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

ACCEPTANCE: There will be no Trump collapse.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

YOUR DAILY TREACHER: Rise of the McRobots. “I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to go back to living in caves.”

CHIP COMPETITION FEELS LIKE THE ’90S AGAIN: AMD tops Intel with its 32-core Threadripper 2, which will ship this year. “Intel wowed the Taipei crowds on Tuesday with a 28-core Core chip, which the company promised by the end of the year. One day later, on Wednesday, AMD announced Threadripper 2—and at 32 cores and 64 threads, it will easily top what Intel promised.”

If you have the need and the means, it seems impossible to go wrong with either choice.

JEFF SANDERS: Six Facts About D-Day You Never Learned in School.

OH: Teacher Who Said ‘Lick Me Where I Fart’ Pleads Guilty to Misconduct Again, Can Still Get Job Back.

“Again.”

HEALTH: Broccoli coffee is a thing, because you’re not eating your vegetables.

Developed by Australia’s chief research organisation, the CSIRO, and Hort Innovation, the powder is produced by using a “combination of selected pre-treatment and drying processes” that help to keep the flavour, colour, and the nutrients from the vegetable.

The broccoli powder was tested at a Melbourne cafe, Commonfolk, with “mixed reviews” when the concoction was brewed into a latte. Sorry, a “broccolatte.”

If they could eliminate the flavor, they might be onto something.

BREAKING: DOJ watchdog finds James Comey defied authority as FBI director, sources say.

SUSTAINABILITY: U.S. Student Loan Debt Hits Staggering $1.5 Trillion.

HMM: Poll shows Turkey’s Erdogan falling short of election majority in first round.

He looks safe in a potential runoff however:

Turks will vote in both parliamentary and presidential elections later this month after Erdogan, the president, declared a snap election in April. After the vote, Turkey will switch to a powerful executive presidency that was narrowly approved in a referendum last year.

The survey of 3,000 respondents in 26 of Turkey’s 81 provinces showed Erdogan receiving 48.3 percent of votes in the first round, with the main opposition party candidate, Muharrem Ince, seen at 31.4 percent. The poll was conducted between May 29 and June 3.

More than 53 percent of respondents said they would vote for Erdogan against Ince in the second round.

Flashback: “Democracy is like a streetcar. When you come to your stop, you get off.” -Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

SCOTUSBLOG SYMPOSIUM: Masterpiece Cakeshop — not as narrow as may first appear.

What the Supreme Court said was different but may ultimately come to nearly the same place. The court said that the inconsistent treatment of Phillips and the protected bakers showed hostility towards Phillips’ religious faith. Colorado had violated its duty “not to base laws or regulations on hostility to a religion or a religious viewpoint.” The state must “proceed in a manner neutral toward and tolerant of Phillips’ religious beliefs.” The commission had been “neither tolerant nor respectful”; it had proceeded on the basis of “a negative normative ‘evaluation of the particular justification’ for his objection” (quoting Lukumi).

There is a practical holding and an ideal holding here. The practical holding is that the unequal treatment of Phillips and the protected bakers is evidence of unconstitutional hostility. Conscientious objectors embroiled in litigation will have to send testers to smoke out uneven enforcement of anti-discrimination law. We expect that states are unwilling to require socially liberal vendors to produce goods with conservative religious messages they find offensive or against their conscience. If that is so, then those states cannot require religiously conservative vendors to produce goods in violation of their conscience.

The Supreme Court has announced a powerful ideal. Even when a law has no explicit exceptions, hostile enforcement is unconstitutional. Single-issue agencies that enforce state civil-rights laws must approach claims to religious exemptions with tolerance and respect. And this is apparently an absolute rule; the court does not consider whether hostility might be justified by some state interest, compelling or otherwise.

But a requirement of tolerance and respect, or even the avoidance of hostility, is difficult to enforce. The opponents of religious exemptions will now start doing the sorts of things done by many other government officials resisting constitutional mandates. They will seek doctrinal and rhetorical manipulations to cloak their hostility to the constitutional right, and their unequal treatment of objectors they agree with and objectors they don’t.

Colorado’s Civil Rights Commission will have to do a better job of hiding its hostility from now on, but I’m not sure they have it in them.

D.C. MCALLISTER: Why You Shouldn’t Ignore Emails.

ONCE MORE OUT OF THE BREACH: 92 million MyHeritage users had their data quietly swiped. “Company learned of the attack when a security researcher sent a data file.”

Email addresses and hashed passwords of more than 92 million MyHeritage users were exposed in a cybersecurity breach on October 26, 2017, the popular genealogy company reported Monday, June 4, 2018.

MyHeritage said that it only learned of the breach earlier that day—more than seven months after the fact—when an unidentified “security researcher” sent the company’s chief information security officer a message. The researcher said they had found a file containing users’ data on a private server and passed a copy of the file along.

MyHeritage, which allows users to set up family trees and probe their DNA for clues about their ancestry, promptly reported the breach in a blog post.

But:

So far, MyHeritage is optimistic that the breach’s damage was limited. The company said that it seems as though email addresses were the only data affected and no evidence suggests that the data was used for any nefarious purpose. It also noted that it doesn’t store credit card information, relying on third-party billing companies. And other sensitive information, such as DNA data and family trees, are stored separately from email addresses and have extra layers of security.

That’s a relief.

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Why Can’t Women Bee Nice To Each Other?

OVER AT THE PJM LIVE BLOG: A Quick Thought about D-Day…

Plus: A response from Tyler O’Neil and then even more from yours truly.

History nerds gotta history nerd on days like today.

ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL: Keith Ellison’s Last-Minute Move Throws Minnesota Politics Into Chaos.

“It’s a shitshow,” said one Democratic strategist in the state of Ellison’s decision Tuesday.

In the governor’s race, Tim Walz, who in 2016 managed to win a rural district that Donald Trump also carried, was far ahead in fundraising and had won many straw polls. But last week, the party unexpectedly backed Erin Murphy, a more progressive woman from the Twin Cities, over Walz — setting up a contested primary between Walz and, at the last minute, current attorney general Lori Swanson, who jumped into the race.

Ellison used Swanson’s entry into the governor’s race to announce his plans to run for state attorney general, setting up a competitive primary there, as well.

Minnesota Democrats were hoping to come out of the state’s convention — part of a complicated nominating process that comes before the August primary — with the party’s biggest races settled and primaries uncontested. Instead, they got something of a frenzy, with unexpected endorsements and late entries mucking up the race for both governor and state AG — developments that are likely to suck precious money and energy out of the state’s half-dozen other important races.

It couldn’t happen to a nicer party.

THAT WOULD BE NICE: F-35 Defects Must Be Fixed Before Full-Production, GAO Says.

The production decision would commit the U.S. to building 77 or more of the Lockheed Martin Corp. aircraft per year over the next 12 years, up from 70 this year. Output would peak at 105 aircraft in 2023 at an annual cost of $13.4 billion and stay at that rate for six years. That makes it imperative for the Pentagon to fix the deficiencies before a decision about production — the most profitable phase for Lockheed — is made, the report said.

The troubled $406.5 billion F-35 is a next-generation fighter scheduled to end its 17-year-old development phase this year. Starting in September, the program is supposed to proceed to intense combat testing that’s likely to take a year, an exercise that is already at least 12 months late. Combat testing is necessary before the plane can be approved for full-rate production.

Over the past year, the Pentagon “has made progress in completing the F-35 development program,” GAO said. “However, in its rush to cross the finish line, the program has made some decisions that are likely to affect aircraft performance and reliability and maintainability for years to come.”

As anyone who has ever done any serious home improvements can tell you, getting it right the first time is cheaper and easier than retrofitting.

WINNING: For First Time Ever, US Has More Job Openings Than Unemployed Workers.

INCOMING: Massive Cloud of Flying Midges Descends on Cleveland, Visible on Weather Radars.

On the bright side, at least they aren’t stealth midges.