Tuesday, August 5th, 2025 Today, Texas Governor Greg Abbott orders police to find and arrest Democrats who fled over redistricting; the White House has no plans to protect IVF breaking yet another campaign promise; the US may require visa applicants to post a $15,000 bond pricing many out of the process; the New Hampshire Republican governor has signed a law banning gender affirming care for minors; the president of Harvard says the school is NOT considering a $500M settlement with the Trump administration; and Allison and Dana deliver the good news.
Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
Today, Texas Governor Greg Abbott orders police to find and arrest Democrats who fled over redistricting; the White House has no plans to protect IVF breaking yet another campaign promise; the US may require visa applicants to post a $15,000 bond pricing many out of the process; the New Hampshire Republican governor has signed a law banning gender affirming care for minors; the president of Harvard says the school is NOT considering a $500M settlement with the Trump administration; and Allison and Dana deliver the good news.
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MSW Media. Hello and welcome to the Daily beans for Tuesday, August 5, 2025. Today, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has ordered police to find and arrest Democrats who fled the state over redistricting. The White House has no plans to protect IVF, breaking yet another campaign promise. The US may require visa applicants to post a $15,000 bond, pricing many out of the process. The New Hampshire Republican governor has signed a law banning gender affirming care for minors. And the president of Harvard says the school is not considering a $500 million settlement with the Trump administration. I'm Alison Gill.
And I'm Dana Goldberg.
Hello, my friend. Happy Tuesday to you.
Happy Tuesday to you as well. I just have to tell everybody I don't do, uh, a lot of acting, but a friend of mine was doing a super secret project today, and I'm just gonna tell you. I got to be in character and play pickleball, and it was the best day.
So you got to be yourself.
I got to be myself. I got to be a lesbian who plays pickleball, who happens to be from Odessa, Texas, though she's also part of the church, so, you know, a little balance there.
Oh, okay. Now I'm excited for whatever this project is to come out.
Well, they're trying to sell a sizzle, so, um, anyway, we just all had to pick some characters, so that one seemed to work, but it was just a fun day. I'm in a good mood. Oh, good.
Excellent. I'm glad to hear it. And you've got another very cool. You just did a great fundraising show with Nikki Glaser and a bunch of really, really amazing comedians, uh, to raise money for puppies and kitties.
Yeah.
In California. But you've got another very cool show coming up.
I do. September 5th, and I love this one. It's actually for the Los Angeles Guild for Reproductive Health. And so if you're in the Los Angeles area and you want to drop a little coin, come to watch us. This lineup is ridiculous. I'm going to be on stage with Kathy Griffin, Stephanie Miller, Rita Rudner, Kathy Langman, Stephanie, uh, Bloom, who's brilliant, and Carol fucking Leifer. Like I'm talking, these women have paved. Paved so many ways, broken down so many doors that I get to just sort of walk through now, limp through a little bit sometimes. But I'm stoked. So if you want to go to this show. September 5th, it's a Friday night in Los Angeles. They're almost sold out, but you can get tickets on my website, danagoldberg.com hit my appearances. Scroll down a couple and get them, because we're going to raise some money. I, uh, will be telling jokes, but I'll also be doing a live auction that night, so you'll be able to see me do both my roles.
That is going to be incredible. What? Man, that is a beast mode lineup, right?
Oh, my God.
That is, like, all, like, by heroes of comedy. Like, that's just brilliant. That's, uh. I'm gonna see if I can make it up for that. Holy majoli. All right, so there's a new episode of cleanup on aisle 45 out tomorrow. I hope everybody gets to listen. And as you all know, uh, I'm suing the Department of Justice to get some of those Epstein, find Trump and the files training videos. And Dana, the case just got assigned to a judge, really, in the D.C. district Court, and it was assigned to Judge Beryl Howell.
That is fan fucking tastic.
So I think it's, um, just kind of. You know, the thing is, is what I started this whole network with the Mueller podcast, right? And I'm known as Mueller. She wrote and Judge Burrell. Hal presided over the grand jury proceedings for the Mueller investigation. And so it's just kind of an interesting. Since it's MSW Media media versus the Department of Justice, it's just sort of an interesting pick that we got. Judge Beryl Howell. So we'll be keeping everybody posted on this proceeding, um, as much as we can. But I, uh, just wanted to give everybody an update on that, that we did get a judge assigned.
I'm so proud of you. I really am. Yeah, we're doing good. We're doing good things to try and keep sanity in this world and hold people accountable.
Yeah, that's the goal. Right? And you can see me if you go to Katie Fang's channel on Midas. Touch. I was on her show.
Amazing.
On Monday night. That's always just so, uh, incredible to talk to Katie. She's just so much smarter than I am.
No, you guys both have your strengths. Don't sell yourself short. But she is so good.
I'm. I m. Maybe I am better at dick jokes, but she knows the law inside and out. And it's just a really great interview about the lawsuit. And. And we also talked about corporate media and. And how neither of us are part of that, so.
Nice.
And, uh, the upside to it. So I hope you check that out if you get a chance again. It's on Katie Fang's YouTube channel, which is on the Midas Touc. And that came out on Monday night. She does put out a lot of content, so you have to definitely subscribe to her channel. All right, we have a ton of news to get to. Super proud of what the Democrats are doing in Texas. So let's get to it. Let's hit the hot notes. Hot notes. All right, first up from ABC. Texas House Republicans on Monday voted 85 to 6 to authorize the House sergeant in arms and related officers to track down and civilly arrest Democrats who fled the state in protest of GOP redistricting efforts. Quote, the sergeant in arms and any officers appointed by her are directed to send for all absentees whose attendance is not excused for the purposes of securing and maintaining their attendance under warrant of arrest if necessary, until further order of the House. That's Republican Rep. Dustin Burrows, speaker of the Texas House of Representatives. And um, you know, this is just to think about, like from a big picture point of view. Dana, what's going on? They want to arrest and force Democrats into a quorum to vote themselves out of existence.
Yeah, it's insane. It's an insane ask. And they're also had no problem when Speaker Johnson decided to, you know, let everyone out early so they didn't do an Epstein vote. No one had a problem with that. And usually Ted Cruz is the one fleeing the state when goes down.
So there's also the country when shit goes down, dude is, uh, gone now, uh, shortly after that vote, Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott said he ordered the Texas Department of Public Safety to find and arrest the Democrats who fled the state. An order which will remain in effect until they are accounted for and brought back to Austin. The warrants however, have no power outside state lines. You have no power here. And it's unclear to what extent, if at all, Texas law enforcement may and could coordinate with other counterparts in relevant states. Why do you think they went to Chicago in New York?
Yep.
The move comes amid a showdown over Republican led effort backed by Trump to create new congressional maps. With control of US House at stake, Abbott had given Texas House Democrats a deadline of 3pm local time on Monday to return to the state House for the special session or risk losing their jobs, which is also unconstitutional. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who I believe was under indictment for fraud, suggested Democrats who left should be arrested and forcibly brought back. I think he should go to trial for his crimes first. That would be my deal. I'll come back and face arrest if you do your thing.
You show me yours, I'll show you mine.
Now, the response from the Texas House Democratic Caucus to Abbott's threat. Come and take it.
Love it. Sound like those gonna, uh, come and take them. Yeah. All right. The first news conference with Texas Democrats on Monday was with New York Governor Kathy Hochul in Albany. Hochul's message for Texas Democrats was, and I quote, you are on the right side of history and you're not alone. As I said, history will judge us and how we respond to this moment. But here in New York, we will not stand on the sidelines with the timid souls on the sidelines who don't care and who will not invest their heart and soul into this battle. And this is a war. She went on to say, we are at war and that's why the gloves are off. And I say bring it on. Finally, let's at least go on some. I mean, we're still sort of on defense, but let's go on some offense here. We need some maps.
Show us the maps.
I, uh, know Hogle said that she would seek, uh, to disband or change New York's independent redistricting commission through a constitutional amendment in response to Texas, but she admitted that doing so would not be possible before the 2028 election under Governor Andrew Cuomo. New Yorkers, what they did, they passed a constitutional amendment in 2014 prohibiting partisan redistricting. And that actually fucked a few, by the way, um, areas in New York because of what Cuomo did that ended up going red. Now, Texas House Democrats who have gone to Massachusetts for the National Conference of State Legislatures, they submit and will hold a press conference in Boston on Monday afternoon. Then Texas House Democrats who have gathered in Illinois, they're going to hold a press conference with Democratic members of Congress in Chicago on Monday night. Abbott in that warning we've been talking about, two Texas House Democrats said leaving the state in protest amounted to an, I quote, abandonment or forfeiture of an elected state office. Really get the fuck out of here. The governor said if they didn't return by 3pm local time on Monday, he would invoke Texas Attorney general opinion number KP0382 to remove the missing Democrats from membership in the Texas House. He further went on to claim the lawmakers who left may also have committed felonies by fundraising in order to pay $500 fine they risk accruing each day they are absent. Texas's redistricting effort has prompted some Democrat led states to investigate similar moves to fight fire with fire, as California's Governor Gavin Newsom said. Uh, Newsom's considering calling a special session on redistricting in November to make the state's congressional map more Democrat friendly. Newsome said Monday that California Democrats have or are nearly done with a draft of a new map. So we've got a cartographer on this. And I quote, whatever they are doing in Texas will be neutered here in the state of California, and they will pay that price. That's from Nome. And as Allison and I have said, do it anyway.
Do it.
As the redistricting battle heats up, a House Republican will introduce legislation to ban mid decade redrawing of congressional maps nationwide. California GOP Rep. Kevin Kiley will formally introduce the bill on Tuesday, which will, and I quote, nullify new maps adopted by states before the 2030 census, including any that are adopted this year. The bill's future remains uncertain, however, as it's unlikely to be backed by House Republican leadership. They're scared. Uh, they're scared, dude.
So Texas is like, let's do this. And then California, New York, and Illinois, like, okay, we'll do this. And they're like, no, no, no. Let's make a law that says you can't do this.
Yep, that's exactly what it is. I feel like it's that in a bar fight, you know, when some douchebags like, you want to fight, you want to fight. And then four giant guys come out of the shadows to back this dude, and he's like, yeah, let's go. They're like, no, no, no, no. Fighting in this bar is illegal. It's illegal.
It's like that old kids, uh, in the hall sketch with the bar fight where the guy's like, I'm this close to kicking your ass. And he puts a little his fingers up to show, I'm this close to kicking your ass. And the other guy goes, oh, yeah? Well, I'm this close to running away. And it makes us smaller. Oh, hell yeah, they're scared. All right, next up from NBC in Boston, New Hampshire Governor Kelly Ayott has signed off on an effort to ban gender affirming care for minors in the state. And this makes New Hampshire the first New England state to take such action. Quote, medical decisions made at a young age can carry lifelong consequences. And these bills represent a balanced, bipartisan effort to protect children. That's what Ayotte said in a statement. I don't know if I'm pronouncing her name right. The legislature sent the two bills notice. I don't care. To Ayotte's desk last month. The first bans puberty blockers and cross sex hormones for people under the age of 18. The legislation includes an exception for those already prescribed to continue their treatment when the ban goes in effect on January 1st of next year. The second limits breast surgeries for minors to only those procedures needed to treat malignancy, injury, infection, or malformation and those needed to reconstruct the breasts after such procedures. Now, this comes at a time when more states are considering such bans. As we know, a recent US Supreme Court decision upheld such a ban in Tennessee, which came as a major blow for transgender rights. Advocates say some families have prepared to move out of New Hampshire because of the ban. Quote, it's really disappointing to see that Governor Ayotte blocked access to health care for so many people in New Hampshire. That's Chris Erchel of glbtq Legal Advocates and Defenders and went on to say, it's going to be devastating for these young people and their families. It's legislation that sends a message that the legislature thinks it knows better than doctors and the families of transgender young people what kind of care they need and should have access to.
Every single time one of these stories comes out, it just makes me so angry.
Yeah. Like blood boiling.
Yeah. Uh, it should be left up to the parents and the doctors. That's it. This should not have anything to do with politicians.
Yeah. What happened to, like, get your government off my back, Republicans?
Yeah. Small government. Unless it's, uh, in the lives of transgender people in my uterus, uh, involved in everything right now. Yeah. Republicans have lost their way.
What you read, what you eat, what vaccines you can have.
That Republican Party doesn't exist anymore. It's now just the GOP and Trump. That's it.
That's why they have to steal seats to win, because their policy is such shit.
Yeah. All right, this next one's from the Post. Allison. The White House does not plan to require health insurers to provide coverage for an in vitro fertilization service. This is from two people with knowledge of internal discussions, even though the idea was one of President Donald Trump's key campaign pledges. They're such assholes. Last year, Trump said that if he returned to office, the government would either pay for IVF services or issue rules requiring insurance companies to cover the treatment for it. The pledge came as Trump faced political blowback over the abortion rights after his appointees to the Supreme Court, they overturned Roe v. Wade. And I quote, the government is going to pay for it, or we're going to get. We'll mandate your insurance company to pay for it, which is going to be great. We're going to do that now. Trump said that, by the way, in August of 2024. He said, we want to produce babies in this country.
Right. Uh, gross. And I got to say, just a small correction to the post here. I don't think it was blowback after Roe. I think it was blowback after the Alabama Supreme Court banned ivf.
That's probably what happened, I mean, under.
The larger umbrella of Roe. But I thought that that was where the blowback came from. But either way, he's full of shit.
Yeah. And we're seeing that now. I mean, this is more than six months into his term now. He's. The Trump administration has not publicly proposed new federal subsidies to make IVF free or more affordable. In addition, White House officials, they're backing away from proposals discussing internally to mandate IVF coverage for the roughly 50 million people that the Obamacare exchanges. Social conservatives, alarmed by the nation's falling birth rates, have called for more aggressive government intervention to support mothers and childbirth, including new federal funding and other protections. But their efforts have faced objections from traditional free market voices in the party who are. They're just wary of federal mandates or new spending initiatives. Liberal critics, they point out that Trump's tax legislation included approximately $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid and hundreds of billions of additional cuts to food stamps relied on by millions of low income families. You know, because they're so pro life, and I quote, you can't seriously claim you're pursuing pronatalist policy when you're kicking moms off Medicaid and when you're leaving kids with less food. This is from Bobby Kogan, the Senior Director of Federal Budget Policy at the center for American Progress. So thank you for echoing my thoughts, Bobby. You're exactly right.
And we've had Bobby on the show a couple of times. Yeah. No, they want to pursue pronatalist policy for white people. White people. That's. That's what this is about. So, like, the only reason they want to make ivf, like, more available or legal is so more white people can have babies. That's what this is about.
That's right.
So, uh, just so dystopian. It's Gilead. All right, from the Associated Press. The State Department is proposing requiring applicants for business and tourist visas post a bond of up to $15,000 to enter the U.N. the United States, a move that may make the process unaffordable for many. In a notice to be published in the Federal Register on Tuesday, the department said it would start a 12 month pilot program under which people from countries deemed to have high overstay rates and deficient internal document security controls could be required to post bonds of 5,010 or $15,000 when they apply for a visa. The proposal comes as the Trump administration is tightening requirements for visa applicants. Let's be fair, they're getting rid of them pretty much all over the place, especially for students. Last week, the State Department announced many visa renewal applicants would have to submit to an additional in person interview, something that was not required before. In addition, the department is proposing that applicants for the visa Diversity Lottery program have valid passports from their country of citizenship. A preview of the bond notice, which was posted on the Federal Register website Monday, said the pilot program would take effect within 15 days of its formal publication. So no real comment period there, and is necessary to ensure that the US Government is not financially liable if a visitor does not comply with the terms of his or her visa. Oh my God. Visa bonds have been proposed in the past but have never been implemented. The State Department has traditionally discouraged that requirement because of the cumbersome process of posting and discharging a bond and because of a possible misperception by the public. I'm not misperceiving anything.
Nope.
I know exactly who this excludes.
Yeah, okay. A little bit of pushback, maybe. We'll see. Um, I'm not sure. It's all very confusing. This one's from the Harvard Crimson. Harvard President Alan M M Garber, year 76, has told faculty that a deal with Trump administration is not imminent and denied that the university is even considering the $500 million settlement. That's according to three faculty members familiar with the matter.
Trump, just say it. We're in the talks with 500 and.
Everyone probably picked it up. We covered the story. I love when we get corrected with this. The university is seriously considering resolving its dispute with the White House through the courts rather than a negotiated settlement. This is again from Garber, and that's according to three faculty members. Harvard and the Trump administration restarted negotiations in June to restore billions of dollars in frozen federal research funding. In recent weeks, the government has reached settlements with several of Harvard's peers. That's including Columbia University, who paid more than $200 million in exchange for access to federal funding. The Trump administration has pushed Harvard basically to cut an even costlier deal. That's what's happening in. The New York Times reported last Monday that the university is considering a settlement with a price tag of half a billion dollars. So that's what we're hearing. But Garber. He actually said in a conversation with one faculty member that the suggestion that Harvard was even open to paying 500 million is false. He also claimed that the figure was apparently leaked to the press by White House officials.
Oh, New York Times. Uh-huh.
According to three people familiar with the conversation, Garber's comments, they signal that Harvard, which has not several early wins in court, may see its legal battles through. It is possible that even if the university plans to eventually settle, it will try to push the agreement until after U.S. district Judge Allison Burrows has ruled in its two lawsuits, especially since Harvard has good reason to believe that Burrows will favor its arguments. Burrows granted Harvard two preliminary injunctions in its lawsuit challenging federal attempts to end international student enrollment at Harvard. And during a hearing for the university's other lawsuit, she appeared skeptical of the government's justification for its sweeping freeze on Harvard's federal research dollars.
Good Lord. Yep, I can see it now.
Um.
Oh, the judge won't let us stop foreign people from studying at Harvard. Well, let's get. Make him pay a $15,000 bond. Like, just. Everything is just. He's so full of shit and New York Times, man. Do better. Do better. We relied on that reporting. So did everybody.
We sure did.
And, uh, did you not get a statement from Garber, like, man, telling you what? I'm glad I don't work at the New York Times? Let's just put it that way.
Yeah, they like stealing your, you know, scoops anyway. Don't worry. And you basically do work.
You're just not getting paid five days later anyway. Uh, I shouldn't. It's not about me. It's about getting the story out there. All right, everybody, it's time for some good trouble. All right? Good trouble today. If you're in a blue state, call your state representatives, your state legislators, and your governor and pressure them to redraw your maps. Tell them you support the Democrats in Texas. Tell them you support what the DNC is doing by supporting the Democrats in Texas. Because Ken Martin at the DNC is all in on this, and national party leadership is supporting this. Tell them you support all that and you'd like to fight fire with fire. Let them know their actions will go a long way to galvanize support for the Democratic Party among voters who see what Texas is doing as what it is, cheating. Because they know they're going to lose on policy. So ask your state leaders to fight for you and all the voters in your state and around the country, because it's time to go on offense. It's time to mess with Texas.
Indeed.
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She called me Dr. Worm. Yeah.
What up, bean squeens? Just wanted to share my first major harvest on its way to my local food pantry. I love to garden. I live alone, so I'm so grateful to have a local place to take my veggies to so they don't go to waste. My garden is my happy spot. I often want to give it all up and just move into my garden. But then how will I provide my cats the life of luxury they enjoy? You ask. Yeah. Thanks for your show. Also included pics of my kitties, moo and oink, living the good life.
Yeah. Yeah. That's why I do a lot, uh, is to provide for the cats. Um, and if you're in the San Diego area, Dr. Worm. I love veggies. These are beautiful. There you go. And look, there's sunflowers in there, too. I love this. And the kitties are gorgeous. Thank you so much. But Yeah, I think I've said this before in the show, Dana. I'll be on the couch, they'll be all on my lap and I'll have to get up to come record the show and I'll be like, sorry guys, I gotta go make that poop sand money. And uh, here we are. Next up, Heidi does hair. No pronouns. A few months ago, my 91 year old dad's wife passed away. I'm in Phoenix and he's in Florida and I set out to convince him to move here. Luckily though, he was open to it. My husband and I toured several independent living facilities and found a few that would work for him. He came out to visit, picked one and signed up. All of this happened in one month. He's moving here in a month. My husband and I are going to set up his apartment so it's like home and not an empty hotel. And I'm grateful that this was much easier than I expected it to be. And I'm grateful that my 91 year old dad will be near family for however long he has. He's still rocking it, still plays tennis, and is looking forward to having a community of people. You've seen pictures of my pets, so I'm actually going to shout out myself. I love my job. This is why. Heidi, this hair is amazing.
Yeah, it is. Look at this.
This is like really, really incredible work. Uh, salon. What?
I know. Look at this second one. That's fucking amazing.
Yeah. Heidi, you need to tell us what salon you work out of so people can come and see you. These are incredible. This color is amazing. And vivid, so vivid. And then also I want to know what facilities you checked out. If you can send me that information too. Um, that would be super helpful to me personally. Uh, in the Phoenix area, um, I would love to know, um, what kind of research you did, uh, for these facilities. Uh, that would be super helpful. So anyway, Heidi, brilliant. Uh, thank you so much for that submission.
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Okay, uh, first of all, I'm so sorry you had to return to the office. Anonymous. Thank you for your work as a social worker. Thank you for working at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Indeed, thank you for all that you're doing. I just feel so like it rips my heart out that this administration is trying to paint federal workers as lazy or cheaters or something or, you know, waste and bloat or whatever. Yeah. Um, and congratulations on that student loan forgiveness. And I'm with you. I wish we could all. I wish everyone could have it. But man, um, the work you're doing is so very important. Uh, so the Phoenix VA is interesting. I was just there and I was in Dana. I was in the, uh, va, uh, on Indian School Road. And there was a one guy, an old guy, uh, with a Vietnam veteran ball captain, black gentleman in a wheelchair. And then there was another guy in a wheelchair, a white guy with a Trump MAGA hat. And the MAGA guy was really mad about having to wait 10 minutes. And he said he had Trump's phone number and that he was going to call Donald Trump and fix this or whatever. And then the black veteran was like, you shut the up, man. And like, just sat and, oh, you don't like him? No, I don't like him. Blah, blah, blah. And they went back and forth for a while, and then they just sort of amicably stop talking to each other. Because they're both veterans. Vietnam veterans.
Yeah, but that was.
That was my visit. But what I can say about the Phoenix VA is that everybody that was working there is doing their best to. To help the veterans as best they can during this administration.
I have no doubt.
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Not for today.
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