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Wednesday, August 5, 2026 Today, the Senate confirmed pedophile protector and Trump’s personal attorney Todd Blanche to be the Attorney General of the United States; The House Ethics Committee recommended Monday that lawmakers censure Rep. Chuck Edwards for engaging in “persistent unprofessional and inappropriate conduct towards two young female staffers”; calls grow louder for Max Miller to resign from Congress as former White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham files for a restraining order against him; the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld Florida’s anti-drag law; a new republican-led ballot measure in Washington State targets kindergarten girls for invasive physical exams; Jeanine Pirro brought a box of reflecting pool evidence to the White House to show Trump what really caused the damage; the Trump Justice Department is now zero for twenty in voter roll cases; plus Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.
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Alison Gill
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Alison Gill
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Dana Goldberg
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Alison Gill
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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, August 5, 2026. Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmed pedophile protector and Trump's personal attorney, Todd Blanch to be Attorney General of the United States. The vote advances to the full Senate. The House Ethics Committee recommended Monday that lawmakers censure Rep. Chuck Edwards for engaging in persistent, unprofessional and inappropriate conduct toward two young female staffers. Calls grow louder for Max Miller to resign from Congress as former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham files for a restraining order against him. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld Florida's anti drag law. A new Republican led ballot measure in Washington state targets kindergarten girls for invasive physical exams. Jeanine Pirro brought a box of reflecting pool evidence to the White House to show Trump what really caused the damage. And the Trump justice department is now 0 for 20 in voter roll cases. I'm Alison Gill.
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Dana Goldberg
And I'm Dana Goldberg.
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Alison Gill
Oh, hi, Dana. I'm glad to have you back again.
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Dana Goldberg
Happy to be back. Thank you for covering me. I have a couple of business events this week and so Allison is sort of popping in while I'm popping out, and then I'll be back the next day and that's going to happen again tomorrow. So thank you.
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Alison Gill
Well, every time you go away, you take a piece of me with you doodle. Anyway, lots going on this week and lots going on today. We don't have the best of news for you today. We do have a kind of an uplifting story about the DOJ going 0 for 20 on voter rolls, but not a good day for LGBTQ rights.
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Dana Goldberg
Yeah, I know, and I hate to say that. I don't think it surprises anyone. We were told between now and the midterms it's going to get even worse. We were told that a year and they're proving it. They are afraid they're going to lose certain powers, if you will, if everything goes as planned on our side. And it looks like if we can stop all their shenanigans. That it will. And they are going to try and break as much as they can before the midterms.
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Alison Gill
Yeah, agreed. And speaking of midterms, we got some primary elections going on. Like, as we record this.
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Dana Goldberg
I'm looking forward to seeing what's happening, too. Let's see, we've got Michigan, Virginia, Kansas heading to the polls Tuesday to vote in the primaries. And we're recording this. As we're recording this, polls have not yet closed, so we're going to go over the results with all of these things tomorrow.
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Alison Gill
Yeah. And of course, Todd Blanche took a major step toward confirmation as Attorney General Tuesday after the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 12 to 10, right along party lines to advance his nomination, likely setting up a final vote within days. Now Susan Collins has come out and said she's going to vote no. And this generally happens like Republican senators in swing states who might be up for election or, you know, might actually take a stance, are allowed to vote no so that they can still confirm him. She's a no. I'm imagining Murkowski will be allowed to vote no, but not sure exactly. We'll see who they'll let vote no, but it won't be enough people to stop his confirmation.
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Dana Goldberg
It's true. That's true. And by the way, speaking of that, Politico reports that Todd Blanche told faith leaders on a private call that he was preparing to take action to roll back abortion access nationwide. Such a fucker. On a recording of the call posted online Thursday by the religious group, I almost said incesters, which would have been maybe appropriate. Intercessor. Inter. Intercessors. What is that word?
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Alison Gill
Yeah, intercessors. I don't know what that is.
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Dana Goldberg
All right. I don't either. Intercessors for America, everybody. And if you know what that is, let us know. And by the way, that was hosted by the White House faith office, whose leader is a banana pants. And apparently Blanche lamented that the Trump administration's efforts to restrict abortion are taking longer than we want, but said the Justice Department was, and I quote, working hand in hand with federal health agencies and the White House. And I quote, so that Dobbs decision becomes permanent in every single state.
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Alison Gill
Yeah, Dobbs was the decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, so that's gross. What's interesting is, though, that that intercessors. Whatever Scissor Sisters took, they took.
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Dana Goldberg
How dare you. Do not insult the Scissor Sisters.
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Alison Gill
Yeah, you're right. They're nothing alike. They took down that Post, by the way, I'm assuming they got a heated phone call from Todd Blanche and said, hey, take that down, you're making me look bad. I gotta get confirmed. But yeah, Collins is a no. So we'll keep an eye on all of that for you. But we do have a lot of news to get to today, so let's hit the hot notes. Hot notes. All right, let's shift our focus from the Senate to the House. From the Guardian, Max Miller, a US Republican representative from Ohio, I think he's in the 7th district, is facing a rising groundswell of resignation calls from his own party over domestic abuse allegations after his ex father in law, Bernie Moreno, a GOP senator, said he was unfit to serve in Congress. With a deadline looming for party leaders to choose a potential replacement. You know how they had to do with Graham Platner because of deadlines? Max Miller, a former White House aide, also came under pressure from Trump on Monday after the President reportedly called and told him things aren't looking good for his reelection campaign against his Democratic opponent, Brian Poindexter. Earlier in the day, Miller said he would request an ethics investigation into himself.
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Dana Goldberg
Oh, Jesus.
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Alison Gill
To clear my name from these horrific attacks on myself and my family, adding, I have absolutely nothing to hide. That's why you hid the tape recorder when you recorded you conversations with you and your ex wife. Pleas for Miller to step down intensified after Moreno, the father of Miller's former wife, Emily Moreno, broke his silence after months of refraining from comment on the allegations. By the way, which is disgusting. A series of public statements from Moreno's fellow Republican senators indicate that their sympathies are with him. Quote, miller should resign. He should quit. That's Senator Roger Marshall from Kansas. He told that to Politico and went on to say, I don't know Mr. Miller's story, but I trust Bernie Moreno. So he's a good friend and he's a good family. He's got high value. So I don't listen to the women, but Bernie, I'll listen to that. Jesus. West Virginia Senator Shelley Moore. Shelley Moore, capito? I don't know if that's how you say it. Said, I don't know Miller. I haven't read a whole lot about him. But if Moreno thinks he ought to resign, I'm supportive of that. Again, they support the man. Lisa Murkowski, a Republican senator from Alaska, said, the accusations are very serious and if there's truth to them, I am one who says that our elected officials need to be held to higher standards and Certainly when it comes to allegations of domestic abuse, child abuse, that's not what we want in our lawmakers. So I guess she actually knows who he is. And read up on what's going on. Three other senators, Rick Scott of Florida, West Virginia's Jim justice and Cynthia Loomis of Wyoming also gave public backing to Moreno against Max Miller. And Ms. Now is reporting that former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham filed for a temporary restraining order against Max Miller. That's according to her attorney, Mark Zaid. One of her attorneys, Grisham and Miller dated in 2019 and 2020 and they've been involved in a separate legal battle after Grisham published a 2021 op ed in the Washington Post describing an abusive relationship with her boyfriend who was at the time a White House staffer. Now, Grisham didn't disclose the name of her boyfriend. That could have been anybody in the Trump White House in 2019 and 2020.
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Martin Sheen
Yep.
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Alison Gill
While Grisham didn't disclose the name of her boyfriend, Miller sued her for defamation. Isn't that crazy? Like when that is wild Ford worker was like, you're a pedophile. And Trump was like, you're talking to me, right?
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Dana Goldberg
Like, yeah. And then said, fuck you, my boyfriend was abusive.
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Alison Gill
You must mean me, the man who abused you and sued her for defamation hours after the op ed was published and denied any allegations of abuse, even though he raised his hand saying, you must be talking about me. At the time, Miller was running for his House seat in Ohio's 16th congressional district. Miller later dropped his defamation lawsuit against Grisham and both parties signed a non disclosure agreement that noted they would not speak about each other in disparaging ways. Now, we don't know the basis yet for this temporary restraining order, but it may have something to do with maybe Max Miller violating that agreement. I have no idea. I really don't know what it's about yet. And in a related story from Politico, the House Ethics Committee recommended Monday that lawmakers censure Rep. Chuck Edwards for engaging in, quote, persistent, unprofessional and inappropriate conduct towards two young female staffers, cataloging multiple episodes of sexual harassment by the married lawmaker. Democrats, on the other hand, are calling for him to resign. And some of these incidents of sexual harassment are so disgusting, like calling women like sweetheart and hot stuff and taking his staffers out for like one on one dinners and commenting on the weight of some of his female staffers. Just a nasty piece of work, this guy.
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Dana Goldberg
Yeah, yeah. Piece of garbage. All right. This is from Tallahassee Democrat. The Tallahassee Democrat. Florida's law that was meant to prevent children from attending and I quote, sexually explicit drag shows, it doesn't violate the First Amendment. That's according to a majority of federal appellate judges who weighed in on the contentious measure. The case now heads back to trial court in Orlando. The appeals court struck down what's called a preliminary injunction and prevents enforcement of the law while the case is pending, saying that the plaintiff, the Hamburger Mary's Restaurant of Orlando, and I quote, failed to establish a substantial likelihood that it would ultimately win its case. On Aug. 4, an 8 to 5 majority in the 11th U.S. circuit Court of Appeals agreed that the state law was constitutional. Critics had warned its enforcement imperiled the free expression of LGBTQ and drag communities. Now, the crux of the argument is whether the law violated the First Amendment by threatening the free speech rights of patrons of venues who wish to host drag performances. Hamburger Marys further argued that the law was vague on what performances were prohibited. Although the law does not name drag shows, critics have widely viewed it as a law meant to combat drag, a recognized art form that's roughly defined as dressing up as the opposite sex, but also has a history of political commentary and activism. And I quote, in any event, the act is consistent with the legislative intent to target drag shows that are obscene for children, not drag shows writ large. That's what the circuit judge, Andrew Brasher, said. And by the way, he's a Trump appointee, okay? He's the one that authored the majority's opinion. The opinion comes after oral arguments in June and months after the federal appeals court struck down the lower court order, which suspended enforcement of the law in question for years. On December 1, the court said, without reasoning, that it would take up arguments on the constitutionality of the state law. Some judges who sided with the majority still noted arguments they disagreed with. And the dissenting judges wrote scathing opinions as to why the court's order was contrary to the constitutional principles. Circuit Judge Robin Rosenbaum said her colleagues were embracing and I quote, mess around and find out, or they like to call it mafo First Amendment jurisprudence. She added that the state intentionally created the statute to chill drag and that the vague language serves as an especially pernicious club to silent political speech. And another quote. Under this form of jurisprudence, a citizen can learn whether a law prohibits their speech only by taking a wild guess, presenting their speech, and then seeing if they get arrested and face imprisonment, thousands of dollars in fines, and loss of their business license. That's what Rosenbaum wrote, who was appointed by Barack Obama. Melissa Stewart, who represents Hamburger Marys of Orlando, said in a statement that the court, and I quote, held that the state may target speech it dislikes and strip parents of their right to determine what is appropriate for their own children. We believe that the First Amendment's protections are more robust than that. This is what Stewart said. This litigation is not over and we will continue fighting to protect free speech in the state of Florida. And there's a related story to this from Raw Story In Washington state, voters are going to decide the fate of a ballot initiative that would require girls from kindergarten through high school to undergo sex verification testing before playing school sports. This is a measure critics call the most extreme of its kind in the country and it's fucking disgusting. Now it's IL 26638 would bar transgender athletes from girls teams by mandating that a healthcare provider certify a player's sex assigned at birth using genetic screening, testosterone testing or an examination of reproductive anatomy. Again, these are kindergarteners as part of the annual sports physical every young athlete already undergoes that's reported by the Cut. This is a quote, the measure was clearly not written by someone who practices medicine. This is what Dr. Gina Martin said. And Gina is a family medicine physician who offers sports physicals to her patients. And I quote, physicals focus on the two most important aspects of sports. First muscular skeletal health, thinking about kids, joints, bones, muscles and tendons and then cardiac health, looking into their heart health and finding out if we need to screen for additional cardiac risk factors. What is certainly not medically necessary is for me to do an exam and confirm somebody's sex either through hormone testing, genetic testing or non indicated genital exam. Martin added. I don't even know how it would work because I've never run those tests on a patient. The measure doesn't specify by the way, who would perform the exams, who would pay for the exams or how schools would carry them out, leaving open ended questions about whether young girls could be required to disrobe potentially in a group setting where many schools currently offer free physicals. And I also want to point out that young boys are also molested and hurt in this country. And so if this is just this isn't just specific to young girls and I would be shocked if people don't have a problem with their five year old little boy also having their genitals checked to make sure it's a little boy. If maybe they have long hair when they go to school.
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Alison Gill
But doesn't it Also give pedophiles an excuse to get a bunch of naked kids in a room.
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Dana Goldberg
That would be my. Yes. Yes. The measure is backed financially by a guy named Brian Haywood. He's a hedge fund manager funding the effort through his political action committee, let's go Washington, which has raised nearly $3.3 million. The opposing campaign, no Hate in Washington, has raised roughly 1.3 million. Heywood argues the state's 2007 policy allowing kids to join teams matching their gender identity comes at the expense of female athletes and their safety. No, it fucking doesn't.
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Alison Gill
So we need your kindergarten girl to take her pants off for me.
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Dana Goldberg
Yeah. Yeah. And I quote, the sad and cynical truth is that people are funding these ballot initiatives because they want to drive Republican voter turnout for a midterm election. This is from Chris Urchel of Glad with one A so G L A D Law. He goes on to say, it's just like 2006, when Republicans poured money into ballot initiatives to oppose marriage equality. According to the Washington Interscholastic Activities association, There's only about 10 transgender athletes participating among more than 200,000 students in the state's middle and high school sports programs. 10.
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Alison Gill
That's just. That's terrifying to think about. It's just terrifying to think about.
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Dana Goldberg
Yeah, it's disgusting.
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Alison Gill
It's going to hurt the children. Yeah, but they don't care about the children. They care about driving people out to the polls. They care about making life horrible for the LGBTQ community.
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Dana Goldberg
Yeah, and attacking our trans community more than. More than any of the other letters.
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Alison Gill
More than anything else. All right, from cbs. We're shifting gears here. Top federal prosecutor in the nation's capital carted a box full of wine. I'm sorry, a box full of evidence. To the White House on Monday in a bid to prove to President Trump that the damage to the reflecting pool was caused by shoddy construction and not by vandals. That's according to sources familiar with the matter. U.S. attorney for D.C. jeanine Pirro, a staunch ally of the president, made the case in a sometimes heated private meeting in the Oval Office Monday, hours after Trump had publicly rebuked her for dropping criminal charges against Olympic canoeist Davey Hearn. She was later photographed leaving the White House carting a large white box and other bags, which sources said contained all the evidence collected from the Interior Department that exculpated Hearn proved his innocence and several others from criminal vandalism. By the way, the DOJ today dropped charges against all the other people that they charged in the report they did. Pero's office has suffered a number of high profile setbacks involving cases related to Trump's enemies and topics of personal interest to him. Earlier this year, a grand jury uniformly refused to indict six Democratic lawmakers for posting a video urging military members to follow the law by not following unlawful orders. Historically, a grand jury refusing to return an indictment is very, very, very, very, very, very, very highly unusual, let alone having a grand jury unanimously refused to do so, which happened in that case. Then the chief Judge for the U.S. district Court for D.C. quashed grand jury subpoenas issued by Pirro's office to investigate former Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and the Fed itself in connection with a costly renovation and statements he made to Congress about that work. In doing so, the judge said the subpoenas were merely a pretext to pressure Powell to lower interest rates. They saw right through it. Pira later dropped the investigation, but not before several of her deputies first made an unannounced visit to the Fed's construction site and tried to gain access to the property before being turned away. And by the way, that quashing is what led to the very famous press conference where she says, I don't care about not guilty. I don't care about no true bill. I'll put all the crimes in. I'll do it all. Thank you. Remember that one?
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Dana Goldberg
I do, I do.
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Alison Gill
My favorite. That led to me starting to impersonate her, which I never thought I would ever do in my whole entire life. But that was that press conference.
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Dana Goldberg
She makes it easy, that's for sure. All right, this story's from Democracy Docket, talking about the U.S. department of Justice. The DOJ is 0 for 20 in its lawsuit seeking to obtain state voter rolls.
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Alison Gill
I'm not a sports person, Dana is 0 for 20.
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Dana Goldberg
It's bad.
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Alison Gill
Is it bad?
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Dana Goldberg
Yeah, it's bad. After a federal judge dismissed its case against Colorado. Now, on Monday, U.S. district Judge Philip Bremer found that the DOJ did not provide a sufficient reason for needing the state's roles or a valid purpose for obtaining them as required by law. He also found that the unredacted state voter rolls aren't records that the department's even entitled to under federal law. Those findings echo the conclusions of every other judge to have ruled on a DOJ's voter roll laws. Bremer, who happened to be appointed by George W. Bush, as we know, a Republican, dismissed the case with prejudice, meaning it can't be filed again. And I quote, trump and his DOJ are attacking elections and democracy. This is from the Colorado Secretary of State Gina Griswold happens to be a Democrat, the defendant in the lawsuit, by the way. That's what she said in a statement after the ruling and went on to say, we will not let them win. Today's victory affirms that Trump's DOJ has no rights to Coloradans sensitive voter information. I will always defend our elections from unlawful federal interference. Griswold has been among the most outspoken election officials in denouncing the DOJ's voter roll crusade. Of the 20 voter roll rulings to go against the DOJ, 12 have come from judges appointed by GOP presidents. Twelve of them.
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Alison Gill
More than half. Wow.
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Dana Goldberg
Yep. Eight of those 12 judges, those were appointed by Donald Trump himself.
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Alison Gill
Holy cannoli. So like 40 something percent of.
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Dana Goldberg
Yeah.
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Alison Gill
Oh, wow.
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Dana Goldberg
I know. The DOJ has lost the only appeals court ruling to have been issued on the voter roll lawsuits, which came from the Sixth Circuit in the DOJ's case against Michigan.
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Alison Gill
Fantastic. And just real quick, here's the 20. You ready? And they're not all blue states, by the way. Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
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Dana Goldberg
Wow. Wow. Yeah.
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Alison Gill
And I think he only sued 23 states and the District of Columbia. So I think there's only four left.
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Dana Goldberg
When is that. When does that become precedent? I don't understand when it. They're not like. Let's just. Can we just refer to the other case at this point?
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Alison Gill
It has to go. There has to be a conflict between two circuit courts of appeal and then that has to go to the Supreme Court. So.
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Dana Goldberg
Got it.
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Alison Gill
But in the meantime, it's all stopped. He can't go for it. They dismissed it. They just. A lot of these are dismissed with prejudice, which is pretty strong. Pretty strong language since you can't bring those cases again. All right, that's the news. Thank you for hanging in. I know we had some bad news in there, but we appreciate you hanging in. And we're going to have the good news in a minute as soon as we take this quick break. Stick around. We'll be right back after these messages. We'll be right back. Nothing exposes your spending habits faster than adding up a month of takeout. I did the math, stared at the number. I decided I needed to change my ways. And Home Chef has helped me to save money while making high quality meals that are super delicious and they're far more impressive than anything I've made previously or that I order from takeout. And I'm also trying recipes I would never have chosen myself, allowing me to explore flavors I would never normally do. And last week I tried their oven ready Milanese chicken and spinach pasta with Parmesan. It was so good. Everything came prepped and ready to throw in the oven, but I literally couldn't tell the difference between this meal and something straight from the kitchen of one of my favorite restaurants. The flavors were amazing. Super elevated. It was easy. On top of everything, it made cleanup a breeze. Now Home Chef takes a lot of pressure out of the week by keeping fresh meals ready in your fridge. The weekly deliveries eliminate long shopping lists, extra grocery runs, and the nightly debate over what to make and when it's time to cook. The recipes are straightforward, the ingredients are always portioned, the cleanup is super simple. And there are also more than 30 meal options every week with choices for different tastes and different dietary needs too. So if you want to do paleo or vegetarian or whatever, it's all there. That means you could keep your dinner interesting without spending your free time planning menus and prepping and wandering through the grocery store for hours at a time. And people really love it. Home Chef is rated number one by users of other meal kits for quality, convenience, value, taste and recipe ease. And for a limited time, Home Chef is offering you 50% off and free shipping on your first box. Plus get this free dessert for life. So go to homechef.comdailybeans that's homechef.com dailybeans for 50% off your first box and free dessert for life. One more time. That's homechef.com DailyBeans must be an active subscriber to receive free dessert.
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Alison Gill
Welcome back. It's time for the good news. Who likes good news everyone?
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Dana Goldberg
Then good news everyone.
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Alison Gill
And if you have any good news suggestions or good trouble suggestions, please send them to us. And your good news doesn't have to be some sort of massive, insane, life changing thing. It can just be you writing in and saying hello. Absolutely. It can be something small from 20 years ago. It can be a fun story you like to tell when you sit around with your friends. Anything that'll bring a smile to our face. You can also give a shout out to somebody you love, like your spouse or a parent or yourself. Because we all know you love yourself. And everyone who listens to this show is awesome. So tell us why you're awesome. We want to hear about it. You can also give a shout out to a government program or a local nonprofit that you want us to know about. Maybe a business in your area that could use a boost. Send it all to us dailybeanspod.com and click on contact. And all you got to do is attach your pod pet tariff to get your stuff read on the air. Which means anything, really. A photo of anything. You can. It can be your pet and we can maybe try to guess the breeds in your in your pet. We're not very good at it, but it's fun. You can send an adoptable pet in your area. If you don't have a pet, maybe we can find him a forever home or just, you know, heck, a random animal on the Internet. We accept any and all cute animals from the Internet, including Jimothy and his father, Danny DeVito. Yes, bird watching photos, which can be an actual bird or you flipping the bird to a Trump building. Those always bring smiles to even the sternest of faces. You can send us family photos, baby pictures, photos of a sunset, maybe a funny meme you've seen, something that you're making or creating to pass the time before the midterms. Anything at all. Send it to us dailybeanspod.com click on Contact. First up is your good trouble. Good Trouble today comes from Jen Pronouns, she and her hey Beans crew. I wanted to share a great resource. Y' All Vote, which was founded by Amanda Nelson at Amanda's Mildtakes on Instagram, has a daily action calendar with small achievable ways to engage from now until November 3rd. You can even get a Google Sheet version where you can check off your progress. Yall vote Y A L L Y' All Vote and we'll have a link to the Google sheet in the show notes. Y' All Vote was founded after the Calais decision to organize Southern content creators and put energy and money towards state legislative races in the south to elect progressive candidates to fight back against continued gerrymandering and voter suppression. Southern states are gaining in population, so ensuring fair representation down here is the only way to prevent long term Republican takeovers of Congress and the Electoral College vote. Speaking of candidates in the South, I also want to give a plug for Jamie Davis, who's running for Senate in Louisiana against the Trump endorsed candidate Bill Cassidy seat. Jamie is a third generation black farmer from rural northern Louisiana and he is generating a lot of grassroots support throughout the state. His social media presence is great, but he's getting no national attention. So I encourage fellow legumes to give him a follow and maybe some support and we'll have links on how to do that and a link to jamieforlouisiana.com in the show notes as well. For my tariff. Two bird watching photos. One is a crow perfectly posing on top of a tomb in one of our above ground cemeteries. Above ground? Are there below ground cemeteries?
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Dana Goldberg
Yeah.
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Alison Gill
Okay.
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Dana Goldberg
All right.
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Alison Gill
Louisiana has a lot of cemeteries.
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Dana Goldberg
Yeah. Most of the ones in Louisiana are above because they're under sea level and so the flooding things will. Things my bodies will float away. So it's rare to have one underground. So there are some.
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Alison Gill
That's interesting. Yeah. The crow's face says she knows exactly how iconic she is. The other is my friend Kara, DG's birthday twin, woohoo and me from our Chicago hotel room when we were there for the gala, which was amazing. This was the unfortunate view out of our window. So we had to do a Lagnap bird watching photo again. I know I'm saying that wrong. Lanyape, do you remember how it's supposed to be? No, no, I forget. Also, I'm a bad person. I don't know.
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Dana Goldberg
Lenape.
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Alison Gill
We got a correction on it.
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Dana Goldberg
I know.
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Alison Gill
And we did a bird watching photo to add to the one we took with y'. All. Thank you always for all you do to somehow keep us both informed and laughing during these times. The crow is amazingly beautiful. And that is an amazingly fantastic other kind of bird watching photo. And I'm sorry, boy, that's a shitty view right out of your hotel.
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Dana Goldberg
Oh, my God. Seriously,
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Alison Gill
That's awful. I mean, it's just like right there. Ugh, that's terrible. All right. Lan Yap. Lanyap is how you pronounce it. Lanyap. I looked.
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Dana Goldberg
There you go. All right, we've got this quick short one. Update to the Washington state wildfires. On Tuesday morning, Trump approved the emergency declaration.
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Alison Gill
Oh, whoa.
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Dana Goldberg
Shocking.
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Alison Gill
I wasn't expecting.
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Dana Goldberg
We've got that. We'll have a link in the show notes if anyone wants to read more about that. And then we also have something from Aaron Speca. Pronouns he and him. Good morning. Based a story that you shared on your Monday show regarding Abigail Spanberger, restoring voting rights for 66,000 people who had served their felony sentences, I thought your listeners should know that there is a state constitutional amendment on the Virginia ballot in November that would restore voting rights to felons automatically upon completion.
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Alison Gill
And people were like, why isn't this ottoman.
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Martin Sheen
Yep.
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Dana Goldberg
A completion of their sentence without requiring separate individual action by the governor. This is one of the three critical amendments on the ballot. The second would codify reproductive rights in the state constitution and the third would codify marriage equality in the form of protecting same sex marriage in the state constitution. Several Virginia indivisible chapters are working to ensure that voters in Virginia know that these measures are on the ballot and how important they are. And we would appreciate the shout out. Thanks for everything you do. And we will not just have a shout out. We have a link to this in the show notes. Virginia, if you're a Virginia voter, you're going to want to click on this and make sure you know exactly what you're voting for.
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Alison Gill
Yeah. Restorevoteva.org and yeah, Virginia is totally for lovers. Those are some amazing ballot initiatives. Erin, thank you for letting us know. Next up, from Megan, she and her hi, AG and dg. I want to share a little bit of the joy. On July 30, an endangered leatherback sea turtle nested on one of our northern beaches in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. The last time a leatherback nested on the northern outer Banks was 2009, when my high school senior was a baby. Attached is a picture I grabbed from our local news of the leatherback. Also included is a pic of some of our other wildlife here in the northern Outer Banks. A couple wild horses casually posing next to signs reminding everyone that there are rules to Protect them. We haven't been able to travel lately, but living in a vacation hotspot. Some of y' all can travel here with just these pictures. Look at this. Wild horse laws. And there they are. And they're on the beach. Just hanging out on the beach. I love it. And the tr.
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Dana Goldberg
I love it.
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Alison Gill
Beautiful. Thank you for that.
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Dana Goldberg
Yes. Next up from Beverly Pronoun. She and her hello, ladies. Rumor has it that pandas are a popular pod pet tariff. So how about a panda cat? Her name is Zara Pandemonium and her TNR rescue rescuer Yaz. And there's a link here. Not a link, but a social media thing. And it's @tipsandwhiskers. Tipsandwhiskers initially called her Panda, hence the unusual spelling of her name. She was born in a car engine block in Los Angeles and rescued the day she was born, along with her feral mama. Her nickname includes you little devil and my little monster. And she's a force of nature. Endless entertainment and love. She enjoys adventuring and while mom was still alive, visiting her in the care facility, along with visiting everyone else and making the staff think she was a toy automation on a leash. She also entertains people in airports who double in triple take and then want to take her picture. Favorite activities include sprinting around the house, getting as close to my face as possible for snuggle time, and boosting me up when major depression is dragging me down. I've included two collages. One shows her playing inside the ring that's supposed to be a toy with a ball that can be slapped around inside. But she quickly figured out how to remove the ball, and it is somewhere in casa chaos. The second collage shows one of our favorite activities, which is pulling a cuddle clone forward out of the tall bookcase and then throwing it down at me. Keep up the good work. You provide a quick summary of the chaos each weekday along with shared snarls and laughs. I'm happy to support you on Patreon.
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Alison Gill
Oh, thank you.
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Dana Goldberg
Look at this cat.
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Alison Gill
Oh, my gosh.
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Dana Goldberg
I know.
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Alison Gill
It's like a. It's like a. It's like a bandit. It's like got a Zorro mask.
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Dana Goldberg
Yeah.
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Alison Gill
What a very cool cat. Can I have it? Can I have it? Oh, thank you so much for that. Next up, Deb Garner Pronoun. She and her cruiser wanted me to make certain you knew he is a brilliant orange cat along with his brother, Caper Diva. Heard you say hey to her. Her tail went thump thump Diva. Thump, thump. Give me thump thump Diva. Look at this smart orange kitty. And from Anonymous, Greetings AG and dg. I have two shout outs today. This summer I've been listening to the podcast while walking the Ice Age Trail in Wisconsin. It follows the border of the last glacier to enter the state. It is managed by the National Parks and maintained by many volunteers of the Ice Age trail alliance. The 1200 mile trail is one of the best things Wisconsin has to offer. Here's a link for more information about the trail. Iceage trail.org we'll have it in the show notes My second shout out is to my 86 year old father. Up until a few years ago, my parents lived in Iowa. My dad was 18 when Chuck Grassley was elected to his first political office. He's 86 now. The dad. That's how long Chuck Grassley's been around.
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Dana Goldberg
Oh my God.
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Alison Gill
And I'm proud to say he's never voted for the man. My pod pet tax is a picture of the Ice Age Trail near where I live. The yellow blaze on the tree marks the trail. The second picture is an animal my neighbor startled while moving his garbage containers to the street. This guy took shelter under the bushes in front of my house. We believe he found his mother that night. Okay, the trail is gorgeous. Oh and look, it's a baby Bambi deer.
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Dana Goldberg
Oh so sweet. Look at Tiny Tiny.
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Alison Gill
Oh so cute. I want to cuddle.
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Dana Goldberg
I know. All right, next up from Anonymous and Pronoun. She and her love your podcast. Been listening for over a year and you are my first thing I listen to every morning. Spent the weekend at my sister's house in Wisconsin along with two other like minded liberal sisters. We even have a lizard lib Sib zoom. I love that that call weekly event. We have two other sisters that are in the cult that we zoom with once a month just to keep the lines of communication open.
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Alison Gill
So you have the lib sib zoom
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Dana Goldberg
and then the other Wild attaches a picture taken as a sunset on Loon Lake, Wisconsin last night. And that is beautiful.
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Alison Gill
Oh that's very calming. That's very calming. That photo. I love that libsib zoom. That's fantastic. And our last submission from Rocky Pronoun. She and her dear AG and dg. Thank you for reporting all the good, bad and ugly news you share with us. I'm so glad you include news that is not prominently featured in mainstream media. I would like to give a shout out to my local Mesa Valley Indivisible group here in Mesa, Arizona after a protest rally in April of this year, some of the members visited Pratt's Pets, located next to the protest site, where they documented animals kept in alarming conditions. Along with the group's leader, Megan, protests began against Pratt's Pets, resulting in the store's Mesa location being shut down. This group is passionate about their fur babies, and I'm proud to rally alongside them. We'll have a link to mesa valleyindivisible.org I've included a picture of my own fur baby, Enzo. Great name who has crossed the rainbow bridge. I miss him every day. He was a labradoodle mix with a chow tongue. Look at this sweet, sweet baby. Oh, thank you, Rocky. Thank you for that. And thanks to all of you for sending in your good news. We needed that today. Please continue to send it in DailyBeansPod.com click on Contact. Dana, do you have any final thoughts before we head out to record Beans Talk today?
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Dana Goldberg
No. Let's just get over there and do that.
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Alison Gill
All right, everybody, I'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. I've been ag. I've been dg and them's the Beans. The Daily Beans is written and executive produced by Alison Gill with additional research and reporting by Dana Goldberg. Sound design and editing is by Desiree McFarlane with art and web design by Joelle Reader with Moxie Design Studios. Music for the Daily Beans is written and performed by they Might Be Giants and the show is a proud member of the MSW Media Network, a collection of creator owned podcasts dedicated to news, politics and justice. For more information, Please visit msw media.com MSW Media. Diamond Dames, mount up. I'm Charlotte Clymer. 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? Well, I. 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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Dana Goldberg
That's right.
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Alison Gill
We believe in Rom communism. I mean, if Tom Hanks met, 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. And remember, be a goldfish. Diamond Dames Dismount Barbecue Sauce.