Tuesday, October 21st, 2025 Today, a three judge panel on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rules that Trump can deploy the National Guard to Portland; Trump has begun demolishing the East Wing of the White House; Judge Ellis in Chicago permits the deposition of Border Patrol Czar Gregory Bovino; the Supreme Court will review a gun law prohibiting drug addicts from access to firearms; Jim Comey has filed his motions to dismiss based on vindictive and selective prosecution and the illegitimate appointment of Lindsay Halligan; a White House official said he thinks the government shutdown will end this week; Lindsay Halligan sent personal Signal chat messages to Anna Bower; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.
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Today, a three judge panel on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rules that Trump can deploy the National Guard to Portland; Trump has begun demolishing the East Wing of the White House; Judge Ellis in Chicago permits the deposition of Border Patrol Czar Gregory Bovino; the Supreme Court will review a gun law prohibiting drug addicts from access to firearms; Jim Comey has filed his motions to dismiss based on vindictive and selective prosecution and the illegitimate appointment of Lindsay Halligan; a White House official said he thinks the government shutdown will end this week; Lindsay Halligan sent personal Signal chat messages to Anna Bower; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.
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MSW Media. Hello and welcome to the Daily beans for Tuesday, October 21, 2025. Today, a three judge panel on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Trump can deploy the National Guard to Portland. Trump has begun demolishing the east wing of the White House. Judge Ellis in Chicago permits the deposition of Border Patrol czar Gregory Bevino. The Supreme Court will review a gun law prohibiting drug addicts from access to firearms. Jim Comey has filed his motions to dismiss the case against him based on vindictive and selective prosecution and the illegitimate appointment of Lindsey Halligan. A White House official has said he thinks the government shutdown will end this week. And Lindsey Halligan sent personal signal chat messages to our friend at lawfare, Anna Bauer. I'm Alison Gill.
And I'm Dana Goldberg.
Oh, my goodness. Today's been a day.
It has. And it sounds like some crazy ass headlines, by the way. Yeah, there's some fuckery going on.
It's a weird news day. Like normally it's just, Trump's a dick, Trump's a dick. Shut down, Trump's a dick. Court, Trump's a dick. But today, there's just some weird stuff going on. First of all, aws, which is controlled, I guess by Amazon and apparently hosts every single thing that I use to record podcasts is down somehow. So if you hear a difference in the sound quality here, we're not recording in our virtual studio, per ush. So that's what's going on. It's Jeff Bezos's fault. I blame the oligarchy.
Uh, you should.
I had no idea how much stuff runs on AWS until today. And they're having massive outages everywhere, so we're contending with that. And then my friend Anna Bauer releases a story about a bunch of text messages on signal that she got from Lindsay Halligan, who is the interim acting pretend U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia that replaced Eric Siebert when he was fired because he wouldn't bring criminal charges against Jim Comey or Letitia James. So lots of weird stuff going on. First of all, uh, I just want to thank everybody who watched the breakdown over on Midas. I am overwhelmed with gratitude that you all don't mind looking at my face while I tell you some news.
It's a nice face.
Thanks. It's a nice face. It's a poonum. But, you know, I don't wear makeup, I don't pay glam tax. So I appreciate everyone putting up with that. Thank you very much. Um, it's getting really Great response. Again, a link probably in today's show notes, definitely in yesterday's show notes. For you to go and watch that. It's free. Also, I'm going on vacation this week.
Good girl.
I'm listening to everyone and taking a vacation, Although I will be working during that vacation, but not on the travel days. So Dana's going to hold down the fort for Thursday's episode of Daily Beans, but I'll be back on your ears on Friday. I got you. Uh, so, yeah, it's a working vacation, but anyway, tons of news today, so let's do some quick hits.
And to make a long story short.
All right, first up, Jim Comey update. And we're going to go over this. Andy McCabe and I are going to go over this in, in a lot more detail on this weekend's Unjustified podcast. First of all, he's filed his motions to dismiss the charges against him. One for a vindictive and selective prosecution, which I don't know the judge will even get to because he's also filed a motion to disqualify Lindsey Halligan because she was, uh, appointed unlawfully.
Fantastic.
And there's a bunch of, like, old school stuff in these motions, too. It's like a weird trip down memory lane. There's one point in the vindictive and selective prosecution motion where Comey says, look, you didn't indict other people for lying to Congress. You didn't indict Jeff Sessions for saying, I've been considered a surrogate at a time of two in that campaign, but I did not have contact with the Russians. And that's in there. That's in the indictment.
Wow.
In the motion. And that used to be in the opening sequence for the old Mueller she wrote podcast. So that's funny. Awesome. I was like, this is going to be important one day. Sure enough, uh, eight years later, uh, here we are. Also, Halligan's unlawful appointment, just as we've been talking about Dana, they're like, look, she was illegitimately appointed as U.S. attorney, and she's the only one who signed the indictment. So you got to throw it out. And the statute of limitations is passed. So you got to throw it out with prejudice.
Nice.
Also, apparently, Pam Bondi and Lindsey Halligan are trying to disqualify Comey's lead defense counsel, Pat Fitzgerald, saying that Pat helped Comey leak classified information back in 2018, which is stupid and not correct. And so, uh, Pat Fitzgerald's filed his response to that. It's pretty scathing. Uh, it's going to be really interesting. Uh, I told Harry Dunn today when we recorded cleanup that comes out tomorrow, the podcast that comes out tomorrow, I was like, I'm kind of bummed that this is probably going to be dismissed just based on Lindsey Halligan's appointment, because I kind of wanted to see Pat Fitzgerald wipe the floor with her ass in court, or, uh, at least her two surrogates from. From North Carolina. Also, in that same Comey case, the government wanted an expedited review of the filter team, the taint team. Right. That's the team that goes through all of the stuff they got from Comey, since he's a lawyer, and goes, uh, through to make sure it's not privileged information. But Comey says that he thinks two FBI agents have already been tainted on the tank team by seeing potentially privileged information. And, uh, the government wanted to hurry up and expedite that process, and the judge said no, and he denied the government, uh, motion for that. So another little win for Comey. It's not going to go well for him. But again, we're going to go over all of this in greater detail on this weekend's Unjustified podcast. Ah.
All right, thanks, Alison. And this one's from Reuters. White House economic advisor Kevin Hassett said he thinks the government shutdown is going to end this week. Hassett is the. Yeah, he's the director of the National Economic Council. He said is, and I quote, friends in the Senate believed it was bad optics for Democrats to open the government before the no Kings rallies, and that now a shot that this week things will come together with the protest done. Hasset said that if the shutdown does not end, the White House would consider additional cost cutting action. Why don't the fucking Republicans do their job and open the government?
Yeah. Oh, they just want to.
Yeah. Not Reuters.
They just want to blame. Right. Reuters said. What the fuck?
Yeah.
Uh, when reach for comment. Yeah. So he wants to blame the Democrats and no Kings for the shutdown, and he says they'll continue the cuts they blame on the shutdown after the shutdown.
Cool.
Got it. Okay. Yeah, got it. All right, next up, this is really interesting. Anna Bauer. She's been on our show a bunch. She's been over on Unjustified a lot. She's a writer for Lawfare. She's a friend of mine, helped me navigate getting into the Donald Trump trial in New York for the hush money stuff. She apparently got a bunch of text messages from Lindsey Halligan, and at first she thought it was a joke, right? Or like a fake, like not really Lindsay Halligan. But then she answered some very specific questions that only Lindsey Halligan would know. Because Anna Bowers met her a couple times and then proceeded to divulge or talk about grand jury information, which is against the law. And like, it's just bizarre telling her that you're reporting what the New York Times said. This is about the Letitia James indictment. You know how she's innocent. Geez, right. Because the New York Times did a bunch of reporting saying that her grand niece lived there, didn't pay rent for most of the time she lived there. And uh, apparently that really upset Lindsay Halligan. So she reached out to Anna, said, you're not a real journalist. You don't even know the facts. I was there. I know what happened. And, and she never said off the record. She never said on background. And so when Anna said, I'm going to publish all this, Lindsay was like, off the record. Off the record. She's like, no, no, you can't do it after the fact. That's not how it works. Everything's default on the record with a journalist until the journalist agrees that it's on background or off the record. So all of that is up in Lawfare. I've shared it on my Blue sky page. And of course, like I said, Andy and I are going to cover that as well when we talk about Lindsey Halligan and the Comey case on this weekend's Unjustified podcast. So just bananas day. Just bananas.
Yeah. And we're just off of the quick hits, that's all.
Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, oh, there's more. There will be more. And, uh, we're going to talk about that, but we're going to take a super quick break before we get to the hot notes, so stick around. We'll be right back after these messages.
We'll be right back.
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You changed the color, you changed the decor.
The East Wing was constructed in 1902 and has been renovated and changed many times, with a second story added in 1942. Trump last week also touted his planned ballroom during a dinner with executives from tech, finance and defense industries. That was a million million dollar a plate dinner, by the way, telling them the project was fully financed after receiving donations as large as $25 million from dozens of companies, including Apple, Amazon, Lockheed Martin and Coinbase. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post.
Uh, disgusting. I'm going to move on without much more comment.
Yeah, I don't blame you.
Yeah, this one's from Politico. A federal appeals court panel has backed President Trump's authority to send National Guard troops into Portland, concluding that though the president's claims on social media may exaggerate the violence in the city, he may still have had a valid basis for his deployment. The 2 to 1 ruling, endorsed by two Trump appointees in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals is the latest win for Trump's effort to deploy the military into cities across the country over the fierce objections of the state and local leaders. Trump has cited violence outside immigration facilities as a basis for the deployments, saying that it has impeded his ability to enforce the law. But governors and mayors say that there has been minimal unrest and Trump is using largely peaceful protests as a pretext to expand his power. The Supreme Court appears poised to resolve the matter. The high court's already considering a similar dispute where a federal appeals court kept in place a block on deployment of the National Guard in Chicago. Though the ninth Circuit panel's decision lifts the lower court's order that blocked Trump from federalizing Oregon's National Guard troops, the immediate practical impact of the ruling isn't very clear. That's because the same lower court, Judge Karen Amergut, mhm, issued a second order after Trump moved to send California National Guard troops to Oregon, temporarily prohibiting any use of federalized troops in the state. The administration has not yet appealed that second order, although it says it's expected Immergut to lift it if the appeals panel ruled in Trump's favor. In their ruling, 9th Circuit judges Ryan Nelson and Bridget Bade said the level of violence at the Portland immigration facility and other other instances at similar sites elsewhere in the country have Trump a, quote, colorable argument that he wasn't able to enforce federal law. That, along with rebellion or invasion, is one condition that allows a president to federalize National Guard forces. The appeals panel dissenting Judge Clinton appointee, by the way, Susan Graber, called the majority's decision absurd, pleaded with her 9th Circuit colleagues to quickly reverse it and urge the public to, and I quote, retain faith in our judicial system just a little longer. She said, we have come to expect dose of political theater in the political branches, drama designed to rally the base or to rile or intimidate political opponents. We also may expect there a measure of bending, sometimes breaking the truth. That's what Graeber wrote. And she went on to say, by design of the founders, the judicial branch stands apart. We rule on facts, not on supposition or conjecture, and certainly not on fabrication or propaganda. Hello, statement.
Yeah, and this is interesting because this is the first TRO she issued, not the second one. So I, I think the second one still stands and it does until. Unless and until Trump appeals it or Judge Immerget vacates it herself. So we'll keep you posted. Next up from the Chicago Sun Times, top U.S. border Patrol commander Gregory Bevino will have to sit for a deposition in an ongoing lawsuit over the Fed's treatment of protesters during the Trump administration's aggressive deportation campaign in Chicago. However, US District Judge Sarah Ellis put strict limits on Bevino's deposition, in which he'll have to answer questions under oath from lawyers who brought the case. Ellis said Bevino's deposition will be limited to how federal officers are enforcing the law and whether they're violating people's constitutional rights. She said Bevino should not be asked more broadly about why Chicago has been targeted. Quote, it is not at all relevant that the administration is seeking to enforce immigration laws in Chicago versus Austin, Texas. That's what Ellis said. Ellis also said lawyers could question former U.S. immigration and Customs Enforcement Chicago Field Director Russell Hot and U.S. border Patrol Deputy Chief Patrol Agent Daniel Para. The judge limited the depositions to two hours a piece. She allowed the questioning in advance of a preliminary injunction hearing set for November 5th. So she's already issued the temporary restraining order. Her temporary restraining order, Dana, is the one that says you can't use riot stuff against journalists and protesters and you can't shoot religious leaders with pepper balls in the head and you can't deploy tear gas without warning. Uh, you know, that kind of restriction on what federal agents could do there in Chicago. That was her temporary restraining order. She's having a more permanent restraining order hearing, uh, called a preliminary injunction hearing Nov. 5. Bovino is the public face for the Trump administration's Operation Midway blitz in Chicago, as well as the earlier operation at large in Los Angeles. The California operation led to a controversial U.S. supreme Court ruling last month that allowed federal agents to continue stopping people based on race, language and other factors. The Supreme Court majority did not explain itself in that case. Bovino later told a, uh, WBEZ reporter agents in Chicago were stopping people based partly on how they look. Ellis agreed to Bovino's deposition during a roughly five hour hearing during which top officials from ICE and Border Patrol were forced to answer her questions about the treatment of protesters in Chicago earlier this month. The judge forbade agents from using gas and other riot control weapons without warning in Chicago as they carried out the deportation campaign. But Ellis insisted on Monday's hearing after media reports gave her serious concerns about whether her order was being followed. The case has been closely watched, especially after the use of tear gas October 12, Albany park, and in a residential neighborhood on the southwest side on Oct. 14 following a chase where federal agents rammed an SUV. Ellis Heard on Monday from CBP Director Deputy Incident Commander Kyle Harvick. I hope I'm saying that right. And Deputy ICE Field Office Director Sean Byers. Each man defended agent's actions on the ground. However, their testimony came in the wake of a recent ruling by U.S. district Judge April Perry, who found the Trump administration's perception of events is simply unreliable. Her ruling blocked Trump from deploying National Guard troops to Chicago at all. Harvik discussed the incident in Albany park, where witnesses say they heard no warning before the use of gas. No warnings can be heard on videos of the incident showing the scene leading up to the gas being thrown in the middle of the street. But Harvik said he spoke to the supervisor who deployed the gas, and that supervisor told him that he and others had issued several warnings to the crowd, but there's no evidence of that. Harvick also told the judge the incident in Albany park amounted to an enforcement action. Situations like those, he said, get more and more dangerous the longer we are there. He said people gathered and linked arms together. Oh, no, not the linking of the arms that apparently prevented agents from leaving the area. Harvick called it active resistance. Quote, they were given lawful orders to get out of our way so we could leave and continue with our duties, which they disobeyed.
You?
M still have to give a warning before you tear gas them.
Yes.
In the later incident on the southeast side, Harvick said people had gathered and started throwing objects at agents, including eggs and bricks and metal objects of some sort. I feel like that's just a lie. Quote, lawful orders were given to scoot back, which were disobeyed so much that we had two vehicles, tires that were slashed and the rear window was broken out.
Hmm.
M really? Yet that's not on video anywhere. He also sought to justify the incident in which Reverend David Black of the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago was shot in the head by a pepper ball. Byers explained to the judge, what's not being shown about that incident is that Black was given multiple commands that he did not obey. Both men also told the judge they were not aware of any agent who had been disciplined over the use of force since the Chicago deportation campaign began.
All uh, right. Thanks, Allison. The last one in the section is from Politico. The Supreme Court has agreed to decide the constitutionality of long standing federal law banning possession of guns by anyone who illegally uses or is addicted to drugs. It's the same law that Hunter Biden was convicted of violating last year. He was pardoned by his father, Joe Biden, before he was sentenced. The justices will consider whether the law violates the Second Amendment's guarantee of the right to bear arms. They announced Monday that they will take up the case of Ali Khamenei, uh, a Texas man charged with illegal possession of a Glock pistol after the FBI found the gun, along with small quantities of marijuana and cocaine, at his home during a court ordered search in 2022. The case is another chance for the high court to clear up confusion and uncertainty like they've ever done that lately, created by the justice's groundbreaking 2022 ruling striking down restrictive gun laws in New York. That ruling, known as New York State Rifle and Pistol association vs Bruin, told judges assessing the constitutionality of gun regulations to look for analogs from the 18th and 19th centuries. Lower courts have struggled with that task, with judges differing about whether past practices were sufficiently close to justify modern regulations. While the Trump administration has broadly championed the rights of gun owners, it asked the justices to reinstate the criminal case against Khomeini after the conservative Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of his prosecution. Although Khomeini admitted to FBI agents that he regularly used pot, the government had no evidence he was intoxicated at the time of search or while he had the firearm. Under that appeals Court strict interpretation of the Supreme Court's 2022 ruling. The federal statute banning possession of guns drug users can only be applied to situations where the defendant had the weapon while actively under the influence of drugs. The fifth Circuit cited historical examples of laws against gun possession while intoxicated, but said a more categorical ban wasn't supported by American history. Last June, Hunter Biden was convicted by a jury in Delaware under the same statute for possessing a pistol while he was addicted to cocaine. He unsuccessfully challenged the constitutionality of the statute in advance of trial and he was expected to renew the challenge on appeal. But last December, Joe Biden gave his son a broad pardon that wiped out his convictions on that charge and two related false statement charges. It also ended a tax related criminal case in which Hunter Biden had pleaded guilty. The Trump Justice Department is asking the high court to uphold the broad sweep of the law so that people who regularly use drugs or are addicted to them are prohibited from possessing firearms without regard to their state of intoxication at the time. That would include Don Jr. And this is a quote that's not in the story. This is a quote to end this one. Um, this restriction provides a modest modern analog of much harsher founding era restrictions on habitual drunkards and is so stands solidly with our nation's history and tradition of regulation. That is from Solicitor General John Sauer. He wrote that in June. It's a really horrible statement, but we had to give it to you.
Um, okay, so there are limits on the second Amendment.
Sounds like it is.
And are they going to say that everyone in Antifa is smoking pot and take all of our guns away? We shall see because that's the final step in authoritarianism is coming for your guns.
I bet Kegseth has firearms and he's a little drunkard.
Oh, well, he's, he's uh, allegedly he's exempt because of all the push ups he can do. I mean it's going to be one way or the other, right? Either we can have limitations to the second amendment or we can't.
Yeah, we'll see.
And that this administration wants those limitations for people who might have a little weed. Yeah. Frightens me.
Agreed.
Frightens me to no end because I think they're going to take my gun away because I buy, uh, because I buy gummies with THC in them.
Right.
So I clearly can't have a firearm. Um, anyway, we'll see.
Yeah, we'll see how this plays out.
I don't like it. All right, everybody. Your good trouble is Going to be up next in the good news, but we're going to take another break, so stick around. We'll be right back, everybody. Welcome back. It's time for the good news. Who likes good news? Everyone. Then good news, everyone. And if you have any good news confessions, corrections on anything that we've maybe mispronounced because we do that a lot, or if you want to send, um, us a shout out maybe to a loved one or a small business or a great nonprofit, or you want to send us all of your great photos and stories about your time at the no Kings rally or however you participated in it, we would love to hear about that. We also love shout outs to government programs that have helped you or a loved one. And if you can find a Republican government program that's helped you or a loved one, throw it in there, man. Hey, we'll take it doesn't have to be a Democratic program, even though those are really the only ones that have ever helped anybody outside of Emtala M which was signed by Reagan in the 80s, which is what they're blaming on giving healthcare to non citizens. Anyway, send us your good news. We need it if it's small, if it's big, if it happened yesterday, if it happened 10 years ago. And send us your street jokes, too. And all you got to do to get your stuff read on the air is pay your pod pet tariff, which means either attach a photo of your pet. We can try to guess the breeds in your shelter pup if you want. If you don't have a pet, send an adoptable pet in your area. We'll see if we can help find him a home. If you don't have that, really just grab a random photo of an animal off the Internet. We especially love baby animals here, although, you know, we, we're not. Anything will. Anything will do. And then if you don't have that bird watching photos, which can be an actual bird, or you and your family or friends flipping the bird to a Trump building. We love that. I'm so afraid, Dana, that when he's done with this big, giant, ugly ballroom after destroying the White House, that he's going to put his name on it.
I. I would bet that's true.
Yeah. Anyway, and, and then we can have bird watching photos for that.
There you go.
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Thanks so much Ag. This one's from TC Pronoun. She and her hi AG and dg Longtime listener, first time caller here. I wanted to share my awesome experience at the no Kings 2 rally in Gainesville, Georgia. Gainesville is in Northwest Georgia and it's pretty red area. We had an amazing crowd of about 1200 people, fonts of honking and cheering as people drove by. There was music for dancing and just joyous hopeful crowd. It was awesome. I sent some pictures of me and my partner, my sign and some of the inflatables we saw. We attended the Hands off protest in April and the crowds have grown. We were joined ah at that Protest by my 76 year old mom. Her first ever protest. Shout out to Sherry if she's listening. I wanted to shout out two amazing organizations too. My oldest is attending Kennesaw State University here in Georgia and to comply with this batshit regime they had to get rid of all their LGBTQ services. We were so pissed since the welcoming environment and support were reasons we chose the university. So hats off to the students for organizing their own Pride Alliance. They can't deny student led organizations, they just can't be provided by the university. Well done and a huge thank you to the First United Lutheran Church in Kennesaw for for providing a space for the student run Pride Center.
Oh that's amazing.
That's awesome. Also to the Northwest Georgia Queer Care Closet. This organization provides gender affirming clothing for queer youth and young adults. I know for my POD Pet tax I'm including pictures of our amazing cats Pete, our Void Kitty and my familiar cross the Rainbow Bridge last summer. Yeah, he is the greatest. He will be greatly missed. His sister Paige is our Princess Tori and the crazy gray fluffer Butter Oscar joined us earlier this year. We're not sure he's all there, but we love him anyway. We're not sure why he sits like that. Thank you both for all you do. You keep me sane and informed, which is no small feat these days. Keep on, um, keeping on. And Congrats on the at 100, Dana. It was well deserved. Thank you so much. TC.
TC, your void kitty familiar looks like my void kitty familiar who? We also lost a couple.
Oh my God, look at the picture. He's like. I don't know why he sits like that.
The last picture I'm looking, I'm going, I'm scrolling. Oh my God. I love cats that sit like this. He's very cool. Look at this. I like my democracy. Neat, no ice. Great photos from the rally. I love this. This is so joyful and wonderful. I know I could, I like put it directly into my veins. I love all this. Thank you so much. Next up from Steve Pronouns he and him. I just started listening to your show in November because fucking, I needed a positive news source. My good news is that I'm a service connected disabled veteran. I'm also a third generation combat vet as my grandfather was a marine who fought in Iwo Jima in World War II and my stepfather and I both served in conflicts in the Gulf. I want you to know that I live near Durham, North Carolina and the VA hospital that provides all my medical care has taken great care of me. Steve, I'm so glad to hear this. I also wanted to mention that my mom, an 83 year old breast cancer survivor, participated in the local no Kings rally, her first ever Protestant. For my pod tags, I'm including a picture of my rescue dog, squid. You can guess her breed. The DNA is pretty wild considering the way she looks. Okay, there's no answers, so I guess whatever we guess is correct. So I'm gonna say German Shepherd. Yep.
Black lab.
Black lab. And pity Staffy Chow. And maybe a little uh. What's that? What's that dog that looks like it's got the kind of the round spuds Mackenzie. Remember that dog Terrier.
There you go.
Those are my right 100% so you have to let us know if we're not right.
There you go. All right. This is from Ken Pronouns he and him time sensitive. Shout out to DeKalb Mutual Aid Organization. The Al in DeKalb is pronounced like the name Al Gore. Oh, I got it right. Not like the county in Georgia. Okay, great. They are holding a trans benefit Spooky shop and show. The event is at the Egyptian Theater in DeKalb, Illinois on Saturday, October 25th to benefit the area Trans Community. I've included a link to the eventbrite page. We'll have that in the show notes for you all, because this is October 25th. My pet tariff is a picture of Maggie. We adopted her in June of 24 as an adult senior cat. She recently started sitting in this glider rocker. Gosh. This is her chair taking over it. That's mine? Yep.
Ken, what we call that in my house is the queen seat.
There you go.
Okay. That's where the. That's where the queen sits. And so that's what it's called from now on. Feel free to call that the queen seat. DeKalb. Okay. So it's not like DeKalb down in. In Georgia. DeKalb. Mutual Aid Organization, Trans Benefit, Spooky shop and show. That's so cool. October 25th. We'll have a link in the show notes. Ken, thank you so much for. For alerting us to that. Next up, from Angela Pronoun. She and her. My kids wanted to go to the no Kings protest in Stockton, California. I love that kids all wanted to go to this.
Me too.
They created their own signs front and back. One son pictured. Two out of three kids went. It was more car support than people, but so much love. It was great. About four or five hundred people. Four hours of cars honking at support with their own flags and messages driving past. Okay, so look at the sign that this kid made. He drew a child, y', all, with the photo, the picture that he drew in Epstein's book.
Yeah, yeah.
Uh, and we don't like you. I love this. This is. Oh, my God. RFK's brain worm is smarter than RFK. We are not fighting for power. We're fighting for justice. Oh, that's good. Yeah. These are kids, y'. All.
I, um, love it.
M. And let's see now. Plus ice. This is your king. Oh, very cool. Great signs, y'.
All.
Angela, you must be super proud. I love this.
All right, this one's from M. Anonymous pronoun. She and her Anchorage no Kings. The sun came out after a rainy week for Anchorage no kings. Very uplifting speakers today. The terrible floods in Alaska, Kitnook and Quingylangonk were in our thoughts. Federal funding, 20 million EPA grant was pulled by Trump this year. They called it, and I quote, wasteful DEI and environmental justice spending. Disgusting. And it is disgusting.
Yeah, I'm. I'm, you know, we. We covered the floods, um, here on the beans. I didn't see much about it.
They didn't cover it a lot on mainstream media. In the rest, I saw some videos about it from people that live in the air and they're like, we've been abandoned.
It's absolutely disastrous. And, and the fact that Trump just pulled the FEMA funding and of course, you know, FEMA face and excuse me, and Corey, uh, Lewandowski are down riding horses in Argentina and getting private jets. Two private jets worth $172 million. But they can't send your 20 million for your recovery is just, I mean, shocking, but not surprising.
Agreed.
But thanks for this look at this incredible rally. Absolutely wonderful. I need to get to Anchorage. It's absolutely beautiful there. So thanks for sending that in and thanks for all of your good news. Please continue to send it in. Flood us with your. Your no Kings photos and your favorite signs and your stories about what it was like and how you felt on the ground. We want to hear from you. And then any, any good news at all, send it to us. Um, all right. We'll be back on your ears tomorrow. Dana, do you have any final thoughts?
Not today.
I almost said last words. Do you have any last words? I've done that a few times here. All right, we'll be back in yours tomorrow, everybody. 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 aging.
I'm indeed.
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