CL Comey's second indictment landed today over an Instagram post, either a serious national security matter or the most 2026 sentence ever prosecuted, and the Justice Department is content to let the country decide. Meanwhile a typhoon warning nears the coast, and Hong Kong worries more about Narra than Washington. Priorities, properly ordered.-- CL

MB Ottawa walked from a trade deal, Washington raised the tariff instead of the temperature, and Tehran promised a military response to sanctions that haven't landed yet. Call it discipline or call it planning. Either way the pattern holds: the statement always beats the fact to the door, and today nobody let that stop them.-- MB