Monday, December 15th, 2025 Today, a mass shooting at Brown University leaves multiple dead and wounded; another 15 people were killed at Bondi Beach in Sidney Australia in a mass shooting; TSA is providing air passenger data to ICE; a gun toting Border Patrol thug is exposed as a racist online troll; the House Oversight committee has released a new batch of photos from the Epstein Estate; Trump allies pressured Romania into lifting travel restrictions on the Tate brothers; the deeply personal reasons Indiana Republicans pushed back against Trump; Colorado rejects the President’s pardon of election thief Tina Peters; Marjorie Taylor Greene is trying to oust Mike Johnson as Speaker; Republicans in the House defy Trump and vote with Democrats to restore bargaining rights for federal workers; Abrego Garcia remains a free man after the Trump administration tried to issue a retroactive deportation order; Trump judges have once again blocked Judge Boasberg’s contempt proceedings; a judge orders Dan Richman’s emails at the core of the Comey case be returned to him; House Democrats will ask for the release of Volume II of Jack Smith’s final report; and Allison and Dana deliver and your Good News.
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Brown University shooting live updates: Person of interest to be released from custody|NBC News
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MSW Media. Hello and welcome to the Daily beans for Monday, December 15, 2025. Today, a mass shooting at Brown University leaves multiple dead and wounded. Another 15 people were killed at Bondi beach in Sydney, Australia, in a mass shooting. TSA is providing air passenger data to ice. A gun toting border patrol thug is exposed as a racist online troll. The House Oversight Committee has released a new batch of photos from the Epstein estate. Trump allies pressured Romania into lifting travel restrictions on the Tate brothers. The deeply personal reasons that Indiana Republicans pushed back against Trump. Call it. Colorado has rejected the president's pardon of election thief Tina Peters. Marjorie Taylor Greene is going to try to oust Mike Johnson as the speaker. Republicans in the House defy Trump and vote with Democrats to restore bargaining rights for federal workers. Abrego Garcia remains a free man after the Trump administration tried to issue a retroactive deportation order. Trump judges have once again blocked Judge Boasberg's contempt proceedings. A judge orders Dan Richmond's emails at the core of the Comey case be returned to him. And House Democrats will ask for the release of volume two of Jack Smith's final report. I'm Alison Gill.
And I'm Dana Goldberg.
All right. Another record breaking weekend of headlines, my friend.
Indeed. And I don't know about you, it normally happens a couple weeks from now. I'm starting to get to that point where I don't know the date or what day of the week it is. Like, I feel like this is the month of that black hole of nobody knows. And normally it happens two weeks from now, but I'm starting to sort of sift into it. Yeah.
I'm wondering if I'm gonna permanently be there at some point because the window keeps getting bigger.
That's true.
When I don't know what, what today is. Uh, if it weren't for, uh, my handy dandy, you know, telephone telling me that, yeah, no kidding, today is December 15th, I wouldn't know. All right, there is so much news. We're gonna do the show a little different today. We're gonna have to do a lightning round so we can get as much news into your ears as possible. So let's get to it and hit the hot not. All right, first up, from NBC, two people were killed and nine others wounded in a shooting at an engineering and physics building on Brown University's campus in Providence, Rhode Island. Officials emphasize the investigation is moving quickly with evidence being collected by multiple agencies, but they are not yet confirming details that could compromise the case. Except for the president, of course, coming out and saying they had somebody in custody. When they didn't. Police say a person of interest, a, ah, male in his 20s, was eventually detained and could face charges in the next few hours. And Dana, uh, we went to bed thinking about a mass shooting and woke up to another one. We woke up to the mass shooting in Sydney, Australia.
Yeah.
The death toll of that shooting at a celebration marking the first night of Hanukkah rose to 15 on Monday morning. The authorities described the attack, which they said was carried out by a father and son, as an act of terrorism. The New South Wales police said more than three dozen more remained hospitalized following the attack on Bondi beach, one of Sydney's most famous destinations. Victims ranged in age from 10 to 87. As it stands now, Dana, one gunman is dead, the other is in critical condition. And Reuters reported that a bystander captured on video tackled and disarmed one of the shooters during Sunday's deadly attack at Bondi Beach. And he's been hailed a hero whose actions definitely saved lives. Footage circulating on social media shows a man named my local media's 43 year old Muslim fruit shop owner Ahmed Al Ahmed in a car park wearing a white shirt and charging at a man in a dark shirt who was holding a rifle. He then tackles the armed man from behind, wrenching the rifle from him with his hands before pointing the gun back at the shooter. He could have shot the gunman, but he didn't. And keep in mind Australia, uh, there's going to be arguments. Oh, I thought Australia had great gun laws. They don't work. Australia has had 35 mass shooting deaths in the past decade, whereas America, we've had 5,500.
5,500. And from what I understand, Ahmed was, uh, wounded by the other terrorists. He is being treated for his wounds, but he helped save what could have been an even more disastrous massacre. He literally charged him while the gunman M was firing Syl into this crowd. It's a horrific anti Semitic shooting. Uh, and obviously this one has me a little bit shaken for obvious reasons. Um, the anti Semitism in this world and in this country is rising. It continues to rise, rise. Um, no thanks to this administration as well as, um, other administrations that are supposed to be protecting Jewish people around the world.
So, yeah, agreed.
My thoughts, yeah, my thoughts are with the Australian people, the Jewish community specifically around the world as well. And I'm wishing all of you who are listening and celebrate peaceful celebration of lights. And, um, I hope it is a joyous one, despite how this has been starting one of our allies down under. So, Alison, thank you for that story. All right, this next one's from the Times. President Trump's pledge to pardon Tina Peters, a former Colorado county clerk convicted of tampering with voting machines, touched off a new battle on Friday over the fate of perhaps the Last high profile 2020 election denier still behind bars. Democratic leaders in Colorado dismissed the pardon as an empty attempt to bully a Democratic state into freeing one of the president's political allies. They argue that Mr. Trump had no legal power to overturn Ms. M. Peters conviction in a state court. A state court. So there's no legal merit here. This is from Attorney General Phil Weiser of Colorado. He happens to be a Democrat. He said that in an interview on Friday. And he went on to say he is continuing to escalate out of desperation. This is from Colorado's Democratic Secretary of State, Gina Griswold. Although the Supreme Court has expanded some of Trump's powers broadly protecting him from prosecution for official acts as president, and agreed to hear a case over whether he can strip birthright citizenship from the children of immigrants, Mr. Reiser said he did not see any credible legal argument for Mr. Trump's pardon. And Ms. Peters, he said, we're ready to go before a court on this. Our position is as strong and clear as any constitutional case. I can imagine.
Yeah, I love that.
Good for them.
I figured he would try to, you know, cuz he kept calling for her release. I figured he'd try to pardon her and see if he could take this up to his pals at the Supreme Court to expand his pardon power to state crimes. Good, uh, luck. Now, the reasons that Indiana senators defied Donald Trump on redistricting are becoming clear, and they're deeply personal in some instances. Now we know about Senator Bohasic and his anger with Trump for using the R slur to describe Tim Walsh because Bohasic has a daughter with down syndrome. In another instance, Dana, Gene Lising said that all the members of her grandson's basketball team had received horrible text messages about his grandma and that ultimately led her to oppose the president. Greg Walker was targeted by swatting attempts and he felt that giving in would reward Trump's horrible bullying behavior. Greg Good said it was the violent threats that pushed him over the edge. Sue Glick also cited the bullying by Trump and noted that her discussions with JD Vance and Mike Johnson were very respectful. But Trump's rhetoric has to be nipped in the bud now. Ah, Dana, it's fascinating that it was the bullying and not the policy that led to the maps being defeated.
Absolutely.
And that doesn't bode well for Trump's brand of politics, especially going into the midterms. Dana, a lot of these Republicans weren't necessarily against the gerrymander.
Yeah.
It was the bullying. But you know, they'd also cited all of these senators at one point or another, cited that, the fact that their constituents didn't want this either. So partially the politics, but mostly he's a dick.
Yeah. I love that they're calling him out on this too. Um, there's still some parts of this that there's still all the guardrails haven't broken off. That's all I, that's all I'm trying to say. Now there's even more fracturing in the Republican Party, which I'd love to see. Now. This comes from the Associated Press. Nearly two dozen House Republicans joined Democrats Thursday to pass a bill that would restore collective bargaining rights for hundreds of thousands of federal employees, an attempt to overturn an executive order that Trump issued earlier this year. The measure passed 231 to 195 after reaching the floor through a bipartisan maneuver that bypassed GOP leadership, a so called discharge tactic that is being used with growing frequency as Republicans screaming see the over dysfunction in the chamber. The bill still needs Senate approval to become law. But 20 Republicans sided with Democrats in a rare break from the president. The executive order that Trump issued in March aimed to end collective bargaining for employees of agencies with national security missions across the federal government. You see, he had the authority, remember, to revoke the rights under a 1978 law. Mhm.
He did it in his first term too. And again, this is Republicans who have to get reelected or at least try to get reelected this coming year saying.
I think they're saying what's happening in these districts and these massive swings and they're like, shit, no one's safe right now.
Yeah. Even if you've got a 10, 12, 13 point, you know, red district.
Yeah.
So you know, Trump doesn't have to get reelected again. So all these Republicans breaking, they, they did a discharge petition to go around Mike Johnson. They really are mad at Mike Johnson. Right. Which brings me to this next story from Ms. Now they're reporting that Marjorie Taylor Greene might be resigning from Congress next month, but she's weighing one last act of defiance. A long shot bid to topple Speaker Mike Johnson. In recent days, the controversial Georgia Republican has been working behind the scenes to gauge whether there's support for a motion to vacate the chair that's according to three sources familiar with her efforts who spoke on a condition of anonymity. She's trying to whip votes to vacate Mike Johnson's speakership.
And even if this causes a bunch of infighting, bring it on.
Especially if it causes a bunch of infighting, I love this for them. So under the House rules, you know, under the McCarthy rules, they only had to have one vote to trigger a motion to vacate. But under the new House rules adopted at the beginning of this year, they need nine Republicans to trigger such a vote. And Greene is trying to figure out who might be willing to sign on. Quote, marjorie is approaching members to get nine who will oust the Speaker. That's one of the sources. And if we don't get to work on codifying Trump's agenda, anything can happen. Now, it's a long shot, as admitted by all three of these sources, but I think the real story here, there's more cracks in the dam. And the fact that she's going around trying to whip votes to vacate Mike Johnson just. It brings me joy. Not her. She's terrible.
Awful. Yeah. Even these semblances with the Epstein thing, it doesn't make her a good person. She's still a horribly transphobic piece of crap. So there's that.
Yeah. Uh, she just tried to pass a bill, another anti trans bill, to get a provision, and, you know, she comes out and some Republicans are all, ooh, this is interesting. And then, bam, she just shows her true colors again. Like, the tent's big, Dana, but it ain't that big.
No. Nope, nope, nope. And theirs is a circus tent. So this one's from NBC. Democrats on the House Oversight Committee on Friday released a second batch of images from the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's estate. The images include pictures of Epstein with a number of high profile figures. President Donald Trump, longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon, former President Bill Clinton, former Clinton Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, Microsoft co founder Bill Gaetz, movie director Woody Allen. No surprise there. Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson and prominent attorney Alan. I kept my underwear on Dershowitz. They do not appear to be showing illegal activity by anybody in these photos. However, on Friday evening, House Democrats said they released another batch of more than 70 images. Including the release was a photo of Epstein in a bubble bath with a curtain partly drawn. Gross. Another photo showed a massage machine. Many of the additional images released Friday evening did not include photos of people. And I saw some, um. They're disgusting. The deadline of the Department of Justice to release the Epstein files is still coming on. It is December 19th.
Yeah. And, you know, I saw Rep. Garcia and Rep. Massie talking about how they've got, they got 90,000 photos in this dump. They've released like a hundred. And they, they say there are extremely disturbing photos, including child sexual assault material.
Ugh.
And what I'd like. Now, I know you can't release or mass disseminate child sexual assault material. You can't release those photos. But I would like to hear a description of them. I would like to hear. We have a photo of Prince Andrew, you know, molesting a minor who we've identified at the time as being a child. Or, you know, describe them. Don't. You don't have to show them to me.
Right.
But I think the M.O. here, Dana, is for them to start like they started with the most banal photos. They have 90,000 of these. And as the year goes on toward the midterms, they're going to continue to release or talk about worse and worse and worse evidence from the Epstein estate. So we'll see what happens Next up from the Guardian Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee on Friday. They're going to ask, or maybe they have already, Judge Eileen Cannon. They're going to ask her. This is the judge who presided over the case against Trump for hiding the classified documents and retaining them and obstructing justice and, you know, trying to flood the server room to delete videos of them obstructing justice, obstructing their obstruction. It's like a turducken of obstruction. And they're going to urge Eileen Cannon to release volume two of Jack Smith's report. Now, Smith is scheduled to appear next week, this, this coming week for a behind closed door deposition with Republican led committee, the Judiciary Committee, where he may discuss the investigation into allegations that Trump took classified materials to his property and then hid them from federal authorities and then lied to federal authorities about it multiple times and then obstructed the lying. It's just a, I mean, he was guilty as fuck. The special counsel dropped that case against Trump as well as other another concerning his meddling in the 2020 election. Meddling, 2020 election. That's an interesting way of saying insurrection.
Yeah.
In, uh, the aftermath of his reelection victory. Reelection victory. Oh, last year. Okay. I was like, he didn't win in 2020. What's going on? Guardian. Okay. Now, Cannon earlier this year ruled that the classified documents portion of Smith's report stay unreleased. She ruled that in January 21st as a matter of fact, citing the ongoing proceedings against the co defendants, Walt Nada and Carlos de Oliveira. However, Attorney General Pam Bondi dropped those charges earlier this year in February. And. And in a motion to. Cannon shared with the Guardian, the Democrats will argue that there is now no reason to keep the second portion of Smith's report from being released. And, of course, the Knight Institute of Columbia University has also done the same thing. And the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has given Cannon until January 2nd to rule on their motion to release this report. Quote, the rationale of the court's prior order thus no longer applies. The criminal proceedings have been dismissed, and the House Judiciary Committee has proceeded with a formal investigation into Special Counsel's operations. Now, I think my favorite part of this is that they're arguing, uh, this is an ongoing case. We can't put stuff out about it. And the Democrats are like, yeah, but then you're interviewing Jack Smith about it behind closed doors this week. So that kind of waves, that excuse.
They usually step on their own. Almost say tie this time.
Tie.
Okay, uh, this one's from the Times. This next story, the Trump administration is providing the names of all air travelers to immigration officials, substantially expanding its use of data sharing to expel people under deportation orders. Under the previously undisclosed program, the Transportation Security Administration provides a list of multiple times a week to Immigration and Customs Enforcement of travelers who will be coming through airports. ICE can then match the list against its own database of people subject to deportation and send agents to the airport to detain these people. This is going to be a fucking disaster because there's too many American, uh, citizens right now that have phones and that are up in arms about that. This is gonna be a mess. A mess. It's unclear how many arrests have been made as a result of the collaboration, but documents obtained by the New York Times show that it's led to the arrest of any. Lucia Lopez Bayoza, the college student picked up at Boston Logan airport on November 20 and deported to Honduras two days later. A former ICE official said 75% of instances in that official's region were names that were flagged by the program, yielding arrests. Now, ISIS historically avoided interfering with domestic travel, but the partnership between airport security and the immigration agency, which began quietly in March, is the latest way the Trump administration is increasing cooperation and information sharing between the federal agencies in service of the president's goal of carrying out the largest deportation campaign in US History, which he is failing at. The Trump administration has tried to leverage other databases to track down immigrants it wants to detain or deport, including irs, which earlier this year agreed to hand over the addresses of migrants to ice. A federal court blocked the effort in November. And if these people are mooching off our system, why the fuck are you using irs? Because. Oh, they're working and paying taxes.
Mhm. Yeah. Man, this is just so dystopian.
Yeah, it really is.
I just, it's, um, to use like, traveler information that's such an invasion of privacy. It's so gross.
Yeah.
And they're using facial recognition software. And then if you're traveling from an allied country, they're going to go through five years of your social media history. It's just, I mean, talk about Big Brother. Like, where are all the Republicans that are like, stop spying on me. I guess they only care if they're spying on senators, you know?
Yeah, no kidding.
Senators who broke a law. But it seems as though Trump and Stephen Miller are now at odds because the mass deportation program is polling very, very poorly. Currently, only 38% approve of Trump's handling of immigration. That's according to the latest Associated Press poll. Fox News reported on Saturday that the Department of Homeland Security is amending its immigration enforcement. Fox News says that the DHS is amending their pivoting by moving away from raids targeting all illegal immigrants and focusing more on the ones who've committed serious offenses, which is an admission that they haven't been doing that. Teams under U.S. border Patrol commander at large Gregory Bevino will shift their focus to specific targets, including illegal immigrants who've been convicted of serious crimes. News Nation. This is from News Nation, which M. Uh, because it's Fox and News Nation, I really, I have serious doubts. And speaking of Gregory Bevino, the Daily Beast reports that a Border Patrol agent who allegedly threatened to shoot a bystander during an arrest is behind a social media account rife with racist, sexist and anti LGBTQ posts.
Shocking.
Who would have guessed? Timothy Donahue is his name. Name him and shame him. He's 38. He was a member of lead Commander Gregory Bevino's marauding so called Green army during Operation Midway blitz in Chicago, part of Trump's immigration crackdown. Donahue was cited, though not by name, in a blistering opinion by U.S. district Judge Sarah Ellis after he was filmed threatening someone watching an arrest in Evanston. Posting on Twitter is Timothy Buncha Numbers. Donahue, who has claimed on the platform that he previously worked as a paramedic, which he also repeated during the violent arrest cited by Judge Ellis, has over the past four years endorsed or amplified white supremacist, racist, misogynistic and homophobic content. Donahue, who got married in Ohio in 2011, according to public records, also posted about women. When a Twitter user asked in September 2023 if America would be better off if women couldn't vote, Donahue said yes. The following month, he wrote Woodchipper under a photo of a drag queen speaking to a child. That followed a post in March that year when he replied good. To a story about fear in the trans community after the Nashville school shooting.
So it just sounds like big piece of shit.
Yeah. So we got domestic violence people, you know, uh, just all these criminals who. And they're supposed to be targeting criminals, and they're. They themselves are criminals. It's.
Yep, worse than 80%. 80 to 90% of the people that they've tried to detain. This one is also from the Times. We got a lot here. Turns out the Trump administration helped lift the travel ban on the Tate brothers. Now we've known about this and him them protecting these two pieces of shit. After Mr. Trump's reelection, some of the Tate's supporters ascended into the new administration. One of them, the diplomatic envoy Richard Grinnell, twice discussed their case with Romanian officials. Within days of the second conversation, the Romanian prosecutors received their marching orders and handed the Tates the freedom to travel after long, arguing that the brothers were a public danger and a flight risk. The prosecutors were outraged, according to people familiar with the matter, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss. Andrew Tate also nurtured relationships with Trump Jr. Don Jr. And his younger brother Barron, who recognized the role that young male voters could play in their father's return to power. Barron, now 19, admired Andrew. That's fucking horrifying statement. And spoke with him over Zoom last year, according to Justin Waller, a mutual friend who was on the call. During the call, they discussed their shared belief that the Romanian criminal case was an effort to silence the Tates. When Andrew texted in January that the Trump administration was on top of things, he didn't name names. But several of his supporters have found roles in incoming government. Paul Ingracia, who was initially named White House liaison to the Justice Department, has once been part of the Tate's legal team. Alina Haba, a counselor, and the president, who would later serve a brief stint as New Jersey's top prosecutor, told Andrew on a podcast in January, I got your back over here. February 25th, the Tates officially requested to have their travel restrictions removed. In the early hours of February 27, the brothers drove to the airport, as documented in a video Titled, and I quote, the Tate Escape, they beamed at each other as the plane took off to Florida. When asked that day whether the Trump administration had aided the Tate's release, their lawyer, Mr. McBride, told the Times, do the math. These guys are on the plane.
Yeah. Apparently flying to Florida to meet with Donald Trump. Yep. And that's when the. The story that we had covered before was when they landed, their devices were confiscated and was Paul and Gracia who got them returned to them. All right, next. Yeah, the Barron Trump thing is creepy.
Yep.
Next up from the Times, A federal appeals court in Washington on Friday temporarily put a hold on a looming contempt investigation into whether the Trump administration willfully violated a judge's order directing officials to stop flights of Venezuelan immigrants from being sent to El Salvador Seacoat Prison in March. The single page decision by a three judge panel of the U.S. court of Appeals for the District of Columbia came in response to a belligerently worded request by the DOJ and asking the court to shut down the contempt proceedings. The appellate panel ruling gave no hint about how it may ultimately handle the high stakes contempt proceeding. Because this isn't the merits. This is just an administrative stay while they contemplate further. But it would almost certainly grant the administration a, uh, reprieve from having one of its top immigration lawyers have to take the witness stand next week and answer questions about his role in conveying to senior officials the order by the judge, James Boasberg, to stop the deportation flights. So this is the same three judge panel that initially vacated Boasberg's contempt determination, but the en banc court sent it back and revived the contempt proceedings. So we may see an en banc appeal here, depending on what this three judge panel decide. But they could sit on this decision for a really long time and postpone this contempt proceeding for, you know, for a considerable amount of time. We'll see what happens.
Yeah, absolutely. Thanks, Alison. All right. And from the jurist, U.S. district Judge Polissinis issued a temporary restraining order blocking Immigration and Custody Customs Enforcement from detaining Kilmar Abrego Garcia again pending further hearings. The TRO came only a few hours after Judge Zinis ordered Abrego, uh, Garcia's release from ICE custody in Pennsylvania. In the tro, Judge Xinis wrote, Abrego, uh, Garcia will suffer irreparable harm absent emergency relief. It is beyond dispute that unlawful detention visits irreparable harm. She added, because respondents have no statutory authority to remove Abrego Garcia to a third country absent a removal. His removal cannot be considered reasonably foreseeable, imminent, or consistent with due process. Abrego Garcia was scheduled to check in with ICE in Baltimore on Friday morning. His attorneys petitioned Judge Sinis for the TRO because they expected ICE to arrest him, rearrest him if he went to check in. Abrego Garcia stated through a translator on Friday, I, uh, stand here today with my head held high. I will continue to fight and stand firm against all the injustices this government has done upon me, regardless of this administration. I believe this is a country of laws, and I believe that this injustice will come to an end. Amazing. After everything he's been through, he's like, um, I don't fault this country. I fault this administration as it should be. Well said. Yeah.
And by the way, the Trump administration went to that handpicked immigration judge. The immigration judges, by the way, work for Trump, not for the judiciary. And got that immigration judge to issue a retroactive deportation order, citing it being a scrivener's error, which is usually reserved for correcting a typo, not creating a deportation order when one never existed. And that judge, you know, because Abrego Garcia tried to reopen his asylum case with that judge, and that judge shut him down. And Abrego appealed to the Board of Immigration, and that court has jurisdiction now. So the judge that tried to, like, corruptly, you know, issue this retroactive deportation order didn't even have jurisdiction to do it. Like, it's just so corrupt and gross. And that's why Judge Sini stepped in and said, hands off. And he did check in Friday morning, and he walked out a free man.
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Then good news, everyone. Good news, good news. Boy, do we need your good news now more than ever. Any little bit of good news. It can be big, it can be small. It could have happened y maybe 10 years ago, maybe 25 years ago. Whatever. Wonderful story that will bring smiles to many faces that you want to share. We would love to hear it. We also love to hear shout outs to loved ones or yourself or small businesses in your area or a nonprofit or some great community organizing or a government program that's helped you or a loved one. We love to hear all of your goodness. You could send us your favorite joke, favorite dad jokes, favorite puns. Maybe you've got a limerick about Donald Trump not being able to indict Letitia James. I know that's very specific, but someone asked me for one the other day, so I obliged. Um, but you can send it all to us@dailybeanspod.com and click on contact. And all you got to do to get your submission read on the air, including your Good trouble recommendations, is to submit your POD pet tariff, which means attach a photo of your pet. If you don't have that, any picture will do. You can send an adoptable pet in your area. You can send a random photo of an animal on the Internet. You can send a bird watching photo, which can be a bird or you flipping the bird to a Trump building. You can send photos of rallies you've been to with some great signs or overpass protests or what your, you know, your holiday decorations look like or what you dressed up for Halloween as. Maybe uh, you have some baby pictures. Anything at all will do. Send it to us dailybeanspod.com and click on contact. All right, first up is our good trouble. And this comes from passed off in Palm Beach. I think it might be be pissed off in Palm beach, but we'll see. So this is a call for good trouble and it's time sensitive everyone. Project 2025 implementation has progressed to gut the Equal Credit Opportunity act, the ecoa. This is a path to strip more rights from women and minorities. It was the early 70s before women could get loans or have credit cards in their own name. Screw these weird people who want women to be married and pumping out kids and not be able to own anything and ensure non white people are not treated equally. And I'd like to add, by the way, pissed off in Palm beach. They're trying to take away no fault divorce as well. The public comment period ends at 11:59pm Eastern today, Monday, December 15th. So we're going to put a link in the show notes for your public comments and for my pet tax. This is Gabby, the original punk Rocksu. Aw, I lost her a few months ago, but she was kicking butt and taking names until the very end. My personal little Viking shield maiden. All nine pounds of her. Look at her little misfits denim jacket and her little plaid skirt.
So cute.
Oh, I love this pupper. Thank you. Pissed off in Palm beach for that good trouble.
I had a feeling I was going to get a correction. I appreciate this. This is from Andrea Pronoun. She and her pronunciation correction. Houghton. I'm learning it's Houghton county in the city in Michigan's up is pronounced Ho tun ho like Santa's chortle and ton like £2,000. Houghton. Love the show. Thanks for being a part of keeping me sane in the madness. My pod pet tax is our pandemic medical foster, Prozac Press a princess. And my first foster failure in over 30 years of molosser rescue. Uh, she was taken in by Detroit anti cruelty on the brink of death. Macomb County Humane Society accepted her and saved her life with excellent medical care. Oh my God, look at this baby. She was so deeply emotionally damaged that we feared she either would be unadoptable or further damaged in the wrong hands. As sadly pero de presa. Uh, Canarasios. Canarasios are often adopted by people for the wrong reasons. So we stunned McHs and adopted her ourselves with lots of love. She's now a mostly functional dog. She sure is cute.
I wonder if the paro depressa canarios. Is that, is that a canarios? I guess it's a breed. I guess it's a breed of dog, but another beautiful breed dogs oppressa.
Um, yeah, yeah.
Oh, well, Andrea, or Andrea, I'm not sure how to pronounce your name. Maybe you can send us another correction.
Like Huffington and on the five corrections on my Spanish as well.
But I, I would love to know how it's going with, um, with this beautiful baby's behavior. All right, next up from Kim, pronoun she and her another pronunciation correction. My favorite Jackie and the Beans talk talkers. My favorite queer cousin recommended this daily news show to me many moons ago and I finally got a chance to listen regularly, although I don't catch every episode. Always tune into the good news segments and you make make the bad news, I mean the regular news, more tolerable with your quick wit and slight correction from Friday's good news. Pasty is pronounced ah. Ah, yes, pasty, not pasty. They're delicious and amazing, unlike pasties that cover up something delicious and amazing. Um, uh, pasties go over your nipples when you dance. Attached is a photo of my 17 month old daughter, spouse and myself dressed up for Halloween. I love Halloween pictures. Can you gu. Guess what?
We are.
Please don't say Jurassic World. Mom Bragg here. She has just learned 50 words and I'm amazed at her genius. Every day we ask her what she wanted to be for Halloween and she just held up her dino stuffy and said rawr. We made daddy's dream come true and we didn't need the rawr voice box. Uh, her costume came with.
Okay. Oh my gosh, she's cute.
So we got. It's Jurassic park, right? Not Jurassic World. Am I, I, am I getting it right? I don't want to, I don't want to offend anyone, but yeah. Leah, look at the little thing on the. On the wagon. Jurassic Park.
Oh gosh. So cute.
Oh my, oh my. That dinosaur. Can I have one? Did they make that for adults?
All right, this is from John. Pronouncing him. I proudly wear my Portland inflatable frog hat. Says resist on the back. When I'm out and about out, it gets lots of smiles and thumbs up and only rarely a negative reaction. My daughter in Tucson took in a cuter than hell young mutt that was apparently abandoned at her property. Has a pug face but a little larger than typical. He's healthy and chipped, but not registered. Personal issues prevent her from keeping it. She would like to avoid turning it over to the county. If you're interested in adopting this pup or knowing any more, we have a link in the show notes to connect you with John. The pup is in Tucson. There is a form and the pup is super cute. It almost looks like a pug pitty. Like a pug boxer.
Yeah. Or a pug Boston or like a. Yeah. Oh, this is a long legged pug is what this is. Oh, adorable. Thank you for that adoptable pet and thanks for letting us know about your inflatable frog hat. Oh, it's not an inflatable hat. It's just a frog hat. Absolutely love it. Yeah, it's a. It's a hat with an inflatable frog on it. Next up from Denise Pronoun. She and her first thank you so much for the and valuable service that you do with this podcast. You create community in a fractured time and provide clarity in the chaos. Along with some much needed swearing. I want to give a huge shout out to my amazing brother Dylan, who on September 17 left Olympia, Washington to embark on a cross country bike ride for justice in honor and remembrance of his childhood neighbor and friend, Rachel Corey. Rachel was a peace activist who in 2003 was crushed by a bulldozer while protesting the Israeli military's demolition of Palestinian houses in Gaza. Oh my God. Dylan's goal has been to amplify her message and raise funds for the foundation that was established in her name, in addition to protesting corruption and injustice and prompting peace and justice here and around the world. After almost three months on the road, Dylan is now in the final push of his journey, just days away from his destination, Washington, D.C. and I could not be more proud and inspired. We will have a link to the Rachel Corey foundation in the show notes and you can follow Dylan's ride at DLN nvns. Uh, I'm sharing our two rescue pups, Luna, who's four, and Lily's who's seven, who are best friends and equal parts derpy, goofy, loving and joyful.
They're sure cute.
Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. Oh, they are derpy and joyful and loving little hams. And they love a camera. Denise. Oh my gosh.
I do too. All right everyone. This is from Anonymous because it's a federal worker. No pronouns given. Longtime listener, first time writer, good trouble, right, everybody? Trump's Gold Card website has gone up and I for one have a lot of questions, especially pertaining to the $1 million gift, such as who is receiving this gift? Luckily, they left the email address. Everyone, it's goldcardoc.gov uh, doc.gov uh, for support concerning the Gold Card card. So if you're curious about this and where the gift's going, you can write in attach to some bird watching inspired by your show when my kids and I went on a vacation to D.C. last year. And man, there is all the energy in the world behind those double birds. You are raising them right. Anonymous federal worker.
Yeah, I have questions, too. Anonymous. If I go to. If I email goldcardoc.gov I have a lot of questions, like, can animals buy the gold card? Can you use monopoly money money to buy the gold Card? I have a lot of really, really important questions that I would love to take up somebody's time and energy with. Um, so that's a really excellent good trouble, uh, recommendation. And y', all, if you have any good Trouble recommendations you want to send us, please do so along with your good news. Send it all to us again. It's DailyBeansPod.com and click on contact. We're gonna need it. Um, even though this administration's falling apart, the Republican Party is cracking. There's still bad news every day.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
We need to counter that with, uh, your good news. So, again, send it to us. Do you have any final thoughts today, my friend?
Not today. Just everyone. Have a good beginning to your week.
Yeah. And if you get a chance, over on my substack, mullershirote.com, i've shared my latest video, uh, that, you know, the Midas Touch Network so graciously gives me a platform to do. So if you want to watch that video, there's a lot of really interesting stuff, and I got receipts. And, um, I'd be really appreciative if you gave it a. Gave it a gander. It's free to watch. So, everybody, we will see you on Beans Talk, the new video podcast that you can catch at MSW Media Media YouTube channel. And we'll be back on yours tomorrow on the Beans. 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.
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