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Wednesday, December 18th, 2024 Today, Judge Juan Merchan rules that Trump evidence in the 34 felony count conviction is not subject to immunity; AOC loses her bid to chair the oversight committee to Jerry Connolly; Trump is suing the Des Moines Register for brazen election interference over the Kamala Harris poll; top editors withdraw from contention at the Washington Post over the paper’s strategy; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.
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Alison Gill
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Dana Goldberg
Daily Beans. Daily Beans.
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Alison Gill
Hello and welcome to the Daily beans for Wednesday, December 18, 2024. Today, Judge Juan Merchan rules that Trump evidence in the 34 felony count conviction is not subject to immunity. AOC loses her bid to chair the oversight committee to Jerry Connolly. Trump is suing the Des Moines Register for brazen election interference over the Kamala Harris poll. And top editors withdraw their names from contention at the Washington Post over the paper's strategy. I'm Alison Gill.
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Dana Goldberg
And I'm Dana Goldberg.
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Alison Gill
Hello, Dana. Happy Wednesday.
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Dana Goldberg
Happy Wednesday to you. And where did we just leave?
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Alison Gill
We just left the White House and it was amazing.
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Dana Goldberg
Oh, my goodness. So Alison's been there several times. I have been to the Library of Congress. I have been to the Capitol. I've been on the congressional floor. I have never been inside the White House. And let me tell you, everyone, this felt even more special than normal. Things are going to change, as we know, on January 20th, unfortunately. And just being in there with, you know what, sometimes it's nice to be in an echo chamber. I tell you what, there was some incredible people in there that are doing amazing things. We were with Politics Girl and JoJo from Jersey, and we just got to see a lot of the Heather Cox Richardson, a lot of the people that we really just love and respect. So, Alison, I thank you for letting me be your plus one to this. Thank you. It felt incredibly honored.
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Alison Gill
Oh, there's nobody else I would rather bring. I thought you had, like, just to walk around in there, you know, got to see, like you said, Heather cox Richardson, Lee McGowan, Politics Girl, and her husband, Sean Keegan. Yeah, like, that was a really cool treat. And, you know, I actually spent a little time talking to Hunter, Hunter Biden, who sounds just like his dad, by the way.
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Dana Goldberg
His cadence. Unbelievable. Just listening to him talk, I'm like, oh, my God. And he looks fantastic.
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Alison Gill
Yeah. And he was so kind. We talked about, you know, because he lives in California and I worked at the Department of Veterans affairs for the VIA Health System in Los Angeles. And we were talking about the land use there and how he wants to turn it into recovery beds for veterans because that land belongs to them by law. So just A lot of really interesting conversation and amazing people who are doing incredible things. So it was very inspirational.
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Dana Goldberg
Yeah, it was a wonderful day. So thank you again.
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Alison Gill
Yes. Thank you. All right.
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Dana Goldberg
Oh, and we got a super cute picture that we're gonna, of course, post on social media. I'm sure Alison's gonna put pictures up on Blue Sky. Hers is still Mueller, she wrote. I'm gonna put mine some on Instagram and Blue Sky DG comedy. So make sure you're following us.
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Alison Gill
Yes. And I will share a bunch of pictures on my sub stack too at Miller She Wrote dot com. So look out for that. All right, we have a lot of news to get to today, but again, I'm still going from this White House party, but there are headlines. We do have to cover them. So let's hit the hot notes. Hot notes. All right, first up, from Kara Scannell at cnn. Donald Trump's felony conviction in New York in the hush money case should not be tossed out by because of the Supreme Court's ruling on presidential immunity. That's what Judge Juan Merchan ruled Monday night. Merchan's decision rejected one of several avenues that Trump lawyers have taken to try to dismiss Trump's May guilty verdict on 34 counts of falsifying business records. The judge did not, however, rule on a motion from Trump's attorneys to dismiss the conviction because Trump has been elected president. So this is kind of a weird thing. Like, I talked about this on today's episode of cleanup on aisle 45 with Harry, and I was like, it seems weird to postpone your decision for the immunity stuff while considering throwing it out on other, for other reasons for, you know, being elected president. Because if he found that some of that evidence was immune or official act, then that would throw the case out and he wouldn't have kind of moot the motion to dismiss all of it based on the fact that he was elected president. Right?
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Dana Goldberg
Right. Yeah.
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Alison Gill
So I was like, I feel like he probably wants to rule on that. And there it is. Bam. It happened like hours after we recorded that. And again, this is on the like three or four key pieces of evidence that Trump said was immune because they were presidential official acts. And, and Marshawn has now said no. So now they can consider the giant briefing about because Trump wants to dismiss the, the verdict because he's president now. He's been elected president.
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Dana Goldberg
Right.
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Alison Gill
So it says here instead, his 41 page decision focused on the questions of presidential immunity. Merchand wrote the Supreme Court's ruling that Trump should receive broad immunity for Official acts during his time in office does not mean the conviction should be dismissed. He ruled that the evidence presented BY the Manhattan DA's office was not related to Trump's official conduct as president. The evidence contested by Trump's lawyers, the judge wrote, related entirely to unofficial conduct and should receive no immunity protections. Quote, this court concludes that if error occurred regarding the introduction of challenged evidence, such error was harmless in light of the overwhelming evidence of guilt. Even if this court did find that the disputed evidence constitutes official acts under the auspices of the Trump decision, which it does not, the defendant's motion is still denied as introduction of the disputed evidence constitutes harmless error and no mode of proceedings error has taken place. So this is, you know, we talked about this at length, Pete and I did on cleanup on L45, because, you know, the DA came in and said, hey, look, he's not immune. These are not official acts. There's no way these are official acts. Right. Paying hush money to a porn star. But if you decide that they are, if the Supreme Court decides that they are, this little bit of evidence didn't make a difference in the guilty plea or the guilty conviction. You know what I mean?
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Dana Goldberg
Yep.
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Alison Gill
So Trump transition spokesman Steve Chung Peach of a man said in a statement that Mershon's decision is a direct violation of the Supreme Court's decision on immunity and other long standing jurisprudence. No, it's not. Trump's lawyers are likely to appeal this particular decision, one of several potential motions for dismissal that could leave the case tied up for months or even years. Marshawn still has to rule on Trump's argument that his status as president was a legal impediment to further criminal proceedings like sentencing, and that this whole case should be dismissed as a result. Trump has yet to be sentenced following his conviction. Prosecutors have already agreed the president elect would not be sentenced while he's in office. But the DA's office has argued in legal filings that the felony conviction should still stand. Prosecutors wrote that while the sentence could be delayed or modified, dismissing a jury's conviction altogether would be an unwarranted extreme remedy. Trump was convicted, as we know, on 34 counts of falsifying business records over payments to his then lawyer, Michael Cohen, to reimburse a $130,000 hush money payment made to adult film star Stormy Daniels in order to keep her from speaking out about an alleged affair before the election. Trump denies the affair. Trump was initially scheduled to be sentenced in July, but that was postponed twice as a result of the Supreme Court's presidential immunity ruling pushing a sentencing date back until after the election. Trump's lawyers argued that the conviction should be dismissed on the basis of the Supreme Court's decision because prosecutors relied on evidence from Trump's official conduct in the White House. Nope. Mershon rejects that claim in his decision, writing that the evidence they contested was not tied to Trump's official acts as president. In his decision, Marshawn walked through several pieces of testimony that Trump lawyers claim should not have been heard at trial because of the immunity decision, including from White House aides like Hope Hicks and Madeleine Westerhout, as well as Michael Cohen. Merchan wrote that it was, quote, logical and reasonable to conclude that if the act of falsifying records to cover up the payments so the public would not be made aware is decidedly an unofficial act, so too should the communications to further that same cover up be unofficial. Marshawn disclosed in a letter to the attorneys Monday that Trump's defense team alleged juror misconduct earlier this month. We hadn't seen this one, but that Trump's team has not filed a motion to dismiss the conviction based on those allegations, the judge wrote. Trump's lawyers would need to file proper motion if they want him to act on it. So they're now they have a new thing they're claiming juror misconduct. I hope it's not juror number two, the one who listens to Mueller, she wrote. Details of the allegations came out in filings that Merchan ordered attorneys to release about the purported issue with redactions. Quote, allegations of juror misconduct should be thoroughly investigated. However, this court is prohibited from deciding such claims on the basis of mere hearsay and conjecture. This court cannot allow the public filing of unsworn and admittedly contested statements. To do so would threaten the safety of the jurors and violate the agreed upon order regulating disclosure of juror information. So we'll keep an eye on that for you. Over on cleanup on aisle 45, we just, like I said, had finished recording the episode. So we didn't get this breaking news in there, but I wanted to bring it here today.
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Dana Goldberg
Thanks so much, Alison. This next one's from Rolling Stone. House Democrats on Tuesday, they voted for Rep. Gerry Connolly. He's a Democrat from Virginia, to become the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, electing him to the key position by a vote of 131 to 84 over Rep. AOC. She was also vying for that position. House Democrats Steering and Policy Committee voted Monday night to recommend Connolly, who is 74 years old and was recently Diagnosed with cancer for the spot. The move was a hit for the 35 year old Ocasio Cortez, but she pressed on with her candidacy. The House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee, which is headed by Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, they voted 34 for Connolly and 27 for AOC on Monday. And the caucus clearly took its recommendation to heart. And unfortunately that was put out, by the way, by Pelosi. Yeah, she's the one that actually backed AOC's competitor this time. The race has been part of a larger push by younger Democrats to replace veteran lawmakers at the top of committees. AOC would have become the youngest Democrat to lead a House committee if the vote had gone her way on Tuesday. On Monday, Rep. Angie Craig, Democrat from Minnesota. Amazing. By the way, she's 52, bested Agriculture Committee ranking member David Scott. He's the Democrat from Georgia. He happens to be 79. And Reb. Jim Costa, a Democrat from California who's 72, to lead the Agriculture Committee. Good for Angie Craig. Quote, this is not a position I seek lightly, AOC wrote in a letter earlier this month in a bid to colleagues. The responsibility of leading Democrats on the House Oversight Committee during Donald Trump's second term in the White House is a profound and consequential one. Now more than ever, we must focus on the committee's strong history of both holding administrations accountable and taking on the economic precarity and equality that is challenging the American way of life. Connolly, however, reportedly has a powerful ally. As I mentioned, that is Nancy Pelosi. She's been gathering support for the 74 year old candidate behind the scenes. Last week, when speaking to the National Catholic Reporter, Pelosi said that she is backing, quote, newer members who are running for office, adding, quote, this is with all the respect in the world for the chairman who had been there and the contribution that they had made over time. But now others have come forward. I respect the fact that they're ready to take charge of the committees and I support that. When speaking to Rolling Stone in September, Pelosi discussed her own decision to step down from the speakership and knowing when to pass the torch. Earlier this month, however, she made it clear she would support Connolly, who announced in November that he was diagnosed with esophagus cancer, but has begun treatment and she recommended him for that top seat. While Pelosi told Politico she wasn't certain on who would be the oversight race at the time, she has, quote, supported Mr. Connelly for that and should it be open. So I've got thoughts about this. Obviously I don't necessarily agree with this. I would love to see a younger guard come forward and lead some of these committees and I think AOC is pretty incredible. That's just my two cents. It's no offense to the other gentleman.
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Alison Gill
No, Connolly's great.
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Dana Goldberg
Yep, exactly.
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Alison Gill
But I mean, are we going to just keep sticking with the old guard? It's like, yeah, it's frustrating to me. And you know, for, for the diversity of our committee ships. Are you we don't want to end up looking like the Republican committee chairs.
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Dana Goldberg
You know, 17 shades of white. All men, all old.
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Alison Gill
Anyway, thanks for that reporting. Next up is from Axios. The situation at the Washington Post is so dire that two candidates to run the paper, which is a coveted job Cliff Levy of the New York Times and Meadows and Kornblut, a former Post editor, both withdrew from consideration for the top newsroom job over the paper's strategy. That's according to sources involved with the process. The Post is scrambling to find a new executive editor, the chair once held by Ben Bradley amid shrinking paid readership and revenue. Publisher and CEO Will Lewis, handpicked by Jeff Bezos to save the Washington Post, has not impressed the candidates with his vision for the future. One person involved in the search told us. That's Axios, that Lewis's pitch was foggy and uninspiring. Yeah, yikes. Levy, who pulled out last week, and Kornblit, whose conversations ended in September. They declined to comment for this story, but other candidates included current interim executive editor Matt Murray. But it's hard to imagine this months long process unfolding so publicly only to end with the same guy in charge. A few candidates were asked to write six page memos, which is a hallmark of Amazon culture, about their journalistic vision for the paper, using AI and how to grow the Post's audience. Levy is a two time Pulitzer winner who was an early advocate for digital innovation and now is deputy publisher of two prized Times properties, the Athletic and Wirecutter. He started talking to the Post in August after the paper search firm Egon Zender reached out. Now Kornblit, who decided to move forward with the process after initial conversations, is Meta's VP of global production Content operations. She has a formidable newspaper career before moving to the Bay Area as a tech executive, she did, and then she was a Washington correspondent for the Boston Globe and the New York Times before becoming a Washington Post reporter and editor for eight years. Kornblit rose to deputy assistant managing editor for national news, where she was the lead editor on Pulitzer Prize winning coverage of Edward Snowden's NSA revelations. Mattea Gold, a respected, popular managing editor and many reporters wanted in the top job and who conceived of and ran the Washington Post's Pulitzer Prize winning investigation into the January 6th attack on the Capitol, announced last week she's moving to the New York Times as the Washington editor, making her deputy to the bureau chief there. So there's lots of anxiety at the Post in the newsroom right now about whether the paper is still committed to that kind of fearless accountability reporting. Axios confirmed that the search firm also reached out to Kevin Merida and Steven Ginsberg, two former Washington Post managing editors, and neither expressed interest in the role. They cannot find an editor for the Washington Post.
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Dana Goldberg
Oh boy.
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Alison Gill
Bezos has said little about what he wants for a revived Post. He's scheduled to dine with President Elect Trump at Mar a Lago this week. He also just gave a million dollars to him after killing a Post endorsement of Trump's rival Vice President Harris. Bezos's various business interests, Amazon and the Blue Origin Space company stand to gain or suffer from Trump's presidency. The Post has announced no major shifts in innovations under the Lewis regime. Toss in a demoralized staff and invigorated labor unions and you have a mighty challenge for the next top editor. The Post has lost a ton of talent this year, and several stars are talking to competitors about leaving soon. One hot rumor inside the Post is the Atlantic is licking its chops over political writers who are increasingly poachable. Other Posties are eyeing the New York Times, long known as to the Post as Brand X. That's interesting. People involved in the process say Bezos has mostly been MIA at the Post, leaving matters to Lewis, who is unpopular in the newsroom. Several people familiar with the Post search were baffled by the apparent absence of editorial vision or business strategy. Quote, I'm not sure it's salvageable, one of them said. So this bad stuff going on at the Post.
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Dana Goldberg
Oh boy. All right. And last in this section is from David Botter at the Associated Press. The worst sore winner, apparently, in the history of politics. President elect Donald Trump is sued. He has sued the Des Moines Register and its pollster for brazen election interference, quote, unquote, in publishing a survey the weekend before the election that showed Democrat Kamala Harris with a surprising lead by 3 percentage points in the state. The Register's parent, Gannett Co. On Tuesday dismissed the lawsuit as meritless and said it would vigorously defend his First Amendment rights. The lawsuit continues The President elects campaign against media outlets. He feels wronged him. ABC this past weekend agreed to pay 15 million. We already talked about that, Allison, and I think it was a horrible choice. But they paid that toward a Trump presidential library in order to settle a defamation lawsuit against George Stopping Stoffalophagus George. George Stephanopoulos for inaccurately saying Trump had been found civilly liable for rape and he had just not under the very narrow definition. In New York, the Des Moines survey done by since retired pollster Ann Seltzer. J. Ann Seltzer was considered shocking for indicating that an earlier Trump lead in the Republican leaning Midwestern state had been erased. In the actual election, Trump won Iowa by more than 13 percentage points. Yeah, quote, there was a perfectly good reason. Nobody saw this coming because a three point lead for Harris in deep red Iowa was not a reality. This is what the lawsuit said it was was election interference. Fiction. Huh? Now, the poll increased enthusiasm among Democrats, compelled Republicans to divert campaign time and money to areas in which they were ahead, and deceived the public into thinking Democrats were doing better than they actually were. This is what Trump is charging, by the way. Now, the lawsuit was filed late Monday in Polk County District Court in Iowa. It cites Iowa consumer fraud law and doesn't ask for specific monetary damages, but rather wants a trial jury to award triple the amount of what it determines actual damages to be.
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Alison Gill
What.
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Dana Goldberg
What the. Whatever happens legally, the case could have chilling effect beyond Iowa. Trump said in legal papers that he wanted to deter, quote, radicals from continuing to act with corrupt intent in releasing polls manufactured for the purpose of skewing election results in favor of Democrats.
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Alison Gill
He did this. He did this. He rigged polls.
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Dana Goldberg
And I think, call me conspiracy theorist, if something fishy went on in the election. Not saying it did, but if it did, I'm sure he wants to sue them to make it sound like those polls that may have been accurate at the time were actually bullshit. Uh huh. Now, Lark Marie Anton, Des Moines Register spokeswoman, said the newspaper acknowledged the pre election poll did not reflect Trump's ultimate margin of victory and released the data and a technical explanation. Quote, we stand by reporting on the matter and believe a lawsuit would be without merit. That's what she said. Seltzer did not immediately respond to a crust for comment on Tuesday, but she told PBS in Iowa last week that, quote, it's not my ethic to set up a poll to deliver specific response. She said she was mystified about what motivation people would think she had, quote, to suggest without a single shred of evidence that I was in cahoots with somebody. I was being paid by somebody. It's just, it's all just kind of. It, it's hard to pay too much attention to except that they are accusing me of a crime.
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Alison Gill
Yeah. So Donald Trump used to pay people to rig polls. So what the.
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Dana Goldberg
He does this all the time. It's production. Projection. Projection.
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Alison Gill
Yep. Yes. Every accusation is a confession.
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Dana Goldberg
Indeed.
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Alison Gill
In fact, the paper, the golden piece of evidence that came up in the 34 felony count trial was that little paper that said, you know, 130,000 to Stormy and $50,000 to Redfinch or something. And that, that was, that was a poll rigging cost. Yeah, it's right there in black and white. All right, we have good news we have to get to, but we have to take a quick break. So everybody stick around. We'll be right back after these messages.
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Dana Goldberg
We'll be right back.
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Alison Gill
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Dana Goldberg
Every once in a while we get really close.
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Alison Gill
Yeah, I think we got that, that Pyrenees Australian shepherd pretty good yesterday. And then, you know, if you don't have a, a pod pet, you can send us an adoptable pet in your area or baby photos or just any animal photo, whatever. And, you know, just pay your, you know, tax with a cute photo of, of something. We'll, we'll, we'll be very, very thankful and very grateful this holiday season. Oh, you know what? Those are fun, like Santa pictures right there. Send those in. And then, of course, we're doing bird watching. We're doing a special bird watching segment now. Or if you have a photo of you flipping off a Trump property, we would love to see that. And then, of course, shout outs, whether it's to a loved one or to somebody doing great work in your area or a small business, maybe a small bookstore or your small business self. Shout outs. And of course, shout outs to government programs that have helped you or a loved one. Whether it's Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, Affordable care Act, the WIC, Head Start, Section 8, SNAP, anything great VA health care you've gotten, and of course student debt relief, send that to us. And you can do it by going to DailyBeansPod.com and clicking on Contact. All right, Anonymous. She and her. We lost our sweet Sephi today. She'd only been with us for a year, but she will be forever in our hearts. And she's an angel with a little blip. Little blem. Thank you. And I'm sorry, Anonymous.
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Dana Goldberg
It was super short. Okay, I'll take this one. This is from pt, Pronoun C and him. Two gentle corrections. One. Potash isn't okay. It's not potash. It's potash. Okay, got it. Potash. It includes many compounds of potassium and is the Source of potassium's name. Ah. All right. Which is why we thought it was, you know, potash. Because potassium. I'm just kidding. It's probably potassium at this point. It is potassium. All right. If you mispronounce a word, it's usually because you learn that word by reading. I agree. The acronym for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration isn't usually read by letter letter by letter, but instead is pronounced nitsa. Apparently, the H is I adjacent.
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Alison Gill
Okay, Nitza.
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Dana Goldberg
All right. For tax. I tried to find a good picture of the mountain lion stalking a few suburbs north of Dallas, but people's security cameras are not well placed for portraits, and the kitty didn't pose. Wow, this is still a really cool fucking picture.
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Alison Gill
Yeah, it is.
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Dana Goldberg
Yeah. Thank you for the gentle corrections.
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Alison Gill
Potash from potassium.
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Dana Goldberg
Now I know potassium. Potash.
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Alison Gill
Who knew?
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Dana Goldberg
Who knew this? PT Knew.
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Alison Gill
PT Knew. That's exactly who knew. All right, next up from AE pronoun, she and her. I live in Ireland originally from Connecticut, and I'm having my first baby in January.
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Dana Goldberg
Congratulations.
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Alison Gill
Thanks to Connecticut paid leave, my mom will be able to come over to Ireland for the lead up to the birth, and during the few months afterwards, I cannot believe that I'll be able to have her consistent in person support during this wonderful and challenging time. I love how the Connecticut paid leave website describes the program. Quote, CT paid leave is about people. People who are no longer forced to choose between their own healing or putting food on their table and being a caregiver. Governmental decency like this gives me hope for pet tax. A few photos of our dapper cat, Fred, who many people describe as a human in a cat suit. He's very intelligent, always an excellent host when we have company, and is my husband's best friend forever. Thanks for everything you do on the beans. Big hugs from Dublin.
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Dana Goldberg
Oh, look at that baby.
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Alison Gill
Oh, he's very handsome.
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Dana Goldberg
Oh, he's very.
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Alison Gill
He. Very. He's got a distinguished face.
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Dana Goldberg
He's beautiful. All right, up next is anonymous pronouns she and her. I got laid off September 30th. Fourth time I'm in it. Then the election. So my last few months sucked, but I've rebounded and started my own llc, doing what I doing before, but for myself now, not the patriarchy. As if I wasn't a rebel before, I named my LLC AW Professional Services. The AW stands for American woman, but shortened so as to not intimidate the snowflake men who laid me off. Now. Oh, my God. Here is my girl. Hope for potpet. Tags who is as difficult as me. Until she gets to know you. Just like her mom. Love you guys. And thanks for putting the Leguminati in your blue sky handles. Smash the patriarchy. Hope is perfect, isn't she?
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Alison Gill
Oh, my God. Yeah. So I'm glad that you started your own llc. Aw. I love it. I love it so much. Congratulations. Next up is from Wick Pronouns he and him. I'm a single dad in my late 30s. I recently was diagnosed with ADHD. It's been a wild ride learning to navigate, living life alone with this new understanding of myself and the worry about the future my kids are going to inherit. Somehow in the middle of all this, I met someone truly amazing who I will call Em. She's been so supportive and understanding and we seem to be on the same page about everything in life. Such a fresh breath of air, especially with everything going on in the world. Right now. It feels like our American identities and foundations are constantly being challenged and it's more important than ever to find people who get it and stick together. And she even introduced me to your podcast. Another green flag. Including your show and my daily routine has been really empowering. It's a reminder that we're not alone in this fight and that we need to support each other awake. Thanks. And the best part, M passed the ultimate test. She got the seal of approval from my dog Zoe. She's a two year old hound Aussie mix and she's my best friend. I'm so glad to be part of this new community. Your dog is adorable. And congratulations on meeting Amwick. Thank you so much for the kind words.
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Dana Goldberg
My God, this is so great. All right, next up from Heather Pronouns she and her following Jim's lead from December 16th that episode, I made this altered image of Trump tower back in 2016 as an Orwellian news speak thumbnail for 1984 still holds true sadly. Thank you so much and all the best to you and yours.
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Alison Gill
Miniature tower. Love it.
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Dana Goldberg
Mini True Tower.
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Alison Gill
Thank you so much for that, Heather. Next up from Sean Pronouns. She and her hey beans queens and all the amazing people behind the scenes with the talk of hobbies. Recently I decided to do a self shout out hobby submission. Thanks for reminding all of us to devote energy to the things we love while we maintain our strength to fight for the things that are right. When I was a kid, I got this little stuffed cow in a Christmas stocking. As an adult, I'd toss him in a bag to travel with me for luck. The cow's name is Boswell. The lucky cow after my favorite children's book, Boswell's Life of Boswell, which is an adorably illustrated book about a basset hound who is a philosopher. Anyway, in 2006, while staying at a Disney property, the housekeeping staff would move the cow around and build forts for him out of fresh towels and gave me the idea to take him out into the world and photograph him on my adventures. I made an Instagram page for her called BoswellVCOW. Boswell has accompanied me to friends weddings, on vacations, to demonstrations, Comic Con. It's been nearly 20 years of taking this cow out and about. I love handing her to someone and saying, can I take a picture of you with my cow? And then I just take the picture and I never tell them how to pose with Boswell. I'm sharing a couple of samples, but there are a couple hundred at Boswell's Instagram page. I thought listeners might like to see it. I'm happy with myself that I've stuck with this project for so long. Thank you so much much for your amazing dedication and the community you've fostered is truly wonderful.
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Dana Goldberg
These three images are stunning. Look just so good.
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Alison Gill
Cambria March for our Lives Los Angeles I know these are great photos and.
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Dana Goldberg
That first one is stunning.
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Alison Gill
Amazing.
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Dana Goldberg
Yeah.
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Alison Gill
Well, thank you so much for that, Sean. And thanks to everybody for your good news submissions. Again, check our social media DG comedy at Instagram and Bluesky. I'm MullerSherote for our pictures of our trip to the White House this week and I'll be putting them up@muellershirote.com too, which is my substack. And thank you everybody for your good news submissions. Please keep sending it into us. You can do so by going to DailyBeansPod.com and clicking on Contact. Do you have any final thoughts, my friend?
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Dana Goldberg
Not today.
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Alison Gill
All right, well, we'll be back in your ears tomorrow. Until then, please take care of yourselves, take care of each other, take care of the planet, take care of your mental health and take care of your family.
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Dana Goldberg
I've been AG and I've been DG.
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Alison Gill
And them's the Beans.
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