Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went to Washington on Monday. The newly elected New York representative and a handful of her fellow new congresswomen—Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan—met when they were in town for their orientation on Capitol Hill. In her Instagram post documenting the meeting, the Bronx-born, 29-year-old Ocasio-Cortez captioned the photo “Squad.”

At least since the waning days of Taylor Swift’s Fourth of July party, “squad” has not been the coolest way to describe one’s group of friends. But in Congress, where the standards for hipness are graded on a dramatic curve, Ocasio-Cortez may well be introducing the term for the first time—and with more than 100 women now serving in Congress, “squad” may be ready for an updated meaning anyway. As Omar wrote in her Instagram post, also employing a phrase the kids use, these women “did not come to play.”

All of the women in that photo made “freshman orientation,” as Pressley called it in her Instagram Story, look far cooler than your average meeting of the Tuesday Group. On her Instagram Story, Tlaib posted a photo of her Congress tote, while Pressley went live from her orientation and labeled her own photo, of the four congresswomen taking a selfie, “squad.”

Ocasio-Cortez took a video of the group and said “we out here!,” as the rest of the women laughed in the background. When Pressley shared Ocasio-Cortez’s video, she labeled it “#squadgoals.” As The New Yorker made clear on this week’s cover, the arrival of these women in Washington marks some kind of potential sea change . . . and maybe an opportunity to teach Nancy Pelosi how to make a meme out of the Ariana Grande breakup song.

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