Leasha Knight 🇺🇲🦅#NoKings

🚨 D-BAG OF THE DAY GOES TO @JBARRO! 🏆 Imagine attacking Joe Biden, a decent man battling stage 4 cancer, for, checks notes, NOT NARRATING AN AUDIOBOOK WHILE FIGHTING FOR HIS LIFE. Meanwhile, Trump has his name on OVER A DOZEN books and hasn't fully narrated a SINGLE ONE. Has Josh ever had a problem with that? OF COURSE NOT. I'd personally present Josh with his award, but the brave little guy blocked me a long time ago. 🤷 The hypocrisy is VILE. These people have no shame.

protesters.” They came armed to stop the official certification of a legitimate election. The criminals who attacked law-enforcement officers that day didn’t deserve pardons. They deserved prison terms. To this day, Trump and his supporters continue to preen and posture like they’re supporters of law enforcement. Here’s my view: You don’t get to turn a blind eye to cops being punched, speared, sprayed, and brutalized and call yourself a friend of law enforcement. What Trump did on January 6, 2021, should never be forgotten. It should follow him to his grave. In the days and weeks that followed Trump’s inauguration, the damage deepened. As before, the lies kept coming. They began on his first day, with the utterly discredited claim that he had defeated me in 2020. And they gained momentum as Trump took a wrecking ball to our traditions and institutions, at times literally, as when he tore down the East Wing of the White House (after promising that he would not). Although Trump had won only a narrow victory, with less than half of the American people behind him, he was set to govern divisively. The 19th-century French diplomat and writer Alexis de Tocqueville marveled at the way Americans lived out the daily miracle of democracy, listening to one another’s concerns at town meetings, stepping forward to run for office, accepting defeats and moving on. He called these values and behaviors our “habits of the heart.” I was worried that these precious habits could quickly corrode under a government that tried to tear down institutions and inflame hatreds. It was clearly going to be a crueler government. We were the richest society in history, and considerably richer than we’d been four years earlier. But now it seemed like anyone who worked for the federal government in a job that helped the disenfranchised or the disabled or the needy was on the chopping block, especially after Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency began to cut hundreds of thousands of jobs. It was also going to be a government that stoked racial tensions instead of calming them. The new administration would launch a campaign to end the birthright-citizenship protections of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, a proud legacy of the Civil War. ICE officers would comb American cities, using expanded police powers to round up brown and Black people and detain them far from the courts and local police. We would be a less tolerant society, with raging conspiracy theories actively promoted by the White House and Trump’s constant and increasingly unhinged social-media feed. We would be a sicker society. MAGA anger over COVID meant that the government would drastically pull back its support for vaccines, leaving the country vulnerable to higher rates of measles and other diseases. We also withdrew from the World Health Organization, a decision that removed us from essential international coordination against disease outbreaks. We would be a less democratic society, with a supine Congress, less balance among the branches of government, and an executive largely impervious to any guardrails, especially after the 2024 Supreme Court decision that ruled that presidents have immunity from prosecution for nearly any act that falls within their official duties. There was no precedent for that ruling. Common sense didn’t support it. There was no constitutional basis for it. It was inexplicable. Indefensible. And a death knell for accountability. Donald Trump was a convicted felon and a sexual abuser. He had mishandled classified documents. He had led an insurrection. Now the Supreme Court seemed to grant Trump blanket immunity. No nation can survive character-free leadership for long. And we’re no exception to that rule. Democratic states would see their federal funding cut with no explanation. The administration would also try to gut newspapers, nonprofits, and civil-society organizations, the lifeblood of democracy. It would do these things

📙 I am sharing this excerpt from @JoeBiden's upcoming book in its entirety since it is paywalled: Biden: What Trump Did on January 6 ‘Should Follow Him to His Grave’ By Joe Biden The Atlantic | November 9, 2026 Eight days after the 2024 election, I honored a presidential tradition by hosting a visit from the president-elect. Jill and I met President Trump and his entourage in the Diplomatic Reception Room, and then I escorted him into the Oval Office for our formal meeting, accompanied only by our chiefs of staff, Jeff Zients and Susie Wiles. He and I sat in chairs near a roaring fire; Jeff and Susie sat on sofas. Trump was immediately chatty and surprised me by adopting a tone so friendly that I thought he might be putting me on. It bordered on fawning. “You know, Joe, if it weren’t for politics, I believe we’d be good friends.” I think I blinked, too stunned to respond. Then he kept going, as if intoxicated by the curious conversational path he had chosen. “Yes, if it weren’t for politics, we’d spend all our time golfing together.” He said my performance on job creation had been “extraordinary.” He added that he’d been relieved he didn’t have to run against me. I didn’t really understand why he was buttering me up, so I cut off his compliments to move on to the business at hand. I wanted to give him a wide-ranging overview of the issues that I thought would dominate his presidency. It was essentially a tour of the world, including Ukraine, NATO, Russia, Gaza and the Middle East, China, the Americas, and Africa. He nodded appreciatively. But I noticed a curious pattern: He focused on the personalities of the leaders, as if we were sharing gossip about people at a dinner party, not discussing issues of global significance. Still, I had a lot to share with him, and our conversation, scheduled for 30 minutes, ran for close to two hours. Despite that meeting, I was worried that the successful policies pursued by my administration would be on the chopping block. All presidents must confront a feeling that their legacy is vulnerable to the pendulum of politics and the whims of their successors. In my case, that feeling was magnified by the dismissive and destructive nature of Donald Trump, who seemed unable to tolerate the idea that someone else’s accomplishments might be worth building on rather than tearing down. On day one, Trump reversed many of my decisions. I had rejoined the Paris climate accord on my first day in office; he canceled our participation, again, on his. That meant we were one of four countries outside the treaty; the other three were Iran, Libya, and Yemen. That was not a great look to the rest of the world. After that, it was like a bonfire, as one climate measure after another went up in smoke. That first day, he also signed executive orders to open up public lands to drilling for oil, to end support for electric vehicles, and to cancel projects for wind and solar energy. Not only was that going to accelerate climate change; it would cripple our ability to compete with China in some of the biggest industries of the future. Trump announced these policies at a rally as, at a five-star hotel across from the White House, oil and gas executives sipped champagne and nibbled on Pop-Tarts emblazoned with his image. He also pardoned nearly 1,600 insurrectionists who had been convicted for their violent acts on January 6, 2021. In the new regime, it was as if that terrible day had never happened at all. Indeed, that seemed to be the point. When a plaque was finally placed in the Capitol to honor the Capitol’s defenders, it was installed at 4 a.m., with no ceremony. That was an insult to the Capitol Police, and to all Americans who believe in the sanctity of our democratic elections. And we know the truth. Donald Trump led an insurrection. His goal was to remain in power after the American people had voted him out of office. That’s the truth. It was a violent assault. The rioters weren’t “peaceful