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By Matt Cohen and Jen Chung

Another year, another State of the Union address. Tonight, President Barack Obama delivered his annual remarks on the country’s state of affairs—outlining areas his administration needs to work on and how they’ll make it better. Among them? Tax reform, improving foreign relations, education reform, global warming, and more.

Below, some highlights from Obama’s speech:

Courting the Middle Class

Obama’s address, in essence, was a pitch to the middle class. “So the verdict is clear. Middle-class economics works. Expanding opportunity works,” Obama said. “And these policies will continue to work, as long as politics don’t get in the way.” Among those policies to court the middle class, new tax proposals that would target big banks and the the wealthy 1 percent.

Equal Pay

It’s hard to believe that, in 2015, a President had to address the issue of equal pay between men and women, yet here we are. “This Congress still needs to pass a law that makes sure a woman is paid the same as a man for doing the same work,” Obama said. “Really. It’s 2015.”

Guantanamo Bay

Once again, Obama promised to close Guantanamo Bay. “As Americans, we have a profound commitment to justice—so it makes no sense to spend three million dollars per prisoner to keep open a prison that the world condemns and terrorists use to recruit,” Obama said. “Since I’ve been president, we’ve worked responsibly to cut the population of Gitmo in half. Now it’s time to finish the job.”

Will he finally do it this time? We’ll see.

Community College For All

Perhaps one of the biggest reactions from Obama’s speech was during the education portion, promising to make community college education free for all who seek it.

Obama Becomes First President To Say “Transgender” in SOTU Address

As the Washington Blade diligently pointed out:

BREAKING | Obama just made history by being the first president to say “bisexual” and “transgender” in a State of the Union speech #SOTU

— Washington Blade (@WashBlade) January 21, 2015

Criminal Justice Reform

With the high profile deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner this year, criminal justice reform was certainly a huge topic for Obama to touch upon. Though he didn’t outline any specific ways to address the growing concern of police practices in our nation, Obama said that “surely we can agree it’s a good thing that for the first time in 40 years, the crime rate and the incarceration rate have come down together, and use that as a starting point for Democrats and Republicans, community leaders and law enforcement, to reform America’s criminal justice system so that it protects and serves us all.”

Global Warming

The second best zinger of the night came when Obama addressed skepticism from the right that global warming is a myth:

“I’ve heard some folks try to dodge the evidence by saying they’re not scientists; that we don’t have enough information to act. Well, I’m not a scientist, either,” Obama said. “But you know what-I know a lot of really good scientists at NASA, and NOAA, and at our major universities. The best scientists in the world are all telling us that our activities are changing the climate, and if we do not act forcefully, we’ll continue to see rising oceans, longer, hotter heat waves, dangerous droughts and floods, and massive disruptions that can trigger greater migration, conflict, and hunger around the globe. The Pentagon says that climate change poses immediate risks to our national security. We should act like it.”

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And of course, the Internet did what it does best:

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Scott Kelly

Pencils for Charlie Hebdo

Science

Notorious RBG watch

BURN

Republican response

And… HILLARY SPEAKS