The Daily Beans

Monday, May 16th, 2022 Ten people are dead after a white supremacist domestic terrorist opened fire in a Buffalo supermarket; John Eastman loses again; the 1/6 committee subpoenas Meadows aide Cassidy Hutchinson for a third interview; we now know why the DoJ had to subpoena the National Archives for the 15 boxes of top secret documents Donald stole; and a court finds that Alex Jones can’t use bank...

Friday, May 16th, 2025 Today, the Supreme Court hears arguments on birthright citizenship and whether district judges can issue nationwide injunctions; turns out Kristi Noem wants her own plane too; Walmart announced it will start raising prices because of tariffs; Colorado air traffic controllers lost contact with planes for six minutes Monday; Missouri Republicans have repealed sick leave and wa...

Thursday, May 15th, 2025 Today, Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan has been indicted by a federal grand jury; a tiny company with ties to China has spent $300M on Trump’s memecoin; Pam Bondi’s DoJ has struck a deal to allow 17 Sinaloa cartel members into the United States; Governor JB Pritzker is the first to block federal access to personal data on autism; a 12 year old boy was abandoned on the sidewal...

Wednesday, May 14th, 2025 Today, the government failed to file its privilege log on time in the Abrego Garcia case prompting Judge Xinis to order them to file it; a trump appointed judge in Pennsylvania becomes the first to call Trumps invocation of the Alien Enemies Act lawful; the USDA reverses course and commits to restore purged climate webpages in response to a lawsuit brought by farmers; mor...

Tuesday, May 13th, 2025 Today, the US accepts the first planeload of white Afrikaners while still somehow unable to get the people back from El Salvador; the ICE detention facility in Newark has been served with violations by the city after the mayor’s arrest; Andrew Cuomo loses $622,000 over concerns of improper super PAC coordination; Republicans in the Senate push back against Trump’s takeover...

Monday, May 12th, 2025 Today, Nosferatu Stephen Miller announces the White House is considering suspending habeas corpus , Qatar gives Trump a $400M luxury jetliner to use as Air Force One; the Mayor of Newark Ras Baraka was arrested by the administration at an ICE facility; Trump has fired the Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden;  Rumeysa Ozturk has been released from ICE custody in Louisiana on b...

Friday, May 12th, 2023 Today, in the Hot Notes: E. Jean Carroll is weighing suing Donald Trump for defamation again after his appearance on the CNN Town Hall Wednesday night; Merrick Garland gives the green light to transfer forfeited Russian funds to Ukraine; a three-judge panel is poised to uphold January 6th obstruction cases; the FDA ends the ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men; p...

May 13th, 2022 Donald Trump is under federal investigation for those 15 boxes of classified documents he stole; five Republican members of Congress have been subpoenaed by the 1/6 committee; Congresswoman Katie Porter raises concerns about a Trump bribery scheme; and there’s a giant black hole at the center of the galaxy; plus Allison and Dana deliver your Good News. Follow our guest on Twitter: H...

Friday, May 9th, 2025 Today, Dr Robert Prevost of Chicago becomes the first American Pope in history; three former Memphis police officers have been acquitted of state charges by a jury for the murder of Tyre Nichols; Trump is pushing nations facing tariffs to approve Musk’s Starlink; Some ‘Les Mis’ cast members plan to boycott Trump’s attendance at a Kennedy Center performance next month; MAGA fr...

Thursday, May 8th, 2025 Today, Republican Jefferson Griffin has conceded the North Carolina Supreme Court race to Democratic incumbent Allison Riggs; a second US Navy jet has been lost at sea under the watchful eye of Pete Kegstand; the Trump administration has ordered the intelligence community to amp up spying on Greenland; Salt Lake City and Boise have adopted official pride flags in response t...

Wednesday, May 7th, 2025 Today, Judge Hellerstein in the Southern District of New York takes his temporary restraining order to a preliminary injunction saying Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act is unlawful; the Supreme Court has ruled that Trump can go forward with his transgender military ban while the litigation plays out; a key Republican Senator says he will block the confirmation of Ed Mar...

Tuesday, May 6th, 2025 Today, Governor Katie Hobbs has vetoed three anti-trans bills in Arizona; 20 cops raided a drag show at an LGBTQ bar in Pittsburgh; the Trump administration has dismantled a gun violence victim memorial at ATF; 20 state attorneys general are suing the Trump regime to restore health agencies; Brian Kemp says he will NOT run for Senate in 2026; the third party messaging app us...

Monday, May 5th, 2025 Today, Donald Trump tells Kristen Welker that he doesn’t know if he has an obligation to uphold the constitution; Trump’s approval rating is collapsing in rural America; a federal judge has blocked Trump’s bid to dissolve the Institute of Museum and Library Services; Harmeet Dhillon has canceled a Biden era program that ended human waste backing up into people’s homes in Alab...

Monday, May 2nd, 2022 In the Hot Notes: A New York judge denied Donald’s request to end his $10K dollar a day contempt fine; new Hannity texts to Meadows are leaked, the Justice Department has officially challenged Alabama’s law criminalizing transgender health care for minors; Trump allies illegally breached voting systems in 8 states; and Eastman will hand over another 10K pages of evidence to t...

Thursday, May 2nd, 2024 The Arizona Senate has voted to repeal the 1864 abortion ban which now heads to Katie Hobbs’ desk for signature; Florida’s six week abortion ban goes into effect; Democrats win a New York special election Congressional seat; Marjorie Taylor Greene says she will force a vote to vacate Speaker Johnson next week; United Methodists repeal a longstanding rule against LGBTQ+ cler...

Friday, May 2nd, 2025 Today, for the first time, a federal judge rules that Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act is unlawful; the guy who put the Atlantic journalist on the Signal Chat Mike Waltz has been fired from the National Security Council but nominated as the ambassador to the UN; RKF Jr is going to change the way vaccines are tested and that could limit our access to them; Trump weighs dis...

Thursday, May 1st, 2025 Today, A judge has ordered the immediate release of Mohsen Mahdawi - the Columbia student detained amid Trump administration crackdown on pro-Palestinian activist; the Abrego Garcia discovery is back on after Judge Xinis denied the government another delay; the full bench of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals has voted to keep DOGE out of Social Security Administration data;...

Wednesday, April 30th, 2025 Today, another mystery filing under seal from the government in the Abrego Garcia case hits the docket; Trump signs a new executive order ramping up the police state; Amazon was going to add tariff tax costs to their products until the White House talked Bezos out of it; DHS ran 1.3M foreign student names through a database to track criminal charges in order to target t...

Tuesday, April 29th, 2025 Today, we’re one day away from maybe finding out how the Trump administration got Judge Xinis and Abrego Garcia’s lawyers to agree to a one week discovery delay; a new report reveals emails that former ND State Senator Ray Holmberg sent to others detailing decades of sex abuse; Democratic Governor Pritzker rails against timidity in a fiery speech; the 1st Circuit Court of...

Monday, April 28th, 2025 Today, ICE arrests a Milwaukee county judge to bolster the regime’s anti-judiciary propaganda machine; a two year old baby has been illegally removed from the US without due process; the wife of a US Coast Guard member has been arrested by ICE; Trump Stasi Chief Ed Martin is changing his story about the man arrested for stealing Kristi Noem’s purse; more tea on Kegseth as...

Monday, April 22nd, 2024 Opening statements in the first criminal trial of a former president; a Turning Point Action resigns after accusations of election fraud; Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers; Bennie Thompson introduces a bill that would strip Secret Service protection from felons; Kari Lake wants Arizona sheriffs to enforce 1864 abortion ban; the Texas Bar say...

Apr 27, 2022 In the Hot Notes: another Proud Boy has flipped for the DoJ; Trump admits something relevant to the Manhattan DA’s criminal probe whose grand jury is about to expire; the DeSantis v Disney battle isn’t going the way Ron wants; a MAGA candidate for Pennsylvania lieutenant governor is homeless after his wife files a protective order; a judge says Trump’s appraisers violated their own po...

Friday, April 25th, 2025 Today, Pete Hegseth downloaded Signal on his Pentagon desktop to circumvent classified spaces; President Volodimyr Zalensky rejects Trump’s tired Ukraine peace deal; the Trump administration moved a Venezuelan man to Texas despite a federal judge's order; the Pentagon resumes medical care for transgender troops; Trump tells Pam Bondi to launch a criminal investigation into...

Thursday, April 24th, 2025 Today, Judge Xinis obliterates Trump’s Justice Department stonewalling in the Abrego Garcia case; the producer of 60 Minutes quits citing a lack of independence; Trump is weighing slashing his own tariffs against China because of course he is; the Court of International Trade denied a petition for a temporary restraining order from five businesses that sued over the Trum...

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025 Today, turns out the intel that Pete Hegseth shared on at least two unsecure Signal chats came from a classified system; three prosecutors on the Eric Adams case have resigned after being pressured by Emil Bove to lie about it; new images could change cancer research but ICE has detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them; lawyers for Abrego Garcia issue their firs...