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Today, the Kennedy Center board votes to put Trump’s name back on the building; the government conducted expansive surveillance against ICE protestors in Minnesota; USS Abraham Lincoln sailors tried to jump overboard amid its extended deployment; Max Miller’s ex-wife is suing him for releasing nude photos of their toddler; Ken Paxton donors have been found in the Epstein files; DHS workers used databases to spy on personal acquaintances; Rubio, Bessent and Leavitt were among those used as decoys on Air Force One; a federal judge has dismissed Trump’s antisemitism case against Harvard; that small Kansas newspaper that was raided by the cops gets $850,000; plus Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.
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msw media. Hello and welcome to the Daily beans for Friday, August 14, 2026. Today, the Kennedy center board has voted to put Trump's name back on building. The government conducted expansive surveillance against ICE protesters in Minnesota. USS Abraham Lincoln sailors tried to jump overboard amid its extended deployment. Max Miller's ex wife is suing him for releasing nude photos of their toddler, Ken Paxton. Donors have been found in the Epstein files. DHS workers used their databases to spy on personal acquaintances. Rubio, Besant and Leave it were among those used as decoys on Air Force One out of NATO. A federal judge has dismissed Trump's anti Semitism case against Harvard. And that small Kansas newspaper that was raided by the cops just got $850,000. I'm Alison Gill.
And I'm Dana Goldberg.
Happy Friday, my friend.
And to you. We made it through a week, we made it through another week.
Virtual smorgasbord of news, and it's still breaking. And I'm putting it on Monday's beans list to cover. Like there's still so much going on. But it is Fuglsang Friday, so we'll have John Fugalsang later on the show. As you know, he's the New York Times bestselling author of the Separation of Church and Hate, and he hosts the John Fugalsang show over on Sirius XM Progress. So I'm very much looking forward to speaking with him. And today at noon Pacific, I'm going to be going, ah, live on Substack with Heather Cox Richardson to discuss any number of things. And so you can check that out@muellershirote.com. subscribe if you haven't. It's free. Nothing's behind a paywall, so, you know, we're bad capitalists here at MSW Media Media. But how are you?
I'm, doing fine. Just, I'm exhausted. I don't know if it's just the state of the world or the traveling or what have you, but, yeah, it could be the heat, I don't know,
probably combo, probably a little bit of everything in there. but we do have so much news to get to today, we got to split it up into two pieces. So let's start with some quick hits.
And to make a long story short.
All right, so I spent the morning in the Epstein Files hearing in the Katie Fang case, and I'm going to go over that on this weekend's episode of the Breakdown on the Midas Touch Network, Sunday at noon, Pacific. Long story short, too late. Judge Sullivan warned of Contempt. He told a 30 minute story about the one time he's found DOJ lawyers in contempt and said, I'm not threatening. I'm not saying. I'm just telling you it's not a threat, it's a promise. I will administer justice. I'm just going to leave it there. He was very funny about it. And also Department of Justice refused to answer questions. They threw a new lawyer in there. Not new to Trump, but new to the case. And Judge Sullivan has ordered more documents be turned over for his review in chambers. And again, I'm going to cover it all on Sunday's episode of the Breakdown. But hats off to Katie Fang and her legal team for getting it this far.
Seriously. All right, we do have some more info on the catering truck shenanigans with Trump and Air Force One at the NATO summit. Now this is from cbs. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary I like to fight people. Scott Besant were on a decoy flight last month when President Trump secretly took a different plane from the publicly identified Air Force One aircraft from the NATO summit. This is according to sources familiar with the situation. This is all the drama we've been talking about. Who got left behind, who got taken.
Mm. We're gonna cover it actually in more detail on Beans Talk today. You don't wanna miss that.
Yes. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was on the secret flight. He took Petey with him out of Turkey. White House aides Natalie Harp, who they are calling his diaper and ass wiper Walt Nada and Dan Scabino were also on the catering truck and the flight with Mr. Trump. Caroline Levitt was also on the decoy plane. She was not taken, but the other blonde was. Yeah.
And I like how Marcy Wheeler refers to Natalie Harp as his comfort blonde.
Emotional support. Blonde emotional support.
Ivanka, also from the Chandra Law Group. They sent email over my way. Emily Morano, on behalf of her two year old daughter, filed a federal civil rights lawsuit in the U.S. district Court for the Northern District of Ohio against Max Miller, his attorney Aaron Mink and the law firm Mink llc, alleging they recklessly published and distributed on the Internet an unredacted nude photograph of Miller Moreno's daughter displaying her nude so that he's
just a piece of garbage.
It gets awful. Absolutely horrific that this, this is. She's now she's a toddler right now and she's going to have to grow up with, you know.
Yeah, I do got another story from Ms. Now there's least one member of a Texas family whose business once considered buying Jeffrey Epstein's notorious plane, the Lolita Express. This family donated thousands of dollars to support Ken Paxton's Senate campaign earlier this year.
Can his campaign get any more derailed?
No, it's according to, by the way, to federal finance records. So that's legit. The Jaffe family, known for its real estate holdings and aviation business based in Texas, appears in two batches of Epstein documents released by the Department of Justice. One for trying to buy Epstein's infamous plane, and one's for reportedly associating, according to an anonymous tipster, with a scantily clad young women. At least one member of the family also donated upwards of $6,000 to groups supporting Paxton after Epstein files were released publicly, according to filings with the federal commission. Oh.
That's interesting. Why would you want a senator who, If you were in the Epstein files, why. Why this particular senator? What?
Fair question I think we should continue asking.
Yes, and from the Times. A federal judge in Boston on Thursday dismissed the Trump administration's anti Semitism lawsuit against Harvard University, dealing a blow to Trump's efforts to force the school to make a deal with him. The lawsuit was part of a broader pressure campaign to force the university to comply with a variety of government demands on issues include its handling of antisemitism and race in admissions. Judge Richard stearns of the U.S. district Court in Massachusetts granted Harvard's motion to toss the case in the trash, saying that the anti semitic incidents cited in the administration's March lawsuit were, quote, too isolated and episodic to show that Harvard is somehow breaking the law.
Oh, man. All right. This is from the Times. The board of the John F. Kennedy center, because that's what it's called for the performing arts voted on Thursday to inscribe President Trump's on the building beneath the main signage. That's according to two people with direct knowledge of the proceedings aggressively testing a federal judge's order. According to the resolution approved by Trump Allied Board, the inscription underneath the institution's name would read, and I quote, restored and renovated by President Donald J. Trump. The board's decision, which directs officials to act by all legal means, came shortly after it voted to move forward with Mr. Trump's plan to shutter the building for renovations. In Thursday's resolution, the board directed officials to honor Mr. Trump for bringing the center back from m the brink of disaster. Get the fuck out of here. Presenting a series of possibilities that included naming the center's grounds. The President, Donald J. Trump Plaza.
Boy, he just is dying. To get his name on that fucking building.
He sure is.
And if you brought it back from the brink of disaster that you created, like, what disaster brink are you talking about?
Fair question.
It was doing fine before you came along. Like everything else you touch. All right, everybody, we've gotten through some quick hits. We still have the hot notes to get to, plus John Fugal saying, and the good news. But we have to take a quick break. Stick around. We'll be right back after these messages. We'll be right back, everybody. I have to tell you about my favorite new thing. It's Honey Love. After hearing enough good things, I finally wanted to see whether it lived up to the hype. And it does. The bras, they're more supportive than I expected. They're so comfortable, I can wear them all day. The shapewear moved better than anything I tried before, and both became regular parts of my wardrobe right away. So now you'll understand why. We want to thank Honey Love for sponsoring our show. Use our exclusive link to save 20% off honeylove@honeylove.com DailyBeans Ever since the pandemic, I have dreaded wearing hard clothes. I call them hard pants, hard bra to go out into the world and be around people. And I wanted a, very soft bralette solution, but something that gave me the right support and compression and lift and silhouette. Honey Love is the answer. It understands something that should be obvious. Support shouldn't hurt. Your bras use bonding technology instead of traditional underwire so you get the lift and structure you need without the digging and pinching and adjusting and poking. You know, like, you can't wait to get out of your bra. But Honey Love bras are so comfortable, I forget I'm wearing them. The Cloud Embrace bra is my favorite. Soft, breathable, comfortable enough for all day wear, but it still gives you the kind of support and silhouette, like I said, that makes stitching underwire bras an easy task. And honeylove brings the same thinking to their shapewear. Their pieces use targeted compression and smooth support without crushing you. They stay in place, they move with your body. They work with your curves instead of against them. And you can wear them under everyday clothes or special occasion outfits. Plus, with breathable fabrics, lingerie, inspired details, and practical touches. It's like having easy access in the bathroom. That's incredible. You can understand why I will not wear anything else. So treat yourself to the most advanced bras and shapewear on the market. Use our exclusive link to save 20% off honeylove@honeylove.com DailyBeans that's honeylove.com DailyBeans after you check out, they'll ask where you heard about them. Please support our show and tell them we sent you. You can experience the new standard in comfort and support with Honey Love. Hey everybody. Welcome back. It's time for the hot notes. Hot, notes. All right, first up from the Times. Four days after Alex Preddy was fatally shot while filming officers taking part in the Trump administration's immigration crackdown in Minnesota, DHS quietly opened an investigation at its office in St. Paul. Now, the target was not the Border Patrol agents who murdered Mr. Preddy, a 37 year old VA nurse in late January. Instead, it was several left leaning political organizations, labor unions, a, ah, climate change group, socialist collectives that investigators believed had provided help and money to what they describe as the violent opportunists and agitators on the streets. And that's according to a newly released document as part of their inquiry. The documents show Homeland Security officials used an array of invasive tactics during the first half of this year to gather information on many groups and individuals who were never accused of crimes, crossing a line that has traditionally stood between investigating criminal activity and political dissent. In one instance, officials used administrative subpoenas to obtain more than three years of financial records from the Sunrise movement. That's an environmental action group and a, labor union, the Communications Workers of America. That timeframe, three years went well beyond the civil unrest in Minnesota. And I wouldn't even call it civil unrest. I would call it ICE invading.
Yeah.
Which was prompted by the deployment of thousands of immigration agents to the state during the winter. In another, investigators scrutinized three years worth of wire transfers made by the nation's biggest health care workers union, seiu, Service Employees International Union, in what they referred to as an inquiry into domestic terrorist financing by healthcare workers.
Damn. Break.
The documents further detailed an expansive covert surveillance operation in which undercover agents spied on protesters and organizers at meetings held online, as well as in libraries, parks and churches, taking down not only what they said, but also their names and sometimes license plate numbers. The undercover agents also infiltrated signal group chats, listening as activists discussed coming demonstrations and their potential opinions.
So which they are allowed to do.
That's just insane.
It is. It is. this news. Maybe this is why I'm exhausted. This is from Wired. Internal records obtained by Wired reveal how, for years, United States Customs and Border Protection employees and contractors were accused of abusing sensitive government databases for reasons that had absolutely nothing to do with their jobs. The Records contain hundreds of allegations of misuse of law enforcement databases, including federal agents querying data to look up romantic interests, monitor family members, expose various personal information, and in some cases provide intelligence to suspected smugglers or drug trafficking organizations. Yep. In one case, a CBP officer allegedly used government databases to contact a flight attendant. In another, an officer was accused of pulling information from trusted traveler applications to ask people out. Other CBP employees were accused of providing border crossing data to someone involved in, and I quote, heated divorce. And yet another DHS employee allegedly used controversial ad tech derived location data to track several co workers cell phones. Which appears to be the first known internal abuse case involving DHS use of ad tech derived mobile location data. At least six entries explicitly described employees querying themselves. According to Daniel Altman, the former head of the Office of Professional Responsibility who left his post in 2025, the agency treats self queries as a warning sign of future misconduct. Like googling yourself to see what's out there. Several cases involved officers using database access to allegedly pursue or harass private citizens. In 2010, a customs officer allegedly pulled data on an Air New Zealand flight attendant and used it to contact them. A case that was referred to labor and employee relations. In 2017, another officer faced a formal OPR investigation over allegations that he misused government databases to harass a, ah, different airline employee. In 2017, another officer was accused of querying his neighbors in federal computer databases. And in 2022, an employee allegedly used a CBP database to obtain an ex husband's leave schedule as part of a harassment campaign. More serious allegations involved employees providing law enforcement information to people suspected of criminal activity. In 2016, OPR investigated an allegation that a CBP employee was given database information to a drug trafficking organization. A Ah, separate 2021 entry accused a border patrol agent of querying databases to advise smuggler which lane to use at the border.
This is so bonkers. Like, you know, I worked for the government for over a decade and you know we at the VA have everyone's health records, right? And you are not allowed to access a health record unless you're doing it in the line of duty, right? And if you accessed your own health record, you were fired.
Oh wow.
Like you can't go in and look at your own health record. Now you can ask through the proper channels to go look at your health record. You can't look at your mom's health record, your wife's health record, your boyfriend's health record. Like there's stuff that's explicitly private. Right, yeah. And here they are using this to give drug smugglers information and hit on flight attendants and ask women out and that, it's just. You cannot reform this agency. This agency has to be abolished.
It needs to be abolished. I agree.
This is unreformable. Fucking assholes. Anyway, next up from the Guardian, speaking to the government content warning for self harm. Military families and Congress members are sounding the alarm about an intensifying mental health crisis on board the USS Abraham Lincoln. It's got 5,000 sailors aboard and marines. And they endured a record. They're still enduring a record breaking deployment at sea tied to the war with Iran. Two leading specialist military papers, the Navy Times and Stars and Stripes are reporting there have been multiple attempts by sailors to jump overboard as poor conditions and mental stresses on the Lincoln reach a breaking point. The crew is in its ninth month at sea. Nine months.
Unbelievable.
With 5,000 people on a ship,
I
can't like, that's terrifying to me. It spent 250 days consecutively without making land. That is the record, historical record for an aircraft carrier. Now, worried families vented their anxieties about their loved ones on board the Lincoln at an emotional town hall here in San Diego, where I live with Navy leaders late last Thursday. Now one spouse among the 200 or so family members said that her husband had texted her that day saying he hopes he doesn't wake up tomorrow. The Navy Times gave details of thwarted suicide attempts on board the aircraft carrier during the deployment. Anabella Loma told the outlet that her husband had tried to jump overboard after his spell at sea kept being extended. Quote, he's scared. He thinks he'll get a dishonorable discharge. And just because he was burnt out, his 13 year career is ruined just like that. That's what she said. Now the paper quoted another sailor's wife whose husband was involved in a separate incident on board the Lincoln in which he prevented a fellow crew member from jumping overboard, grabbing them and bringing them back on deck. Mike Levin, a Democratic member of Congress from California has sounded the alarm over the conditions on board, which is in its fifth month of combat operations against Iran. He described the lot of the crew on Twitter as quote, moldy showers, broken toilets, laundry down for weeks, long stretches with no hot water. A meal that came down to a half a cup of rice and two tortillas. No soap, no deodorant, no toothpaste. There's also reports of maggots in the food and beef. It's horrific. And you're trapped.
I'm disgusted. I'M so disgusted.
You're just trapped at Sea with 5,000 people and nowhere to go. Yeah, like I get jumpy if I'm on a tarmac for 20 minutes. Totally in an airplane. Nine months.
All right, thank you, Allison. This next story is from the Associated Press. This is actually a little bit of a good news.
Yeah.
A small Kansas town has agreed to pay $850,000 to a former reporter at its weekly newspaper to end her federal lawsuit over a police raid of the paper's offices in 2023 that IG a national furor over press freedom. Now retired Marion County Record reporter Phyllis Zorn said in her lawsuit that the raid violated press freedoms and protections from unreasonable law enforcement searches guaranteed by the US Constitution. She also said it's almost immediately led to health problems causing the return of potentially life threatening seizures and that had been controlled, by the way for years with medication. Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody said he was investigating whether the paper had committed identity theft or other crimes in accessing a local restaurant owner's state driving record. But authorities who examined the raids said that they were not legally justified. Meyer, Zorn and others saw the raids as retaliation for hard hitting local coverage and efforts to gather information about Cody's past in law enforcement. The raids put a national spotlight on Mariam, a town of about 1900 residents about 150 miles southwest of Kansas City, and Cody later resigned. Meyer's 98 year old mother, also the paper's co owner who lived with him, died the day after the raids and he blames stress from the raid at their home for her death. Marion county agreed in November to pay little more than 3 million to the parties in the five lawsuits, including $600,000 to Zorn to settle claims against its officials. While some of the remaining legal claims against the city and past present officials have been settled or dismissed, some still remain and a pretrial zoom hearing is scheduled for October 15th. Questions about Cody's conduct after the state launched an investigation of the raid led two special prosecutors to file a felony obstruction of justice charge against him in state district court, alleging that he persuaded a witness, the local restaurant owner, to withhold information from authorities. He pleaded not guilty and a trial set for the end of this month has been postponed. So little good news, a little unsure news. We're going to keep you updated, of course, as this story continues to unfold. We've been covering it with you for three years now.
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I just want to remind your listeners that America still leads the world in powerful leaders who hide in catering trucks. We are number one.
We're number one. Usa. Usa. Let's talk about this because this all started out with Trump losing his mind that the New York Times got some information leaked from his administration that the.
You mean that the New York Times reported true shit, right?
Yeah.
New York Times reported accurate information.
Go on that cutter bribe. Force One was not safe enough to fly. And he sent, he called Hush Patel back from visiting his girlfriend in Chicago using the FBI plane, our plane called him back, put him in a room with Susie Wiles and said, you're the task force. Find the leak. And so they set up a war room and they sent out subpoenas to New York Times journalists served upon them in their homes. They got their phone records. They tried to do it in secret, which is their big complaint about what Jack Smith did to Congressman on January 6th, and then also subpoenaed phone records of family members of these reporters. New York Times sued, you know, and so those subpoenas were withdrawn by the Department of Justice, I believe, because the judge said, you either withdraw him or I'm going to quash him myself. And we still keep getting drop after drop from the New York Times. And the latest one was that not only did he switch planes to the old Air Force One, he snuck out the back, hid in a catering truck with a couple of people, that young woman that he likes to hang out with and low T Peter Pete Hag
said this is not a metaphor. They were smuggled across a NATO airfield in a lunch truck. They sneaked them off the plane. This is not even near the worst part of the story. It's just incredible.
Yeah, it really, really is. And then they put him on a different jet and flew him to, I think Britain.
Yes.
Where he went back on the old Air Force One or The new Air Force One, the Qatari Brabjet, and flew it home.
You leave out they flew him on the military plane, sneaked him onto the plane that had just landed in Britain so he could pretend to step off the plane. The entire thing was serious. enough to make them do this subterfuge and to use the press corps and members of his own administration as, what, decoys? Sucker bait? Clearly, these were the expendable humans. They thought it was dangerous enough. Trump couldn't fly, but not so dangerous. We have to tell these people that Trump's not on the same airplane they're on. I mean, it's a level of cowardice and mendacity that goes so far beyond bone spurs. And that's saying quite a bit.
Yeah.
And as it turns out, the CIA wasn't really even confident in the threat. It was apparently Bibi who called him and told him.
But, you know, yeah, they said that they. But they didn't say that till it blew up. I mean, and it made it even worse to come out and say, so you were willing to have these people die. You're Will. I mean, I mean, Marco Rubio is on the plane. You're willing, these bodies are expendable. You think it's serious enough that you can't fly on it, but you're not going to tell them the threat. You're not going to tell them the President snuck off the plane and you're gonna deploy the lunch truck. and essentially willing to let all these people die and they load them into the catering company. And I don't know how you load Donald Trump into a catering truck, Dr. Gill. He's not exactly a stealth asset, if you know what I'm saying. But the press corps and the White House staff all stayed on Air Force One believing the President was there and they were the decoys. I mean, there is a metaphor. Trump is Trump. And everyone else in the world is left on Air Force One. Right? That's the rest of America. Doesn't matter what happens to us. Keep man baby safe. And a lot of our right wing friends were trying to compare this to something Bill Clinton did 30 years ago when he flew a decoy plane. But there weren't humans being lied to with their lives at risk on that one. These people are on board. They're like, oh, we're flying home with the President. I wonder why he doesn't come out of his suite and Trump's on another plane being like, good luck. I'm glad we're looking out for my life. I mean, that's like this January
6th rioters that he promised $2 billion to in a slush fund and was fine to rece and that, but kept his tax immunity, of course.
Well, he sure is trying to. Right? I mean, this is why you have a Todd Blanche. But he came off, and they were like, the footage of the journalists after they've realized this, questioning him on the plane, and he's saying, there's all these threats against me, and if I go down, you're going down with me. And it's like, no, dude, you're already gone. You're not going down. You weren't on the plane. So they're really trying to count on everybody being stupid enough to not mind this. But if this story breaks and 24 hours later, Caroline Levitt announces she's quitting. if I'm running this White House, I don't want those two stories back to back because they look like they're sequential in a bigger story about someone being offended that their lives were being toyed with. And I don't even like pretending I care about Caroline Levitt. But that's it, right? Like, this happened. And the next day, his press secretary says she's quitting again. I'm not saying it's because of this, but, boy, they didn't plan it. Well, it's gonna look like this for quite a while. This story's not going away.
She was left on the plane. The decoy plane.
Yeah.
And Rubio, the rest of the press. And I wonder if any of the press now is, like, sad that they went to the White House Correspondents association dinner to, you know, praise Trump for his First Amendment stuff, because that dinner took place. The rescheduled one took place after. After the New York Times was subpoenaed.
We talked about this. 4.
We learned that they were sent up as decoys. Well, what's their red line?
Every journalist who went to that rescheduled correspondence center went there knowing that this is a White House that issues subpoenas against journalists and their families. And they went anyway. Yep.
Yep, they did.
You know, I mean, Wolf Blitzer gets a pass because he was doing great
stuff on stage, but, wow, Wolf Blitzer always gets a pass. Right?
Wolf Blitzer was, like, giving out awards to people who told the truth about Trump. Covering up child rape with Trump. Trump on stage. I mean, this was like a Kubrick film to me. It was crazy. But, you know, again, normally, Caroline Levitt leaving would be just, oh, she. She sucks, and she knows what's going to happen. And she's probably the smartest one in this cabinet to get out before this turns into the last scene of Scarface. But now that's going to be under a cloud because people are saying this. I mean, it looks like it, it's just probably bad timing. I'm sure there's something horrible Trump does every single week that would, that would do this. But, yeah, I, I just, it takes a lot to make me care about the well being of Trump, Trump's administration. And they, they, they did it.
They did. And, you know, I mean, if we talk on the, in the broader picture about how this is the biggest surveillance regime we've ever seen in our entire lives, you know, they're going after journalists, they're going after, you know, Don Lemon's been indicted, George Fort, that whole crew. We've got, Flock cameras, ice, you know, trading TSA information on our, our airline passengers who are employees from airlines like Delta, to help them stealthily take people down in airports, giving everybody Social Security information, tax information from the irs and, you know, but no body cams for them. And, and also we're really mad that Jack Smith got our toll records on January 6th, for participating in the coup. But here they are doing the same thing all the time, every day. And not just, but to citizens, Citizens, too. Now they're, now they're surveilling left wing groups in, in, Minnesota, we had that, Prairie Land, Texas indictment for people who were protesting all the surveillances. It's, it's out of control. But I guess Tread On Me, Daddy is the new Gadsden flag.
That's it. I mean, and they're using these assassination attempts, or wannabe assassination attempts to justify all of this, which we knew they would do. And again, protecting a president from assassination is legitimate, and decoy decoys are legitimate, and misdirection is legitimate. It's not that they protected Trump, they tried to protect him by turning everybody else into a decoy. And we already know these people aren't really big fans of getting consent, but again, this is all happening because he flew to Turkey on the big Qatari bribe plane, right? Look what Cutter gave me. And he's accepting this giant bribe luxury jet, rushing it into presidential service, taking it to a NATO summit, and then realizing it can't survive an attack. So, again, we paid a billion dollars for this, and it's still going on. And our president's being delivered in a truck like a side of fries, you know, like he's escaping through the chicken hatch. And we found this out because the press found this out because of flight tracking data. Think about that. Like, like all this subterfuge, all this technology. They fooled their own traveling press corps, but they forgot that airplanes leave digital footprints. These people are not smart.
No, no. generally they aren't. Something else I'm worried about that I wanted to ask you about.
Please.
The 20 or 30 million dollars of our taxpayer money that Susan Collins voted for, among others, being spent on gloves that deliver electric shock for ice agents.
Can you believe it? Yeah.
This is terrifying to me.
I agree. But I do think it's exactly the message Susan Collins need to lead with in her main campaign to keep her job. I don't understand this woman anymore, Dr. Gill. She literally votes against Blanche, knowing that he's got the votes. We said it last week. As soon as she voted against him, I knew he had the votes. But she votes against Blanche for one reason. To help herself in her campaign because she has this rare disorder where every six years she turns moderate and, at the same time, she's going to come out with this and endorsing giving them Star wars shock gloves to better torture the Christian refugees that they are persecuting. I mean, and I say, go ahead, let her run on this, Let her campaign on this. Let's get a Democratic Senate out of it. But it keeps shocking me that the worse ISIS press gets, the more authoritarian they become. And they just seem to think we enjoy the idea of human beings being electric shock because they're brown and don't have their papers.
Yeah.
And if people think that these aren't going to be abused, I mean, you've got people, they're trying to say, oh, it's a training issue. But you got people 8, 9, 10 years there that are, murdering Alex Preddy and Renee, throwing themselves in front of a vehicle in order to justify use of force, which they've been doing since, for a very long time. There was a report about it put out in 2014 that they were doing this. if you think that they're going to follow the rules here and not use more than two gloves and not do it for more than 15 seconds. I don't know what to tell you,
and I've, said this before, but we're going to be spending the rest of our lives shelling out our taxpayer dollars long after this is over, in class action suit after class action suit for all the victims of Trump's reg. I mean, the people deported to Venezuela and El Salvador alone. Imagine the class action suits that we and our children and grandchildren will be paying for a very long time. Long after this guy is dead and free from any consequence of his crimes. We'll keep on paying for it, but we'll build a more decent society in its wake. It's just. It's amazing that there's enough people left in this White House who think this looks good, and this is how they want to ride out the next two years. I never thought I'd say this, but Caroline Levitt might be the smartest person in this entire outfit. Left.
The smartest person left in this entire. But now she's leaving. And speaking of, building a brighter future, what are your thoughts on this past Tuesday's primary elections in Minnesota, Connecticut, et cetera?
Well, as you know, Alison, I'm devoted myself to finding, ways we can use science to bring back Jimmy Carter and Desmond Tutu, to try to find a peace deal between moderates and liberals in the Democratic Party. That's really the only kind of bipartisanship I think matters at this party point. And, I think the.
I think the war, I think the outrage is being manufactured by the billionaires to split us. I mean, yeah, there's the third way. It's like, it's like 15 people, who, you know, are raising money to keep money in politics that call themselves Democrats. There's like, there's like 15, maybe 20 people who are. Who are jerks here.
Millions and millions of both sides have lost their minds. How can you not respect Third Way? You've got Republicans trying to bring fascism to this country and Democrats who think women should control their own bodies, stop the insanity. Both sides have lost their mind. That's my impression of Third Way. That's all they can do is both sides it and try to find, an Andrew Yang corner of the universe for themselves. It's. You know, I actually thought that Tuesday was, really encouraging in many ways. I mean, but we saw all the problems in the Democratic Party, from the generational dividend to the ideological divide, and no one's fighting now. I mean, Francesca Hong ran a really good campaign, I think overall, I'm so impressed she did as well as she did. I do think that the Thanksgiving comment hurt in the final days. Just as I always thought. Defund the Police helps Democratic moderates. Look, folks, I'm not a crazy liberal. I'm like you. I mean, I think Abolish the Police helped make Joe Biden president six years ago. And I think that, Mr. Crowley is gonna get the governor nomination because of this cancel, Thanksgiving thing. I think you can explain to people why Thanksgiving is problematic, why it's painful for indigenous people without shooting your campaign in the foot. But to see Peggy Flanagan, who may become the, I mean, our first native woman in the Senate, is just incredible. Seeing the complete and total humiliation of Mike Lindell, who lost by 45,000 votes, a Trump endorsement. And that's not an anomaly, Mr. Lindell. The anomaly is that you ran in the first place, sir, in Connecticut. you know, I got nothing against John Larson, 78 years old, but the guy's been in. He's been in Congress since, you know, your Internet made a sound when you connected. He's been in the Congress since we all were using AOL to get online. And 47 is a spring chicken for this Congress. So I think seeing the former mayor of Hartford take it. I love a lot of 80 year olds in the Democratic Party. I'm gonna miss Jan Schakowski. I'm gonna miss Bonnie Watson Coleman. But I accept that it's gonna be a younger party. But to see all eyes on Wisconsin and to see, here's my hope, that the moderate and the leftist, less than 1 percentage point separating them. So it's very clear that the left and the center of the Democratic Party are in a codependent relationship and need each other. And the amount of unity we've seen in the two days since, like the amount of unity we've seen in Michigan since Dr. Al Sayed got the nomination, that's what encourages me and gives of hope. What did you make of this?
Same thing. I want people to see what's going on, what is actually happening, and not what the headlines are saying or what, the media is trying to tell you that there's some war factioning, people, going against each other. That's not what's happening in real life. That's not, that's not the reality. The reality is, is that the, the people who lost, whether they were establishment, I use air quotes or progressive. I use air quotes or dsa. Whether they lost or won, they came together after the thing and said, we have to unite and move forward. All of them, every single one of them. I mean, even Mamdani is like, well, that's, you know, wasn't my preferred candidate, but we all have to get behind that person now. Yeah, that's how you defeat fascism.
I've never in my life voted for a politician who checked off all my boxes. I've never agreed with A politician on anything in my life.
And if you can give me another way to keep the Republican out of office besides voting for the Democrats, I am all ears.
Yeah, but left wing purity tests, especially by guys, are why women are bleeding out in, er, ladies rooms around the country. Because it was the purity test of guys without uteruses in swing states who couldn't bring themselves to vote for Hillary Clinton. It's too much of a compromise. And that's why Roe v. Wade is gone right now. I know that some of us hate to compromise and it's awful and it feels like, oh, it's the lesser of two evils, but that's adulthood, man. Choosing the lesser of two evils is every day of adult life. Picking your dessert is the lesser of two evils, folks. Sometimes if it a shitty Democrat versus a Republican, go with the shitty Democrat. Because you know they're not going to try and say Trump shouldn't be tried for crimes. I mean, and again, this is the debate that the media feeds us. Right. They want us to believe that the left is like, we just want to give voters something to be excited about. And the center is all like, we don't feel like having to explain Democratic socialism for the next six months. And the reality is it's messier than that. And people like both candidates. There's a lot of things about both candidates people like. And you're gonna see that unity moving forward, which is what really matters. I think all of these primary races are why we have primaries. And you're gonna see a, insanely unified Democratic Party by the time Labor Day comes.
Yeah.
And the winner of the primary isn't the end of it, because the winner of the primary, let's say it's a more moderate Democrat who came real close with a more progressive Democrat. You're gonna see that moderate Democrat add more progressive values to their thing. We saw it with Joe Biden. Incredibly, you're going to push them left.
That's what we do through that.
Then when you elect that lesser than awesome Democrat and they're in that seat, you can push them, you can negotiate with them. They will listen to the people. A Republican will not. You'll be talking to a brick wall. And we're going to get a bunch of more of the same. And so, I mean, I know we're preaching to the choir here.
No, but the first two years of Joe Biden's administration was the most liberal, progressive presidency of lifetime, anyone's lifetime. And that would not have happened if it. Right. And it would not have happened if it wasn't for all the progressives who pushed Joe Biden that way from before he announced he was running in 2019. It works. What we do that's a mistake is when we say, oh, a Democrat got elected. Okay, good, I can check out and go back to watching Kardashians now. No, the only thing that works in this country that I've seen Dr. Gill is electing Democrats and then kicking their ass every day to make sure they stay on point. That's it.
Yeah. And they are way more responsive than a Republican. And then the other thing too you have to think about and you have to consider is the majority you're gonna get anti abortion Quailar down in Texas. But him, his ass in the seat is gonna give maybe AOC a gavel in a committee because we have the majority. A Fetterman is going to give a Chris Murphy or a Van Hollen the ability to be in the majority. If you're not in the majority, you can't do shit.
And I'm not here to defend Fetterman. The man sucks out loud. Come on now, would you rather have Fetterman in the Senate or Dr. Oz? Folks, think about it. Come on. I mean, I hated Mansion and Cinema, but would you rather have them there or another Lauren Boebert? It's like, it's awful. But the Democratic Party proves you don't even need a second party. You have everything from anti abortion guys like Cuellar to Rastafarians like all manner of atheists. You have, ah, such a, a vast political spectrum within one party. And this makes progressives crazy. But this is how you sell the movement to nervous white people in the middle.
And it makes the middle crazy too, because they think, oh, they're going to drag us down with their crazy Medicare for all and whatnot, you know.
Yeah.
And if we just do the Mamdani model of asking the constituents in your district what they want and running on that platform, whether it's a little more in the middle or way more to the left. Because there's a broad, a vast, difference between Lauren Boebert's district and the district I have down here in San Diego. Big, big, huge, massive, massive difference. And you can't run the exact same candidate, exact same platform in the two places. And then you have to think about that for statewide races and you have to think about that as we move forward. But I know everyone within the sound of our voices is, all on board with this. I don't think we're chang any minds today. but it is a message that I think we need to get out that I'm just so frustrated by the billionaire owned media companies telling us we're warring with each other because that's the, that's the. They're shaking the jar of ants. They, that's their job is to split us and divide us up. And yes, we can't let them do that. We can't.
You Democrats are much more in array than the algorithm lets you understand. Please. And that's what they, they need the narrative. And again, God knows this is what plagues the left, right? It's this, you for only agreeing with me on 91% of things. But, I mean, I, I don't.
91 is an A, right.
I know it's incredibly popular, but this is what we do, right? So I think it's good. And again, man, Medicare for all, it's, it's a destination, it's a movement. It's going to take years. Marriage equality didn't flip a switch because one guy changed his mind. It's an ongoing movement to have this decent society where our citizens, citizens where we decide our citizens are worthy of having the same access to health care as all of our capitalist allies. I mean, if ever there's been an area where you can try to get our right wing friends to come on board, it's this. I know they're scared of socialism, but you know what I'm scared of? Having to do a, goddamn gofundme for my kids surgery. So, you know, I just, I feel like there's so much reason for optimism right now and we just got to keep the pressure on.
Yeah, or having your 6 year old daughter be subject to a genital inspection so she can play soccer. Like just what the.
That's what they want.
That's what they want.
Because those trans kids hurt our economy so much. Can I just say, I'm going to miss all of Caroline's lies. And on my SiriusXM show, I was trying to go through them all, you know, I mean, from Signal Gate and the Reflecting Pool and DEI and Abrego Garcia. But I think my favorite lie of hers had to have been when she lied that Doge found there was 50 million in taxpayer dollars to fund condoms and God's Gaza.
Oh, yeah, that was, that's my favorite
of all of them.
Pretty. That was a pretty good one.
I mean, it was the Gaza province in Mozambique because we're fighting AIDS in Africa. But these are stupid racists who don't know things, these things. And so I just. For me, all these right wingers, remember, they all flipped out. How could we spend 50 million on condoms for Hamas? And I'm like, excuse me, but I think I speak for liberals and conservatives here. Of all the people on earth you don't want reproducing, wouldn't Hamas be on top of the list? Maybe Caroline's onto something here. Why not give Hamas free conduct? If I was running for president, I promise free vasectomies for Hamas. And I bet I'd win on that. So, Caroline Levitt, I salute you. Your allergy to truth and honesty has led a lot of funny times for my comedy act. So thank you. I mean, this lady, there's a lot
of comedy gold there. But, you know, you have to take into account the fact that there's not an immediate replacement. M as as an indication that she left. It wasn't planned.
It's been. Oh, they said they was planning it for a while. Yeah, there's no replacement. They're announcing right now. This seems like it was.
There would have been a replacement immediately if this.
They would have rolled them out and bragged about it right away.
She went on a three month maternity leave, came back.
Yeah. Yeah. So all we know about the replacement folks, it's going to be someone with, poor morals and worse judgment than Caroline Levitt. That we can say. And if it's Scott Jennings, ooh, boy, it's going to be a hot time on the Grindr app.
That's quite a feat. Yeah. And we're interested to see who they replace her with. If anybody actually wants that job. it'll be.
It'll be a Fox News repute. It'll be a Fox News repute. What's Hannity's child bride doing? What's Ainsley up to? Is it her time? He'll do that?
Yeah. I don't know. We'll see. And we will talk about it. And you will talk about it on the John Fugal Sang show on Sirius XM progress channel 127 weekdays, noon Eastern, 9am Pacific. And then of course, everybody, if you haven't already got your copy of Separation at Church and Hate, please, please call your local independent bookstore, order 10 copies, give them out as gifts for the holidays and birthdays, and put them in your little free libraries around your town, because everybody needs to read that book. I appreciate your time today, my friend.
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That should be the motto right on the plane.
There you go.
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Absolutely. All right, next up from Beverly Pronoun. She and her Courtesy of Portland. Keeping it weird with the two pygmy goats getting on a Trimet bus in Portland. Hell yeah. They didn't have to pay their fare, so the bus driver encouraged them to get off the bus. There's gonna be an Instagram link to that. For my pod Pet tariff, I have a couple of pictures I took at my new place northwest of Portland. After living in San Diego for most of my life, life One is a neighbor's tree in the fog and the other was an epic sunrise not too long after I moved in. I may have been born in New York, but I have hugged the Pacific Ocean since before my dad retired from the Air Force. The west coast is the best coast. Look at these goats.
All goats on the, on the. What is it? Is it a bus? Yeah, goats on the bus.
Goats.
Oh, that tree with the fog is gorgeous. And so is that sunset. Sunrise, sunset. Gorgeous sunrise. There we go.
Epic sunset. Sunrise, sunset. Beverly.
Yeah. I've been in San Diego for 30 years. If I ever went anywhere else, it would be the Pacific Northwest or Chicago or Minneapolis. There's so many places I love. All right, thank you for that. Next up, Joy High leaders of the Leguminati. I'm writing from Spokane. Oh, great Pacific Northwest. The fires here are improving with many evacuation orders lifted and smoke clearing. I'm writing to give a shout out to Spokanemal. Like Spokane and animal smushed together. Spokaneimal.org They've taken in over 135 pets that were dehomed by the fires and they could use our support. I've adopted dogs from them over the years, including my pod pet, Tax Katie, AKA Bug. I also include Rocco, who came from a different shelter. You can guess their breeds, but since I don't know, your guesses are as good as mine. Thanks. So if you want to help out, it's spokaneimal. Look at these little Chihuahua mixes. And a dachshund hound Chihuahua corgi situation. Some sort of shorty.
Adorable. What up, shorty? All right. This is from Sadie Girl. No pronouns given. Hello, Queens of the Beans. I write to you today in response to AG's plea for good news submissions. Thank you. I am blessed to be able to see many beautiful birds in Northern Virginia. I've attached a couple of bird watching photos from a backyard bird feeder and that I'd like to share here. Keep up the good work. And these are really beautiful. Look at the.
Okay, so we have a, we have a cardinal.
Then we have a yellow bush tit. it might not be. I just like to say bush tit. So I was like, where the did you pull that? I don't know. Yellow titted warbler maybe?
Sure. Whatever it is, it's titted for sure.
Bird names are the best. They're like, I don't know, shit bird tit face. Yeah, let's call it that.
It's one of those.
this next one is also a bird watching photo, but the other kind from sunny. Pronouns he and him. I went to Chicago with my two cousins and two daughters in July before the architecture tour. My cousin wanted us to salute the commander and crook. By the way, thank you to the funnest tour guide, Sam, who strung together the best puns about Daisy the cow who did not start the Chicago fire, according to Sam.
Sam.
And this is a lovely 1, 2, 3, 4 and a fifth bird in there at the Trump Tower across the Chicago.
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Yeah, I think it's just cook.
Cook, Cook. Running against Trump mouthpiece Derek Van Orden. This is Wisconsin U.S. house District 3, by the way. Last election cycle, she came within three points of beating the him. I really think we can flip the seat blue. She's likable, talented, and understands her district. I don't work for her campaign and I can't vote for her. I live in all Blue Cook County, Illinois, but I have a place in her district and the devastation that comes from voting Republican for 30 years is super clear there. No economic development, no investment, education or jobs. Everyone who lives there works either in the federal prison, in the chicken processing plant, or at a bar. Some work all three just to make ends meet. They need a blue win in the worst kind of way. We're gonna have a link in the show notes to this person's, candidacy. That's not right. Campaign, for potpet tax, please enjoy my chonky void celebrating his favorite holiday, Halloween.
Mine too. Mine too. So cook, that's, C O o K E. Cookfor the word for Wisconsin.com link in the show notes. Thanks, Liz. Amazing within three points. Bet we can do it this time. All right, for anonymous no pronouns shout out to the African nation of Malawi. The women's team has made it to the finals in the Women's African cup of nations and qualified for the 2027 Women's World cup for the first time ever in the country's history. I'm definitely going to be rooting for Malawi in the Women's World Cup.
Amazing.
They will be playing the AFCON finals this Sunday against Cameroon on the season opener of Ted Lasso. The Kansas City player who scored the goal, Ojosi was Malawi's own Temua Chawinga, who has been crushing it at the cup of Nations. I lived in Malawi while I was in the Peace Corps and I couldn't be more excited for my second home. Amazing. Amazing. My POD pet tariff is a photo of my birthday while living in Malawi. And we got to meet a special guest. Thanks for all you do to keep us informed. I appreciate your ability to deliver information without all the fear and with an appropriate amount of swearing. Oh my gosh, look. Okay.
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Seriously? All right. This is from Cynthia Pronounce she and her hello beans queens. Thank you for everything you do. I wanted to share a wonderful find I made doing some work on my favorite hobby, genealogy. I've been working on my family history for many years and this is the best surprise I've had. I found a photo of my great, great, great grandfather, Ambrose Mullins. God, it's such a good name. It was taken sometime in the 19th century. Some of the family tree search companies are moving toward having an AI do the research and present it complete to you. That really makes me sad. The research, the find, the compilation of the puzzle. It's the fun part. Hopefully that doesn't catch on. My tax is my picture of Ambrose Mullins.
Look at this guy.
I love it.
That is an old timey prospector. I want to know about more about Ambrose Mull and Cynthia. Where's this taken? Is this in. Is this in like the Black Hills? Is it in Northern California? Like, was he a gold rush guy? Because he looks like an old timey prospector, right? He just does.
This is incredible.
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And welcome to Virginia. I mean, I'm not there. I can't welcome you, but, you know, congratulations. I feel like you have to be congratulations to welcome somebody to it. Where did I get that? I think it's a George Carlin bit about flying on the airlines. Anyway, thank you all so much for this Friday good news. Dump really, really needed it. Please flood us because Monday is going to to be, you know, Monday. Monday's news day and it's a Monday, so we need all of your good news. Send it to us dailybeanspod.com and click on contact. I look forward to hanging out with Joyce Vance, who's going to be on the Unjustified podcast with Andy McCabe and I on Sunday. And I look forward to covering Katie Fang's hearing on the Epstein Files at noon on Sunday on the Breakdown. And I look forward to seeing everybody else again here on the Beans on Monday or over on Beans Talk. I mean, there's 900 places.
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