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July 29th, 2025 Senators Durbin and Whitehouse demand tapes of Todd Blanche’s witness tampering meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell; a Texas man sues a California doctor testing a new angle to crack down on abortion pills; another federal judge blocks the Trump administrations attempts to defund Planned Parenthood; Democrat Roy Cooper launches a bid for the North Carolina Senate seat while Republican M...

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2023     In the Hot Notes: Donald Trump has been charged with four counts in his plot to overthrow the government in 2020; two Republicans have been indicted in Michigan for illegally accessing voting machines; after paying legal fees the Trump Super PAC is nearly broke; it appears that Rudy Giuliani’s discovery bill in the Ruby Freeman lawsuit has been paid by Donald Trump;...

Friday, July 31, 2026 Today, Tillis and Cornyn met again with the DOJ to try to hammer out a deal on the Slush Fund and Trump tax immunity; Todd Blanche has handed over several unredacted Epstein documents for review in chambers by Judge Emmet Sullivan; the 7th and 9th Circuit Courts of Appeal have weighed in against Trump’s mass deportation policy; Mandela Barnes has dropped out of the Democratic...

Thursday, July 30, 2026 Today, Senator Cornyn cancelled a meeting with Todd Blanche Wednesday morning because Blanche didn’t have the Slush Fund rescission in hand; Dr. Fauci hears Republican conspiracy theories in a hearing on Capitol Hill and refused to answer questions; Senate Republicans confirmed Jay Clayton as the Director of National Intelligence; a judge has ordered the release of a key wi...

Wednesday, July 29, 2026 Today, Senator Cornyn says he won’t vote to advance Todd Blanche’s nomination without a written rescission of the Slush Fund and tax immunity; Governor Beshear has written another letter to Mitch McConnell demanding he prove he’s fit to serve or resign;  the Knight Institute and American Oversight have filed reply briefs with the 11th Circuit in the case of Volume II of Ja...

Tuesday, July 28, 2026 Today, Three people are dead and several injured after a mass shooting at the Seattle Center; Donald Trump is begging the Supreme Court to let him go ahead with mail voting rules ahead of the midterms; ICE is planning to target Haitians as their temporary protected status is set to expire; a former 60 Minutes correspondent details how her bosses tried to seed disinformation;...

Monday, July 27, 2026 Today, Donald Trump TACOs again on major Iran war escalation as administration officials worry about running out of munitions; the Pentagon has inexplicably changed the number of troops killed in the war from 18 to 14 on their web site; as far right influencers whinge about the tiny voter registration error in New Jersey - they remain silent about a similar error in Texas; th...

Allison is joined by legal reporter Anna Bower, who was inside the courtroom as a federal judge sharply rebuked Trump Justice Department lawyers over their subpoenas targeting New York Times reporters. They break down the DOJ’s stunning admissions, the judge’s demand for internal communications, and what this extraordinary hearing could mean going forward. Allison Gill is joined by legal reporter...

Wednesday, July 24th 2024 Fact checking claims and combating misinformation about Kamala Harris; the Trump Campaign has filed a complaint with the FEC over Harris taking over the Biden war chest; the Harris Campaign has requested VP vetting materials for a short list of potential candidates; the Trump Campaign is second guessing their choice of JD Vance; Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle ha...

Tuesday, July 26th, 2022 In the Hot Notes: the DoJ has broadened its investigation again by putting Pence’s chief of staff Mark Short and legal counsel Greg Jacob in front of a federal grand jury; the committee releases new evidence about what Trump didn’t want to say during his January 7th address; Fulton County DA Fani Willis is disqualified from investigating one Georgia state senator because o...

Friday, July 24, 2026 Today, the DOJ has withdrawn its New York Times subpoenas; the man who shot Melissa Hortman and others in Minnesota has been sentenced to two life terms plus 40 years; oil is back up over $100 a barrel as Houthis attack ships in the Bab al-Mandab; the House passed a war powers resolution but the Senate quickly voted against it; Jim Jordan’s committee referred Jack Smith to th...

Friday, July 24, 2026 Go To Defiance.org/beans For Months Free Jack Smith Criminally Referred To DOJ Moxie Moment: This is what it’s all about ❤️ (via @jordan.fa)   Subscribe to the MSW YouTube Channel - MSW Media - YouTube Dr. Allison Gill - The Breakdown | Allison Gill , Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) — Bluesky , MSW & The Daily Beans Podcast (@muellershewrote) - Instagram , MSW Media...

Thursday, July 23, 2026 Today, a modeling scout who connected women to Epstein has been found dead in France; Donald Trump has just approved a deal with Saudi Arabia to let them build nuclear reactors; Arizona held its primary elections and we’ll go over the results; West Virginia Republican House member Elliott Pritt has been charged with soliciting a minor; the Justice Department is quietly inve...

Wednesday, July 22, 2026 Today, RFK Jr pauses a billion dollars in Medicaid to California and Minnesota; Rep. Jamie Raskin is seeking documents related to Jeffrey Epstein’s foreign contacts; IRS Chief Frank Bisignano spied on colleagues when he worked at JPMorgan; Trump and the OMB are violating the Impoundment Control Act by ignoring Congressional appropriations; an appeals court has overturned t...

Tuesday, July 21, 2026 Today, a federal judge paused the merger of Paramount/Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery pending litigation filed by state attorneys general; Troy Jackson has all but sewn up the nomination to replace Graham Platner on the ballot in Maine; Lindsey Graham’s sister Darline Nardone will run for her dead brother’s seat in the August 11th special primary election; the FBI not on...

Monday, July 20, 2026 Today, Senator Warren calls out millions in missing Trump library bribes; Markwayne Mullin threatens state election officials with jail time; a top IRS guy was fired for opposing the president’s tax immunity granted by Todd Blanche; more details emerge about the abusive past of the ICE agent that murdered Johan Guerrero; FBI said it will no longer investigate ICE murders as t...

Monday, July 20, 2026 Sifting Through Trump’s Dump Jesse Watters is a Trash Human The Tate Brothers are Trash Humans Moxie Moment: Jimothy  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rkWEFs3Pck    Subscribe to the MSW YouTube Channel - MSW Media - YouTube Dr. Allison Gill - The Breakdown | Allison Gill , Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) — Bluesky , MSW & The Daily Beans Podcast (@muellershewrote)...

Allison sits down with Annie Farmer, an Epstein survivor who attended the meeting with Todd Blanche to satisfy Senator Thom Tillis' request. Blanche refused to take responsibility, refused to open a probe into institutional failures, invoked privilege, and condescended to the attendees. Reminder - you can see the pod pics if you become a Patron. The good news pics are at the bottom of the show not...

Wednesday, July 16th, 2025 ICE declares millions of undocumented immigrants are ineligible for bond hearings; Republicans move to block the release of the Epstein files; Mike Waltz faces Senate grilling over the Signal chat scandal; Trump pushes an unconstitutional mid-decade redistricting bid for Texas in an effort to keep the House; the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club issues a blistering cease and d...

July 17, 2024 President Biden is set to announce major Supreme Court reform efforts including term limits; JD Vance has yet to accept debates with Vice President Kamala Harris; the DNC says its virtual roll call to nominate Biden will happen in early August; Elon Musk is moving Tesla out of California; Rudy Giuliani says he has no regrets over the damage he did to the lives of Ruby Freeman and Sha...

Friday, July 17, 2026 Today, multiple 2020 election deniers met this week at the White House ahead of Trump’s address; the ex-wife of the ICE officer who shot a 26-year-old Colombian man in Maine has come forward to say that he had mental health issues and was abusive in their relationship; Todd Blanche says he will meet with Epstein survivors so he can get his nomination to Attorney General out o...

Friday, July 17, 2026 Same Shit, Different Year Moxie Moment: https://bsky.app/profile/jonathanslater.bsky.social/post/3mqs2v3ndi22q   Subscribe to the MSW YouTube Channel - MSW Media - YouTube Dr. Allison Gill - The Breakdown | Allison Gill , Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) — Bluesky , MSW & The Daily Beans Podcast (@muellershewrote) - Instagram , MSW Media - YouTube Dana Goldberg - @dg...

Thursday, July 16, 2026 Today, Todd Blanche and Jay Clayton testify in their respective confirmation hearings on Capitol Hill; Trump says ICE should continue traffic stops less than one day after DHS suspended the practice; Donald threatens to destroy bridges and civilian power plants in Iran; ICE admits it has a trove of documents about being stationed at polling places; plus Allison and Dana del...

Tuesday, July 14, 2026 Today, E Jean Carroll gets her $5M payment from Trump plus interest per court documents; the Justice Department loses another voter roll case bringing them to zero for 13; the Wisconsin Elections Commission has made two criminal referrals to the Brown County DA against Elon Musk for his $1M voter lottery scheme; Senate Democrats have blocked the $1.15T Pentagon policy bill;...

Tuesday, July 14, 2026 Today, Trump will give a Thursday night address likely to produce falsified evidence of foreign interference in the 2020 election; a federal judge has sanctioned two lawyers and referred Blanche and Woodward to the Bar for disciplinary action after finding Donald’s lawsuit against the IRS was a fraud on the court; the Justice Department has finally turned over evidence in th...