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• President Biden will sign the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law at 3:30PM ET. He and VP Harris will deliver remarks.

• Joe Manchin and Mitch McConnell have issued a joint statement saying no one in the South should be told about Juneteenth until three years after the law is signed.

• Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene have issued a joint statement saying schools cannot offer any explanation of why the Government has a new holiday, because “Critical Race Theory” is just a theory, like evolution.

• The governors of Texas and Florida have issued a joint statement saying they are disenfranchising every voter with a skin color darker than Pantone 7604 C, aka “Mango Smoothie”, and that they are building a wall around every polling location in their respective states.

• South Carolina has passed a new law forbidding anyone from wearing a Covid mask and requiring every white property owner to carry a gun.

• Louisiana and Virginia announce they are erecting new statues of Robert E. Lee and Nathan Bedford Forest “to honor those whose work set the stage for Juneteenth.” 

• Colin Kaepernick notes in an editorial that no one in the black community asked for “Juneteenth” to be a holiday. The request was for easy access to the ballot box, voting rights protections, and to have police stop killing unarmed black folks