bearing in mind that there are still long hard battles to be fought, that our problems aren’t over, and that this administration will still need us to push them, let’s also celebrate the long list of things that will be fixed immediately as soon as the clock strikes 12:01 on Weds
I’ll start

Jared Kushner will never be in charge of national policy again

Betsy DeVos doesn’t get to tell college campuses how to handle sexual assault cases

The Keystone Pipeline deal is dead

Deb Haaland is running Interior

Normal human press briefings with actual content
A COVID plan based on science and developed in conjunction with experts

Immigration reform starting on day 1

Mike Pence’s career is over even if he doesn’t know it yet

We will be able to go entire days at a time without having to look at or hear or think about a single Trump
First woman Vice President

First Black Vice President

First Asian Vice President

Vice President who served as grand marshal of a Pride parade wearing a rainbow sequin bomber jacket will replace Vice President who pushed to bring back reparative therapy for LGBTQ people
Deutsche Bank is gonna come a-knockin’ on Wednesday and without social media or email Trump’s financial grift fell apart fairly quickly so he definitely does not have four hundred million dollars and might have to file for bankruptcy again which would be an absolute scream
The Attorney General of New York has been sitting on a gold mine since the Mueller investigation just WAITING FOR THIS DAY and no decent lawyers will work for a client who so famously never pays his lawyers
STEPHEN MILLER WILL NO LONGER BE WRITING FEDERAL POLICY 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 https://twitter.com/smoovp/status/1351376292663480323
I was about to make a joke about “better Christmas decorations” but then that made me think about how actually returning the White House to a place where holidays and cultural celebrations and events for families and children can happen actually matters to me a lot?? https://twitter.com/hulksmashgirl/status/1351385763225735170
Like just think about how many opportunities the Obamas took every year to host events where kids could come and be welcomed

And think about whether you would ever let your child go trick or treating in the Trump White House 😬
It’s a small thing that’s actually shorthand for a huge thing

Like how they stopped letting Trump talk to the parents of fallen soldiers and outsourced it to Ivanka if it even happened at all, because he was incapable of being human and normal in that kind of moment
Also!!! Two stepmoms in the White House! So many kids are going to see families that look more like theirs and feel validated https://twitter.com/e_davis_romance/status/1351387807202201601
This is such a good list https://twitter.com/daniellekirk_dc/status/1351378981845655554
Just had such a moment of joy for the White House chefs https://twitter.com/daniellekirk_dc/status/1351379978240352256
THIS ONE https://twitter.com/improbablejoe/status/1351388474759393288
God, the education policy glow-up from evil monster Betsy DeVos working for America’s least engaged and most intellectually and emotionally incurious human being, to an educator as First Lady and a president who values learning, educators and children https://twitter.com/obriensci/status/1351393086228856833
As a progressive Catholic who is very tired of the Catholicism represented at the highest levels of our government it actually means so much to me to have a fellow Catholic Democrat pushing back against the Kavanaughs and Alitos https://twitter.com/teridrink/status/1351406357048659969
Paris Agreement and World Health Org are huge. Being an actual participant in the global community again and not being fuckin MORTIFIED when the president has to go do a diplomacy somewhere (remember that cringe af Armistice Day trip, because it’s seared into my memory) https://twitter.com/bellwetherevent/status/1351392281706844161
the fact that Biden is a man who has known excruciating personal loss - coming in after a cold empty hollow shell of a man with zero fucks to give about our lives - has already had an impact.

A COVID memorial event. FINALLY. Collective national mourning after nearly a year. https://twitter.com/jd_cunegan/status/1351410871050924033
Being with people in their grief and suffering is unquestionably a thing he is genuinely good at, and just that shift in tone - from dismissing it as a hoax or mocking mask-wearing or just Trump being so bored of a pandemic cutting into his airtime - already feels monumental.
tfw when you read a sentence like “no more watching people get fired on Twitter” and it just really crystallizes for you just how much we were all trapped for four years in the worst, deadliest episode imaginable of his shitty reality television show https://twitter.com/stormkestrel/status/1351418538788081669
The ability to PUT MY FUCKING PHONE DOWN SOMETIMES is honestly going to give me so much bandwidth back

and that doesn’t mean we’ll never have crises! it just means there won’t be seventeen new ones every day, all of which are unprecedented emergencies https://twitter.com/mjmricci/status/1351425133227909122
GOOD MORNING AMERICA

ONE MORE SLEEP TIL TRUMP EVICTION DAY

lots more things to celebrate, like FIXING THE POST OFFICE!!!! https://twitter.com/pinkbunnyr/status/1351587705335910400
This is huge too

So many vital government agencies that Trump at best didn’t care about, at worst actively wanted to destroy, have been gutted of staff and resources for so long. It will take time, but just filling those empty seats with Biden hires and staffing back up is big https://twitter.com/greenbutalsoblu/status/1351526243145969669
THIS ONE! https://twitter.com/betsyhodges/status/1351503813023322114
remember when we all found out you could just buy a membership to Mar-a-Lago and then just fully eavesdrop on Trump having classified conversations and everyone was like “there’s probably foreign agents embedded in the hotel staff” and that was just HOW WE LIVED FOR FOUR YEARS https://twitter.com/shanology/status/1351389558617866243
FUCK I DIDN’T EVEN SEE THIS ONE AND NOW I’M ALL WEEPY https://twitter.com/nbcphiladelphia/status/1351491532801630208
Replacing the administration that deliberately cultivated a terrifying spike in antisemitic harassment and hate crimes with this is really powerful honestly https://twitter.com/leslieks/status/1351506348442341378
I also went to bed thinking a lot about replacing the president who made more blatant efforts to disenfranchise Black voters than we’ve seen since like Jim Crow with a president who absolutely 100% understands the debt he owes to Black voters and that they are the party base.
how about, no more THIS FUCKING GUY https://twitter.com/secpompeo/status/1351563821282824194
An immediate reduction down to zero of White House officials trolling the libs for hate clicks on Twitter because they think it’s funny

Sure, we’re still stuck with Madison Cawthorne, but he’s not Secretary of State
OMG????? https://twitter.com/evanmcmurry/status/1351587927688679427
Several folks in the replies mentioned this one which is also a huge, huge deal https://twitter.com/khaledbeydoun/status/1350786841339981830
This headline is like slowly sinking into a soothing warm bath https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1351645639621431296?s=20
ARTS! BACK! IN THE WHITE HOUSE!

this means a lot to my playwright heart, both emotionally - that the work of America's creatives will be celebrated and recognized - and practically (better chance of stable funding under Dem leadership) https://twitter.com/BrendanMLeonard/status/1351653335913422850?s=20
I'm solidly team Bring Back the Federal Theatre Project tbh
The impact of this is staggering. Next step should clearly be abolishing ICE and starting from scratch to rebuild how we handle immigration claims, but the people whose lives and livelihoods and families and safety and human rights are at stake shouldn’t have to wait for that. https://twitter.com/kip7788/status/1351647006880641025
this is also really good news https://twitter.com/paulblu/status/1351689174852792323
after tomorrow, we are never going to have to think about this man again https://twitter.com/jdawsey1/status/1351736003074154501?s=20
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