The Daily Beans
The Daily Beans

Aug 31, 2026 · 12 min

Clyburn backs court expansion as far-right allies fracture

Beans Talk | Milo Yiannopoulos Gets Deported By the Machine He Helped Build

The episode connects a consequential Democratic policy debate with visible instability among Trump-aligned figures, then closes on a small rescue story.

3 key takeaways
  1. 1Jim Clyburn’s support puts Supreme Court expansion closer to the center of future Democratic platform debates.
  2. 2Milo Yiannopoulos’s deportation becomes a lens on infighting and abandonment among far-right allies.
  3. 3A kitten rescued from an Ohio construction excavator gives the episode an unexpectedly hopeful finish.

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Sue the two-week-old kitten is rescued from inside a Komatsu excavator, receives a miniature construction outfit, and is adopted.

The brief

Alison Gill and Dana Goldberg open with a health update before turning to Jim Clyburn’s support for expanding the Supreme Court to 13 justices.

Clyburn’s position becomes a test of how boldly Democrats may reshape their future platform, given his influence inside the party and the proposal’s institutional stakes.

The hosts then examine Milo Yiannopoulos’s deportation to the United Kingdom, treating the infighting around his removal as evidence of fractures among far-right allies.

The episode ends with Sue, a two-week-old kitten rescued from a Komatsu excavator in Ohio, receiving a tiny construction outfit before adoption.

The kitten story supplies a genuinely uplifting coda, celebrating the adults who stopped to help and turned an alarming discovery into a rescue.

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