HE SEEMS NICE: ‘Jeopardy’ Champion—and Children’s Author—Ken Jennings the Latest to Bully Barron Trump.

HOW HE GOT IN HER PAJAMAS, I’LL NEVER KNOW: Lena Dunham Endorses Jim Johnson for Governor in Her Pajamas.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: No, Seriously, You Really Need to Be Taking Vitamin D.

THE ART OF THE DEAL? Trump Not Moving Embassy to Jerusalem to ‘Maximize the Chances’ of Peace Deal.

Strange to take that off the table before the negotiations begin.

REMINDER: Don’t mess with Ken White.

RENT-SEEKERS GOTTA SEEK RENTS: Nevada’s recreational marijuana sales expected to start in July could now be delayed after a group of alcohol distributors filed a legal challenge to a licensing deadline, arguing they have the first rights to distribute pot.

QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED:

● On PBS, Charlie Rose Asks Al Franken: In Trump Era ‘Is Lying Okay Now?’

—NewsBusters, today.

● Charlie Rose and President’s Speechwriters Laugh About ObamaCare [“If you like your health care plan, you can keep it”] Lie

—NewsBusters, May 10, 2016.

● Charlie Rose and Tom Brokaw lie about not knowing Obama’s foreign policy — and hey, in any case, that’s no big deal, right?  — on the eve of the 2008 election.

—Uploaded to YouTube Nov. 1. 2008.

As Glenn likes to say, we have the worst political class in American history.

BREAKING: Gunshots and Explosions Heard at Resort World Manilla.

Video at the link.

MARK RIPPETOE ON FUNCTIONAL TRAINING: Diversity is NOT our Strength.

THANKS, OBAMA: Global Terrorism Has Tripled Since 2011, Now at an All-Time High.

IF WE’VE LEARNED ANYTHING OVER THE PAST YEARS, IT’S THAT “PROFESSIONALISM” DOESN’T TRUMP PARTISANSHIP AND CLASS LOYALTY: Is professionalism the antidote to populism and political ignorance?

FAKE NEWS: “So in addition to getting the Public Editor out of the way, the NYT is filtering out the contributions of readers who might push back against the distortions, omissions, and fake news. That’s pretty interesting, considering that Sulzberger’s staff memo also justified eliminating the Public Editor on the ground that readers were performing the role of keeping the NYT principled and honest.”

WELL, IT ISN’T AS THOUGH THE E.U. HAS THE MILITARY POWER TO FORCE ANY DEMANDS: Trump Reduces EU to Begging: ‘Please Don’t Change the Climate for the Worse’

I’LL BELIEVE THERE’S A CLIMATE CRISIS WHEN THE PEOPLE WHO KEEP TELLING ME THERE’S A CLIMATE CRISIS START ACTING LIKE THERE’S A CLIMATE CRISIS:

MODERN JUSTICE: He didn’t give police his iPhone pass code, so he got 180 days in jail.

SPACE: Paul Allen showed off his new rocket-launching plane today, and it’s BIG. “The aircraft has a 385-foot wingspan and is powered by six Pratt & Whitney engines.”

HMM: Trump administration moves to return Russian compounds in Maryland and New York.

President Barack Obama said Dec. 29 that the compounds were being “used by Russian personnel for intelligence-related purposes” and gave Russia 24 hours to vacate them. Separately, Obama expelled from the United States what he said were 35 Russian “intelligence operatives.”

Early last month, the Trump administration told the Russians that it would consider turning the properties back over to them if Moscow would lift its freeze, imposed in 2014 in retaliation for U.S. sanctions related to Ukraine, on construction of a new U.S. consulate on a certain parcel of land in St. Petersburg.

Two days later, the U.S. position changed. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak at a meeting in Washington that the United States had dropped any linkage between the compounds and the consulate, according to several people with knowledge of the exchanges.

We’ve been getting a lot of stories from “several people with knowledge,” but they don’t always seem to have much knowledge.

THOMAS EDSALL: Has the Democratic Party Gotten Too Rich for Its Own Good?

In days past, a proposal to slam the rich to reward the working and middle classes meant hitting Republicans to benefit Democrats.

Even as recently as 1976, according to data from American National Election Studies, the most affluent voters, the top 5 percent, were solidly in the Republican camp, 77-23. Those in the bottom third of the income distribution were solidly Democratic, 64-36.

In other words, 41 years ago, the year Jimmy Carter won the presidency, the Sanders proposal would have made political sense.

But what about now?

In the 2016 election, the economic elite was essentially half Democratic, according to exit polls: Those in the top 10 percent of the income distribution voted 47 percent for Clinton and 46 percent for Trump. Half the voters Sanders would hit hardest are members of the party from which he sought the nomination.

The problem for the Democratic Party is that “them” has become “us.”

Democrats need to ask themselves how that happened.

WELL, GOOD: Judge Smacks NYPD For Its ‘Gotcha’ Tactics In Forfeiture Public Records Lawsuit.

NO. Lacy shorts for men are here.

AT AMAZON, save on Men’s Shorts.

THAT’S NOT TRUE. IT’S ALSO A POLITICAL SLOGAN FOR PEOPLE WHO KNOW NOTHING ABOUT HOW THE INTERNET ACTUALLY WORKS. Net neutrality will never be anything more than a vague aspiration with no clear definition.

RETAIL BLUES: RadioShack’s Tweets Offer a Bleak Look Into the Retailer’s Demise.

Over the Memorial Day weekend, RadioShack—which filed for bankruptcy twice in two years—closed over 1,000 stores, leaving just 70 corporate locations and 500 dealer stores in operation across the U.S. Throughout the weekend, the consumer electronics retailer announced a liquidation sale that played out on social media. Social media represents a new plot twist for America’s dying retailers: How do you toast a brand’s final days when the world is watching?

RadioShack opted for unadulterated bleakness. The company’s social media handle on Twitter shared photos that depicted the sale of store fixtures, $25 grab bags stuffed with items pieced at $5 apiece, and deeply discounted printers.

Just like Sears did, Radio Shack had the catalog business and associated customer database available to put together a first-rate online business before Amazon sold its first book.

Neither company’s management proved innovative enough to do so, and now both are failing.

DNC EXEC PUBLICLY (IF MOMENTARILY) BLASTS HILLARY FOR BLAMESHIFTING HER FAILURE:

Yesterday, Hillary Clinton expanded her list of entities to blame for her loss to the DNC, and … that may prove to be yet another big mistake by the worst candidate in 2016. As John noted in his post last night, Hillary claimed to have “inherit[ed] nothing” as the Democratic nominee, and that she “had to inject money into it — the DNC — to keep it going.” In particular, Hillary ripped the data efforts at the DNC, calling their results “mediocre to poor, non-existent, wrong.”

Andrew Therriault made it clear that he has no intention of serving as Hillary Clinton’s scapegoat — at least for a little while. The former Director of Data Science for the DNC took to Twitter early this morning to castigate the two-time fumbler on presidential elections for her “f****** b***s***” accusations.

Wow, such horrible mansplaining. But blaming the DNC’s data operation is merely one of Hillary’s myriad excuses for blowing 2016. She has more excuses. Many more.