Important | 1 | | Normally conservative Chief Justice John Roberts sided against the Trump administration in yesterday’s decision, ruling that the White House didn’t provide sufficient legal basis to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which lets undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children remain in the country. Critics on the left noted that the decision’s procedural focus doesn’t protect the “Dreamers” permanently and that if reelected, President Donald Trump could still dismantle it, as he’s been trying to do since 2017. Read OZY’s dossier on past cases where Roberts swung the vote. | |
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| 2 | | Is this the shape of things to come? A political ad from President Trump’s reelection campaign was removed from Facebook yesterday under its hate speech policy for featuring an inverted red triangle identical to those worn by political prisoners in Nazi concentration camps. The campaign — which ran exactly 88 of the ads, a symbolic number in the neo-Nazi movement — argued that it’s an “emoji” widely used to identify far-left groups, though experts dispute that claim. Facebook, which has resisted calls to fact check misleading posts, also removed hundreds of accounts tied to white supremacy groups on Tuesday. | |
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| 3 | | While Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar had long been considered a top contender to be Joe Biden’s ticket mate in November, she says she’s advised him to choose a woman of color instead. The George Floyd protests, centered around Minneapolis, had also put the spotlight on Klobuchar’s record as a tough-on-crime prosecutor, which was beginning to look like a political liability with voters primed for change. About 46 percent of Democrats now say they think Biden’s running mate should not be white, a huge increase since April. He plans to make his selection by early August. | |
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| 4 | | Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor have been detained in China since December 2018 in what’s widely seen as retaliation for Canada putting Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou under house arrest days before. Now the pair have been charged with espionage and are likely to be convicted. Meanwhile, sources in Australia said the government suspects China is behind a series of cyberattacks at various levels of government. China is Australia’s most important trading partner, but relations have been strained since the latter joined an international chorus of voices calling for an investigation into China’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak. | |
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| 5 | | Early testing indicates that protests haven’t caused an uptick in COVID-19 transmission. The Antonyo Awards are launching to celebrate the best in Black theater. And Atlanta police officers have called in sick to protest murder charges against the former officer who shot Rayshard Brooks in the back last week. Try this: Feeling presidential after a week of briefings? Prove it with the PDB Quiz. Wear this: The newly launched Reset America section of the OZY Store lets you look good by doing good, with 100 percent of profits being donated to your choice of racial justice organizations. Grab a Reset America T-shirt, backpack and more. And be sure to post your pics on social using #ResetAmerica and #OZYmerch! Watch this: This Pride Month, check out the latest episode of Defining Moments With OZY — all about Jason Collins’ journey to become the first openly gay active player in one of the four major U.S. sports leagues. Now streaming on Hulu. |
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| Intriguing | 1 | | Today the U.S. celebrates Juneteenth, the anniversary of an 1865 military order enforcing the Emancipation Proclamation and declaring all slaves in Texas to be free people. In time to celebrate, the National Archives has located the original handwritten order. Juneteenth has gained steam this year amid mass anti-racism protests, and companies like Twitter, Facebook and Uber are officially recognizing it. Meanwhile, the Trump campaign will hold its first rally in months tomorrow in Tulsa, rescheduled from today due to Juneteenth celebrations — after Trump opined yesterday that “nobody had ever heard of” the holiday before he boosted its profile. | |
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| 2 | | On Wednesday, Black Rep. Cedric Richmond and white Rep. Matt Gaetz got into a shouting match over whether white lawmakers could understand Richmond’s experience, with Gaetz suggesting that some white people are raising non-white children. Yesterday Gaetz tweeted a photo of Nestor, a 19-year-old Cuban immigrant who lives with him. Nestor, the Florida congressman says, emigrated legally six years ago and “we share no blood but he is my life.” Gaetz had mentioned Nestor before, but only as a helper or a page. Read OZY’s deep dive into a historic flight from Cuba to Miami. | |
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| 3 | | Money isn’t everything. While the G-7 countries (the U.S., U.K., Italy, France, Japan, Canada and Germany) have long set world priorities as a bloc, many of them have proven disastrously unable to deal with the coronavirus. But a new group of the countries, rich and poor, that have most effectively fended off the virus — New Zealand, Ghana, Paraguay, Mauritius, South Korea and Denmark — could lead the way in 2020 as the C-6, OZY posits. Just as the G-7 arose to deal with crises of the ’70s and ’80s, such a new configuration could be what the world needs now. | |
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| 4 | | They’re getting this show on the road. AMC is aiming to reopen 450 of its 600 theaters by July 15, and the rest by July 24, despite the fact that COVID-19 is still surging in the United States. Masks won’t be required, as AMC’s CEO says the issue has become politicized, but they will be sold for $1 in theaters, and auditoriums will be cleaned between screenings. But they may need to worry about filling seats: In New Zealand, where the virus is all but eliminated, cinemas have reopened — but they earned just 17 percent of what they made during the same week in 2019. | |
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| 5 | | It’s time. The Magnolia State probably won’t host the Southeastern Conference Championship until it agrees to remove the Confederate flag from its official insignia, according to SEC commissioner Greg Sankey, following in the footsteps of the NCAA. Mississippi is the only state that still has a piece of the failed secession movement’s symbol on its flag, which citizens voted to keep as recently as 2001. Still, several state universities refuse to fly it and legislators in Mississippi proposed a bill this week to change the flag — though local media report it’s unlikely to make it out of committee. | |
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