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Thursday, December 25th, 2025 Today, Judge Crenshaw has canceled Kilmar Abrego’s criminal trial and ordered the government to prove they didn’t vindictively and selectively prosecute him; the Justice Department says it just found a million new Epstein files from the SDNY so it’s going to be a while longer; a federal judge has ruled that Trump’s revocation of lawyer Mark Zaid’s security clearance was illegal; top Heritage Foundation officials flee to Mike Pence’s non profit; ICE plans to hold 80K immigrants in warehouses across the country; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.
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Allison Gill
Hello and welcome to the Daily beans for Thursday, December 25, 2025 20. Today, Judge Crenshaw has cancelled Kilmar Abrego's criminal trial and ordered the government to prove they didn't vindictively and selectively prosecute him. The Justice Department says it just found, like, a million new documents in the Epstein files from the Southern District of New York, so it's going to be a little while longer. A federal judge has ruled that Trump's revocation of lawyer Mark Zade's security clearance was illegal. Top Heritage foundation officials are fleeing to Mike Pence's nonprofit. And ICE plans to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses across the country. I'm Allison Gill.
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Dana Goldberg
And I'm Dana Goldberg.
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Allison Gill
Hello. Welcome back, my friend.
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Dana Goldberg
Hello. Thanks for covering me while I'm gone. I missed you. I had a lovely week. I would love to say it was relaxation, but do you ever just need a vacation from your vacation after you're done? You're like, why didn't I relax more? Yeah.
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Allison Gill
Yeah. No, I know exactly how that is. We all miss you so much. The news is not to be missed. It's not meant to be faced alone, I don't think.
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Dana Goldberg
No, it is. Definitely. I get it. I get it. Even on those rare days when you're not with me, I'm like, oh, man, it's just much more enjoyable when you're with me.
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Allison Gill
Yeah. And everybody was like, oh, I love the new beans talk. It's like having you guys in my living room, and then, you know, that's off. That's dark until Monday. But you're back. You're back here for a day. And. And I'm super glad that you are.
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Dana Goldberg
Me, too.
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Allison Gill
Glad you got to rest and recharge Somebody else who gets to spend their holiday at home is Kilmar Abrego.
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Dana Goldberg
Amazing.
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Allison Gill
Yeah. Because Paula Sinis. Judge Sinis was like, yeah, no, I'm. I'm extending my. You may not re. Arrest him. Restraining order to ice. But Judge Crenshaw, the judge in his criminal trial. Because, remember, there's two cases here. There's his civil case with Judge Sinis and his criminal case with Judge Crenshaw in Tennessee. He canceled the trial.
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Dana Goldberg
Wow. Yeah.
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Allison Gill
He's like, it's canceled. And basically, he issued this order saying that once Mr. Abrego made a prima facist showing of vindictive and selective prosecution, the burden shifted to the government to prove they're not vindictively prosecuting him, which.
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Dana Goldberg
Is going to be nearly impossible, if not Entirely impossible.
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Allison Gill
So this judge has boxed them the fuck in. And I love it. So Judge Crenshaw scheduled a hearing for January 28th to say, because the trial was supposed to start January 26th, but because of all these shenanigans, he's like, we're canceling the trial. Government, you're coming in January 28th, and you're going to have to prove to me that you did not vindictively and selectively prosecute Mr. Abrego. Now, if they can prove, if the government can prove that they aren't dickheads, then Crenshaw will consider their motion to quash Abrego subpoena of Todd Blanch. Right. Because Todd Blanch has been lying to the court this whole time saying he had nothing to do with the decision to prosecute Mr. Abrego. Now, if they cannot prove that they didn't vindictively and selectively prosecute Mr. Abrego, the judge is required to dismiss the charges. But the, the nice holiday story here is that Mr. Abrego gets suspend Christmas with his family, as I, you know, discussed yesterday, without having to worry about checking in at an ice facility or being rearrested and rendered to Liberia or wherever.
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Dana Goldberg
So, I mean, everything he's been through. Yeah, it's the least. I mean, it really is the least.
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Allison Gill
Yeah. So I. We'll see if these criminal charges. I think these charges will be dropped next month, and then we'll see where we go from there. I imagine he'll end up being deported to Costa Rica, but, you know, he's okay with that, and he's been okay with that this whole time. All right, we have a ton of news to get to. Let's hit the hot notes.
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Announcer
Hot notes.
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Allison Gill
All right, first up from CNN's Caitlin Polance, who I trust. You know, I'm not a big fan of cnn, Dana. I like to treat journalists like fantasy football players. Like, I don't like your team, but I like your reporting. Like Scott McFarland from CBS, Caitlin Polantz, Carol Lennig from NBC. Like, I have my fantasy team of journalists whose sources I trust and whose reporting I trust. And this is one of them over at cnn.
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Dana Goldberg
I love that.
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Allison Gill
She said. The Justice Department's leadership asked career prosecutors in Florida to volunteer over the next several days to help redact the Epstein files in the latest Trump administration push toward releasing the hundreds of thousands now millions of documents, photos, memos, and other evidence around the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. See how she doesn't call him a disgraced financier, a Supervising Prosecutor in the Southern District of Florida U.S. attorney office emailed the entire district office on Tuesday, two days before Christmas, announcing an emergency request from the Deputy Attorney General's Office the Southern District of Florida must assist with. And that's according to a copy of the email reviewed by CNN. Quote, we need AUSAs, that's Assistant US Attorneys to do remote document review and redaction related to the Epstein files. The said. So this will be great for morale.
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Dana Goldberg
Yeah.
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Allison Gill
Forcing your DOJ, what's left of your Department of Justice attorney, U.S. attorneys to redact and protect pedophiles. But also from CNN, the Justice Department Wednesday said it uncovered a million more documents potentially related to Jeffrey Epstein and may need, quote, a few more weeks to process and release them to the public. The Department made the revelation in a post on Twitter saying that the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and the FBI had informed the Department of the new documents. But y' all know this is a lie, right? Allow me to read to you from this letter that Jamie Raskin sent to Pam Bondi a couple of months ago. He said, Until January 2025, the U.S. attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York was running an active investigation into Epstein and Maxwell's co conspirators. In January, Southern District of New York prosecutors were ordered to transfer the Epstein case files to the Department of Justice headquarters in Washington D.C. since that time, according to information provided to our committee by counsel for Epstein survivors who provided the key evidence enabling the successful prosecution of Ms. Maxwell, the investigation into the co conspirators has inexplicably ceased and no further investigative steps appear to have been taken. DOJ and FBI formally closed the case in July of 2025, abruptly issuing a memo that declared, without offering supporting details, that the DOJ and FBI, quote, did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties. So January 2025, those files were moved from the Southern District of New York to D.C. and Pam Bondi wrote a letter to Kash Patel in February saying, before you came into office, I requested the full and complete files related to Epstein. In response to this request, I got 200 pages of documents which consisted of primarily of flight logs, Epstein's list of contacts and a list of victims names and phone numbers. I repeatedly questioned whether this was the full set of documents responsive to my request and was repeatedly assured by the FBI that we had received the full set of documents. Late yesterday, I learned from a source that the FBI field office in New York was in possession of Thousands of pages of documents related to the investigation and indictment of Epstein. Despite my repeated requests, the FBI never disclosed the existence of these files. When you and I spoke yesterday, you were just as surprised as I was to learn of this new information. Therefore, by 8am tomorrow, February 28, the FBI will deliver the full and complete Epstein files to my office, including all records, documents, audio and video recordings, and materials related to Jeffrey Epstein and his clients, regardless of how much information was obtained. Dana, they are so full of.
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Dana Goldberg
Yeah.
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Allison Gill
And Dana Axios just reported today on Wednesday that the White House has taken over the DOJ social media account on Twitter, and they're trolling people.
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Dana Goldberg
I've seen some of the responses. It is the most immature. It's insane. The timeline we're living in right now, the responses are just ridiculously juvenile.
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Allison Gill
It's like, oh, that's what we're doing, you dope. That's the Department of Justice. Yeah.
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Dana Goldberg
And you know what I was thinking? And I know a lot of people are thinking this. Pam Bondi has been involved with this for a very, very long time. But Pam Bondi and Kash Patel have seen and reviewed all of the videos, all of the photos. They have read all of this, and they are still protecting these sons of bitches. I hope they go down for this. Like, I don't know how you can even live with yourself knowing that you're protecting these people, seeing what you've seen, knowing what you know. Yeah, it blows my mind.
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Allison Gill
Merry Christmas. You get to help protect protect pedophiles this holiday season by working remotely to redact the Epstein files.
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Dana Goldberg
So gross. So gross. All right, this next one is from the Associated Press. A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a March presidential memorandum to revoke the security clearance of prominent Washington attorney Mark Zaid, ruling in that order, which also targeted 14 other individuals that could not be applied to him. The decision marked the administration's second legal setback on Tuesday, after the Supreme Court actually declined to allow Trump to deploy National Guard troops to Chicago's area, capping a first year in the office in which President Trump's efforts to impose a sweeping agenda and pursue retribution against political adversaries has been repeatedly slowed by the courts. U.S. district Judge Amir Ali in Washington granted Zaid's request for a preliminary injunction after he sued the Trump administration in May over the revocation of his security clearance. Zaid's request called it an act of, and I quote, improper political retribution that jeopardized his ability to continue representing clients in census national security cases. The March presidential memorandum. It singled out said and 14 other individuals who the White House asserted were unsuitable to retain their clearances because it was, and I quote, no longer in the national interest.
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Allison Gill
Yeah.
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Dana Goldberg
The list included targets of Trump's fury from both the political and legal spheres, including former Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco. We got New York Attorney General Letitia James, former President Joe Biden, and members of his family. And this is a quote. This court joins the several others in this district that have enjoined the government from using this summary revocation of security clearances to penalize lawyers for representing people adverse to it. That's what Ali wrote in an order. Ali emphasized that his order does not prevent the government from revoking or suspending Zayd's clearance for reasons independent of of the presidential memorandum and through normal agency processes. Yeah, you can do it if you do it the right way and it's justified. The preliminary injunction does not go into effect until January 13th. Now, you have to check out this paragraph from the judge on the ability for the courts to review this case. And this is the quote. The government acknowledges it chose to revoke Zaid's security clearance without any of the process it usually affords, but argues the legality of its summary revocation is, and I quote, a quintessential political question that cannot be reviewed by federal courts. However, its position is premised on ignoring binding precedent that says otherwise, including simply omitting relevant case law from the motion to dismiss and preliminary injunction opposition.
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Allison Gill
Yeah. So here the judges who've taken them to law school, they're like, there's a lot of precedent in case law in this and you just sort of decided to leave it out. Yep. Of your. Because it's devastating to your case.
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Dana Goldberg
That's right.
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Allison Gill
So I thought that was a funny paragraph myself. All right, next up from the Wall Street Journal, this is bonkers former Vice President Mike Pence. His he's got a political group and it's poaching top officials from the Heritage foundation amid growing ideological fights within the conservative movement and backlash at the think tank. I'm not sure I'd call the Heritage Foundation a think tank. Yeah, no, maybe just a tank. Take think away from there. Pence's Washington based group, started in 2021 and called Advancing American Freedom, is slated to hire about 15 of Heritage's employees, including several of its prominent leaders. In an interview, the former Republican vice president told the Wall Street Journal he had long admired the Heritage foundation, but sees the group now abandoning its principles. He said the foundation has fallen because it had embraced elements of isolationism, stopped backing Ukraine in the war with Russia, supported some tariffs, and backed RFK Jr. As the health and Human Services secretary, among other things. Quote, why these people are coming our way is that Heritage and some other voices and commentators have embraced big government populism and have been willing to tolerate anti Semitism. That's what Pence said.
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Dana Goldberg
Wow.
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Allison Gill
Among those joining aaf, which is Pence's joint, are John Malcolm, the head of the foundation's Legal and Judicial Studies Center Kevin Dayaratna, he's the head of the Foundation's Data Analysis center, and Richard Stern, the director of the Foundation's Economic Policy Studies Institute. Pence's AAF says it's bringing on about a dozen other staff members. Malcolm is taking seven members of his center's team from the Heritage Foundation. In a statement, Heritage's Chief Advancement Officer, Andy Olivastro was critical of some staffers who decided to leave, accusing them of disloyalty. He said Malcolm and another staffer last week were actually fired for conduct inconsistent with Heritage's mission and standards. You can't quit. You're fired. Quote, our mission is unchanged and our leadership is strong and decisive.
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Dana Goldberg
Okay.
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Allison Gill
All right, sir. You used to back Ukraine.
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Dana Goldberg
Yep.
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Allison Gill
And now you do not. So like you, you used to enjoy NATO membership, now you do not. He also said Heritage is always welcome debate, but alignment on mission and loyalty to the institution are non negotiable. Wow. A handful of staff chose a different path, some through disruption, others through disloyalty.
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Dana Goldberg
My God. Wow.
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Allison Gill
A no wonder people are leaving. Two other top officials, Cully Stimson and Hans von Spakovsky, resigned Monday afternoon. From their legal from the legal center at Heritage. They didn't announce their next moves. I bet they're going over to the Pence place. Quote, we regret leaving what has long been the premier conservative institution where we spent so much of our legal careers, but feel we can no longer carry out that mission established by them. That's what's two wrote in a joint resignation letter. When you when you have joint resignation letters, you suck. When you have joint resignation. Seriously, joint resignation letters from your from your foundation. Conservative groups are jockeying to hold significant influence as the Republican Party charts its future in the coming years. I would say as they fall apart with Trump and his term ending in January of 2029. The fight has played out at America Fest this weekend in Arizona. America Fest. Pew.
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Dana Goldberg
Pew.
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Allison Gill
With prominent speakers clashing over the future of the party, how aggressive it should be in shaping the world what economic policies it should embrace, how it should handle social issues, and who its next leaders should be. Quote, the conservative movement is in serious danger. That's what prominent podcast host Ben Shapiro said from the stage. Vice President J.D. vance, who represents a different wing of the party than Mike Pence, that's one way to put it, spoke at the conference on Sunday, drawing rousing applause. Heritage is much larger than Pence's group and retains more institutional sway in Washington. It was central in Writing Project 2025, the document Trump decried, but has since followed to the letter. But the organization has seen significant tumult in recent months, and the tipping point for some was a video filmed by Heritage leader Kevin Roberts. In the video, Roberts defended Tucker Carlson, who drew condemnation for his friendly interview with the right wing influencer, some might say Nazi prick Nick Fuentes, a white supremacist and Holocaust denier. There we go. All right. There's some stronger language. Thank you, Wall Street Journal. Art Pope, a longtime prominent donor in North Carolina, said he stopped giving to the Heritage foundation because he saw the group supporting populist economic policies in recent years. He's now giving to AAF Pence's thing. He's giving them money now in a bid to move the party in a different direction. President Trump's term is coming to an end, he said. The Republican Party is not going to see really a primary among candidates, but a primary on principles and fundamental policies. I've heard that song and dance before, but now they're the. The Heritage foundation is falling apart.
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Dana Goldberg
I tell you what, though, and I have to say this, we should be very concerned about this Erica Kirk bullshit. And, you know, Charlie Kirk's old, whatever it's called. What's that organization?
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Allison Gill
Oh, Turning Point usa.
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Dana Goldberg
Turning Point usa. And I don't think the DNC is prepared for this. I don't think they're doing what they need to for this. Turning Point USA rallies are becoming the Trump rallies with those massive rallies in the stadiums. And it, we should be concerned. They are reaching the youth. And it's, I'm not saying it's. It's, it's. They're reaching who they want to. It's the same people Charlie Kirk has always reached. But this should be concerning. And I don't think we're handling it in a way that we need to. It's, it's really alarming.
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Allison Gill
It is. And that was so bizarre, too. Somebody, I think I saw somebody post on Twitter like she came out in a sparkly suit and pyrotechnics and somebody was like, are you ready to grieve, Cleveland?
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Dana Goldberg
I can't hear you. Yeah, I mean, listen, the Internet does win from time to time, but she's dangerous as her history and everything else. Oh, man, you do a deep dive into that one. She is a walking hypocritical. Listen, I know she may or may not be grieving her husband's death, but if you look at the history of this person, she's sketch. She's been sketching.
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Allison Gill
This is a cult. This is the next cult.
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Dana Goldberg
Yeah, it sure is. All right, this one's from the Post. Speaking of cults, the Trump administration is seeking contractors to help it overhaul the United States. This immigration detention system in a plan that includes renovating industrial warehouses to hold more than 80,000 immigrant detainees at a time. At a time, according to a draft solicitation reviewed by the Washington Post. Rather than shuttling detainees around the country to wherever detention space is available. And that's what's going on right now. U.S. immigration and Customs Enforcement aims to speed up deportations by establishing a deliberate feeder system. This is what the document says. Newly arrested detainees would be booked into processing sites for a few weeks before being funneled into one of seven large scale warehouses holding 5 to 10,000 people each, where they would be staged or for deportation. Just think about SECO in the United States in massive numbers. That's what these would be. It would be horrible.
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Allison Gill
It just. It sounds like Nazi Germany to me.
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Dana Goldberg
Yeah. The large warehouses would be located close to major logistical hubs like in Virginia, Texas, Louisiana, Arizona, Georgia, Missouri. Sixteen smaller warehouses would hold up to 1500 people each. Commercial real estate experts say concentrating detainees in warehouses would create its own logistical problems. Such structures are designed for storage and shipping, not human habitations. They tend to be poorly ventilated. They lack precise temperature controls. And because they're typically located far from residential areas, they may not have access to plumbing or sanitation systems needed to support thousands of full time residents. This is a quote. It's dehumanizing. This is from Tanya Wolf. She's an advocate with the National Immigration Project. That's based in New Orleans. And it's also about one hour south from the site of a planned warehouse in Hammond, Louisiana. She said, you're treating people, for lack of a better term, like cattle, which is how they talk about them, this dehumanization. And if you think this is, I hesitate, as do you, to compare things to Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. But this is the fucking beginnings of stuff like this. Right?
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Allison Gill
The document says they Want to speed up deportations by establishing a deliberate feeder system.
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Dana Goldberg
Yes.
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Allison Gill
That they're talking about human beings. Oh, yeah.
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Dana Goldberg
It's pretty horrifying.
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Allison Gill
I'm sorry, I'm just speechless that the, like the images in my head are just.
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Dana Goldberg
I do hope there's a way we can stop some of this. Yeah. Well, obviously, whether it's through the courts or people in these states get a spine and say not on my, you know, not on, not on my watch. But I don't know. These are mostly red states.
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Allison Gill
Yeah. And also, you know, protest these sites. I know that there's a lot of information about protests that are starting to get amplified across social media and in our democratic club channels to, to protest these sites feeder system. All right, after that, I need some good news and we're gonna, we're going to get to that right after this quick break. If you've got good news, please, please send it in DailyBeansPod.com click on Contact. We'll be right back with it. Stick around after these messages.
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Dana Goldberg
We'll be right back.
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Allison Gill
Everybody, welcome back. It's time for good news. Who likes good news? Everyone? Then good news, everyone. Good news, good news. Boy, I really need, I really need the good news today and I'm so glad you're back, my friend, and make this so much better. So if you have good news, it can be big good news, small good news. It can be from recently, it can be from decades ago. It can be a story that you love sharing. When you're sitting around sharing stories with your friends, maybe a funny joke, anything at all, great anecdotes, misheard song lyrics, shout outs. You can give a shout out to a loved one or yourself or a small business in your area, maybe a non profit, maybe a community organizing group that's doing some good activism and good trouble in your area. If you have a good trouble suggestion, send that to us as well. Also, shout outs to government programs. We love those too. If they've helped you or a family member, send it all to us. Dailybeanspod.com click on contact. And all you got to do to get your submission read on the air is just submit a photo. It can be of anything. We accept pod pet photos. We can try to guess the breed of your pod pet. If you don't have a pet, send an adoptable pet in your area. If you don't have that, grab a random photo of an animal on the Internet. Send us your family photos, baby pictures. What you dressed up for is Halloween, what your Christmas decorations or Holiday decorations look like whatever holiday you celebrate. Maybe something that you're making or creating that you're very proud of. Send us your thesis title or dissertation title. Show us a picture of what you're growing in your garden, what you're knitting. If you've got head. What. What are they called? Laying hens. In your. If you've got chickens, I would love to see your chickens. Goats.
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Dana Goldberg
Wait, like, what is happening right now? Laying hens. What are those called? Chickens. If you have chickens.
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Allison Gill
Laying hens. Egg laying hens. There's a term for some of them.
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Dana Goldberg
Lay.
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Allison Gill
Some of them don't. Some are just fun chickens.
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Dana Goldberg
Someone's writing in right now. Someone has stopped the podcast and is writing into the correction of telling us what egg laying hens are.
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Allison Gill
Yeah. Or. Or they're letting us know that their chickens are. They. They're not fertile. We don't. Whatever. Send us photos. Just send us a picture to make us laugh. Send it to us@dailybeanspot.com and click on contact. First step is your good trouble. And as I said yesterday, your good trouble is to relax, chill out, take some time for yourself. That is your assignment. Your assignment is to not do anything this weekend. Take some time off. I'm going to be doing that too. I did a ton of work on Christmas Eve so that I wouldn't have to do anything on Christmas Day. I'm kind of proud of that.
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Dana Goldberg
I am proud of that for you too, because I know that not often the case. Not always the case, I should say. Thank you. All right. This is from friend of the beans pronoun. She and her hello Beans Queens. Thank you for sharing the good news. As a daily listener, it's encouraging to hear positive things happening all over. This is a shout out to the founder and organizer of our local Visibility Brigade in coastal Virginia, Norfolk and Virginia beach surrounding cities. He is proof that one person really can make a difference by gathering a group of resistors funding the letter making and getting us on bridges. July 17th. That's John Lewis Day of Action. He gave us an outlet. Action is the antidote to anxiety. And like so many other bridge rush hour resistance efforts, our group is modeled after the Visibility Brigade in Paramus, New Jersey. It's a fun way to let people know that they are not alone. The honks are our reward. I'm including a photo of our bridge events. More photos are posted on Instagram and you can follow us at. Visibility Brigade Cova C O V A Visibility Brigade C O V A for my pet tax I'm attaching a photo of my 10 month old puppy, Maura. She's 4.5 pound ray of sunshine that loves an adventure. Her mother is blank. Her father's unknown, but must be a small blank based on ears and fur. We've got Chihuahua and German shepherd and adorableness.
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Allison Gill
Yes. That is 100% adorable. All right, let's see what we got. Mother is a rescue teacup poodle.
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Dana Goldberg
Oh.
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Allison Gill
Father is a terrier. S.L. chihuahua.
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Dana Goldberg
We got Chihuahua. We'll take it.
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Allison Gill
Oh, she's four and a half pounds and she's adorable. Look at that great. Really cute overpass sign. No oath to trump jump. Love it. Yeah. Thank you so much for that. Friend of the beans. Next up from Todd M. No pronouns given. Waiting for a walk after your podcast. And it's just two lovely puppers sleeping on a very comfy bed. It looks like some sort of a healer dog and some sort of a hound dog. Maybe a beagle. They're adorable cute little doggos.
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Dana Goldberg
That was. That was so short. Keep going.
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Allison Gill
Sure. From Anonymous. No pronouns.
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Dana Goldberg
Hi.
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Allison Gill
I was wondering if you could share this beautiful dog. Her name is malia. She's only three years old and at the shelter. 832 days. That's a very long time. She deserves a quiet adult only home. No other dogs. Cats are okay. She's at Hempstead Animal Shelter in Wantag, New York. I hope I'm pronouncing that right. W A N T A G H Wantagh. I do not work for them, but I've been sharing her on social media for a while now. Oh, please help. Here's her Facebook page. We'll have a link in the show notes and we'll have a couple more links for you to be able to adopt Malia.
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Dana Goldberg
Oh my God. This baby is cute.
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Allison Gill
You guys been there for three years.
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Dana Goldberg
Man, oh man.
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Allison Gill
Oh, she needs a lovey forever home. Let's find her one, everybody. Yeah.
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Dana Goldberg
This next one's from Jess. Pronouns. She and her. Hello, Beans, Queens. My good news is a collection of shout outs. First, a self shout out for leaving an amazing abusive marriage 20 years ago this week. Just congratulations. That also allowed me to leave a scarily conservative town for a more progressive one and build a strong family. Something my three children and I desperately needed. Second, a shout out to every government program at every level. Medicaid daycare assistance, food stamps, Pell grants, school lunch. You name it, my family needed it. As the kids grew up, I eventually worked my way out of everything, but I couldn't have done it. Without them to begin with. If you have no bootstraps, how do you pull yourself up? Finally, the biggest of shout outs to my kids. They're adults now making their way in the world and doing a bang up job. Including my soon to be son in law. They're a wonderful group of brave, kind, hard working young adults. From pediatric physical therapy to grocery clerk to academia to construction, they're all living in ways that make me very proud. They are quite simply my favorites as potpet tariff. I'm attaching a photo of all of us from this summer. Oh my God I love this so damn much. We don't get many of these due to the distance and conflicting schedule, so I cherish the ones we do have. I'm also attached to photo I took of a pika in a cairn on a climb of Gray's and Torrey's peaks. Can you find it? Hint. It's in the upper right edge of the rocks. You might need to zoom in. Their camouflage game is on point. Thank you for all you do to keep me informed. Insane. You're so appreciated Jess. Your family is gorgeous and congratulations. I'm so proud of you for taking that step 20 years ago. You changed the trajectory of everything.
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Allison Gill
A look at I can't find the pika, can you?
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Dana Goldberg
I'm zooming in.
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Allison Gill
Oh wait, is that it?
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Dana Goldberg
Did you see top right corner?
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Allison Gill
I don't see it, but I trust you that it's there. I'm gonna.
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Dana Goldberg
I do too.
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Allison Gill
I'll have to look later. Is that it in the middle? I can't tell. Yes, you're right. The camouflage game is on point. Very well stated. And yes, beautiful family. All right, next up is from one of the good Karens. Hello Beans crew. You're one of my first podcasts of the day. Every day I rely on your up to date coverage of issues that matter. Thanks for all you do. My very delayed good news is a shout out to local libraries. Remember the U.S. supreme Court case Mahmoud v. Taylor back in April of 2025? In the 6 to 3 vote, the court ruled in favor of a small group of parents who challenged a Maryland school district's decision to include children's books with LGBTQ characters and themes in their classrooms. I wanted to read the books for myself and discovered that my local library had all of. I had to place holds on some of them but eventually acquired them. And my well read cat Benji had to inspect them all as well. So clearly he's my pod pet tariff. So back to the library part. Always use your local library to request copies of books that are covered on your show. If your library doesn't own them, they might buy them. And if listeners want to support the authors and illustrators affected by the Mahmoud v. Taylor case, here are the titles Intersection, Allies, Prince and Knight Pride, Puppy, Born Ready, Uncle Bobby's Wedding. What are your words? Love, Violet, Jacob's Room to Choose, and My Rainbow. Look, there's all the books. And the cat inspecting all the books.
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Dana Goldberg
That's awesome.
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Allison Gill
Incredible. Yes, always support your local libraries. And yeah, check out your local library. See if you can get a copy of Separation at Church and Hate.
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Dana Goldberg
There you go. All right. This is from Cliff. No pronouns given. Good day Leguminati I was listening to the Daily Beans as I do on my morning walk along Malecon here in Gaimas, Mexico. You mentioned that the days were getting longer now that the solstice is over, and I was thinking that you missed out on mentioning my favorite piece of trivia. That is that while the solstice is the shortest day of the year, it is neither the day with the latest sunrise that won't occur until first week in January. The latest sunrise won't occur the first week in January. Nor is it the day with the earliest sunset that occurred last week. For my pod pet tags, I'm including my co pilot, Nola. She is an Idaho fuzzy dog. Yep, it's a thing. She's a rescue from the deserts of South Central Idaho. Thanks for keeping up the work. Helps me with my sanity daily.
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Allison Gill
Cliff. Cliff. He broke my brain. I don't understand how that happens. Why isn't the the earliest sunset latest sunrise on the shortest day of the year? Is it moving? I'm confused. All right, I'll have to look it up later, do some digging. Next up from Heidi, Pronouns she and her hi, AG and dg. I have some good news to share. It's old good news, but we get to remember it every year. In 2014, our family was transferred with the Coast Guard from California to Virginia. When we received our household goods at our new home, several boxes were missing. Most of it was frustrating and disappointing to lose, but fully replaceable. The devastating loss was all of our Christmas ornaments. Each ornament we had owned had special meaning, from the baby's first Christmas to the ones handmade by our grandmother, who'd passed away six years before our move. Each ornament held a memory, and it felt like we were losing all those memories, too. I moped all through the fall and had no desire to decorate for Christmas. While I was moping. My sister and a fellow Coast Guard spouse started conspiring to fix my grinchy attitude. Mid November, we got a package. It was from a friend in Alaska sending us an ornament. A few days later. Another came from my hometown in California. Then one from Astoria, Oregon, where we were stationed 12 years before. By the time December came around, we were receiving multiple packages a day with ornaments representing all the places we'd lived and traveled to. Ornaments from friends, family, Coast Guard families we'd never met, but who were stationed where we once lived, and friends of friends who just wanted to bring us joy. A high school classmate made an ornament with an old marching band photo, and another creative friend made ornaments out of maps of all the neighborhoods we'd lived in. My mom re gifted a handprint ornament one of my kids had made, and my aunt sent me some of her favorite handmade ornaments from my grandmother. My sisters recreated some of the ornaments we had made as kids. Every day we added ornaments to our tree and cried tears of joy. Because although the ornaments and the memories couldn't be replaced, these new ornaments and new memories were the remedy for our sadness. So that was the year our tree was decorated with love. And each year since, as we unwrap and hang ornaments on our tree, we get to remember all the people who took the time to find the perfect ornament to show us how very much we are loved. Included is a picture of our tree decorated with love. Look at that.
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Dana Goldberg
This is so sweet, man. What a lovely submission to end this Christmas Eve recording. If you do celebrate when you listen to this, it may still be Christmas Eve. It may be Christmas Day. Obviously, we are wishing everyone who celebrates this holiday a wonderful holiday, a peaceful holiday. And I know that the holidays can be really hard for some. I have several friends in my life that lost their loved ones this year, and these first can be absolutely brutal. So I am sending a lot of love to you. If this is a hard holiday season to you, just know that Allison and I are thinking about you and I hope that you can find something joyful to do today that makes you a little bit lighter. That makes your day just a little bit lighter.
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Allison Gill
Yeah. Thank you so much. I couldn't have said it better myself. Everybody will be back in your ears. Tomorrow we're going to talk to Fugal Saying on Fugal Saying Fridays. And we're going to be interviewing progressive Democratic candidate for Utah's brand spanking new 1st congressional district. Hopefully we'll be able to flip it blue. I think we will. I think the the odds are are in our favor. We're going to be talking to the progressive candidate Nate Bluein who's running for that seat. So until then, everybody 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. Merry Christmas to those who celebrate. Happy holidays. I've been AG and I've been DG and them's the Beans.
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