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MSW Media. News we're swearing daily beans jelly beans. Daily beans. Daily beans. Hello and welcome to the Daily beans from Monday, February 23, 2026. Today, an armed man has been fatally shot at Mar A Lago. A judge scolded Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing their douche glasses at a social media trial. The Labor Secretary's husband has been barred from the department after sexual assault reports. DHS admits its website showcasing the worst of the worst immigrants is full of shit. And the Supreme Court strikes down Trump's sweeping tariffs. My co host Allison Gill is on vacation, so I'm your host, Dana Goldberg. Hey everyone, Happy Monday. Welcome to the Daily Beans. As you know, Allison is on a much deserved vacation, so I'm going to be in the pilot's seat all week. I just got back from Cincinnati. I had an HRC gala. Cincinnati, one of my favorite cities in the country. It truly is. And we've got. 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So let's do it. Let's hit the hot notes. Hot notes. All right, first up, this one's from the New York Times. An armed was shot and killed by law enforcement officers, including agents from the Secret Service, after he entered the secure perimeter at Mar A Lago. As we know, that's where President Trump lives when he's not at the White House, home of many crimes, location of many crimes that we've been covering. Sheriff Rick Bradshaw of the Palm beach county said that the man was Austin Tucker Martin. He was 21, from Cameron, North Carolina. He said officials confirmed Mr. Martin's identity through his driver's license. He was confronted inside the north gate of the Mar A Lago complex. He was carrying what appeared to be a shotgun and a fuel canister. This is what the Secret Service said. Sherrod Bradshaw said during a news conference on Sunday that the man was told by law enforcement officers to drop the items he was holding. So apparently the guy put down the canister, but he raised the shotgun in a shooting position, which prompted the dispatched officers to open fire, and they killed him. There was at least two Secret Service agents and a Palm beach county officer. They were involved in that shooting. This is from the sheriff. Investigators with the FBI, the Secret Service and the sheriff's office are all handling that investigation. So, as we know, the episode on Sunday, it was not the first one involving an armed suspect at one of Trump's properties in Florida. Specifically, I think you all remember, In September of 2024, Secret Service agents opened fire on Ryan Routh, who was standing with a rifle near a chain link fence in the perimeter of Trump's golf courses while the President was playing a round of gol. As we know, he was convicted of trying to assassinate Donald. He was sentenced to life in prison earlier this month. I'm not sure if you heard the verdict on that one, but that's how that case ended. And as we know, that assassination attempt followed an attack on Donald a few weeks earlier. This one is more questionable for me. And that was July 2024. This is the one we're talking about in Butler, Pennsylvania, where that lone gunman climbed onto a roof that was just hundreds of feet from the podium where Donald was giving a campaign speech. As we know, one of the bullets, and the story says, or fragments of, struck Mr. Trump on his right ear. The gunman, Thomas Crooks, was shot and killed at the scene. So there's another attempt. And can I just say this, Please don't make this man a martyr. Let cholesterol do its job, and let's just take a natural way out, please. We know it's not gonna be too long. Stop trying to take the President's life, please. And you know, I don't endorse anything like that. Just let nature take its course. All right, this one is from CBS News. A California judge admonished members of Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing Ray Ban Meta AI glasses. Now, the thing about these glasses, they're equipped with a camera. They were wearing them as they entered a Los Angeles courtroom on Wednesday for a really important trial over the impact of social media on children. And listen, I don't make fun of everyone that wears sunglasses inside, because sometimes I do. But these douchebags knew they weren't supposed to wear these things. And this is a quote. The judge upbraided the Meta team and said, if you guys have recorded anything, you have to dispose of it or I will hold you in contempt. Because these glasses, like I said, they have a recording device on them. This is from Jacob Ward. He's a technology journalist and the host of Rip Current podcast. That's what he told CBS News, calling the incident an extraordinary misstep by Meta. Now, it's unclear if Zuckerberg's team had the glasses on inside the courtroom or how long they were wearing them. Meta didn't obviously respond to a request for comment. See, the use of the recording devices and cameras is generally banned in Los Angeles County Superior Court, and I quote, judicial officers have the discretion to place limitations on video recording and photography in their courtroom. This is a Superior Court of Los Angeles county spokesperson. That's what they told CBS News, citing local and state rules. Judge Caroline Kuhl, who is presiding over that trial, ordered anyone in the courtroom wearing AI glasses to immediately remove them, noting that any use of facial recognition technology to identify the jurors was banned. Now do you see why this is so fucking dangerous? These guys can record with these things, so they were smart enough to tell them to take them off. The judge said, this is very serious. Meta's glasses, by the way, they retail for between 300 and $800, and as I said, they're equipped with a camera that can take photos and record video. Zuckerberg was in court to testify as part of the trial over whether Meta and Alphabet owned YouTube, deliberately designed their social media platforms to encourage compulsive usage by young people. I can tell you they do. There's a whole movie around it. The plaintiffs behind the suit, identified only by their initials, kgm, alleged that using social media from a young age caused her to become addicted and harmed her mental health. So obviously, we're going to be able to cover that case as it proceeds, but we just wanted to cover the fact that these guys thought it was okay to wear their glasses inside a courtroom where there's jurors that have a right to their privacy. Up next, I got another one from the New York Times. This one has a little bit of a trigger warning for sexual assault. The husband of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez. I think it's Darimer. And since I don't have AG here to correct me if one of you know that I'm saying that wrong, please send it a correction. When you are invited to. And you know you always are. But the husband of the labor secretary has been barred from the department's headquarters after at least two. Two female staff members told officials that he had sexually assaulted Them. This is according to people familiar with the decision and a police report obtained by the New York Times. The woman said Ms. Chavez de Riemer's husband. This guy's name is Doctor, which I don't love. Sean de Rimmer, had touched them inappropriately at the Labor Department's building on Constitution Avenue. One of the incidents during working hours on the morning of December 18, it was recorded on office security cameras. Now, the video showed Dr. Darimer giving one of the women an extended embrace and was reviewed as part of a criminal investigation. In January, the women's concerns about Dr. Darimer, he happens to be 57, were raised as part of an internal investigation by the department's inspector general into alleged misconduct by Ms. Chavez de Reimers and her senior staff. Okay, so this was a whole different investigation. On January 24, Washington's Metropolitan Police Department filed a report about forced sexual contact in December at the Labor Department. That's according to their own report, which was viewed by the Times after the women described the incidents to investigators. Dr. Dreamer, he was barred from entering the Labor Department's premises. Remember, this is his wife's place of work. And this is according to people familiar with the decision who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of allegations in the ongoing investigations surrounding the department. But this is a quote. If Mr. Dreamer attempts to enter, he is going to be asked to leave. This is a building restriction notice viewed by the Times. This was a notice that was put up. Dr. Darimer, an anesthesiologist. That just gives me the fucking creeps in Portland, Oregon, who frequently visited his wife's Washington offices, did not respond to a request for comment. A spokesperson for the Department of Labor didn't provide a comment. A lawyer representing his wife, Ms. Chavez Darimer, Inspector General investigation, didn't comment on the story. This widening misconduct scandal at the Labor Department, it's forced several aides and members of the security staff in Ms. Chavez Darimer's inner circle on administrative leave and investigative leave. The inspector General's office is investigating a formal complaint that Ms. Chavez Darimer was having an inappropriate sexual relationship with a subordinate. So apparently both of them are completely inappropriate here. And this is a member of her security detail. That's who they're saying it was with a member of her security detail. They're also accusing her of abusing her office by taking staff to strip clubs, drinking alcohol on the job, taking personal trips at taxpayer expenses. I mean, I'm not gonna lie. It sounds like a fun time being on her staff. As long as you're not one of the people she's having an affair with or one of the people that her husband is sexually assaulting anyway. Her lawyers have denied all these allegations. President Trump, not surprisingly, nominated Ms. Chavez D. Reamer as his Labor Secretary in late 2024. She was confirmed in March of last year. She was a Republican congresswoman from Oregon before losing her bid for reelection in 2024. During her tenure as labor secretary, thousands of department employees have been pushed out of the federal service. Her department also broadcast social media messages that echoed those used by white nationalists. These two sound like a fucking pair of peaches. I just, it feels like everyone in this administration, my God, it's like a prerequisite to be a Republican now. All right, everyone. This next story is from cnn, the Department of Homeland Security. This is a rare thing that happens. They actually admitted that their website, featuring what they're calling the worst of the worst arrested immigrants, was rife with errors and changed the site this week after receiving questions from CNN about it. So they admitted that they had fucked up, which is, like I said, really rare. DHS created the website in December, and the agency and as we know, puppy killer Kristi Noem and the White House, they've all heavily promoted it on social media as the Trump administration has sought to justify their aggress and heavily scrutinized immigration enforcement operations. So the website currently lists about 25,000 people along with the crimes the agency says that they were arrested for, convicted of, including many who were initially linked only to relatively minor offenses. But DHS this week conceded its website was filled with inaccuracies after receiving questions about a CNN analysis of the website. A DHS spokesperson admitted on Tuesday that the charges against hundreds of immigrants listed on the website were described incorrectly by the agency. The spokesperson attributed the inaccuracies to a glitch, really, not incompetence, just a glitch. And they said that DHS worked to remedy that. The spokesperson said on Wednesday that the glitch had been resolved. I think the glitch would be resolved if Kristi Noem got fired. CNN reviewed the website and found that thousands of people listed on the website were described by the agency as being convicted of or arrested for serious charges, including sex crimes or different forms of homicide. But hundreds more who DHS considered the worst of the worst were described as being arrested or convicted on far less serious crimes, including single charges of traffic offenses, marijuana possession, or illegal reentry, a federal felony that involves, by the way, someone re entering the United States after having been previously deported. CNN could not independently verify the descriptions of each of the thousands of people listed on the website. Asked whether drawing an equivalence between traffic offenders and killers might undermine the agency's public messaging about its operations, DHS said that many of those agency listed with single minor crimes had actually been arrested for or convicted of multiple crimes, some of which were more serious. And I quote, this is a glitch on the WOW website. The impacted about 5% of the entries. Not true went on to say many of these who are listed as traffic offenses and illegal reentry, which is a felony, they have additional crimes. This is from a spokesperson. That's what they said, adding the agency was working to fix the issue. The spokesperson did not answer questions about what type of glitch could cause people on the website to be described incorrectly. I can think of a couple and I quote, all of these individuals have been arrested by ice and all of them committed crimes breaking our nation's laws, including some who had felonies for illegal re entry. This is what the spokesperson said. Both the White House and dhf, they had faced intense scrutiny over false and misleading claims, or as we like to call it on the daily beans, lies. Why can't they just print lies in the stories? So they've been intense scrutinized for using lies about immigrants as a pretext to justify enforcement operations or describing certain incidents in ways which later contradicted by video or statements from local officials. Following the fatal shooting, for example, of Alex Preddy in Minneapolis last week, officials including nomen White House immigration policy architect, I'm a Nazi. Stephen Miller rushed to describe Preddy as a domestic terrorist who brandished his gun and intended to massacre law enforcement. We know that was a lie because video later showed that Preddy never brandished the gun and that he was carrying when he was shot. And both Miller and Noem blamed their premature descriptions of Freddie on information they received from officers on the ground. Okay, so now either they're blaming their own ICE agents or they're blaming police in Minneapolis. This also isn't the first time that the Trump administration has acknowledged its descriptions of some immigrants they described as the worst of the worst were lies. In another instance, first reported by notice, the White House conceded it posted a picture of a man who the administration erroneously claimed had been convicted of a sex crime involving a child. How fucking ironic is that? And by the way, a White House official said the error had been corrected and the administration will continue publicizing the dangerous criminal. Legal aliens being removed from our streets. And that is their words, not mine. The other thing is they're taking credit for people who have already been in custody. The social media feeds of dhs, Nome and the White House, they've displayed a stream of mugshots of people the administration says been taken off the streets during Operation Metro surge. And as we know, that's the immigration crackdown that they've been conducting in the Twin Cities over the last two months. And I want to repeat this on the podcast that has not stopped. I still need to be on Minneapolis and Minnesota, they are still under siege by ice. Horrible things are happening. They're having to hide people in houses. People are shopping at grocery stores for their neighbors. So they're not getting taken and stolen. Please, please, please do not take your energy away from Minneapolis. But local officials in Minnesota, they've accused DHS of padding their publicized arrest numbers because they're taking credit for arrests that were made by local law enforcement who were then transferred to immigration authorities through routine processes. Quote, this is no longer a simple misunderstanding. Minnesota Department of Corrections Commissioner Paul Schnell said during a news conference. At best, he said, DHS fundamentally misunderstands Minnesota's correctional system. At worst, it's pure propaganda, numbers released without evidence to stoke fear rather than inform the public. So they again have admitted that this whole system is screwed up over there. This website is bullshit. We know this. We also know that a very small number of the people that they have apprehended have actually been criminals, will have a criminal background or have a rap sheet. In fact, ICE agents have a longer criminal history than the people that they have been apprehending in Minneapolis. We're always going to cover these stories. We'll continue to cover them for you. But this last story is a little bit of a good news story. It's from the Associated Press. The Supreme Court has struck down Donald Trump's far reaching global tariffs on Friday, handing him a massive, stinging loss that sparked a furious attack on the court that he helped shape. He appointed these people. Trump said that he was, and I quote, absolutely ashamed of some justices who rolled six to three against him. Calling them disloyal to our constitution, also accused them of being like, having influence from foreign countries, which I found very interesting. He also said that they were lap dogs. At one point. He even raised. There we go. He even raised the specter of foreign influence without citing any evidence. Of course he did, because that was a confession. The decision could have ripple effects on economies around the globe. After Trump's move to remake post World War II trading alliances by wielding tariffs as a weapon. But an unbowed Trump pledged to impose a new global 10% tariff under a law that restricted to 150 days. It's never been used to apply tariffs before. This is what he said. Their decision's incorrect, but it doesn't matter because we have very powerful alternatives. Well, the court's ruling it found tariffs that Trump imposed under an emergency powers law were unconstitutional, including the sweeping reciprocal tariffs he levied on nearly every other country. Trump appointed, by the way, three of the justices on the nation's highest court during his first term and has scored a series of short term wins. We've seen it. That have allowed him to move ahead with key policies. They're the ones that basically told him in his mind that he's a king, even though we don't have kings in this country. Tariffs, though, have been different. They were the first major piece of Trump's broad agenda to come squarely before the Supreme Court for final ruling after lower courts had also sided against the president. The majority found that it is unconstitutional for the president to unilaterally set and change tariffs because taxation power clearly belongs to Congress. And I quote, the framers did not vest any part of taxing power in the executive branch. This is from actual. This one's from Roberts, which I know surprises some of us, but this is from Chief Justice Roberts. This does not surprise me. Kavanaugh, Alito and Clarence Thomas were the ones that dissented. It did surprise me that Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett actually were with the majority this time. And this is a quote, obviously on the dissent. The tariffs at issue here may or may not be wise policy, but as a matter of text, history and precedent, they are clearly lawful. This is from Kavanaugh. And of course, Trump praised his 63 page dissent as genius. I'm sure he did. The court majority did not address whether businesses could get refunded for the billions they have collectively paid in tariffs. In the beans talk later, I've got a funny thing from the governor of Illinois that will cover that many companies, including the big box warehouse chain Costco, they've already lined up in the lower courts to demand refunds because these numbers are in the billions, everybody. And I quote the court saying nothing today about whether and if so, how the government should go about returning the billions of dollars that it's collected from importers. But that process is likely to be a mess, as we acknowledged at oral argument. That's Kavanaugh. So he's saying, okay, you've made this ruling. We don't know if they're gonna pay it back, if they're not, if the money stays with the government. And Trump, of course, was like, they didn't tell me what to do. So it's gonna be in the courts for years. I don't know. I don't know if I have to pay it back. The treasury had collected more than $133 billion from import taxes the president had imposed under the Emergency Powers Law as of December. This is from the federal data. The impact over the next decade, it was estimated to be about $3 trillion. But as we know, the American people are carrying a lot of these tariffs. We're paying for these. The terrorist decision doesn't stop Trump from imposing duties under other laws. Those have more limitations on the speed and severity of Trump's actions. But the president said that they would still allow him to charge much more than he had before. J.D. vance, of course, called the decision lawless on Twitter. Now, it isn't exactly clear what Trump can do next, but the ruling, and I quote, is complete and total victory for the challengers. This is from Neil Katyal, who argued the case on behalf of a group of small businesses. He said it's a reaffirmation of our deepest constitutional values that the idea that Congress, not any one man, controls the power to tax the American people, because that's what tariffs are, small businesses. They celebrated the ruling with the National Retail Federation, saying it proves much needed certainty. There's an Illinois toy company called Learning Resources that was among one of the businesses challenging the tariffs in court. The CEO of that company, Rick Waldenberg, said he expected Trump's new tariffs, but hope there might be some constraint in the future, both legal and political. He said somebody has got to pay this bill. Those people that pay the bill, they're voters. A woman named Ann Robinson, who owns Scottish Gourmet in Greensboro, North Carolina, said that she was, and I quote, doing a happy dance when she heard the news. And I Love this. The 10% baseline tariff on UK goods. It was putting pressure on Robinson's business. That tariff cost her about $30,000 last fall season. She said she's unsure about Trump administration's next steps, but she said she's overjoyed for now. And I quote, time to schedule my say goodbye to tariff sale. So a big win on this one and a big blow to Trump. His response was absolutely ridiculous. And we'll have some responses, like I said, from some of the governors in these blue states about what to do with those billions and billions of dollars. So those are the hot notes. Everyone stay with us. We will be back with the good news after these messages. We'll be right back. Dinner is one of those daily tasks that can drain your energy for the entire evening, especially when you're tired. 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We'll be stories. Shit, kids, say anything that makes me happy. If you got pictures, all you have to do is attach a picture. Maybe it's a baby animal. Maybe it's an otter. I know they said to send otters, so I haven't looked at the good news stories yet, but I have a feeling there'll be some otters for me. I like baby pictures. Please make sure it's one of your own and just send them here. Go to dailybeanspod.com you're going to click on the contact and then do the Good news. So hit contact and under that you'll hit the Good news and make your submissions there as always. And of course we always like to start with some good trouble. Call your Democratic representatives and senators to ask them not to attend the State of the Union unless they're escorting an Epstein survivor. That is very important. I happen to personally love the idea to fill that place with as many Epstein survivors as feel comfortable sitting in front of that monster. And I think that needs to be taken into account. But like we said, just call them and tell them not to go. Don't. Just don't go to the State of the Union, okay? Unless they're escorting an Epstein survivor. And I'm sure by that time the Epstein survivor has made a decision for themselves that that is a place where they would like to be. So that is your good trouble. That's an easy one. Make sure you do it first up in the good news. This is from Anonymous Pronoun she and her I love the show and I wanted to write in for a while. I wanted to shout out to whoever's responsible for the MAGA Loves Bedo signs in front of the campaign signs in Collin County, Texas. Good work from my pod pet Tariff is my sweet little one, Libby. She was just spades so onesies is for her protection. Okay. This is fantastic. And obviously they haven't been taken down. I don't know if someone's not paying attention to their property, but there's literally like MAGA loves pedos all over these Republican MAGA signs. This is great. Oh, and this kitty is literally wearing a baby onesie. Bless her heart. Anonymous thank you so much for that. All right, this is from Dee Dee from Colorado Pronoun she and her AG and dg or maybe just DG depending on when AG goes on her much deserved break. Thank you for bringing attention to this attempted change in VA disability. Point of clarification on the attempted new VA rule on adjusting disability ratings. While Secretary of VA has said the rule will not be enforced, quote, at the present time it is still entered into the CFR and remains on the books. This was brought up on the national call with Common Defense this week. What this means is that at any time in the future it could be enforced. Having watch this administration's methods in action, that probably means enforced quietly and when they think no one is watching. The only way to ensure this rule does not come back will be to have it removed completely from CFR or other legislation. Clarify how veteran disabilities claims are classified and rated. Thanks for all you do keeping track of so many of the smaller but no less impactful items that get buried otherwise. I hope you got the snail mail I sent, but I used the address for the MSW offices in La Jolla so not sure whose hands it ended up. You got gifted with some of the handcrafted stuff you've been encouraging us to do to keep from spiraling for podpet taxes. Attached to pictures of my senior dogs, Grommet, 13 and a half years old, and Roxy, 12 years old. I joke. She's my modern American woman, full of opinions she's not afraid to share, and all about boundaries and consent. Oh, this looks like an old doxy and it's so cute. There's a redaction bar here. Gromit is a bachshund. It's a basset hound dachshund mix. It's very cute when the basset who was supposed to be the dad apparently just watched. Thank you. Because that looks like a full dachshund and the dachshund got on the business end at hand. Oh my God. And Roxy is a beagle mix. These dogs are so cute. Thank you so much for that submission. UPS Next is from UPSNext. You heard me, everybody. Not even gonna do an edit because that's how the sausage is made. Up Next is from Kristin Pronoun. She and her hello Queens. I'm a recent convert to the daily beans. Welcome, Kristen. Looking for a great political commentary with a feminist edge and you fit the bill. I recently took over as the first paid staff member and executive director of Freedom Fund, soon to be renamed Reproductive Freedom Fund. So we stop sounding like a MAGA super pac. It's an abortion fund that has been operating behind closed doors in rural Wisconsin since 1997. I've never been able to answer the question, what do you want to be when you grow up? Until now. I'm 48. I believe that I finally found my true calling and I'm opening that door and shouting it far and wide. We serve people needing abortions in 31 rural counties in north central and northeastern Wisconsin. This is a vast area that has zero abortion clinics. Wow. Data shows that 63 to 70% of folks of reproductive age here, they live in a county with no abortion provider. Just because abortion is legal doesn't mean it's accessible. Such a great point. Wisconsin is a highly restrictive state. Many people are forced to travel to Minnesota or Illinois. So my good news is this. If you live in rural reproductive healthcare desert, we can help our organization and the dozens like it across the country. They can help cover the cost of the procedure and the hidden expenses like travel, lodging, lost wages, child care. God, this is fantastic. The favorite part of my day is when I say I helped someone get an abortion today. You can too, by donating to the clinic in your area. So check out the national network of abortion funds. It's the NNAF to find one in your area. I'm submitting a photo of my dogs. A hairless Chinese Crested named Liz Lemon, a boxer named Mrs. Landon Ham or Lanny Landingham or Lanny, and a Lab German short haired pointer named Moira Rose. Oh my God, we miss Moira. Bonus points if you can recognize those names. I got that one for sure. I miss Allison because I'm not sure about Liz Lemon or Mrs. Landing Ham. So we're gonna put a little pin in these. Or you can write in and tell me, but I have a feeling Allison would know. She is much better with those things than I am. Bonus points if you recognize those names. If they were athletes like female soccer players, I would have been all over it. They joined the four cats named after Buffy the Vampire Slayer characters. Thank you for all you do providing political news with wit, biting sarcasm and appropriate or inappropriate swears. Oh, we are going to have a link, by the way, in the show notes to the abortion funds. Okay, so you can find one near you that you want to help out. Oh my God, these dogs. If you're seeing this picture right now, there's three of them and one of them looks like they just got a haircut and all it is is like crazy hair. The rest of the body is super shortcut. Oh my God, it's so cute. Thank you so much for that. All right, this is from db. No pronouns given. Hi, AG and dg. This isn't necessarily my good news, but it seemed like something you guys would likely be in support of and might even want to mention it on the show as a positive story of independent workers fighting against oppressive employment conditions in today's increasingly oppressive business climate. In short, the sex workers at Sherry's Ranch, that's a prominent Nevada brothel which we have covered in depth on the beans, were being forced to sign a very unfair contract and instead banded together and decided to unionize in their fight against the company for fair equitable working conditions, privacy concerns against AI and protection of their own likenesses and intellectual property. You can read details in this article in this Mother Jones article. We'll have a link in the show notes so you have that. Thank you so much for the reminder on this very important story. Up next is Anonymous pronoun she and her hello Bean Squeens. It's my first submission, but I come bearing revolution. I'm a public Upper Montessori fourth and fifth grade teacher who was blessed with a delightfully feisty group this year. Early on, they had the Audacity to protest my classroom economy system. And instead of shutting it down, I took notes. Fast forward to our unit on the American Revolution and I decided to fully commit to the bit. I became the Queen and not the benevolent kind. This week. I abused my power with historical accuracy and absolutely zero mercy. The taxes were aggressive, coordinated with various acts and deeply inconvenient. They were taxed for pencils found on the ground clearly Crown property paper to complete their work work. Import fees obviously stickers required for assignments to officially count sharing cubbies between grades. Quartering act vibes. These are great quartering act vibes. Speaking out against me? That's treason. It's expensive. There was contraband paper discovered. A suspiciously convincing George Washington reincarnation emerged. At one point the Patriots staged a full coup and seized my paper crown while Loyalist attempted to restore order to the monarchy. This is fantastic. Today they organized. They made protest posters. They recruited allies from neighboring classrooms to sign a petition. That's brilliant. A queen would never surrender this easily. But I did. And I stepped down extremely proud. We debriefed the experience and unpacked what it feels like to live under abuses of power, why peaceful protest matters, and how educating others strengthens a movement. 10 out of 10 would tax them again for the sake of democracy. From a pot pet tariff I attached our beloved class pet Taryn. Yes. A real dragon. Oh my God. This is so cute. Thank you for keeping me entertained and informed. Long live experiential learning. Look at that dragon. It's even got wings. I don't know how you put wings on that dragon, but they did. This is very cool. I love the good news. These submissions are fantastic. You've got some good trouble to make. You call your senators and representatives. Tell them don't go to the State of the Union unless they're escorting an Epstein survivor who has obviously given her consent to be there. I'll be shocked if he actually does. The State of the Union. To be honest with you Beans listeners, I think it's going to be an AI prerecorded. I don't think they're going to let him do it live. Because no one says it has to be. And no one says it has to be in front of Congress. So I wouldn't be surprised. I just can't imagine they would let this. I know there are people out there that have experience with this in their family, but the dementia's there. The sun downing is there. We've seen it. I would be shocked. The State of the Union is usually given at 9 o' clock at night. I don't see it happening, but maybe my beans are wrong. We will find out. All right everyone, thank you for joining me for this Monday as we work out the Kings without my co host. I miss her, but I'm happy to be here in the pilot's seat with you all week. So join us tomorrow. Until then, 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. My co host is out so 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. 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