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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
Google has fired the employee who penned a controversial memo on women and tech
Sundar Pichai / Google:
Note to employees from CEO Sundar Pichai
Note to employees from CEO Sundar Pichai
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Jonathan V. Last / Associated Press:
Google Fires the Engineer Who Questioned Diversity
Google Fires the Engineer Who Questioned Diversity
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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 …
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Politicus USA
CBS News:
Trump's approval rating remains low, but views on economy rise
Trump's approval rating remains low, but views on economy rise
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CNBC, NBC News and Political Wire
Investor's Business Daily:
Trump Approval Hits New Low Of 32% As Support From His Base Slips — IBD/TIPP Poll
Trump Approval Hits New Low Of 32% As Support From His Base Slips — IBD/TIPP Poll
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Politicus USA
Henry C. Jackson / Politico:
Poll: Trump support eroding with his base
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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Robin Eberhardt / The Hill:
Haley decries leaks after Trump tweets Fox story — U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley lashed out at leaks of classified information in a Fox News story Tuesday morning on North Korean missiles, saying it is “incredibly dangerous” that it was reported, even after President Trump tweeted out the story.
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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 …
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Talking Points Memo
Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
Scientists Fear Trump Will Dismiss Blunt Climate Report — 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 by the Trump administration.
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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.
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Ari Berman / Mother Jones:
Trump Administration on the Right to Vote: Use It or Lose It — The Justice Department backed Ohio's effort to purge voters who sat out a few elections. — The Trump administration redoubled its support on Monday for efforts to remove people from voter registration rolls …
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Politicus USA
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Justin Levitt / electionlawblog.org:
DOJ flips on SCOTUS purge case
DOJ flips on SCOTUS purge case
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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 …
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Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — Deep State Teams with Fake News: Email Evidence Proves New York Times Soliciting Anti-Trump Bureaucracy Leakers — Emails from a reporter for the New York Times to government employees obtained exclusively by Breitbart News demonstrate that the newspaper's employees …
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The Gateway Pundit and The Daily Caller
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.
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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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Eugene Scott / CNN:
Tarkanian to oppose Heller in Nevada GOP Senate primary
Tarkanian to oppose Heller in Nevada GOP Senate primary
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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.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Alt-Right and Glenn Greenwald Versus H.R. McMaster — Donald Trump has scrambled the political spectrum in certain ways, and one of them has been to introduce a new set of players onto the national scene. “Nationalists” or “populists” (as they now call themselves), or the “alt-right” …
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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.
Jim Michaels / USA Today:
Trump White House weighs unprecedented plan to privatize much of the war in Afghanistan — The White House is actively considering a bold plan to turn over a big chunk of the U.S. war in Afghanistan to private contractors in an effort to turn the tide in a stalemated war …
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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 …
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.
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.
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Taylor Marsh, Shakesville and FiveThirtyEight
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 …
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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 …
Rebecca Kheel / The Hill:
NY rep presses Army to rename streets honoring Confederate generals — A New York congresswoman is vowing to fight the Army after it told her it will not rename two streets at a New York City base that are currently named after Confederate generals. — The controversy centers …
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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 …
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 …
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