20251008&Profile=CNN
http://www.memeorandum.com/251007/p148#a251007p148
Eileen Higgins will win Miami mayor's race, CNN projects, breaking a nearly 30-year GOP hold (Molly English/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/12/09/politics/miami-mayor-runoff-election
http://www.memeorandum.com/251209/p141#a251209p141
WLS: Judge orders release of hundreds arrested in Illinois immigration crackdown (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/us/chicago-ice-arrests-hearing
http://www.memeorandum.com/251112/p102#a251112p102
Exclusive: Trump administration plans meeting over House effort to force release of all of DOJ's Epstein files (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/politics/trump-administration-meeting-house-effort-epstein-document-release
http://www.memeorandum.com/251112/p74#a251112p74
Rep. Adelita Grijalva is finally sworn in as the House's newest Democrat, paving way for Epstein files vote (Annie Grayer/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/politics/adejlita-grijalva-swearing-in
http://www.memeorandum.com/251112/p132#a251112p132
Justice Department fails to reindict Letitia James for a second time (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/12/11/politics/justice-department-fails-reindict-letitia-james-second-time
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p124#a251211p124
Fact check: Trump's '$17 trillion' investment figure is fiction (Daniel Dale/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/11/politics/fact-check-trump-17-trillion-investment
http://www.memeorandum.com/251011/p63#a251011p63
Trump takes steps toward demolishing four federal buildings, preservationist alleges (Betsy Klein/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/12/11/politics/federal-buildings-demolition-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p72#a251211p72
'The damage is beyond repair': The CDC is facing another round of deep staff cuts (Brenda Goodman/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/11/health/cdc-cuts-impacts
http://www.memeorandum.com/251011/p76#a251011p76
37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/03/us/chicago-apartment-ice-raid?Date=20251004&Profile=CNN
http://www.memeorandum.com/251004/p59#a251004p59