HOLLYWOOD VALUES: Disney Under Fire for Hiring Convicted Pedophiles to Work on Kids Shows.

A REMARKABLY SCANDAL-FREE ADMINISTRATION: Obama White House Tried to Intrude on FBI’s Russia Investigation. “Also, the FBI began spying on members of the Trump campaign weeks or even months before they had a formal predicate.”

FIVE HOLLYWOOD LIBS WHO HAVE BECOME BOX-OFFICE POISON: Robert “Raging Bull” DeNiro can’t seem to open his mouth these days without insulting President Donald Trump. The formerly-funny Jim Carrey has been transformed in the Trump era into a creator of disturbing art. These are two of five such entertainment industry liberals whose often-loudly proclaimed politics have done them no favors at the box office.

BLUE WAVE? Republicans Might Be Able to Boot Menendez and Pick Up a Senate Seat in New Jersey.

Democrats may come to regret their “win” from his mistrial.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Professors Claim Evergreen State’s ‘Independent’ 38-Page Report On Riots Was Anything But Unbiased.

OF COURSE SHE DID: In Old Blog Post, MSNBC’s Joy Reid Attacked Wolf Blitzer For Being Too Nice To Jews.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Prof calls for ‘toxic masculinity’ training in kindergarten.

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LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: Samantha Bee Makes A Bad ‘Joke’ and Much, Much More.

MORNING IN AMERICA: Payroll surge: Employers added 223,000 jobs in May.

UPDATE: Unemployment rate matches lowest point in half a century.

BAD NEWS FOR KAPLAN: Khan Academy Launches Free LSAT Prep Program Today In Partnership With LSAC.

HERE COMES THE EXCUSE-MONGERING: Is socialism to blame for Venezuela’s never-ending crisis? “Though ’21st-century socialism’ is implicated in Venezuela’s collapse, so too are many characteristics of capitalism.”

Capitalism is always to blame for socialism’s failures, because reasons.

MORNING IN AMERICA: More say they’re ‘better off’ under Trump, including blacks, Hispanics.

The improving economy has helped President Trump keep the support of his “base” of 2016 voters strong, and is opening the door for blacks, Hispanics and younger voters to join them.

Citing those results in new surveys, Democratic pollster John Zogby is declaring that Trump will be tough to beat in 2020 despite his high disapproval ratings.

“President Donald Trump’s support is actually increasing among voters and offers data to explain why he may be re-elected in 2020,” he said.

The improving economy has helped President Trump keep the support of his “base” of 2016 voters strong, and is opening the door for blacks, Hispanics and younger voters to join them.

Citing those results in new surveys, Democratic pollster John Zogby is declaring that Trump will be tough to beat in 2020 despite his high disapproval ratings.

“President Donald Trump’s support is actually increasing among voters and offers data to explain why he may be re-elected in 2020,” he said.

This is Democrats’ worst nightmare, of course.

Related: ‘I’m off the plantation, bro!’ Video of black Stanford student goes viral. Here’s his back story. “I’ve been researching Black Lives Matter and I’ve been understanding the politics and how they are funded by white liberals. And recently I’ve been feeling like [BLM is] white liberals in black face. … It’s because the white liberals are all about feminism, LGBT — white liberals don’t really care about black people. I realize, white liberals don’t really care about me, bro. I’m off the plantation, bro! I’m off the plantation, bro!”

OLD TIMERS ON THE FLIGHT LINE: B-17s Aluminum Overcast and Yankee Lady show up for the Memphis Belle. Photo taken at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, on May 17.

NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN A STORY THE PRESS DOESN’T WANT TO HEAR ABOUT: Imran Awan Allegedly Tried ‘To Hide His Money’ While DOJ Negotiates With Him.

THE GERMAN ATTACK ON BOAC FLIGHT 777: On this day in 1943, eight German Junkers Ju 88s shot down a civilian airline flight en route from Lisbon to Whitchurch Airport near Bristol. The plane crashed into the Bay of Biscay, killing all 17 on board.

Portugal was a neutral state, and the attack was considered unusually aggressive. Why would the Germans want to violate Portugal’s neutrality?

One theory is that they mistakenly believed Winston Churchill was aboard. Churchill had been in Algiers, so it wasn’t crazy to think he might return via Lisbon, and a man who looked somewhat like Churchill was among the passengers. Churchill himself seems to have accepted this theory.

Another theory is that the Germans correctly believed that Leslie Howard was aboard. Yes, that Leslie Howard—the actor. Howard (born Leslie Howard Steiner) sometimes played seemingly ineffectual men who were either really ineffectual (Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind) or really heroes (the title character in The Scarlet Pimpernel or the Nazi-fighting archeologist in “Pimpernel” Smith). During the war, Howard had devoted himself to making anti-Nazi feature films and documentaries. The story goes that he made fun of Goebbels in one of those films and that Goebbels considered him an exceptionally effective propagandist. He therefore wanted him dead. Another version of the story argues that Howard was on a top-secret mission that involved persuading Franco to stay out of the war. There is enough to “Howard theory” to put it in the “not crazy” category too.

Other passengers included Wilfrid Israel (department store scion of Kindertransport fame), oil businessman Tyrrel Shervington, and engineer Ivan Sharp. A case can be made for why the Germans would have liked to see any of them dead.

Is it all just rubbish? Was the attack on BOAC Flight 777 just a mistake?  An “error in judgment” (as the lead German pilot later put it)? Maybe. But the mystery continues to fascinate many.

THIS MAN STILL HAS HIS JOB: Paramedics wanted to enter Parkland school where kids were dying. Broward Sheriff’s Offie said no.

HMM: Militants Killed in Kabul Attack Were Wearing US Army Uniforms.

“Eight terrorists in a captured Humvee attempted to penetrate the Minister of Interior headquarters in downtown Kabul,” Army Gen. John Nicholson, Operation Resolute Support mission commander, told reporters at the Pentagon.

The attackers were attempting to drive through a checkpoint into the government complex when they were stopped by Afghan security, he said.

“They were wearing old-style Army uniforms,” Nicholson said. “The good news is that the guards at the gate, the Afghan guards, immediately recognized these as old uniforms, called on them to exit the vehicle so they could be checked out and, at that point, the fighting started.”

Nicholson said he was told one of the attackers “detonated his suicide vest and actually killed himself and some of his colleagues as they were conducting the attack.”

One Afghan friendly was killed and several more were injured.

HMM: FBI Spy Stefan Halper’s Media Contacts Could Pose A Problem, Retired FBI Officials Say.

READINESS: More A-10s to get new wings, as Air Force officially launches ATTACK. “A-10 Advanced Wing Continuation Kit buy will deliver 112 new wing sets, keeping A-10 in air through 2022.”

WHY DO ANTI-NUCLEAR ACTIVISTS WANT PEOPLE TO DIE? How Many Deaths Does It Cost To Power The World?

TRIGGERED: Joy Reid’s Blog Published A Photoshopped Image Of John McCain As The Virginia Tech Shooter.

Notice the phrasing? Joy Reid’s blog did it.

WHACK-A-MOLE: New ISIS Cell in Mozambique? Expansion Claimed After Village Beheadings. “Coastal country only experienced its first Islamist extremist attack last October, prompting government to shut down several mosques in Muslim-minority nation.”