Cultural Asbestos (feat. Phil Williams)

The Daily Beans

MSW Media

Politics, Daily News, Comedy, News

4.8 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Thursday, February 19th, 2026 Today, Fulton County blasts the search warrant affidavit for its election offices as blatantly unconstitutional; a group of non-profits is suing the Trump administration over the Stonewall Pride flag removal; ICE officers raided Dilley concentration camp dormitories to confiscate and destroy letters from children held there; Steven Colbert bites back and CBS lawyers’ statement on the Talarico interview; the Trump administration just slashed veterans’ disability benefits; St. Paul police are investigating the ICE arrest that resulted in skull fractures that DHS claims the man did to himself; the Department of Education backs down on its unlawful directive targeting educational equity; Kristi Noem exposes everyone at DHS to asbestos poisoning; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.

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0:00.0	M SW Media.
0:02.8	Media.
0:07.9	News
0:09.2	with swearing
0:10.8	Daily beans, daily beans,
0:14.1	daily beans,
0:16.9	Daily beans, daily beans. Hello and welcome. Daily Beans, Daily Beans, Daily Beans.
0:23.6	Hello and welcome to the Daily Beans for Thursday, February 19th, 2026. Today, Fulton County blasts the search warrant affidavit for its election offices as blatantly unconstitutional. A group of nonprofits is suing the Trump administration over the Stonewall Pride flag removal.
0:40.5	ICE officers raided the Dilley Concentration Camp dormitories to confiscate and destroy letters from children that are held there.
0:49.0	Stephen Colbert bites back as CBS lawyers put out a statement on the Tala Rico interview. The Trump administration just
0:56.0	slashed veterans' disability benefits. St. Paul Police are investigating the ICE arrest that resulted in
1:01.7	skull fractures that DHS claims the man did to himself. The Department of Education is backing down
1:07.2	on its unlawful directive targeting educational equity. And Christy Noam exposes everyone at DHS to asbestos poisoning.
1:14.9	I'm Alison Gill.
1:15.7	And I'm Dana Goldberg.
1:20.9	Happy asbestos Thursday, my friend.
1:23.9	Happy asbestos Thursday.
1:25.4	We made through the taint of the week.
1:26.7	And I think we're going
1:27.5	forward and not back, hopefully. I know. Which way is asbestos? I know. I want to say just a quick
1:36.1	thank you to everyone who already joined my Patreon, Allison. We've just got good people listening.
1:41.0	We've got a good crew that started. There's obviously a free option to join, and there's other levels that, as you know, come with certain benefits and zooms and things like that, but we've already got a bunch of dissenters that are hanging out in the dugout. And so if you want to join my Patreon with the rest of these folks, you can go to Dana Goldberg.com, hit Patreon, and join me. And for those of you that
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