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Tuesday, September 16th, 2025 Today, the White House has announced plans to crack down on Democrats by declaring liberal groups domestic terror organizations; the Washington Post fired a columnist for quoting Charlie Kirk on social media; the US has attacked another boat in the Caribbean; fired Epstein prosecutor Maureen Comey is suing the administration for wrongful termination; longterm unemployment has hit a post pandemic high; the rural healthcare hunger games are underway; as judge Chutkan feared, immigrants that Trump deported to Ghana have been sent to their home countries and could face torture; the FDA is seeking to abandon expert reviews of new drugs; the Charlie’s murderers doxxing website was hacked; young climate activists who won a landmark case in Montana state court are challenging a new executive order from the Trump administration; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.
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MSW Media. Hello and welcome to the Daily beans for Tuesday, September 16, 2025. Today, the White House has announced plans to crack down on Democrats by declaring liberal groups domestic terror organizations. The Washington Post has fired a columnist for quoting Charlie Kirk on social media. The US has attacked another boat in the Caribbean, fired Epstein. Prosecutor Maureen Comey is suing the Trump administration for wrongful termination. Long term unemployment has hit a post pandemic high. The rural health care hunger games are underway. That, as Judge Chutkan feared, immigrants that Trump deported to Ghana have been sent to their home countries and can face torture. The FDA is seeking to abandon expert reviews of new drugs. The Charlie's Murderers doxxing website has been hacked and taken down. And young climate activists who won a landmark case in Montana state court are challenging a new executive order from the Trump administration. I'm Allison Gill.
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And I'm Dana Goldberg.
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Ah, wildly busy and not so great news day.
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I'll tell you what, though, if someone has the ability to hack a website, a docking website, and take it down, I really wish these people would use their powers for some more good in this world. That's all I'm saying.
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Well, they did, and they reached out to me and showed me how they did it, so.
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Oh, my gosh.
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That's kind of amazing, kind of impressive.
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It'd probably make my head explode. I'd be like, that's great. That's definitely your wheelhouse, not mine.
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You should see me talking. I'm like, so. Because they're like, ba ba ba ba da da da da da da. You know, flipping a grunt, deep bop bop. And I'm like, I have no idea what you just said. Did you hack the website and get it taken down? And they're like, yeah. I mean, but, you know, this and that and this and that. I was like, okay, okay. How do I. I don't. Okay.
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Yeah. So. So, so much news. So much news.
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Congrats. Yeah, there's a lot of it. And it's not all the best news either. Maureen Comey, prosecutor who handled criminal cases against Epstein and Maxwell, Ghislaine Maxwell is contesting her abrupt July firing. And you know, her dad is James Comey, former FBI director. She says in the lawsuit that she was never given a reason for her termination and contends that no plausible explanation exists other than that she's the daughter of one of the President's best known adversaries. And so we're going to cover this in more depth on this weekend's episode of unjustified with Andy McCabe, since we've been long covering these DOJ ridiculous atrocities. So we look forward to covering that a little bit more in detail this weekend.
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Sounds good. And US Farmers are facing a lot of problems thanks to Trump, of course. Since he imposed tariffs on China, Beijing has basically retaliated by halting all purchases of American soybeans. That's a big fucking deal. That decision has had devastating repercussions for farmers in North Dakota, which exported more than 70% of its soybeans to China. And before Trump unveiled the new tariffs this year. Now, unless China agrees to somehow restart its purchases as part of a trade deal, farmers that depend on Chinese market, they're gonna be facing steep losses that could fuel farm bankruptcies and farm foreclosures all around the United States. This could be catastrophic for our farmers. And I would bet a lot of them vote red.
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Yeah, there's a lot of rural counties. We're gonna talk about healthcare. And the Hunger Games that are underway now to divide up what little money was allocated for, you know, because without like the massive Medicaid cuts in the billionaire bailout bill that left a lot of rural hospitals in the lurch. So they're like, well, we'll have a little bit of money for y'. All. And now they all have to compete to get it. So we're going to talk about that a little bit more later. And. And did you see Trump, by the way, in a press conference today? Somebody.
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Yes.
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Asked him.
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Say it out loud, though.
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Oh, somebody asked him why he didn't lower the flags to half staff when the Hortman's were assassinated in Minnesota. And he was like, what?
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Who? I'm not. I don't know who that is. I'm not aware who that is. Yeah, they don't give a fuck. They don't care. Unbelievable. When I saw that comment, I was like, oh my God. Yeah.
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So that's kind of what we're up against. And as we feared, a lot of what we have been screaming into the void is seeming to come to pass. And we're going to talk about that in the news as well. So let's do that. Let's hit the hot notes. Hot notes. First up from the Times. As we feared, the Trump administration officials on Monday responded to the activist Charlie Kirk's death by threatening to bring the weight of the federal government down on what they allege was a left wing network that funds and incites violence, seizing on the killing to make broad and unsubstantiated claims about their political opponents. This is their Reichstagfire. And they said it out loud.
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Yep.
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The White House and President Trump's ally suggested that the shooter was part of a coordinated movement that was fomenting violence against conservatives without presenting evidence that such a network exists. On Monday, two senior administration officials who spoke anonymously said that cabinet secretaries and federal department heads are working to identify organizations that funded or support violence against conservatives. And the goal, they said, was to categorize left wing activity that leads to violence as domestic terrorism, an escalation that critics say could lay the groundwork for crushing anti conservative dissent more broadly. And administration officials said officials would be investigating people behind the recent burning of Teslas, for example. Assaults on immigration agents is another example. And they'd be looking to draw links between those episodes and organized liberal groups.
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I just don't even understand how you could prove that a liberal group is funding violence against conservatives. Like, that doesn't make any sense.
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Apparently if we're liberal, we raise money against conservatives to defeat conservatives, that we're somehow fomenting violence.
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Oh, boy.
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We've long said that they'll start obviously starting with the immigrants. Right. Immigration and mass deportation and saying that brown people or Venezuelan drug cartel Trende Aragua gang members armed with drugs and they're going to come and so we're going to use that to intern them all into concentration camps and then that they would declare Democrats a terrorist organization and use that to enact emergency powers to, I don't know, suspend habeas corpus or detain us without rights or something. Send his army of ICE agents after everyone. You know that whole poem, they came.
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For first, they came for I did nothing.
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They're expanding that.
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All right, thanks, Alison, for that. This next story is from the Times. Karen Attia. Is that how Karen says her last name?
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I believe so.
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Atiya. She's an opinion columnist for the Washington Post. Basically, she said she was fired last week after posting on social media about gun violence and I quote, racial double standards following the assassination of the right wing influencer Charlie Kirk. And I don't like that we're using the assassination word here, but that is what is in the article, I will say the killing of right wing influencer Charlie Kirk. In a post on Substack announcing her firing, Ms. Atiya cited several social media posts made in the wake of Mr. Kirk's death that expressed apathy toward political violence and frustration with the lack of effort to curb gun violence. In one post, she criticized inaction from white America, which she said, and I quote, is not going to do what it needs to do to get rid of guns in this country. She wrote that. The post said her social media posts were, and I quote, unacceptable, gross misconduct, and endangered the physical safety of colleagues. You want to talk about endangering the physical safety of colleagues? How about trying to pin this murder on the transgender community? You got colleagues there, too. Now, Ms. Atiya did not celebrate Mr. Kirk's death. She said in her substack post that she exercised restraint even as I condemned hatred and violence. One post cited Mr. Kirk's remarks about Ketanji Brown Jackson, the Supreme Court justice, and Sheila Jackson Lee, a former congresswoman from Texas, saying they did not have the, and I quote, brain processing power to otherwise be taken seriously. He said that they had to steal white people's jobs. My only direct reference to Kirk was one post she said his own words on record. This is from Atiya. She finished her post by encouraging people to sign up for an online course she runs on race and the media. And they are going after people that they want fired in the media for saying anything negative about Charlie Kirk. I mean, the bastardization of his murder from the right is grotesque. Grotesque. Yeah.
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And, you know, that's what I said in my video podcast. If quoting him directly is disparaging to his legacy, then maybe you shouldn't be honoring him. Like, I don't. Yeah, I don't know what else to say about that. But the Washington Post dips the knee further.
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Yeah.
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This is from PBS, by the way. Trump said the U.S. military again targeted a boat allegedly carrying drugs from Venezuela, killing three aboard the vessel. Quote, the strike occurred while these confirmed narco terrorists from Venezuela were in international waters transporting illegal narcotics, a deadly weapon poisoning Americans headed to the U.S. first of all, there's nothing proving that it was heading to the US but whatever. That's what Trump said on Truth Social. He said, these extremely violent drug trafficking cartels pose a threat to US national security, foreign policy, and vital US Interests. So that declaration that the drugs are weapons, to me is a tell that this is all pretext for invoking emergency powers like the Alien Enemies Act.
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Absolutely.
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Or an exemption banning troops from posting up at polling places because you have to have weapons in order to put, you know, your enemies have to have weapons in order to put troops up at polling stations. So that's what this feels like to me.
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Sounds about right. This one is also from the Post. Most Americans are facing stretches of unemployment of six months or more. This is a worrisome sign for the US Economy. More than one in four Workers without jobs have been unemployed for at least a half a year. This is from all the new data. That number is a post pandemic high and a level typically only seen during periods of economic turmoil. Not a good sign. In all, more than 1.9 million Americans had been unemployed long term in August, meaning that they had been out of work for 27 weeks or more. That's a critical cliff when it comes to finding a job. It's nearly double the 1 million people who were in a similar position early 2023. The data shows how broadly the job market has cooled ahead of the Federal Reserve's highly anticipated meeting this week, when policymakers are expected to lower interest rates for the first time this year. Two months of weaker than expected job numbers, including widespread revisions, have led policymakers to voice concerns that labor market it could continue to deteriorate.
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Yeah, and I was telling Harry Dunn when we recorded earlier today, we recorded tomorrow's episode of cleanup on L45. He doesn't have to fire Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve Board and make up allegations that she committed mortgage fraud. Just keep tanking the economy and the feds will lower rates for you. You don't have to, you don't have to do this. You don't have to pressure the Fed. If you continue to jack up inflation with your dumb tariffs and, you know, the jobs losses and shitty jobs reports and unemployment keep going up and up, the Reserve Board will cut rates if your economy is shitty and inflation is high. So anyway, I assume he'll get that rate cut. And as I said on cleanup on all 45, Dana, he'll probably say that it's because of his, you know, how he got rid of Lisa Cook and the terrible Democrats or whatever. Anyway, next up from the Associated Press, a group of 14 West Africans deported to Ghana from the US have been sent to their home countries, places where lawyers representing some of the men say they face a risk of persecution and torture. News of the West Africans deportation to Ghana emerged last week, sparking a lawsuit from lawyers. And they argue the move was an attempt by US Authorities to evade their own immigration laws that prevent some of the men from being returned to countries where their well being could be at risk. They're circumventing this rule. And on Monday, Felix Kwaki Ofusu, that's Ghana's minister for government communications, told the Associated press that all 14, 13 Nigerians and one Gambian have since left for their home countries without saying when they were returned. Lawyers say it's another case of the Trump administration Deporting people and then trying to distance itself from the repercussions. This case has drawn parallels to that of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who the administration mistakenly deported to El Salvador despite a court order prohibiting it, and then argued that they couldn't get him back. So this is what Judge Jutkin was worried about in that hearing over the weekend where, you know, she says, this sounds disingenuous to me. It sounds like you're trying to engage in, in, what's it called, deportation, refoulment, where we say that this person can't be sent to Gambia, for example, and so instead you deport them to Ghana, who then sends them directly to Gambia.
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Right.
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It's just horrific. Now, there was another court filing that said that not all of them had been returned to their home countries. So we will keep an eye on this.
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Okay, thanks so much, Allison. This one is from Politico. The Trump administration on Monday kicked off a scramble among all 50 states for a slice of a new $50 billion fund for rural health care. But experts on the ground fear the program's rushed timeline. It just lacks of guardrails and the potential for, you know, politicization. It's going to leave some hospitals struggling to stay open. And this sounds like a fucking bribe. Do me a favor, I'll send you some money. That's really what that sounds like. States have just a few weeks to submit detailed applications for the fund, which Congress created late in its negotiations. A bill this summer that made deep cuts to Medicaid and other health programs. Federal health officials, they're not going to have a couple months to review them and dispense the money. None of this is going to be above board. Oh, my God. Monday's announcement kicks off. It's a hunger Games like the competition for federal funds. But health industry leaders and states, they're going to be desperate to shore up their crumbling rural health systems. They remain skeptical about the money and where it's ultimately going to go. After the application window closes in early November, half of the fund is going to be dispensed at the discretion of Dr. Fucking Oz, while the other half will be divided equally among states that apply, meaning Wyoming would get the same amount as California. Think about that. Despite their massive population difference. Yeah. How much states are going to get is also dependent on whether they implement policies, like I said, pushed by the Trump administration, such as waivers barring low income people from using food stamps to purchase non nutritious foods, mandates, by the way, for schools to re establish the Presidential fitness test and a requirement that doctors take continuing education classes on nutrition. And any hospital that is telling them to go fuck themselves when it comes to transgender health care and gender affirming care, they're going to get put out into the snow on this and probably.
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Diversity equity inclusion programs will disqualify. I mean, this is it. This is a tiny little slice for hospitals to have a Hunger Games competition over to try to get to short to give health care to people in rural communities.
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Yeah.
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So much like the farmers who are jacked on soybeans, you're going to have more people in rural red communities that aren't going to have access to health care. All right, next up from cbs, FDA leaders under President Trump are moving to abandon a decades old policy of asking experts to review drug applications, a move that critics say would shield the agency's decisions from public scrutiny. The agency, quote, would like to get away from assembling panels of experts to examine and vote on individual drugs because, quote, I don't think they're needed. That's what George Tidmarsh, head of the FDA's center for Drug Evaluation and Research said. We'll just have, we'll just have, we'll just have RFK Jr take a look at it.
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Yeah, absolutely. Fuck side effects. Who cares about side effects?
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We don't need experts. Fuck experts. Now, he relayed this message Tuesday at a meeting of health care product makers and Wednesday to an FDA advocacy group. Now, if you don't think pharmaceutical companies are going to take advantage of this by making all sorts of ridiculous, terrible side effect, very expensive drugs that nobody needs. Yep, Got some. I got a bridge to sell you.
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Yeah, that's exactly it. All right. On a bright side, wow. We have a bright spot. I just want everyone to stop what they're doing. In the news today from the Associated Press. Young climate activists and their attorneys who won a landmark global warming trial against the state of Montana are trying to convince a federal judge to block President Trump's executive orders promoting fossil fuels. Okay. During a two day hearing starting Tuesday in Missoula, the activists and their experts plan to describe Trump's actions to boost drilling and mining and discourage renewable energy as a growing danger to children and the planet. I love this story, by the way. Cause these were kids that were like, we're gonna sue. You're ruining our planet. They say the Republican stoking of global warming violations there, it violates their constitutional rights. Republicans lying about this is hurting them. Now, a victory for the activists would have much broader implications than their 2023 win, where a state court faulted officials for permitting oil, gas and coal projects without regard for global warming. Now, even if the activists lose in this situation, it could draw attention to Trump's perceived failures to act against climate change. This is from Jon Adler and Jonathan's a climate law expert at William and Mary Law School in Virginia. He said these cases have always been about not just what occurs in the court of law, but also in the court of public opinion. People care about the environment. They would like to be able to breathe air and drink water.
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And I remember we reported on those kids winning that case, and I was just like, oh, my gosh, that's so amazing.
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Yeah.
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So I'm glad they're back to fight against this, you know, and they'll be testifying, they'll be saying stuff like, you know, wildfires are bad for my lungs, you know.
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Yeah. Which is true.
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It's you. You were violating my Montana constitutional right to, you know, life. So congratulations to these kids for standing up and fighting. I really hope they win. But like you said, it's not necessarily about winning in the court of law, but also the court of public opinion. So. All right, everybody, we have some good trouble, but it's going to be first up in the good news, which we'll get to right after this break. Stick around. We'll be right back after these messages. We'll be right back. Hey, everybody. Delete me makes it easy, quick and safe to remove your personal data online. At a time when surveillance and data breaches are common enough to make everyone vulnerable, it's easier now than ever for strangers to track down your personal information online. Your phone number, home address, email addresses, relatives, names that can all be exposed with just a few clicks. And once that happens, the consequences can be real. And political partisans, trolls, and other bad actors often weaponize this information to target people. And Deleteme is able to stop that by removing your information from data broker websites. Deleteme shields both individuals and businesses from doxing attempts and identity threats. And it's not just my opinion. The New York Times and Wirecutter has named Deleteme their top pick for data removal services. And we want to thank our sponsor for today's episode, Deleteme. With Deleteme, I can protect both my personal privacy and the privacy of my business. Having a public platform means I cannot take chances with exposure. Every week, there seems to be a new data breach. Hackers leaking Social Security numbers, phone numbers, addresses, and even bank details. Data brokers swoop in and profit from that information and Deleteme works continuously to remove my personal data from those sites and it monitors for new exposures over time. For me, that's true peace of mind knowing my private details aren't floating around for anyone to buy. So take control of your data and keep your private life private by signing up for Delete Me now at a special discount for listeners. Get 20% off your delete me plan when you go to JoinDeleteMe.com DailyBeans and use promo code code Daily Beans at checkout. Again, the only way to get 20% off is to go to JoinDeleteMe.com Daily Beans and enter code Daily Beans at checkout. Once again, join delete me.com daily beans code daily Beans you will be glad you did. 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. Good news. And we could use your good news. Please send it to us. We have to microdose. Hope your little bit of good news could change somebody's day and that's a good enough reason to do it right? So if you have any little good thing that's happened to you or something big that's happened to you, that's wonderful. Maybe you want to give a shout out to a loved one, a spouse, a partner, a kid, a parent, yourself. We love self shout outs. Shout out to a government program that's helped you or a loved one or maybe a non profit you think needs some attention or a small business in your area. You can send it all to us@dailybeanspod.com and click on Contact. And all you got to do to get your submission read on the air is pay your POD pet tariff. And that means really just attach a photo. Just attach an awesome photo. It can be a photo of your pet and we can try to guess the breeds in your shelter pup if you want. It can be an adoptable pet in your area and you want to try to help find them a home. It can be a bird watching photo. So it can be a bird or you and your family and friends flipping the bird to trump and musk or whoever you don't like. We love to see that. It can be a photo of your happy place or a family member, or your baby pictures or a random photo of an animal on the Internet. It really just. It doesn't matter. Just send us a picture.
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Send us something that'll make us smile. Please.
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Yes, please. And send it to us@dailybeanspod.com and click on Contact. And as I promised before the break. Here's your good trouble. This comes from Alyssa. Pronouns. She and her good trouble. Indiana's horrific Attorney General is at it again, trying to get people to turn in teachers for not properly mourning Charlie Kirk. He's even set up a portal for teachers to be turned in. Snitch on your teachers. Sure would be a shame if that portal got flooded. A damn shame. And we're going to have a link to that portal. In the show notes, Alyssa says, I've added a pic so you can read his garbage words. Attorney General says Hoosiers. If you have evidence of Indiana educators or school administrators making comments that celebrate or rationalize the assassination of Charlie Kirk, we need to hear from you. These individuals must be held accountable. They have no place teaching our students. Submit evidence through our office's Eyes on Education portal. Together we can expose hate and protect students. Wow. Wow. He was killed at a school shooting, Dude. Together we can expose hate. Blah, blah, blah. Empower parents across Indiana. That guy. So we'll have that link in the show notes for you. And here is the pod pet tariff. Look at these two kitties.
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Oh, sweet babies.
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Thank you, Alyssa, for that good trouble.
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Thank you indeed. This one's from Lori Pronoun. She and her. You mentioned overpass groups on the good news, and I wanted to let you know about a group that I'm a part of. It's the Pittsburgh Overpass Project, otherwise known as pop and we've been putting banners up on the overpasses all around the Pittsburgh area. It's a great group of amazing people. My pet tax is my sweet dog Buddy. I have no idea what his breed is, but I call him a full bred Kentucky box dog. He and his siblings were found dumped in a box on the side of the road in Kentucky. So he came to me through the Paws Across Pittsburgh rescue group. Thank you for the daily beans. You two keep me sane. This is a sweet pup, Laura.
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Look at this box dog, Lori. Excuse me. Oh. So who. Who abandons a dog in a box on the side?
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Not just the dog.
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A litter.
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All the puppies. I'm telling you, pets over people sometimes, man.
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All right, so these are great. Unmask ice. Who would Jesus deport and grab him by the Epstein files? Great overpass signs, Lori. And it's called pop. Pittsburgh Overpass Project, if you'd care to join. Next up is from Steph. Pronouns she and her hi beans. I just want to share a bright spot from the weekend. Love it when the universe just knows you need something walking at the park with Max and Tucker and heading back to the car, we saw something in my door handle. First, I admit I was squinty eyed and concerned. Ba ha ha ha. Then I got closer and some angel gave us this. We were mooed and got an awesome rainbow unicorn. We love it. And just a random act of kindness made us smile. I plan to keep the unicorn and add something new to the bag and pass it on. Thanks for all you do. All right, you've been mooed. This is a random act of kindness. You've been given this gift as a random act of kindness in hopes to bring you joy. You may keep this for yourself or pay it forward to someone else. Moo. And there's a little cow. A little fluffy cow.
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So cute.
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How cool. It's a little rainbow unicorn. That's amazing. That's so cool. And look at the little doggos. Hey.
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I know. Little sniff, sniff.
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Thanks, Steph.
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All right. This one's from Anonymous. No pronouns given. Hello, Illuminati Queens. I wanted to write because I recently made my first trip to the West Coast. I attended a veterinary medicine conference in San Diego. Had a great time. I only regret that I couldn't meet AG while I was there. I did, however, eat amazing food, touch the Pacific Pacific Ocean, and met up with friends and colleagues that I hadn't seen for a while. Being an animal person, the one thing I wanted to do was see the San Diego Zoo. It was amazing. I've included pictures of two of my favorite animals. The zoo's capybaras.
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Yes, the capybaras at San Diego.
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Along with my own herd of guinea pigs, their closest relatives. Closet could be closet relatives. Someone really missed an opportunity to call the Capybar bears guinea pig guinea biggs. As a bonus, I also included my own bird watching photo. I live in West Palm Beach. Oh, geez. And the airport's flight pattern? It goes over Mar a Lago. It was dark outside, so you'll have to take my word for it that I'm flipping off Vladdy boys as we flew back home. Oh, Vladdy's boy As we flew back home. Well said. Your podcast is the only news source I follow consistently. Thank you for your factual reporting, excellent commentary, and of course, the cursing. Thank you for being a bright spot in my day every day. Anonymous, you are welcome. Thank you for the bird photo. And look at these guinea pigs and guinea pigs.
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I love the San Diego Zoo capybaras. They're so good. I mean, all capybaras. But especially, you know, my hometown zoo. Yeah, but look at the guinea pigs. That's so cool. Anonymous I'm sorry we didn't get to meet up, but I'm so glad that you got to have some great food and see the ocean and enjoy our beautiful America's finest city, San Diego.
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Absolutely.
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All right, I'm gonna take the next two here. This one is from Dave. Pronouns he and him. Just wanted to show you a picture of Lily. She's the alpha of the house and she knows it over the other two cats and the dog. Very loving, no nonsense and takes crap from no one. Love the work you and Dana do. Please don't ever stop. Look at this sweet ginger baby.
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So sweet.
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Thank you Dave. And from Dan, he and him I have a nonprofit shout out. It's right up your alley as John Fugelsang has been associated with it from way back during the teabagger days of the Bush Admin. And that's where I first met him. Drinking Liberally is a social group for left leaning and progressive people. It is built around regular gatherings to relax with like minded people in your area where you can plan your activism, regenerate your spirit with your favorite spirits, learn about local news and get different viewpoints from people who are very much like the Beans community. It was started in 2004 by Justin Krebs and Katrina Baker and they are awesome. They built an organization that supports drinking Liberally chapters around the country as well as laughing liberally, comedy shows, reading liberally, book clubs and dining liberally groups for foodies. There are chapters all over the place. I try to look them up whenever I travel for work or family and it's lovely to join a group for an evening where you know you'll fit right in and make some new friends instantly. And if your town doesn't have a chapter, start one. It's the easiest thing to do. I started my chapter in 2006 and we've been meeting ever since, except during COVID One of our proudest accomplishments was founding my town's Pride event 13 years ago.
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Nice.
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We also ran our local soup kitchen one day per month for many years. The latest chapter to open is South Lake Tahoe, so if you're in the area there are friends waiting for you. Check out livingliberally.org for all the details. That's a great organization. My PodBet Tariff is our granddaughter Cedar Wallace. Great name who's every bit as joyful adventurer as he appears to be. We don't see enough of the guy since my son moved to Portland and we miss him greatly. And we miss our son too. I love that too. We miss our son too. And we don't know anything about his genealogy. He's just a happy dog. Anyway, I love all your shows and I want to encourage others to become patrons if possible. Oh, thank you so much, Dan. I appreciate that. Thanks to you both. Look at the dog.
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Oh, the baby.
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Very adorable, Dan.
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Thank you.
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Oh, by the way, Dana, we've had tons of people donate 1 year premium patron memberships.
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That's awesome.
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So if you want to sign up to get one, you can do that by going to DailyBeansPod.com and right on the front page, scroll down, you'll see patrons helping patrons. You can sign up to get a free premium Patreon subscription from an amazing anonymous donor or you can anonymously donate for a year to somebody who needs it. It's 36 bucks for the whole year. And if you want to sign up and become a patron yourself, you can do that@patreon.com mullershiroad it really helps us out, supports independent media. So thank you, Dan.
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All right, this is from Amy Pronoun Sheer and her hello AG and dg. With the heaviness of all the chaos and destruction we're facing, I have discovered some new things that bring me joy. Being intentional with my self care has been a priority for me even more these days. Sharing pictures of a sunset kayak adventure with Joy Friend, my latest paint by numbers creation and my granddaughter showing off her monet Starry Night. I bring her my leftover paint when I get down to San Diego to visit and she loves it. She began singing Twinkle twinkle little star all on her own and she painted the sky for me. Just another reminder of us to disconnect and find things that bring us and spread joy.
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Oh, amazing.
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God, you are talented artist too. My God, we have so many. Amy, this is gorgeous. And I love the starry nights. Love the starry nights. I know that's not the song, but.
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I love a rainy night. Right, right, right. And isn't that Van Gogh? Not Monet. Anyway, it's beautiful. It's fantastic.
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It is Van Gogh. And we'll do a little just some corrections before so no one has to ride in. Starry nights is definitely Van Gogh.
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And look at that beautiful kayak. That's amazing with the sunset.
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Yes, it is Van Gogh.
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A
Yeah. The Vincent song, right? By Don McLean.
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B
Yeah. I had did one of my riverboats with Olivia TR Travel. Ladies, if you've never been on one and you'd like to Sign. Oh, I thought you meant right now. I was like, no, it's not now.
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A
I gotta go. That was gonna talk about Olivia cruise. I guess I don't get final thoughts for today.
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B
This people.
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A
No, I gotta go on an Olivia cruise, you nerd.
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There is one that goes through the wine country of like Burgundy and it stops in the place where Van Gogh painted. And I got to go to the little studio where Van Gogh did Starry Nights and, or, or the bridge. Anyway, you get to do this little painting class. It's one of the excursions on the riverboat and not bad. I did my little Van Gogh with the original and I had my next to it. It was pretty good.
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Oh, I'll have to see that. I'll have to check it out.
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Yeah, I'll send you a picture. I should put pictures of the shit I talk about in the Patreon. Good news.
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Amazing. Amazing. Everybody, thank you so much for your good news. I was reminded of a story me and my friends when I was very young. Young, we're hanging out and partying and we took some Glow in the Dark play doh Dana and put it on like I made a little Mr. Potato head out of the lamp. Out of my lamp and put a. Put a black light bulb in the lamp so it glowed. And then we all sat there and were marveling at our wonderful art creation. And then the ear fell off.
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B
Oh boy.
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And somebody said, oh my God, it's Van Gogh. And I said, no, it's Van Glow. And then we laughed for like 20 minutes, I'm sure. So any fun little stories like that that you have of you and your friends hanging out when you were young?
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Yeah, definitely.
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Send it to us in the good news. Dailybeanspot.com click on contact and to be a patron again. Patreon.com Mueller she wrote. Thank you all so, so very much for listening. We're going to be back in your ears tomorrow. And until then, please take care of yourselves. Take care of each other, take care of the planet, take care of your mental health, take care of your family. Set it it.
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I think so.
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I'm an ag.
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I've been dg.
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