The Daily Beans

Thursday, March 13th, 2025 Today, Judge Beryl Howell has granted the law firm Perkins Coie a temporary restraining order blocking challenge sections of Trump's executive order; MSW media has partnered with national security counselors to file a FOIA request for the USAID destroyed document logs; House Republicans have passed a bill to fund the government, but Senate Democrats are divided; the Trum...

Wednesday, March 12th, 2025 Today, Judge Alsup has denied Trump's request to block the under oath testimony of the head of the Office of Personnel Management in court; Republicans in Congress are cobbling together a terrible resolution to fund the government; a Justice Department official was fired when she refused to restore Mel Gibson's gun rights; Ukraine and Russia have agreed to a 30 day ceas...

Tuesday, March 11th, 2025 Today, a damning affidavit is filed in the lawsuit against Musk gaining access to the Social Security Administration systems; the Department of Homeland Security has begun polygraph tests to determine who is leaking to the press; the Trump administration is backtracking on forcing Maine parents to visit Social Security offices to register newborns; Trump's Department of J...

Monday, March 10th, 2025 Today, a multi-state lawsuit seeks to reverse the purge of federal workers; Trump walks back his idiotic tariffs, but probably not after he dumped all of his stock in Canadian aluminum; Republicans joined Democrats in Montana to defeat anti-trans legislation; the Trump administration has said it will not comply with a court order to produce agency heads to testify; a feder...

Mar 7, 2021 Democrats have passed the American Rescue Plan propping up the middle class with $1.9T; a Trump campaign aide and State Department appointee is arrested for his role in the insurrection; the FBI finds a contact between a member of the Proud Boys and the White House before the attack on the Capitol; Rep. Zoe Lofgren catalogs GOP members spreading the big lie leading up to the siege; Eri...

March 10th, 2022 The judge in the John Eastman Chapman University emails case has ruled in favor of the January 6th committee; Stephen Miller’s MOM files a lawsuit for him against the 1/6 committee to block a phone records subpoena; Mesa County Colorado clerk Tina Peters and deputy Belina Kinsley have been indicted on a combined 17 counts for breaching their own county’s voter database and leaking...

Friday, March 7th, 2025 Today, Governor Gavin Newsom opposes trans athletes in women’s sports; Trump held a Cabinet meeting today to clarify to his agency heads that they're in charge of ruining people's lives and not Elon Musk; a federal judge has held Mike Lindell in contempt for failure to comply with disclosure in the Smartmatic defamation case; judges face increased threats after being called...

Thursday, March 6th, 2025 Today, the Supreme Court rules that the Trump administration must unfreeze foreign aid; a US district judge has blocked Trump’s cuts to NIH funding; a US district judge in Maryland has issued a preliminary injunction against Trump withholding funds to hospitals that provide gender affirming care; the Merit Systems Protection Board has ordered Trump to reinstate thousands...

Wednesday, March 5th, 2025 Today, Senate Judiciary Democrats are asking the bar association to launch an investigation into acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove; Trump abruptly walks back his directive to fire thousands of federal workers; Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger has filed a motion to stop the firing of 5000 USDA employees; the oligarchs on the Supreme Court have ruled that the EPA c...

Tuesday, March 4th, 2025 Today, federal workers are being asked again to provide five things they did last week and it’s going about as well as a Cybertruck strapped to a SpaceX rocket on Twitter; DOGE is pressing to check benefit payments against IRS tax records; the National Institute of Health’s ban on renewing senior scientists adds to the assault on its in-house research; Trump firings at NOA...

Monday, March 3rd, 2025 Today, Trump and Vance capitulate to Russia during the Zelensky visit as Marco Rubio sinks into the couch; the Democratic Party has sued the Trump administration for his attempt to control independent watchdog agencies; Republicans are terrified of crossing Trump and Musk; a federal judge has barred the administration from issuing executive orders barring gender affirming c...

Originally Published 2/28/2023 In the Hot Notes; a new filing in the Dominion defamation case reveals that Rupert Murdoch knew the election fraud claims were lies; DoJ is set to brief the Gang of 8 in Congress about the risk posed by the classifieds documents in the Trump, Pence, and Biden spills; SCOTUS is going to weigh-in on student debt cancellation; Fani Willis has empaneled a regular grand j...

March 1, 2021 Twitter exploded this weekend with images of the CPAC stage which is the shape of a common Nazi symbol; sexual misconduct allegations emerge about both Madison Cawthorn and Governor Cuomo; the FBI has singled out a suspect in the death of Capitol officer Sicknick; lawyers for an 18-year-old insurrectionist push to have him released to his parents; NASA officially names its DC headqua...

Friday, February 28th, 2025 Today, a judge has ordered Trump administration officials to give sworn testimony about DOGE; a judge has dismissed Ric Grenell’s defamation case against Olivia Troye; the DHS has quietly eliminated the ban on surveillance based on sexual orientation and gender identity; Andrew and Tristan Tate have left Romania and landed in the sex pest sanctuary state of Florida; a f...

Thursday, February 27th, 2025 Today, the Office of Personnel Management sent out a memo directing massive reductions in force; the Trump administration threatens a permanent visa ban for trans athletes; Musk cancelled contracts that help veterans only to reinstate them the next day; Jeff Bezos announced a revamp to the Washington Post op ed section causing the editor to quit; a Democrat in Maine w...

Wednesday, February 26th, 2025 Today, the VA has laid off another 1400 workers and over 6,000 veterans have been laid off government wide; a federal judge has given the Trump administration 36 hours to make foreign aid contract payments; the Trump regime has announced that the administration and not the WHCA will decide what media outlets are in the press pool; a federal judge has blocked Trump’s...

Tuesday, February 25th, 2025 Today, a CDA woman was assaulted at a Republican town hall by two unmarked private security guards; the OPM walks back it’s five bullets email; a Trump appointed judge denies a restraining order that would reinstate the Associated Press White House access; Emmanuel Macron fact checked Donald Trump on Ukraine in real time in the Oval Office; a federal judge blocked OPM...

Monday, February 24th, 2025 Today, a bomb threat that was emailed into the Principles First Summit is being investigated by authorities in DC a day after Enrique Tarrio was arrested for simple assault; another OPM email went out to federal workers this weekend asking them to list five things they did last week; Trump ousted the chair of the Joint Chiefs and top DoD officials; the US is threatening...

Feb 24, 2021 We get the first Senate hearing about the insurrection; a judge bench slaps Jacob Wohl; the man who gouged out a cops eye in the Capitol riots is arrested; we’re getting more information on the makeup of the insurrection commission; Purdue announces he will NOT run against Warnock in 2022; Andrew Cuomo’s approval rating drops six points amidst the nursing home scandal; plus Dana Goldb...

Friday, February 25th, 2022 Biden and NATO impose additional sanctions on Russia as Putin initiates a full-scale invasion of Ukraine; we have additional insights into Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s reluctance to prosecute Donald; the “Don't Say Gay” bill has passed the Florida House 69-47; Ivanka is in talks with the 1/6 committee to possibly provide testimony; a court has denied Sidney Powell’s reque...

Friday, February 21st, 2025 Today, the Senate confirms Kash Patel as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; the Trump administration plans for sweeping Pentagon cuts; New York Governor Kathy Hochul will not remove Mayor Eric Adams at this time; a federal judge has barred the deportation of 8 asylum seekers; DOGE puts a $1 spending limit on government employee issued credit cards; an ICE...

Thursday, February 20th, 2025 Today, Judge Dale Ho held a hearing with Emil Bove and Eric Adams lawyers about the DOJ motion to dismiss the charges against the New York City Mayor; Trump is ordering the removal of certain words from VA medical record note templates; the JFK Library closes its doors abruptly after a Trump executive order; the USDA says it accidentally fired people working on bird f...

Wednesday, February 19th, 2025 Today, another line prosecutor has resigned from the DoJ in protest to being asked to open a grand jury investigation into an Inflation Reduction Act contract; nearly 1000 career prosecutors including Jack Smith sign a letter in admiration of the prosecutors that have acted courageously in the face of the Trump regime; Judge Reyes holds a hearing on transgender peopl...

Tuesday, February 18th, 2025 Today, Elon Musk is seeking access to personal taxpayer data raising alarms at the Internal Revenue Service; The Washington Post has blocked a two page ad calling for the removal of Elon Musk; January 6th rioters are arguing in court that their pardons apply to unrelated charges; Trump has fired hundreds of FAA employees despite four deadly crashes in four weeks; the W...

Monday, February 17th, 2025 Today, Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s nuclear weapons stockpile so now he’s trying to re-hire them; Zelensky refuses to hand over US access to Ukraine’s minerals; three DOGEbags showed up to San Francisco City Hall demanding records; Trump bars federal funding for schools with COVID vaccine mandates; internal DOGE documents...