DAVID BERNSTEIN: How Hillary loses:

As soon as the votes were tallied in 2012, Richard Trumka of the AFL-CIO and Mary Kay Henry of SEIU were claiming unions had delivered Obama’s victory. They argued, with justification, that Ohio, Wisconsin and Nevada got into the blue column because of a massive turnout effort from labor. But earlier this year, both Trumka and Henry expressed concerns that Trump could flip that script.

“Our members are responding to Trump’s message,” Henry said in one interview. “Donald Trump is tapping into the very real and very understandable anger of working people,” Trumka said in a speech.

Clinton’s disdain for “the little people” is palpable, and in November they may get the chance to return the favor.

SCENES FROM RAHM EMANUEL’S CHICAGO: Memorial Day weekend shootings leave 4 dead, at least 49 wounded.

FLASHBACK: Google Honors Activist Who Deemed U.S. Government World’s ‘Main Terrorist’

SO IT’S COME TO THIS: Rubio Personally Apologized To Trump For Implying He Had A Small Penis.

HERE IT COMES: The superbug that doctors have been dreading just reached the U.S.

The antibiotic-resistant strain was found last month in the urine of a 49-year-old Pennsylvania woman. Defense Department researchers determined that she carried a strain of E. coli resistant to the antibiotic colistin, according to a study published Thursday in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, a publication of the American Society for Microbiology. The authors wrote that the discovery “heralds the emergence of a truly pan-drug resistant bacteria.”

Colistin is the antibiotic of last resort for particularly dangerous types of superbugs, including a family of bacteria known as CRE, which health officials have dubbed “nightmare bacteria.” In some instances, these superbugs kill up to 50 percent of patients who become infected. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has called CRE among the country’s most urgent public health threats.

They’re calling it “the end of the road” for antibiotics.

THE BATHROOM WARS: Bill Whittle goes there.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Amputee Gamer Gets A Bionic Arm With an Interactive Screen, Charger, and Drone.

YES. NEXT QUESTION? The year of the unlikable candidate?

BORN ON DATE 3000 BC: 5,000-Year-Old Chinese Beer Recipe Revealed.

FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMED: Marine barred from graduation walk over uniform.

MULTILATERAL INSECURITY: Threat from Russian and Chinese warplanes mounts.

Air Force Gen. Herbert “Hawk” Carlisle, who leads Air Combat Command, said in an interview with USA TODAY that meeting the challenge from the Russian and Chinese to flights in international airspace is essential but dangerous.

“Our concern is a resurgent Russia and a very, very aggressive China,” Carlisle said.

Both countries are intent on expanding their spheres of influence — Russia in eastern Europe and the Pacific with China focusing much of its effort over the disputed South China Sea.

“Their intent is to get us not to be there,” Carlisle said.

Now where do we pivot?

THIRD BATTLE OF FALLUJAH: Shiite militias allied with the government seize two districts on the city’s outskirts, commander says.

Iraqi forces backed by airstrikes from a U.S.-led international coalition pounded Fallujah from the ground and the air Monday, marking the start of a bid to retake one of Islamic State’s last major urban strongholds in the country.

Iraq’s army and counterterrorism forces, police, tribal fighters and the Popular Mobilization Forces joined in the assault, the military’s Joint Operations Command said.

Fallujah, about 40 miles west of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, has been held by Islamic State since the Sunni Muslim extremist group captured it in early 2014.

The tragedy is that this city — hard won by Coalition forces led by US Marines in 2004 — was largely at peace before President Obama abandoned Iraq in 2011. Three years later, Obama dismissed ISIS as the “jayvee” days after the group had taken Fallujah. The people there have suffered under ISIS rule since, and now find themselves once again in the middle of a war zone.

This morning, the Washington Post’s Fred Hiatt wrote that “it does not require hindsight to appreciate the recklessness of his decision” to leave Iraq.

Hindsight is preferable to remaining blind, I suppose.

WELCOME TO THE BOLIVARIAN REPUBLIC OF VENEZUELA, where a hamburger is officially $170.

I believe this is officially “bad luck.”

REACTION: Far-right presidential candidate ahead as Austria counts final votes.

The ministry said Freedom Party candidate Hofer had 51.9% of the votes cast in person Sunday, while former Green Party chief Alexander Van der Bellen had 48.1%. About 750,000 ballots cast by mail were still being tallied. They represent about 12% of the 6.4 million voters, the BBC reported.

A Hofer victory would mark the first time a European nation elected a far-right president since World War II.

In Austria, the presidency is a figurehead position with the real executive power residing in the office of the Chancellor — “safely” inhabited by Social Democrat Heinz Fischer.

The real test of strength for the Freedom Party won’t come until the next parliamentary election in 2018. The party currently holds 38 seats in 183-seat National Council, and 13 of the 61 positions in the Federal Council.

UPDATE: Independent candidate Alexander Van der Bellen has won Austria’s presidential election.

Van der Bellen ran as a pro-EU independent with support from Austria’s Green Party.

CHANGE: In historic move, U.S. lifts arms sales embargo to Vietnam.

Smart move.

It isn’t often mentioned that Vietnam and China fought a war against each other more recently than the Vietnam and the United States did.

21ST CENTURY CRIME: Michigan man arrested for tipping stripper with $100 bill made on his computer.

YES. NEXT QUESTION? Was the 2008 Democratic primary battle as bitter as this one?

RIGHT ANGLE: Just in time for the 2016 election, it’s everything you need to know about suspended animation.

RIP, JOHN BERRY: Beastie Boys founding member dead at 52.

HERE WE GO AGAIN? Credit-Card Debt Nears $1 Trillion as Banks Push Plastic.

That sum would come close to the all-time peak of $1.02 trillion set in July 2008, just before the financial crisis intensified, and could signal an easing of frugal habits ingrained by the recession.

The boom has been driven by steady economic conditions and an improving job market that have made creditworthy consumers less reluctant to take on debt. In addition, lenders have signed up millions of subprime consumers who previously weren’t able to get credit.

Everything sounds great right up until that last line. The story also notes that automobile loans are at an all-time high, fueled in part by subprime lending — with delinquency rates on the rise.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Best scotch whiskeys under $35.

I can personally vouch for the Monkey Shoulder blended, which makes for a lovely Affinity.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: How the Air Force’s ‘space fence’ will keep American satellites safe.

DON’T BE EVIL: Google Honors Activist Who Deemed U.S. Government World’s ‘Main Terrorist’

RIGHT ANGLE: Aye, aye… sir?

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Panama Papers Reveal Clinton’s Kremlin Connection.

Almost lost among the many revelations is the fact that Russia’s biggest bank uses The Podesta Group as its lobbyist in Washington, D.C. Though hardly a household name, this firm is well known inside the Beltway, not least because its CEO is Tony Podesta, one of the best-connected Democratic machers in the country. He founded the firm in 1998 with his brother John, formerly chief of staff to President Bill Clinton, then counselor to President Barack Obama, Mr. Podesta is the very definition of a Democratic insider. Outsiders engage the Podestas and their well-connected lobbying firm to improve their image and get access to Democratic bigwigs.

Which is exactly what Sberbank, Russia’s biggest financial institution, did this spring. As reported at the end of March, the Podesta Group registered with the U.S. Government as a lobbyist for Sberbank, as required by law, naming three Podesta Group staffers: Tony Podesta plus Stephen Rademaker and David Adams, the last two former assistant secretaries of state. It should be noted that Tony Podesta is a big-money bundler for the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign while his brother John is the chairman of that campaign, the chief architect of her plans to take the White House this November.

That’s from John Schindler who also notes that “Sberbank has blown off the Panama Papers revelations as nothing of consequence, but the fact that they are an arm of the Kremlin and they do plenty of shady things in many countries is a matter of record.”

Sberbank — and by extension, the Kremlin — would have a friendly ear in a Hillary Clinton White House.

But that’s hardly news, is it?