The Daily Beans

Thursday, October 16th, 2025 Today, dozens of Pentagon reporters have turned in their access badges and exited the Pentagon; Brown University rejects Trump’s extortion bid; a federal judge has blocked Trump’s federal layoffs; a different federal judge has issued a restraining order against Republican Rep Cory Mills; Los Angeles County declares a state of emergency over immigration raids; Young Rep...

Wednesday, October 15th, 2025 Today, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes threatens legal action against Mike Johnson for refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva; Jack Smith speaks out about his investigations into Donald Trump with former Mueller prosecutor Andrew Weissmann; Stephen Miller has murdered another five people in a Caribbean boat strike; major airports are refusing to play Kristi Noem’s...

Tuesday, October 14th, 2025 Today, major media outlets are refusing to sign the new Pentagon policy that requires pre-approval of news stories; Trump manages to screw up the ceasefire and hostage deal in the Middle East; Education Department layoffs hit the offices responsible for special education and civil rights; Ghislaine Maxwell met with anonymous high profile visitors in the chapel at club f...

Monday, October 13th, 2025 Today, former national security advisor John Bolton could be indicted as early as this week; Trump robs Peter to pay Paul without Congressional authorization; Donald’s nominee for the Office of Special Counsel is a sex pest; a Republican has purchased Dominion voting machines; stocks tank as Trump extends China tariffs; Republicans want to gut a 50 year old law that prot...

Friday, October 14th, 2022 Former President Donald John Trump has been unanimously subpoenaed by the Congressional committee investigating a coup; the same former president lost his Supreme Court bid to review classified documents in an espionage investigation; the former Vice President’s counsel testified before a federal grand jury after having resolved privilege issues; and the NYAG has filed a...

Thursday, October 12th, 2023 In the Hot Notes: a group of 67 Twitter accounts spread coordinated disinformation about the Israel-Hamas war as Elon blocks community notes; after Trump’s endorsement and four former OSU students speak out against him, Jim Jordan loses the nomination for Speaker to David Duke without the baggage Steve Scalise; the 11th Circuit has denied Florida’s request to let its d...

Friday, October 10th, 2025 Today, a federal judge has issued a restraining order barring federal agents from using riot control weapons against journalists and protestors in Chicago; a different federal judge has granted a TRO in part against National Guard deployment in Chicago; a pastor shot in the head by ICE agents is suing over First Amendment threats; Trump’s message to Pam Bondi about indic...

Thursday, October 9th, 2025 Today, Jim Comey pled not guilty, asked for and was granted a speedy trial and outlined which motions to dismiss he’s going to file; the 9th Circuit has temporarily stayed Judge Immergut’s order blocking National Guard deployment to Portland; Trump calls for the Illinois governor and the Chicago mayor to be jailed; a Florida man has been arrested for setting the Palisad...

Wednesday, October 8th, 2025 Today, Jim Comey will be arraigned in the Eastern District of Virginia; members of Congress will hold a press conference with Epstein survivors about the discharge petition to release the Epstein Files; furloughed workers are being told they may not receive backpay; the Supreme Court shoots down a Republican challenge to Washington State’s Climate Commitment Act; Pritz...

Tuesday, October 7th, 2025 Today, President Trump vows to consider a pardon of convicted child sex offender and Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell; ABC News confirms that person 3 in the Comey indictment is NOT Andy McCabe; Trump appointed judge Immergut issues a second restraining order against deploying the National Guard to Portland; a prosecutor in the EDVA refused to bring mortgage fraud cha...

Monday, October 6th, 2025 Today, a Trump appointed judge has blocked the deployment of the National Guard in Portland; a woman is shot by a federal agent in Chicago; the administration is deporting a journalist here legally to El Salvador; a Texas megachurch pastor has pled guilty to sexually abusing a child; Portland police are fighting back against the invasion and are being investigated by the...

Trump and the Republicans have orchestrated the government shutdown that they are trying to blame on Democrats. The military is being mobilized in American cities. Stephen Miller and Trump’s fascist advisors couldn’t be happier.   Links From the Week Ending 10.05.2025 New details emerge on Hegseth’s unusual mass gathering of top brass - The Washington Post Sinclair Ends 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' Boycot...

Tuesday, October 1st, 2024 Donald Trump lies about the federal response to the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene while tapping local resources for a political visit to Valdosta Georgia; CBS News says it will not be responsible to fact check the candidates in tonight's Vice Presidential Debate; the DNC and Georgia Dems have sued the Georgia State Election Board for their hand count rule on the...

Wednesday, October 5th, 2022 In the Hot Notes: Donald files a motion with the Supreme Court to vacate the stay issued by the 11th circuit; pro-life Herschel Walker paid for a woman to get an abortion in 2009; Ron Johnson admits texting a Trump attorney during 1/6; a new recording played at the Oath Keepers seditious conspiracy trial outlines planning to overthrow the government; and Trump lawyer r...

Friday, October 3rd, 2025 Today, Trump directs his Cabinet officials to ferret out criminal activity by domestic terror groups using National Security Presidential Memo 7, the white house has sent letters to universities threatening to withhold federal funding if they don’t sign a pledge to support the administration’s policies; Trump has declared the US is in a non-international armed conflict wi...

Thursday, October 2nd, 2025 Today, Republicans and Trump have shut down the government but construction on the Trump White House Ballroom will continue; federal employees are sent propaganda about Democrats being at fault for the shutdown; YouTube pays Trump a giant bribe; the Pentagon is planning widespread polygraphs and non-disclosure agreements; the White House has withdrawn the nomination of...

Wednesday, October 1st, 2025 Today, Secretary of Defense Pete Kegseth told a room full of flag officers to ignore the laws of engagement; Donald Trump says he wants a shutdown so he can “get rid of a lot of Democrat things;” Reagan appointed Judge Young issued an excoriating ruling against the Trump administration in a First Amendment case comparing ICE to the KKK; Oregon mayors condemn Trump’s de...

Tuesday, September 30th, 2025 Today, the Republicans are poised to shut down the government at midnight as Trump and Kegseth meet with flag officers in Quantico after deploying the National Guard to war ravaged Portland; Portland threatens to evict ICE out of the detention facility over permit violations; the village of Broadview in Chicago has opened a criminal investigation into ICE attacks on a...

Monday, September 29th, 2025 Today, Donald Trump instructs the War Department to invade war torn Portland, Oregon; Mike Johnson delays the swearing in of Adelita Grijalva as he tries to delay the inevitable continued release of the Epstein Files; there’s a little more information about Kegseth’s meeting of flag officers tomorrow; ICE detained the Des Moines public schools superintendent; Trump sug...

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...