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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026 Today, Georgia sues the government to get their ballots back; Trump announces he’s closing the Kennedy Center; a Border Patrol agent in Minneapolis has been charged with DUI after being found asleep in his car covered in vomit; the mayor of Portland has demanded ICE leave after gassing children; there’s a measles outbreak at the Dilly concentration camp; Donald Trump ordered Gabbard to be at the Fulton County raid after Todd Blanche said he wasn’t involved at all; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.
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MSW Media.
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News.
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We're swearing. Jelly beans.
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Jelly beans.
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Hello and welcome to the Daily beans for Tuesday, February 3, 2026. Today, Georgia sues the government to get their ballots back. Trump announces he's closing the Kennedy Center. A border patrol agent in Minneapolis has been charged with DUI after being found asleep in his car covered in vomit. The mayor of Portland has demanded ice leave after gassing children. There's a measles outbreak, Dilly concentration camp. And Donald Trump ordered Tulsi Gabbard to be at the Fulton county raid after Todd Blanch said he wasn't involved at all. I'm Allison Gill.
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And I'm Dana Goldberg.
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Dana. I think that's the first time we've used the word vomit in the introduction.
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Yeah, there's, there's my noise. Everybody just. Yeah. What a mess. I mean, what an absolute mess. And there's so many wild stories that are happening. We couldn't write this stuff in a writer's room. I think I feel like if we'd pitched most of this in a writer's room, it would have gotten turned down.
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But no. And the fact that Tulsi Gabbard came or. No, not Tulsi Gabbard. Kristi Noem. Sorry. They're the same to me.
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It's hard to keep him apart. Yeah.
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Came out today and said, oh, we're gonna, we're gonna require all customs and border protection officers to wear body worn cameras. And everyone's like, yay. And I'm like, that's Been the policy for Customs and Border protection for. You have a $63 billion slush fund from the big ugly bill to get it done. Why today?
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Yep.
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She's trying to get Senate Democrats. She's trying to. They're. They've been. They're desperate to placate Senate Democrats from voting to defund ice. Yeah.
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Just a break from politics. Although it was pretty political last night. The Grammys were so good. Did you watch? Yeah.
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It felt really nice to watch, like an incredible, talented, diverse group of people being incredible, talented and diverse. I was. I loved.
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And so many of them use their platform to speak out against ice. Trevor Noah, who may be in his last year, at least that's what he announced was phenomenal. He could. He took some jabs at the administration. You know, I'm gonna sue him.
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I'm gonna sue him.
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Ridiculous. Go for it. Let's do discovery. Yeah. Bless Cher's heart, But listen, she's 79 years old, but at the end, the last. The last award, I mean, she. She handled it really well, and so did Trevor Noah, but she was definitely not sure exactly what was happening with the whole thing. She's. She's Cher, though, right?
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Because it was Kendrick Lamar's Luther, and she said that the Grammy went to Luther Vandross.
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Didn't know she had to. Anyway, she looked amazing, but, you know, she. When doesn't she. It was. It was a nice break. And I tell you what, if you get tickets to the Grammys, it's like the best. It's got to be the best concert of the year. You get to see all your favorite people.
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Yeah. It was truly, truly incredible.
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I enjoyed it. I really enjoyed it this year.
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We'll play a couple clips over on Beans Talk after this so we can hear Billie Eilish say, fuck ice. And we can watch Bad Bunny Ice out.
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Yeah, I love that. Bad Bunny did his second acceptance speech, mostly in Spanish. It was. It was pretty beautiful. And I. Yeah, and there was some people who helped translate it on online for those of us that are not fluent in Spanish. And I just. I'm excited for the super bowl halftime. I think it's going to be extraordinary. I think it's going to be one of the most watched super bowl halftimes in history, too, to be honest with you.
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No, the counter super bowl halftime show that Fox is promoting is going to totally be the most watched four people.
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And I don't know who the fuck they are.
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Kid Rock is one of them.
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No, that's the only name I recognize.
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Oh, Man.
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Anyway. Anyway. Anyway, what's going on with the Epstein files?
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Yeah. So DOJ is having to take down thousands of documents after they failed to redact photos of survivors. Nude photos of survivors. Here's another institutional failure re traumatizing survivors. And I am very interested in. Because, you know, when I spoke to the whistleblowers and sources who reviewed the files, that was when the FBI was reviewing them.
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Right.
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Last March. Now it's been moved to these 500 or so national security lawyers, led by the guy who falsified the Zelensky call and edited the transcript and hid it in a secret code word classified system. I'm very interested to know what instructions they were given, what training they were given for these redactions, because it sure does seem intentional to me.
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Yeah, absolutely. And they redacted a couple of pictures of Trump that were not necessarily needing to be redacted. Like it's clearly. And it's not like he's in a picture with a. With a child. He's doing a speech at a podium. It was sort of like a. Maybe even an article that was in there that just had a headline. But they redacted his face. It was bizarre.
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He's a big bloated guy in a blue coat and a too long red tie. And you're like, gosh, I wonder who that is? And that's exactly what it was. So they're very meticulous about redacting the predators.
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Yeah.
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But they miss all of this stuff. The fact that the federal government is releasing child sexual assault material to the public is just a much bigger deal than people are making it out to be.
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Yeah.
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And by the way, I just want to mention, you remember how Pam Bondi supposed to have 15 days after the release of the files before she gives the reasons for redactions? Withholdings. Yeah. And even if she tried to claim that the 15 day clock starts after the rolling production of the Epstein files is complete, which is against the law. But even if that were the case, the new deadline for her to explain the redactions and the withholdings is now Valentine's Day.
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Oh, wow. All right. Speaking of little kiddos to protect man, there was a bomb threat today at Liam Ramos school. As we know, Liam is the one that was released with his father from Texas after they were wrongly taken. I say wrongly because they never should have been apprehended. But what the fuck is wrong with people? I just. It blows my mind and just, I hope these kids are safe. Obviously. I'm sure their families are scared. There was four different kids that had been taken by ice. Liam was one of them that we know of from that school. At least that's what hit the news. So, yeah, just keep your kiddos close, keep them safe. That's for sure.
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Yeah. And yeah, I'm sure. Yeah. All of the political violence comes from the left, though. You know, whatever. Something else quick that happened today. Ed Martin was demoted. The wackadagpa, which stands for. Because he had three jobs at the doj, he was the weaponization czar, Assistant deputy Attorney General, pardon attorney.
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Okay.
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And he's been demoted and moved out of Main justice, and now he's just the pardon attorney. And I'm assuming it's because he failed as the weaponizations are because not enough of Trump's political enemies are in prison. That's all I can think. But he was demoted and that's super happy for him about that today. Yeah.
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Good luck in your new position. And yeah, last before the hot notes. This is so irritating. Trump announced that he's closing the Kennedy sitter for two years. From what I understand, he wants to redo it, but he's got to ask Congress what. What do you bet they plow this thing in the middle of the night and it's just.
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Yeah. I think it's going to go the way of the east wing, which breaks my heart because it's one of my favorite buildings. Yeah. In the country. Beautiful mid century architecture. Honestly, it's because he's not selling any tickets and it's a complete failure. He's killed it in 45 days. But when he says the word renovations, I'm with you. I think he's going to bulldoze the whole thing.
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Yeah. And I'll tell you what, what a coward RFK Jr is, letting this fucking child rapist defame his family's name, like destroy their history, destroy the things that were put up in honor and remembrance of the Kennedy name. And RFK is just rolling over for this guy. What an embarrassment.
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Yeah. And that's a feature, not a bug. Right. Mob guys like to humiliate people to see if they'll stay loyal to. Remember when he had that dinner with Romney or whatever and then humiliated him? He's humiliating the Kennedys and expecting, rightfully expecting RFK Jr to go along with it. So, yeah. All right. We have a ton of news to get to. That's not the news. That's just a. Hey, how's it going?
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That was a little teaser.
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So, everybody, we have a lot more news to get to. We'll hit the hot notes after this break. Stick around.
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We'll be right back. We'll be right back.
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I'm Brian Caram and I've spent decades covering politics. Now I'm taking you behind the scenes, one interview at a time. Join us as each week Brian confronts the issues that matter, posing the questions you wish you could ask. No filter, no agenda, just the truth. We're not here for sound bites. We're here for substance. Join me, Brian Caram Every week as we cut through the noise and get straight to it. This is Just Ask the Question for Curiosity will lead us to the Facts. Subscribe now on your favorite podcast platform. And remember, when you want answers, all you have to do is just ask the question.
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Let's hit the Hot Notes Hot Notes all right, first up from the Times by any measure, the FBI's search of an election center in Fulton County, Georgia, last week was extraordinary. Agents seized truckloads of 2020 ballots as Trump harnessed the levers of government to not only buttress his false claims of widespread voter fraud, but also try to build a criminal case against those he believes wronged him. But what happened the next day was in some ways even more unusual, the New York Times has learned. Unusual is not the word I would use, but whatever New York Times behind closed doors, Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence who was there on site, met with some of the FBI agents and some of the members of the bureau's field office in Atlanta, which is conducting the election inquiry, according to three people with knowledge. They could not say why Gabbard, who also appeared on site, was there, but her continued presence has raised eyebrows given that her role overseeing the nation's intelligence agencies does not include on site involvement in criminal investigative work. What occurred during the meeting was even further outside the bounds of normal law enforcement procedure. Gabbard used her cell phone to call Trump himself, who didn't initially pick up but called back shortly after the president addressed the agents on speakerph, Gabbard and the FBI agents, asking them questions about the search, as well as praising and thanking them for their work. Trump personally ordered Ms. Gabbard, by the way, to go to Atlanta for the search and coordinated her actions with Andrew Bailey, one of the two deputy FBI co directors, according to the US Official. But he I think he's the sole deputy director now because Bongino left now. In an appearance on CNN State of the Union Sunday, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche denied that Trump had played any role in the search or that he had been briefed on the inquiry at all. Hmm. So he lied. And from Ms. Now, Fulton county officials said Monday they're filing a federal lawsuit challenging the FBI seizure of the election records. Fulton County Commissioner Marvin Arrington Jr. Said the county argues that the search warrant and seizure went beyond what federal authorities were legally permitted to do and violated local control of elections. Arrington said the county plans to seek the immediate return of materials and and will request to have the documents remain under seal in the state. Fulton county officials have publicly pushed back against the FBI's operation while maintaining that they complied with the warrant as executed. Quote, we will not give one inch to those who seek to take control of elections in Fulton County. Not today, not tomorrow, not ever. We're going to fight this in court with every resource that we have. That's County Chairman Rob Pitts speaking to reporters last week. Now, of course, Donald Trump just publicly called for the nationalization of elections, which should frighten everyone.
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Yeah, it really should. I, I also, I, I. You follow Aaron Parnas? Of course. I don't, actually. I don't want to go down a rabbit hole, but he had teased on Instagram that there was some sort of whistleblower account that involved Tulsi Gabbard that seems to be in a safe. Because it's so detrimental to our. Our security, our national security, that they haven't even let Congress know about it. It'd be interesting to see if that actually is real when it comes to. It is real.
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It is real.
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Yeah.
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Wall Street Journal reported it's. What's not real is that it's too classified to give to Congress. That's Tuls for obstructing it.
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Got it. I can't wait to find out what this is.
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Yeah, no, I know. I'm wondering if it's connected to this or her ties to Russia or Assad or whatever, but she's. They're also claiming that they can't hand it over because of executive privilege, which means it involves Donald Trump.
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Right. Thank you. Thank you for validating. Making me feel like I'm not crazy.
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You are. Not everyone. Listen, you're not.
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I mean, I am, but it's not for this.
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Yeah, right, right. Exactly. We're abnormal, but not crazy.
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This is from Politico. The mayor of Portland, Oregon, demanded that U.S. immigration and Customs Enforcement leave his city after federal agents launched tear gas at a crowd of demonstrators, including young children, outside an ICE facility during a weekend protest. A peaceful protest that he and others characterized, as I said, peaceful because it was. They were marching, they were standing, they were chanting. Witnesses said agents deployed tear gas, pepper balls and rubber bullets as thousands of marchers arrived at the South Waterfront facility on Saturday. Aaron Hoover Barnett, a former Oregon Live reporter who joined the protest, said she was about 100 yards. That's 91 meters for those of you that use a metric from the building. When what looked like two guys with rocket launchers started dousing the crowd with gas. Portland Mayor Keith Wilson said the daytime demonstration, it was peaceful where the vast majority of those present violated no laws, made no threat, posed no danger to federal. Agen said. To those who continue to work for ice, resign. To those who control this facility, leave. This is from Wilson. It's what he wrote in a statement Saturday night. Went on to stay through your use of violence and trampling of the Constitution, you have lost all legitimacy and replaced it with shame. The Portland Fire Bureau sent paramedics to treat people at the scene. This is from the police. The police officers monitored the crowd but made no arrests on Saturday. The Portland protest was one of many similar demonstrations nationwide against President Trump's administration's immigration crackdown in cities like Minneapolis. Whereas we know in recent weeks federal agents have killed two residents, Alex Preddy and Renee Good, Wilson said Portland would be imposing a fee on detention facilities that use chemical agents. Good the federal government, and I quote, must and will be held accountable to those who continue to make these sickening decisions. Go home, look in the mirror, ask yourselves why you have gas. Children.
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Yeah. And we showed some video and photos of that incident yesterday on Beans Talk. Just disgusting. Absolutely. Violent terrorism. Yeah. Being perpetrated by our federal government. All right, next up from cbs, ICE halted all movement at a detention center in Texas for families and quarantined some migrants there after medical staff confirmed two detainees had active measles infections. That's according to the Department of Homeland Security. So what do you get when you combine RFK junior And concentration camps? Measles outbreaks. The measles cases at the Dilley Immigration Processing center were detected Friday. According to DHS. Tricia McLaughlin in a statement to CBS. The ICE facility houses parents and children. This is a family concentration camp that have been taken into custody over alleged violations of immigration law. It is located in South Texas, roughly an hour drive from San Antonio. Quote ICE Health Services Corps immediately took steps to quarantine and control further spread and infection, ceasing all movement within the facility and quarantining all individuals suspected of making contact with the infected. Now, before McLaughlin's statement on Sunday, immigration lawyers had reported concerns about a potential measles outbreak at the Dilley Center. Neha Desai, a lawyer for the California based National center of Youth Law, which represents children in US Immigration custody, says she hopes the measles infections at Dilley are not used to unnecessarily prevent lawmakers and attorneys from inspecting the detention center in the near future, citing broader concerns about the facility. Quote, in the meantime, we're deeply concerned for the physical and the mental health of every family detained at Dilley, she said. It's important to remember that no family needs to be detained. This is a choice that the administration is making. In 2025, the United States saw the most measles cases in decades. Overall, the nation recorded more than 2,200 measles cases, including 762 people in a West Texas outbreak, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services. Two young children died and 99 people were hospitalized. Dilley is the detention complex where ICE had been holding 5 year old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, both detained in Minnesota during an operation that garnered widespread outcry until the family was released over the weekend due to a court filing. Liam and his father returned to Minnesota on Sunday.
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Thanks so much AG. This one's from the Sahan Journal. A U.S. customs and Border Patrol employee was charged with drunken driving in St. Paul after a straight trooper found him passed out in a car Tuesday morning covered in vomit. Sorry, there should be a trigger warning for that too. The State trooper found 31 year old Alfredo Mancias Jr. Of Corpus Christi, Texas slumped over in the driver's seat at 3:25 in the morning Tuesday in Hamline Midway neighborhood near a lion's field. That's according to charges filed that day by the St. Paul City Attorney's Office. His car was parked in a no parking zone and smelled like alcohol while Mancias himself had, and I quote, bloodshot and watery eyes. After failing a field sobriety test, Macias refused to submit a Breathalyzer test. He was arrested, booked into Ramsey County Jail and charged with third and fourth degree driving while impaired. When asked by Sahan Journal for comment on Macias's role in Border Patrol and his drunken driving charges, a spokesperson with the U.S. department of Homeland Security confirmed that on January 27, an employee of the Customs and Border Protection was arrested by Minnesota State Troopers for driving under the influence in St. Paul, Minnesota. So they confirmed it because there was proof. Yeah, the agency said its Office of Professional Responsibilities reviewing the incident. I'm sure he's going to get promoted and I quote CBP stresses honor and integrity. Do you in every aspect of our mission? Do you and over the whelming majority of CBP employees and officers perform their duties with honor and distinction. Do they working tirelessly every day to keep our country safe. This is from the spokesperson. Yep, that's what they told the Sahan Journal. Macias appeared in court Tuesday and was released on his own recognizance sentence. That's According to court records, he was denied a request for a public defender and had no attorney publicly listed on his case at the time the story was published. Attempts to reach Macias were unsuccessful.
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Yeah, maybe they were like, he's like, can I get a public defender? No, man. You got that $60,000 signing bonus, bro.
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I think we should just throw him in jail without due process. Let's see how that feels. Attempts to reach Macias were unsuccessful. His next court hearing, by the way, is scheduled for March 24. Messiah's arrest came during Operation Metro Surge. We know that's the largest federal immigration crackdown in US history that saw an influx of 3,000 Border Patrol and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents into Minnesota.
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There's just something oddly satisfying about picturing a Border Patrol agent slumped over in his car at 3:30 in the morning covered in his own vomit.
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Yeah, I'm not going to lie. I don't like that. I get a very queasy stomach. But I would, I would probably, yeah, clap and cheer.
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He could have killed somebody.
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He absolutely could have killed somebody and.
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He'D get another promotion.
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Yeah.
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Thank you for that story, everybody. We have some good news we have to get to, but we have to take a quick break. So everybody stick around. We'll be right back. The new year is your chance for a fresh start. And January is the month where momentum is easiest to build. You already have the idea, you already have the talent or the thing that people keep telling you to sell. But finally taking that first step to what's next can change your life. So don't let's get too far into February with the same old story. Now what I love about Shopify is how it helps you take control and grow any scale, no matter where you are in your business journey. Just starting out 20 years in, it doesn't matter if you want one platform that can handle selling online and in person, Shopify is built for exactly that. It's the reason millions of entrepreneurs have made the leap from established household brands to first time business owners getting their first product out the door. Have you ever wondered how Magic Spoon keeps everything running so smoothly? Shopify gives brands like that the tools to manage it all and it can do the same for you. Man, I love Magic Spoon and I love Shopify. You can build a polished store quickly using hundreds of templates, then customize the look so it fits your brand instead of feeling generic and boring. Cookie cutter yuck. Shopify's built in tools make setup fast, easy and incredible so you spend less time stuck dealing with technical hangups and more time growing and selling. So marketing is also part of the package. You can create email and social media campaigns that reach customers where they're scrolling, all without having to stitch together a bunch of separate services. And the best part is, you're not going to outgrow it. As you get bigger, Shopify grows alongside you, helping you handle more orders, expand to new markets, and run everything from one dashboard. Shopify does it for Magic Spoon and they can do it for you too. So in 2026, stop waiting and start selling with Shopify. Sign up for your $1 per month trial and start selling today at shopify.com dailybeans go to shopify.com dailybeans that's shopify.com dailybeans hear your first this New Year with Shopify by your side.
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I'm Brian Caram and I've spent decades covering politics. Now I'm taking you behind the scenes one interview at a time. Join us as each week Brian confronts the issues that matter, posing the questions you wish you could ask. No filter, no agenda, just the truth. We're not here for sound bites. We're here for substance. Join me, Brian Caram every week as we cut through the noise and get straight to it. This is Just Ask the Question where curiosity will lead us to the facts. Subscribe now on your favorite podcast platform and remember, when you want answers, all you have to do is just ask the question.
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Everybody, welcome back. It's time for the good news. Good news. And if you have any good news, good trouble, a fun story, something great that's happened to you in the last week or 20 years ago, big or small, it doesn't matter as long as it will help bring a little smile to our face. We would love to hear from you and give a shout out if you want to. A loved one, a spouse. We have some great shout outs that we've read before. You can give a self shout out. Tell us why you're awesome. We would love to know because you guys are really, really awesome. Send in your thesis and dissertation titles, send us your favorite street joke, tell us your favorite Monty Python quote, your favorite quote from Anchorman, whatever, it doesn't matter as long as it makes us laugh. You can also give a shout out to a government program or a small business in your area, maybe a nonprofit, some community organizing that you think is amazing. Whatever it is, send it to us@dailybeanspod.com and click on contact. And all you gotta do to get your submission read on the air is Pay your POD pet tariff, which right now just means attach a photo of anything. It can be anything. No AI though. Please don't send us any AI slop. But it can be a photo of your pet. It can be a photo of an adoptable pet in your area. It can be a random animal on the Internet. It can be family photos, baby pictures, awkward family photos, a meme. It can be what you're gardening, growing in your garden, or chickens you're raising. We love goats. Send us goats.
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Goats, goats, goats, goats.
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Yep, goats. 24 hour goats. Live New goats. You can send us photos of what you're making and creating. It doesn't really matter. Send us a photo. We would love it. We would love to see it. Send it to us dailybeanspot.com click on contact. First up is your good trouble. And your good trouble today comes from Marcy Wheel at Empty Wheel on Blue Sky. As the house prepares to fight over how much of DHS to shut down, I encourage you to pick your favorite factoid from this Garrett Graff report on Customs and Border Protection, ICE criminality and send it to your member of Congress. We have a link to this piece in the show notes. It says accountability for ICE and cbp. However bad you think the corruption and misconduct at ICE and CBP is, the reality is far worse. So make sure to call them, tell them to defund ICE, claw back that $75 billion slush fund, and then you can give them a reason straight out of this Garrett Graff report.
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I love this next one. This is from Berkeley. Mom, no pronouns given. Two friends and I were the dot on the exclamation point at the San Francisco Ocean Beach Human Bas banner that said Abolish ICE. A fantastic event with about 1800 people participating. It's so good.
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You're the dot. You're part in the dot in the exclamation point.
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My pals were there, too. He sent the drone fairly early. This is awesome. Great photo of you all, by the way. I love our fans.
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There they are, y'. All. Oh, no. Beautiful, fantastic, wonderful. And they always do these spell out things at Ocean beach because it's a big damn beach.
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Yeah, like, it's huge. It's a huge, like, from the.
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From the street to the waterline, it's like so much room to do spell out protests. This is incredible. All right, next up, Falcor's mom pronoun. She and her high beans queens. I wanted to bring a little bit of a bright spot by sharing my Lego obsession as a Gen X Nerd. I spend a bit of time every day to sit and create. I have some problems with my hands, like RA and other issues. However, I can still do a little bit a day. When I finish, I have an adorable creation. Piano plays Cars move. Gremlins. Gremlin. I'm including a picture of a couple of buildings I've made for inspiration. I know that the hat gives me away. We met at the diversionary theater. Podpet taxes Falkor. He's down to 128 pounds, loves San Diego and wants to cuddle AG's cats. Falkor has two tuxies of his own. And then there's a redacted breed guessing game for Falkor's mix. Dante, one of the two tuxies loves in the house. Love to you all. Okay, that's a big boy.
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And it looks like a golden retriever, right? Or lab. A lab mix of Goldie Lab.
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Is it like a Pyrenees lab? It's maybe. Let's see. Great Pyrenees mix. Look at that.
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It's got it being there.
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So there's a big dog. Falkor. Very, very aptly named. Look.
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Dragon indeed. I love it.
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It.
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All right. This is from Red State. Anonymous pronoun she and her. I had a moment of joy that literally brought a smile to my face today as a regular Dem. Before all this, it made me happy to think about how my paper use was down to almost zero and this year. And how I've haven't touched a printer in nine plus months. Attaching a picture of our weird old fat boy who hasn't met a blanket he didn't like. His breed is shelter. Baby eyes are yellow, although you'll rarely see them. And once upon a time, he had no grays and only weighed 5 to 10 pounds. We see you, buddy. We see you.
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That's awesome. That's a great, great example of good news. I'm down to almost zero paper use and haven't touched a printer in nine plus months.
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It is pretty great.
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That is amazing. Thank you for sharing. The cat is adorable. All right, next up, JT pronoun she and her. As you may know, there were many unity bicycle rides to honor Alex Preddy on Saturday. My Milwaukee neighborhood puts on a 24 hour bike ride every summer called River West 24. Alex was one of its riders. It is 24 hours of biking, community fun and love, also dubbed the people's Holiday. I can't really describe the wonderfulness of this event in a few sentences, but one thing that happens during the ride is that neighbors come out to offer riders all sorts of goodies. A spray hose in the heat, bacon popsicles, or a shot to the over 21s. So on Saturday, hundreds of bicyclists rode the River West 24 route in his honor. This photo says a lot about the spirit of the event. There's somebody giving out fireball shots with a sign that says fireball melts ice.
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It's so good. It's so good.
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Oh, man, that sounds like an incredible event. River West 24. And y' all rode that route in honor of. Of Preddy, who used to ride it. Yeah. Wonderful.
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All right. This is from Anani Mouse. No pronouns given. Cute. Hi, you guys. And just really quick thing to share that made me smile this morning. I work for a patent attorney and this morning of for the very first time we received information inventor having a legal name change from the name when they assigned female at birth to one that matches their gender. This is fantastic. It just made me smile that there's an inventor living his best life now. Capybara picture for tariff. Thanks for everything you do. This is a great submission. I love all this little good news.
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That is so cool. You're at the patent office and somebody writes in and says, I need to change the gender marker on my patent.
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Yep.
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Fantastic. And the capybara also amazing. All right, next up, Christine she her no ice in Hanover, Va. Recently, a member of the lagunati shared pics of a protest in Hanover county during a board meeting to oppose the sale of a warehouse to DHS to, quote, be a holding and processing facility. That protest. Remember, it was like 800 people that protest along with a strongly worded letter to the Pattison Group from Point Blank Creative Inc. Their digital media provider has helped. And the Pattison Group said it will no longer be selling the property to dhs. Quote, the company said earlier this week that it was not aware of the final owner or their intended use of the site when it accepted a purchase offer from the US Federal contractor. They didn't tell them. Wow. Full story available from the Associated Press. Small victory. Huge for the state of Virginia. No pod pick, but will you take a horrible joke? Yeah. Did. Did you know there's an island off the coast of Italy with 5 million Sicilian people? That's the biggest number I've ever heard. Have a groovy day. 5 million Sicilian. I see. I get it. Like 5 billion gazillion I get. Took me a minute.
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I was like.
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Oh, that's so cool. Now I'm now concerned that, you know, I Want to know whether or not that. That the people who own that warehouse were told by the federal government what the purchase was going to be used for?
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Yeah.
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That's disgusting. If they're just, like, reaching out, like, hey, you want to. We want to buy this building from you without telling you. They're going to turn it into a concentration camp.
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Yeah. That's horrible. Horrible.
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All right, everybody, thank you so much for all of your good news. We really appreciate it. Hey, check out the Beans Talk video podcast.
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Everyone's doing it.
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Everybody's doing it. It's got its own audio feed now. If you just want to listen to it, then you can hear me and Dana talk for another 15 or 20 minutes a day. Everybod. Everybody wants that. Who doesn't want that? Everybody knows Murray from Murray's Liquor. Okay, sorry, that was an 80s movie quote. See if you can guess which one. I don't have any other final thoughts for today, do you, my friend?
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Just a reminder to go to my website. I've got some dates being announced. We've got Dallas for Mother's Day. If you're in Dallas, Texas, and you want to spend Mother's Day with me in the evening after you've had some love from your kids, or you're not a mom, you're not a parent, you just want to go laugh and celebrate the fact that you're not a mom or a parent, you can do that. And then I've got tickets that are going to be going on sale for, I believe, the Villages. We've got a show in the Villages in March, also Rochester, New York, in May. So go to my website, danagoldberg.com you can see my schedule there. And what's not on sale yet. There's a notify me button. You can click on it. It goes to my management. And then when the tickets go on sale, you get an email that says, hey, go get your tickets. So it's super fun.
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The coolest feature that you've got to notify me on your thing. Yeah, yeah. Patrons of the Daily Beans. If you are a page member of the Leguminati, as you know, all our pods are free. But, you know, if you want to kick in money and get ad free episodes in the premium feed, we always have that available. But if you are a member or of cleanup on L45, save the date June 20th. Okay. I'm planning a big, massive event with free food, open bar, and a private concert with a very special guest that I will announce soon. But save the date. And of course, tickets are gonna go on sale just to our patrons only. And it will be a pretty fun event and we're all gonna be there. Also, I'm gonna be planning a free event, right? Cause this is a private concert sort of party thing that's happening in June. But I'm gonna be having a. I think I wanna put together. And Dana, maybe you can tell me if you think this is a good idea, but I would like to hang out with all y' all on election night. Ooh, I would love to have a free open bar, Food Bites from. From us. As a thanks to being us. To being a member where we all just hang out and watch the returns together. Yeah, I think that'd be fun. Anyway, save the date June 20th and I think you're gonna be excited. All right, everybody, we will be back on your ears tomorrow. Until then, please take care of yourselves, take care of each other, take care of the planet, take care of your mental health health and take care of your family. I've been ag. I've been dg and them's the Beans. The Daily Beans is written and executive produced by Alison Gill with additional research and reporting by Dana Goldberg. Sound design and editing is by Desiree McFarlane with art and web design by Joelle Reader with Moxie Design Studios. Music for the Daily Beans is written and performed by they Might Be Giants and the show is a proud member of the MSW Media Network, a collection of creator owned podcasts dedicated to news, politics and justice. For more information Please visit msw media.com com msw media.