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LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: Big Immigration Meeting Today and Much, Much More.

ISRAELI FEMALE TANKERS: Israeli women tankers line up in front of a Merkava.

I’LL HAVE WHAT SHE’S HAVING: MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace Moaned In Ecstasy On-Air:

“We’re in this process where [Trump] is clearly saying, look, if you don’t cooperate, I’m pardoning everybody. I’m handing them out like Skittles. I’m going to take a right-wing troll like Dinesh D’Souza,” Sykes told Wallace.

It was this moment where a burst of Dionysian energy overtook Wallace, leading her to exclaim “Woah! That gives me life — to hear you call him a right-wing troll.”

Related: Nicolle Wallace Denies Pro-Obama Media Bias.

ACCEPTANCE: There will be no Trump collapse.

CALIFORNIA DEM CANDIDATE: PARTY OFFICIALS ASKED ME TO CHANGE MY NAME BECAUSE I’M ‘TOO BROWN’ TO WIN DISTRICT.

Why are Democratic-monopoly institutions, like, err, the Democratic Party, such cesspits of racism?

YES. NEXT QUESTION? Does Google think it’s better than the U.S. military?

Mark Thiessen:

Giving in to pressure from its workforce, Google recently announced that it is pulling out of Project Maven, a groundbreaking Pentagon program to harness artificial intelligence to sift through and interpret video imagery from drones. The move came after an uprising by 4,000 Google employees who signed a letter urging the company to cancel Project Maven and promise to never “build warfare technology.” Google should be ashamed.

In their letter, the employees said that working with the Pentagon would violate Google’s longtime motto “Don’t Be Evil” and “irreparably damage Google’s brand.” Excuse me? Are they saying that the U.S. military is evil? What would damage Google’s brand is the impression that its workforce thinks they are too good to support the men and women of the armed forces who face real evil on distant battlefields so that Google workers can sleep safely in their Google “nap pods,” enjoy free massages and take free guitar lessons.

Their objections to Project Maven are nonsensical. They fear that Google technology will be used to make drone strikes more accurate. What’s wrong with that?

Nothing — if you’re on the other side.

BUT OF COURSE: Israel slams Argentina football cancellation, Palestinians joyful.

THE COCKYNESS – IT IS STILL BEST TO ESCHEW IT, YOUNG PADAWAN: This Midterm Cycle . . . Doesn’t Look Nearly as Bad for the GOP as It Once Did.

I’M NOT SURE THIS IS WISE: Army Wants Manned-Aircraft Airworthiness Levels From Future Drones.

As it looks to the future, the Army is less than happy with some aspects of its UAS fleet, which it largely acquired to meet urgent operational requirements rather than through traditional procurement processes. Instead of the Pentagon program-of-record approach, industry has developed systems and upgrades that have then been acquired by the Army.

“COTS [commercial off the shelf] isn’t good enough for us now. Everybody’s got COTS,” says Dennis Sparks, chief of the technical management division within the Army’s UAS project office.

Another concern is airworthiness. This was not an issue when UAS were purchased and delivered into war zones, but it became a problem when the service wanted to bring the systems home and train with them in domestic airspace.

I understand the concern, but it might be misplaced.

If you think of manned aircraft as the “quality” force, and drones as the “quantity,” then it makes sense to keep UAS costs down as much as possible. Also, we accept risk levels on UAS missions that we might not always accept for manned missions, and part of that calculation is that a drone is far less expensive than an F-22 or an F-35.

Or am I missing something here?

READINESS: The ENTIRE Swedish Home Guard Was Just Mobilized.

A few weeks back, the government of Sweden sent out a booklet to every household in the country urging citizens to prepare for war or other crises. A few months back, they told citizens that they should be prepared to last for at least a week without any help from the government. Last night, in the most unsettling move yet, they mobilized the entire Swedish Home Guard for an “unannounced preparedness exercise.” All 40 battalions have been activated, effective immediately.

The exercise is part of Sweden’s national effort to rebuild its Cold War Total Defence strategy in response to an increasingly belligerent Russia.

That’s the first time since 1975, and for all the complaining Europeans do about us Yanks, it’s never us they have to drill against.

IT’S PROBABLY NOTHING: Social Security taps into trust fund for first time in 36 years.

Found via Karol Markowicz who tweets, “Am I crazy or were there a slew of articles in the last few years about how conservatives are lying that Social Security is running out of money?”

As the examples found in her Twitter thread illustrate, she’s not crazy.

RENT SEEKERS WILL HAVE TO SEEK RENTS ELSEWHERE: Missouri No Longer Requires 1500 Hours Of Training Before Allowing You To Braid Hair For Profit.

Previous state legislation in Missouri had required people who wanted to braid hair for profit to obtain a cosmetology license — which required the completion of 1,500 hours of training.

This requirement was time-consuming, expensive, and created an unnecessary obstacle that made using one’s knowledge and skills to earn a living more difficult. Furthermore, it mostly affected women of color, who primarily make up both the customers and the braiders.

The requirement was yet another example of the ways regulations hurt everyday Americans’ ability to provide for themselves and to pursue their own economic liberty.

Indeed.

TIME MAGAZINE: ALLIED TROOPS STORM THE BEACHES AT NORMANDY, GET SHOT TO HELL, WOMEN SUFFER MOST: On the 74^th anniversary of D-Day, a Time Magazine article entitled This Picture Tells a Tragic Story of What Happened to Women After D-Day reminds us that it’s all about women.

The headline is referring to the women who had their heads shaved (and sometimes much worse) during the épuration sauvage (or the wild purge). Over the course of the second half of 1944 and early 1945, women and men who were alleged to be collaborators were punished by gangs of vigilantes. For the women, this typically meant they were being accused, rightly or wrongly, of sleeping with the enemy.

The Time article (by Ann Mah) described it this way:

The victims were among the most vulnerable members of the community: Women. Accused of “horizontal collaboration” — sleeping with the enemy — they were targeted by vigilantes and publicly humiliated. Their heads were shaved, they were stripped half-naked, smeared with tar, paraded through towns and taunted, stoned, kicked, beaten, spat upon and sometimes even killed.

The épuration sauvage was as savage as it sounds. It has been estimated that 6000 individuals accused of collaboration were killed. Many of the perpetrators were resistance members or ex-collaborators who wished to hold themselves out as resistance members.

The Time article doesn’t mention it, but underlying the purge was a political struggle between communists and non-communists; the vigilantes were very disproportionately communists. It also fails to mention that the source it cited for the 6000 death toll also states that, of those, only about a third were women. Instead, the Time article claims (evidently incorrectly) that “the punished were almost always women.” It further states:

The suspicion and punishment of women after World War II is part of a cycle of repression and sexism that began long before D-Day and continues to be seen today, in the conversation around the #MeToo movement. It begins with a terrible event, then women get blamed, then aggressively attacked and finally the assault is forgotten.

What bothers me most is that Time ran the piece on June 6. Can’t we have a day to mourn the D-Day dead, who were overwhelmingly men, before we have to go back to the “World Ends Tonight, Women and Minorities to Suffer Most” routine? Isn’t the anniversary of D-Day the wrong time to argue that women are always “the most vulnerable members of the community”?

PAUL RYAN: ‘Gowdy’s Initial Assessment Is Accurate’ on FBI Doing Its Job in Campaign-Season Probe. “I have seen no evidence to the contrary of the initial assessment that Chairman Gowdy has made, but I want to make sure that we run every lead down.”

THE LEFT HAS A FEVAH, AND IT NEEDS TO DOXX MORE PEOPLE: Occupy Scott Pruitt? Anti-Capitalists Post EPA Head’s Home Address Online.

Straight out of the playbook of Obama and Hillary mentor Saul Alinsky.

PINHEADS WITH PITCHFORKS: YOU’RE A VENGEFUL COWARD IF YOU WANT ROSEANNE BARR OR SAMANTHA BEE FIRED — My latest column at The Daily Caller looks at the bipartisan disease of censorship and mob mentality.

“Fire him!” scream the keyboard warriors. “Boycott her sponsors and threaten them!” demand the social justice warriors on both sides of the aisle. What’s missing here is a sense of proportion, a rational relationship between the speaker, their comments, and their role in society. And it’s happening on all sides of the political and social spectrum.

** Nod to Pat Buchanan on the headline.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE:  Born June 7, 1959.

FEATURING AMIE GIBBONS:  Eat This While You Read That.

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ELEMENTARY SCIENCE.  WHAT A PITY WE NO LONGER TEACH IT:  Climate Proposal: Reduce Food Miles with Urban Food Produced Under Grow Lights.

IF YOU HAVE A PERSONAL GLOBAL WARMING STORY, IT MIGHT BE HOTFLASHES:  Climate Craziness of the Week: @NPR invites global warming hypochondriacs to tell their story.

THERE IS MY SHOCKED FACE AGAIN:  U.N. Accused of Doctoring Video to Erase Leading Pro-Israel Speaker’s Credentials.

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