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Daily Beans, Daily Beans for Thursday, May 14th, 2026.

Today, Kosh Patel is lying about his success stats at the FBI. Big surprise.

The Pentagon is considering changing the name of the war in Iran if the ceasefire fails,

which is a weird headline given there was an active naval blockade this whole time,

meaning there can't have been a ceasefire, but whatever.

A bill to end the war in the Senate failed because Federman voted against it.

Cindy Burbank won the Democratic nomination for Senate in Nebraska, and we'll

tell you why that's interesting. Justice Katanji Brown Jackson is asking the public to support

judicial independence because it's under attack right now. Brad Raffensberger has been hit with

multiple death threats and Rand Paul's son William hurled drunken anti-Semitic insults at rep Mike

Lawler the other night. I'm Alison Gill and I'm Dana Goldberg.

Hey, I made it back after all of my weird traveling things. Thank you for covering for me.

I did not even tell people what happened. Now I can if you're right with the. Allison's train broke down while she was on it in Irvine and then didn't know when it was going to starve. She's going to have to rent a car. Then she gets to Los Angeles and I get a text that says, hey, I checked into the wrong hotel. Can you cover me on Bean's Talk to? And I was like,

yeah, you bet. There's two hotels with the same name within like two miles of each other.

And I couldn't go to the other one. And it was just, that took another half hour to work out.

Finally got to the room, had to run right to the theater and start planning what we, you know, what we were going to say as we introduced all of these amazing people that we got to meet. Oh, my God. The event was so good. For those of you that were there, I know you can attest to this. Allison and I had the pleasure of hosting it together, which is a dream. And it was Rufus Wainwright and Lisa Loeb and

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