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Thursday, December 18th, 2025 Today, Jack Smith testified behind closed doors before the House Judiciary Committee; House Republicans jam through their stupid health care plan without extending ACA subsidies, but Hakeem Jeffries got 218 members to sign a discharge petition for a clean 3 year extension of subsidies; Dan Bongino is gonna quit the FBI on the same day the Epstein Files are due; the Co...

Wednesday, December 17th, 2025 Today, Pete Hegseth refuses to release the full video of the double tap boat strike in the Caribbean; Mike Johnson refuses to hold a vote on extending the Affordable Care Act subsidies; the Trump administration says the White House East Wing destruction is a matter of national security; enforcement of Texas’ bathroom bill draws challenges; Trump sues the BBC for $10B...

Tuesday, December 16th, 2025 Today, prolific actor, writer director and producer Rob Reiner and his incredible wife Michelle were found murdered in their home in Brentwood California; authorities are releasing the suspect they had in custody for the shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island; a national preservation group is suing to stop Trump’s construction of the now demolished East Wing of t...

Monday, December 15th, 2025 Today, a mass shooting at Brown University leaves multiple dead and wounded; another 15 people were killed at Bondi Beach in Sidney Australia in a mass shooting; TSA is providing air passenger data to ICE; a gun toting Border Patrol thug is exposed as a racist online troll; the House Oversight committee has released a new batch of photos from the Epstein Estate; Trump a...

This week, corporate media is ignoring DOJ’s reasons for refusing to release Epstein material, Trump’s prosecutors continue to flounder, and Trump is underwater on all fronts as Democrats continue to win elections. Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/live/-EUjaptr9kU?si=1Ur8FziqdMHqqba2 Reminder - you can see the pod pics if you become a Patron. The good news pics are at the bottom of th...

Wednesday, December 11th, 2024 New York Attorney General Tish James says she’s not going to drop the $450M civil fraud case against Trump just because he was elected President; Mike Flynn’s long running lawsuit against the government for the Russia investigation has been dismissed; The Supreme Court has refused to lift the gag order against Donald Trump; the Manhattan DA has filed his brief opposi...

Friday, December 15th, 2023 A New York court has denied Trump’s appeal of his gag order, and then denied his request to appeal to the highest court; the jury has the Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss defamation case against Rudy Giuliani; Jim Comer has a shell company; Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta is leaving the Justice Department; the European Union opens accession talks with Ukraine; The Su...

Friday, December 12th, 2025 Today, a federal judge has ordered the immediate release of Kilmer Abrego from ICE custody; the DOJ has failed for a THIRD time to indict NYAG Letitia James; the Indiana Senate has rejected the gerrymandered map that Trump pressured them to pass; the US Senate failed to pass bills extending ACA subsidies; more details have been released about the double tap boat strike...

Thursday, December 11th, 2025 Today, the Pentagon considered sending boat strike survivors to CECOT to hide from US courts; Judge Breyer blocks Trump from deploying the California National Guard; Miami elects its first woman mayor and the first Democrat since the 90s; Democrats flip a Georgia state house seat Republicans won by 22 points last time; the DOJ responded to my Epstein files lawsuit arg...

Wednesday, December 10th, 2025 Today, Trump plans a $12B bailout for farmers after the fallout from his failed trade war; the DC Circuit Court of Appeals sides with Kegseth on the transgender military ban; detainees at the Everglades concentration camp were tortured according to a new report from Amnesty International; Hondurans issue an arrest warrant for their drug trafficking ex-president that...

Tuesday, December 9th, 2025 Today, Alina Habba has surrendered from her position as the interim US Attorney in New Jersey; rumor has it that Donald will fire Kristi Noem this January and replace her with Glenn Youngkin; the boat at the center of the double tap strike was not headed to the United States; Hegseth told Admiral Bradly the passengers were on a kill list; Marjorie Taylor Greene told 60...

Monday, December 8th, 2025 Today, Brian Cole confessed to planting the pipe bombs the night before the insurrection and is a MAGA election denier; the developer of the ICE Block app is suing officials from DHS ICE DOJ and the White House; the DOJ is considering taking a third swipe at getting a grand jury to indict NYAG Letitia James; the Government Accountability Office is investigating Bill Pult...

Allison reveals a critical gap of time the FBI left out of the pipe bomber affidavit, plus 8 other things the administration covered up this past week. Check out the video: https://www.youtube.com/live/_uiK9fzLyQc?si=tuaoElG_te8K1_5h 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 per...

Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024 In the hot notes, Proud Boy and convicted seditionist Enrique Tarrio could testify at an upcoming trial; President Biden and his son Hunter issue statements after the pardon; Dinesh D’Souza has issued a public apology for his movie 2000 Mules; The New Yorker has acquired a whistleblower report about Trump SecDef nominee Pete Hegseth, Senators Warren and Blumenthal ask P...

Friday, December 9th, 2022 In the Hot Notes: the DoJ asks Judge Beryl Howell to hold the Trump team in contempt of court in the documents case; Brittney Griner is on her way home from a Russian penal colony; Donald will not appeal the 11th Circuit Special Master ruling to SCOTUS; the same-sex marriage bill has passed the House and on it’s way to President Biden’s desk for signature; Congressional...

Friday, December 5th, 2025 Today, a federal grand jury in the EDVA has refused to re-indict NYAG Letitia James; members of Congress viewed the entire video of the September 2nd boat strike and many are calling for Hegseth’s resignation; admiral Halsey didn’t resign - Hegseth pushed him out after he took issue with the operations in the Caribbean; the inspector general report on Signalgate has been...

Thursday, December 4th, 2025 Today, the Pentagon knew there were survivors of the September 2nd boat strike; Ghislaine Maxwell is going to file a habeas petition challenging her incarceration and she' s worried the release of the Epstein Files will be damaging to her cause; Nancy Mace is considering following Marjorie Taylor Greene’s lead and resigning before the end of her term in the House; the...

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025 Today, Hegseth moves the goalposts again saying they couldn’t see the two survivors they blew out of the water with a second strike; at least 11 Indiana Republicans were met with threats after refusing to redistrict; the Trump administration has fired 8 immigration judges in New York; Costco is suing Trump for tariff refunds ahead of the Supreme Court ruling; Republic...

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025 Today, it’s election day in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District; Democrats have launched an investigation into Kash Patel’s travel; after denying the second boat strike on September 2nd killing two survivors - the White House now admits it; the White House has also released some fake MRI results for Donald; the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the disqualifica...

Monday, December 1st, 2025 Today, sources say Pete Hegseth ordered the murder of two survivors in the first Caribbean boat strike; the House and Senate are opening rigorous oversight investigations into the Pentagon after that reporting; the man who shot two Guard members in DC was a CIA Zero Unit paramilitary member and was granted asylum by the Trump administration; a judge seeks to preemptively...

New FBI emails confirm Allison’s reporting about the Epstein Files, more embarrassing failures at the Department of Justice, and a personal announcement in response to Trump’s Thanksgiving post. Click here for the video on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/live/hM52u3XP6lo 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 Patre...

Wednesday, November 29th, 2023 In the Hot Notes: Hunter Biden agrees to appear before the House Oversight Committee but only publicly; the conservative Ohio Supreme Court dismisses challenges to the Republican gerrymandered maps; the Trump appointed judge assigned to Elon Musk’s lawsuit has recused himself from the case; Mike Pence told special counsel some harrowing details about January 6th; Sen...

Friday, December 2nd, 2022 In the Hot Notes; the 11th circuit has vacated Judge Cannon’s ruling appointing a special master in the Mar-a-Lago documents case; Joel Greenberg is sentenced to 11 years in prison; Cochise County Arizona is ordered to certify their results as a judge orders Kari Lake’s lawyers to pay rule 11 sanctions fines; a federal judge has ordered the Pats to provide additional tes...

Friday, November 28th, 2025 Today, we have a very special Daily Beans for you. My mom found a joint in my math textbook, and we're going to have to talk about the consequences. No, I'm just kidding. It's Fugelsang Fridays here on the Daily Beans. So of course we're going to talk to John Fugelsang. After that, I'm going to interview a progressive Democratic candidate running for Nancy Pelosi's seat...

Thursday, November 27th, 2025 Today, Trump wants to put 500 more National Guard members on the streets of DC after two guardsmen - who shouldn't have been there - were shot; how an innocent woman was tied to the January 6th pipe bombs; Special Envoy to Ukraine Steve Witkoff coached the Kremlin on how to pitch the Ukraine surrender plan to Trump; the DOJ has thrown Kristi Noem under the bus for dis...