Michelle Obama said in a new episode of her podcast that she is “dealing with some form of low-grade depression” this year.

Said Obama: “Not just because of the quarantine, but because of the racial strife, and just seeing this administration, watching the hypocrisy of it, day in and day out, is dispiriting.”

She added: “I have to say that waking up to the news, waking up to how this administration has or has not responded, waking up to yet another story of a Black man or a Black person somehow being dehumanized, or hurt or killed, or falsely accused of something, it is exhausting. And it has led to a weight that I haven’t felt in my life, in a while.”

President Trump accused his predecessor, Barack Obama, of treason, without offering any evidence or details to back up his claim, the Washington Post reports.

The president has frequently accused others of “treason,” but Monday marked the first time that he has leveled that claim against the man who preceded him in the Oval Office.

Barack Obama, writing on Medium:

“Ultimately, it’s going to be up to a new generation of activists to shape strategies that best fit the times. But I believe there are some basic lessons to draw from past efforts that are worth remembering. First, the waves of protests across the country represent a genuine and legitimate frustration over a decades-long failure to reform police practices and the broader criminal justice system in the United States…”

“Second, I’ve heard some suggest that the recurrent problem of racial bias in our criminal justice system proves that only protests and direct action can bring about change, and that voting and participation in electoral politics is a waste of time. I couldn’t disagree more…”

“So the bottom line is this: if we want to bring about real change, then the choice isn’t between protest and politics. We have to do both.”

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) walked back comments made earlier this week that the Obama administration didn’t leave behind a “game plan” for a pandemic, The Hill reports.

Said McConnell: “I was wrong. They did leave behind a plan. I clearly made a mistake in that regard.”

Former White House photographer Pete Souza posts an old photo of Barack Obama in a grocery store with the caption: “POTUS with a peach as opposed to an impeached POTUS.”

“I’m absolutely confident that for two years if every nation on earth was run by women, you would see a significant improvement across the board on just about everything… living standards and outcomes.”

— Former President Barack Obama, quoted by the BBC, arguing that women are “indisputably” better than men as leaders.

White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham claimed that departing former aides to President Obama left notes saying “you will fail” and “you aren’t going to make it” for the incoming staff of Donald Trump, NBC News reports.

Former Obama aides quickly denied Grisham’s claim.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) requested in a letter to the National Archives that they hand over any emails between former President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

“This idea of purity and you’re never compromised and you’re politically woke, and all that stuff—you should get over that pretty quickly. The world is messy. There are ambiguities. People who do really good stuff have flaws.”

— Barack Obama, quoted by The Atlantic.

The parents of slain human rights activist Kayla Mueller told the Arizona Republic that their daughter would possibly still be alive had former President Obama been as “decisive” as President Trump in ordering military action to recover her from ISIS before her death in 2015.