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Wednesday, December 17th, 2025 Today, Pete Hegseth refuses to release the full video of the double tap boat strike in the Caribbean; Mike Johnson refuses to hold a vote on extending the Affordable Care Act subsidies; the Trump administration says the White House East Wing destruction is a matter of national security; enforcement of Texas’ bathroom bill draws challenges; Trump sues the BBC for $10B over edited January 6th insurrection speech; Kushner abandons his plan to build a hotel in Serbia amid backlash; Denver rejects the Key Lime Air airport lease because of ICE flights; election thief Tina Peters’ lawyer demands Colorado honor Trump’s pardon; Pulitzer Board members hit Trump with discovery in his lawsuit; Vanity Fair publishes a two-part expose on Trump Chief of Staff Susie Wiles; and Allison and Dana deliver and your Good News. Thank You, Naked Wines To get 6 bottles of wine for $39.99, head to http://nakedwines.com/DAILYBEANS and use code DAILYBEANS for both the code and password. Guest: Isabela Dias - Reporter at Mother Jones https://www.motherjones.com https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/dreamers-daca-trump-deportation-detention-betrayal-big-feature/ https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/12/noem-trump-dhs-ice-year-of-hell-immigrants-punitive-theatre-cecot/ Subscribe to the MSW YouTube Channel - MSW Media - YouTube Stories Hegseth says he won’t publicly release video of boat strike that killed survivors in the Caribbean | PBS News House Republican leaders ditch vote on ACA funding, all but ensuring premiums will rise | NBC News Trump sues BBC for billions | POLITICO Tina Peters' lawyers citing Trump pardon launch new efforts to free her | Colorado Newsline After Backlash, Jared Kushner Drops Plan to Build a Trump Hotel in Serbia | WSJ Pulitzer Prize Board members dump broad discovery demands on Trump for tax returns, psych records, and 'any' prescription meds history | Law and Crime Trump administration says White House ballroom construction is a matter of national security | AP News Enforcement of Texas’ bathroom bill draws challenges | Texas Tribune ICE flights cited in Denver's denial of Key Lime airport lease | Colorado Newsline Takeaways From Susie Wiles’s Vanity Fair Interviews Describing Trump World | NYT Good Trouble - https://near.tl/sm/ik-ZushRa JOIN IT GETS BETTER FOR QUEER-A-THON live on Twitch - their year-end fundraising stream and safe celebration space for LGBTQ+ youth! On Wednesday, December 17th starting 2:15pm ET/11:15am PT - ItGetsBetter - Twitch Allison is donating $20K to It Gets Better and inviting you to help match her donations. Your support makes this work possible, Daily Beans fam. http://itgetsbetter.org/dailybeansdonate From The Good News The Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition (PIRC) https://pircoregon.org/ Voices United On the Road Forward - https://voicesunitedrr.org Adopt Camila (HANNA CITY, IL 61536) - https://www.samsrescue.org/contact-us.html →Go To https://DailyBeansPod.com Click on ‘Good News and Good Trouble’ to Share Yours Our Donation Links https://www.nationalsecuritylaw.org/donate , https://secure.actblue.com/donate/msw-bwc , http://WhistleblowerAid.org/beans Join Dana and The Daily Beans and support on Giving Tuesday http://onecau.se/_ekes71 Federal workers - email AG at fedoath@pm.me and let me know what you’re going to do, or just vent. I’m always here to listen. Dr. Allison Gill - https://www.muellershewrote.com , https://bsky.app/profile/muellershewrote.com , https://instagram.com/muellershewrote , https://www.youtube.com/@MSWMediaPods Dana Goldberg - https://bsky.app/profile/dgcomedy.bsky.social , https://www.instagram.com/dgcomedy , https://www.facebook.com/dgcomedy , https://danagoldberg.com More from MSW Media - https://mswmedia.com/shows , Cleanup On Aisle 45 pod , https://www.muellershewrote.com Reminder - you can see the pod pics if you become a Patron. The good news pics are at the bottom of the show notes of each Patreon episode! That’s just one of the perks of subscribing! patreon.com/muellershewrote Listener Survey: http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=BffJOlI7qQcF&ver=short Follow the Podcast on Apple: https://apple.co/3XNx7ck Want to support the show and get it ad-free and early? https://patreon.com/thedailybeans https://dailybeans.supercast.com/ https://apple.co/3UKzKt0 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.