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Tuesday, June 30, 2026 Today, Supreme Court rulings come down in E. Jean Carroll, the president’s ability to fire members of multi-member boards, geofence warrants, Dershowitz, and mail-in ballots being counted after election day as we await rulings in two transgender rights cases, campaign finance, and birthright citizenship; Trump says work will begin on the DC municipal golf course despite a judge’s warning; a heat dome could bring triple-digit temperatures to the Midwest and Eastern United States; Massachusetts pauses tax breaks for data centers; an election worker says she was confronted by ICE agents over a social media post; plus Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.
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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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Msw media.
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News whispering
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daily beans.
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Daily beans. Daily beans.
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Daily beans. Hello and welcome to the Daily beans for Tuesday, June 30, 2026. Today, Supreme Court rulings come down in Eugene Carroll. The president's ability to fire members of multi member boards, geofence warrants Alan Dershowit' and mail in ballots being counted after election Day as we await rulings in two transgender rights cases, campaign finance and birthright citizenship. Trump says work will begin on the DC Municipal golf course despite a judge's stern warning a heat dome could bring triple digit temperatures to the Midwest and Eastern United States. Massachusetts pauses tax breaks for data centers. And an election worker says she was confronted by ICE agents over a social media post. I'm Alison Gill.
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And I'm Dana Goldberg.
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Yay, you're back.
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I'm back, I'm back. Thanks for covering me. I had a really full, amazing, some heartbreaking like last five, six days, but I just, I really appreciate you. There was so much joy in the Pride parade in New York as well as Dyke March in New York. And my partner and I had to go to a celebration of life. And so I will say this to anybody who thinks there are heart issues in their family, please go get checked, get a full workup. If you feel anything in your body that does not feel right, push it. Make sure that you get the answers you need. Don't necessarily take, oh, you're fine, whatever, anything. Trust your body and make sure you get checked because we lost someone very young from a heart attack. So do me a favor, do yourself a favor and just make sure you take care of your heart health. I would appreciate it.
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Thank you so much for that. That's really, really great and important advice for everybody listening to. Always remember to take care of yourselves. Like we say yes at the end of every show. There's some science thing that came out in a magazine today that shows personal MRNA vaccines actually help prevent melanoma resurgence in, like, 70% of patients. So there's some actually really, like, really beneficial side effects, and I hate to call them side effects because we always connotate side effects with negative things.
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Ye.
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But additional things that happen with MRNA vaccines, particularly with dementia and cancer. And so I'm looking forward to more research on that.
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I'm just happy research is still happening. Fucking administration we have. So that is good news.
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Yeah. Which is why, you know, we've told everybody to make sure that you go and comment on the Federal Register on them trying to shut down those science grants. It's just so very important. All right, Big decision day at the Supreme Court because of the time travel, because we record this show the day before things happen. We're going to talk about the Supreme Court rulings that happened on Monday and Tuesday. As you're listening to this, most of you are listening to this. Starting at 10:00am Eastern, 7 Pacific, the Supreme Court's going to release the rest of its rulings for this term. All of them will be out probably by the time you're hearing this, which includes two transgender rights cases, a campaign finance case, and of course, birthright citizenship. But we're going to go over what happened at the Supreme Court on Monday on today's episode. But a lot of big decisions coming down today.
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Yeah, a lot of them. So some of them are going to infuriate you. I even talked to Becky Pepper Jackson, who's one of the plaintiffs in the sports trans community being able to participate in sports. They're not feeling positive. There could be a surprise from the Supreme Court. But I just want, you know, just a reminder to people that the Supreme Court has shown us who they are. And so when they do surprise us. Yes. And if they do not, we continue to fight. So just, just remember that it is justified outrage, but do something with that outrage and make it. Put it into action.
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Bottle it. Put it into action for sure. And one of my Internet friends who I follow, Mark Joseph Stern, has the same predictions that I do for today's rulings. SCOTUS is going to be like, A, trans athletes get screwed, B, another campaign finance law is gutted, and C, birthright citizenship held. And we're all supposed to focus on C and forget about the atrocious decisions that precede it. Let's not, please.
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Yeah, well said.
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We're going to talk about all of that and all of the stuff that comes down today, tomorrow on the Daily Beans. But today we've got a bunch of cases to discuss. So let's hit the hot notes. Hot notes. All right, we're going to start with the bad news first. This comes from cbs. The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that removal protections for members of the Federal Trade Commission are unconstitutional. And they overturned a 91 year old decision that allowed Congress to shield members of certain independent agencies from being fired by presidents at will. The decision from the high court expands the President's power over many independent boards and commissions which Congress has in the past insulated from political pressure by saying their members could only be removed by presidents for cause. Now, in 1935, a decision in a case known as Humphrey's Executor v. United States came down which involved removal protections for the Federal Trade Commission. And the Supreme Court said Congress could restrict the President's ability to fire officials from multi member agencies at will. But the ruling from the high Court's conservative majority in the case Trump v.
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Slaughter, apropos, by the way, that name
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overturns that 90 year old decision and marks the culmination of a years long weakening of the New Deal era precedent. And I want to just tell you what Barb McQuaid posted about this decision and its ramifications because I agree with her on this. Today's decision in Slaughter will destroy the independence of the Merit Systems Protection Board which will have a cascading effect on all federal employees who have been free from political interference for 150 years. The spoils system is back. And it'll, you know, the thing here, Dana, is that basically what it's going to do is that every time a president comes in now, they're going to just fire all these board members and restack them. Every time we have a new president or a new political party president, I should say so it's going to have devastating effects, especially on federal civil service. It's, it's a horrible decision. So that was, that's the bad news out of Supreme Court Monday. And I want to get to some better decisions now.
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Yes, I have some of that for you. This is a little bit better news from abc. The Supreme Court has blocked for now President Donald Trump's unprecedented attempt to fire a board member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. That was Lisa Cook over the allegations of gross negligence and without any formal opportunity for her to even answer the claims. In a 5, 4 ruling, Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the court's majority, upheld limits. It upheld limits Congress imposed on a President's attempt to remove members of the Fed as a legitimate protection of the institution's historical independence and I know that sounds like these two decisions counteract each other. They do in some ways. Now, Cook is a Democrat that was appointed and who has been 10 years, 10 years left on her 14 year term. She had 10 years left. She's going to retain her position for now. She is the first black woman to serve on the Central Bank's advisory committee. Justice Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett dissented in that case.
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Yeah. And again, for them to say the President has the ultimate power to fire members of a multi member board, except for the Fed. We saw this coming because of a decision in Wilcox Harris that happened back in May of 2025 where the Supreme Court said that hinted at this happening. But it doesn't make any sense at all, any legal sense at all that the Fed should be independent, but no other multi member boards can be. The only thing I can think, Dana, is that the rich people who put these people on the Supreme Court doesn't want the Fed to be volatile.
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It's possible. I mean, the person that didn't vote with conservatives was Kavanaugh this time. And I also think there's a lot of smoke and mirror shit going on, like you said, with the decisions that are come down tomorrow of like, all right, they don't trust the Supreme Court. We can't have all the conservative justices on this one. We're going to take a hit. Kavanaugh isn't going to be included. Roberts, you're going to have to go down for this one. I think there's all kinds of conversations behind.
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Yeah, I agree. All right, next from Politico, good news. States are free to count mail in ballots that arrive after election day.
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This is a big deal.
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It's huge. And I'm loathe to praise Amy Coney Barrett and Justice Roberts for doing the right thing by allowing the peasants to have their votes counted. You know, like, and maybe they thought
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this was a safe thing to do given that the fucking post office is trying to take over our elections and blur the lines. Right.
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Because what they're saying is if the ballot is postmarked by election day, it counts. But what if Trump's post office holds onto ballots and doesn't postmark them until after election day and then.
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Or even send them out in the first place.
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Yeah, yeah, or even send them out in the first place. I think there'll be court orders stopping that, but court orders tend not to stop this administration from doing things. But regardless, huge win for democracy today is something that we shouldn't have had to defend in the first place. But these ballots that arrive after Election Day, so long as they're postmarked by Election Day or election officials deem the ballots have been cast on time, they will count. It's a five to four decision. We were one vote away from one person. Could have disenfranchised millions of voters today. Yeah, and that is a big problem. We need to add seats to the Supreme Court. But the five to four decision is a significant loss for Trump, who has sought to crack down on mail in voting ahead of November's midterms. Trump has repeatedly argued without evidence that delays in tabulating votes fuel election fraud by Democrats. No, it's just time is linear and we count. That's it. Trump Justice Department, his Justice Department and the Republican National Committee had actually urged the justices to strike down a Mississippi law that allows officials to count ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but arrive up to five days later. In California, we take seven days. Chief Justice Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett, as I said, join the court's three liberal justices in concluding that federal laws governing House, Senate, and presidential contests are too vague to mandate that all votes must be in the possession of election officials by that day. Justice Thomas Alito, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh dissented. The high court's ruling allows about 30 states to continue their practice of providing a grace period in which some or all late arriving ballots are tallied, if they're postmarked by Election Day or if officials determine they were.
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All right, thank you so much. And this is very good news. No way around this. This is from the Times. The Supreme Court on Monday declined a request by Trump to review a $5 million civil judgment against him after a jury found in 2023 that he did sexually assault. They put abused. I like to put assault there and defame the writer E. Jean Carroll. Now, the announcement by the justices did not include any reasoning and no public dissents were noted. A second case that arose out of Ms. Carol's allegations also could be headed to the Supreme Court. In January 2024, a separate jury ordered him to pay Ms. Carol 83.3 million in damages for defaming her in 2019 after she accused him of a decades old rape. And the only reason she couldn't charge him with rape is because the statute of limitations had expired. Lawyers for Mr. Trump have said they plan to ask that the justices also hear that case. It'd be interesting. I'm surprised they're gonna push it. But still, Monday's decision is a major blow to Donald and is most likely the end of his legal efforts to contest the jury verdict, finding that he did assault Ms. Carol in the mid-1990s in a department store dressing room. Eugene Carroll happens to be 82, writing on substack, declared, we won. This win is for every woman in the world. Her lawyer, badass Robbie Kaplan, said that. And that's Roberta Kaplan, by the way, said that the decision, and I quote, affirms once and for all the jury's unanimous verdict. I'm going to call him by his full name right now. Donald J. Trump sexually assaulted and defamed E. Jean Carroll. His multiple efforts to appeal that verdict have failed, and today's ruling ends his quest to avoid accountability for his actions. Well said, Roberta Kaplan.
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Yeah, time to pay up that $5 million which has been accruing interest this whole time.
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Good.
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So there is now nothing stopping that payment from happening. So I hope it happens soon. And we'll keep an eye on the appeal of the $83.3 million case. I could see maybe the justices stepping in and the conservatives saying it's too much money.
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Right. I could definitely see that happening.
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Right. But we'll keep an eye on it for you. Next up from Politico. The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that people have an expectation of privacy from the government as their mobile devices track them throughout their daily activities, even when that information is shared with companies like Google and Apple. In the 6, 3 decision in Shatri v. United States, it extends Fourth Amendment protections to data that people hand over to tech companies, meaning police will need a warrant to obtain it. Justices Samuel Alito, Amy Coney Barrett and Clarence Thomas dissented. They're Big Brother, folks.
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Yeah.
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The Trump administration argued that users did not have an expectation of privacy after voluntarily sharing their location data with companies like Google. And this is an interesting case. I'm glad that it went this way because of what ICE is trying to do to use geofence, geofencing to find our locations through our phones. But geofencing warrants is also how a lot of the January 6th attackers were caught. However, now that a warrant is required, Dana, it would simply mean that in order to find those January Sixers using geofence, you would have to get a warrant signed by a judge, which I'm sure they could have gotten in all of those cases.
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Yeah. Yeah. All right. More news. This is from the Associated Press. The Supreme Court refused Monday to revive a $300 million defamation lawsuit filed against CNN over its coverage of a prominent attorney's remarks made while defending President Donald Trump during his 2020 impeachment. The majority declined to take up the case. In a brief, unexplained order, Justice Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas dissented, calling on the court to reconsider the legal standards for public figures who claim defamation. Allen I promise I kept my underwear on. Dershowitz said that the news network aired only a portion of the comment during his defense of the president, distorting his meaning to make him look like he lost his mind, according to the court documents, which probably didn't take much.
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Girl, you don't need us to help you.
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The network said that multiple outlets had interpreted his remarks the same way, and Dershowitz couldn't show CNN was trying to mischaracterize what he said. In his appeal, Dershowitz had urged the court to reconsider New York Times Company vs. Sullivan, the landmark First Amendment case that made it harder for public figures to win libel lawsuits because it requires proof that an outlet knowingly published something false or showed a reckless disregard for the truth.
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Oh, like what Fox News had to pay 787 dol.
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That would be correct, Alison.
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Okay, thank you.
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Lower courts tossed out the suit, finding that Dershowitz hadn't shown. CNN acted with, and I quote, actual malice in its reporting, making it fall short of the standard that was set by New York Times Co vs Sullivan.
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That is some good news that we didn't gut Sullivan today because I would have just lost my shit.
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Yeah.
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If that was the case. Oh, my goodness. I was talking to Harry Dunn today for tomorrow's episode. I've cleared up on all 45 and I'm like, oh, maybe he can go get a, you know, if he's depressed, he can go get a pierogi at Martha's Vineyard. No, he can't. No, he can't. No one will serve him. All right, we have some more stories now that we've gotten through what the Supreme Court did today, but we do have to take a quick break, so stick around. We'll be right back after these messages.
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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 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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Foreign.
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Everybody, welcome back. A couple more news stories for you. In other court news, we've covered the Supreme Court. Now we're going to get to some other court news. President Trump, Donald said On Sunday, that work is going to begin September 1st on the public East Potomac Golf Course. Despite Dana. Despite a federal judge's warning of serious consequences if he begins major work without getting approval and notifying her the court in advance. So lawyers for the D.C. preservation League warned that the East Potomac property. This is a municipal golf course in D.C. is well loved. That the East Potomac property would be raised, meaning bulldozed by the Trump administration before anyone could stop it. Like citing the rapid demolition of the White House's East Wing that we saw. And a federal judge warned the administration that it is not to proceed with renovations on East Potomac before getting proper approvals and notifying her first. Here's a quote. Dana, check this quote out. I'm going to say this one more time. And I do not want a situation where something has happened and then I'm being told by the government or by a foundation or by a bulldozing company that it's too late to do anything about it. That's U.S. district Judge Ana Reyes. And she went on to say, if anything like that happens, there are going to be serious consequences.
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Good for her.
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Yeah, we'll see what happens.
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Yeah, no kidding. All right, this next one's from abc. A poll workers said two federal officers visited her at a voting location during New York's primaries to confront her about a social media post that she had written criticizing the ICE officer who fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis. Pagelyn Gonia said that the confrontation happened Tuesday while she was working at a polling place in Syracuse. Two officers gave Gonilla a written notice stating that she might be in violation of federal laws that prevent publicly posting personal information about federal officers. This is public knowledge. What the fuck?
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I know. She just said his name.
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I know. Gagne said the warning stemmed from a post she made on social media in January in which she posted a picture of Jonathan Ross, an ICE officer who shot and killed Good in Minneapolis during an anti ice demonstration that month. We all know the story. We covered it in depth in the post. Gonyea wrote, and I quote, I think today is a great day for Jonathan to be indicted. Gonyea's post, which she made after Ross had already been identified by the news media. It's still up. She said she had no intention of taking it down. Another worker at the polls Tuesday recorded the encounter on the phone. The video shows two uniformed people coming into the polling place and talking briefly with Konya, who refused to sign a warning letter. Gonier, a letter posted the letter on social media. The unsigned letter states that it's from ICE's Office of Professional Responsibility, whose primary mission is investigating allegations of misconduct by ICE personnel and contractors.
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The Office of Professional Responsibility doesn't investigate citizens.
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Yeah.
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It investigates ICE officers.
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I did see online, a lot of people saw this story and reposted her post in solidarity and kept putting it up.
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Yeah, I actually, I think I posted on Blue Sky. I was like, jonathan Ross murdered Renee. Good. Sue me. I think we're up to 25,000 likes on that post. People are like, you like saying somebody's name who has been identified by other news organization and major news outlets is not doxing. That's what the DOJ was in the. And the HSI was calling this. So you dot and they wanted her to sign a thing saying she doxed him. Like, no, get the fuck out. Yeah. Absolutely ridiculous. All right, next up from the Times, a dangerous and prolonged heat wave. There's one in Europe right now that's the temperatures are just insane. But now there's going to be a heat dome expected to build across central and eastern parts of the United States this week with forecasters warning that temperatures could soar. Dana. Into the triple digits.
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Yeah, it looks bad even in this city. In New York City, it's going to hit 100.
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Yeah. And it's going to reach record breaking levels in some areas into the Fourth of July holiday weekend. From the Midwest to the east coast, temperatures are forecast to reach the 90s to the low 1/ hundreds. That's Marc Chouinard, a meteorologist at the Weather Prediction Center. Parts of the east, particularly across the Mid Atlantic and Northeast, could see temperatures climb above 100 degrees easily. Quote, Washington D.C. will almost certainly exceed 100 on at least one or two days. That's what Chouinard said. And Philadelphia and New York City also currently forecast to go over 100. That is devastating considering, you know, people think, oh, Phoenix is 110 all the time. Yeah, they have. Every house in Phoenix has air conditioning. Every car has air conditioning. All the windows are tinted. They're built for that.
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Yeah, exactly.
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That's not what it's built. We're built for snow. We like I'm still in Cleveland or something. The Midwest and the north is built for snow.
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Yeah.
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But not 100 degree heat. And that's kind of what we're seeing over in Europe right now where, you know, they're like, can we just have air conditioning? And they're getting all this all pushback and.
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Ugh.
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Anyway, stay cool, everybody.
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Yeah. New York puts out all kinds of text Messages. There's going to be cooling areas for the, you know, the shaded areas.
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Cooling areas.
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So many, so many, so many.
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Good, good.
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Speaking of east coast, this is from cbs. Massachusetts Governor Lovely lesbian Mara Healey said Thursday that she's going to pause tax breaks for data centers in the state and released a framework that addresses concerns about their impact on cities and towns. She said, I'm halting any tax initiatives for data centers until we have strong protections in place for our residents and communities against higher gas and electric bills. This is what Healy said in a statement. Data centers can support innovation and economic growth, but if developers want to build in Massachusetts, they're going to need to first demonstrate that they can do so without driving up costs or harming our communities. Massachusetts passed the qualified data center sales and use tax exemption in 2024. It gives data centers a 20 year tax exemption if they meet certain eligibility requirements, such as maintaining or Creating at least 100 jobs. 100 jobs in the state within five years of certification.
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Yeah. So that's what she's putting on hold, right?
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Yeah. Guidelines released by Healy's administration call on data center operators to, and I quote, bring your own clean energy to meet 100% of demand and minimize or mitigate air and noise pollution. They also say that communities, and I quote, should not face water scarcity and added systems or infrastructure costs due to data centers operations. So I mean, there's been so many things. AOC has brought in water, drinking water from cities where data centers been, and it's like literally brown. Like these things are destroying the environment.
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Yeah. And guess who suffers? The most marginalized communities.
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Absolutely.
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And that's why we need climate justice. But yeah, I mean, I guess it's a step. I like what Seattle did, just ban data centers outright.
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Yeah.
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There are dozens of data centers in Massachusetts. I didn't know that. I think that, you know, while I appreciate the bring 100% of your own clean energy, like you gotta power your own thing and it has to be with 100% renewable energy. While I appreciate that, like you said, Dana, it doesn't address the water problems, that doesn't address the environmental issues that can happen. There are companies right now in Arizona trying to use the Colorado river water for their own data centers. And the people are pushing back and this is a bipartisan thing. Nobody likes data centers right now.
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100 jobs in five years. You're not telling me that AI is going to take over most of this shit? First of all, are we talking about the people that are cleaning the data centers? The people that are. Do you know what I mean? Are those the jobs we're talking. What are you talking about? 100 jobs in five years they don't have.
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You're going to have 100 people to. In a call center to take complaints about your data center? Is that like, I don't know. Nobody works at a data center. It's just, they're ridiculous. And for people like, I can't remember which was it Jim Jordan. Somebody was saying, oh, oh, it was Jeff Bezos, that humans were taking up water needed for his data center. Like, because we need drinking water and things like that. It's just insane. Anyway, thank you for that report, everybody. We've got good news, but we have to take a quick break. Stick around. We'll be right back. History is messy. It's weird, wild, and anything but boring. Rainy Day Rabbit Holes is a history podcast about unhinged stories that make you stop and ask, wait, is this real life?
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Msw, Everybody. Welcome back. It's time for the good news, everyone. Then, good news, everyone. And if you have any good news or good trouble suggestions, and let me tell you, your good news can be small. It can be big. It can be from last week or 40 years ago. It doesn't matter. It can just be a fun story that you like to tell when you're sitting around with your friends. Anything that'll bring a smile to our face, you can send a shout out. For example, like if you want to tell us how amazing your spouse or your partner is or your kids or your parents or how amazing you are. Because everyone who listens to this show is utterly and completely spectacular, and we would like to hear about it. You can also send in government programs that have helped you or a loved one. You can give a shout out to a nonprofit in your area or some great community organizing or activism that you're seeing. Are you hosting a postcard writing party? Send us some pictures of it. And speaking of pictures, that's all you gotta do to get your stuff on the air, by the way, is to submit a photo. It can be like that. It can be stuff you're making or creating. It can be if you got chickens or goats or cats or anything at all. It can be baby pictures, a sunset, a funny meme, whatever it is you flipping a bird to a Trump property. Like we did with our Mass Flock of Bird Watching photo in Chicago when we went to the gala. Send it all to us dailybeanspod.com click on Contact First Up Is yous Good Trouble the Good Trouble Lives On Weekend of Action July 17 through the 19th this July 17 to 19 honor the legacy of Congressman John Lewis by taking action in your community during the Good Trouble Lives On Weekend of Action. Inspired by John Lewis Call to Make Good Trouble and Necessary Trouble, this nationwide weekend brings people together to organize, educate and engage in peaceful, nonviolent civic action. Under this year's theme, Teach, Reach, Preach, communities across the country will host Teach ins, Voter Education events, voter registration drives, faith gatherings, candlelight vigils, and community events dedicated to strengthening our democracy and protecting the freedom to vote. So it's all about voting rights this weekend or July 17, the weekend of Good Trouble. Whether you're a longtime organizer or simply looking for a meaningful way to get involved, there's a place for you. You can attend an event near you, volunteer or even host your own event to help educate, empower and inspire your community. Every generation is called to defend democracy, strengthen it and pass it on. So find an event, register your own and learn more@goodtroubleliveson.org There is a Good Trouble Lives On Host training. That's Thursday. This Thursday, July 2nd, 7:00pm Eastern Time. And we'll have a link in the show notes where you can join for that training for the Good Trouble Lives on Weekend of Action. And of course, this is the last day for you to. Well, you don't. I mean, you can donate after this
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day, but this is for the reflection of us.
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Yes, by going to trevorproject.org beans and thank you so very much. I might keep this going through July because, you know, July is Pride Month in San Diego.
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It is, it is, it is.
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So we get two whole months.
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I like that you have it late there.
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Yeah. And then I just left up all the pride stuff. Now it's just year round, so.
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As it should be.
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As it should be. Anyway, thanks. That's your Good Trouble, everybody.
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All right. From John F. Pronouns, he and him. I recently found the little poem I wrote in fifth grade. This was 32 years ago to a Vietnam vet, US Army Captain George Lewis Miner, who shared my birthday. On my trip to D.C. this weekend to show my daughter the founding documents, I made a stop at the wall and dropped it off at his panel. The second picture is some minor bird watching at the Department of Justice. John, this is really, really amazing.
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Truly incredible. By the way, that wall, that monument, that memorial is phew. It's beautifully designed, but it's got so much impact.
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Yeah, agreed.
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Incredible. All right, next up from Cheryl and Chris. Hi, AG and dg. As devoted members of the Leguminati and residents of Ohio District 12, my husband and I would like to shout out Navy veteran Jared Christian, who is the Democratic candidate running against Troy Balderson. We need him representing us in D.C. attached as a pod pet photo, there are pictures of our pups who have crossed the Rainbow Bridge. Merle and Mikey, they were a blank cross and a blank. And we'll have a link in the show notes to get more information about Jared Christensen in Ohio's District 12. Look at these babies. What do you think?
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We got a. I look like bulldogs, but one of them has a much longer redaction bar than the other.
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Yeah. And like a French bulldog maybe, mixed with a. What's the dog that smiles?
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Oh, my God, the last one is so cute.
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You know, the dog that smiles a lot.
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The.
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Yeah, what am I thinking of? That. Not a boxer, but like a. It looks like kind of a tiny boxer that smiles.
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Those are. Oh, my God. Boston terrier.
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Yeah, it looks like a Boston terrier. Pity. Or something like that. And then a bulldog. Basset hound maybe. I don't know. Let's see. Let's see what we got. We have a beel, which is a beagle bulldog and an American bulldog.
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Okay.
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All right.
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This Bebo is adorable.
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Here I am trying to think of Boston Terry's nowhere near anything. But I'm going to take this next short one too from Anonymous. In Kodiak, Alaska, Dan J. Sullivan, otherwise known as Alaska Dan, is back on the ballot after the court sided against the Alaska Division of Elections and our current senator, Ohio Dan Sullivan. Pet tariff is fonz by my office. And a picture of the Kodiak Channel. These are beautiful, beautiful photos. And Anonymous from Kodiak. I think yesterday I reported on the fact Dana, there's another Republican named Dan Sullivan who wanted to run for Senate in Alaska. And the original Dan Sullivan got all mad and the RNC got all mad saying that he's in cahoot with the Democrats to try to split the vote and confuse people. And at first their equivalent of the Board of Elections said the new Dan Sullivan can't be on the ballot. But the court came in and said, yes, he can. Now I can go to the Alaska Supreme Court. But if they don't overturn it, there's going to be two Dan Sullivan Republican Dan Sullivans on the ballot in the primary election in August.
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Oh my God. That's very funny when this stuff happens. All right, this is from Mark H. Pronouns he and him. Found this in the wilds of Newtown, North Carolina. Just good to see in the deep red area that I live in. And the writing on the car says true patriots don't beat law enforcement with flag freedom over fascism. Put politicians on minimum wage and watch how fast things change.
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Nice.
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That's awesome.
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Yeah, totally.
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This is from Annie Pronoun she and her I've been annoyed by how hard it is to contact SCOTUS members, but today I know, try buying them a gift, Annie. Try bribing them.
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Or do you have $350,000 motor coach or a yacht?
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Would you like to pay for their nephew's college tuition? They respond very quickly. She says, I've been annoyed by how hard it is to contact SCOTUS members, but Today I used docupost.com to send each of the six jerks on the court a bright shiny 6 inch by 9 inch postcard that I made in PowerPoint and uploaded. I'm so pleased by the idea of my noisy postcard being seen by lots of people that I'm mailing them to other shitty politicians too. Postcard front is attached and those are a lot of white hoods.
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Yeah, all six conservatives have clan hoods and it says impeach. Robert Zolito, Thomas Kavanaugh, Barrett Gorsuch talks about bought and paid for by billionaire members of the Epstein class. Very nice Annie. Good trouble. All right, next up from Anonymous Pronoun she her hello ladies of the Beans crew. I'm listening to the good news and the varying opinions regarding abc. I'd like to offer a different perspective. Dana asked what people thought of ABC fighting back to protect the View from and you know their channel from FCC and Brendan Carr because ABC way early on had settled a case with Trump for $15 million and I'm like which side are you on? Most people are like we support abc. So this is a different point of view from Anonymous I left healthcare after 20 years at the end of 2025 and I'm now doing everything I can to support those still in the field. My husband is a television engineer, exact job title completely escaping my perimenopausal brain but but also for 20 years both fields have been under attack by this administration and in different ways we are watching the potential destruction of both. After one too many suggestions from management about managing my time for the benefit of the office and covering three providers worth of patients alone on multiple occasions. I noped out. Now hubby works for discovery. The employees own stock in the company and more than once voted against the Paramount deal. Needless to say, they feel unheard and unsettled. There's uncertainty about jobs. No one trusts that they'll have one once Paramount has officially taken over. Now there are real people who are affected by these battles with Trump and his rich cronies. My family is decidedly stressed. All of this to say I don't care what they did before. If they're fighting the power hungry asshole who doesn't care who gets hurt in his bid for world domination, I'm here for it and I hope more join the fight as tax and a palate cleanser I offer this squirrel who tried to join my daughter and I for lunch in the park. I was all for it. Kiddo was freaked out. Go figure. Love to you all. Look at the little squirrel. Very good point Anonymous. I mean there's so many jobs that are just, you know, like ripples out in a pond that are touched by this shit, you know?
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100% absolutely. All right. From Stacey Pronouns she and her thank you lady warriors for all you do in getting us the news. As a resident of Pennsylvania, I could go on about John Fetterman and the terrible disappointment he' become, but that's a topic for a different day. This is about ABC finally standing up to Trump and actually overall the people that once supported him that have shifted. As a Trump supporter. In 2016, I learned very quickly what a horrific mistake I had made in voting for him. I'm all for giving people the opportunity to step away from poor judgment and to quote, see the light as I did. The majority of my relatives voted for him three times. Some are finally saying what a true nightmare he is. It's the propaganda from all the right wing stations, podcasts, the other news sources. They're all buried in the still fool them. Everything has been such a firehose of unprecedented happenings that I think that companies and people have a hard time really comprehending how bad it's gotten. But I see the cracks. I welcome them in as those that never made my mistake welcomed me in. What a great sentence. Judging them and making them feel bad that they had been fooled by for so long gets us nowhere. It's about bringing those back into the fold and coming together to help our country recover. It's just my two cents, my pod pet tax, my friend's adorable rescue dog. He's the sweetest boy and she stops by with him on walks to visit. No one could really guess what he was, so she did a dog DNA. What do you think he is? Thank you for all you do. I couldn't start my day without you.
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Okay, that's a long redaction box.
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Seriously.
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So this is gonna be one of those that has like chow, chow and pity and staffy in it. But I also see like it's got a German shepherd body, but like a cocker spaniel head.
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Maybe there's some rottweiler in there. That's a big. That's a big snout. I wish I knew how big the
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dog was, but like a lab or something. Let's see.
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Yeah, let's see. All kinds of stuff.
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Pitbull chow. Oh, look, Pug. Really? Springer spaniel, not cocker spaniel.
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There you go, Beagle.
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Rottweiler. You got that one. German shepherd. We got everything pretty much. Except the pug. So I'm gonna say we did well on this.
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Yes, we did well.
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Well done. Very good. And thank you for sharing that, Stacy. Appreciate you.
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Yeah.
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Next up from Sandy B. Pronoun. She and her greetings fabulous frijoles regarding Good Trouble and Goats of Anarchy. Hey chums. I'm writing from rural New Jersey and am a proud blue beacon in a tumultuous red sea. My Good Trouble is visibility brigade over an interstate that goes from New York to Pennsylvania. Our spot is near that shithole golf course I joined a year ago. We had a dozen patriots on the bridge and our group has grown exponentially so big. So a big shout out to the organizers of our posse of gray hairs and hippies. It's fun to read comments on the interstate local commiserators group about the old people on the overpass. Again, don't they have jobs? My stock reply is looks like they worked their whole lives, jackass. Now they're fighting for your future. You're welcome. Attached is a photo of our last action for my shout out. I was working at a house with goats today and booped this guy. Photo below my bracelet reminded me of one of my favorite New Jersey based charities, Goats of Anarchy. Can you say goat yoga? It's a sanctuary for farm animals and disabled barnyard beasts. And their website is goatsofanarchy.org. they do amazing work and have great programs. And in closing, I look forward to seeing you live when you come to the northeast. Thank you for creating this community of exceptional people fighting the good fight. You are the goats and we legumes are grateful Bleats and blessings. Sandy B. All right, there's a boop on the goats and let's see, 47 is looting America and Iran war art of the bad deal. Fantastic on the i78 there in Hunterdon County. I wonder if I'm saying that right. Central New Jersey. Thank you so much for that and that good trouble, Sandy. And thanks to everybody for sending your good news in. Dana, I'm so glad you're back. We're going to be back in your ears tomorrow. Do you have any final thoughts before we get out of here today?
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No, I just appreciate you all happy to be back.
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All right, we'll see you 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
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hello, Martin Sheen here, and it seems to me that no day of the week is without its endless barrage of bad news. Even on Sunday. For God's sake, let's change that. What do you say? Together, let's make Sunday immune to bad news. Available now every Sunday. Season three of the Martin Sheen Podcast with yours truly, Martin sheen has begun. Yeah, 10 brand new episodes are already underway. So join me, Martin sheen, for a 20 minute journey as I share my personal stories, a bit of poetry, and insightful reflections that will encourage you to take a deep breath and enjoy a relaxing moment. Of course, it's important to know and understand what's happening in the world, but I also believe there's nothing wrong with taking a step back to find strength and clarity. And Lord knows we need that now more than ever. A moment of thoughtfulness and calm may be rare these days, but it doesn't have to be. So what do you say? You want to take back your Sundays? So do I. And guess what? I've already done it. With the Martin Sheen Podcast, Season three. Available now. Don't mess with my Sunday. And thank you for listening.