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Monday, March 16th, 2026 Today, Judge Boasberg has thrown out Jeanine Pirro’s subpoenas of Jerome Powell - effectively killing her investigation; the Pentagon is sending ground troops and three Navy vessels to Iran; military leaders warned Hegseth against shuttering the Civilian Protection Unit and warned Trump about the Strait of Hormuz but they were ignored and then fired; the oil tankers Trump seized are costing taxpayers tens of millions of dollars to maintain; 8 people accused of Antifa ties have been convicted on terrorism charges in Texas; DOGE boy deposition videos were ordered removed from the internet by a judge; Ric Grenell is out at the Kennedy Center; a Democrat just flipped the mayor’s race in Boca Raton for the first time in 30 years; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.
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Msw media. Hello and welcome to the Daily beans for Monday, March 16, 2026. Today, Judge Boasberg has thrown out Jeanine Pirro's subpoenas of Jerome Jerome Powell, effectively killing her investigation. The Pentagon is sending ground troops and three Navy vessels to Iran. Military leaders warned Hegseth against shuttering the Civilian Protection Unit and warned Trump about the Strait of Hormuz, but they ignored them and then fired them. The oil tankers Trump seized are costing taxpayers tens of millions of dollars to maintain. Eight people accused of antifa ties have been convicted on terrorism charges in Texas. Doge Boy deposition videos were ordered removed from the Internet by a judge. Rick Grinnell is out at the Kennedy center. And a Democrat just flipped the mayor's race in Boca Raton for the first time in 30 years. I'm Alison Gill.
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And I'm Dana Goldberg.
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Hello, Dana. Did you have a nice weekend?
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I did. I did. I had. I was still in Nashville all week after my zany show. I had a Human Rights campaign gala on Saturday that was just lovely room of community and joy, and it was a wonderful night at work. So I am. I am exhausted, but I'm back in New York for a second before I have another gala tomorrow, and then I fly to the Villages on Wednesday for the show on Thursday, and then I fly to North Carolina Friday for the show on Saturday, and then I'm gonna pass out.
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You're blowing up. Don't leave me.
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I'm not leaving you.
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I love this for you. I love this for you. I know. Gala season. Like, how many gala seasons have you and I been through in the last five or six years? Yeah, it's a lot. And all of the work that you do, and I know this because the work that I do, it is so exhausting. But it just feels good at the end of the day.
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It does. It does. It's fulfilling in so many ways. So very, very grateful. I just sent out my first newsletter to all of the people that joined the dugout for my Patreon, and hopefully you've gotten that. And if you would like to join the family, it's a lot of, like, back scenes of my career and what's going on and some rants and what's going on in my life and people that I'm meeting and introducing you to different organizations. It's different than the Daily Beans one, but you can go to Dana Goldberg dot com, sign up at Patreon, but you've got something going on on the Daily Beans Patreon. What's happening yes.
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Yes. And thank you for bringing that up. Again, Dana's dugout, the dissenters, that is a separate Patreon. You can join it and support Dana and her career and her work and learn about the organizations that she fundraises for and supports across different communities. You know, gosh, globally by going to danagoldberg.com and clicking on Patreon now, the Daily Beans Patreon. So once every five years or so, the listeners will start flooding me with messages saying, you're worth more than this. You and Dana are worth more than this. So here's what we're doing. We currently have a $3 a month Patreon level, but that is going to go away on March 30th. Now, I want everyone currently on the $3 tier to know you get to keep it for life. It doesn't go away. You're grandfathered in or grandmothered in or grand personed in, however you want to say it, you get to keep that for life. And if you aren't a patron and you've been thinking about becoming one, if you sign up before March 30, you can lock in that $3 tier for life before it goes away. So for three bucks a month, you get the Daily Beans ad free and early across all our social media groups and access to those private groups, you get pre sale tickets, invites to our Patreon galas, early access to VIP meet and greets for live events, all for three bucks. But the $3 level, only available till March 30, but you get to keep it for life. So if you again, if you've been on the fence, you can lock in that $3 rate and keep it forever. Starting March 30, our lowest tier is going to be $5 a month. But it's not just for the beans. It also includes beans Talk Unjustified. You get them all ad free and early, plus all the other perks that I just mentioned. And like I said, Everybody on the $3 level gets to keep it. So thank you so much everybody for the nudge that that what we offer is worth a little bit more than $3 a month. But again, massive sale right now. If you it in, you can totally lock it in. So thank you so much to our current patrons. And again, all of our shows are free. This is just a voluntary thing like npr. So absolutely, we appreciate you very much. All right. We have a ton of weekend news to get to, so let's hit the hot Notes. Hot notes. All right, first up from the Wall Street Journal The Pentagon is moving additional Marines and warships to the Middle east as Iran steps up its attacks on the Strait of Hormuz. And that's according to three U.S. officials. And Defense Secretary Kegseth has approved a request from centco. That's the US Central Command, which is responsible for American forces in the Middle east for an element of an amphibious ready group and an attached Marine Expeditionary Unit, typically consisting of several warships and about 5,000 total Marines and sailors. The Japan based USS Tripoli and its attached Marines are now headed for the Middle East. Marines are already in the Middle east supporting the Iran operation. The move comes as Iran's attacks on the Strait have paralyzed traffic through the strategic waterway, disrupting the global economy, driving up gas prices, imposing a major military and political challenge for Trump. That's according to a Pentagon spokesperson who declined to comment further. Now, Dana, I remember us saying specifically on this show last week, I don't understand how you can take the Strait of Hormuz without a ground war.
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Right?
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And here we are. And quick reminder, the very first troops sent into Vietnam, which was supposed to be a quick excursion, was a Marine Expeditionary Unit. So we all know how that turned out. In a related story from Politico, top military officials warned the Pentagon unsuccessfully last year do not gut oversight offices that limit risk to civilian casualties and investigate responsibility for their deaths, such as the recent strike on an Iranian girls school that killed hundreds of children. Then CENTCOM Chief Eric Corea and the joint chief's chair, General C.Q. brown, both pushed Kegseth not to slash the Civilian Protection center of Excellence and other similar initiatives at American command posts. That's according to Wes Bryant, the Pentagon's former chief of civilian harm assessment, and two other people. Familiar opponents of that move, which also included Admiral Christopher Grady, the former vice chair of the Joint Chiefs, argued that the staff were critical to preventing risk to civilian populations before US Strikes and to probing deadly Pentagon attacks. If these weren't gutted by Hegseth, if he hadn't ignored these brilliant admirals and Joint Chiefs and Vice chair of the Joint Chief Chiefs, we could have avoided murdering hundreds of school children. It's just, it's awfully horrible. Now Hegseth instead, he chose to reduce the number of employees working on that issue from 200 to less than 40. Now, this renewed attention to the gutted offices comes as the conflict nears its third week with no clear end in sight. Kegseth said Friday at a press conference that the new Iranian leader, Moshtaba Khamenei is, quote, wounded and likely Disfigured and portrayed the war as largely contained. Iran's effort to block the Strait of Hormuz, though, which about a fifth of the world's oil flows through. Was, quote, something we're dealing with. He said. He didn't say what or how, just something we're dealing with. Then he said, then he committed a war crime. He said, no quarter, no mercy for our enemies. That is a war crime. Just declaring no quarter for survivors and prisoners of war is a war crime. And not just under the Hague because we know US Officials can't be tried at the Hague, but that's part of US Law as well. Good Lord.
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Well, speaking of idiots refusing to listen to experts, a Wall Street Journal reports that before the U.S. went to war, General Dan Kane, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told President Trump, I think we're talking about that idiot. That an American attack could prompt Iran to close the Strait of Hormuz.
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Bitch, I get that. General Dan Kaine warned. I also said that this would happen. Like, who the fuck am I? I'm not General Dan Kaine, okay? I was in the Navy for seven minutes in the 1990s under Bill Clinton and I knew Iran was going to close the Strait of Hormuz.
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Now, Kaine said in several briefings that U.S. officials had long believed Iran would deploy mines, drones, missiles to close the world's most vital shipping lane. This is according to people with knowledge. Now, Trump acknowledged the risk, those people said. But he moved forward with the most consequential foreign policy decision of his two presidencies. He told his team that Tehran would likely capitulate before closing the strait. And even if Iran tried, the US Military could handle it. Can you? Because it doesn't seem like you can. Now, two weeks into the war, Iran's leaders have refused to back down. The Strait of Hormuz has emerged as Tehran's most potent leverage point. Iran has blocked tankers from the strait and struck cargo ships, triggering a surge in oil prices and an energy shock rippling through the world. Actually, US forces are targeting Iran's minelaying ships and factories, trying to prevent the country from lining the waterways with explosives. Yet the price has been steep. At least 13 we're up to 13Americans have been killed. Why? The fucking president and Kegseth are playing risk with their lives. Including six in a crash Thursday when air force refueling plane making the war in Iran the deadliest military operation of the both of Trump's terms. At least 140Americans have been wounded in the conflict, roughly 175 people, mostly children, were killed in a strike on that girl's school in Iran, which a preliminary US Investigation found was likely launched by the United States forces. And from the Times unrelated. In an effort to crack down on nations it views as promoting terrorism, the Trump administration now has been carrying out a campaign of seizing tankers carrying oil, a move the President has repeatedly characterized as a financial boon for Americans. But there's a problem with that.
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Oh, there's a problem. Is he wrong about something? What?
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I know. The seizures have put the US Government in a financial bind.
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Huh.
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Really more of a bind. The ships are highly expensive to maintain. The Trump administration cannot legally sell their oil without a judge's permission, although they'll probably fucking do it anyway. Maintaining the seized tankers has already cost the United States tens of billions of dollars, and in one case, 47 million in only three months. And complicates Donald's claims of swift financial victories from his military operations targeting Venezuela and Iran. Now, considering the case of motor tanker skipper number 9304667, this is what this story is. The United States seized the Tinker and It's more than 1.8 million barrels of Venezuelan petroleum on December 10th. Okay. As it made its way from Venezuela to Asia. Since then, the cost to maintain the tanker and its oil they're building up. The government's already spent $47 million repairing and maintaining the aging ship, which is only valued at $10 million federal. Well, you know the art of the deal. Federal prosecutors said in a court filing now it was most likely that they'll need to spend another $5 million over the next few months just to cover insurance and the crew. And there's so many other costs that go along with this.
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That's like dumping 4700 bucks into your thousand dollar car. Yeah.
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By the way, there's more to this. Storing the ship's oil costs the government. It costs the government $15,000 a day, or about $450,000 a month. The petroleum cargo seized from the ship has a value of about 120 million to 135 million dollars. And this is from Mr. Patton? That's what he said on Thursday. Federal prosecutors asked the judge to allow the Justice Department to sell the Tinker and the oil to even before a final ruling on whether the United States is even allowed to keep it. So they're like, we stole this shit. Can we sell it? That sounds right. The funds would then be held in a bank account until the judge rules. Now, in its recent crackdown. The United States seized 10 tankers with ties to Venezuela, although it's not clear how many it intends to actually keep. Two of the ships that the United States seized, they were not carrying oil at the time, meaning that the government will most likely bear much of the heavy cost of maintaining, repairing and crewing all of these vessels.
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Didn't even have oil on them. All right.
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The art of the deal.
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Yeah, right. Okay. Good Lord. All right. Now this next story is pretty up from a democracy standpoint. It's from the Associated Press. A federal jury on Friday in Texas convicted eight people on terrorism charges over a shooting at a Texas immigration facility that federal prosecutors tied to Antifa, the decentralized far left movement that isn't an actual thing, but has become a target of the Trump administration. One person was found guilty of attempted murder after prosecutors said he opened fire last summer outside the Prairieland Detention center outside Fort Worth, wounding a police officer. The Justice Department called the violence an attack plotted by Antifa operatives. But attorneys for the accused denied that characterization, saying there's no antifa associations and that it was merely a demonstration with fireworks before gunshots broke out. U.S. district Judge Mark Pittman, a Trump appointee, presided over the three week trial in Fort Worth. It was closely followed by legal experts and critics who called the proceedings a test of the lengths the government can go to to punish protesters. Kash Patel said the case was the first time charges of providing material support to terrorists had targeted people accused of being Antifa members. The terrorism charges followed Trump's order last fall to designate Antifa as a domestic terror organization. Those charges do not require a tie to any organization, and there's no domestic equivalent to the State Department's list of foreign terror organizations. I don't see how this holds up, but with this Supreme Court, who knows? That's in part because organizations operating within the United States are protected by broad First Amendment rights. Now, critics of the DOJ case have said the outcome could have wide reaching impacts on protests. Quote, that opposition is something the government wants to quash. So a case like this helps the government see how far they can go in criminalizing constitutionally protected protests. And it also helps some kind of intimidate, increase fear, hoping that folks in other cities will then think twice about protesting. That's what Suzanne Adley said, interim president of the National Lawyers Guild, which is a progressive legal group. So this is a dangerous precedent and I hope it gets thrown out.
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Thanks so much, Alison. This next story sort of makes me laugh, and I want to know who this Judge is, but I'm about to find out. This is from the Times. A Manhattan judge on Friday ordered the video depositions of two former employees of Elon Musk's Doge be removed from the Internet because they became fodder for viral social media post mocking the two men. And they deserved it. I mean, ah, my God.
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If you want to see some of these videos, go to Anna Bowers feed on Blue Sky. She's got a bunch of them.
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It's just two douchebags. I mean, Doge bags. Yeah. Now, the videos have been posted on YouTube by scholarly groups who are suing to restore sweeping grant cuts that DOGE helped carry out last spring at the National Endowment for the Humanities. On Friday, the government said in an emergency filing that the groups had improperly posted the depositions and that at least one witness, Justin Fox, a former Doge employee, had been subjected to significant harassment, including death threats. I don't approve of the death threats, but he actually, if you watch these depositions, actually, I don't include him in the harassment. Making fun and harassing someone is quite different. But Mr. Fox and another former Doge employee, Nate Kavanaugh, these two guys had each testified in their depositions that they used CHAT GPT to identify grants that ran afoul of President Trump's executive order banning, and I quote, racial and wasteful government. Government DEI programs. The two men, who had previously worked in technology and finance, acknowledged they had zero, none, zilch background in humanities, but believed in Doge's broader mission of shrinking useless, small agencies, said Mr. Kavanaugh. Now, last week, as part of the court filing, the scholarly groups posted nearly 25 hours of depositions online of four people involved in the case, including the former Doge employees. After an article about the case appeared in the New York Times, excerpts from the videos began ricocheting across social media.
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I hope.
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I mean, yeah. Prompting scathing commentary about what we were seeing as the Doge employees just cavalierly. Their cavalier demeanor and torturous justifications of ChatGPT's decisions, many which targeted projects dealing with race, gender and discrimination. I mean, I'm talking just projects. Grants that were for women in science, grants that were fighting HIV and AIDS education because it fucking got triggered by. By ChatGPT because these two guys had zero, zero experience in this. In one widely circulated clip, Mr. Fox asked whether he agreed with ChatGPT's flagging of a documentary about Jewish women who were slave laborers in the Holocaust. And I quote, it's a Jewish. Specifically focused on Jewish culture. And amplifying the marginalized voices of the females in that culture. Mr. Fox explains it's inherently related to DEI for that reason.
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Because they're women or because they were Jewish?
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Probably both. Even though the videos have been taken down, they've been copied a zillion times and are still available to view if you look for them. They're infuriating, though. These two smug little punks can't even define dei. Another one is basically just saying he basically is proud of what he did and he's, he's read enough books that he can, he's qualified to decide what gets grants and what doesn't under the executive order.
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Oh, man. Yeah. Yeah, those, some of those were really hard to watch. It was like peeling a turtle. It was like trying to get blood from a stone. Like, tell me what you think DEI means. Just what. Well, that's what's in the executive order. Well, okay, so what then? What do you, what's your. Well, it's the executive order. Just like it was so frustrating to watch. And they're still out there. I know the judge has ordered the, this particular group to take them down, but they're everywhere. I'm sure you've seen them. Next up from NBC. A federal judge Friday said he's blocking subpoenas that the Justice Department served to Jerome Powell, Fed Reserve chair, in a investigation purported to be about the management of the central bank's building renovations, which happened nine years ago and were approved and appropriated. The judge said a mountain of evidence suggests that the government served these subpoenas on the board to pressure its chair into voting to lower interest rates or into resigning. That's what James Boasberg said, chief judge on the U.S. district Court for D.C. he continued. On the other side of the scale, the government has produced essentially zero evidence to suspect Chair Powell of a crime. Indeed, its justifications are so thin and unsubstantiated that the court can only conclude that they're pretextual. The court therefore finds that the subpoenas were issued for an improper purpose and will quash them. Now, Andy and I cover this story in detail on the Unjustified podcast, and I just covered it in depth with Katie Fang over on the Midas Touch Network on the breakdown, including Janine Pirro's maniacal breakdown at a press conference about it. And you can find that over@military.com she just flipped out and I'll do it. I don't care if I get no true bill. It was she basically said, I'll bring any Shitty case. I don't care if I lose. It's just.
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It's.
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It's something to see.
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Oh, boy. All right. I'm gonna end with some good news today.
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Oh, good.
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Yeah, we need it. Boca Raton Democrat and city council member Andy Thompson has been declared the winner of city's razor thin mayoral race after a recount confirmed he defeated a Republican newcomer, Mike Liebeson, by five votes. Everyone. So if you don't think your vote matters, it matters. Thompson finished with 7,572 votes and his opponent was 7,567 five votes. The Palm Beach Counter Supervisor of Elections, the SOE confirmed the outcome of Tuesday's election after a machine recount and a subsequent manual view of ballots. Initial results released Tuesday night show Thompson leading by just six votes. Because Florida law requires an automatic machine recount when the margin is less than or equal to 0.5% of the vote, election officials began that process Friday morning. After the machine recount, the margin tightened even further, leaving Thompson ahead by only a single vote. That triggered a manual recount. During the election, officials reviewed overvotes and undervotes ballots in which voters either selected too many candidates or did not select any. Now, the review ultimately widened Thompson's lead to five votes, securing his victory. There has not been a Democrat mayor of Boca Raton for 30 years. This was an area Trump won by double digits.
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Yeah.
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13 points.
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30 years Democratic mayor. Congratulations, Boca Raton. And Dana, you bring up such a good point. Your vote does matter. Every single vote matters, especially in these local elections. So, yeah. All right, everybody, we've got some good news that we need to get to. If you have some good news, you can send it to us by going to DailyBeansPod.com and clicking on contact. We'll be right back with it. Stick around after these messages.
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We'll be right back.
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Fantastic.
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Hopefully we can get 11, 12, 13, 15 million people out. That would be incredible. So send it all to us, whatever it is. Dailybeanspod.com click on Contact. First up is your good trouble. And this one today comes again from Jess Craven at Chop Wood Carry water. You should subscribe on substack. If you haven't, call Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune will be giving phone numbers in the show notes and say something like this. I'm calling because I'm horrified at the anti Muslim rhetoric coming from Republican members right now. Senator Tuberville's post the other day was vile and it's not the first one. Rep. Andy Ogles and Rep. Randy Fine have also said terrible, vicious things about Muslims recently. These hateful words will lead to violence against our Muslim friends and neighbors and it's cruel and irresponsible and the fact that Republican leadership hasn't condemned it is appalling. So please ask the speaker slash leader to do so immediately. Thank you again. We'll have those phone numbers in the show notes and Jess Craven is a great resource for good Trouble. Consider again subscribing on substack. Just like the breakdown, there are no paywalls.
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All right, this is from an anonymous submitter pronoun. She and her hello AG and dg. Thank you for all that you do. You're like my daily mental health supplement keeping me sane and centered in this crazy world. I do appreciate you both so much. My good trouble, I'd like to ask that you share information on an organization that I bel to military families Speak out. I became aware of this organization through Veterans for Peace and these wonderful people advocated for my daughter, Reality Winner.
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I love when you write Reality Winner's mom. We had her on the show before.
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Yeah, your daughter's just a badass. I became a board member and I actually a dear friend of mine helped produce the feature film oh amazing about yeah, I became a board member and I'm now working to build a committee called Military Families say no. We're fighting to ensure that our military members know where to go when they mayor issued illegal orders. We are outraged by this administration's use of the military our family members for illegal and evil purposes and we want it to stop the unlawful War in Iran, the bombing of boats and killing civilians in the Caribbean, the deployment of military forces on American streets, and the bullying that is happening around the world by this administration must stop. We're looking for military members and family members who want to add their voice to our campaign. We really need to hear from others who are also outraged and want to help stop the misuse of our military. Anyone interested in learning more or joining our committee can go to mfso.org we can also have military families speak out on Facebook and there's an Instagram page. We're gonna have links to all of those in the show notes. And for my pod pet tax, I'm including a picture of reality winner's newest rescue Wishbone.
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Oh, my God. Look at this baby.
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Oh.
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Oh, what a sweetheart. Thank you so much for that. And also, so you know our good friend Charlotte Clymer, also nominated for a GLAAD award recently for her publication Charlotte's Web. She is giving all of the information on her substack and on her social media feeds about a phone number that you can call if you're in the military, if you want to become a conscientious objector. So definitely follow her and check her out, too. Next up, Roy and Madison. Love some beans. Time for a limerick when typing out Trump is a racist autocorrect. Updated rapist. By now all are aware, but maggots don't care. They whoop at Trump ruling Epstein's list. Okay, all right, I got it. I see. I see the list. Rapist, racist list. Very good. And then we have a bird watching photo flipping off that monstrosity of a building on Chicago River. I hate that building.
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Yeah, I know. It's such a beautiful skyline. Except that one building. Actually, it's just the sign on the building.
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Building.
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The building itself is actually pretty nice.
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It kills so much wildlife because it's. It's cooling. It's cooled by scooping up river water and spitting it out. Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So nice.
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It's such a misuse. Yeah. All right. This is from Alex from Appalachia. Hello, lovely ladies. I'm writing in today to give a shout out to my fiance's mom, Cheryl.
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Oh, good idea, Alex. Good idea. Shouting out the future mother in law.
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She's a retired nurse living in rural southeastern Ohio and a former Republican who saw the light in the Obama era. I introduced the daily beans to her after she expressed frustration with mainstream news last year, and she is now a regular listener.
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Welcome.
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She's asked me on numerous occasions how she could Help because she felt frustrated and discouraged by the feeling of helplessness against the current regime. I gave her a few suggestions and pointing her to good trouble segment. Since then she attended her first protest followed by several more. She even wore an inflatable dinosaur costume to one. Absolutely adorable for not quite a five foot lady in her mid-60s. When the government shut down in October and food stamps were threatened, she decided she was going to start taking food to the local blessing box. She never stopped. The first time she filled it up, she went back to check it was empty again the same day. She was surprised, but she rose to the occasion and started filling the box every single day. She told her husband she didn't want Christmas presents. She wanted to fill the blessing box. I shared a photo with you back of her car full of food for the box. It always looks like this now. I'm proud of her for everything she's done to fight back against the cruelty of this administration. For my podpet tax, I present to you my fiance's cat, Goose. Yes, he's as soft as he looks. He's breed is a. Oh boy. Thank you for everything you do. You're our inspiration for Hope in trying times.
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Oh my God. Is this a Russian blue or a A Doesn't look like a short haired cat. Exotic. Exotic I think they're called. Let's see, let's see what we got. That's a long thing. Persian and a munchkin. And his legs are only about 2/3 the length of most cats, though some minuets have super short legs.
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It's a corgi cat. I feel like if a cat was a corgi, it's this.
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And look at all that food in the trunk to fill up the blessing box. That's amazing. All right, thank you for that. All right, Tanya, next up, pronoun. She and her hi AG and dg. I'd like to give a shout out to my amazing husband Keith, who's turning 50 on Sunday. Happy 50th birthday, Keith. Keith has had a rough year. He was injured and then forced out of work. Our dog died. Then Keith's surrogate father passed away a few weeks ago. With all that, on top of the antics of Velveeta Voldemort, Keith has understandably struggled to maintain a positive headspace. However, he keeps learning, keeps fighting, keeps trying. He executed a career pivot and found a promising new job. Despite voting for Mussolini Mango Mussolini in 2015. He's educated himself and come a long way toward deconstructing the harmful dogma of misogyny and racism. He now argues with trolls online, participates in my ever increasing corporate boycotts, and nags our friends and family to come to protests. All of that, and he's the world's best dad, too. Finally, somewhere between physical therapy appointments and job interviews, Keith found time to build me the library of my dreams. Wow. There's a picture of this, too. We'll get to that. For my pod pet tariff, I'll send you a softball. Thunder has spots and is our friend who went over the Rainbow Bridge last year. Seamus is still with us and still afraid of everything. Like a proper blank. Thanks for being with us on our morning commute and keeping us sane. Look at this library, Dana.
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Absolutely stunning.
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That's incredible.
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I mean, that's just love. Also for someone to build you something like that because they know how much it would mean to you.
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A
Yeah. And then look at this sweet dog. It looks like that's a Great Dane. Full.
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Full blown Great Dane. Has to be.
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Let's see. Yep. You got 100 correct, cutie pie. Yeah. Thank you.
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Absolutely. All right. This is from Jordan. No pronouns given. My partner and I went to Dana's show at Zany's in Nashville last week, and she had a us with tears in our eyes from laughing so hard. Thank you for giving us some laughter in these terrible times. Thank you both for using your platforms to keep us informed, knowledgeable, and fact driven. Sending lots of love. My pod pet tariff is pretty easy. Oh, guess the answer is that.
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I mean, it's a Muppet, so it's a doodle.
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It looks like, like a golden doodle. Like just a little floppy, soft, little mopad.
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I'm gonna go with you on that. I'm gonna go with your answer, Dana. Goldendoodle. Final answer. Let's see.
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Final answer.
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Mini, mini golden dude.
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B
Okay, that tracks. Yeah.
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Oh, amazing. Yeah. I am telling you, look, as a comedian for 10 years, I've been to a lot of comedy shows. We sit in the back, we watch the other comedians and, you know, we appreciate and admire, and we're just like, yep, okay, I. You can kind of see what jokes are coming. You sort of lay out the thing. But when I saw Dana, I was rolling on the floor laughing. I almost fell out of my chair.
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You're so sweet.
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I'm telling you, if you haven't seen Dana live, you absolutely have to. And you can see all of her upcoming shows@danagoldberg.com youm've got one coming up in the villages, which is so fucking cool.
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And I'M pretty sure it's sold out. So, I mean, listen, it's a lesbian group that's bringing me in, but I already know that we've got like, our, our allies have got some straight straights, my straight folks that are coming in because I've gotten some emails that people are bringing their husband and so forth. It's just going to be a really fun night. I may challenge some people in their thought process. I know not everyone in the villages votes the same way, but it's going to be a really nice night of community. So I'm excited. It's Thursday, but like I said, I think that one might be sold out. But I know there's still tickets left for Dallas. Those are getting close. And then we've got Rochester in May. And in Rochester, I'm going to have a talk pack with V from under the desk News after my comedy show. Sue, if you're a fan of V, this is alone to come to the show, you get a twofer.
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I remember when we ran into V on the red carpet at GLAAD and you had an amazing interview with them. And like, again, I write and read a lot of news. I don't like when I consume it from other creators. They're the number one I go to.
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Same. Agreed.
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Every single time, without fail. That is so cool that V is going to be there. That's amazing. Yeah. All right, everybody, thank you so very much for listening today. If you get a chance, go to meloucherote.com, check out my latest episode of the Breakdown. We also have a brand new episode of unjustified with Andy McKay about right now, which you can find where you get your pods, wherever you. Wherever you. Wherever you get them. As they say, wherever you get them in the biz. Thank you so very much, everybody. And remember, if you want to sign up to become a patron, you can still get that $3 and you'll be locked in for life. $3 a month by going to patreon.com we really appreciate it. All right, everybody, we'll be back on 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. I've been ag.
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I've been dg.
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