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Tuesday, September 24th, 2024 A key Nebraska legislator will not vote to change the state’s electoral process to a winner take all system; pretty much the entire staff of North Carolina lt. Gov Mark Robinson has up and resigned; Kamala Harris campaign is going after Trump for chickening out of the debate; meanwhile, Trump runs ads in the state of Georgia with pictures from the country Georgia; Mis...

Thursday, September 28th, 2023 In the Hot Notes: Judge Tanya Chutkan has denied Donald’s motion for her to recuse herself from his case; Jared Kushner pressured The Washington Post to fire its editor over Russia reporting; the FBI is investigating Senator Bob Menendez canoodling with Egyptian intelligence; Senator Tommy Tuberville has said that the military is not an equal opportunity employer; Co...

Friday, September 26th, 2025 Today, Trump’s US Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia has secured an indictment against Jim Comey for false statements and obstruction of justice; Hegseth summons top generals and admirals to an urgent in-person meeting on the eve of a looming shutdown with no explanation given; the White House is scrambling to quash the Epstein files discharge petition; porn...

Thursday, September 25th, 2025 Today, Jimmy Kimmel returns to air with a fantastic monologue worthy of the moment; the US Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia is going to try to get a grand jury to indict jim Comey despite investigators saying there’s no probable cause; Adelita Grijalva wins the special election in Arizona - 7 to fill her late father’s seat and she is the final signature n...

Wednesday, September 24th, 2025 Today, ABC affiliates are keeping Jimmy Kimmel off the air; Trump goes off the rails in a speech to the United Nations; a jury finds Ryan Routh guilty on all counts for the attempted assassination of Trump; ICE held a five year old autistic girl in Massachusetts to pressure her father to surrender; the Arizona fake electors prosecution hits a roadblock in appeals co...

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025 Today, Disney bucks ABC and says it will return Jimmy Kimmel to the air tonight; insurance attorney and Trump’s personal lawyer Lindsey Halligan has been installed as the interim US Attorney in the EDVA; Zohran Mamdani cancelled a local ABC town hall citing FCC censorship of Jimmy Kimmel; the Supreme Court allows Trump to fire a member of the Federal Trade Commission...

Monday, September 22nd, 2025 Today, Trump’s Border Czar Tom Homan took a $50K cash bribe for government contracts but Pam Bondi’s DOJ dropped the investigation; the US Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia resigns in protest after refusing to indict Leticia James and Jim Comey; Justice Department officials tell NBC Charlie Kirk's shooter has no connections to left wing groups; the UK, Austr...

Wednesday, September 21st, 2022 In the Hot Notes: former Trump lawyer Eric Herschmann warned Donald last year about the illegality of stealing government documents; Trump lawyers respond to the special master Judge Dearie’s demands ahead of their Tuesday hearing; another associate of Matt Gaetz’s co-conspirator Joel Greenberg, Michael Shirley has been indicted on federal bribery charges; Donald’s...

Tuesday, September 19th, 2023 In the Hot Notes: More obstruction of justice in the Mar-a-Lago documents case; Jeffrey Clark didn’t show up to his hearing today in his bid to remove his Fulton County case to federal court; House Democrats press for cameras in federal courts; Hunter Biden has filed a lawsuit against the IRS; Kenneth Chesebro has filed a motion to quash one of the Fulton County charg...

Friday, September 19th, 2025 Today, Donald suggests TV licenses should be pulled following the FCC chair Brendan Carr’s successful push to pull Jimmy Kimmel off the air; House Democrats call for an investigation of ABC and Sinclair as Chuck Schumer calls for Brendan Carr to resign; 11 Democratic lawmakers were arrested by the Department of Homeland Security for demanding access to detention rooms...

Thursday, September 18th, 2025 Today, alleged text messages in court documents between Charlie Kirk’s shooter and his roommate face public scrutiny; Disney pulls Jimmy Kimmel off the air indefinitely for his remarks about Charlie Kirk; Kash Patel and the fired head of the CDC testify in separate hearing before congressional committees; the Trump administration has been pressuring prosecutors to in...

Wednesday, September 17th, 2025 Today, Kash Patel was questioned by the Senate Judiciary Committee and was just as unserious as you’d suspect; Mississippi communities are shaken by two hanging deaths; the UN’s commission of inquiry has officially designated what’s happening in  Gaza as genocide; the Georgia Supreme Court officially disqualified Fani Willis from the 2020 election RICO case; Judge C...

Tuesday, September 16th, 2025 Today, the White House has announced plans to crack down on Democrats by declaring liberal groups domestic terror organizations; the Washington Post fired a columnist for quoting Charlie Kirk on social media; the US has attacked another boat in the Caribbean; fired Epstein prosecutor Maureen Comey is suing the administration for wrongful termination; longterm unemploy...

Monday, September 15th, 2025 Today, a judge worries that the Trump administration is sidestepping torture protections for deported Africans; another judge stops Trump from defunding homelessness programs based on transgender inclusivity; the abject failures of corporate media in the wake of the Charlie Kirk shooting put us all in danger; an animal shelter is evacuated after Kash Patel incinerates...

Today, Allison covers E Jean Carroll’s victory at the 2nd Circuit, more SCOTUS shadow docket rulings, and the abject failure of corporate media and Kash Patel’s FBI in the wake of Charlie Kirk. Reminder - you can see the pod pics if you become a Patron. The good news pics are at the bottom of the show notes of each Patreon episode! That’s just one of the perks of subscribing! patreon.com/muellersh...

Thursday, September 15th, 2022 Today, in the Hot Notes: John Durham appears to be wrapping up his investigation into the oranges of the Trump/Russia investigation, his report is expected by the end of the year; the FBI served a warrant on pillowman, Cyber Symposium organizer, and conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell in connection to the charges Tina Peters, the Mesa County, Colorado is facing regardin...

Wednesday, September 11th, 2024 The Missouri Supreme Court overturns Republicans and rules that the abortion initiative WILL be on the ballot; the US is discussing allowing Ukraine to use ATACMS against Russia; the FBI says Americans lost $5.6B last year in cryptocurrency fraud scams; Republicans threaten to shut down the government adding cuts to veterans benefits to their continuing resolution;...

Friday, September 12th, 2025 Today, right wing activists and now federal authorities are targeting people who appeared to celebrate the death of Charlie Kirk on social media; potential threats trigger lockdowns at several HBCUs across the South; some appeals court judges have publicly admonished the Supreme Court’s run on the shadow docket; we’re getting more information on the shooter at the Colo...

Thursday, September 11th, 2025 Today, three students, including a suspected shooter, were shot and critically injured at a suburban high school in Colorado on Wednesday afternoon; NATO shot down Russian drones in Polish airspace; Chuck Schumer moved to force a Senate vote on the release of the Epstein files but Republicans blocked it; Charlie Kirk was shot at an event in Utah; another hearing was...

Wednesday, September 10th, 2025 Today, a judge tosses out the criminal case against the Michigan fraudulent electors; the Supreme Court has agreed to expedite the case against Trump’s tariffs and will hear arguments in November; a court ruled that Eric Adams’ move to allow ICE into Rikers is illegal; South Korea is outraged over the raid of the Hyundai battery factory in Georgia; the Trump adminis...

Tuesday, September 9th, 2025 Today, House Oversight is now in possession of the Epstein birthday book and other documents from the Epstein estate and they have released the Trump letter; the Supreme Court continues its assault on the rule of law with more shadow docket rulings; the January 6th rioter who wore the “Camp Auschwitz” shirt has been arrested for animal abuse; Missouri Democrats are fig...

Monday, September 8th, 2025 Today, the Department of Justice says the names of two associates Epstein wired $100k and $250k to should stay secret to honor their privacy; Trump claims the power to summarily kill suspected drug smugglers; hundreds of South Korean nationals are detained in the largest single site ICE raid in history;  the Pentagon approves the use of Great Lakes Navy base for Chicago...

Wednesday, September 4th, 2024 Donald Trump has lost another bid to delay his September 18th sentencing; RFK Jr. is being forced to remain on the ballot in Michigan; John McCain’s youngest son has condemned Trump’s behavior at Arlington and has said he will vote for Kamala Harris; a judge has issued an injunction against Donald Trump barring him from playing Isaac Hayes song at his rallies; the Ha...

Friday, September 9th, 2022 In the Hot Notes: the Department of Justice has filed a motion to stay part of Judge Cannon’s order in the Mar-a-Lago case; Steve Bannon pleads not guilty to six felony charges in New York state; the Department of Justice is criminally investigating Donald’s Save America PAC; and the Michigan Supreme Court has ruled in favor of adding a right to abortion amendment propo...

Friday, September 5th, 2025 Today, ten federal judges criticize the Supreme Court’s use of the emergency docket in rare interviews with NBC; the District of Columbia has filed suit against the government over Trump’s National Guard deployment to the capitol; the Justice Department has issued subpoenas in its investigation into Fed Reserve Governor Lisa Cook; Republican discontent with RFK Jr is gr...