Thank you

@EdMorrissey The Iranians made a yuge mistake and will pay bigly.

Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth have returned to an earlier warning from Trump that commentators dubbed the Bridge and Power Day. Or, perhaps, we can call it Infrastructure Week. WSJ: Has Bridge and Power Day Arrived? hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2…

@jimgeraghty Ashley Webb was definitely not grown in a vat. I hope Graham and his people will endorse.

"Graham Platner and his fans, like Galloway and Moraff, are attempting nothing less than a full-scale moral inversion. A candidate who faces no accusations of sexual assault or mistreatment of others, who studied hard, worked hard, and avoided scandal — well, that guy is untrustworthy, “vat-grown,” or unacceptable because he doesn’t have any shameful actions to admit. They expect you to admire a guy like Platner because, you see, he may be a dirtbag, but he’s an authentic dirtbag."

@jpodhoretz @amandafortini

@amandafortini Some of us have been quoting The Flintstones for 60 years now

There are men who have been reciting lines and scenarios from episodes of Seinfeld for like thirty years now.

@MattGelb I assumed the game was moved to Thursday because Shane Gillis has a gig at the Linc on Friday.

The Phillies play tonight. (Thanks, ESPN.) Some storylines for the 65-game sprint that remains: nytimes.com/athletic/74479…

Taco Bell is currently under investigation on suspicion of luring fast food customers into eating vegetables.

@EsotericCD Congrats to both lakes on this impressive accomplishment.

Big news!

So much for his hopes of going out on a high note.

@EdMorrissey @DavidStrom This is just further proof of your anti-Irish sentiment.

Not me this time. I'm assigning it to @DavidStrom.

@jimgeraghty Eh, prefer it to pulling a Kimmel and having Rosie O'Donnell guest host as POTUS.

MS NOW reports, “President Trump’s Thursday speech is slated to address newly declassified intelligence reports that the White House asserts reveal plans by foreign nations to interfere in the 2020 election, according to two White House officials granted anonymity to discuss internal plans.” So even the president is in summer reruns.

@mikenelson586 @stephenfhayes @JonahDispatch @MichaelRWarren I am ashamed that I did not wait until the end of the podcast. I will show myself out.

@brianberkey @stephenfhayes @JonahDispatch @MichaelRWarren @JonahDispatch actually corrects this at the end!

NEW: Dispatch Podcast on the US misadventure in Iran, Ukraine's momentum, and the legacy Lindsey Graham. Plus, the Norwegian dude who refused to row and our own refuse-to-row moments. With @JonahDispatch, @MichaelRWarren and @mikenelson586. thedispatch.com/podcast/dispat…

@EdMorrissey @Tedgforce He thinks it is kosher?

@Tedgforce Ali don't like it ....

Finally MBS rocks the casbah..

@jelynchjr Headed to Rally House right now.

00 new favorite guy

@EdMorrissey Is this your first rodeo?

Playing around with B&W outcomes for my rodeo shots from last weekend. I like the drama in the action shots. What do you think?

@asalciunas975 #PrayersForCooper

Sad day today in Brigantine NJ

@jimgeraghty Bittersweet. I am going to miss the “you know who else did _________” tweets.

@jimgeraghty He took no salary from the oyster business, but mom secretly gives him half off on all appetizers at the restaurant. And free refills on coffee, too.

Calling Platner’s oyster business “totally fake”, as Maine Wire editor in chief Steven Robinson did, is hyperbolic; he does sell oysters to a restaurant his mother owns. But Platner had told the New Republic that he hadn’t paid himself a salary from his oyster business for the past five years. It would be interesting to see if Platner’s business has ever generated any profits after expenses, and whether the Internal Revenue Service would classify it as a hobby or a business for the question of deducting business expenses. (“The IRS safe harbor rule is typically that if you have turned a profit in at least three of five consecutive years, the IRS will presume that you are engaged in it for profit.”) PolitiFact rated Robinson’s statement “false,” based on his company’s having filed the proper paperwork with the state. Well, that’s one way to measure the legitimacy of a business, but the “no salary for five years,” “not making a living at it,” and “just one customer that is his mom” facts complicate the picture.

@jimgeraghty Much like his campaign, his message will self-destruct in 5 seconds.

The whole campaign, he falsely claimed he had been an open book about his past, and that senator Collins was hiding and not doing townhalls. And now, apparently at the end, it will conclude with a prerecorded message from his bunker.

@jimgeraghty @philipaklein

Also in today's Morning Jolt, I think our @philipaklein is correct; there is a not-so-small chance that in the coming days, Graham Platner will refuse to withdraw from the U.S. Senate race in Maine and force his state’s Democrats to choose between voting for him or acquiescing to another term for GOP incumbent Susan Collins. Under state law, Maine’s Democratic Party can replace Platner as its Senate candidate if he A) withdraws or B) dies. (If I were Platner, I’d be careful around any staffers named von Stauffenberg.)