one of the weirdest things going on is the national media's obsession with Joe Biden's fitness and mental health/strength combined with a near total unwillingness to cover his on-going public appearances.
— Henry (@henrythedog.bsky.social) June 20, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Daily Beast has (brief) video at the link:
… Joe Biden made veiled jabs at President Trump during public comments on Juneteenth, drawing a big laugh from a crowd when he made the sign of the cross instead of speaking his successor’s name.
Biden was at the Reedy Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Galveston, Texas, where he took part in a service and denounced “ongoing efforts to erase history.” The church was one of the sites where an order announcing the end of slavery in Texas was read, according to the church.
Biden, who made Juneteenth a federal holiday in 2021 to commemorate the end of slavery, said at the church that “the events of Juneteenth are of monumental importance to America’s story,” according to CBS News.
“Still today, some say to me and you that this doesn’t deserve to be a federal holiday. They don’t want to remember…the moral stain of slavery,” Biden said.
The former president spoke on the same day that Trump moaned that there are “too many non-working holidays.” …
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— Mike Luckovich (@mluckovich.bsky.social) June 18, 2025 at 1:52 PM
One of the funnier running subplots of the Trump era is that he hasn't won a Nobel Peace Prize, and it really eats at him.
— Gary Legum (@glegum.bsky.social) June 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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