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Tuesday, September 9th, 2025 Today, House Oversight is now in possession of the Epstein birthday book and other documents from the Epstein estate and they have released the Trump letter; the Supreme Court continues its assault on the rule of law with more shadow docket rulings; the January 6th rioter who wore the “Camp Auschwitz” shirt has been arrested for animal abuse; Missouri Democrats are fighting back against the Republican effort to further gerrymander the state ahead of the midterms; several new whistleblowers have come forward to speak out against Meta and how it suppressed child safety; Speaker Johnson walks back his claim that Trump was undercover for the FBI; federal operations are underway in Chicago; an appeals court upholds E Jean Carroll’s $83M judgment; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.
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MSW Media. Hello and welcome to the Daily beans for Tuesday, September 9, 2025. Today, the House Oversight Committee is now in possession of the Epstein birthday book and other documents from the Epstein estate, and they have released the Trump letter. The Supreme Court continues its assault on the rule of law with more shadow docket rulings. The January 6 rioter who wore the Camp Auschwitz shirt has been arrested for animal stuff. Missouri Democrats are fighting back against the Republican effort to further gerrymander the state ahead of the midterms. Several new whistleblowers have come forward to speak out against Meta and and how it suppressed child safety. Speaker Johnson walks back his claim that Trump was undercover for the FBI. Federal operations are underway in Chicago, and an appeals court upholds e. Jean Carroll's $83 million judgment. I'm Alison Gill.
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And I'm Dana Goldberg.
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Oh, my gosh. It's a rollercoaster today. I'm so tired.
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It sure is. I'm exhausted. I would like to take a moment, though, to wish my dear mother, who brought me into this world and has been one of my best friends and my biggest support system, a very happy birthday. As you're listening to this on September 9th.
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Happy birthday to your amazing mom.
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I love you.
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We love you. We love you. Dana's mom. Dana's mom. Oh, that's so cool. I'm so glad that you're able to spend some time.
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Yeah, yeah, it's nice having her. You know, I get to visit my. My homeland, if you will.
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Yes. The old stomping ground.
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The old stomping ground. I do a lot of stomping when I was younger. I should have done more stomping. I did a lot of zero hour band camp is what I did when I was here. Like, it was a good kid. I should have stomped more.
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Nostalgia is such a weird thing. I love. I'm like a nostalgia junkie. So, yeah, I'm excited for you. And I just want to say thank you to everyone for your overwhelming positive response to my first ever video podcast, which is up now because you rocked it.
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Of course it's a positive response, Allison. You're so fucking good at what you do.
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Oh, man. Thanks. Thank you. And if you missed it, it's. It's on my subs stack now if you want to catch it. Militiarote.com and thanks to the fellows over at Midas for partnering with MSW Media to put it out. And also, if you go to militaryroad.com, there's a new substack, Live with Our good friend Mary Trump. I got to see Mary today. It was wonderful to catch up.
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She looks amazing. And if you're listening, my friend, I saw her at another event. For God's love we deliver in New York. She's just a mensch. She looks fantastic. Even in the state we are living in. It's just mind blowing. It's mind blowing.
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Yeah. You know, it was like we say to our listeners all the time, it's so important to take breaks. It really makes a difference. And everybody, if you haven't yet, you have to check out Dana's new amazing website. It's been zhuzhed and refreshed, and it's just fantastic.
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You're sweet. All my dates are on there. So if you're like, where's Dana gonna be next? My dates are on there. We're also setting up. We've reached out to a few cities to set up some theater shows. So definitely keep an eye on that. And I promise I will always let the beans know the more than the night before. Tickets go on sale when they're going to go on sale, because I like more of you in the audience. It makes me feel very safe to be honest with you.
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Yeah, it's amazing. It's truly great that, you know, you. You're going back out on the road for, like, more theater shows. I mean, we know you do the amazing galas and stuff like that to raise money, but we love those theater shows. So you can check out the new website. It's amazing. Danagoldberg.com and get tickets to our upcoming dates, too. And, Dana, I think one of the reasons that I'm just so tired today, I mean, but beyond Donald Trump minimizing domestic violence today in a speech by saying, oh, that's not real crime, or, you know something, I can't even remember exactly what he said, but real fight between a man and his wife or whatever, and that's not real crime or just. It's just disgusting.
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Yeah, it is. It is disgusting. But look who it's coming from.
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Yeah.
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He has normalized so many things that are atrocious and horrifying to his base that they're just like locker room talk, you know, it's just. I can't.
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And then remember the Wall Street Journal was like, hey, we've seen a letter that Donald Trump wrote that has a naked woman drawn on it. It's in the Epstein birthday book. And da, da, da. And Donald Trump is like, lies, I'm going to sue you. I'm going to sue the Wall street journal for $100 zillion dollars. I think it's $20 billion. I'm going to sue. I want to. I want to depose Rupert Murdoch right now. Because he. And then like. And even J.D. vance was like, this is just a lie. It's a super big lie. I'm going to go have sex with my couch right now. And now it's out. They have it. The House Oversight Committee has the birthday book that I'm so glad that the Epstein estate was subpoenaed. And they handed over all this stuff that didn't have to go through Pam Bondi and her scrubbing of Trump's name and everything from the Epstein files.
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Absolutely.
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And so they have this letter. And I have to tell you, the first thing that I noticed is when we put out our interpretation of what the letter might look like, people drew a woman, right?
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And this is the pubic hair for his. His signature was where the pubic hair was, right?
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But, but, but people drew like full breasts. But the one from Trump is not that.
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It is clearly a young female. God, he's so disgusting.
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Like, it, like, makes me sick. But also the Wall Street Journal said that something else. Because they got something else besides the birthday book. But also in the birthday book, the Wall Street Journal says the Epstein estate turned over a letter from a guy, a longtime Mar. A Lago member and businessman named Joel Paschkow, who made a crude joke about a woman that Trump and Epstein socialized with in the 90s. The Paschkow letter includes a photo of a poster board sized check, like a big check, a big fake check for 22,500, which has been mocked up to appear that it was sent from Don to Jeffrey Epstein. And underneath it, a handwritten caption said, jeffrey showing early talents with money and women sells a fully depreciated redacted to Donald Trump for $22,500. And that redacted thing is a woman's name.
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Oh, boy.
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In the image. So it's a big check of showing that Donald Trump paid $22,500 for a girl. So that's also in that book. And I think we're going to be seeing more coming out in the coming days from what the House Oversight Committee got. So anyway, that whole today just broke me with all that bullshit.
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It's exhausting. We're not built for this, everyone. Our nervous systems are not built for this. A lot of us listening to this podcast are deeply feeling deeply empathic. And the badness and the evil in the world, it lands heavy on us. So make sure you are taking those breaks, turning off the news, even if it's us for a day, you can come back to us. We are going to be here. But take care of yourself, please.
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Yeah, I'm going to have some French fries tonight.
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Good for you. That's made me mad. I'm on some weird eating regimen. I can't have fries. That's delicious.
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Some French fries. I need to eat some feelings about today. That's what I have to do.
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That works.
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Yeah. I mean, sometimes, you know, you got to do what you got to do. All right, everybody, we have a lot of news to get to. Let's hit the hot notes. Hot notes. First up from Politico, the Supreme Court has lifted restrictions that barred the Trump administration and ICE from carrying out immigration related raids in the Los Angeles area based on criteria like speaking Spanish or gathering at locations that day laborers often congregate or being brown. Yeah. Justices who apparently divided 6, 3 along ideological lines, I like to call them racist and unconstitutional lines. Put on hold a federal district judge's order that reigned in what critics called roving raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. That judge in the lower courts had found the tactics were likely unconstitutional because agents were detaining people without probable cause at car washes, bus stops and Home Depot parking lots based on stereotypes. And the Supreme Court on Monday also allowed President Trump to fire a member of the ftc, the Federal Trade Commission, despite a federal law that is intended to restrict the White House's power to control the agency. The court via an order issued by Chief Justice John Roberts, temporarily blocks. This is the emergency docket blocked a judge's ruling that reinstated Rebecca Kelly Slaughter while the case continues. This upends 90 years of precedence under Humphrey's executor which bars the president from being able to fire members of multi member boards without cause. And they did this with no explanation. So we're going to let you know how these cases play out. But it was a horrible day on the emergency docket at the Supreme Court.
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I'm so tired of this. And now they've pranced out Amy Coney Barrett, you know, Aunt Lydia to write a book and oh, find faith back in the courts and blah, blah, blah. She did this whole interview. I'm just disgusted by all of it. Yeah, we, we know, we know.
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And, and what's really something that somebody pointed out? I think it was either Chris Geidner, maybe law dork on on Blue sky in the decision to allow ICE to be racists and racially discriminate and racially profile, he said. Kavanaugh actually said in his concurrence, yeah, if you have a problem with what ICE is doing, you can individually sue them. But Kavanaugh actually voted against being able to individually sue ICE agents in a previous ruling. So as he said, that takes a lot of chutzpah to come out and say, oh well, you can just individually sue when you yourself voted against the ability to do that.
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Yeah, well, Republicans take credit for or deny voting for things all the time.
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Yeah, true.
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All right, this next story is from the Post. At her home in western Germany, a woman told a team of visiting researchers from Meta that she did not allow her sons to interact with strangers on social media's giant virtual reality headsets. Then her teenage son interjected. According to two of the researchers, he frequently encountered strangers and adults that had sexually propositioned his little brother, who was younger than 10. Numerous times this has happened, he said. I felt this deep sadness watching the mother's response. This is from one of the researchers, Jason Satazon. That's what he told the Washington post regarding the April 2023 conversation. And Jason said, her face in real time. It displayed her realization that what she thought she knew about Meta's technology was completely wrong. Meta had publicly committed to making child safety a top priority across the platforms. But Satazon and the second researcher, who specialized in studying youths and technology, said that after the interview, their boss ordered the recording of the teen's claims deleted, along with all written records of his comments. An internal Meta report on the research said that, in general, German parents and teens feared grooming by strangers in virtual reality. But the report it didn't include the teen's assertion that his young sibling actually had been targeted. The report is part of a trove of documents from inside Meta that was recently disclosed to Congress by two current and former employees who allege that Meta suppressed research that might have illuminated potential safety risks to children and teens on the company's virtual reality devices and apps. By the way, that's an allegation the company has vehemently denied, of course. After leaked Meta studies led to congressional hearings in 2021, the company deployed its legal team to screen, edit and sometimes veto internal research about youth safety in VR and virtual reality. And that's according to a joint statement the current and former employees committed to Congress in May. They assert Meta's legal team was seeking to, and I quote, establish plausible deniability about negative effects of the company's products. According to the statement which along with the documents were all obtained by the Post. The four researchers, along with two others who also submitted affidavits to Congress about other meta related issues. They're being represented by the legal nonprofit Whistleblower Aide. Yeah, good.
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Whistleblower aid.
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It is indeed.
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Thank you for that story. That's just frightening that they would strike those comments and keep that all hidden, particularly in the environment we're in right now. Next up from ABC, the January 6 rioter seen in photos wearing a Camp Auschwitz hoodie. Remember this guy inside the US Capitol building has been arrested in Virginia on charges stemming from a dog attack. Robert Keith packer, who is 60 years old, was arrested Thursday, quote, following an investigation into an animal related incident that occurred Monday in Newport News. Packer was charged with one count of animal attack resulting from the owner's disregard for human life, which is a felony. He was also charged with attacking while at large and no city license. Both of those are misdemeanors. Civil charges have also been filed against Packer, including dogs running in a pack and a vicious dog. According to the spokesperson, quote, as part of the investigation, authorities seized one adult dog, six 11 week old puppies, four live rabbits and one deceased rabbit from the property. The case is being investigated by the city's animal Services division. So that's more recidivism by pardon January 6th offenders. This was the Auschwitz camp. Camp Auschwitz guy.
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Thank you, Allison. This next story came up while I was I think at a restaurant and I looked up and I just was so, so grateful. This is some good news from the Times. The federal appeals court on Monday upheld the $83.3 million jury award against Trump for defaming the writer and badass Eugene Carroll in 2019 after she accused him of a decades old rape in a Manhattan department store which he was found liable by. Just want to make that clear as well in a court New York that was an attack for which he was separately found, as I said, liable for sexual abuse. The Court also rejected Mr. Trump's argument that the Supreme Court's decision last year affording presidential immunity for official acts barred of finding the of liability in Ms. Carol's lawsuit. Bullshit. The unsigned ruling by a three judge panel of the U.S. court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Manhattan. It was unanimous.
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Yeah. And because there's an immunity aspect to this appeal and it goes to the Supreme Court, we'll see if they take this or not. It was Justice Amy Coney Barrett who was against the evidentiary part of the immunity the four immunity holdings so we'll keep an eye on this case and if anybody can win it, it's Robbie.
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Absolutely.
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She's amazing. Next up from KFVS In Jefferson City, Missouri Democrats have surpassed a 24 hour mark of their sit in on the House floor. They're protesting a special session. I haven't seen this covered very much, but these are Democrats fighting back. Governor Mike Kehoe called lawmakers back to Jefferson City for a special session. The call includes redrawing the districts that decide who represents Missourians in the U.S. house of Representatives. Lawmakers are also planning to take up bills on the state's initiative petition process, the process that allows citizens to amend the state constitution. Right now, questions put on the ballot by citizens Only need a simple majority. But this Republican proposal would make it so they need a statewide majority and a majority in all eight congressional districts individually. This change gives rural districts more power. The way I would say it is this change dilutes the voting power of minorities and marginalized communities. Quote, the people of this state overwhelmingly vote for policies at the election box and then the legislature's number one priority next year is to repeal it. That's what Rep. Carrie Engel, a Democrat from Lee's Summit, said. Currently, Missouri sends two Democrats and six Republicans to D.C. the new map is said to split up the Kansas City area currently represented by Congressman Emanuel Cleaver. That split aims to create seven districts likely to vote Republican and only one to vote Democratic. So they're going to pack and crack Kansas City. Both special session bills have now been approved by House committees and are scheduled for debate and votes on the House floor next week. And in an effort to get the attention of House Speaker John Patterson, House Democrats are staging a sit in. Rep. Jeremy Dean kicked off the movement by refusing to leave the floor. He's been there since 10am Thursday. Wow. So this is great. Good job. I mean, there's not much they can do. They're in the minority, the Democrats, but they're fighting back kind of like the Texas Democrats did. So I appreciate that.
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Love to see it. Okay, more Epstein stuff. This is from the Post House Speaker Mike Johnson. On Sunday, he backed off his claims that President Donald Trump was an FBI informant in a case of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, child rapist, as we'd like to call him because he was. While Trump has said that he kicked Epstein out of Mar a Lago, his members only club in Florida, he has also recently called the latest demands for the release of more information on the Epstein case a Democrat hoax that never ends well. Last week Johnson overstepped. I don't even know what the fuck this moment was. He told reporters on Capitol Hill that Trump cares deeply about the crimes Epstein committed and said that Trump was an FBI informant to try and take this stuff down. And Mr. I brag about everything. Just happened to forget that he took down the most horrible sex trafficking offender possibly in the history of our country. He just forgot to tell us that.
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He just didn't tell us that.
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Get the fuck out of here.
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And by the way, I think I posted this on Blue Sky. If he was working with the FBI, that means he worked for Robert Mueller and is totally part of the deep state because that's when that happened.
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Yeah.
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The only thing I could think of is maybe Mike Johnson was trying to make a bad female body inspector joke that went south.
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I don't know. It was just a bizarre moment. And his office now, he put out a different statement. It says the speaker is reiterating what the victim's attorney said, which is that Donald Trump, who kicked Epstein out of Mar A Lago, was the only one more than a decade ago willing to help prosecutors expose Epstein for being a disgusting child predator. Really the only one, because I remember some victims testifying in the fucking court. That's what the statement said from Johnson's office. That is a disgusting statement.
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So that's what you meant by he was an informant for the FBI. It's just that he kicked him out of Mar A Lago and said he was willing to help prosecutors. Now, I gotta say, I gotta say, first of all, there was the property deal gone bad. And then Epstein and Maxwell poached Virginia Giu free from Mar A Lago and along with other underage girls. And then I could see maybe Trump calling the FBI and saying this guy is gross to get back at him because, you know, maybe it was a back and forth. First of all, it doesn't make you an FBI informant, okay? That's you, you don't work for the FBI number two. So you knew.
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Yeah, again, you knew everything. You did nothing to stop it. Come on.
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And if you were there in an innocent capacity, but you knew what was going on.
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Release the files.
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Hey, release the files. So that's funny that he's walking that back. I, I, everybody was like, huh?
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Except his base was like, yeah, FBI informant. He's, he's a hero.
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I asked some pretty high up people that used to be at the FBI and they're like, can't confirm or deny. You know, typical stuff. But just the most ridiculous claim I've ever heard anybody say today. Just today in that 24 hour period when it happened.
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Exactly. Wait till tomorrow. We'll have a new one for you.
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Yeah, we will. It's been zero days since a ridiculous claim. All right everybody, your good trouble is coming up. It's going to be the first thing we talk about in the good News segment. If you have good news, send it to us@dailybeanspod.com just click on contact. We'll be right back with it.
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Stick around after these messages.
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We'll be right back. Hey everybody. When I finally upgraded my mattress to Helix sleep years ago, it was because I was tired of struggling through restless nights and stiff mornings. And friends I trusted had been talking about their Helix for a while and I wanted to see what all the hype was about. And it lived up to it. Before Helix, my Apple watch told me what I already felt. My nights were broken up into short bursts of light sleep. I didn't get any deep sleep. I was overheating, waking up in pools of sweat, dealing with back pain and hip pain the next morning. Because I'm a side sleeper. The watch data showed frequent wake ups, shallow rest, unpredictable cycles. It was a mess. It was a mess. But then I switched to Helix and it fixed everything. And I noticed the change quickly too. My sleep cycles on my Apple watch looked entirely different. I was hitting longer periods of deeper sleep. I had fewer wakeups and an overall steadier pattern and a lower heart rate. A lower resting heart rate too. And I was getting up in the morning feeling better, had energy, clarity and focus. My hips didn't hurt. My lower back didn't hurt. It was amazing. The difference from my old mattress was night and day. And also this. This mattress keeps me cool through the night. It gives me steady support, it reduces motion. That used to wake me up from the Gatos. But over time, this consistency improved everything. My productivity is better, my mood is better. You know, given everything that's going on, as good as it can be. And I'm no longer dreading mornings. That's the big important part. Years later, my same Helix mattress delivers the same comfort and reliability. So for me, it's been more than just a mattress. It's been a foundation for better health and better recovery and better days. Helix has stood the test of time and I can honestly say it's been one of the smartest decisions I've made for my well being. So you can go to helixsleep.comdailybeans for 25% off site wide. Again, that's helixsleep.com dailybeans for 25 off site wide. Make sure to enter our show name after checkout so they know we sent you. Helixsleep.com d beans everybody. Welcome back. It's time for the good news. Who likes good news?
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Everyone?
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Then good news everyone.
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Good news.
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Good news. And if you have any good news stories, any little thing or big thing that's happened to you ever that you want to think of anything, think like, think about like when you're hanging out with your friends and everybody's telling stories and you think of something great that happened and you share your story. I want to hear that story. I want to, I want to go to there. So send us your good news. It can be a shout out too. Maybe to a loved one or a small business in your area or some great activism you're seeing. Maybe a non profit you'd like to share with the rest of us a self shout out. We love those very much. If you have a shout out to a government program that's helped you or a loved one, it can be Affordable Care Act, WIC, SNAP, Head Start, Section 8. It can be student debt forgiveness, anything at all. Send it to us. And to get your stuff read on the air, all you got to do is pay your pod pet tariff, which for us literally means just attach a photo. Any photo you can find. Even if it's on the Internet and you have nothing to do with that photo, it's still going to work.
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Please.
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But you can attach a photo of your pet. If you don't have a pet, you can attach an adoptable pet in your area. If you don't have that. Bird watching, which can be an actual bird or you and your family and friends flipping the bird to trump or musk or some a hole that you don't like that we all agree sucks. We would love to see those bird watching photos. Anything at all. Maybe a photo of your happy place or something you're making or creating. Tell us what your hobby is to get your mind off of this shit show. We'd love to see it. Send it to us@dailybeanspod.com and click on contact. First up is our Good Trouble. This Good Trouble comes to us from JJ in dc. JJ says hello shipmate and greetings to your charming and delightful co host Dana. I'm a fellow Navy vet, longtime friend of the podcast who wishes we could get a Democrat back in the White House so both of you would feel safe and welcome to Visit us in D.C. again. That's so true. I've been furiously tracking and documenting the activities of ICE Air for the past few months, ever since they tried to make their airplanes disappear from online flight tracking apps. All this time, I've been looking for ways to help journalists and activists on the ground use the data I'm collecting to fight back against the abuses and, frankly, crimes against humanity that the current regime has unleashed upon our friends and neighbors. Up until now, my efforts have mainly consisted of tipping people off about flights coming to their cities so they can observe and report on the activities or safely protest against their presence. But a new opportunity has presented itself, and it's one where your listeners can make an impact with just a tiny bit of effort. What we've Learned from observing IceAir for the past few months is that they have constructed an extensive but fragile transportation network to move abductees from local facilities to a few key regional airports. From there, they're flown to vast archipelago of mostly privately run prisons in Texas and Louisiana, where the local and federal courts are more friendly to the Trump regime. But this vast logistical machine is so overstretched that whenever there's a breakdown somewhere in the chain, such as a plane having a mechanical issue or a lack of available and rested flight crews, it has a ripple effect through the entire system. And each and every delay means that immigration lawyers have another chance at preventing their clients from being moved out of state, and families can better keep track of their wrongly imprisoned loved ones. And recently, an activist group in Northeast Ohio turned the tables on these abductors after learning that ICE was regularly basing two planes out of the Youngstown Warren Airport. They observed the planes returning for the evening and followed the unmarked government vans all the way back to their hotel.
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Oh wow.
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The Residence Inn by Marriott in Youngstown. Warren Niles. Realizing that the Marriott Corporation, whose website lists their core values as Put People first, Pursue excellence, Embrace Change, act with integrity, and Serve our world, was providing safe harbor to a group of out of control stormtroopers who've been tearing apart families across a broad swath of the northern United States. One of the activists contacted the management of this particular Marriott property to express their displeasure. The reception they got from the manager was, in a word, unfriendly. So they've asked that we politely notify the Marriott Corporation to inform them that sheltering those engaged in tearing families apart without any respect for community values or due process seems to be highly inconsistent with their declared corporate values. And also politely let them know that if they continue to host these kidnappers in their hotels, you will encourage all your family, friends and community to take their vacation and travel business to a different and more ethical hotel chain. This small action may not seem like much, but remember that each little hiccup and delay in this massive human trafficking network will cause ripple effects that could impact thousands of lives. Here's an article on ICE Air activities in Northeast Ohio. We'll have a link in the show notes and we will also have the contact information for the Marriott Corporation, the CEO, the VP and chief customer Officer, and business ethics concerns email addresses. Or we will have their customer service hotline number in the show notes as well. For Podpet tax, I'm including a couple photos of my rescue pup, Coco. See if you can guess her breed.
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Oh. Oh gosh, she's so cute.
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Look how adorable.
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Looks like a pity chihuahua.
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Like a pitty. Staffy, bulldog, beagle. With the spots though. What's that? Heeler, maybe? Maybe. You're always good with the spots. Let's see. Bully, pit bull, beagle, wow. Springer, spaniel, pointer, German, shorthaired pointer, cocker, spaniel, and keeshund.
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Okay.
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No Chow. Chow.
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You got a few of them.
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All right.
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All right. This is from Silent Doug. No pronouns given. Hello Beanie ladies to piggyback. On Monday's good news, we're logged into LinkedIn. The first fucking thing I see is an ICE recruitment advertisement. I reported the ad and instantly received a response that it was nothing wrong with the ad. Needless to say, I'm no longer on LinkedIn and I, in a messy short and foul message let them know that accepting stolen tax and tariff money from a lawless administration in a department of terror is the reason why. Doubtful this working class motherfucker leaving LinkedIn will do anything, but maybe there is something more to do. Anyway, my call for good trouble from the leguminati is let LinkedIn know what you think and if you can do without LinkedIn, just fucking get rid of it. Podpet Tax is a green heron hunting along one temporary islands that form in the Muskegon river north of Grand Rapids, Michigan when the water is low.
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Hello blue heron and thank you, Silent Doug. Another great. So we're going after Marriott and LinkedIn today. That's, that's our good trouble. Next up is from Anonymous. No pronouns. I don't have much Good news. My 13 year old granddaughter was across the street from Annunciation, about to go grocery shopping when all hell broke loose. She and her dad, my son, witnessed the distraught parents running to find their kids, the first responders, the sirens and flashing lights from ambulances, fire and rescue and police vehicles and of course, young students fleeing the building, older students holding the hands of the younger students and pulling them to safety. My granddaughter wondered if a little preschool boy she babysits for was safe. He was. She spent the next two days being very quiet. I know her parents guided her with patience and love and support. But then she got busy and organized the middle school march the next week. These kids are done. Period with, period this.
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Thank God.
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I do my best to help her claim her power, but she has a tender heart. I know this will live with her for a long, long time. I'm enormously proud of her. I work for a nonprofit organization that supports voting rights and the Constitution, and we're doing our best to get out to diverse populations to educate people about disinformation and about election and voter registration safety and accuracy protocols. So that's a bit of good news, I guess. My pod pet tax is this photo of my two fluffs who are pictured here training for the midterms lawn. They are in sync.
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Oh my God. This is very cute.
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Oh Anonymous, I'm so sorry. Sending you all the love in the world. It's tough.
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B
Thank you. This is from Barbara. No pronouns given. I rebuilt a seriously defective masonry wall and then had to try six different mixes to have the new pink match the unbleached pink. I am super proud because I did it in the Tucson heat and also because I'm in my mid-70s. Old ladies rock for my pod pet tats. I have my two Westies Bella, who is summering in Portland because she's lucky. No room to post my Toby who went over the Rainbow Bridge in January. Barbara, you do fucking rock. And I love the name. And yeah, look at this match in paint that you did. Oh my God, and your dog is so cute.
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A
The dog. He's summering in Portland. Bella.
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B
Bella.
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Where do you summer, Bella?
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B
Oh my goodness. I want to have tea with you and play with the dogs.
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A
Yes. Yes. We need a T dog play date.
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B
Let's do it.
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Thank you. Next up from KH Pronoun she and her hey there Bean Ag and Bean dg. I started listening to the POD earlier this year and found it to be a breath of fresh air. It was killing me to listen to these atrocities being reported with the same calm, dry demeanor as the weather forecast. And the daily beans reduced my anxiety by putting current events in their appropriate existential context by swearing. However, I also found myself in need of something to focus some creative energy this year to keep the big sad at bay. I feel that. And I decided to grow my artistic skills by signing up for a certificate in Botanical illustration online with the Royal Botanical Garden of Edinburgh. Since April, I've been taking much needed breaks from the news cycle by drawing and painting plants and flowers. And it's been so therapeutic. Our class just finished, and I wanted to share my final composition with you. Behold the geranium I managed to keep alive for several months. For my POD pet tariff, I'm including my best boy, Rudy. Full name, Rudolph Hozier, because look at that hair. He's a rescue we got a year ago. I bet you can guess his breeds, which are below. He is a terrible illustration partner as pictured. And he loves to bump my elbow when I'm painting, but I wouldn't have it any other way. Thanks for all you do. Look at the boy.
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B
Oh, my goodness.
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A
That's a beaut. Look at that geranium.
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It's gorgeous.
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A
That's like a figure from a book that shows you the types of flowers, you know?
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B
Yeah, that it is.
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Oh, my gosh. All right, so what do you think? This doggo is an Irish. Irish setter.
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B
Yeah. Like full, full, full boar.
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Yeah. All right, let's see. Look at you go.
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Hey, listen, if I know anything, it's my iris. It's my Irish dogs.
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Hey, it's an Irish setter.
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B
I got one right, y'. All.
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A
And the geranium is beautiful. KH Please continue to send more botanical art to us.
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B
Absolutely. All right. This is from Anonymous. No pronouns given. We live outside Chicago in the Village where the ice holes hanging out in Chicago were staying. When one of the coolest members of town learned which hotel they were staying at 8:30 Saturday night, they quickly jumped into action to organize a protest outside the hotel. In less than 18 hours, we had about 300 enthusiastic people show up with signs and shirts. Tell ICE that we don't need them here because we know how much you love great protest signs. I thought I'd share one of the best of the day along with one of the crowd. Enjoy. And the protest sign says, I hope staff farts on your pillow.
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Yes.
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Oh, my God.
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I love these ICE Hotel protests. I mean, I. I've seen people out there banging on pots and pans in the middle of the night trying to, you know, make it really difficult for folks to sleep. ICE agents to sleep. So that is a wonderful. Thank you for sending that in. And I know Chicago is battening down the hatches for these stupid ICE raids that are starting in full force this week, so appreciate you and appreciate everybody sending in all of your good news. Thank you so much. We need to be flooded with it. Flood the zone with awesomeness. Send it to us@dailybeanspot.com and click on contact. And thank you again everybody for the, you know all, everybody watching the video podcast. Really appreciate it. There'll be another one next week. And Dana, do you have any final thoughts?
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B
Not today.
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All right, we'll be back in 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 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 mswmedia.com msw media.