# Ballroom Byrd Bath Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-daily-beans-743758/ballroom-byrd-bath Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-daily-beans-743758/ballroom-byrd-bath.md Podcast: [The Daily Beans](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-daily-beans-743758) Published: 2026-05-18T09:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://mswmedia.com/show/daily-beans/ Audio file: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/clrtpod.com/m/mgln.ai/e/275/arttrk.com/p/PDTRC/afp-27275-injected.calisto.simplecastaudio.com/aa5424c1-b7ed-4668-a39c-473d31465df6/episodes/2c8f1afa-9fc0-41fe-8ea6-0316497e3981/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=aa5424c1-b7ed-4668-a39c-473d31465df6&awEpisodeId=2c8f1afa-9fc0-41fe-8ea6-0316497e3981&feed=bOogzwqU Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-daily-beans-743758/episodes/ballroom-byrd-bath Duration seconds: 2004 ## Resource Monday, May 18th, 2026 Today, a former judge weighs in on Trump's $1.7B slush fund for January 6th rioters in a court filing; the Senate parliamentarian has stripped the $1B ballroom provision from Republican’s budget reconciliation bill; Colorado Governor Jared Polis has commuted the sentence of voter data thief Tina Peters; the Federal Aviation Administration is going to sharply cut the number of air traffic controllers; a Texas hospital will create a detransition clinic as part of a settlement with AG Ken Paxton; Senator Bill Cassidy lost his primary as Democrat Jamie Davis advances in Louisiana; and Allison Delivers your Good News. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-daily-beans-743758/episodes/ballroom-byrd-bath/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-daily-beans-743758/ballroom-byrd-bath.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.