THIS FACTOID OUGHT TO RED-PILL SOME PEOPLE, BUT ALAS:

IRAN IS WALKING DEAD: Richard Pollock reports that signs abound that, while the surviving elements of the Iranian regime continue to compete with Baghdad Bob for the Most Ridiculous Official Statement Ever Award, reality is rapidly catching up with them.

SAY ANYTHING:

TERRORISTS GOTTA TERRORIZE: Group claiming Europe antisemitic attacks tells CBS News it will target “U.S. and Israeli interests worldwide.”

A group that has claimed responsibility for a series of attacks targeting Jewish institutions across Europe told CBS News it will continue targeting U.S. and Israeli interests a day after three men were captured by security cameras torching ambulances used by a global Jewish medical organization in London.

Hours later, the little-known group claimed responsibility for another attack, in which a car was burned in a Jewish neighborhood in Antwerp, Belgium.

“We’ll keep threatening U.S. and Israeli interests worldwide until we’ve avenged every child in Gaza, Iran, Lebanon, and the resistance nations,” a person representing the Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia group (which translates as: The Islamic Movement of the Companions of the Righteous) told CBS News late Monday. “We urge people to stay away from Zionist and American interests and individuals to keep themselves safe.”

Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia first announced its existence in early March, after the U.S. and Israel launched the ongoing war on Iran. In the 25 days since, it has claimed a series of antisemitic attacks across Europe.

Stay alert.

PUTIN’S STUPID WAR:

It’s a fascinating thread with eye-popping numbers — even for people who have followed this war closely for four-plus years.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Sound GOP Strategy for November — Let Dems Keep Getting in Their Own Way. “There aren’t any Democrats who are going to be moving towards the center in order to appeal to moderate voters. James Talarico in Texas is being touted as a great moderate hope in his race for the United States Senate but he’s one of those climate change hysterics who thinks that we have to stop eating hamburgers in order to save the planet.”

ISAACMAN IS PROVING TO BE ANOTHER ONE OF TRUMP’S “SURPRISINGLY” SMART HIRES:

Exit quote: “It’s a new era. I’m not sure everyone realizes this, but Isaacman and his team have eyes wide open to a lot of the major challenges facing NASA and they’re trying to fix them. They’re working long days. Weekends. It’s inspiring to see our government work like this, especially in an era when so much seems broken. I don’t know what will happen. Maybe this Moon base all will fade away. But I do know that NASA’s chance for success in the next couple of decades is a lot higher today than it has been for a long, long time. What we were doing was decidedly not working. This has a chance.”

I LOVE A HAPPY ENDING: Mamma Mia! Italian Anarchist Couple Blow Themselves Up While Trying to Engineer Mass Casualty IED. “If you don’t find this case nauseating enough on its own, take a look at how Pakistan TV, that nation’s official state-owned English news and current affairs channel, framed it. We often rail against our Democrat propagandist mainstream press, but this is truly special: it was a ‘tragic accident’ that just so happened to strike a lovely couple who were just ‘preparing a protest.'”

“Play stupid games, win stupid prizes” is the proper framing.

GOOD NEWS:

UNRWA is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hamas.

WHO’S IN CHARGE THERE, ANYWAY?

HMM: Trump says Iran gave the US ‘a very big present’ related to oil and gas.

“They gave us a present and the present arrived today. It was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money,” Trump said of Iran.

“It wasn’t nuclear-related, it was oil and gas-related,” he added, though he did not offer further details.

He described it as “very significant.”

Asked if it was related to the Strait of Hormuz, a key oil shipping channel that has been effectively blocked since the war began, Trump answered affirmatively.

“It was related to the flow” and the strait, he said.

The White House did not immediately respond to a question from The Hill about what exactly the gift was.

Well, stay tuned.

CONGRATULATIONS TO INSTAPUNDIT READER, AND LONGTIME BLOGGER, JEFFREY CARTER, who is running for Nevada State Treasurer. He just received the endorsement of Joe W. Brown.

TRUMP IS A LIVING UNO REVERSE CARD: