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Tuesday, July 5th, 2022 In the Hot Notes: America celebrates Independence Day with another mass shooting; the Oath Keepers defense to seditious conspiracy charges takes shape; Donald eyes another run for the White House in 2024; and experts say Hutchinson’s testimony shatters a Trump defense of no criminal intent; plus Allison and Dana deliver your Good News. Follow our guest on Twitter: Jason Kan...

In the Hot Notes: the illegitimate Supreme Court killed President Biden’s student debt forgiveness plan and gutted LGBTQ+ rights on Friday; the DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Congressional Republicans must pay their mask fines; Fox News settled with Abby Grossberg for $12M; a January 6th defendant is arrested near Obama’s home with guns and 400 rounds of ammunition; a federal judge has ord...

Friday, July 4th, 2025 Today, the Billionaire Bailout Bill has passed the House after the Trump regime turns the Republican holdouts and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries filibusters the vote for over 8 hours; 20 states sue after the Trump administration releases private Medicaid data to deportation officials; a judge grants Mr Abrego’s request for an order reminding the government that it has to st...

Thursday, July 3rd, 2025 Today, an insurrectionist has been given a cushy job at the Department of Justice in the weaponization task force; the Justice Department explores bringing criminal charges against state election officials; a federal judge has blocked Trump’s ban on asylum; Mr. Abrego has filed his amended complaint on Judge Xinis’ docket; the University of Pennsylvania has revoked a trans...

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2025 Today, JD Vance cast the tie breaking vote to pass the billionaire bailout bil l which now heads back to the House for another vote, Donald Trump wants to use the espionage act against members of the media, a Reagan appointed judge says he will not tolerate retribution against witnesses in an upcoming trial about whether he will block the government from targeting student...

Tuesday, July 1st, 2025 Today, as we feared, the Trump administration is building a national citizenship database; two firefighters are dead after a Coeur d’Alene man set a fire to lure them to the wilderness and then opened fire; two teen girls were shot near the Stonewall Inn after pride celebrations; Senator Thom Tillis shreds the Billionaire Bailout Bill now that he’s no longer running for ree...

Monday, June 30th, 2025 Today, Republicans advance the Billionaire Bailout Bill in the Senate after promising hold-outs they could gut a provision of the Affordable Care Act as Tommy Tuberville calls for the parliamentarian to be fired; the Supreme Court kills the lower court’s ability to issue universal injunctions AND allows parents to opt their kids out of LGBTQ books; Donald Trump threatens to...

Wednesday, June 29th, 2022 In the Hot Notes: explosive testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson during the last minute hearing on the 1/6 attack on the Capitol building; Ghislaine Maxwell is sentenced to 20 years in prison; There's no chance that Supreme Court justices could be charged with perjury during their confirmation hearings; Turkey has dropped its opposition of Finland and Sweden joining NATO; a...

Friday, June 28th, 2024 Still no ruling on immunity from the Supreme Court, and the decisions are now rolling over into next week; Felix Sater lost his money laundering trial to the tune of $32M; Roger Sollenberger from Daily Beast got a records request showing Jim Comer wrote over 2,000 emails using an alias; the former school police chief of Uvalde has been indicted for his role in the botched r...

Friday, June 27th, 2025 Today, Judge Xinis orders an expedited briefing schedule in both the government’s motion to dismiss the Abrego case and Mr. Abrego’s motion to be moved to Maryland and to block DHS from deporting him; Judge Murphy rules that he does have jurisdiction to consider an amended brief from Gavin Newsom to stop the deployment of the military in California; the Senate parliamentari...

Thursday, June 26th, 2025 Today, Republicans capitulated to the lies that spewed forth from the mouth of Emil Bove in his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Wednesday; Zohran Mamdani defeated Cuomo in the New York City mayoral primary sending another message that people power is strong than the political money machine; the Trump administration is kicking the National Science Foundati...

Wednesday, June 25th, 2025 Today, former DoJ lawyer Erez Reuveni issues a bombshell whistleblower account of Emil Bove’s intentional defiance of court orders on the eve of his judicial confirmation hearing; US intelligence assessments indicate that Iran’s nuclear sites were not destroyed and they can be back up and running in a few months; Florida is paving over the Everglades to build its own con...

Tuesday, June 24th, 2025 Today, Iran fires missiles at US bases in Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Iraq in what is seen as a performative retaliation to Trump’s unconstitutional bombing of Iranian nuclear enrichment sites; the Supreme Court has blocked a judge's order forbidding removal of immigrants to third countries; lawyers for Gavin Newsom have asked the district court to consider a preliminary in...

Monday, June 23rd, 2025 Today, the US dropped twelve 30,000 pound bombs on Iran’s nuclear enrichment sites, the 9th Circuit allows Trump to maintain control of the National Guard in California, a judge ordered the release of Mahmoud Khalil, a federal appeals court rules Louisiana’s law requiring schools to display the ten commandments is unconstitutional, the Senate Parliamentarian says the court...

Tuesday, June 21st, 2022 In the Hot Notes: the fourth committee hearing on the attempted coup is today at 1 PM ET; a DeSantis judge committed a crime by lying on her state Supreme Court application; a federal judge rejects a Proud Boys motion for pretrial release; and the fascist Texas Republican platform has been released; plus Dana and Allison deliver your Good News. Follow our guest on Twitter:...

Friday, June 23rd, 2023 In the Hot Notes: another Trump aide who helped coordinate the fraudulent elector scheme was seen headed into Jack Smith’s 1/6 grand jury today; the House of Representatives has censured Adam Schiff; the impeachment trial of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been scheduled for September; more Supreme Court corruption; the sleeper legal strategy that could topple abortio...

Friday, June 20th, 2025 Today, Trump privately approved attack plans for Iran but has withheld the final order; the State Department is requiring students with visa interviews to make their social media public; a federal judge has blocked Trump from tying state transportation funds to immigration enforcement; police are investigating a break in at the home of slain Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortm...

Thursday, June 19th, 2025 Today, the Supreme Court deals a stunning setback to trans rights as it upholds Tennessee’s ban on transgender healthcare for minors; cuts to FEMA are hammering communities that voted for Trump; the fed refuse to cut interest rates despite pressure from Trump to do so; the Small Business Administration is flying the far right appeal to heaven flag; the President is really...

Wednesday, June 18th, 2025 Today, the 9th Circuit heard arguments over Trump’s National Guard deployment to California; a federal judge has blocked Trump’s passport policy targeting transgender people; Trump has left the G7 early to return to Washington as he tells everyone to evacuate Tehran; a counter protester arrested at Nashville’s No Kings march has been hit with gun charges; Senator Mike Le...

Tuesday, June 17th, 2025 Today, Vance Boelter is hit with six federal felonies and the Hennepin County DA says they will seek first degree murder charges; new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats and unmarried veterans; Gavin Newsom’s bid for an injunction barring Trump from federalizing the National Guard is fully briefed ahead of today’s hearing; a federal judge has declared Trump...

Monday, June 16th, 2025 Today, a MAGA extremist posing as law enforcement shot two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses Saturday morning; millions of Americans took the streets this weekend for the No Kings protests while Trump’s military birthday parade was a bust; detainees rose up and some escaped from the private ICE detention center; Ras Baraka and LaMonica McIver were arrested for trying to...

June 13, 2023 In the Hot Notes: Donald Trump and Walt Nauta will be arraigned on 38 federal felony charges in Miami at 3 PM; a press coalition has petitioned the court to allow audio and video recordings in the federal Trump proceedings; the DoJ seeks 14 years in prison for the 1/6 rioter who drove a stun gun into officer Fanone’s neck; Senator Blumenthal has launched a probe into the LIV PGA merg...

June 13,2022 Hot Notes: a Daily Beans exclusive about Enrique Tarrio’s phones; the 1/6 Committee releases the witness list for this morning’s hearing; more emails from Ginni Thomas to Arizona lawmakers are released; Rudy Giuliani is hit with ethics charges in DC over election fraud claims; 31 white supremacists have been arrested in Idaho and charged with planning a riot at a Pride event; a bipart...

Friday, June 13th, 2025 Today, California Senator Alex Padilla was tacked and handcuffed after identifying himself to ask Kristi Noem during a press conference; there was a hearing Thursday in Judge Breyer’s courtroom about the injunction motion filed by Governor Newsom; National Guard and Marines are deeply troubled by their deployment to California; a federal judge rules that the government can’...

Thursday, June 12th, 2025 Today, Trump’s new lawyers argue at the Second Circuit Court of Appeals to move his 34 felony count appeal to federal court; Trump’s DoJ calls Governor Newsom’s lawsuit a crass political stunt and irony immediately died; Customs and Border Protection confirms it’s flying Predator drones over Los Angeles; a new Quinnipiac poll shows Trump’s approval is sliding considerably...