Friday, April 25th, 2025 Today, Pete Hegseth downloaded Signal on his Pentagon desktop to circumvent classified spaces; President Volodimyr Zalensky rejects Trump’s tired Ukraine peace deal; the Trump administration moved a Venezuelan man to Texas despite a federal judge's order; the Pentagon resumes medical care for transgender troops; Trump tells Pam Bondi to launch a criminal investigation into ActBlue; Leland Dudek calls for all SSA offices employees to be converted to Schedule F; Trump’s approval rating is in the toilet; the DoJ accidentally files an internal document outlining how much their case against congestion pricing sucks; and Allison delivers your Good News.
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Today, Pete Hegseth downloaded Signal on his Pentagon desktop to circumvent classified spaces; President Volodimyr Zalensky rejects Trump’s tired Ukraine peace deal; the Trump administration moved a Venezuelan man to Texas despite a federal judge's order; the Pentagon resumes medical care for transgender troops; Trump tells Pam Bondi to launch a criminal investigation into ActBlue; Leland Dudek calls for all SSA offices employees to be converted to Schedule F; Trump’s approval rating is in the toilet; the DoJ accidentally files an internal document outlining how much their case against congestion pricing sucks; and Allison delivers your Good News.
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MSW Media Media. Hello and welcome to the Daily beans for Friday, April 25, 2025. Today, Pete Hegseth downloaded signal on his Pentagon desktop to circumvent classified spaces. President Volodymyr Zelensky has rejected Trump's tired Ukraine peace deal. The Trump administration moved a Venezuelan man to Texas despite a federal judge's order. The Pentagon is resuming medical care for transgender troops. Trump tells Pam Bondi to launch a criminal investigation into Act Blue. Leland Dudyk is calling for all SSA office employees to be converted to schedule F. Trump's approval rating is in the toilet. And the Department of Justice accidentally filed an internal document outlining how much their case against congestion pricing sucks. I'm your host, Alison Gill. Hey, everybody, happy Friday. It's Fugal saying Fridays on the Daily Beans, which means I'll be joined later in the show by John Fugal saying, Dana Goldberg is out today. She'll be back on Monday. She's traveling for work. So, uh, we will see her again just in a couple of days. Also this weekend we have a new episode of Unjustified, the podcast hosted by Andy McCabe and myself that comes out on Sunday. And, uh, we will have the Daily Beans weekly wrap up for patrons on Saturday. Also this Saturday, April 26th, I'll be participating in the not the White House correspondence dinner presented by the Political Voices Network. I'll be joined by Steph Miller, Alonzo Bowden, Trey Crowder, Jojo from Jurors, Brooklyn dad, defiant, uh, Frank Coniff from Mystery Science Theater 3000, John Fugelsang, Glenn Kirschner from Justice Matters, Hal Sparks, Chuck Nice, Frangela, Brian Caram, Dean Obadala, Elaine Boosler. It's going to be amazing. We, uh, wanted to provide some counter programming to the actual White House correspondence dinner that happens that night. Because, you know, that's what you get after canceling comic Amber Refn. So join us for this virtual event. You can get tickets at Meet Hook M M E E T Hook Live Not. We'll have a link in the show notes for you. All right, everybody, it's time for the news. Let's hit the hot notes. Hot, uh, notes. All right, first up, as promised, we have even more tea spilling on kegseth from his merry band of leakers. Uh, this is from the Washington Post. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed the installation of Signal A, ah, commercially available messaging app on a desktop computer in his Pentagon office, according to three people familiar with the matter. And we know who those three people are. If you've been Listening to the beans all week. That illustrates the extent to which he has integrated use of the unclassified communications platform at the center of his political troubles with the highly secure systems of the US Government that we rely on to safeguard military plans and other sensitive information. This puts our troops at risk. And in doing so, Hegseth effectively cloned the Signal app on his personal cell phone, according to the people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the issue that has hounded the Trump administration for weeks now. The move followed discussion among Hegseth and his aides. I wonder if it's the three of them that were walked out of the Pentagon for leaking information. Uh, anyway, his aides about how they could circumvent the lack of cell phone service in much of the Pentagon building and more quickly coordinate with the White House and other top Trump officials using the encrypted app. Hegsest decision earlier this year to install Signal on a desktop computer in the Pentagon was a workaround that enabled him to use Signal in a classified space where his cell phone and other personal electronics are verboten. And, uh, it allows him to communicate with ease with anyone, um, other government officials or his family, his brother and his wife who are outside the imposing military headquarters. Signal was first approved for limited use within the US government by the Biden administration in 2023. But classified information and other highly sensitive material not supposed to be shared there. But some good news from the Pentagon, and this comes from Politico. The Pentagon will resume gender affirming care for transgender service members, according to a memo obtained by Politico, which is an embarrassing setback to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's efforts to restrict their participation. The memo says the Defense Department is returning to the Biden era medical policy for transgender service members due to a court order that struck down Hegseth's restrictions as unconstitutional. The administration is appealing the move, but a federal appeals court in California denied the department's effort to halt the policy. While its challenge is pending, the Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to please allow the Pentagon to ban transgender service members while legal battles continue to play out. We'll see what the Supreme Court says. Um, Next up from science.org and this story isn't getting a lot of coverage. And it should. President Trump's administration appears to be killing much, if not all, of a historic initiative that was the first and is still the largest National Institutes of Health efforts centered on the health needs of women. The Women's Health Initiative, WHI has enrolled tens of thousands of participants in clinical trials of hormones and other medications and tracked the health of many thousands more over more than three decades. Its findings have had major influences on health care. WHI leaders announced yesterday that contracts supporting its regional centers are being terminated in September and that the study's Clinical Coordinating center, based at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer center, will continue operations until January 2026, after which time its funding remains uncertain. They added that the contract terminations for its four main sites will significantly impact ongoing research and data collection, severely limiting WHI's ability to generate new insights into the health of older women, one of the fastest growing segments of our population. There are, by the way, about 55 million postmenopausal women in the United States. I am among them scientists familiar with the initiative, whose annual funding is currently just under $10 million. That's it. They're already lamenting this loss, which could foreshadow billions in further contract research funding cuts by nih. Quote, this trial just taught us an immense amount of prevention of disease in women. That's Sarah Temkin, a gynecological oncologist who until the 11th of April was the associate director for clinical research in the Office of Research on Women's Health at nih. She went on to say, this is a terrible, terrible thing to have happen. Another quote, all of the regional contracts were terminated on an unprecedented timeline that may set a record for abruptness, since I can already see the termination in NIH reporters. That's epidemiologist Eric Witzel of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who has been a principal investigator, a PI on the study for 22 years. That's what he wrote in an email referencing the agency's grants database. Quote, it's a sad day indeed for women's health research because there is much more to learn from these remarkable women about predicting cognitive decline and healthy aging, as well as managing chronic disease in the oldest old. Moreover, there are many earlier career scientists in the US who depend on the WHI platform and resource to train, then launch and advance their careers in medicine and public health as I once did. So this is a tragic thing. And as one of those 55 million postmenopausal women, I really would be relying on that research. All of us do anyway. Next up from NBC President Donald Trump slammed Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday, accusing him of derailing negotiations to end the war in Ukraine while a peace deal was, quote, very close. In a long post on Truth Social, Trump described Zelenskyy's rejection of Russia's takeover of Crimea, which Russia illegally annexed in 2014, as very harmful to achieving peace. It's inflammatory statements like Zelenskyy's that make it so difficult to settle this war. It's wanting to maintain a, ah, democratic sovereignty that makes it so hard. It's just, it's unbelievable. Zelenskyy has consistently rejected the suggestion that his country give up its claim to the Crimean peninsula. Quote, there's nothing to talk about here, he said at a media conference Tuesday. This is against our constitution. During an Oval Office media event Wednesday evening, Trump suggested negotiations with Zelensky have been harder than dealing with Russian President Vladimir Putin. And, uh, just so you know, this peace deal isn't new. It's the Same one mentioned 20 times or so in the Mueller report, the same peace deal Kilimnik gave to Manafort in an effort to reinstall his old boss Yanukovych, as the leader of the annexed parts of Ukraine. So if you want to familiarize yourself with this, quote, unquote, peace deal, the Mueller report has a lot of information about it. Just, uh, Google it, Google the PDF and, uh, you know, command F and look for peace deal and you'll be able to see all the mentions of it in the Mueller report. Next up from Reuters. President Donald Trump's administration moved a Venezuelan man who had worked in construction in Philadelphia to Texas for possible deportation after a federal judge. And deportations in quotes here after a federal judge had issued an order blocking his removal from Pennsylvania or the United States. According to court records, a plane transporting the man took off on April 15 from an airport in the State Capitol, Harrisburg, about a half hour after U.S. district Judge Stephanie Haynes issued an order temporarily blocking the administration from moving him out of her western Pennsylvania judicial district and moving him out of the country. She blocked that, too. The Venezuelan, referred to in court papers as ASR, was then brought to the Bluebonnet Detention center in Anson, Texas, according to the government and the American Civil Liberties Union, which represents him. And if the Blue Bonnet Detention center sounds familiar, that's where Trump tried to stage the disappearing of another 200 Venezuelans a few nights ago after busing them up from the Southern District of Texas because there's a temporary restraining order after a habeas petition was filed in the Southern District of Texas preventing such disappearances from happening down to El Salvador. So he's in violation of a court order again. We'll see if anything happens. From CNN. President Trump signed a memorandum Tuesday targeting ActBlue, the Democratic Party's main fundraising platform taking aim at one of the key pillars of the financial infrastructure for Democratic candidates. A fact sheet about the memoir said it directs Attorney General Pam Bondi to launch an investigation into online fundraising platforms with the goal of, quote, cracking down on illegal straw donors. Coming from the guy who has taken more fucking illegal straw donations than anybody in the history of the universe. Right. Every accusation is a confession. And to have just a few short years ago, right wing nut jobs blow up about the fact that there was a five minute tarmac meeting between Bill Clinton and Loretta lynch, but now we see actual written memos from the president ordering the Attorney General to open up an investigation. So straw donors, by the way, are those who make donations in the name of others and foreign contributions in US Elections. This happened a bunch in the first Trump administration. Not only did we have multiple straw donors who, by the way, pled guilty, went to jail for using straw donations to get Russian money to the Trump campaign through the inaugural fund. You'll remember everything was like $108 million, 50 million was missing. And, uh, a lot of people were, quote, unquote, buying tickets to the inauguration and setting them up as, uh, illegal straw donations. For example, we also had that slush fund, Essential Consulting, set up by Michael Cohen. Uh, millions of dollars came in through that, including from a guy named Blavatnik, uh, who actually got the rest of the shares from Mnuchin after he sold his shares of, uh, Rat Pack, Dune, his, his movie company to divest, uh, out of that so that he could be the treasury secretary. So all sorts of fuckery. So much, uh, fuckery with straw donors going on with Republicans. But here they're targeting Act Blue. And again, it's this memo sites ActBlue, which has been the subject of Republican congressional investigations and criticism from Trump allies, including Elon Musk. So little m. Bit of hypocrisy there. Next up from NPR, a federal judge in D.C. has paused a key section of Trump's executive order that makes sweeping changes to voting in elections. I must have ran myself out of breath talking about how the super conservative chief Judge in the 11th Circuit, William Pryor, in a decision about whether or not to move Mark Meadows's case from Fulton county, where he was indicted, to federal court, cited his opinion a zillion times with multiple case citations and precedents, saying that the president and his chief of staff have no role in elections. They just have no role. So Critics of Trump's March 25 executive order say it could disenfranchise millions of would be voters and exceeds presidential authority. The executive order instructs the Independent Election Assistance Commission, that's the eac, to change the National Mail voter registration form to require that applicants show a document proving U.S. citizenship before they can register to vote. Quote, our Constitution entrusts Congress and the states, not the president, with the authority to regulate federal elections. That's what Judge Colleen Caller Cottelly said in a 120 page opinion, while noting that Congress is currently debating legislation, the SAVE act, that would require showing proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. Earlier this month, the GOP led House of Representatives, mostly along party lines, passed the SAVE Act. The bill faces an uphill battle in the Senate where Democrats have vowed to block it through a filibuster. We'll see if that happens next. Up from the government executive, Social Security Commissioner Leland Dudic this month instructed staff to prepare to convert wide swaths of his agency to the revamped Schedule F, a move that experts say would stretch even the Trump administration's wide definition of policy related jobs beyond all recognition. The Trump administration last week began moving forward with implementation of a newly renamed schedule Policy Career. That's what is the new name for Schedule F, which is a new job classification within the federal government and their accepted service for career federal workers that are in policy related positions. Employees reclassified into the new job category would be stripped of their civil service protections. In an April 7 internal email obtained by Government Executive, the acting commissioner took a sweeping view of the role of policy at the independent agency. Quote for ssa, policy making positions encompass a wide range of responsibilities including shaping regulations and sub regulatory guidance, overseeing administrative law, managing contracts, guiding information resource management and integrating research into decision making. That's what he wrote. And he said individuals in these roles often develop and implement both formal rules and informal policies, interpret and apply laws and influence how the Social Security Administration operates. So basically saying hey, if you're in charge of who brings the food to the potluck at the Thursday meetings, that's a policy decision. You belong on schedule F, which is basically right to work and we can fire you and you have no protections. Wow, uh, we saw this coming. He did it at the end of his last administration, Biden reversed it. But now it's much bigger than it was back then. So after all of the, you know, the first derp, the, you know, the deferred resignation program, the vera, the vsip, after trying to get everybody to voluntarily resign that way, then return to office orders, hopefully hoping that more people would just quit rather than Sit in a bullpen with 15 other people and have to pay $20 to park, another $20 to shuttle into the office. All of that designed to get people to voluntarily quit to give up their civil protections. And then we come in with the probationary rifts, which were blocked partially in the courts. Then we come in with regular rifts, reductions in force, which take a little more. There's a little more rights for workers there. Now they're coming in with Schedule F and they're going to say, everybody that's left, you're, uh, Schedule F now. You're a policymaker and so we can fire you at will so that, you know, that makes it easier for them to do so. Uh, also today in Republicans Can't Tech. That's an old segment we used to have on the Mueller She Wrote podcast. This is from ABC News. Lawyers with the Department of Justice accidentally filed a document overnight that outlined a series of legal flaws with the Trump administration's plan to kill New York City's congestion pricing tolls. In an 11 page letter to the Department of Transportation, lawyers with the U.S. attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York wrote that Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy's attempt to terminate congestion pricing faces, quote, considerable litigation risk and is unlikely to be accepted by the court. As discussed below, it goes on. There is considerable litigation risk in defending the Secretary's February 19, 2025 decision against the plaintiff's claims under the Administrative Procedures Act. That decision was contrary to law, pretextual, procedurally arbitrary and capricious, and it violated due process. That's all the shit we just did wrong. That letter was accidentally filed on the public docket. According to DOJ lawyers, both of Duffy's arguments for canceling the program, that the tolls raise revenue rather than prevent congestion, and that the program does not offer a toll free option are very unlikely to convince the court. And that's according to DOJ's own lawyers, Trump's own lawyers. In a letter to the judge overseeing the lawsuit challenging congestion pricing, DOJ lawyers on Thursday morning acknowledged the document was plainly filed in error. Oopsie. And asked to permanently seal the record. Too late. They argued that the internal legal guidance included in the letter is privileged. It shouldn't be considered in the ongoing lawsuit. Good luck on ringing that bell. A spokesperson for the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York said the filing was an honest error. Unfortunately, an attorney client privilege document was erroneously filed on the public docket last night. That's what the spokesperson, Nicholas Bayes, said in a statement on Thursday, quote, this was a completely honest error and was not intentional in any way. Upon realizing the error, we immediately took steps to have the document removed. We look forward to continuing to vigorously advocate in the best interest of our clients, the Department of Transportation and FHWA in this matter, even though we know our case is complete bullshit. I added that part at the end. Next up from the Times. President Trump's job approval rating has fallen steadily during his first three months in office. According to a Times average of polling, Trump's approval rating has sunk to about 45%, down from 52 one week after he took office. Around half of the country now disapproves of his performance, according to polls. American presidents typically enter office with a groundswell of support that wanes over time. But Mr. Trump's approval has been dropping slightly faster than that of his predecessors. Mr. Trump started his term with the second lowest approval rating for any president in modern history. The only recent president to have started in a worse position was Trump himself the first time he took office. Now Reuters has him down at 37%. 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Thank you very much, Alison. And I want to tell everyone that if, uh, if you let me be the next pope, I promise to totally stop drinking. I really will. I'll stop everything, and once I get the job. Thank you.
I did get an invite to the Conclave, so I'll be going and. No, I'm kidding.
Nice.
Talk a little bit about. Because, you know, I know. We know your background. We know how you grew up. And this is a very mysterious thing, uh, shrouded in secrecy. There's some smoke. There's black smoke until there's white smoke. Cardinals. I know that a, uh, great big chunk of the cardinals that will be selecting the next pope were actually magic words.
Many magic sacred words. Yes.
Made cardinals. They were made. You know, they were made cardinals. Ordained. I don't know what you call it. Crowned, knighted.
They were made. It's Italian. It's all cosa nosfer. They're made men. We can do. We can be real.
They're made men.
They got their button, you know, but.
They were chosen by Pope Francis, most of them. So talk a little bit, because I think we have a good chance of getting a woke pope. Another one. Talk a little bit about, uh, your thoughts about Francis and, uh, maybe tell us a little bit about the mystery, uh, inside the mystery turducken that is selecting a new pope.
I'm so happy to thank you. It's been quite a week. Yeah. Um, okay. Pope Francis was the greatest pope of all time. I will not be taking questions. Um, this is a man who, uh, for much of his early life, was known as Jorge Mario Bergoglio. And I always wish he'd kept the name Jorge just to upset the right people here. Um, you know, he wasn't really Italian, but he was. He was born in Buenos Aires to Italian immigrants, but, uh, ordained a Jesuit priest in 1969. Our first Jesuit pope. It's very important to remember that this guy led the Jesuit order in Argentina through their murderous, evil dictatorship of the late 70s and early 80s. He, uh, became archbishop in the late 90s. John Paul II made him cardinal, and he modeled himself very openly on Jesus. He wore the plain white cassock. He took the name of St. Francis, who's known for personal Simplicity and nonviolence. And he made conservative Christians lose their damn minds. And a lot of people who call themselves Christians reveal this week how deeply unchristian they are. He lived in the guest house, wouldn't live in the palace. He rode the city bus. He cooked his own dinner. No throne, no cape. He just wore the same orthopedic shoes he had worn back in Argentina instead of the Gucci loafers. He was like the Costco card Pope. Um, and he ran the Vatican in many ways, like it was an underfunded community center. And I mean that as a compliment. He called poverty a sin that cries to heaven. He called Trump's deportation policy a disgrace. This man kissed refugees, washed the feet of Muslim convicts. He approved blessings for same sex couples. Uh, first to name himself after St. Francis. First to call Trump not Christian. First to knock down JD Vance as a clown in a letter. First non European pope since the 8th century. And that's important because I think his outsider identity, that he wasn't European, really shifted over 12 years how the whole church came to see itself. And when he became Pope, he didn't just walk into a mess. I mean, he walked into a dumpster fire. We think about the child rape, but back then. And the movie the Two Popes highlights this. It was the Vatican banking scandal. They were neck deep with Cosa Nostra. They forced Benedict to retire. And that was weird because we had this old Pope who was making Francis wear a trainee badge the whole time. But Francis just kept loving sinners. He blessed atheists his first month in the job, and the Vatican had to try to cover it up. And he brought about a lot of changes. It is not the same church he had. When he showed up, he said, let's not obsess about abortion. Let's not obsess about gay people. Let's care about the poor. Take a goddamn science class and care about the planet. Care about these migrants who are drowning in the Mediterranean. And the right wingers have acted for 12 years like he just sprayed rainbow glitter on the Ten Commandments.
I remember when he got, uh, in a lot of hot water with Christian conservatives, um, about saying that, um, you know, caring about the earth and caring about the climate or ignoring it is was a sin, like one of the ultimate sins.
Uh, his first speech at the Capitol here in the States, he focused on climate change.
Mhm. And, uh, I thought that that was pretty, uh, impeccable, uh, for a Pope. And, yeah, I always have to add the. For the, for a Pope tag. Right.
Yeah. I mean, but he wasn't perfect, by the way. Like, he. He was great. I mean, look, he's the best we ever had on women, but nowhere near what we need. He was the best we ever had on abortion. I'm, um, not judging people who've had abortions, but obviously he could go a lot farther. The best ever on gays. You, uh, know, the best ever on child rape. But he was not perfect, especially with the Chilean abuse case a couple years ago. I was biased, Alison, because my dad was a Franciscan brother. And so when this guy was, uh, made Pope, it was just after my dad died, like, two years later, and he took the name Francis, which was my Dad's order, and St. Francis fought in the Crusades, left the Crusades, and embraced a life of poverty and anti war and caring for nature. So I was biased for this guy from the beginning. I'm very aware of his many, many flaws and shortcomings, but, I mean, he was the real thing. And if you want to know how good he was, look at who hated him. You know, Trump declared war on him in 2016. His Holiness versus His Ass Holiness. They called him a heretic because he was like, hey, let's let divorced Catholics maybe receive communion again. They wanted a pope who would bless their tax cuts and scold women for birth control, and instead they got a man who kissed the feet of migrants and called deportation a disgrace.
Yeah. Well, let's talk a little bit about the process to choose a new pope. The only thing I know is that they all lock themselves in a room, they blow black smoke, uh, and then when you see white smoke, there's a new pope.
That's right.
That's kind of all I know about it. Uh, and also address a little bit about the makeup of the cardinals that are going to choose the new pope.
That's the fascinating part. First off, it's sad that he went, but the best thing about it is I think it's going to motivate a lot of people to finally see Conclave, which I'm Catholic, so I went into it thinking, like, I'm going to be cynical about this movie, and I just love it. It works as a thriller the entire time. It's a great, very tense drama with some great. So every great actor in the world is in this movie. But in the end, it becomes so radiantly spiritual. It transcends religion, and it gives. It gives me shivers to think about where this movie goes in the end.
Do a double feature at home. Everybody watch Conclave, and then watch Dogma. It's coming back. Right. Dogma, I think, is coming back after a couple of decades.
Here's the thing. Francis, uh, over the last 12 years, appointed 80% of the cardinals who will elect his successor. He also removed cardinals who didn't do enough about child rape, who were bigoted, who openly challenged his authority on treating migrants like migrants. You know, corrupt, corrupt cardinals. You can't follow the Old Testament or the New Testament and embrace Donald Trump immigration policies. You just can't. So there's a lot of speculation. Will it be from Europe? Every time they say, oh, this time we'll finally get an African pope, that almost scares me, because I fear if they finally go ahead and get a pope from Africa, they'll try to play both ways and get a very arch conservative African pope to think they can split the difference. But, uh, out of the 138 cardinals who will be voting in this conclave, 110 have been personally hired as cardinals by this pope. Now, this doesn't. Ah. And he brought them from around the world. That's the thing. This guy came from outside of the European Insiders League. He brought them from every corner of the world. He brought the outsiders into the inner sanctum. So there's no guarantee this conclave will pick a guy as cool as him. But they'd be crazy not to, because this church is going to need women and gay people more than women and gay people need this church.
Yeah, no, I concur. Uh, I agree wholeheartedly. I think that there's a cardinal named Pizzabala, which I think is pretty great. Um, and I think somebody had posted on Twitter that if they do select Cardinal Pizzabala, that he should take the name John, uh, the 24th, so we can call him Papa John. And I just thought that that was. I thought that was pretty, uh, fun.
You know, Benedict was Ratzinger, so they used to call him paparazzi. I'm here for all of this. Yeah, Pizza Ball sounds like a character from Super Mario.
That's what Lady Gaga was talking about.
And by the way, I don't want to make this whole thing about J.D. vance. There's been so many jokes and memes about J.D. vance killing the pope, and he can please go see Putin next. But I just want to point out, um, Pope Francis couldn't stand this little punk. Okay? Pope Francis couldn't stand this guy. Just a few weeks ago, Francis tore J.D. vance a new tabernacle in that letter to the American bishops, because Eyeliner Boy was trying to use the ancient doctrine of ordo amoris. The divine order of love to justify mass deportations, to say you love your own people first and then outsiders second.
Oh, that's what it means. Oh.
Opposite, uh, of everything Jesus ever said. So the Pope wasn't having it. He said deporting people fleeing war, poverty, or climate disaster is an act that damages dignity and makes people defenseless. So Pope couldn't stand this guy. And we all know JD Vance didn't come to visit him. It was a PR stunt wrapped in an Easter basket and a crucifix. And Francis greeted this guy, played the Jesus role, embraced him, gave him Easter eggs for his kids, and did the right thing. Francis could have been a dick to this guy on his last day of life, and God knows this guy deserved it. But Pope Francis modeled way better than our friend Bill Maher that you can still be kind to these people without being played for a sucker by them.
Yeah. Um, who does like J.D. vance? I don't. I. And that's, you know, why a lot of people are like, oh, well, if something happens to, oh, yeah, Donald, uh, Trump, or, you know, Mother Nature takes her.
Oh, it'd be so terrible if something happened to his heart. Just a plaque around.
Everyone's like, oh, but J.D. vance is worse. I honestly think he. He. He is worse, but he would be better. Better in that nobody likes him and he wouldn't last long.
Exactly. He does not have what the kids call the Riz Allison. Uh, he would not have any hold over Maga. There's folks who come down from the mountains to vote for Mr. Trump from the TV show who would not come down to vote for Babyman with the eyeliner. Um, it would be wonderful to watch JD Vance think, just like, uh, the governor of Florida thought that he could somehow tame the Magazombie horde. It's Donald Trump's cult ban. Nobody else is gonna take it over.
Hey, so we also have something great that's happening. Dick Durbin, who's, gosh, been in service in the Senate for a very long time, uh, is stepping down. He is passing the torch. He is doing the right thing.
He's only 80.
I've been thanking him and posting that this. Thank you for doing this. I want to reward the behavior, um, because I think it's the right thing to do. And I hope that this is kind of. Kind of sets up a little bit of a permission structure for others to do the same.
It already has one of my favorite members of Congress, Jan Schakowski of Illinois, uh, who. I just have a deep, deep crush On. She's. She's just one of the most wonderful. She's just also a wonderful person. And, uh, she announced the same day. She already has, of course, a much younger challenger. And, um, you know, look, I, I have. I don't go for the ageism thing. Uh, I defended Joe Biden for a long time. Everybody I like is in their 80s now. Harrison Ford and Joni Mitchell and De Niro and Pacino and the Stones. I mean, my God. Um, but it's smart. It's a good branding move, and it's time to get some new faces in there to deliver these messages. There's just. There comes a time when, you know, as evil as ageism is, we're a shallow country and Joe Biden had to run smack dab into the middle of it.
He did. Um, thanks to a lot of other people who helped push him into this.
Yeah, exactly. Let's remember that ageism, double standard swings both ways.
It does, it does. Anyway, uh, there's something else I wanted to talk to you about before I let you go. And that is, you know, we talked a little bit about the Pope and his stance on immigration and what the Trump administration is doing. We now have a second person who was sent, uh, who's been ordered to be released from Seacoat. Um, in El Salvador, we have Abrego Garcia's wife being doxxed by the Department of Homeland Security. She's been a safe house. Now, of course, that wasn't an accident. And, uh, so we're looking at, we're hurtling toward a constitutional crisis here. But Judge, uh, Sinis has put a one week hold on her two week discovery process. And I'm holding out a little bit of hope that that is because it was all filed under seal, that maybe they're trying to facilitate his release, not necessarily to come back to the United States, but, uh, not to be held in C code, maybe to be deported to a third country because.
And, uh, again, it's not deportation. It's very good. It's not deported.
Well, to another country. It would be if he's sent to a different country other than El Salvador.
If you're sent. Yeah, if you're sent to. If you're renditioned to a prison in a third party country without any process, it's. It's kidnapping or renditioning or tra. I like trafficking. I think I'm just trying kidnapping on my show. I'm trying to do it too. And just not say the D word because.
No, I, I do that as well. But when I'm talking about actually deporting, uh, him to a different country, not into a prison.
Yes.
Um, that's. Then, yes. Uh, but, you know, I'm also concerned about them flipping to say that they're in DOD custody now and not DHS custody. So all these lawsuits and temporary restraining orders are moving.
That's what Bush did.
But I. I just wanted to kind of make the point that when Abrego Garcia got his order that he couldn't be deported to el Salvador in 2019. What that meant is they could have deported him through the INA to another country, not a prison. It was basically only illegal to deport him or to kidnap him or disappear him to El Salvador. And so I think maybe we might see something along those lines, because I don't think Judge Sinis would have agreed to just a typical delay or, uh, we don't want to fill out our privilege log or whatever, uh, other bullshit they've been using to stonewall. So I think we may see his release from sicote, but I don't think it will be him returning home. I don't know what your thoughts are.
They'll try to split it both ways. They'll take him out of the torture Gulag, but they'll still stigmatize him. They'll still illegally throw him out of the country when he's committed no crimes. And again, these are people who. These Republicans who, uh, don't mind Camp Auschwitz taking a dump in the Capitol rotunda. They don't mind the Camp Auschwitz people beating the crap out of cops. They don't mind Trump stealing from people with a fraud university. They don't mind disobeying a 900 Supreme Court order. But back in 2011, the teenaged Kilmar Garcia broke the law one time, and yet they held accountable. They don't care about the law any more than they care about abortion. They don't care about immigration. They just care about power. We talked about it last week, Dr. Gill, when Donald Trump came out and said he's not gonna deport hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who are here working in the agricultural sector.
Right?
We're already admitting it's all a scam and we need these workers to prop up our shitty economy. They're already admitting that they're not gonna get rid of people because this is performative cruelty theater. And the fact that it is means that for the rest of our lives, we're gonna witness lawsuits, massive civil lawsuits that future Democratic presidencies will oversee, where we the people are gonna have to be paying for the sins of these Republicans in reparations for so many people who are illegally trafficked out of this country. It's so early in the process. But Alison, I think they were really counting on America being too racist to care. You know, first they came for the socialists, then they came for the trade unionists. They were going for the folks they didn't think people would stand up to do. We saw it all last week when Chris Van Hollen did the right thing and the right wing, these fake Christians responded, calling him a terrorist lover or an MS.13 gang lover. They couldn't stop with their racist lies. They're scared. On the moral history book, they've already lost.
Yeah. And what happens when he does get some semblance of due process? Let's say they, you know, they go down there, they ask him the questions, and they say, okay, we'll release you from seco, but we're sending you to Rwanda. That is actually some, uh, semblance of due process. Uh, but it's still absolutely unconscionable. So we can't get caught in the trap where we say they need some due process because, uh, the Germans in World War II and the Japanese who were interned got a hearing. Right. Which is considered, quote, unquote, due process. So when we fight for due process, we need to fight for actual due process, because we're going to end up in a situation where we will be probably seeing the Trump administration's idea of due process, which will fall woefully short of actual due process.
I just want to get everybody to think in terms of, uh, how these people like Kilmar Garcia are going to Ruby Freeman and Shay Moss, the living hell out of Donald Trump and Pam Bondi and Margot Rubio. Ruby Freeman and Shay Moss need to start being verse, folks, because look at the lies that Rudy Giuliani spread about those two women and how he had to pay. And then look at the lies the Attorney General, the president, the Vice president, and the Secretary of State have been spreading about innocent people. Marco Rubio is, like, torn between knowing how evil this is, but biting the bullet because it's everything he ever dreamed for in terms of power. Rubio admitted that Mahmoud Khalil has broken no laws. I mean, the only law breaking in the case of Kilmar Garcia are Republicans. They're the illegals.
Mhm. Agreed. Thank you so much, my friend.
Thank you.
I really appreciate you coming on. Tell everybody what we're doing this.
Well, first off, I just want to say, media, Donald Trump's Ukraine peace plan is surrender in a spray tan. Let's not forget that.
Oh, yeah. Did you see the post I put out if the peace plan sounds familiar? It was in the Mueller report.
Twenty times, he says he said in 2016. I love it. Oh, appeasement doesn't break peace. It brings more war. Um, I am, uh, so thrilled that Alison Gill has agreed to do this little experimental show we're trying. Political Voices Network reached out to me and said, hey, let's do something crazy. When we heard that Amber Ruffin was fired, uh, from hosting the White House Correspondence Dinner on the grounds that she was funny and told the truth. So we put together, uh, sort of like a shadow docket. It's going to be the. Not the White House Correspondence Dinner. I've been relentlessly pushing this all over the place. Over a dozen comics and influencers and pundits and activists giving very different, very brief White House correspondents did her addresses, and, I mean, Alison Gill is joining us and giving us a speech along with Hal Sparks, Elaine Boosler, Alonzo Bowden, who I love from. Wait, wait, don't tell me. Trey Crowder, Stephanie Miller just joined the cast. Mr. Glenn Kirschner is doing this with us. And then there's, like, you know, influencers, uh, like Brooklyn Dad, Defiant, and Jojo from Jurors. Journalists like Brian Caram and comedians like Frangelo or Keith Dean Obedalla and TV's Frank. It's gonna be a riot. It's this weekend. Go to Meethook Live. NotMeet, uh, Hook Live. Not. It's gonna be inspiring and funny and deeply offensive to all the right people. I am so thrilled to be doing a, uh, creative, goofy, comedic show with you, Frank.
Frank from Mystery Science Theater 3000. Frank.
That's right. The TV's Frank of Mystery Science Theater 3000. We are representing so many different demographics, and the poster is crazy. I can't believe all these people came together last minute to do like. Like a wild little show. But we thought it's really important that nobody watch the actual White House Correspondence center this year.
Yeah, Uh-huh. I concur. Thank you, my friend. And thanks for inviting me. And thanks to, uh, you know, I'm just honored to have even been asked. So I appreciate it, and, uh, we will see you all. That's April 26th there. I have links that I've posted on my M. Blue sky account, uh, so you can get tickets. So thank you so much, and we will see you next week. In the meantime, everybody has to Listen to, uh, it's called Tell Me Everything. It's on Sirius XM progress channel 127, weeknights, 9pm Eastern, 6 Pacific, and or and slash or the John Fuglesang show podcast. I appreciate you, my friend.
You're the best.
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I can't believe I got excited about the quality of a graham cracker, but such a great suggestion. Dg. I'll definitely be going back for tax. I'll give you a picture of this heavenly s'more, but I also included a picture of the hummingbird who hangs around my patio and guards the three feeders that I have. It's a little bastard who chases all the other ones away. I even saw it chase off a fairly large blackbird. I made a little perch for it right outside my kitchen window where he slash she just watches me wash dishes or cook or eat mallows. Right Kevin? It's also where I listen to your show, so perhaps you have a new fan. Excellent. We have a hummingbird listening. Thank you so much Kevin. Yeah, Toasted Mallow in Gilbert, Arizona. Fantastic business. Next, uh, up from Anonymous no pronouns given. Hi Beanie babes. I am a longtime listener cleanup and unjustified as well. I'm so grateful to you both for brightening these dark days with your humor and keeping us informed of all the nastiness going down in our government. First, a uh, shout out to my 90 year old mom. Despite being blind and having a lot of other health issues, she's still kicking butt and taking names. As resident board president, she whipped her assisted living complex into shape to make life better for everyone. She was a pioneer in getting HMOs set up in the 1970s and 80s and started her own company back when there were very few women in that role. In retirement, she served for years on the board of student run free health clinics at UCSD Medical School. Now used as a model for other universities, she inspires everyone around her. I could not ask for a better moral guide for me or my daughter. Second shout out is my teenage daughter who was dealt a difficult hand in life and struggles with a lot of diagnoses. She's also an inspiration in so many ways. Her perseverance in accomplishing things that come easily to others is astonishing. She has autism and one of her superpowers is kindness. She loves to make people's days and she has the biggest heart of anyone I know. Her challenges led me to create an online community called Shared Umbrellas. The website for people caring for themselves or a loved one is currently under construction and I'm almost ready for beta testing. With zero prior technical skills, I learned to build most of it myself. Self Shout Out Woot woot. It uh, will provide a searchable directory of organizations, agencies and businesses that can help. Users can seek or share recommendations for providers and products ask questions and share helpful tips that they've learned in their journey in a safe and secure environment where personal information will never be sold or compromised in any way. Nudge, nudge. RFK Jr. I want caregivers to know they're not alone and they can connect with others facing similar issues, whether caring for yourself or someone else. It can be tough and isolating. We all need support. Uh, and we all can support each other and share our umbrellas. While the website is getting completed, I invite people to post on the Shared Umbrellas BSKY Social account. We are at the end of Autism Acceptance month, so I'd love for people with autism who love someone with autism to share a little bit about them. RFK Jr doesn't know a damn thing about the significant contributions that people on the spectrum make every day. Let's counteract his dangerous and hateful rhetoric with love and honor our neurodivergent heroes. Next week I'll also ask people to post about how Medicaid specifically helps them or a loved one and that massive cuts to or eliminations of programs are not acceptable. I'll also be asking people to post about how cuts to nih, Department of doe, Medical Research Studies, et cetera, will affect them. The more stories of the impact to real humans, the better it is and the easier it is to convince members of Congress that these programs are essential for podpet Tariff and slash. What the mutt? I'm sharing pictures of our rescue who has been a cuddly and loving companion for my daughter. Okay, me too. Our favorite nickname for her is Sneezy McFuzzbutt because she sneezes when she rolls over for belly rubs. We have a pretty uh, good idea of her mixed breeds, but what do you think? All right, let's take a look here. She looks like maybe a keita and German shepherd dog, but you let me know. I don't have the answers here so I must be right. But uh, what a wonderful post. Thank you for sharing. Anonymous and we look forward to your um, the launch of your website which uh, is going to be called Shared Umbrellas. Look forward to it. Next up from Rachel Pronoun. She and her I work in reproductive health care that has expanded to offer gender affirming health care in the last eight years. My department supports thousands of trans patients a year. 25% of our patient volume through telehealth. We just got word about HHS whistleblower tips website. It would be a shame if people started submitting all of the children who are subjected to conversion Therapy or youth abuse at residential schools instead of what they ignorantly call, quote, chemical mutilation of youth through gender affirming care. Rachel, thank you for my bird watching tariff. I've included two shots my partner took of our local bird friends, a blue jay and a barn owl. Beautiful shots. That, uh, barn owl is gorgeous. And the blue jay is like, what's up? Is that, like, a little bowl of snacks for him that you leave out? That's a good idea. I'm gonna do that, Rachel. Next up, from Anonymous pronoun she and her. Oh, my gosh, these kitties. I know this is going to be a slightly different kind of good news, but the Maryland Sheep and wool Festival is May 3rd and May 4th. A. Ah, Wool Festival is always a good time and helps recharge my batteries. Nothing better than getting your hands in some wool, hearing the bahs of sheep, and avoiding spitting camelids, which are like alpacas, llamas, and camels. I need a trip to a happy place. And this is it for my pet tax. I'm including pictures of my cats, Rama and Racha. Racha is the though. Racha. The first day is long. Got it. Thank you for that pronunciation help. They're, uh, curled up on my lap helping me relax. One of them is in the sun recharging those cat batteries. It's hard being a cat. Keep doing what you're doing. Oh, uh, look at these beautiful babies. Yeah, boy, put a sunbeam on the floor and the cats will find it. Oh, my gosh, there's a dog army. An adorable dog army in the next submission from Deborah S. Hi, Dana and Allison. Joe Biden signed the Social Security Fairness act right before he left office. It helped undo, um, some of Reagan's. I'm almost 70, and I'm still working. The Social Security Fairness act helped me get out of debt, and now there's a light at the end of the tunnel. Because of the raise that I received, it has made a good difference in my life. I've included a photo of my five dogs, Axel, Dot, Mary, Jack, and Lucy. Thanks for all you do. Look at these sweet babies. Which one is the tiny one in the background, like, looking over like, hey, what's up, you guys? Because the. The other four kind of look similar, but this. This little chunk or sausage in the back is adorable. Deborah, thank you. Uh, all right, next up and I. This is our final submission of good news for the week. Stacy pronouns. She and her cybertruck info. Hello, beautiful pod goddesses. I love and appreciate both of you. So much. You're honestly the only news program I can listen to consistently. I feel like you give me the truth and you suffer along with me as I listen to it. Uh, would be lost without you listening to the convo about Tesla and where to charge your, uh, Tesla. I just thought I'd try to help. One of those ridiculous looking trucks can go further than 300 miles. That means you don't need to charge it every day. Kind of like your car. You just fill it up once a week. The cool thing about Tesla before was the supercharger network. You could plug in, go get a coffee, grab a snack, and when you got back, your car was fully charged. Up.
Up.
I'm sad for the people who went to work for Tesla, really believing in the mission of the company to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy. They worked so hard to expand that charging network and did a lot of really good stuff in spite of the dickhole running the place. And I hope they're all okay. For my pet tax, I'll attach a photo. My two amazing dogs, Kitty and Blitzen, the whitish one, are my owners, and they were my whole world for about six weeks last year when I was stuck at home with a broken leg. No driving. You can probably guess Kitty's breed, but I'll include a pic of her back to make it easy. Okay, I'm gonna guess it's a Rhodesian Ridgeback. Then, uh, for the other one, I'll give you a clue. The doodle part is obvious, but the other half has something to do with a jug of whiskey under its neck in the mountains. Thanks for keeping us all informed and for taking good care of us while you do it. Jug of whiskey. Before I look at the photo, under the neck could be a Saint Bernard, but could also be a Bernese mountain dog. So let's see. Yep, there's the Rhodesian Ridgeback and. Oh, my goodness. Yeah, I guess a St. Bernard doodle. A, uh, Bernadoodle. Is that what we're looking at? Maybe a, uh, Bernese mountain dog doodle? There's no answer, so that means I'm correct. But, Stacy, if you want to write in and tell us what the answer is, we're happy to accept it. All right, everybody, that's the beans this week. Thank you so much for tuning in again. Like I said, I promise Dana will be back Monday. Thanks for hanging in solo with me, and, uh, thanks to our good friend John Fugelsang for joining us today. If you want to become a patron of the daily beans, we would love it. It's as little as three bucks a month. You get these episodes ad free. You get them the night before, they come out the following morning. You get access to pre sale tickets, VIP meet and greet stuff. Um, you get, uh, to come on our monthly Zoom happy hour call where you can talk directly to, like, me and, uh, Harry Dunn and dana. Sometimes Andy McCabe will join us from Unjustified. But you get all those perks and it really helps us out. It helps us, um, you know, pay really super high wages and, uh, make sure Everybody has a 401K and everyone has health benefits here at MSW Media Media. So we really appreciate your support. We need it now more than ever. Um, so again, you can sign up@patreon.com Mueller she wrote, I will be back in your ears with Dana on Monday. Until then, please take care of yourselves, take care of each other, take care of the planet, take care of your mental health and take care of your family. I've been ag and them's the Beans. The Daily Beans is written and executive produced by Alison Gill with additional research and reporting by Dana Goldberg. Sound design and editing is by Desiree McFarlane with art and web design by Joelle Reader with Moxie Design Studios. Music for the Daily Beans is written and performed by they Might Be Giants and the show is a proud member of the MSW Media Media Network, a collection of creator owned podcasts dedicated to news, politics and justice. For more information Please visit msw media.com msw media.