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11:30 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: USA Today, Instapundit and Vox Popoli
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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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
CBS News:
Trump's approval rating remains low, but views on economy rise
Discussion: CNBC, Political Wire and NBC News
Henry C. Jackson / Politico:   Poll: Trump support eroding with his base
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 …
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 …
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
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.
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
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Heller gets GOP primary challenger in Nevada  —  Danny Tarkanian announced his bid on 'Fox and Friends,"'where he criticized Heller as a ‘Never-Trumper.’  —  Danny Tarkanian, the son of a legendary Nevada college basketball coach who has run for office several times, announced Tuesday morning …
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Associated Press:   Nevada senator faces pro-Trump challenge in GOP primary
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
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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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.
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 …
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 …
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Sanders ‘litmus test’ alarms Democrats  —  House and Senate Democrats have wondered for months whether Bernie Sanders' supporters might choose to focus their energy on launching primary challenges to party moderates in 2018.  They're about to get an answer.
Discussion: FiveThirtyEight and Shakesville
Cameron Joseph / Talking Points Memo:
Kushner-Owned Company Lobbied Against Obamacare Repeal  —  Jared Kushner owned a stake in his brother's Obamacare-dependent health insurance company when it hired lobbyists to fight repeal of the law shortly before he divested from it earlier this year.  —  Kushner's younger brother …
Discussion: Raw Story
Kate Hardiman / The College Fix:
Law professor warns: Congress must act on growing sexbot industry  —  As the sale and use of lifelike sex robots that allow people to simulate rape continues to gain steam, one famed law professor is sounding the alarm.  —  John Banzhaf, a well-known activist professor of public interest law …
Discussion: Althouse
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.
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 …
Lynn Vavreck / New York Times:
The Political Payoff of Making Whites Feel Like a Minority  —  Nationality, race and ethnicity are a large part of identity for most people.  Factors like this matter more for some people than others — and for some groups more than others — but a sense of group awareness or membership exists …
Niraj Chokshi / New York Times:
States Have Already Passed Almost Twice as Many Immigration Laws as Last Year  —  When Republicans in Texas passed a ban on so-called “sanctuary city” policies this spring, they appeared to be feeding on the momentum created by Donald J. Trump, who had made illegal immigration a centerpiece of his campaign.
Samuel Gibbs / The Guardian:
Game of Thrones stars' personal details leaked as HBO hackers demand ransom  —  Group tells company CEO to pay multimillion-dollar ransom or else risk 1.5TB of shows and confidential corporate data being released online  —  Hackers of US television network HBO have released personal phone numbers …
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)
Roger McNamee / USA Today:
I invested early in Google and Facebook and regret it.  I helped create a monster.  —  ‘Brain hacking’ Internet monopolies menace public health, democracy, writes Roger McNamee.  —  I invested in Google and Facebook years before their first revenue and profited enormously.
 
 
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Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
Whether you support or oppose Trump, this new PAC agrees with you and will take your money
Matthew Rosenberg / New York Times:
Trump Likes When C.I.A. Chief Gets Political, but Officers Are Wary
Discussion: Power Line
Joel Gehrke / Washington Examiner:
Army refuses to scrub Confederate names from Brooklyn base
Discussion: New York Daily News and RedState
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
NH Poll: Kasich leads Trump among likely GOP primary voters
Discussion: RedState and Business Insider
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Mueller Can Avoid an Iran-Contra Repeat
Elana Schor / Politico:
Trump White House quietly courts Democrats for tax overhaul
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