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It's the Brian Lair show on WNYC.

I'm Bridget Bergen, senior reporter in the WNYC and Gothamist Newsroom, keeping the seat warm for Brian.

He's going to be back on Monday.

Coming up in today's show, we'll talk about why two of our local members of Congress,

Adriano Espayat and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, are pushing

the Biden administration to grant TPS, which stands for temporary protected status, to migrants

from Ecuador. More than half the Ecuadorians in the United States live right here in Queens.

And later in the show, we'll talk to a Bloomberg Business Week reporter who has spent years covering billionaires like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk.

He's got a new podcast about Musk that gets into why he's buddying up so closely to President-elect Trump.

And we'll wrap up today's show with a conversation on why kids today have so many toys.

And let me tell you, I am guilty as charged in my own home, so no judgment.

But maybe the toy tsunami is not actually great for our kids.

But first, things are moving so fast as Donald Trump prepares to take office for a second term

that he's already announced a new pick for Attorney General after his first pick, former Congressmember Matt Gates, withdrew his name yesterday.

Now former Florida, former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi is getting the nod.

But even as the Trump team moves quickly, some of the forces that organized

in opposition to his administration in his first term are taking a beat. In her article for the

nonprofit news site, the 19th, reporter Jennifer Gerson spoke to policy experts and activists

who said they're adjusting some of their strategies, maybe reframing the

resistance, and taking a more contemplative approach, despite some not insignificant fears

about a second Trump term. Her article, co-written with Candice Norwood, is headlined,

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