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Hello and welcome to the Daily Beans for Friday, April 21st, 2023. Today, Boris Epstein talks to

investigators in the Special Counsel's office, Mike Lindell loses a $5 million arbitration case.

The judge in the E. Jean Carroll case responds to Takapena's request for jury instructions about

Donald's potential absence. A top Republican lawyer is caught on audio, decrying the youth vote.

A GOP leader who voted to expel the Tennessee 3 has resigned after sexual harassment allegations.

The charges against Alec Baldwin have been dropped and the proud boy's seditious conspiracy trial

is wrapping up. I'm Allison Gill. And I'm Dana Goldberg.

Hello Dana, happy Friday. Happy Friday to you. We got through the week. I'm so sleepy. I don't

know if anyone else is sleepy. I'm sleepy. We did it. We had an interesting day over on Twitter.

We got our blue check marks removed today. We did. And then I started looking at all the accounts

that still have theirs. And now it feels like the blue check with some exceptions is like the new

Magahat. Yeah. Yeah. Now there are some of our, you know, fellow resistors and independent journalists

who have to have the blue check because their whole gig is, you know, long-form video like I am

politics girl and Lauren Windsor totally. So always, you know, make sure not to like block them or

anything if that's what you're going to do. But we also found out that LeBron James and Stephen

King still have their blue check marks even though they don't pay and Elon Musk has admitted

basically he's trolling them and paying for their check marks to stay up. Also interesting.

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