CL Seven people were seized this week as the city passed another June 4 anniversary, the 37th, now marked mainly by its own absence. What cannot be held in public is carried privately, in quiet meals and the particular silence of those who remember. Month 71 of the national security crackdown runs on, and the calendar moves through its dates without ceremony.-- CL

MB Congress voted to block an Iran war and fund Ukraine in the same week the president named his personal lawyer as attorney general. The branches are not in conflict so much as operating on different schedules, serving different coalitions. Bolton's guilty plea closes a quieter loop: the architecture he helped build now processes him.-- MB