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Friday, June 6th, 2025 Today, the Trump-Musk feud explodes on their social media platforms as Musk calls for Trump’s impeachment and threatens to release information about Donald and Epstein; CDC’s top Covid vaccine advisor resigns after RFK Jr says he’ll remove it from vaccination schedules; a federal judge orders the reinstatement of the AmeriCorps program in 24 states; Trump reinstates an expan...

Thursday, June 5th, 2025 Today, Judge Xinis grants a motion to unseal Abrego Garcia documents and grants his lawyers their motion to file for sanctions against Trump’s stonewalling; economists are raising questions about the validity of US inflation data; the President has enacted 50% steel tariffs and then quickly TACOed them for the UK; a federal judge has tossed the Democratic Party lawsuit cha...

Wednesday, June 4th, 2025 Today, a federal judge rules that prisons must continue to provide gender affirming care to transgender inmates; FEMA staff was left confused after the director said he was unaware that there’s a hurricane season; the Department of Veterans Affairs has ordered scientists NOT to publish in medical journals without permission from the administration; Jonathan Joss from  Kin...

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025 Today, the cost to repair the roads after Trump rolls his birthday tanks out on June 14 will be upwards of $16M; the Mayor of Tulsa has unveiled a $105M reparations plan to address the impact of the Tulsa Massacre; law firms that bent the knee to Trump are seeing big clients head for the door; the Department of Homeland Security has removed a list of sanctuary cities from i...

Monday, June 2nd, 2025 Today, Ukraine destroyed more than 40 military aircraft in a drone attack deep inside Russia; the new Office of Personnel Management hiring plan includes loyalty essays; ICE raids a restaurant on a Friday night in San Diego and uses flashbang grenades to disperse the protesting crowd; Kristi Noem said a migrant threatened to assassinate Trump but that appears to have been a...

Thursday, June 2nd, 2022 In the Hot Notes: John Eastman reveals in a court filing which email was subject to the crime fraud exception; Lin Wood loses his appeal to block the Georgia bar association’s mental health probe videotapes reveal the GOP’s plans to subvert elections; the Texas school police chief is ignoring state investigators questions about the Uvalde shooting, and a judge rejects Sara...

Refried Beans | GUILTY (feat. John Fugelsang) | May 31, 2024 Friday, May 31st, 2024 Donald Trump has been found GUILTY on all 34 felony counts in the election interference trial; John Roberts rejects Senators Whitehouse and Durbin’s request for a meeting over the Alito flags; a former Apprentice producer says Trump used the N word during production and it’s on tape; the New Republic has gotten it’...

Friday, May 30th, 2025 Today, the international trade court paused Trump’s tariffs but the Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily stopped the pause; Paramount has offered $15 Million to settle its CBS lawsuit over the Kamala Harris interview but Trump wants more; the White House health report included fake citations; a federal judge has extended the block on Trump’s bid to block international studen...

Thursday, May 29th, 2025 Today, a federal judge STRIKES DOWN Trump's entire executive order targeting the Wilmer Hale law firm for political retribution; Judge Chutkan allows a lawsuit seeking to enjoin Elon Musk and DOGE's operations to proceed; another federal judge has ordered the release of the Russian scientist that brought inert frog embryos into the US; yet another judge blocks Trump’s atte...

Wednesday, May 28th, 2025 Today, Judge Xinis fires back at the Trump administration for asking for another unwarranted 30 day delay; NPR is suing the Trump administration over funding cuts; Temu Trump Senator Tommy Tuberville has launched a bid for Governor of Alabama; RFK Jr says the CDC will no longer recommend COVID vaccines for health children and pregnant people; Congressman Andy Ogles confir...

Tuesday, May 27th, 2025 Today, documents reveal disarray at the Department of Veterans Affairs imperiling patient care; veterans balk at Trump’s plans to end protections from Afghans deportations; a new Texas bill forces schools to display the ten commandments; Trump's image of dead 'white farmers' came from Reuters footage in Congo and not South Africa; leader Schumer has announced Democrats will...

Monday, May 26th, 2025 Today, federal judges weigh taking control of the US Marshals amid threats from the Trump administration; President Zelensky condemns US silence after a massive Russian drone and missile strike; a federal judge orders the Trump administration to return a wrongfully disappeared Guatemalan man; Trump signed orders to overhaul the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; a federal judge...

Tuesday, May 24th, 2022 In the Hot Notes: the 1/6 committee has announced its hearing schedule for June; an ashamed Russian diplomat resigns his post in protest of Putin’s war; the House ethics committee launches an investigation into Madison Cawthorn for insider trading and sexual misconduct; and the Sussman Durham trial is well underway; plus Allison and Dana deliver your Good News. Follow our g...

Monday, May 20th, 2024 David DePape was sentenced to 30 years in prison for attacking Paul Pelosi with a hammer, but there’s a flag on the play; Brent Bozell IV was sentenced to nearly four years in prison for his role in the insurrection; how redistricting battles could impact the 2024 election; Minnesota Republicans back Royce White to run against Amy Klobuchar; a helicopter carrying Iran’s Pres...

Friday, May 23rd, 2025 Today, House Republicans voted to pass the Billionaire Bailout Bill gutting Medicaid, Medicare, food assistance and climate tax credits to pay for tax cuts for the ultra wealthy; a federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from dismantling the Department of Education; another federal judge blocked Trump from revoking international students’ legal status; minutes bef...

Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 Today, the Pentagon has officially accepted the illegal $400M emolument plane from Qatar; a federal judge held a hearing on the men disappeared to South Sudan and found the government violated a court order; a federal judge has blocked Trump’s firing of two Democratic members of a privacy oversight board; hundreds of rural hospitals are at risk of closing under Trump polic...

Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 Today, Trump prosecutors have dropped the charges against Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, but have arrested and charged Congresswoman LaMonica McIver; Trump’s Gestapo Czar doesn’t know what habeas corpus is; the Supreme Court allows Maine Rep Libby to vote again despite her censure by the legislature for transphobic comments; USAID cuts leaves food for millions rotting in storag...

Tuesday, May 20th, 2025 Today, the Supreme Court allows DHS to reinstate secretary Kristi Noem’s order ending temporary status for Venezuelans resulting in the single largest mass illegalization event in US history; Judge Beryl Howell stops Trump from dismantling the US Institute of Peace; a top CBS executive has resigned amid Trump’s political pressure; House Republicans manage to get the Billion...

Monday, May 19th, 2025 Today, the supreme court extends  its temporary block on the removal of detainees in the Northern District of Texas under the Alien Enemies Act proclamation; the Republican bill for billionaires is killed in committee; Trump’s FEMA admits it has no plan for hurricane season; DHS asks for 20K National Guard troops to assist ICE;  HHS reinstates hundreds of health care workers...

Monday, May 15th, 2023 In the Hot Notes: Rep. George Santos has admitted to his fraud in Brazil to avoid prosecution in absentia; former Marine Daniel Penny has been charged with manslaughter in a choking death on the New York subway; a porn-friendly bank wants to help fund Trump’s Truth Social; a House Republican report finds no evidence of wrongdoing by President Biden; Durham’s investigation ha...

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...