THE END OF MAY: Theresa May resigns and finally admits defeat after Brexit shambles insisting ‘I’ve done my best.’

She hadn’t. Will Boris Johnson replace her? “It has to be Boris. Some thought Boris’s foreign secretary resignation statement bloodless, but it was wise and measured. It was not, he said, that the government had failed to make the case for a free trade agreement as laid out at Lancaster House, but that ‘We have not even tried’. The electorate understands this point, Tory voters even more so. Voters might have forgiven May had she tried to secure a proper Brexit, but she never intended to. Failure is one thing, betrayal is another.”

Johnson supports a No-Deal Brexit.

HERMAN CAIN: Trump ‘Wasn’t Racist Before He Became President and He’s Not Racist Now.’

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Flashback: “It seems apparent that the NYT set out to find out if there’s any evidence that Trump is a racist. Read the article. They found strong evidence that he is absolutely not any sort of a racist. The headline ought to come out and celebrate his excellent record.”. It didn’t, of course.

ROGER SIMON: Foolish Pelosi Forces Trump to Declassify and Re-Elects Him.

CONRAD BLACK IS NOT MINCING WORDS: Sociopathic Lies Mark NeverTrumpers’ Descent Into Madness.

CLAUDIA ROSETT: Huawei’s An Asset All Right — But It’s Not Our Asset. “Whatever the details of Huawei’s officially private ownership, or the marvels of its innovations and industry, Huawei is for strategic purposes an asset of the globally ambitious despotism that is the government of China. Which makes it dangerous.”

I’ve been calling Huawei a “communist front corporation” for a while now, which seems more apt than ever — and do read the whole thing.

THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN DEEPLY CORRUPTED IN NUMEROUS WAYS: University Of Oklahoma Inflated Its Alumni Giving Data For 20 Years, U.S. News Strips Its #127 Ranking.

BECAUSE WHEN DEMOCRATS DO IT, IT’S JUST A SPECIAL KIND OF PATRIOTISM: How is this not colluding with America’s enemies? “Imagine, for a moment, what the political reaction would be if a leading Republican senator met with an antagonistic foreign power, say Russia, in the midst of high-tension standoff between President Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin? Such a scenario seems nearly ­inconceivable. Yet, it’s exactly the situation Sen. Dianne Feinstein created when hosting Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif for dinner a few weeks ago.”

BLUE STATE BLUES: An RV Camp Sprang Up Outside Google’s Headquarters. Now Mountain View Wants to Ban It.

The Bay Area wants to enjoy wealth concentration like Manhattan, but also the population spread of the suburbs. Something’s gotta give.

SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: Conlawprof and the Recent EU Elections. “Professor AAA wrote: ‘The European elections are exposing the fact that the British party system is well and truly collapsing.’ True: but why is this a bad result? A majority of the voters voted for Leave in the referendum. A majority of MPs (from both major parties) are for Remain. In those circumstances, it is hardly surprising that there would be something like a significant realignment. If there were no meaningful realignment, then democratic institutions would be a failure. It is almost as if some people despise democracy and want that precise failure as long as their preferred outcome should be preserved and their knowledge base of extant institutions should remain prized.”

Flashback: Donald Trump is a symptom of a new kind of class warfare raging at home and abroad. “But the New Class isn’t limited to communist countries, really. Around the world in the postwar era, power was taken up by unelected professional and managerial elites. To understand what’s going on with President Donald Trump and his opposition, and in other countries as diverse as France, Hungary, Italy and Brazil, it’s important to realize that the post-World War II institutional arrangements of the Western democracies are being renegotiated, and that those democracies’ professional and managerial elites don’t like that very much, because they have done very well under those arrangements. And, like all elites who are doing very well, they don’t want that to change.”

UPDATE: “The good old tricks don’t seem to work anymore.”

IT’S LOOKING LIKE A TERESA MAY RESIGNATION by June 7.

WORKING CLASS JOE: Joe Biden paid $200,000 for speech at public university.

BOB MCMANUS: De Blasio’s 2020 run is a just one vast fit of self-indulgence.

CHANGE: DeVos family ends longtime Amash support.

WHY A MAGAZINE GIANT WANTED NOTHING TO DO WITH TIME AND FORTUNE: Meredith tries to navigate a collapsing business by dropping news-driven prestige titles in favor of lifestyle and celebrity magazines like Happy Paws and People.

When Meredith acquired Time Inc. last year, it quickly spotted the problems: Time magazine, Fortune, Money and Sports Illustrated. The titles had the richest history and greatest prestige, but they depended on news content easily found elsewhere. Meredith didn’t see a way to change the downward trajectory, so it put them up for sale, with little nostalgia.

People magazine, on the other hand, was a situation. It was highly profitable, but reflected all the stresses on modern publishing, including substantial declines in print advertising and newsstand revenue, and insufficient online ad growth. Meredith saw a powerful brand that wasn’t fully capitalizing on its unparalleled access to celebrities. It had valuable exclusive material—from Hollywood stars to human-interest stories and true-crime tales—and there was room to bring in more money.

It’s a practical approach: Invest in assets with the promise of profit growth; don’t waste money trying to fix hopelessly weak ones, no matter how strong the romantic attachment.

Time magazine’s buyers certainly put a happy face on their acquisition last year: Time Magazine To Be Sold To Billionaire Couple For $190 Million.

“We’re pleased to have found such passionate buyers in Marc and Lynne Benioff for the Time brand,” Meredith president and CEO Tom Harty said in a statement. “For over 90 years, Time has been at the forefront of the most significant events and impactful stories that shape our global conversation.”

In a memo to the magazine’s staff, Time’s editor in chief, Edward Felsenthal, said he was “thrilled” with the news.

“From the first moments we sat down with Marc and Lynne to discuss Time’s future, we knew that this was not just a meeting of minds and business goals, it was a confluence of purpose,” Felsenthal said.

He added that the Benioffs had told him to “think big, really big,” and envision what Time will look like in 2040.

Will it still be a weekly print news magazine in supermarkets and dentists’ offices? Now an anachronism in the era of blogs, Twitter and 24-hour cable news, Time magazine hasn’t been Time magazine since its center-right founder Henry Luce died in the mid-1960s and the publication became an increasingly less essential cog in the endless DNC-MSM echo machine. Let the dinosaur finally die.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Under Skyborg program, F-35 and F-15EX jets could control drone sidekicks.

Roper told lawmakers this month that Valkyrie would transition to a prototype program known as Skyborg, where the drone will be outfitted with new sensors and payloads and will be networked to manned fighter jets. In March, he characterized Skyborg as an artificial intelligence wingman that would train and learn alongside pilots, or possibly be incorporated into a manned fighter cockpit to act as an assistant to the pilot like R2-D2 in the “Star Wars” films.

But until now, the Air Force had not identified the platforms are under consideration to be equipped with Skyborg or teamed with the XQ-58 Valkyrie.

The Valkyrie, which flew its first test flight at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona, on March 5, was designed to perform and maneuver like a fighter jet. It can fly at high subsonic speeds, takeoff without a runway, and, according to Kratos, meet or exceed the Air Force’s requirement for a 1,500-nautical-mile range with a 500-pound payload.

When produced in volume, Roper predicted that they will cost “a couple million bucks” each — not cheap, but inexpensive compared to the F-35A and F-15EX, which are expected to cost about $80 million per jet over the same time frame.

If nothing else, they nailed it with the name Skyborg.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Public univ. sponsors social justice conference to address ‘white accountability,’ ‘microaggressions.’

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LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: Declassification-It’s What’s for Breakfast.

The White House Statement reads:

“Today, at the request and recommendation of the Attorney General of the United States, President Donald J. Trump directed the intelligence community to quickly and fully cooperate with the Attorney General’s investigation into surveillance activities during the 2016 Presidential election,” White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement.

“The Attorney General has also been delegated full and complete authority to declassify information pertaining to this investigation, in accordance with the long-established standards for handling classified information.”

OH SNAP.

Much more at the link.

IRAN’S PROXY WARRIORS BECOME A REGIME LIABILITY: My latest Creators Syndicate column.

TRUMP SIGNS DECLASSIFICATION MEMO: Powerline’s Paul Mirengoff weighs in.

Recognizing the danger to Democratic interests posed by a thorough and transparent investigation of surveillance against the Trump campaign, Rep. Adam Schiff wasted no time complaining about the declassification memo. He accused the president and the attorney general of conspiring to “weaponize law enforcement and classified information against their political enemies.”

But all they are really doing is providing access to information. If the information shows no wrongdoing, there will be nothing to “weaponize.” If the information shows wrongdoing, consequences should follow.

Read the whole thing.

BUFF RETURNS FROM THE BONEYARD A resurrected B-52H leaves the Boneyard 309th (located at Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona) and returns to active duty at Barksdale AFB, Louisiana.

EVERYTHING IS PROBLEMATICAL: Having Siri, Google Assistant & other intelligent assistants female by default is sexist, says UN.

I guess the UN has to find something to do, having secured world peace and all.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Political Correctness Is a Tool for Socialist Censorship and Thought Control. And it was designed as such.