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Tuesday, July 15th, 2025 Today, the Trump regime is urging red states to build their own concentration camps and he’s going to send them your tax dollars to do it; the Wall Street Journal editorial board is weighing in on the Epstein saga; a Department of Justice inspector general report exposes the harmful use of restraints in prisons; the Supreme Court without explanation from the shadow docket has decided to allow Trump to flout Congress and dismantle the Department of Education; and the Miami Herald has obtained a list of the 700 detainees at the Florida concentration camp. Allison and Dana deliver the good news.
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Alison Gill
MSW Media. Hello and welcome to the Daily beans for Tuesday, July 15, 2025. Today, the Trump regime is urging red states to build their own concentration camps. And he's going to send them your tax dollars to help them do it. The Wall Street Journal editorial board is weighing in on the Epstein saga. A Department of justice inspector general report exposes the harmful use of restraints in prisons. The Supreme Court, without explanation from the shadow docket, has decided to allow Trump to flout Congress and dismantle the Department of Education. And the Miami Herald has obtained a list of the 700 detainees at the Florida concentration camp. I'm Alison Gill.
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Dana Goldberg
And I'm Dana Goldberg.
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Alison Gill
Hey, Dana. It is Tuesday.
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Dana Goldberg
It is Tuesday. It feels like we've already had 15 days this week, so I don't know how it's only Tuesday, but it is Tuesday.
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Alison Gill
Yep. And Monday. Right now, as we record this, July 14th is national non Binary Visibility day. So to all of our non binary listeners, we love you and hello and we see you.
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Dana Goldberg
And speaking of incredible non binary people, Poet laureate Andrea Gibson has passed away today. And they were an extraordinary human being. And I'm sure there's people listening to this podcast that know their work. If you get a chance, go see their documentary, See Me in the Good Light. It is the story of their incredible relationship with their partner Megan and their journey through cancer. And getting on stage and performing it will break you wide open. So I think there's something very interesting about them passing away on National Non Binary Day. I'm sure they would find it on almost amusing, but we will miss them tremendously and their voice in this world. So I'm just shouting out Andrea Gibson on today's episode.
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Alison Gill
Agreed. Andrea Gibson, incredible body of work, an incredible life. So thank you for that. Can you tell me the name of that documentary again? I want to check it out.
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Dana Goldberg
Come see me in the good light.
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Alison Gill
Wonderful. Thank you so much for that information. All right. I didn't think that the Epstein thing could break even wider open, but it has. Just in the last 24 hours, we talked about all the things that happened over the weekend yesterday, Dana. And just in the last 24 hours, we have Representative Veazey from Texas, a Democrat in the House. He's introduced a resolution in Congress to release the Epstein files. So it'll be interesting to see how Republicans in the House come down on this issue. Senator Kennedy, you know, he pop. He popped Foghorn Leghorn. Guy that, you know.
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Dana Goldberg
Oh, I know who he is, is.
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Alison Gill
Now saying that the DOJ should go back to the drawing board to release the Epstein files. Department of justice today told the Supreme Court they do not support Ghislaine Maxwell's appeal of her conviction. So that's interesting. She's going to be pissed.
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Dana Goldberg
Good.
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Alison Gill
Representative Hakeem Jeffries today called on Jim Jordan to open an investigation of the Epstein files. Jamie Raskin is calling for their release. Senator Patty Murray has called this out. The Democrats are really listening to us on this. So I think that that's important to note. The fact that Republicans are blocking a congressional probe into this is on the front page of Drudge today.
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Dana Goldberg
Wow.
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Alison Gill
Bongino is still MIA since he stormed out of D.C. last week after he got in a big fight with Pam Bondi about these files. No one has spoken to him. But women are too emotional to be in leadership positions. And Dana, tomorrow on cleanup on aisle 45, Harry Dunn and I are going to talk about how the guy who gave Epstein his sweetheart deal a long time ago named Alex Acosta, he granted immunity to all of Epstein's clients in that deal, which is probably why there's nothing to release. He's just been given a cushy job at Newsmax.
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Dana Goldberg
Oh, boy.
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Alison Gill
Newsmax, by the way, just made a huge streaming deal with Truth Social, Trump's social media company, and Trump Media Corporation. So that's interesting that he's still getting favors. As recently as this March, Trump made him the Secretary of Labor. Back in 2017.
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Dana Goldberg
After all this, I also remember, and I don't want to misspeak, I remember a Bill Barr connection with all of this, too. Someone in Bill Barr, I think there was rumor of his dad or someone being on the case or being involved in this.
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Alison Gill
His dad knew Epstein.
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Dana Goldberg
That's what it was. And so Bill Barr was the Attorney General at the time all of this happened and just sort of swept it under the rug. Also, there's, you know, conspiracy theories that Bill Barr may have had, you know, knowledge of that one minute video that might be missing from, you know, Epstein's cell.
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Alison Gill
So, yeah, and apparently Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyer told the Daily Mail she's willing to come in and testify to Congress, but the Republicans so far aren't interested. That might change if the, you know, MAGA base keeps yelling yeah, about this. But like I said, Pam Bondi today, after putting this off twice, because she probably really didn't want to piss off Ghislaine Maxwell, had to tell the Supreme Court, and the deadline was Monday, that they do not support her appeal of her conviction. And so Ghislaine's pissed now and has a lot of information about what's in the Epstein files.
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Dana Goldberg
Yep. All of the information.
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Alison Gill
Right. I mean, she's been pissed, but now, now that Trump and Bondi have left her, you know, cake out in the rain.
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Dana Goldberg
Yeah. If there's no chance of her seeing the light of day through this, why not burn the whole thing down? Why not?
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Alison Gill
Right. So I hope somebody should go and talk to her soon in prison. It says what I'm going to say about that. All right, we have a lot of news to get to today. Let's hit the hot notes. Hot notes. All right, first up from cnn. This is just absolutely infuriating. The Supreme Court said President Trump may proceed with his plan to carry out mass layoffs at the Department of Education in the latest win for the White House at the conservative high court. I wouldn't say conservative high court. That wouldn't be my words, but that's what CNN says. In an unsigned order with no explanation, the justice has lifted, for now, a lower court ruling that had indefinitely paused Trump's plan to dismantle the Department of Education. The Supreme Court's decision puts that ruling on hold while the legal challenge actually plays out. They didn't decide on the merits. They just lifted the stay so that Trump can go ahead and just take apart the congressionally created Department of Education. In a scathing dissent, which I suggest you all read, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the court's senior liberal member, said her colleagues had made an indefensible decision to let Trump proceed with taking apart an agency that ordinarily can only be dismantled by Congress. Quote, the majority is either willfully blind to the implications of its ruling or naive. But either way, the threat to our Constitution's separation of powers is grave. That's what she wrote in her dissent, which was joined in full by the other two liberal justices. Trump ordered mass layoffs at the department earlier this year, cutting its workforce in half. But lower courts have blocked that effort, noting the Education Department was created by Congress despite Trump's campaign trail promises to eliminate the department. His lawyers argued to the Supreme Court that that's not what's happening in this case. Instead, they said the department could continue to carry out its legally obligated functions just with, I guess nobody left working there. Sotomayor made clear in her dissent that she thought Trump's arguments to the high court disregarded the reality on the ground. Quote, the record unambiguously refutes that account. She said neither the president nor Secretary McMahon. I hate saying that made any secret of their intent to ignore their constitutional duties. President Trump repeatedly called for the immediate abolition of the department both during his campaign and after taking office. Rather than wait for legislative action to begin shuttering the department, McMahon slashed the agency's workforce in half, conceitedly, without analyzing the effects of those terminations on the department's statutorily mandated functions. The court's decision, she wrote, will unleash untold harm, delaying or denying educational opportunities and leaving students to suffer from discrimination, sexual assault and other civil rights violations without the federal resources Congress intended. The majority apparently deems it more important to free the government from paying employees it had no right to fire than to avert these very real harms while the litigation continues. And Dana, this is extraordinarily inconsistent with, you know, when Biden was trying to stop Texas from murdering migrants with its barbed wire in the Rio Grande or when Biden was trying to forgive student debt, the Supreme Court allowed those stays to continue to block him from doing those things, but not in the Trump cases.
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Dana Goldberg
They are so far gone. They are so far gone. This one's from npr. One person has died in federal prison after being kept in restraints for more than two days. Another was held in restraints so tight that afterward part of a limb had to be amputated. A third person was confined in restraints for 12 days, then 30 days, and then again for 29 days. Now, these abuses are outlined in a new report from the Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General, the oig, which is highly critical of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the bop, and their use of restraints on prisoners. The report concludes that federal prison officials violated their own rules, shackling prisoners to beds and chairs for hours, even days, sometimes using restraints on both wrists and ankles. Additionally, they violated a separate rule that prohibits the use of restraints as punishment. The report follows an investigative series in recent years by NPR in collaboration with the Marshall Project, which exposed abuse in federal prisons, including the overuse of restraints and shackles so tight that prisoners report scarring and permanent injury. The OIG reviewed six years of BOP records and found thousands of instances of abuse. Those included, and I quote, thousands of incidents of inmates held in restraints for 16 hours or longer, hundreds of itch, hundreds of which were held in restraints for more than 24 hours and some for over a week or weeks. However, the investigators noted that their work was limited by inadequate record keeping at prisons. This is just the things they kept the records of.
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Alison Gill
Right.
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Dana Goldberg
You know what I mean? Now, the report does not identify specific prisons or Prisoners nor disclose their gender. But some of the details, they are disturbing and just a trigger warning here. The person who died and had been, quote, placed in a restraint chair with restraints on both wrists and both ankles for more than two days. According to the report, less than two hours after being released, they were sprayed with pepper spray following an alleged altercation with a cellmate and placed back into the restraint chair. Five hours later, the prisoner was found unresponsive and later pronounced dead. An autopsy concluded that the person died from a painful blockage of blood flow, a severe result of sickle cell disease, which was complic being pepper sprayed and placed in prolonged restraint. In response to the memorandum from the inspector general, the BOP stated that, and I quote, it's committed to addressing these issues and implementing meaningful improvements and welcome the report's recommendations as a crucial opportunity to enhance agency practices and ensure the humane treatment of the inmates. All this is they got fucking caught. Because if they really believe that, they knew that they were torturing people up until this point.
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Alison Gill
Right. And we're going to ensure humane treatment of all inmates except for our concentration camps. Like, what?
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Dana Goldberg
Right. A BOP spokesperson told NPR that the agency cannot comment any further at this time because it's still completing a review of the inspector general's, quote, multiple recommendations and requested revisions.
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Alison Gill
Just horrific. DOJ IG report.
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Dana Goldberg
Yeah.
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Alison Gill
Thank you for that. That makes my stomach, like, turn thinking about being in restraints for weeks.
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Dana Goldberg
It's horrifying. It's horrifying. Human. Yeah. Abuse.
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Alison Gill
Oh, my gosh. And I also have to wonder, like, you know, whatever, whoever the administration is, whoever the president, whoever in charge. Right.
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Dana Goldberg
Yeah.
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Alison Gill
Has these rules in place. You can't do this. But is it just being not followed at the local level? Is. Is it like that Abu Ghraib Milgram experiment, level of depravity of the guards, the correction officers at the facilities? Where has congressional oversight been for this? Are there inspections? Is there just not enough staff? Is it not funded enough to make sure that the rules that are put in place by the administrations are being followed? Like, I'm going to dig into this report, but it's. That's so disturbing.
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Dana Goldberg
Yeah.
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Alison Gill
All right, next up from the Wall Street Journal. You know, Marxist woke ragged the Wall Street Journal and their editorial board. And I mean, when it comes from the Wall Street Journal, this is just further evidence that this Epstein stuff is not just going to go away, no matter how much Trump wishes it would.
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Dana Goldberg
Okay.
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Alison Gill
Because at first, you know, this was all kind of underground QAnon stuff, and now everybody all of the Democrats, all, like a lot of the Republicans. Drudge with the Wall Street Journal talking about it.
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Dana Goldberg
Some videos with Tucker Carlson who were calling him out on this. Like they've lost a lot of their own. Guys and women.
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Alison Gill
Yeah. And gals to all my guys. And some gals. Right.
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Dana Goldberg
Handsome gals. Megan Kelly.
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Alison Gill
Yeah, yeah. She's pit. Like, everybody's bizarre. Laura Loomer.
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Dana Goldberg
I just. I can't even listen to half these people, but there was like, a compilation put together on Instagram for me, so I wouldn't. I. I breathe through it.
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Alison Gill
Nice. Good. Yeah. You have to, Right? All right. This is what Wall Street Journal says. Donald Trump has traded in conspiracy stories for years. Barack Obama was born in Kenya. Ted Cruz's father had a link to JFK's killer. The 2020 election was stolen. Migrants are barbecuing people's pets. He seems to think this is good show business with appeal in certain niches of fragmented culture. Yet now he's upset that the Jeffrey Epstein theories he fanned are proving hard to tamp down. Mr. Trump lamented on Saturday that his administration is taking heat. Quote, over a guy who never dies. Jeffrey Epstein. For years, it's Epstein over and over again, who says, over a guy that never dies. Yeah, sounds. You know what? I'm just going to let that one lie. His advisors are suggesting this was a snipe hunt, but the MAGA base is furious in disbelief since since the same people pledged to catch some snipe. Right. Asked on a podcast in 2024 about Epstein's list of clients, Trump said he have no problem releasing it. Attorney General Pam Bondi said in February, it's sitting on my desk right now to review. FBI Director Kash Patel has been on this beat, too. Quote, put on your big boy pants and let us know who the pedophiles are. That's what he told a podcast two years ago. But Pam Bondi and Patel's review, quote, revealed no incriminating client list. The Justice Department and the FBI said last week at a Cabinet meeting Tuesday. The Attorney General insisted that in February she only meant the Epstein case files were on her desk, not the client list. Alleged videos, she said, turned out to be child porn downloaded by Epstein. Mr. Patel, wearing official FBI big boy pants, agrees, Quote, if there was a video of some guy or gal committing felonies on an island, and I'm in charge, he recently said, don't you think you'd see it now, The Trump administration backs the assessment that Epstein killed himself in prison, but the jailhouse tape it released has a minute long gap near midnight. Ms. Bondi says it's a daily glitch when the aging surveillance system resets. Yet to conspiracy raconteurs, it's a clue. Nothing will satisfy them because they live in a world of storytelling. Not evidence. Maybe podcast provocateurs think it's fun to spin joking, not joking yarns about Taylor Swift rigging the super bowl to help President Biden. What about the truth? By the way, Mr. Trump now says the Epstein furor can't distract Ms. Bondi.
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Dana Goldberg
From the real conspiracy.
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Alison Gill
The 2020 election was rigged and stolen and that they tried to do the same thing in 2024. That's what she's looking into as attorney general and much more, says Trump. So that the Wall Street Journal wrote that up, I think gives you and that it's on the front page of Drudge, I think gives you a little clue about the fact that this is not going away.
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Dana Goldberg
Yeah, agreed. And here's some story on some more horrifying human beings. This is from tnr. The other day, said human being Steven Miller went on Fox News and offered a plea that got surprisingly little attention, giving its highly toxic and unnerving implications. Miller urged politicians in GOP run states to build their own versions of Alligator Alcatraz, the state run immigration detention facility that officials just opened up in Florida Everglades. Stephen Miller is a piece of shit, by the way. He always has been, he always will be. He's always been racist. He's a horrible person. Let's move on. And I quote, we want every governor of red state and if you are watching tonight, pick up the phone, call dhs, work with us to build facilities in your state. That's what Miller said in a reference to the Department of Homeland Security, by the way. Now, critically, Miller added, such states could then work with the federal government by supplying much needed detention beds, helping President Trump get the illegals out. Again. That's his quote, not mine. Keep all that in mind as we introduce you to one James Uthmeyer. Ready? Uthmeyer. He's the attorney general of Florida and a longtime ally of Governor Ron DeSantis. He's widely described in the state as the brains behind Alligator Alcatraz. Peter Scorch, the publisher of Florida Politics, sums him up this way. He said in Uthmeyer DeSantis found his own Stephen Miller. So Uthmeyer is clearly also a piece of shit. Uthmeyer is indeed a homegrown Florida version of Miller. He's only 37 years old, he brings great precociousness to the jailing of migrants. Now, like Miller, he is obscure and little known relative to the influence he's amassing. Also, like Miller, he is fluent in maga's reliance on the spectacle of inhumanity and barbarism. Now, when Miller told GOP politicians to follow Uthmeyer by collaborating with federal officials to develop new versions of Alligator Alcatraz, he was probably talking about the slush fund. State officials can try and tap into it for building out these facilities. And I quote, for Republican states across the country that want to copy the Alligator Alcatraz model, this bill will give them that money. Immigration analyst. This is from Austin Kocher. That's what they said.
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Alison Gill
All right, so taking away the money to have states expand Medicaid coverage, but creating a slush fund for states to build concentration camps?
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Dana Goldberg
Yep, Red states, it's there if you want it. What's more, red state politicians are paying attention to this. Fox News contacted numerous gubernatorial offices to ask if they intend to take up Miller's invitation. The responses were positive, with many eagerly touting plans for detention complexes. While it's unclear if this is going to resemble Alligator Alcatraz, the underlying impulse is clear. Many red states want to expand state run detention efforts and again, the money is there for that. This is a bad development. Alligator Alcatraz should not be the model for the future of migrant detention in much of the United States or anywhere. And this is why the facility is funded and operated by the state of Florida. But the state of Florida can use it to detain undocumented people under a federal program that allows ICE to authorize local law enforcement to carry out immigration crackdowns that pits this Alligator Alcatraz. And I hate to have to keep fucking saying that in a gray area. What it does is it creates local law enforcement agencies using it to carry out Trump's immigration detention agenda even as ICE does not run the facility. That's terrifying. Lauren Brooke Eisen of the Brennan center, who specializes in criminal justice, points to a toxic combination built into the idea of of more versions of this arrangement. Now, ICE detention is subject to federal oversight, but huge influxes of federal money for migrant detention, as in Trump's new bill, could create new incentives for states to ramp up their own detention efforts. Yet because Alligator Alcatraz is a new experiment, she says it's unclear what sort of federal oversight future imitation efforts would even receive if they got some federal money. But there is some better news. The Miami Herald and Tampa Bay Times, they have attained a List of more than 700 people who have been detained or. Or appear to be scheduled to be sent to the Florida run immigration detention facility known as alligator Alcatraz. The DeSantis administration has not made public a list of names of the immigrants held at the facility in heavy duty tents at an airstrip in the Florida Everglades. Individuals sent to the makeshift detention center do not show up in an online government database that allows the public to search for immigrant detainees whereabouts. Lawyers say they've had difficulty locating clients sent to the site, often learning that they're there when the detainees call family members. Now we're going to have a link to this list in the show notes so that you can actually see this. It's hard for me to see that that's better news. I don't. Alison, help me out with that.
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Alison Gill
Oh, that. The Miami Herald got this list so that people can review it and see who's at the facility. That's why it's not good news. That's why it's better than terrible.
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Dana Goldberg
Okay, got it. I was having a real hard time, but thank you. Thank you. That makes sense.
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Alison Gill
Yeah, no, it's. It's. It's really outstanding that the investigative journalists at Miami Herald have been able to put together this list for people to access. Got it. So. And that. That's also, by the way, part of our good trouble. So let's get into it.
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Dana Goldberg
What are you guys doing?
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Alison Gill
All right. We received this from an anonymous listener. Subject urgent ICC action needed. Alligator Alcatraz Detainee conditions and crimes against humanity. Dear Allison Gill and the Daily Beans team. I'm writing today with deep concern and a request for your help. As you said many times, good trouble matters, and this might be one of the most critical opportunities we have to make a real impact. The migrant detention facility known as Alligator Alcatraz in the Florida Everglades is detaining nearly 750 individuals, many of whom are nonviolent and have committed no crimes beyond immigration violations. Conditions have been reported as inhumane, including intense heat, no problem, proper shelter, overcrowding in wire cages, up to 32 per cell, inadequate sanitation and hygiene, maggot infested food, 24 hour lights, disrupting sleep cycles, and no hurricane evacuation plans despite storm threats. Critically, many detainees are foreign nationals from ICC member states like Mexico, Guatemala and Cuba. ICC is the International Criminal Court that opens a window for International Criminal Court jurisdiction to prosecute individual actors for crimes against humanity. The ICC allows individuals to file communications with the Office of the Prosecutor. If your audience is mobilized even 5% of your listeners, we could help generate the kind of pressure that forces international accountability. Therefore, I respectfully request a spotlight on this issue in a future episode. Here you go. Anonymous A signal boost to encourage your audience to file ICC complaints or contact international organizations and any coordination or help you're willing to offer with human rights lawyers on Org already watching this. Thanks for your continued leadership and for using your platform to serve truth and humanity and everybody. We will have a link to how to file with the Office of the Prosecutor in the International Criminal Court and we're going to have that in the show notes. We will also, as Dana said, have a link to the list of the detainees there so that if you know anyone or family members or lawyers of family members who need access to that list, you will have that at the ready where people can go and look at it to see if there's anybody there that you know that needs legal help or, you know, sometimes families are just looking for their loved ones. So we're going to have all of that in the show notes. And that is your good trouble today is if you, if you're so inclined to make a complaint to the International Criminal Court. All right, everybody. That is the good trouble. We have some listener submitted good news we need to get to, but we have to take a quick break, so stick around. We'll be right back after these messages. We'll be right back. Hey everybody. Some days are just more exhausting than others. So are some decades. But anyway, I digress. Whether it's a tough workout that day, a stressful afternoon, or just the everyday grind, I've started turning to CB Distillery for support and it's made a real difference for me. My favorite, the CBD Pain Stick. It's a roll on I stash in my gym bag and I have one in my nightstand, too. After a long day or a hard workout, I use the Pain Stick and I can feel my muscles relax. It's fast and acting, it smells great and it doesn't leave that greasy feeling that some balms do. And honestly, it's become part of my regular routine. So I want to thank CB Distillery for sponsoring the episode. You can get 25% off your entire purchase at CBDistillery.com and use promo code DailyBeans. CB Distilleria also makes products focused on stress, mood, focus and even like CBD treats for your pets, which are amazing when you want them to chill a little bit. And their sleep gummies, I swear by them, they're incredible. You should check them out as well. They Over 2 million happy customers customers and a full money back guarantee. So there's no risk. CB Distillery is clearly doing something right. So if you've been dealing with stress, pain, you want better sleep or a little more balance, maybe it's time to see what CBD can do for you. I'm glad I did. And for a limited time, you can save 25% on your entire purchase at CBDistillery.com and use promo code DailyBeans. That's CBDistillery.com promo code DailyBeans. Once again, CBDistillery.com specific product availability depends on individual state regulations. Everybody, welcome back. It's time for the good news. Who likes good news, everyone? Then good news everyone.
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Dana Goldberg
Good news, good news.
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Alison Gill
And we really could use your good news. So if you have any good news you want to send to us, whether it's a shout out to a loved one, a spouse, a partner, a small business in your area that could use a boost, your small business, a self shout out, a shout out to a government program maybe that's helped you or a loved one, whether it's a federal government program like the Affordable Care act, subsidies, Medicare, Medicaid, or maybe state or even county or municipal help that you've received, we would love to hear about it because it's so important that we hold these programs up as this regime tries to dismantle them, in a lot of cases successfully dismantling them. We want to hear those stories. Storytelling is important. So send it all to us@dailybeanspod.com, click on Contact. And to get your submission read on the air, all you got to do is pay your pod pet tariff, which means attach a photo of your pet. If you don't have a pet, an adoptable pet in your area will do. If you don't have that, just grab a random photo of an animal on the Internet that will pay your pod pet tariff and it works. Also, if you don't have that, show us a picture of a rally you've been to recently, maybe some of your favorite protest signs that you've seen, a beautiful sunse sunset, your happy place. Maybe you have a garden. I would love to see what you're growing. And of course, family pictures, baby pictures, anything really. Just send it to us@dailybeanspod.com and click on Contact. We're also accepting bird watching, which can be an actual bird, or you and your family or friends flipping the bird to Trump and Musk. All right, let's start with Jen Pronoun she and her. Hey beans buddies. Welcome back Dana and fabulous job holding down the fort. Ag d Dana. When you asked about places in the US where you can still find community, I knew I once again had to shout out my beloved New Orleans. The city survives on community. One of our neighborhood bars hosted a sign making party for the hands off protest. It was packed. Many neighborhood bars have potlucks on Sundays during football season for Saints games. Our neighborhood gay dive, the Friendly bar collects donations during their potlucks to give to a neighboring food bank. A couple of months ago, word got out that some rich asshole had bought a condo across from the beloved French Quarter bar that particular one and was calling the cops repeatedly because it had a bubble machine and the bubbles might hurt his Porsche.
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Dana Goldberg
Oh my God.
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Alison Gill
An impromptu bubble second line dance party was then formed, culminating with hundreds of people with various forms of bubble machines dancing joyously in front of the bar. A few years ago, after Hurricane Ida, we didn't get garbage pickup for weeks. So we did what any city would do. We held a trash parade to city hall in the pouring rain. Beyond the ridicularity, people also take care of each other like nowhere I've ever seen. Community fridges were set up throughout the town during COVID and they continue to operate to this day. Whenever there's a major storm, neighbors with generators are quick to offer a place to charge devices and many a community meal will pop up created with groceries that would otherwise spoil without electricity. Our infrastructure is dysfunctional, but our people are amazing in the midst of the Trumpian horrors. I've often said that I could leave the US but I can't leave New Orleans. For my tariff I have picture of my bubble dance party. One from the trash parade with a baby Bernard Pupper taken inside the friendly bar and my cats a toffee, a tuxedo and jambalaya a calico because the dogs usually get all the attention. Look at this.
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Dana Goldberg
Oh, I love this.
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Alison Gill
The bubble parade is brilliant. Like the fuck. That Porsche guy is fantastic. And so the star shaped goggles. Absolutely love. And look at the cats.
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Dana Goldberg
So cute.
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Alison Gill
Oh, they look like they're going to release an album. I love it.
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Dana Goldberg
I love this. All right, this is from Teddy Pronoun. She and her good news. Dana's back. And AG was wonderful for the whole two weeks. We have eight new bab in our family under the age of four.
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Alison Gill
What?
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Dana Goldberg
Oh my God. Look at all of these cuties.
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Alison Gill
Eight new babies.
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Dana Goldberg
Teddy, this is awesome. Thank you. And next up we have some anonymous pronouns. She and her Hello. I've heard your plea for good news today and I'm hoping this photo lifts your spirits. This is my grandson and our dog Sadie watching the river and various birds and chipmunks scurrying about this past weekend. They are the best of friends for sure. Thank you for delivering the news and updates with truth and honesty. I appreciate all that you do and respect entire team immensely. All these pictures are so good.
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Alison Gill
See the simplest little bit of good news just completely made my whole week. Yep, just a little picture out the window at the river and the bugs and the chipmunks and this kid and the dog are just adorable. All right, next up from Brianna pronoun she they Hello Lola the gumanati. You said the good trouble was self care over the weekend. Well, my weekends are Sundays and Mondays since I'm a manager at a small children's museum. Cool job. I want to shout out my husband ever since switching to this amazing job that unfortunately doesn't have the ability to give me PTO yet. We do get sick days thanks to Minnesota's earned sick and safe time law. My husband has taken off a couple random Mondays per month so we can have a full quote unquote weekend together. Sometimes we still do nothing, but we do our nothing together and life is good. But this weekend he suggested visiting a local cat cafe called Wired Whisker and our locally owned restored historic art deco movie theater. Oh very cool. While at the cat cafe, the cat named Pluto chose my lab three times with a great purring motor. Being chosen is always a great feeling, especially since my husband was chosen by Edith right away and she sat the whole time. Wired Whisker is a great establishment and had helped 148 cats get adopted since it opened in May of 2024. Also, creativity is resistance. Yes. Hear hear. Briana there are over 700 free little art galleries scattered around the United States. Create joy for others in these rough days if you're able to voice your anger, your fear or whatever's making you happy. If there isn't an official spot to put your art up, just put it up in the wild for someone to find. My photos are of my free little art gallery and two cats from the Wired Whisker. Look at the baby and look at that cool free little art gallery.
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Dana Goldberg
That is very cool.
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Alison Gill
Oh and you have one of those really badass mid century modern hanging wicker swing chairs.
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Dana Goldberg
Very cool too.
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Alison Gill
I love it.
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Dana Goldberg
All right, this is from Lara. Pronouns she and her hello. My good news is that the speciality and emergency vet hospital I work for is donating $50,000 to animal rescue groups in Texas. Also, my pet tax is my two older 16 year old Amelia and Lamont Gray. DLH and I also got good news for Lamont. We had to see a cardiologist, but his issue is very mild and doesn't require meds. What a relief.
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Alison Gill
Oh, and they're 16. The gray domestic long hair is Lamont. So sweet. And then Amelia, she looks like. Like she's had enough. Adorable. Thank you. You want me to take this last one?
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Dana Goldberg
Yeah, go for it.
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Alison Gill
All right. From Kristen. Pronouns she and her hi there Ag and Dana. I have some delightful bird watching to report. Of the avian variety, a robin built her nest on our porch light. We found three eggs on June 22nd. The first chick hatched June 27th, followed by its siblings on the 28th and 29th. Fun fact, robins lay one egg a day, meaning the chicks hatch on successive days. And they all successfully fledged this past Friday and Saturday. My husband accidentally encouraged one of the chicks to leave the nest on Friday because he opened our front door and startled it and it fluttered down to the ground. The mama bird immediately started yelling at him as loudly as she could from a nearby branch. No need for bird to English translator. She was clearly using every swear word she knew how to tell my husband off. Fortunately, the fledgling figured out its wings and got itself to a tree. We felt very lucky to have been around for that whole process and that all three babies made it to fledgling next year. We'll be sure to have a nest cam set up. Yes, in case the mama comes back to raise another brood. For podpet tariff, please accept these photos of my tuxi ladies, Charlotte and Emily. Oh, wonderful. Charlotte is the one diving headfirst into a batch of fresh catnip, dignity be damned. Emily is the one with even less dignity. She loves to trust, fall against humans, and then just stay in whatever position she landed in while you rub her wide open for business belly. Thank you for being absolute spectacular humans. You're keeping so many of us sane. Look at these photos of these baby birds.
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Dana Goldberg
They're so good. They're so good.
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Alison Gill
Okay, and there's the catnip dive. And then there's the. Oh. Oh, that flop. Cats are fun. They just flop on their humans that they just stay in that position and they're totally chill. This is very cool. Everyone. You're wonderful. Thank you for sending in your good news. Please send it all to us dailybeanspod.com and click on contact. Dana, do you have any final thoughts before we get out of here on this?
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Dana Goldberg
Not today. I think I took care of him at the top of the hour.
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Alison Gill
Yes, thank you so much. And everybody will be back in your ears tomorrow. And there'll be a new episode of Clean up on aisle 45 out tomorrow, so check that out as well. 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 in exactly produced by Allison 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 msw media.com msw media.