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'This Is a War': How Powerful A.I. Super PACs Are Dueling Over the Midterms (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/us/politics/anthropic-openai-super-pacs-midterms.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260530/p6#a260530p6

🤝 Meet the #TNC26 partners – Part 2!
What else is coming back this year?
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Ukraine says it shot down 33,000 Russian drones in March, a monthly record (Associated Press)
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/ukraine/ukraine-says-shot-33000-russian-drones-march-monthly-record-rcna342590
http://www.memeorandum.com/260429/p6#a260429p6

Somos Cowboys Radio: Jugadores defensivos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rb-p6-reffc

Trump Administration Will Pay More Energy Firms to Cancel Wind Farms (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/climate/trump-administration-wind-farms.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260428/p6#a260428p6

CPAC Host Stunned as Crowd Erupts in Cheers for Trump Impeachment (Marin Scotten/New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/post/208293/cpac-attendees-confused-cheer-trump-impeachment
http://www.memeorandum.com/260328/p6#a260328p6

Senate agrees to end shutdown for most of DHS (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/27/senate-dhs-funding-deal-00847949
http://www.memeorandum.com/260327/p6#a260327p6

Join the Abraham Accords? US allies scoff at Trump's demand. (Nahal Toosi/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/26/trump-muslim-majority-nations-abraham-accords-00936785
http://www.memeorandum.com/260527/p6#a260527p6

An interview with SemiAnalysis CEO Dylan Patel on logic, memory, and power bottlenecks in scaling AI compute, Nvidia securing TSMC N3 allocation early, and more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/dylan-patel

Amazon Music starts rolling out video podcasts, initially in the US for customers across all subscription tiers on iOS and Android (Podnews)
https://podnews.net/update/amazon-music-video

Exclusive: Amazon Music delivers video podcasts
They will use HLS video, too

Scoop: Rubio aide promoted to top White House national security post (Marc Caputo/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/26/mike-needham-rubio-deputy-national-security-advisor
http://www.memeorandum.com/260526/p6#a260526p6

Officials identify suspect in White House correspondents' dinner shooting (Maegan Vazquez/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/04/25/trump-whcd-evacuation-live-updates/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260426/p6#a260426p6

A look at the top 100 GenAI consumer apps: ChatGPT leads but the race for the "default AI" is on, global usage is splintering by product, and AI agents arrive (Olivia Moore/Andreessen Horowitz)
https://a16z.com/100-gen-ai-apps-6/

The Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps — 6th Edition
Which AI apps are people actively using? What’s actually making money, beyond being popular? We analyzed the data.

Pressure builds on Congress as DHS shutdown threatens to drag into April (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/23/dhs-shutdown-deal-pressure-00839528
http://www.memeorandum.com/260323/p6#a260323p6

Republican Lawmakers Suggest Cutting Off Funding for National Academies (Clare Zhang/AIP)
https://www.aip.org/fyi/republican-lawmakers-suggest-cutting-off-funding-for-national-academies
http://www.memeorandum.com/260523/p6#a260523p6

With Midterms Coming Up, G.O.P. Is Bogged Down in Congress (Carl Hulse/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/us/politics/republicans-congress-midterm-elections.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260423/p6#a260423p6

Johnson touts 'bipartisan' path for FISA reauthorization, but obstacles remain (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/04/21/congress/bipartisan-fisa-fix-00883609
http://www.memeorandum.com/260422/p6#a260422p6

UF Interim President to Receive $2M Exit Package (Josh Moody/Inside Higher Ed)
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2026/05/21/uf-interim-president-receive-2m-exit-package
http://www.memeorandum.com/260522/p6#a260522p6

They once called him a 'goose-stepping extremist.' They're now sitting out his comeback bid. (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/22/brandon-herrera-antisemitism-aipac-republicans-texas-00838410
http://www.memeorandum.com/260322/p6#a260322p6

Ex-staffers defend California governor hopeful after viral clips raise conduct questions (Liz Goodwin/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/04/21/california-governor-porter-viral-clips/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260421/p6#a260421p6

'It would be 100 percent illegal': Top Democrats blast Duffy over road trip (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/05/19/congress/duffy-road-trip-ethics-dems-00928470
http://www.memeorandum.com/260520/p6#a260520p6

Bipartisan Bill Would Impose New Annual Fee on Electric Vehicles (Jack Ewing/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/business/energy-environment/electrc-vehicles-annual-fee-congress.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260519/p6#a260519p6

'I will follow the law,' Bondi says after Democrats storm out of Epstein files briefing (ABC News)
https://abcnews.com/Politics/follow-law-bondi-after-democrats-storm-epstein-files/story?id=131199517
http://www.memeorandum.com/260319/p6#a260319p6

Trump Frames Iran War as All but Over in Optimistic Social Media Flurry (Ashley Ahn/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/world/middleeast/trump-iran-war-truth-social-posts.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260418/p6#a260418p6

This Isn't What Cubans Have Been Fighting For -- Donald Trump is the 13th consecutive U.S. president ... (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/opinion/cuba-trump-deal-castro-power.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260318/p6#a260318p6

Redistricting debate shifts to South Carolina as Republicans seek clean sweep of US House seats (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/redistricting-congress-trump-voting-rights-b939802fd1ee9c3ae47a8619151a9746
http://www.memeorandum.com/260518/p6#a260518p6

Mandelson Became Britain's Ambassador to U.S. Despite Failing Security Vetting (Michael D. Shear/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/world/europe/peter-mandelson-epstein-starmer-security.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260417/p6#a260417p6

China Will Host Putin, Days After Trump's Visit (Ivan Nechepurenko/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/world/europe/putin-china-visit-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.i1A.rqof.k-HDC56JUNaL&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260517/p6#a260517p6

Talarico Leads a Democratic Cash Surge: 7 Takeaways From 2026 Filings (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/us/politics/talarico-democrats-fundraising-republicans-takeaways.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260416/p6#a260416p6

For Trump, a Promised Economic Boom Collides With the Costs of War (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/business/economy/trump-economic-boom-iran-war.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260315/p6#a260315p6

ICE moving forward with warehouse detention plan despite lawsuits, probe (Douglas MacMillan/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/05/14/ice-moving-forward-with-warehouse-detention-plan-despite-lawsuits-investigation/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260515/p6#a260515p6

US embassy in Baghdad hit by strike as Trump says military targets 'obliterated' on Iran's key oil island (Frank Gardner/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/ckg1w1jp8kjt
http://www.memeorandum.com/260314/p6#a260314p6

Government Workers Say They're Getting Inundated With Religion (Vittoria Elliott/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/government-workers-say-theyre-getting-inundated-with-religion/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260414/p6#a260414p6

FBI sought to interview top Milwaukee County election official (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/fbi-sought-interview-top-milwaukee-county-election-official-rcna345049
http://www.memeorandum.com/260514/p6#a260514p6

MAGA's Indiana retribution campaign heats up (Adam Wren/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2026/03/13/magas-indiana-retribution-campaign-heats-up-00827597
http://www.memeorandum.com/260313/p6#a260313p6

Trump Said Other Countries Would Help Blockade Iran. So Far, There Are No Takers. (Ben Hubbard/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/world/middleeast/trump-iran-blockade-strait-of-hormuz.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260413/p6#a260413p6

What Now? Vance Leaves Iran Talks Without a Deal. (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/us/politics/vance-iran-talks.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260412/p6#a260412p6

Affordability Brainstorms, Good and Bad (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-beef-tariffs-gas-tax-affordability-e20b60e4
http://www.memeorandum.com/260512/p6#a260512p6

Trump and Netanyahu Are No Longer on the Same Page (W.J. Hennigan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/opinion/iran-trump-netanyahu-israel.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260312/p6#a260312p6

One Big Headache for Politicians These Days: a Messy Digital Footprint (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/10/us/politics/politicians-old-tweets-controversies.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260510/p6#a260510p6

Ready to rumble? Hunter Biden challenges Trump's sons to cage match (Jasper Ward/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/ready-rumble-hunter-biden-challenges-trumps-sons-cage-match-2026-04-09/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260410/p6#a260410p6

Pete Hegseth Blew Billions on Fruit Basket Stands, Chairs, and Crab (Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling/New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/post/207555/pete-hegseth-billions-dollars-fruit-basket-stands-chairs-crab
http://www.memeorandum.com/260310/p6#a260310p6

2026 map swings back toward Trump (Hans Nichols/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/09/2026-midterms-redistricting-trump-virginia
http://www.memeorandum.com/260509/p6#a260509p6

Thomas Massie Is Really In Danger of Losing His Seat (Alex Roarty/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/2026-election/thomas-massie-campaign-danger
http://www.memeorandum.com/260508/p6#a260508p6

Stung by Voters, Republican Legislators Move to Curb Citizen Initiatives (Kate Zernike/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/us/politics/republicans-citizen-initiatives.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260408/p6#a260408p6

Leo XIV Is the First Pope From the U.S. He's Making That an Asset. (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/world/europe/leo-first-american-pope.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260507/p6#a260507p6

Iran's 10-Point Proposal Demands an End to Attacks and Sanctions (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/world/middleeast/iran-10-point-proposal.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260407/p6#a260407p6

UK to further curtail rights of asylum seekers (Anna Gross/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/cac2d550-5547-481f-938b-5d01983f716f
http://www.memeorandum.com/260305/p6#a260305p6

Home on the Range No More: Trump Wants Bison Gone (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/us/politics/trump-buffalos-montana.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260505/p6#a260505p6

The Strategic Defeat of the United States (Daniel W. Drezner/Drezner's World)
https://danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-strategic-defeat-of-the-united
http://www.memeorandum.com/260405/p6#a260405p6

Exclusive: House Democrats' Campaign Arm Expands 'Red to Blue' Program (Daniella Diaz/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/2026-election/house-democrats-blue-wave-dccc-expands-races-2026-election-texas
http://www.memeorandum.com/260504/p6#a260504p6

Dan Crenshaw defeated by Cruz-backed state lawmaker in Texas GOP primary, boosting MAGA clout (Alec Schemmel/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dan-crenshaw-defeated-cruz-backed-state-lawmaker-texas-gop-primary-boosting-maga-clout
http://www.memeorandum.com/260304/p6#a260304p6

Trump Ousts Attorney General Pam Bondi (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/trump-ousts-attorney-general-pam-bondi-9874b02d?st=AvgEVe
http://www.memeorandum.com/260403/p6#a260403p6

Trump Faces the Complicated Reality of a Costly, Unpopular War in Iran (Zolan Kanno-Youngs/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/us/politics/trump-unpopular-war-iran.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260503/p6#a260503p6

DOJ drops cases against law firms targeted in Trump orders (Rebecca Falconer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/03/trump-law-firms-justice-department-executive-orders
http://www.memeorandum.com/260303/p6#a260303p6

Trump's Push for Electoral Retribution Heads to the Ballot Box (Shane Goldmacher/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/us/politics/trumps-push-for-electoral-retribution-heads-to-the-ballot-box.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260502/p6#a260502p6