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Hello and welcome to the Daily Beans for Friday, June 19th, 2026.

Today, scores have fallen ill at an Air Force base after Hegsef makes the flu vaccine optional.

The Supreme Court says habitual cannabis users cannot be barred from owning firearms.

Donald's lead Supreme Court lawyer against E. Jean Carroll is now a federal judge.

Donald mocked Zuckerberg and Bezos's bootlooking text messages.

Republicans block a Pentagon investment ban aimed at the Trump family. And an administration official declines to call January 6th an attack.

I'm your host, Alison Gill.

Hey, everybody, happy Friday. And when it's Friday on the Daily Beans, we celebrate Fuglesang Fridays.

So John Fuglesang will be here later in the show. Happy Juneteenth, by the way, incredible holiday. I hope everyone is taking some time to themselves. Dana's out. She's traveling to Chicago, which reminds me. We'll see you all, well, some of you, patrons at least at the gala this weekend. If you want to become a patron and be invited to our next gala, you can do that by going to patreon.com slash muller, she wrote.

And it also helps us put these shows together. We really couldn't do it without the support of our members. So thank you so very much for that. Otherwise, all of our content's always free. So, hey, either way. It's kind of like an NPR deal. All right, we have a ton of news to get to today. So let's hit the hot notes. Hot notes. All right, first up from the Times,

file this under preventable idiocy. A major flu outbreak has sickened nearly 160 troops at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas, less than two months after Defense Secretary Pete Higgseth announced that U.S. troops

would no longer be required to be vaccinated for the flu,

according to defense officials. We told you this would happen. The outbreak at the base in San Antonio

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