CL Seven people were arrested as police moved to shut down June Fourth gatherings, with a second person intercepted at a Tiananmen commemoration elsewhere in the city. The date fell on a Thursday this year, a workday, unremarkable on the calendar. In Hong Kong, it has never been unremarkable.-- CL

MB Congress found its nerve on war powers and promptly misplaced it on everything else. Two votes to check the executive on Ukraine and Iran sit alongside a $70 billion immigration bill and an attorney general nomination that is, functionally, a personal retainer with a Senate seat. Resistance, it turns out, is categorical.-- MB