Today's five.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent just called his new Iran sanctions package "the single greatest financial offensive ever marshaled against an adversary," which is an extremely large thing to promise in a Financial Times op-ed. The administration is branding it "Economic D-Day" — 45 oil tankers blacklisted, every economic lifeline Tehran has allegedly in the crosshairs, and a warning to any country still doing business with Iran that they're next. Semafor noted diplomacy is technically still happening; Iran's security forces are calling it defiance. Reason pointed out Iran has lived under near-continuous sanctions since 1979. The bar for "toughest ever" is doing a lot of work here.

The Supreme Court didn't rule that Trump's mail voting order is legal — it just ruled that the states suing to stop it don't have standing to do so, which is a very different thing. The order, targeting mail-in voting in roughly two dozen states and D.C., was blocked by a lower court and is now unblocked while the legal fights continue. LAist noted practical hurdles remain: absentee voting starts in weeks, and federal agencies may not finish carrying out the directives in time anyway. The court punted on the actual question. That question is still very much open.

Alaska's Senate race now features two candidates named Dan Sullivan, which is either the most creative political strategy in years or the most cynical, depending on your relationship with democracy. Democrats allegedly recruited a different Dan Sullivan to run and split votes from the Republican incumbent — the logic being that confused ballots are almost as good as real ones. Both RealClearPolitics and The Federalist covered this identically, which usually means the story sells itself. The tactic has a name — "Decoy Dan" — and the fact that it has a name means it was planned. Alaskans now get to vote for themselves, in every sense.

Lightning killed a mother and her 2-year-old daughter in Margate, Florida — the kind of sentence that doesn't get easier to read no matter how many times you see it. Kam Glasgow lost his wife Kenya and their toddler in a strike that offers no villain, no policy failure, no one to be angry at. Just weather, and then absence. NBC 6 South Florida covered the family's grief through Kam's own words. There's not much more context to add. Some stories are just the thing that happened.

Five weeks is apparently how long it takes a major airport to think about privatizing security and decide it's not worth it. Tampa International announced Monday it's keeping its existing TSA officers after briefly entertaining a switch to something called TSA Gold+ — a federal privatization program currently being piloted at airports in Charleston and Des Moines. No explanation given for the reversal, which is its own kind of explanation. The program is new enough that Tampa would have been an early test case. They passed. Charleston and Des Moines are now the experiment.