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"Republicans are supposed to deflect attention away from any mentions of Trump and instead focus on Democrats’ handling of the Epstein probe.”
Leaked Republican memo reveals GOP's strategy ahead of Epstein files release: CNN - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/republican-memo-trump-epstein/

From https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/trump-gives-himself-an-enormous-out-on-the-epstein-files
I hope we're not clutching at straws and we should bear in mind that a rat is most dangerous when cornered. But still…

Memo: after Sinclair bought an 8% stake, Scripps says it's exploring stations sales with "many" broadcasters but talks with Sinclair didn't lead to an agreement (Al Tompkins/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2025…

Scripps tells staff a Sinclair takeover is unlikely despite surprise stock purchase - Poynter
A memo to staff from CEO Adam Symson downplayed Sinclair’s intentions, even as Scripps shares surged nearly 40%

Memo: the TikTok US deal is set to close on Jan. 22; terms include retraining the recommendation algorithm on US user data and Oracle overseeing data protection (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

TikTok U.S. Deal to Close Next Month: Oracle and Silver Lake Confirmed in Buyer Consortium
Abu Dhabi's state investment fund will also be a managing investor.

"Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is planning to investigate climate and weather control, and is expected to create a task force that will recommend possible federal action, according to a former agency official, an internal agency memo obtained by KFF Health News, and a consultant who helped with the memo."
Leaked memo shows bizarre weather conspiracy theory being taken seriously by government - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/weather-2674206192/

Me: OK, I sent the memo. I think I've mastered organization-speak. I used it liberally.
Colleague, reading memo: Holy shit! Jesus, man, you can't use that many buzzwords in one sentence! Did you have your common-sense removed?
Me: Nah, you learn to just suspend it, and let the looney flow; It's actually kinda fun! I wonder if that's why managers do it in the first place....

Trump Has the Look of the Weak Horse; People Are Acting Accordingly (Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump-has-the-look-of-the-weak-horse-people-are-acting-accordingly
http://www.memeorandum.com/251117/p104#a251117p104

Meta Quest 4: Internes Memo verspricht „großes Upgrade“
Meta hat laut einem geleakten Memo mit der Entwicklung der Quest 4 begonnen. Eine ebenfalls geplante ultraleichte MR-Brille wurde auf das Jahr 2027 verschoben.
h…

An interview with TPM's Josh Marshall on the political blog turning 25, lessons from being an outsider, staying independent, ads vs. memberships, and more (Liam Scott/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/the-interview/how-talking-po…

How Talking Points Memo lasted a quarter century.
Josh Marshall reflects on building “a tabloid for smart people” and how his politics blog survived in a “chaotic and unstable and bad business.”

Can you transcribe from audio files? #AI #mistralai

Internal memo: TikTok has signed a deal to sell its US unit; Oracle, Silver Lake, MGX will collectively own 45% of the US entity, and ByteDance will retain ~20% (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/18/tiktok-sale

Scoop: TikTok signs deal for sale of U.S. unit after years-long saga
The deal would end a years-long saga to force TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the company's U.S. operation.

DOJ Memo Says It Won’t Prosecute US Troops No Matter How Illegal Trump’s Boat Strike Program Is | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/18/doj-memo-says-it-wont-prosecute-us-troops-no-matter-how-illegal-trumps-boat-strike-program-is/

A leaked memo by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi
directs the Justice Department and FBI to ❌compile a list of groups that may be labeled
“domestic terrorism” organizations
- based on political views related to immigration, gender and U.S. policy.
The memo was obtained by independent investigative journalist Ken Klippenstein,
who joins us to discuss how it expands on Donald Trump’s "NSPM-7 directive" following the assassination of Charlie Kirk,
--…

“Domestic Terrorism”: Leaked DOJ Memo Targets “Anti-Americanism, Anti-Capitalism, Anti-Christianity”
A leaked memo by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi directs the Justice Department and FBI to compile a list of groups that may be labeled “domestic terrorism” organizations based on political views related to immigration, gender and U.S. policy. The memo was obtained by independent investigative journalist Ken Klippenstein, who joins us to discuss how it expands on President Donald Trump’s NSPM-7 directive following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, which ordered a national strategy to inv…

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It | The New Republic #fascism

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It
From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

I’m autistic, and if you missed the memo, I claimed this as my national anthem before it was cool.
#AntiEstablishment

Weekend Reads
* Is this an AI bubble?
https://www.oaktreecapital.com/insights/memo/is-it-a-bubble
* Internet Protocol Journal

Is It a Bubble?
In his latest memo, Howard Marks explores if there is a bubble in AI, identifying uncertainty, parallels to past bubbles, AI's vast potential, and emphasizing the importance of prudence.

GOP Senator Grills Trump Nominee on Statement that Marriage Is Not Intended for Disabled People (Kate Riga/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/kennedy-olson-judicial-nominee-marriage-disabled-people
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p146#a251217p146

NFL memo outlines priorities for new referee CBA https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47270473/with-referees-union-cba-set-expire-end-nfl-outlines-priorities-memo-teams

Internal memo: TikTok has signed a deal to sell its US unit; Oracle, Silver Lake, MGX will collectively own 45% of the US entity, and ByteDance will retain ~20% (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/18/tiktok-sale

Scoop: TikTok signs deal for sale of U.S. unit after years-long saga
The deal would end a years-long saga to force TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the company's U.S. operation.

Border Patrol Posed As Humans Hiring Day Laborers
-- As A Ruse to Kidnap Them
Memo Torres breaks down immigration raids and related news in Southern California today
https://lataco.com/daily-memo-december-5th-b…

DAILY MEMO: Border Patrol In Disguise Try to Hire Day Laborers to Kidnap Them ~ L.A. TACO
Border Patrol raided five Home Depots, chased a man into a bus, and a flower vendor into a gas station, who were among at least 13 people kidnapped around the Southland, with most of the focus in Orange County today.

Sources and an internal memo: the BBC puts 80 employees at risk of redundancy across the product teams that build its online services, including iPlayer (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/11/bbc-84-jobs-risk-digital-iplayer-1236620473/

BBC Begins “Major” Jobs Cull Across Teams That Power iPlayer & Other Online Services
The BBC is planning to make more than 80 employees redundant across the product teams that help power services including iPlayer.

Sources and a memo: Amazon plans to cut 370 jobs, or ~8.5% of its 4,370 employees, at its European HQ in Luxembourg, the country's biggest layoffs in 20 years (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Disney sends memo to employees about YouTube TV standoff https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6787572/2025/11/07/espn-disney-memo-youtubetv-nfl/

NFL asks teams to hold moment of silence in honor of Cowboys' Marshawn Kneeland: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6790578/2025/11/08/marshawn-kneeland-moment-of-silence-nfl-memo/

Trump Plans To Pay ICE Officers And Border Patrol Agents Despite Shutdown, Memo Shows (Dave Jamieson/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-pay-immigration-agents-government-shutdown_n_68f12156e4b061265b2bfad0
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p74#a251016p74

OpenAI's chief communications officer Hannah Wong will leave in January; Wong joined in 2021 and led PR during Sam Altman's brief ouster and return in 2023 (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-chief-communications-officer-hannah-…

OpenAI’s Chief Communications Officer Is Leaving the Company
Hannah Wong told staff she is moving on to her “next chapter.” The company will be running an executive search to find a replacement, according to a memo.

In an internal memo, Axios CEO Jim VandeHei warns that the US is in "a post-news era" where "everyone has their own individual reality" (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/14/2025/axios-ceo-us-is-in-post-news-era

Exclusive: Axios CEO: US is in ‘post-news’ era
Jim VandeHei wrote in an internal memo that what matters is information, not “the news.”

"President Donald Trump has declared drug cartels to be unlawful combatants and says the United States is now in a 'non-international armed conflict…'"₁
Funny thing about Non-International Armed Conflicts (NIACs), they're "subject to International humanitarian law"₂ and randomly drone striking civilians in boats without any apparent evidence is still a war crime.
sources:
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US is in 'armed conflict' with drug cartels, Trump says
President Donald Trump has declared drug cartels to be unlawful combatants and says the United States is now in an “armed conflict." That's according to a Trump administration memo obtained Thursday by The Associated Press. The memo appears to represent an extraordinary assertion of presidential war powers, with Trump effectively declaring that trafficking of drugs into the United States amounts to armed conflict requiring the use of military force — a new rationale for past and future acti…

In Supreme Court Land, Fixing Discrimination Against Black Voters Is The Real Racism (Kate Riga/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme-court-voting-rights-act-section-2
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p73#a251016p73

FBI Is Offering a “Bounty” for Reporting “Anti-Trump Thought”
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/8/ken_klippenstein_fbi_domestic_terrorism_nspm7

“Domestic Terrorism”: Leaked DOJ Memo Targets “Anti-Americanism, Anti-Capitalism, Anti-Christianity”
A leaked memo by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi directs the Justice Department and FBI to compile a list of groups that may be labeled “domestic terrorism” organizations based on political views related to immigration, gender and U.S. policy. The memo was obtained by independent investigative journalist Ken Klippenstein, who joins us to discuss how it expands on President Donald Trump’s NSPM-7 directive following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, which ordered a national strategy to inv…

Memo: Greg Peters and Ted Sarandos lay out Netflix's WBD case, moving to quell concerns about job losses and the end of theater releases, after Paramount's bid (Rose Henderson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

RE: https://norden.social/@ferdinand_soethe/115691798334380140
"The Republican Party has been building toward this for 50 years. The Powell Memo.¹⁶ The Heritage Foundation. The Federalist Society. Gingrich burning down congressional norms. The …

Is FBI compiling list of American 'extremists'? We confirmed leaked memo | Snopes.com
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fbi-bondi-memo-extremists/

Internal documents and insider communications obtained by CDG News reveal that 700Credit, one of the auto industry's largest credit reporting and identity verification providers, experienced a data breach on or around October 25, 2025
https://news.dealersh…

700Credit suffers data breach exposing consumer SSNs, documents show
700Credit discovered the breach after being "alerted to suspicious activity within our proprietary web-based application 700Dealer.com," according to an internal memo shared with CDG. (3 min. read)

And it turns out that what we thought was the bottom, wasn't the bottom.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/10/07/federal-workers-not-entitled-back-pay-after-shutdown-budget-office-says/

The Department of Justice (DOJ) plans to
👉 dismantle protections for trans and intersex people
in federal, state, and local prisons, jails, and youth detention facilities,
according to a government memo obtained by Prism. 
The memo, dated Dec. 2, takes aim at existing standards of the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA)
that the department says do not comport with the Trump administration’s first-day executive order that,
among other things, targeted protec…

Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people, memo says
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order

NFL asks teams to hold moment of silence in honor of Cowboys' Marshawn Kneeland: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6790578/2025/11/08/marshawn-kneeland-moment-of-silence-nfl-memo/

WGA Urges CBS News Staffers to Not Respond to Bari Weiss Info-Seeking Memo Until Company Provides Details on Purpose of Her Email (EXCLUSIVE) (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/wga-cbs-news-staffers-not-respond-bari-weiss-memo-1236546038/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251010/p159#a251010p159

Ed Zitron offers 15K words on whether Nvidia is like Enron (or several other famous fraudsters) or not. It's amusing and erudite and most people just won't have time to plow through it. Which is a pity, because 80% of the way through there’s a section called:
“Is NVIDIA Shipping Millions Of GPUs And Putting Them In Warehouses? Where Are The 6 Million Shipped Blackwell GPUs?”
His findings are absolutely shocking. Tl;dr: That headline just above.

NVIDIA Isn't Enron - So What Is It?
If you enjoy this free newsletter, why not subscribe to Where's Your Ed At Premium? It's $7 a month or $70 a year, and helps support me putting out these giant free newsletters! At the end of November, NVIDIA put out an internal memo (that was leaked to Barron's reporter

ACLU sues for release of boat strike justification memo
https://thehill.com/homenews/5640885-aclu-sues-boat-strike-memo/

Memo: Greg Peters and Ted Sarandos lay out Netflix's WBD case, moving to quell concerns about job losses and the end of theater releases, after Paramount's bid (Rose Henderson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Internal memo: Meta plans to assess employees on their "AI-driven impact", which will be a "core expectation" of their performance from 2026 (Jyoti Mann/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-employee-performance-rev…

Meta is about to start grading workers on their AI skills
Meta employee performance will be assessed by AI-driven impact starting in 2026, as the company prioritizes AI adoption across its workforce.

The blueprint – How Lewis Powell’s confidential memo became the secret manifesto for corporate takeover.

The players – From Joseph Coors to Roger Ailes to Leonard Leo—and how they built a machine to dominate politics.

The turning point – The Citizens United case and how a speculative lawsuit became the legal scaffolding for unlimited dark money.

The threat today – Why disclosure laws are crumbling, how dark money came to dictate elections, and how the John…

MASTER PLAN: The Hidden Plot to Legalize Corruption in America
A new book adapted from the award-winning podcast.

Trump Signs Memo Expanding His Authority to Spend Federal Money (Luke Broadwater/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/us/politics/trump-federal-funds-government-shutdown.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251015/p144#a251015p144

Internal memo: in a first, Samsung plans to award shares and bonuses based on stock price to employees and will let staff get up to 50% of their payout in stock (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Trump's Midcycle Gerrymandering Disease Spreads to North Carolina (Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/trumps-midcycle-gerrymandering-disease-spreads-to-north-carolina
http://www.memeorandum.com/251014/p161#a251014p161

WH national security memo: Alibaba provides tech support for China military's "operations" against targets in the US; Alibaba says it is "complete nonsense" (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/30fb83a0-8cb9-4805-b5d2-19b5ef…

Underground Legal Clinics Offer a Lifeline to Migrants Facing Mass Deportation (Hunter Walker/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/underground-legal-clinics-offer-a-lifeline-to-migrants-facing-mass-deportation
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p105#a251215p105

Maj Gen Ronald Burkett, the director of operations for the #Pentagon’s #NationalGuard bureau, signed a memo requiring most states to train 500 national members for a quick reaction force
-- with a total of 23,500 troops nationwide

Internal memo: Google is naming Amin Vahdat, who leads the company's AI and infrastructure team, to the new role of chief technologist for AI infrastructure (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/10/2025/google-names-n…

Exclusive: Google names new chief of AI infrastructure buildout
Amin Vahdat, a veteran leader at Google, will become chief technologist for AI infrastructure, according to the memo reviewed by Semafor, and report directly to CEO Sundar Pichai.

Furloughed workers not guaranteed back pay after shutdown, OMB claims
Furloughed federal workers are not entitled to automatic back pay after the government shutdown ends,
the Trump administration’s budget office claimed in a new draft memo
ratcheting up tensions in Washington over the week-long closure.

The top lawyer at the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
argued in the draft that the law Congress passed and President Donald Trump signed in 2…

Furloughed workers not guaranteed back pay after shutdown, OMB claims
Federal workers may not be entitled to back pay after the government shutdown ends, the Trump administration’s budget office wrote in a new draft memo obtained by The Washington Post, ratcheting up tensions in Washington over the week-long closure of dozens of federal agencies.

NFL sends memos reminding league personnel of gambling policy in wake of NBA scandal https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6747906/2025/10/24/nfl-gambling-memo-nba-scandal/

Disney memo to staff: the YouTube TV blackout remains for now, and "unfortunately, we are headed into another sports-packed weekend without a deal in place" (Caitlin Huston/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Disney-YouTube Blackout Set to Continue Through Weekend
“When will ESPN and ABC be back on the service? We wish we could give you that answer today, but unfortunately, we are headed into another sports-packed weekend without a deal in place,” the memo from Disney executives reads.

Leaked memo from top DHS official suggests 'no legal barrier' to crack down on protesters - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/dhs-secretary-noem/

Federal prosecutors reportedly gave US attorney a memo suggesting not to file charges against James Comey
ABC news has reporting that federal prosecutors in the eastern district of Virginia presented the rookie US attorney, Lindsey Halligan, with a memo that detailed why NOT to file criminal charges against the former FBI director.
ABC cites sources familiar with the memo, who also noted that justice department lawyers would be unable to secure a conviction of Comey by proving th…

Memo from Disney execs: YouTube pulled Disney channels before the expiration time of the carriage deal with "no advance notice to their subscribers, or to us" (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/disney-senior-…

Disney Senior Execs on YouTube TV Blackout: Google Is 'Not Interested in Achieving a Fair Deal With Us'
Disney's top brass is telling the troops that they're going to continue to fight for a "fair deal" with Google's YouTube TV, after the internet service pulled ESPN, ABC and other Disney networks Thursday night.

Trump DoJ ‘immediately’ stops enforcing prison rape protections for trans and intersex people, according to a leaked memo
The Department of Justice instructed prison auditors across the country to simply stop assessing whether facilities are violating laws designed to shield LGBT prisoners from sexual abuse

Trump DoJ ‘immediately’ suspends prison rape protections for trans and intersex people, according to leaked memo
Civil rights advocates described the changes as a government ‘endorsement’ of sexual abuse against LGBT+ prisoners

Sunday Robotics unveils Memo, a fully autonomous home robot capable of tasks like making espresso and loading dishwashers, set to launch in beta in 2026 (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/memo-sunday-robotics-home-robot/

This Home Robot Clears Tables and Loads the Dishwasher All by Itself
Sunday Robotics has a new way to train robots to do common household tasks. The startup plans to put its fully autonomous robots in homes next year.

FBI Making List of American “Extremists,” Leaked Memo Reveals
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-list-of-extremists-is-coming

Memo: Vishal Shah, Meta's VP of Metaverse, tells his team to use AI to "go 5X faster" and expects 80% of them to integrate AI into their day-to-day by Q4 (Jason Koebler/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-mark-zuckerberg-ai-push-metaverse/

Meta Tells Its Metaverse Workers to Use AI to ‘Go 5X Faster’
Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse chief is urging employees to adopt AI across every workflow as part of a broader shift inside the company.

Exclusive: Classified Justice Department opinion authorizes strikes on secret list of cartels, sources say (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/politics/classified-justice-department-memo-cartel-strikes
http://www.memeorandum.com/251006/p141#a251006p141

BBC Chair Samir Shah criticizes a leaked memo by an ex-BBC outside adviser that led to resignations, calling it a "personal account" without the "full picture" (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/758d5947-1574-416f-938d-6f8b1bc276ef

Fetterman Writes Letter Asking Israel's President to Pardon Netanyahu (Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/fetterman-letter-netanyahu-pardon
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p77#a251211p77

Internal memo: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declares a "code red" to shift more resources into improving ChatGPT amid rising competition, delaying other plans like ads (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/op

OpenAI CEO Declares ‘Code Red’ to Combat Threats to ChatGPT, Delays Ads Effort
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Monday told employees he was declaring a “code red” to marshall more resources to improve ChatGPT as threats rise from Google and other artificial intelligence competitors, according to an internal memo. As a result,OpenAI plans to delay other initiatives, such as ...

Memo: People Inc., formerly called Dotdash Meredith and holding 40 digital and print lifestyle brands, is laying off 6% of its workforce, or 226 people (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/09/people-inc-layoffs

People Inc. laying off 226 people
It's part of a broader effort to deprioritize parts of the business that aren't growing as quickly and focus on new areas.

FDA claims Covid vaccine caused kids’ deaths. Experts are skeptical | STAT
https://www.statnews.com/2025/11/29/covid-vaccine-deaths-fda-memo-vinay-prasad/?utm_campaign=rss

Sources: OpenAI CEO of Applications Fidji Simo has been meeting with potential candidates for a role overseeing monetization efforts, including ads in ChatGPT (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/openai-ads-leader-sam-altman-memo-stargate

OpenAI is looking for a head of ads for ChatGPT
Fidji Simo is on the hunt for someone to oversee all monetization efforts, including bringing advertising to ChatGPT. Plus: Sam Altman's internal note to employees about Stargate.

US justice department memo about boat strikes diverges from Trump narrative (Hugo Lowell/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/25/trump-caribbean-boat-strikes-memo
http://www.memeorandum.com/251125/p129#a251125p129

The Internal Revenue Service will furlough nearly half of its employees – around 34,000 workers – due to the ongoing government shutdown.
In a statement on Wednesday, the IRS said that “due to the lapse in appropriations”, it will begin its furlough on 8 October for “everyone except already-identified excepted and exempt employees”.
“Employee who are not exempt or excepted are furloughed and placed in a non-pay and non-duty status until further notice; however, all employees should…

'The defense said it expected to file 2 motions, one to dismiss because Halligan, the only prosecutor to sign the indictment, wasn’t properly appointed to office, so the indictment is fatally flawed (& can’t be fixed b/c the statute of limitations has run). This motion, which will hinge on federal vacancy appointment law, might ironically be based on a memo Justice Alito wrote when he was in DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel.'
The Slow Death Facing The Comey Prosecution
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-slow-death-facing-the-comey-prosecution

Memo: Adam Mosseri asks Instagram US staff to return to office five days a week, starting February; sources: it's the first such RTO mandate for a big Meta unit (Alex Heath/Sources)

Instagram's return to office mandate
Read Adam Mosseri’s internal memo announcing a full return to the office five days a week, fewer meetings, and fewer decks.

Trump administration plans to review refugees admitted under Biden, memo obtained by The AP says (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trumo-refugees-memo-biden-review-82cdbae263a903c6dcf25c2e04f50684
http://www.memeorandum.com/251124/p112#a251124p112

Denise Dresser, Slack CEO since 2023, is stepping down to join OpenAI as the company's chief revenue officer (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/slack-ceo-denise-dresser-joins-openai-chief-revenue-officer/

OpenAI Hires Slack CEO as New Chief Revenue Officer
A memo obtained by WIRED confirms Denise Dresser's departure from Slack. She is now headed to OpenAI.

Internal memo: Johny Srouji, who oversees Apple's chip division, tells staff that "I don't plan on leaving anytime soon" (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-08/apple-chip-chief…

Trump administration orders review of Biden-era refugees, memo shows (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-orders-review-biden-era-refugees-memo-shows-2025-11-24/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251124/p104#a251124p104

Memo: California's AG says OpenAI's restructuring has "no impact" on other cases, likely referring to Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI over its restructuring (Rocket Drew/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/m…

Musk Suit Unlikely to Unwind OpenAI Restructure
A memo from California’s attorney general suggested that Elon Musk’s federal lawsuit against OpenAI will be unaffected by the artificial intelligence startup’s restructuring. But now that the restructuring has occurred, it may be hard to unwind the change even if Musk wins. Both the attorneys general for Delaware, where OpenAI is incorporated, and California, where it is headquartered, had

A former Teen Vogue editor reflects on the magazine's legacy as a point of entry for early-career journalists and the pressure it faced not to cover politics (Allegra Kirkland/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/wha…

What We Lost When Condé Nast Unceremoniously Shuttered Teen Vogue 
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...

Court Reform: Breaking the Corrupt Rule of the Six GOPers Is Everything (Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/court-reform-breaking-the-corrupt-rule-of-the-six-gops-is-everything
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p137#a251208p137

Hundreds of federal employees who lost their jobs in Elon Musk’s cost-cutting blitz are being asked to return to work.
The General Services Administration has given the employees
— who managed government workspaces
— until the end of the week to accept or decline reinstatement, according to an internal memo obtained by The Associated Press.
Those who accept must report for duty on Oct. 6 after what amounts to a seven-month paid vacation,
during which time the G…

White House rehires hundreds of employees terminated by DOGE
Hundreds of laid-off federal employees who managed government workspaces are being called back to their jobs as the Trump administration walks back plans to slash its real estate portfolio. The administration has given employees until the end of this week to accept or decline reinstatement, according to a memo obtained by The Associated Press. Those who accept must report to work on Oct. 6 after what amounts to a seven-month paid vacation. Rep. Greg Stanton of Arizona, the top Democrat on the s…

Memo: WSJ's Emma Tucker hires Axios EIC Aja Whitaker-Moore as co-deputy EIC, promotes David Crow to the same role, and hires Dan Colarusso to lead biz/finance (Corbin Bolies/@corbinbolies)
https://x.com/corbinbolies/status/1991980144186327535

Corbin Bolies (@CorbinBolies) on X
NEW: WSJ editor Emma Tucker sent a memo to staff saying she hired Axios EIC Aja Whitaker-Moore as a deputy EIC and Dan Colarusso as "coverage chief for Business, Finance and Economics"

IRS tells employees furlough backpay guaranteed, while WH counters in memo (Avery Lotz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/08/trump-furlough-government-shutdown-back-pay-irs
http://www.memeorandum.com/251008/p112#a251008p112

Experts say top FDA official's claim that Covid vaccines caused kids' deaths requires more evidence (STAT)
https://www.statnews.com/2025/11/29/covid-vaccine-deaths-fda-memo-vinay-prasad/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251129/p53#a251129p53

Team Oligarch Suits Up to Torpedo Netflix/WBD Merger (Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/team-oligarch-suits-up-to-torpedo-netflix-wbd-merger
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p100#a251208p100

Leaked memos: Meta delays the release of its MR glasses codenamed "Phoenix" from H2 2026 to H1 2027 to give Meta "more breathing room to get the details right" (Jyoti Mann/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-delay

Meta delays release of new mixed reality glasses code-named 'Phoenix' in order to 'get the details right'
Meta plans to release a new wearable device codenamed "Malibu 2" in 2026, according to an internal memo viewed by Business Insider.

Federal employees are told to brace for a shutdown -- and blame Democrats (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/federal-agencies-partisan-memo-employees-blaming-democrats-shutdown-rcna234803
http://www.memeorandum.com/250930/p156#a250930p156

Internal memo and a source: Meta is cutting ~600 jobs out of several thousand within its Superintelligence Lab, including in its FAIR unit, to cut bureaucracy (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/22/meta-superintelligence-tbd-ai-reorg

Exclusive: Meta slashes jobs in its AI operations
The superintelligence lab needs streamlining, per an internal memo from Alexandr Wang.

Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You're doomed (Elizabeth Lopatto/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/business/793525/bari-weiss-cbs-news-glass-cliff
http://www.memeorandum.com/251007/p101#a251007p101

Memo: Meta Superintelligence Labs' products team, led by Nat Friedman, pushes staff to ditch Meta's slow internal systems in favor of external tools like Vercel (Pranav Dixit/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-super

Meta Superintelligence Labs executives are pushing staff to ditch slow internal systems for faster engineering tools
As part of Meta's big bet on superintelligence, it's steering its AI teams to new tools like Vercel and GitHub, as revealed by internal memos.

Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach (Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/jury-refuses-to-indict-chicago-ice-protesters-in-latest-revolt-against-trump-overreach
http://www.memeorandum.com/251008/p148#a251008p148

Judge says prosecutors who were placed on leave 'did a truly excellent job' (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/30/sentencing-memo-january-6-attack-00631013
http://www.memeorandum.com/251030/p132#a251030p132

FBI Making List of American "Extremists," Leaked Memo Reveals (Ken Klippenstein)
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-list-of-extremists-is-coming
http://www.memeorandum.com/251206/p59#a251206p59

Memo: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is handing off some of his business responsibilities to Judson Althoff, who will become CEO of Microsoft's commercial business (Matt Day/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Don't Believe the Hype: Trump Bum-Rushing DC Reporters Edition (Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dont-believe-the-hype-trump-bum-rushing-dc-reporters-edition/sharetoken/a78ef379-e7c6-4ffa-a5ea-857030f25583
http://www.memeorandum.com/251007/p125#a251007p125

Revealed: Pentagon orders states' national guards to form 'quick reaction forces' for 'crowd control' (Aaron Glantz/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/29/pentagon-memo-quick-reaction-forces
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p90#a251029p90

The Trump Admin's Mostly Unnoticed Move to Crack Down on the Opposition (Josh Kovensky/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/the-trump-admins-mostly-unnoticed-move-to-crack-down-on-the-opposition
http://www.memeorandum.com/251006/p164#a251006p164

Internal memo: Microsoft is unifying its key Windows engineering teams under a single organization led by Windows chief Pavan Davuluri, reversing a 2018 split (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/report/787796/microsoft-windows-reorg-…

Microsoft is bringing its Windows engineering teams back together again
Microsoft has announced an internal reorg of its Windows teams. The server and client engineering teams are now under a single leader again.

Chicago's 'ICE-free zone' (Byron York/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daily-memo/3839932/chicago-brandon-johnson-ice-free-zone/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251007/p2#a251007p2

Sunday Robotics, which debuted its Memo home robot on Nov. 19, hired at least 10 former Tesla employees, including engineers who worked on Autopilot and Optimus (Grace Kay/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-loses-ai-staff-startup-sund…

Tesla loses some AI staff to a new robotics startup
Sunday Robotics came out of stealth mode last week and revealed a team stocked with Tesla alumni.

Pentagon moves to fire civilian personnel with 'speed and conviction' (Tara Copp/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/10/28/pentagon-firings-civilian-employees-memo/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzYxNjI0MDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzYzMDA5OTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NjE2MjQwMDAsImp0aSI6IjE0N2UxYjczLWFiNWUtNDE0NS04ODUyLTFiM2M1YWY5NGQ0YiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9uYXRpb25hbC1zZWN1cml0eS8yMDI1LzEwLzI4L3BlbnRhZ29uLWZpcmluZ3MtY2l2aWxpYW4tZW1wbG95ZWVzLW1lbW8vIn0.c6Ok8DHEtyGFeVsJKCs4uwpCBRV9U2_ScYMKnqZTUgM
http://www.memeorandum.com/251028/p127#a251028p127

Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people, memo says (Adam Rhodes/Prism)
https://prismreports.org/2025/12/04/prison-rape-elimination-act-trans-intersex-trump-doj/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p127#a251204p127