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Hakeem Jeffries says he wants to bring back DACA recipients who have been deported and pay damages to them

Adelita Grijalva: I saw a couple people, they were really upset—"We're all going to go to jail now." No, no, no. It's called a hearing. The likelihood of something happening during this Congress with the secretaries that Trump has surrounded himself with are probably not high.

Adelita Grijalva: There's no doubt Trump commits impeachable offenses every day. We can still use our oversight & subpoena powers to hold this admin accountable, even if it's to the court of public opinion, until we have a supermajority in the Senate. Then we can move forward.

Trans debater argues that "every trans person" has a disorder called androgen receptor polymorphism, and "there are some people that are not trans" but just have mental issues @paleochristcon: Does that mean not everyone who self-IDs is trans? "It's not self-ID! It's genetic!"

Brad Lander: "I'd like to impeach Pete Hegseth. I'd like to see us impeach Kash Patel. I'd like to see us impeach RFK Jr. " "We'd like to look at Musk and the DOGE cuts. If we get through all of that, come back and ask me again about whether we should impeach the president."

Darializa Avila Chevalier: My family felt that they weren't being spoken to in our politics, even as a language justice issue. For me, it's deeply important that we're speaking directly to people without translation, whether that's in Spanish, whether it's in layman's terms.

Conan O'Brien on Vivek Ramaswamy: "You have no soul"

Kelley Robinson of @HRC demands that the next Congress pass the "Equality Act" – which curtails religious freedom and opens up male access to women's spaces – for "affordability." "We deserve the right to IVF and surrogacy access – and funding to support it, too."

Van Hollen plays coy about challenging Schumer for Majority Leader. If he threw his hat in the ring, he would need at least 26 D senators to join him. "Don't pick anybody who's running for leader, WHOEVER THAT MAY BE, without a clear understanding of the direction we need to go"

Gov. Andy Beshear says the new Democrat Congress can probably get away with spending 20% of their time on culture-war issues without turning off voters "You need to stand up for your convictions"

Ro Khanna: If our president can bully tech leaders into building a ballroom, how about we ask them to fund financial literacy across America? Have a capital fund, private enterprise for public benefit He gets gently reminded of Trump Accounts, funded by tech leader Michael Dell

"Queer News Tonight" is hyped that one of the first acts of the incoming Democratic Congress will be to change the rules so Congressman Sarah McBride can use women's bathrooms

Comedian Stavros Halkias says he used to be a UFC fan but it's become "impossible" for him to enjoy fights now, because it's become a "MAGA suck off" "If you're still sucking Trump's c**k, you're a moron. And I believe Dana White has been throating him pretty well recently."

Actress Busy Philipps says she's not legally divorced from her husband Marc Silverstein: "It's expensive. They make it so impossible." Although they date other people, she gets nostalgic about the "fun" time when they first separated but still co-parented & hosted social events.

Indian comedian Nimesh Patel says FBI Director Kash Patel is a race traitor because he got CTE from playing hockey in high school "Vivek [Ramaswamy] is Indian people's fault. We did that. That's Indian mentality 101... Kash is your guys' fault" (referring to Long Islanders).

Sen. Raphael Warnock: "Medical doctor" Abdul El-Sayed is "a whole lot closer to to Jesus than these Christian nationalists."

NPR: How aggressive should progressives, in the House specifically, be when it comes to wielding their newfound power if they take control of that chamber? Zohran Mamdani: Tonight is a message to wield it as aggressively as possible.