The Daily Beans

Monday, February 3rd, 2025 Today, the Trump administration is dismantling federal law enforcement through massive purges at the FBI and DoJ; Elon Musk’s OPM continues to seize government systems including the payment system at the Department of the Treasury; the pardoned insurrectionist recidivism rate grows as a rioter is wanted for soliciting a minor; Trump kicks off a trade war with our closest...

Tuesday, January 31st, 2023 In the Hot Notes: the Manhattan DA has impaneled a special grand jury to return indictments on Donald Trump himself; a Mark Meadows ally is set to plead guilty to campaign finance charges; House Republicans are rebuffed again by the DoJ this time in the Biden documents investigation; a bi-partisan House panel has voted unanimously to intervene in the DoJ’s efforts to ge...

Feb 2, 2022 Trump considered blanket pardons for 1/6 insurrectionists before he left office; Colonel Alexander Vindman is suing Donald Trump Junior, Rudy Giuliani, and former White House staffers; Stewart Rhodes and Jeffrey Clark both testified to the 1/6 Committee today with public hearings likely to begin in April; Trump donated $1M to Mark Meadows’ non-profit weeks after the formation of the Ja...

Friday, January 31st, 2025 Today, an American Airlines flight and a Black Hawk helicopter collided midair near Reagan National Airport leaving no survivors; the Office of Personnel Management has issued yet another fascist memo - this time about gender ideology; a declassified CIA memo about sabotaging fascism is going viral; Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard among others sat for their confirmation hea...

Thursday, January 30th, 2025 Today, the White House has rescinded its illegal impoundment order for federal spending; the AFGE and NTEU have recommended against federal employees accepting the deferred resignation sent out to all federal employees until they can gather additional information; Elon Musk lackeys have taken over the office of personnel management; the administration has been hit with...

Wednesday, January 29th, 2025 Today, in the middle of the night Monday night, Trump tried to seize the power of Congress by halting all appropriations - and a Biden appointed judge blocked it hours later; Trump has asked two million federal workers to voluntarily resign; the CDC has been ordered to stop working with the World Health Organization; top USAID staff have been put on administrative lea...

Tuesday, January 28th, 2025 Today, our good trouble about spamming OPM’s DEIA snitch email address seems to be working; Trump’s plan to dismantle our institutions by targeting the federal workforce is taking shape; the US Air Force reinstates teaching about the Tuskegee Airmen after an initial ban; flights for Afghans approved for special US visas are being blocked; Colombia caves to Trump’s tarif...

Monday, January 27th, 2025 Today, in what I’m calling the Friday Night Massacre, Donald Trump illegally fired 17 inspectors general; Senate Democrats are preparing a formal resolution to condemn the pardons of January 6th insurrectionists; after Colombia refuses to allow planes with deportees from the US to land, Trump imposes tariffs and closed the visa section at the US Embassy in Bogota; Secret...

Jan 23, 2022 Rep. Bennie Thompson tells New Day the committee has had conversations with Bill Barr, and hearings will begin in the spring; the committee has all the documents from the national archives and they include an executive order for the DoD to seize voting machines; Mike Flynn allegedly worked to extort election fraud cooperation out of Republican members of Congress from Pennsylvania; Gi...

Jan 25, 2021 Trump attempted to install an ally as Attorney General to overturn the results of the election; seven Senators have filed an ethics complaint against Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley; we learn the Trump campaign funded leaders of the insurrection; Majority Leader Chuck Schumer agrees to postpone the Senate impeachment trial to February 8th; the Biden Administration prepares to overturn Trump...

Friday, January 24th, 2025 Today, the Trump Administration is running up against the bureaucracy they’re trying to dismantle; a federal judge has blocked Trump’s birthright citizenship nonsense; Virginia Dems advance reproductive, voting and marriage rights amendments; more than 50 Reddit communities are banning links to Musk’s Twitter; inauguration ratings were in the toilet this year; DHS has su...

Thursday, January 23rd, 2025 Today, Trump asks health agencies to stop communicating with the public as he rolls back a civil rights era LBJ order; the administration is giving federal agencies until the end of this week to deliver lists of all their employees who are still within their probationary periods; Donald has pardoned the Silk Road guy Ross Ulbricht; new information surfaces about Tulsi...

Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025 Today, Trump rescinds Biden orders and signs a slew of new executive orders; 24 states and cities have sued over Trump ending birthright citizenship; Trump’s interim chief overseeing Capitol riot cases has begun dropping cases; Trump has pardoned just about all of the January 6th insurrectionists; Senators have received an affidavit from Pete Hegseth’s sister in law w...

Tuesday, January 21st, 2025 Today, four lawsuits were filed against DOGE within minutes of Donald’s inauguration; the German ambassador gives a stark warning of Trump’s plans to redefine the constitutional order; President Biden issues preemptive pardons and commutations on his way out the door; Trump has prepared a list of January 6th insurrectionists to pardon; NBC gets some day one immigration...

Monday, January 20th, 2025 Today, Americans celebrate Martin Luther King Jr’s legacy and the struggle for freedom, equality, and justice. A prominent leader in the modern civil rights movement, Dr. King was a tireless advocate for racial equality, working class, and the oppressed around the world. TikTok is back online after a farce rescue from the man who originally wanted to ban it; Trump launch...

Wednesday, January 17th, 2024 Jury selection and opening statements kicked off day one of the E. Jean Carroll defamation trial in New York; Trump won the GOP Iowa caucus with embarrassingly low turnout; Capitol Police and the FBI have opened an investigation into Roger Stone’s comments about assassinating Rep. Swalwell and Rep. Nadler; President Biden invites the top four congressional leaders to...

Originally Jan 18, 2022 In the Hot Notes: The Select Committee on 1/6 has subpoenaed Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell, and Boris Epshteyn; the 1/6 Committee has also obtained the phone records of both Eric Trump and Kimberly Guilfoyle; a January 6th defendant’s court filing indicates the DoJ is trying to establish the involvement of Donald Trump in obstructing an official proceeding; form...

Friday, January 17th, 2025 Today, President Biden’s farewell speech included a stark warning about oligarchy; Speaker Johnson has ousted House intelligence chair Mike Turner; Rudy Giuliani was a no-show to his bench trial today but Reuters reports that he and Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss have reached a settlement; Minnesota state House Republicans are attempting a political coup; Mark Cuban is will...

Thursday, January 16th, 2025 Today, Biden’s ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is official; there were a handful of confirmation hearings in the Senate; Biden will give his farewell address to the nation; the SEC has filed suit against Elon Musk for failing to properly disclose his stake in Twitter; South Korea’s Yoon Suk Yeol has been arrested for declaring martial law; former January 6th Committ...

Wednesday, January 15th, 2025 Today, Merrick Garland has released volume one of Jack Smith’s final report; Pete Hegseth faced off with Democrats during the Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing; Biden has closed a deal between Hamas and Israel to secure a ceasefire and the release of hostages; House Republicans have passed an anti trans bill that will endanger Americans; a white sup...

Tuesday, January 14th, 2025 Today, Judge Cannon has denied Nauta and DeOliveira’s motion to block the January 6th volume of Jack Smith’s final report; President Biden forgives student debt for another 150K borrowers; loyalty interviews have begun for federal workers; Jen Rubin quits the Washington Post and Norm Eisen quits CNN and together they've launched a new publication called The Contrarian;...

Monday, January 13th, 2025 Today, more Judge Cannon shenanigans, or cannanigans; in the fight to release the final Jack Smith report; the pizzagate gunman has been fatally shot by police in a North Carolina traffic stop; President Biden extends temporary deportation protections for nearly 1 million immigrants ahead of the anticipated Trump crackdown; Trump’s property company is in talks to buy bac...

Jan 9, 2023 In the Hot Notes: we have breaking news from Hugo Lowell about the independent private investigators the Trump team hired to search his other properties; the Fulton County Special Grand Jury has issued its report and I think it will be made public; George Santos is now facing an FEC complaint; Scott Perry declines to recuse himself from investigating the investigation into him; classif...

Originally 1/13/22 In the Hot Notes: the Department of Justice charges Oath Keeper Stuart Rhodes and 10 others with seditious conspiracy; the Supreme Court strikes down some of Biden’s vaccine mandates; the RNC signals they are unwilling to participate in presidential debates; the Select Committee subpoenas social media companies; the queen strips Prince Andrew of his military affiliations and roy...

Friday, January 10th, 2025 Today, Rudy Giuliani will appear in person before Judge Beryl Howell in one of his many contempt hearings; Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito asked Trump for a favor an hour before Trump petitioned the high court to stop his sentencing which so far is scheduled to happen today; Jim Jordan’s star witness in the Biden impeachment farce has been sentenced to six years in priso...