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Monday, July 27, 2026 Today, Donald Trump TACOs again on major Iran war escalation as administration officials worry about running out of munitions; the Pentagon has inexplicably changed the number of troops killed in the war from 18 to 14 on their web site; as far right influencers whinge about the tiny voter registration error in New Jersey - they remain silent about a similar error in Texas; the Justice Department withdraws its subpoenas of New York Times reporters; the administration admits in court papers that it canceled state grants based solely on politics; Trump has ordered fake news warning signs placed outside the Smithsonian; a car plowed into the crowd at Berlin Pride in an act of terrorism; Donald switched out his Bribe Force One jet because of a credible threat from Iran; Paramount Skydance has delayed its Warner Bros. Discovery buyout; Rep. Yassamin Ansari is seeking testimony from Barron Trump about his relationship with the Tate brothers; Trump’s anti mail ballot...
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History is messy. It's weird, wild and anything but boring. Rainy Day Rabbit Holes is a history podcast about unhinged stories that make you stop and ask, wait, is this real life? From crazy disasters and tasty scandals to enlightening and surprising heartwarming tales, we explore the moments where people behave badly and sometimes beautifully. We've got naughty politicians, cultural chaos and a deep love for the Pacific Northwest, including Bigfoot. It's thoughtful, irreverent, occasionally serious, and always entertaining. Let's fall down the rabbit hole.
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Allison Gill
MSW Media. Msw media. Daily beans daily beans daily beans daily beans. Hello and welcome to the Daily beans for Monday, July 27, 2026. Today, Donald Trump tacos again on major Iran war escalation as administration officials worry about running out of munitions. The Pentagon has inexplicably changed the number of troops killed in the war from 18 to 14. On their website as far right influencers whinge about the tiny voter registration error in New Jersey. They remain silent about a similar error in Texas. The Justice Department has withdrawn its subpoenas of New York Times reporters. The administration admits in court papers that it canceled state grants based solely on politics. Trump has ordered fake news warning signs be placed outside the Smithsonian. A car plowed into a crowd at Berlin Pride in an act of terrorism. Donald switched out his bribe Force One jet because of a credible threat from Iran. Paramount Skydance has delayed its Warner Brothers discovery buyout. Representative Yassim and Ansari seeking testimony from Barron Trump about his relationship with the tape brothers. Trump's anti mail ballot executive order has now been blocked by an appellate court. California Democrats are ramping up their anti voter ID fight. A Democrat backed candidate has flipped Chandler, Arizona's solidly red mayoral seat and Katie Fang notched a win in her Epstein files lawsuit against Todd Blanche. I'm your host Allison Gill. I think that's a record for weekend news. I even had to bump a couple stories till tomorrow. There was so much going on this weekend and Friday. So thank you for being here. Dana will be back soon, I promise. Thanks for hanging in with me solo. Send me all your good news. I am lonely without Dana. So please send me Flood my Flood the zone with good news by going to DailyBeansPod.com and clicking on Contact and submitting your good news submissions or good trouble suggestions, whatever you want to send. Maybe just say hi. Beans talk is dark this week. I'm trav. I'm in D.C. actually right now to participate in a defiance.org direct action. It's the unveiling of the Trump Epstein bookmobile. You've seen these pop up reading rooms. Well, now they have a bookmobile. It's a mobile reading room of the Epstein files. Epstein Trump files. So if you would like to join us, you can head to defiance.org you'll get three months free. Then after that it's pay what you can and you still get to participate in all these great actions. That's what the money goes toward, organizing direct action we can all participate in to fight for democracy. Again, three months free. Defiance.org beans and speaking of the Epstein files, Judge Emmett Sullivan, again, that's the judge who asked whether or not Mike Flynn had been investigated for treason. Right. And pointed to the American flag behind him in the courtroom and called him a traitor. That Judge Emmett Sullivan has granted Katie Fang's motion to examine the Todd Blanche redactions of certain Epstein documents in camera, which means privately in chambers, so he can see for himself if Todd Blanche is being truthful about whether the redactions are lawful. This happened to Bill Barr's redactions and in the Mueller report, those were looked at in camera, decided they were inappropriate and designed to mislead the public on the breadth and depth of Russian interference in the 2016 election. And that's what how why we have the full Mueller report now is because those redaction boxes were lifted way back in 2020. But that's happening here with this just handful of documents. Katie's asked for all the documents, but she filed a motion for some specific documents like just redactions on these things we know to be what kind of what we know are back there. And so now, you know, Todd Blanche responded to, to the judge's order to, you know, hand over those materials. Todd Blanche was like, nope, they're supposed to be redacted. And here's why. Those are victims names or private information. And you know, with a couple of other answers that he had for the judge. So the so Katie said, judge, you should really look at them yourself. And the judge said, yes, I agree. Now, Katie also asked if she could be there, but the judge denied that part. So it's just going judge in camera reviewing these documents and he only has a few days to hand them over. So we're going to be watching that case very closely. Congratulations. Massive win for Katie Fang and her legal team. Plus, the Department of Justice got the kicked out of it by the New York Times and Judge Subramanian in court last week. And I discussed that with Anna Bower on yesterday's episode of the breakdown over on Midas. You can watch it@mullershiro.com I also discuss it in depth with Andy Andy McCabe, former deputy director of the FBI, on the latest episode of the Unjustified podcast, which came out on Sunday as well. So check both of those out. There's a lot of really important information in both of those. And in a related story, after the subpoenas were withdrawn, the New York Times released more breaking news about the Qatari jet. President Trump abruptly switched aircraft when leaving Turkey this month after what officials judged to be a credible threat that Iranian proxy forces were targeting him and Air Force One. That's according to multiple people briefed on the matter, probably because they know he rushed it through and it didn't have all the security features that it needed. Now the threat emerged while Mr. Trump was attending the NATO summit. He had flown into Ankara on the new Qatari donated Boeing 747 8, which lacks the same advanced defense capabilities of the old Air Force One as the New York Times previously reported. That's why they were subpoenaed is because they reported that earlier and their family members were subpoenaed and they lied to the court to get non disclosure orders from the court so that the people weren't told that their records were being handed over by the government. It's a big old mess now. After the US Government picked up on the threat, the Secret Service urged Trump to change planes. He later announced he would be using the old plane. And then two days later, they released another story at the New York Times with even more details about the rush job to retrofit the Cuttery jet. In this story that came out Saturday and then they updated on Sunday, they report that Trump was personally engaged in making decisions about the retrofitting of the donated plane, giving the final approval on features and security measures that would be included. Now several key security and safety features on the Boeing planes that have been used for decades as Air Force One are not visible on the upgraded jet, including that lower level exit door for high risk situations, additional backup power capacity, and an advanced anti missile system just missing. And that's according to public Air Force records and photographs that you can look at that were examined by the times. The 7478 plane was overhauled on a compressed timeline of just about eight months. Experts said the jet would have needed several years for the full upgrade. But because the Qatari jet was being pushed into service so quickly, some White House officials initially expected it would only be used for domestic travel or to visit allied countries with the U.S. you know, with that have U.S. military bases. Now, the government spent hundreds of millions of dollars to purchase equipment needed to train pilots to fly the 7478 plane so quickly. On top of the about approximately $400 million cost of the upgrades that the administration has already publicly acknowledged, the Pentagon has tried to hide price tag, including from Congress by taking the funds from a classified budget for nuclear modernization. Now, I have no idea why this reporting from the New York Times sticks in his craw enough to put the FBI director on it with Susie Wiles, your chief of staff in a war room leak investigation situation at the White House, or why they went ahead and just issued illegal subpoenas to journalists and their families and lied to a magistrate judge to get non disclosure orders from the court. Like, why does it bother him so much that we know that the jet isn't fully jet maxed or whatever you call it? The jet has low t. I don't. What. It just needs more time to be retrofitted. We don't like the price tag, but we know the price tag. I mean, they're hiding most of it from us under these, you know, nuclear upgrades. So they're classified. Is he worried we're going to find out the cost? That shouldn't bother him. And the fact that it just needs more upgrades. Why do you have to hold? I left it there for the troops to look at. They wanted to see it. Why not just say, oh, it needs more security. I got to fly it around on the 250th, you know, birthday of America, but you know, we're putting it back in shop. It needs more upgrades for safety. Why? What's wrong with that? I gotta ask Mary Trump. She'll know. Like, what the, what's the psychological thing going on in his mind that he's so mad that he's gonna break the law and go after journalists at the New York Times because they reported that the jet needs upgrades. I don't know. I don't get it. But let's talk about the Iran war for a second because the New York Times is also reporting that President Trump has set aside, at least for now, plans to sharply escalate the American military assault against Iran. With particular concern that intensifying the war could dangerously drain the Pentagon's already diminished stockpile of Patriot anti missile interceptors and other air defense munitions in the Middle East. The threat to interceptor stockpiles is one of many considerations that have made a return to major combat operations a hugely risky endeavor. That's according to Administration officials. Now, Trump and his top aides are also uneasy about the prospect of the widening war in the Middle east, the alienation of key Gulf allies who are now vulnerable to Iranian attack, a global economic crisis and growing energy and refugee crises. Dad, what could, what could go wrong? The latest turn in Mr. Trump's handling of the conflict with Iran came after a meeting on Friday with top advisors and senior members of his cabinet. And that's according to two people briefed. The private deliberations have focused on the Pentagon's shrinking inventory of Patriot interceptors and other air defenses. This is according to officials discussing operational matters on the condition of anonymity. Three US Soldiers in Jordan were killed last Friday when a ballistic missile slipped through American air defenses, fending off a barrage of Iranian missiles and drones. Now, General Dan Kane, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has cautioned privately that resuming major combat operations against Iran was doable, but that it would dangerously deplete interceptors available to the military. Sent command, that's the Central Command, which is responsible for operations in the Middle East. A spokesman for General Kaine declined to comment on advice the general gives the president. Few, if any in Trump's inner circle believed the plan to escalate was wise, according to two of the people briefed on the matter. One senior US Official, who also spoke on the condition of anonymity, expressed doubts that resuming major combat operations would drive Iran back to the bargaining table. I have to wonder if any of this has to do with Lindsey Graham not being around because he's a, was a major proponent of an all out attack, a ground war, wipe Iran off, off the map. He's not there anymore. So maybe even Dan Cain, who's a giant piece of shit, is probably able to temper Donald Trump now on these, like these massive escalations, we don't know. And also from the Times. On Wednesday, the Pentagon reported on its casualties website that a total of 18American service members had been killed during the war in Iran. By Thursday, the Defense Department had lowered that number, reporting that only 14 troops had been killed in the war. Three military officials said that one reason behind the change was the Trump administration decided to remove four service members killed in this past weekend from the list. Three in Jordan and one in northern Iraq because their deaths occurred after Trump declared a ceasefire in the war in April. Now, the acting press secretary of the Pentagon, Joel Valdez, attributed the change instead to, quote, temporary data disruptions on the website that he suggested would be quickly fixed. That was last week. As of the recording of this episode. That number is still at 14 on the Pentagon's website. You just gotta go in and change it to 18. So I'm actually thinking that the President told people that these last four deaths didn't count. Imagine being a family member of one of those four and being told that your family member's death doesn't count because I called a ceasefire. There wasn't ever a ceasefire. You had a naval blockade going the whole time. It's always been a war and it never stopped. And now he's trying to reset the clock so he can have another 60 days. It's just. It's fucked. And I. I don't know a way to get out of it. But I guess the good news is they're not escalating because they're running out of these interceptors and defense systems anyway. We will continue to keep an eye on this. And we're going to take a quick break. We're going to come back. We still haven't gotten to the hot notes, y'.
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Charlotte Clymer
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Allison Gill
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Alison Gill
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I'm Charlotte Clymer.
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Alison Gill
And I'm Alison Gill. Hey, Charlotte, what is what if you and I joined forces to create a weekly podcast amid all the chaos of the news to chat about the most recent episode of season four of Ted Lasso?
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Charlotte Clymer
Well, Allison, we'd be taking delight amid the spite to sit and write and bring some light on Wednesday nights. I mean, look, everything right now is ridiculous. I know we're all stressed out with the state of the country and we all deserve some joy. Ted Lasso was there for us in the middle of the pandemic and he's back to offer us a respite from Trump 2.0 right before the midterms.
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Charlotte Clymer
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Allison Gill
barbecue sauce, everybody. Welcome back. It's time for the Hot Notes.
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Alison Gill
Hot Notes.
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Allison Gill
All right, first up from the Times. When the Trump administration canceled more than $7.5 billion in Biden era federal grants for clean energy projects in October, it framed the move as an urgent corrective to protect taxpayer funds from waste. But that wasn't true. In little notice court documents, federal officials acknowledged this month that they had terminated the funding quote based solely on political criteria targeting projects in states that were represented by Democrats and had voted for Kamala Harris in 2024. The admission showed how Trump has weaponized the provisions of the federal education, energy, health, housing and infrastructure aid in his second term. Far from rooting out the sort of misspending that Trump sees as rife in Washington, the White House has instead sought to leverage the budget as a tool to assist his allies or as a cudgel to hurt the president's foes. The saga illustrates the stakes as the Trump administration is completing a set of rules that would provide the president even greater control over more than 1 trillion in annual federal grants. To critics, the new regulation would only make it easier for Trump to strike wider tranches of congressionally approved funding over political differences. And that's what Russell Vogt was testifying to in front of Congress, basically saying, we can move money around even after it's appropriated. It's against the law. It was against the law when you did it to withhold funding appropriated for Ukraine in order to shake down President Zelensky, to get him to announce that he had opened an investigation into Burisma and Biden. And now we just learned from Donald Trump's own document release that that was a Russian op. But, you know, that's the plan. And we also have horrible news. This is heartbreaking. This is out of Germany. It's from the New York Times. A car plowed through a park during Berlin's biggest LGBTQ pride event this past Saturday, killed at least one person in what the police say is a suspected act of terrorism. Now search was on for at least one suspect whom police described as a man involved in a local Islamic extremist group. Police said some revelers also appeared to have suffered stab wounds. The attack on a side street leading out of the city's beloved Central park and away from what had been a jammed parade route. It abruptly ended a celebration that drew hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people to Berlin and rattled the community that had been spending much of the day dancing in colorful costumes under idyllic summer skies. Just tragedy, absolute tragedy. So we'll keep an eye on that story. Next up from the Times. President Trump on Friday ordered warning signs and exhibits installed outside the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History to alert the public that the museum does not, in his view, accurately reflect American history. It's very unusual directive made through an executive order was a considerable escalation of the president's dispute with the Smithsonian and its history museum, which was the subject of a recent 162 page report. The report accused the museum director, Anthea M. Hardig, of, quote, radical activist ideology and the museum of, quote, undermining faith in American institutions. This is just straight out of fucking Schindler's list. Now the order went so far as to suggest that the signage inform potential museum visitors of locations where American history is better presented. The administration didn't explain where the public would be redirected. The Smithsonian declined to comment. Trump's order came just a few days after Ms. Hardig was grilled by Republican legislators in two congressional hearings where she was accused of teaching national self loathing. Representative Melanie Stansbury, Democrat in New Mexico, was among those who objected to this effort. Quote, Once again, the Trump administration is attempting to use executive authority to exercise its political will over our nation's independent and cultural institutions. This executive order is a clear political overreach driven by an ideological agenda to rewrite American history. Our Smithsonian institutions do not belong to the president, but they belong to the American people and so does our national story. And next up from the Post, Paramount Skydance said Friday it's agreed to halt its merger with fellow Hollywood heavyweight Warner Brothers until as late as July 2027, citing a federal antitrust lawsuit brought by 12 Democratic states that had won a brief pause this week. The company and the state said together in a court filing Friday that they had agreed to suspend the merger. While the lawsuit unfolds. Paramount is separately facing a challenge from the Writers Guild of America, which represents many screenwriters and journalists as well as a group of consumers in Northern California. I love this that it's going to be on hold possibly till July 2027 because Paramount, as we said here last week on Monday, has to pay a $0.25 per share per quarter ticking fee if the deal isn't done by September 30th. That works out to about $600 million out of Ellison's pockets per quarter. And between September 30th and July there's three quarters. So that adds up to $1.8 billion.
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Wow.
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Allison Gill
All right, next up from Ms. Now House Democrat one. One specific House Democrat on Thursday called for Trump's youngest son, Barron Trump, to testify about his family ties to Andrew and Tristan Tate. I wish they wouldn't refer to him as his youngest son. Dude's a full ass adult. You can call him an adult son that Andrew Tate, as we know, and Tristan Tate, the misogynistic podcasters facing dozens of sexual abuse charges in the uk Rep. Yassiman Ansari of Arizona, member of the House Oversight Committee, demanded Barron's testimony and investigations into the Trump's family ties to the scandal plagued brothers. The Tates, who have been lionized by members of the Trump administration and the MAGA movement more broadly, face potential extradition to the UK stemming from charges of rape, sexual assault, and in Andrew Tate's case, possession of indecent images of a child. The brothers have denied any wrongdoing. In a letter to House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, Ansari says, quote, recent reporting and public disclosures raise extremely grave national security, diplomatic and ethical concerns about whether political networks in the President's orbit, including members of his family and other public officials, leveraged their influence to shield these two men who are facing grave criminal indictments on human trafficking, sexual assault and exploitation of minors, among other appalling offenses. She went on to reference reports about the Tate brothers communications with Barron Trump and other members of the President's inner circle. Oh yeah, Barron Trump is 20. It says here. Her letter calls on Comer to issue subpoenas for Barron Trump to testify before Congress about his knowledge of the Tate brothers crimes, along with any White House and federal agency logs that might document communications that officials had about custody, travel restrictions, passport status or extradition. Because you'll remember they got here, their phones were snatched, but then the administration gave them back to them and like protected them. So Rep. Ansaris wants to look into this. And from ABC 25 in Texas, McClellan County Democratic Party campaign worker Cheryl Foster discovered errors in the Texas Secretary of State's voter database. That's a Republican, including one precinct that jumped from 2,400 to 9,400 registered voters. The Secretary of State said the statewide Texas Election Administration Management team Te A M Texas Election Administration Management was upgraded before the November 2025 election and that mid decade redistricting triggered precinct redistricting at the local level. McLennan county is largely insulated from the errors because it uses countywide voting and operates its own voter database rather than relying solely on the TEAM system, which is a state system. A Tarleton State political science professor warned that the errors could sway a close election, pointing to New Jersey where up to 400 non citizens were able to vote due to a similar error. 400 over the by the way course of a year in every election and made up of Democrats, Independents and Republicans. It's 0.0005% of registered voters in New Jersey. And it's amazing how states find problems like this, problems which by the way, like I said, would not really impact the outcome of an election and you know, problems that wouldn't be fixed by the SAVE act, problems that wouldn't be solved by his national citizen voter database because states administer their own elections. So they found it, they fixed it, the system works and Speaking of that from democracy docket, the U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals denied the Trump administration's request to pause a lower court order that blocks the Post Office from executing the president's March executive order attacking mail voting. The decision means President Trump's sweeping assault on mail voting will not be carried out in 23 states in the District of Columbia. The three judge panel ruled 2 to 1 against the Trump administration's motion, with one Judge Joshua D. Dunlap, a Trump appointee, dissenting to part of the ruling. Just part of it, though. U.S. district Judge Indira Talwani's June 25 ruling that the Post Office cannot refuse to deliver mail ballots to states that refuse to comply with the Justice Department's demands for their unredacted voter lists. That block will remain in place. Judge Talwani's ruling pointed out that complying with Trump's executive orders unusual demands would mean states would be financially burdened for making changes to their mail ballot envelopes. The executive order directs the Post Office to control states mail ballot designs by ensuring they have unique intelligent mail barcodes and logos. The Postal Service is expected to impose these changes even for states that have already purchased their mail in ballot envelopes for the year. The appeals court panel was not moved, however, by the Trump administration's argument that such costs should be disregarded for now because the Post Office has yet to issue any final rules on the new designs. Quote as the district court determined, the summary judgment record reflects that any change to the kind of envelopes state and local officials must use for voting by mail will necessarily force the plaintiff states to incur monetary operational costs. That's what the appellate court wrote, quote Thus we fail to see how the Trump administration has made a strong showing that the plaintiff states will incur no costs as a result of the executive order. The ruling also focuses on the Executive Order's threats to criminally punish any state or local officials who refuse to comply. Under the order, the Post Office would only send mail ballots to states that send their unredacted voter files to dhs, which would approve voter eligibility via its own national voter registration database, which looks like it's going to be kept off Fedramp out of the long arm of the law's reach where you can't get oversight. It's going to be on a personal Cloudflare account that belongs to the guy who runs Airbnb, by the way. Now this is an unprecedented federal incursion into states exclusive power to determine voter eligibility as deemed by the Constitution. Quote the Executive Order directs unprecedented levels of involvement by federal officials in how states administer elections. That's what the appellate court said. In doing so, the EO plainly affects the plaintiff states sovereign power to create and enforce a legal code for elections. The Trump administration has ordered DHS to run states voter files through a flawed database system called the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, the SAVE system, which is supposed to be used solely for verifying eligibility for government benefits. Election experts have shown that the SAVE system has regularly misidentified eligible voters. Meanwhile, DHS Secretary Mark Quain has stated publicly that he will pursue criminal charges against state election officials who he won't submit voters records so he can run it through his own private system. And as Andy McCabe and I discuss on yesterday's episode of Unjustified, the Department of justice is putting together a criminal fraud unit, public Corruption, to investigate state election officials. It's unbelievable. Well no it's not. It's totally believable. One of the many, many, many ways he's interfering in the midterm elections. All right, next up from Politico, California Democrats are ramping up their campaign against a nationally watched voter ID initiative in the state with gubernatorial frontrunner Javier Becerra leading a new effort to quash the measure. Becerra and state Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, a fellow Democrat, are fundraising for the effort as honorary co chairs of a committee to oppose Prop 39. The effort is starting at a polling and fundraising disadvantage, though. Proponents of the Republican led measure to require government issued identification when voted voting have raised about $12 million and voter ID is pretty popular even in this heavily Democratic state. That's according to a Berkeley IGS poll from April found 56% of voters support the California measure after seeing basic descriptions of the proposal. Now the support starkly drops, however, when respondents heard partisan messaging around the initiative. The opposition campaign is launching with a slate of heavy hitting backers including seiu, California California Teachers association, planned Parenth, that kind of stuff. And it's starting with 2 million raised quote Donald Trump's election rigging has no place in California, becerra said in a statement. As attorney general, I took Trump to court and won when he tried to intimidate voters and suppress the vote. Prop 39 is his playbook coming to California. New restrictions that make it harder for citizens to vote by mail and a requirement that you print part of your Social Security number or other ID number on the outside of your ballot envelope. That should worry every Californian. I'm proud to be part of this campaign to stop it so it's not just like going to the poll and showing your ID and casting your vote. When you mail in your vote, they want you to put part of your identification number on the outside of your ballot with your signature. What the fuck? No, thank you. What is it with these tread on me, daddy. Republicans, it's. Wow. Next up, some good news from the Hill so we can celebrate some good news here. Before we get to the listener submitted good news. The city of Chandler, Arizona voted in their first mayoral election in eight years to elect independent candidate Matt Orlando. Flipping the seat. The nonpartisan race was between council member Orlando and Arizona House legislator Jeff Weninger, with Orlando pulling ahead by 17 points. This was a solidly red seat. The independent is backed by legislative district 13 Democrats in Arizona. Quote, today I'm honored and humbled to have been elected the mayor of Chandler to finish the job I started 30 years ago. I'm so grateful for the opportunity to lead Chandler into our next chapter. Orlando, who will be replacing Mayor Kevin Hartkey, a Republican who's now running for Weninger's seat in the Arizona House after reaching his term limit for mayor. That's who this guy is replacing. The Air Force veteran has previously served on the Chandler City Council. That's why he's like, I'm going to finish the job I started 30 years ago. And he ran on promises to stop partisanship in the local city council and anti data center policies due to concerns over energy use and noise pollution. So congratulations. Data centers are a wedge issue, you guys. They can make a difference in an election. 17 point victory in a pretty solidly red mayoral seat in Arizona. So well done. All right, everybody, that is the hot notes. We're going to hit the good news, but we have to take a quick break. Stick around, we'll be right back.
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Everybody, welcome back. It's time for the good news. Who likes good news?
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Alison Gill
Everyone? Then good news, everyone.
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Good news.
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Allison Gill
Good news. And if you have any good news or good trouble suggestions and seriously, you're good news, just write in and say, hi, I miss Dana. I'm lonely. Say hi to me. Send me photos of cute animals or forest creatures or sunsets. You can also send, like I said, your good trouble suggestions. You can send shout outs to loved ones or government programs or nonprofits that you love. Whatever it is, send it to us dailybeanspod.com click on contact and just attach a photo. Pay your pod pet tariff. It can be your pet. I can try to guess the breeds in your shelter pup. If you don't have a pet, you can send an adoptable pet in your area. Or like I said, just any random photo that'll make me smile. Send it all to us@dailybeanspod.com and click on contact. I'm always accepting photos of Jimothy. All right, first up is your good trouble. Good Trouble today comes from our friends at Blue wave California. Only 100 days until the midterms. One of the best chances we have to put a stop on the Trump regime is by taking back the house in 2026. And the road to winning runs through California because it always does. Billionaires and oligarchs are pouring in millions of dollars. So it's up to us to get involved and support our frontline candidates. With the power of the grassroots, we can win back the House if we protect the frontline districts we flipped in 2024, win two more swing districts in 26 and your donation supports these districts that we need to protect and flip. So we're gonna have a link in the show notes for you to do. That sound good? Awesome. 100 days. Oh my God, we're getting so close. All right, next up we have a correction. Anonymous he him Canadian here, longtime listener, first time commenter. Love the show and John Felsang's book and contributions. Normally we are content that Americans don't know that much about Canada. However, this time of smoke and mirrors tariffs and every accusation being a confession, I felt the need to send a correction. John said that it was a recent tariff actions by Trump that Canada was learning what it feels like to be part of NATO. We are part of NATO and we'll never call Trump daddy. I think he was tongue in cheeking it but I'll make sure he gets this correction. I think we're putting up significantly more resistance than NATO as a whole. Keep up the fight. Thank you so much. Anonymous from Canada. All right, next up from Sarah. Just wanted to share the good News that the Trump Superstore in Knoxville, Tennessee has put up a going out of business sign. I confirmed was real on the way to work. There it is. Trump Superstore going out of business. Everything's 50% off. Maybe you can go in there and, like, buy a bunch of stuff for, like, art projects or something. I don't know. I don't want to give them any money. All right, next up, J.D. in Texas. She and her greetings. Allison, you're doing great solo. While Dana us out. Thank you. I made a quilt for Mary Fox, who's running for Texas House District 73. Mary wants to support all people living in the district, while her opponent only wants to support Trump and MAGA donors. When Mary wins in November, the quilt will hang in her office. We all have to keep fighting to elect Democrats in November for pod pet tax. Here's a picture of a coastal brown bear in Sitka. I hope I'm saying that right. And look, look at that beautiful quilt. That's gorgeous. Congratulations. I love it. JD In Texas. Thank you so much. All right, Larry in Seattle. Hey, Ag, it's your movie producer friend in Seattle taking your bait to check in and support your solo flight these weeks. Thank you. You are the hardest working woman in media and I, for one among many, salute you and thank you for your priceless chosen vocation. I have enjoyed the Jimothy coverages of late as he has been seen and photographed here in my neighborhood. You live in Ballard, Larry? Oh, my gosh. Though I can't yet claim that I've seen him in person. I can, however, share a photo I took in Ballard in 2010 when my wife and I encountered Henry, the super prolific artist you mentioned last week and with his Jimothy portrait, starting to work on a neighborhood mural. Another fellow whom I'm glad does what he does for all to enjoy. Thanks, Larry. Thank you. Look at this. Fantastic. Yeah, look at all the paint on the shirt. You can tell it's mirrorless for sure. Thanks, Larry. Next up, Max pronouns he and him. Hello, Ag and the whole family at the Daily Beans Fram. A very short one today. You liked the bloom scrolling, so here's some more. We all miss Dana, but you're rocking this, Allison. Keep on keeping on and Godspeed on your Travels to Washington D.C. right, Max, how can you not miss Dana? She's such a joy. Oh, thank you for the bloom scrolls. Next up, Jane and Bob. She, her, he, him. Greetings to the beans queens and Leguminati from Newport, Rhode Island. The weather here has Been perfect. It makes me realize why people would want to live here, at least in the summer. Today we drove into town to tour the summer cottage of Cornelius Vanderbilt, the breakers. Completed in 1895, this mansion is just one of 11 Gilded Age summer homes in Newport. Oh, I watched the Gild and Age. They're all currently owned and operated by the Preservation Society of Newport County. The over the top, some would say garish design of these incredible buildings is a statement of the times. Although I don't think the wealth gap of that era in America is really different from today. On the first floor, every inch is a work of art, an opulent decorative detail or a wall of beautiful Italian marble. It is overwhelming, but represents a significant piece of American history. There are several other mansions that do tours. And if you're in town, worth a visit. I've attached pictures of the front of the mansion and one of the dining room that barely does justice to the opulence of this design. Tomorrow we head to New Jersey. Yeah. Wow. This is straight out of the show I watch about the Gilded Age, Jane and Bob. And this is. These are their summer mansions. These are what they call their cottages in Newport. My gosh, that's amazing. Thank you so much for sending me that. I love it. All right, next up, Amanda Pronoun. She and her hello Beans. My amazing husband encountered these majestic, furless babies on a stroll with their hats. He made sure to get a picture for me, so I must share the cuteness. Please remember to wear sunscreen and hats so as not to get sunburned. Much love, Amanda. Look at the baby kitties. Well, those are some, some really beautiful blue eyes on that one, baby Kitty. Thank you for that. I love their hats, too. Gorgeous, everybody. Thank you so much. Thank you so, so very much for your good news. Send it all to me. Dana will be back soon, I promise. I can't wait until she comes back. Also, we're still raising money for the Trevor project for a couple more days if you want to do that. Trevor project.org beans, appreciate all the money you've donated. We'll have a grand total here pretty soon as this month wraps up. And that's it. That's the beans, Everybody. I'm in D.C. i think I'm going to be on Fox 5 the Final 5 at 11:30 Eastern on Tuesday night with Jim Lokay. And then Wednesday we have our defiance.org bookmobile thing. So it's going to be a great time here. I haven't been. I haven't been to D.C. since there was a Democrat in the White House. So I haven't been out on the streets yet and seeing all the. I'm gonna go check out the reflecting pool and the tarp and everything. He wrecked some more marble at a fountain on the National Mall. Everything's kind of feels like it's just been torn down or destroyed or on. And there's like apparently people with guns on the street. I'm gonna go check it out. I'll report back, everybody, and I'll be back in your ears tomorrow. Thanks so much for listening. Until tomorrow, 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 and them's the Beans.
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Alison Gill
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Charlotte Clymer
I'm Charlotte Clymer.
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Alison Gill
And I'm Alison Gill. Hey, Charlotte, what if you and I joined forces to create a weekly podcast amid all the chaos of the news to chat about the most recent episode of season four of Ted Lasso?
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Brian Caram
We.
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Charlotte Clymer
Well, Alison, we'd be taking delight amid the spite to sit and write and bring some light on Wednesday nights. I mean, look, everything right now is ridiculous. I know we're all stressed out with the state of the country and we all deserve some joy. Ted Lasso was there for us in the middle of the pandemic and he's back to offer us a respite from Trump 2.0 right before the midterms.
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Alison Gill
That's right, we believe in Rom communism. I mean, if Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan can go through some heartfelt struggles and still end up happy, then so can we. So subscribe to Diamond Dames for free right now to get notifications and then you can join us every week after each episode of ted Lasso Season 4, wherever you get your podcasts.
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Charlotte Clymer
And remember, be a goldfish. Diamond Dames Dismount
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Allison Gill
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