No doubt there were some heated discussions in the Democratic Party ranks as the results poured a wet blanket over any hopes of a first woman president. But the animated conversation between the venerable former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Donna Brazile seen in a viral video was more of a progress report, the veteran party strategist said. Some suggested the two prominent Democrats were arguing after joining the disappointed gathering outside Howard University in Washington, D.C., for Kamala Harris’ 2024 presidential election concession speech. But Brazile, bemoaning the state of the nation, took to X to clear up any misconceptions. They weren’t fighting, she said they were just “discussing.” Christine Pelosi, Nancy’s daughter, agreed. “Can confirm! Nothing but love, people!” she posted on X. “Such stupidity,” wrote Brazile. “Speaker Pelosi and I were discussing all of the outstanding house races to be called or the path to a ‘House Majority.’ Folks, this is the Trump era: lies, disinformation and gossip. What happened to the USA?”

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Texas Sen. Ted Cruz‘s daughter subtly pushed back at her father’s kind words for Donald Trump during his victory speech earlier this week, according to a viral video making the rounds online. The Republican senator, whose 180-degree turn on Trump during his first presidential campaign has been well documented, said: “I hope and pray that Donald Trump will be re-elected as president of the United States,” drawing a grimace from one of his daughters, who stood on stage beside him. Moments later, she appeared to tell her mother, Heidi, “Don’t clap for that.” In the 2016 Republican primary, one of the more personal attacks Trump made against Cruz involved insulting his wife‘s looks. Cruz, who around that time called Trump “utterly amoral” and “a narcissist at a level I don‘t think this country’s ever seen,” ended up endorsing Trump wholeheartedly months later.

John Hinckley Jr., the man who tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan, really wants people to stop asking him to kill Donald Trump. The 69-year-old spoke up on X Thursday after some users replied to his posts after Trump’s election win—which were innocuously promoting his art and website—with comments saying “We need you” and encouraging him to come out of “retirement.” “I’m a man of peace now!” Hinckley wrote. “Please stop with all the negative comments!” A Secret Service source told TMZ earlier in the week the agency is “aware of the social media posts” but wouldn’t comment “on matters of protective intelligence.” Hinckley shot Reagan along with his press secretary, a Secret Service agent, and a police officer outside the Washington Hilton Hotel on March 30, 1981. He did so in an effort to impress the actress Jodie Foster, with whom he’d become obsessed after seeing Taxi Driver. Hinckley, who was found not guilty by reason of insanity, was released from a psychiatric hospital in 2016 under restrictions that were eventually lifted in 2022. Earlier this year, he condemned the attempted assassination of Trump in Pennsylvania, saying that violence “is not the way to go.”

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Actress Rashida Jones memorialized her father, legendary music producer Quincy Jones, in an Instagram post Thursday after he passed away over the weekend at 91. “My dad was nocturnal his whole adult life. He kept ‘jazz hours’ starting in high school and never looked back. When I was little, I would wake up in the middle of the night to search for him,” Rashida wrote, along with a baby photo with her dad. “He would never send me back to bed. He would smile and bring me into his arms while he continued to work…there was no safer place in the world for me.” She continued, “He was a giant. An icon. A culture shifter. A genius. All accurate descriptions of my father but his music (and ALL of his work) was a channel for his love. He WAS love. He made everyone he ever met feel loved and seen. That’s his legacy.” She finished with, “Daddy, it is an honor to be your daughter. Your love lives forever.” Rashida directed a 2019 documentary on her father’s life, which won a Grammy.