Thursday, July 3rd, 2025 Today, an insurrectionist has been given a cushy job at the Department of Justice in the weaponization task force; the Justice Department explores bringing criminal charges against state election officials; a federal judge has blocked Trump’s ban on asylum; Mr. Abrego has filed his amended complaint on Judge Xinis’ docket; the University of Pennsylvania has revoked a transgender swimmers records in a deal with the Trump Administration; CBS and Paramount have bent the knee and agreed to pay Trump $16M; the Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down the state's 1849 near-total abortion ban; the private sector lost 33,000 jobs - nearly 150K short of expectations; the new Senate provision in the Billionaire Bailout Bill would throw 17M americans off health insurance; and Allison delivers your Good News. Dana is out and about!

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2025 Today, JD Vance cast the tie breaking vote to pass the billionaire bailout bill which now heads back to the House for another vote, Donald Trump wants to use the espionage act against members of the media, a Reagan appointed judge says he will not tolerate retribution against witnesses in an upcoming trial about whether he will block the government from targeting student activists, a new study reveals that the elimination of USAID could result in 14M deaths over five years, an appeals court allows a previously detained researcher to remain free, Justice Alito takes pride in gay bashing from the bench, Mamdani is officially the winner of the NYC mayoral primary after ranked choice voting is tallied, and Allison delivers your Good News. Dana is out and about!

Tuesday, July 1st, 2025 Today, as we feared, the Trump administration is building a national citizenship database; two firefighters are dead after a Coeur d’Alene man set a fire to lure them to the wilderness and then opened fire; two teen girls were shot near the Stonewall Inn after pride celebrations; Senator Thom Tillis shreds the Billionaire Bailout Bill now that he’s no longer running for reelection; the Trump administration is suing Los Angeles over sanctuary policies; the Supreme Court punts on the Louisiana redistricting case; after decades in the US Iranians are arrested by DHS; the DoJ announces plans to prioritize cases revoking citizenship; and Allison delivers your Good News.

Monday, June 30th, 2025 Today, Republicans advance the Billionaire Bailout Bill in the Senate after promising hold-outs they could gut a provision of the Affordable Care Act as Tommy Tuberville calls for the parliamentarian to be fired; the Supreme Court kills the lower court’s ability to issue universal injunctions AND allows parents to opt their kids out of LGBTQ books; Donald Trump threatens to withhold payments to Israel unless their courts drop the charges against Bibi Netanyahu; Cuomo will stay in the New York City mayoral race after conceding to Zohran Mamdani; Don Bacon of Nebraska and Thom Tillis of North Carolina say they will not run in 2026; the President of the University of Virginia has resigned because of pressure from the Trump administration; Republicans in the Senate have blocked the Iran war powers resolution; the Trump administration has freed a three time felon and five time deported migrant in exchange for his testimony against Kilmar Abrego; Governor Gavin Newsom sues fox news for 787M dollars for defamation; over 100,000 people marched in a Budapest Pride event in defiance of Hungary's ban; and Allison delivers your Good News.

Wednesday, June 29th, 2022 In the Hot Notes: explosive testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson during the last minute hearing on the 1/6 attack on the Capitol building; Ghislaine Maxwell is sentenced to 20 years in prison; There's no chance that Supreme Court justices could be charged with perjury during their confirmation hearings; Turkey has dropped its opposition of Finland and Sweden joining NATO; and filmmaker Alex Holder has been contacted by the Fulton County DA Fani Willis; plus Dana and Allison deliver your Good News. Follow our guest on Twitter: Randall Eliason

Friday, June 28th, 2024 Still no ruling on immunity from the Supreme Court, and the decisions are now rolling over into next week; Felix Sater lost his money laundering trial to the tune of $32M; Roger Sollenberger from Daily Beast got a records request showing Jim Comer wrote over 2,000 emails using an alias; the former school police chief of Uvalde has been indicted for his role in the botched response to the Robb Elementary shooting; the Oklahoma state superintendent orders schools to teach the Bible in grades 5 through 12; CNN has banned White House press pool reporters from the debate; plus Allison delivers your Good News. John Fugelsang

Friday, June 27th, 2025 Today, Judge Xinis orders an expedited briefing schedule in both the government’s motion to dismiss the Abrego case and Mr. Abrego’s motion to be moved to Maryland and to block DHS from deporting him; Judge Murphy rules that he does have jurisdiction to consider an amended brief from Gavin Newsom to stop the deployment of the military in California; the Senate parliamentarian rejects a key Medicaid cuts in the billionaire Bailout Bill; Kenneth Chesebro is disbarred in the state of New York; the Supreme Court ruled in favor of South Carolina’s bid to defund Planned Parenthood; Mayor Eric Adams hires a campaign consultant accused of strangling his girlfriend in a SoHo hotel; the White House is going to limit intelligence sharing with Congress; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.

Thursday, June 26th, 2025 Today, Republicans capitulated to the lies that spewed forth from the mouth of Emil Bove in his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Wednesday; Zohran Mamdani defeated Cuomo in the New York City mayoral primary sending another message that people power is strong than the political money machine; the Trump administration is kicking the National Science Foundation out of its offices as HUD moves in; a suspect linked to a Palm Springs fertility clinic bombing has died in federal custody; Representative LaMonica McIver has pled not guilty to the ridiculous charges brought against her by parking lot lawyer Alina Habba; a federal judge has halted Trump’s bid to end collective bargaining rights for federal workers; a judge holds a hearing over bail conditions for Kilmar Abrego Garcia; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.

Wednesday, June 25th, 2025 Today, former DoJ lawyer Erez Reuveni issues a bombshell whistleblower account of Emil Bove’s intentional defiance of court orders on the eve of his judicial confirmation hearing; US intelligence assessments indicate that Iran’s nuclear sites were not destroyed and they can be back up and running in a few months; Florida is paving over the Everglades to build its own concentration camp; a federal judge has blocked Trump’s termination of University of California research grants; the Senate parliamentarian nixes the public lands selloff in the Billionaire Bailout Bill; four tech execs are sworn in as lieutenant colonels in the Army; Senator Lisa Murkowski signals she may turn Independent and caucus with Democrats; House Dems choose youth over seniority in the House Oversight ranking member election; and Allison delivers your Good News.

Tuesday, June 24th, 2025 Today, Iran fires missiles at US bases in Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Iraq in what is seen as a performative retaliation to Trump’s unconstitutional bombing of Iranian nuclear enrichment sites; the Supreme Court has blocked a judge's order forbidding removal of immigrants to third countries; lawyers for Gavin Newsom have asked the district court to consider a preliminary injunction to block Trump’s deployment of the military to California as a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act; Democrats in the Senate are winning their arguments before the parliamentarian on multiple provisions in the Billionaire Bailout Bill; ICE detains Marine Corps veteran's wife who was still breastfeeding their baby; Democrats will protest Trump’s takeover of the Kennedy Center with a pride event; there is an underground resistance inside the VA against Trump’s ban on care for transgender veterans; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.

Monday, June 23rd, 2025 Today, the US dropped twelve 30,000 pound bombs on Iran’s nuclear enrichment sites, the 9th Circuit allows Trump to maintain control of the National Guard in California, a judge ordered the release of Mahmoud Khalil, a federal appeals court rules Louisiana’s law requiring schools to display the ten commandments is unconstitutional, the Senate Parliamentarian says the court bond provision in the billionaire bailout bill is against the rules, ICE agents scatter in San Diego during a Catholic bishop’s visit to immigration court, the Dodgers pledge to give a million dollars to immigrant families, a Minnesota gender affirming care law is left untouched by the Supreme Court’s recent ruling; and Allison delivers Good News.

Tuesday, June 21st, 2022 In the Hot Notes: the fourth committee hearing on the attempted coup is today at 1 PM ET; a DeSantis judge committed a crime by lying on her state Supreme Court application; a federal judge rejects a Proud Boys motion for pretrial release; and the fascist Texas Republican platform has been released; plus Dana and Allison deliver your Good News.

Friday, June 23rd, 2023 In the Hot Notes: another Trump aide who helped coordinate the fraudulent elector scheme was seen headed into Jack Smith’s 1/6 grand jury today; the House of Representatives has censured Adam Schiff; the impeachment trial of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been scheduled for September; more Supreme Court corruption; the sleeper legal strategy that could topple abortion bans; plus AG and Dana deliver your Good News.

Friday, June 20th, 2025 Today, trump privately approved attack plans for Iran but has withheld the final order; the State Department is requiring students with visa interviews to make their social media public; a federal judge has blocked Trump from tying state transportation funds to immigration enforcement; police are investigating a break in at the home of slain Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman; another one of Elon Musk's rockets exploded; DHS issues new guidance for lawmaker inspections of detention facilities; Judge Hanna Dugan’s trial has been removed from the calendar as the judge considers the motion to dismiss the charges; the Los Angeles Dodgers refuse entry to ICE officials; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.

Thursday, June 19th, 2025 Today, the Supreme Court deals a stunning setback to trans rights as it upholds Tennessee’s ban on transgender healthcare for minors; cuts to FEMA are hammering communities that voted for Trump; the fed refuse to cut interest rates despite pressure from Trump to do so; the Small Business Administration is flying the far right appeal to heaven flag; the President is really mad a Pete Hegseth for his squeaky squeaky tank parade; Russ Vought eyes a rarely used power to override Congressional spending; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.

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 Lee has taken down his tweets about the Minnesota assassin after being confronted by Senators Tina Smith and Amy Klobuchar; New York mayoral candidate Brad Lander has been arrested by ICE on trumped up charges of assaulting an agent; a federal judge has held the Florida Attorney General in civil contempt; for the second time the Government Accountability Office has found the Trump administration illegally impounded funds; the NAACP is refusing to invite the president to their annual convention for the first time in its 116 year history; Trump reverses course on arresting migrants at farms and hotel; Mike Lindell has to pay $2.3M for defaming the Dominion Voting CEO; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.

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's National Institutes of Health cuts to be illegal; the sudden deployment of US air tankers to the Middle East raises questions; Donald Trump calls for Russia to re-join the G7; Donald Trump accidentally drops a signed UK-US trade deal and mistakenly calls it a deal with the EU; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.

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 inspect; the House has voted to kill funding for PBS and NPR; Mamdani and Lander cross endorse one another in the New York City mayoral race; Marines carried out the first KNOWN detention of a civilian in Los Angeles; US troops begin detaining people in the national defense zone at the border; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.

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 merger; Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman are hit with a $5.1M FCC fine; plus AG and Dana deliver your Good News.

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 bipartisan group of senators reach a deal on gun legislation; plus Allison delivers your Good News. Adam Klasfeld