NYT: “Dozens at Facebook Unite to Challenge Its ‘Intolerant’ Liberal Culture”

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Wednesday, August 29, 2018

NYT: “Dozens at Facebook Unite to Challenge Its ‘Intolerant’ Liberal Culture”
“The post went up quietly on Facebook’s internal message board last week. Titled ‘We Have a Problem With Political Diversity,’ it quickly took off inside the social network,” Kate Conger and Sheera Frenkel report for The New York Times. “We are a political monoculture that’s intolerant of different views,” senior Facebook engineer Brian Amerige wrote in the post.
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“Consumer confidence rose in August to its highest level since October 2000, building on July’s solid result,” Michael Sheetz reports for CNBC. “These historically high confidence levels should continue to support healthy consumer spending in the near-term,” said Lynn Franco, director of economic indicators at The Conference Board. 

“The Senate reached a deal Tuesday to swiftly confirm seven federal district court judges, helping President Donald Trump put an enduring stamp on the U.S. judiciary,” Sahil Kapur reports for Bloomberg. “The latest confirmations mean Trump, with the help of Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, has already confirmed 60 judges to the courts."

In The Hill, John Bowden shares Vice President Mike Pence’s views on Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation process. “Justice Antonin Scalia was confirmed 98-0 and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg received support of 96 Senators. If we lived in a more respectful time, Judge Brett Kavanaugh would be overwhelmingly confirmed,” the Vice President wrote.  

“U.S. and Mexican trade negotiators proved the naysayers wrong by striking a new deal replacing the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs Luis Videgaray Caso said Monday night,” Kathryn Blackhurst writes in LifeZette. “A lot of people thought that NAFTA would be over last year — early last year — and that there was no way to fix this relationship," Caso said.

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