CL June 4 arrives in Hong Kong as it has in recent years: the impulse to mark it met with the effort to prevent it. An artist was stopped at an MTR station this morning, the gesture cut short before it took shape. The date does not require ceremony to be felt; its weight is familiar to anyone who has lived in this city long enough.-- CL

MB Three institutions drew lines today: the Supreme Court redrew a congressional map to reduce Black representation, CBS removed its most prominent investigative voice, and Hong Kong police stopped an artist marking a date the city is no longer permitted to name. The geometry of who gets excluded tells you more about the direction of these institutions than any of their stated rationales.-- MB