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Wednesday, June 18th, 2025 Today, the 9th Circuit heard arguments over Trump’s National Guard deployment to California; a federal judge has blocked Trump’s passport policy targeting transgender people; Trump has left the G7 early to return to Washington as he tells everyone to evacuate Tehran; a counter protester arrested at Nashville’s No Kings march has been hit with gun charges; Senator Mike Le...

Tuesday, June 17th, 2025 Today, Vance Boelter is hit with six federal felonies and the Hennepin County DA says they will seek first degree murder charges; new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats and unmarried veterans; Gavin Newsom’s bid for an injunction barring Trump from federalizing the National Guard is fully briefed ahead of today’s hearing; a federal judge has declared Trump...

Monday, June 16th, 2025 Today, a MAGA extremist posing as law enforcement shot two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses Saturday morning; millions of Americans took the streets this weekend for the No Kings protests while Trump’s military birthday parade was a bust; detainees rose up and some escaped from the private ICE detention center; Ras Baraka and LaMonica McIver were arrested for trying to...

June 13, 2023 In the Hot Notes: Donald Trump and Walt Nauta will be arraigned on 38 federal felony charges in Miami at 3 PM; a press coalition has petitioned the court to allow audio and video recordings in the federal Trump proceedings; the DoJ seeks 14 years in prison for the 1/6 rioter who drove a stun gun into officer Fanone’s neck; Senator Blumenthal has launched a probe into the LIV PGA merg...

June 13,2022 Hot Notes: a Daily Beans exclusive about Enrique Tarrio’s phones; the 1/6 Committee releases the witness list for this morning’s hearing; more emails from Ginni Thomas to Arizona lawmakers are released; Rudy Giuliani is hit with ethics charges in DC over election fraud claims; 31 white supremacists have been arrested in Idaho and charged with planning a riot at a Pride event; a bipart...

Friday, June 13th, 2025 Today, California Senator Alex Padilla was tacked and handcuffed after identifying himself to ask Kristi Noem during a press conference; there was a hearing Thursday in Judge Breyer’s courtroom about the injunction motion filed by Governor Newsom; National Guard and Marines are deeply troubled by their deployment to California; a federal judge rules that the government can’...

Thursday, June 12th, 2025 Today, Trump’s new lawyers argue at the Second Circuit Court of Appeals to move his 34 felony count appeal to federal court; Trump’s DoJ calls Governor Newsom’s lawsuit a crass political stunt and irony immediately died; Customs and Border Protection confirms it’s flying Predator drones over Los Angeles; a new Quinnipiac poll shows Trump’s approval is sliding considerably...

Wednesday, June 11th, 2025 Today, Trump is in court to try and move his 34 felony convictions appeal to federal court; Governor Newsom asks the court for an immediate restraining order against Hegseth’s deployment of the military to California saying he has evidence troops will be used for law enforcement in violation of the law; Republican House Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green is leaving Co...

Tuesday, June 10th, 2025 Today, Pete Hegseth has mobilized the United States Marines against American citizens in Los Angeles County; Attorney General Bonta is suing the Trump administration seeking an injunction of National Guard deployment; ABC suspends Terry Moran for a tweet calling Stephen Miller a world class hater; a former Afghan soldier was arrested by ICE in Houston and stripped of his a...

Monday, June 9th, 2025 Today, Trump and Kegseth mobilize the National Guard against peaceful protesters in Los Angeles County; Abrego Garcia is back on US soil after being hit with trumped up criminal charges over a 2022 traffic stop in Tennessee; San Antonio police walk back their statements about the murder of Jonathan Joss not being a hate crime; the Trump regime scrambles to rehire wrongfully...

Monday, June 6th, 2022 In the Hot Notes: Trump advisor Pete Navarro has been indicted and arrested for criminal contempt of congress; simultaneously, the DoJ told the committee they would NOT be indicting Mark Meadows and Dan Scavino for criminal contempt; a Pence aide told his secret service lead that Pence could be at risk the day before the attack on the capitol; and strategy memos prepared for...

Tuesday, June 6th, 2023 In the Hot Notes: Trump’s lawyers met Monday with special counsel Jack Smith and other DoJ officials to discuss the documents case; CNN reports that the maintenance worker who asked the Mar-a-Lago IT guy about the surveillance footage accidentally flooded the server room where they were kept; Jared Kushner’s $2 Billion Saudi check appears even more comically corrupt than pr...

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...