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10:45 AM ET, August 8, 2017

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Bloomberg:
Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo  —  Engineer wrote memo blasting “politically correct monoculture”  —  CEO Pichai said Google employee violated Code of Conduct  —  Alphabet Inc.'s Google has fired an employee who wrote an internal memo blasting …
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Kara Swisher / Recode:
Google has fired the employee who penned a controversial memo on women and tech  —  The author wrote, among other things, that females suffered from more “neuroticism”  —  In a memo to employees, CEO Sundar Pichai said the employee who penned a controversial memo that claimed that women …
Charlie Nash / Breitbart:
REVEALED: Google's Social Justice Warriors Create Wrongthink Blacklists
Discussion: Instapundit and Vox Popoli
Louise Matsakis / Motherboard:
Here Are the Citations for the Anti-Diversity Manifesto Circulating at Google
CNN:
Trump at 200 days: Declining approval amid widespread mistrust  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)Six months into his presidency, Donald Trump's overall approval rating stands at its lowest point in CNN polling, while three-quarters of Americans say they can't trust most of what they hear from the White House.
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CBS News:
Trump's approval rating remains low, but views on economy rise  —  President Donald Trump's approval rating is unchanged from June and remains at 36 percent, while favorable views of the U.S. economy continue to soar to heights not seen in more than fifteen years.
Discussion: Political Wire, CNBC and NBC News
Henry C. Jackson / Politico:   Poll: Trump support eroding with his base
Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
Government Report Finds Drastic Impact of Climate Change on U.S.  —  WASHINGTON — The average temperature in the United States has risen rapidly and drastically since 1980, and recent decades have been the warmest of the past 1,500 years, according to a sweeping federal climate change report awaiting approval …
Ben Collins / The Daily Beast:
I Found Trump Fan Nicole Mincey and She's Not a Twitter Bot … Even though she's been wiped clean from the web, I still found Nicole Mincey.  The Nicole Mincey who was personally thanked by President Trump on Twitter over the weekend.  The one everyone thinks is a bot.
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BuzzFeed:
How A Pro-Trump Twitter Scheme Fell Apart After A Retweet From The President  —  President Donald Trump retweeted and thanked Twitter user @protrump45 Saturday.  Then all hell broke loose.  —  President Donald Trump on Saturday appears to have unwittingly retweeted a Twitter user who built …
Lucas Tomlinson / Fox News:
US spy satellites detect North Korea moving anti-ship cruise missiles to patrol boat  —  Despite the United States' insistence that North Korea halt its missile tests, U.S. spy agencies detected the rogue communist regime loading two anti-ship cruise missiles on a patrol boat on the country's east coast just days ago.
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CBS News:
Americans uneasy about North Korea and Trump's ability to handle it
Discussion: The Week and Politico
Wall Street Journal:
North Korea Says It Would Use Nukes Only Against U.S.
Noa Yadidi / CNN:
Trump, Blumenthal exchange jabs on Twitter  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal called President Donald Trump out on Twitter for “bullying” after a Twitter attack from the President accused the senator of lying and being a “phony Vietnam con artist.”
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Brad Reed / Raw Story:
‘Chicken hawk piece of trash’: Vets unload on Trump for attacking Dem senator's military record
Discussion: Mediaite
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Blumenthal responds to Trump: ‘It is not about me’
Discussion: Politico
Addy Baird / ThinkProgress:
Blumenthal claps back at Trump
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Our Broken Economy, in One Simple Chart … Higher Income Lower Income … Note: Inflation-adjusted annual average growth using post-tax income. … Many Americans can't remember anything other than an economy with skyrocketing inequality, in which living standards for most Americans are stagnating and the rich are pulling away.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal:
The Man Who Wrote Those Password Rules Has a New Tip: N3v$r M1^d!  —  Bill Burr's 2003 report recommended using numbers, obscure characters and capital letters and updating regularly—he regrets the error  —  The man who wrote the book on password management has a confession to make: He blew it.
Kurt Andersen / The Atlantic:
How America Lost Its Mind … When did america become untethered from reality?  —  I first noticed our national lurch toward fantasy in 2004, after President George W. Bush's political mastermind, Karl Rove, came up with the remarkable phrase reality-based community.
Jon Levine / Mediaite:
Pat Robertson Weighs in On Eric Bolling — And It's as Bad as You Think … Occasionally we are reminded that Pat Robertson is still alive.  —  The televangelist ex-presidential candidate and founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network weighed in last night on the Eric Bolling imbroglio …
Discussion: TheBlaze and Political Wire
Ronald Brownstein / CNN:
In decisive Rust Belt, Trump's approval is starting to look like Romney's  —  (CNN)Even as the White House this week firmly insists President Donald Trump is determined to seek a second term, a new analysis of polling data shows that he's caught in a three-way political squeeze in the states …
Discussion: Politicus USA
Jason Zengerle / GQ:
What If Mike Pence Becomes President?  —  Mike Pence—who's quietly launched his own PAC and already begun glad-handing big dollar donors—is shocked (shocked!) by the rumors that he might be laying the groundwork for his own presidency.  Fake news, he calls it.
Matthew Walther / The Week:
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were war crimes.  Full stop.  —  Seventy-two years ago this week the United States committed war crimes against the Japanese people on a scale that was previously unimaginable in human history.  —  It is almost impossible to utter this truism …
Molly Ball / The Atlantic:
The Trump Show Never Ends  —  HUNTINGTON, W.V.—Every day brings new drama, but the Trump Show's themes remain the same.  He's come to tell his people that everyone else is wrong and they are right.  —  “The change you voted for is happening every single day,” he proclaims …
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Now Starring in the West Wing: Sarah Huckabee Sanders  —  WASHINGTON — Pickle did not go as planned.  —  When Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the newly minted White House press secretary, began her first official briefing by reading a child's letter to President Trump — “Everybody calls me Pickle …
Kyle Swenson / Washington Post:
Airbnb boots white nationalists headed to ‘Unite the Right’ rally in Charlottesville  —  After a series of raw-throated public confrontations earlier this year, Charlottesville is bracing for an influx of white nationalists from across the country to Saturday's “Unite the Right” rally.
Phil Willon / Los Angeles Times:
‘May you die in pain’: Northern California GOP congressman gets an earful at town hall  —  “May you die in pain.”  —  That was the nastiest moment of Republican Rep. Doug LaMalfa's early morning town hall in Chico on Monday.  —  The wish was uttered by an older man who criticized LaMalfa …
Chris Crowley / grubstreet:
Trump Made Up His Story About the 21 Club Renovation, Former Owner and CEO Say  —  Last week, it was reported that President Donald Trump compared an Afghanistan policy review to the renovation of upper-crust restaurant the 21 Club.  In typical Trumpian fashion, it turns out that the morality tale …
Associated Press:
Nevada senator faces pro-Trump challenge in GOP primary  —  Republican Danny Tarkanian is running against Nevada Sen. Dean Heller in the 2018 GOP primary.  —  The bid by the 55-year-old Las Vegas businessman, who aligns himself with President Donald Trump, makes good on conservatives' threats …
Discussion: Politico
Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
Strange new super PAC solicits money both for and against Trump  —  A new super PAC was quietly registered with the Federal Election Commission late last month with the nondescript name of “Taking America Back Fund.”  While the front page of the site makes it appear that this new committee …
Fox News:
Ethics Hipsters are the new Puritans  — An Austin Texas psyche rock band, Dream Machine, is deported from its label because its lead singer, a refugee from Bosnia, makes supportive remarks about legal immigration.  (Here is a link to an interview I did with the band: https://vimeo.com/225709341)
C. Boyden Gray / Wall Street Journal:
Mueller Can Avoid an Iran-Contra Repeat  —  He should proceed quickly to get the facts out.  So should congressional investigators.  —  Will Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation morph into an open-ended inquisition?  Independent and special counsel investigations of the executive branch since Watergate often have.
Noah Weiland / New York Times:
Mastering the Art of Home Restoration: A Julia Child Sequel  —  WASHINGTON — The house on Olive Street here was Julia Child's “little jewel,” the first home she owned, the space where she filled the pages of “Mastering the Art of French Cooking.”  To enter, visitors swing a mold-covered door knocker …
 
 
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Kate Hardiman / The College Fix:
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Matthew Rosenberg / New York Times:
Trump Likes When C.I.A. Chief Gets Political, but Officers Are Wary
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