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 federal judge rules that firing a member of the NLRB was illegal; another federal judge orders the Trump ...
Mar 10, 2025•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 1586
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; Eric Swalwell sues Trump for his role in the insurrection; the Fulton County Georgia DA hires a top RIC...
Mar 09, 2025•1 hr 3 min
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 it to the pillow man; and the Texas Bar Association has decided to refer Sidney Powell for disbarme...
Mar 08, 2025•51 min
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 out by Musk; Trump has exempted some automakers from tariffs; Musk suggests the US should privatize...
Mar 07, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 1585
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 of USDA probationary employees they determined were wrongfully terminated; hundreds of pages of emai...
Mar 06, 2025•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 1584
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 can’t impose clean water protections; Trump’s tariff wars threaten to sink the global economy; after ...
Mar 05, 2025•47 min•Ep. 1583
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 NOAA will impact how we get weather reports; JD Vance is being rebuked by NATO allies and the Pope; a U...
Mar 04, 2025•48 min•Ep. 1582
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 care for transgender minors; ProPublica outlines all the lifesaving USAID programs Trump is cancellin...
Mar 03, 2025•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 1581
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 jury to consider indictments in the 2020 election interference investigation; Elon Musk lays off more...
Mar 02, 2025•41 min
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 headquarters after Hidden Figure Mary W. Jackson; plus Dana Goldberg (@DGComedy) deliver Hot Notes and your...
Mar 01, 2025•49 min
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 federal judge in Baltimore has extended the PFLAG TRO blocking Trump's effort to cut funding to hospi...
Feb 28, 2025•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 1580
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 won her state special election by 43 points; the US logs its first measles death in a decade; judge A...
Feb 27, 2025•42 min•Ep. 1579
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 pause of the refugee admissions program, DOGE is working on software that automates the firing of fe...
Feb 26, 2025•43 min•Ep. 1578
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 and the Department of Education from sharing data with DOGE; another federal judge blocked Trump’s I...
Feb 25, 2025•42 min•Ep. 1577
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 to cut Starlink access to Ukraine if they don’t hand over their rare earth minerals; a judge blocks...
Feb 24, 2025•53 min•Ep. 1576
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 Goldberg (@DGComedy) deliver Hot Notes and your Good News. Follow our guest on Twitter: Kyle Cheney (@kyl...
Feb 23, 2025•56 min
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 request to delay the sanctions against her; the three officers who assisted Derek Chauvin in the murder o...
Feb 22, 2025•44 min
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 prosecutor in Texas is found to be operating an anonymous white supremacist account on Twitter; over...
Feb 21, 2025•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 1575
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 flu and they’re trying to hire them back; the Trump administration defies a court order by adding tra...
Feb 20, 2025•1 hr•Ep. 1574
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 people in the military; New York Governor Kathy Hochul met with members of City Hall to discuss the remov...
Feb 19, 2025•44 min•Ep. 1573
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 Washington state judge who imposed a temporary restraining order last week on Trump’s executive order...
Feb 18, 2025•40 min•Ep. 1572
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 show Musk is trying to skirt the law with his DEI firings; the Trump administration has moved to dro...
Feb 17, 2025•49 min•Ep. 1571
Feb 15, 2021 The impeachment trial of Donald Trump concludes with the largest majority in history voting to convict; Mitch McConnell says Trump is guilty of inciting insurrection despite having voted to acquit on a technicality; more information tying Roger Stone to the attack on the capitol; five Proud Boys charged with conspiracy in the insurrection; Biden asks all US Attorneys but two to resign; Georgia expands its criminal investigation to include Lindsey Graham; inside the impeachment manag...
Feb 16, 2025•1 hr 4 min
Friday, February 14th, 2025 Today, the federal prosecutor handling Eric Adams’ case has offered her resignation in protest of Emil Bove ordering her to drop the charges; RFK Jr has been confirmed by the Senate to destroy the health of Americans; the Office of Personnel Management has ordered agencies to fire all probationary employees; the secretary of the VA Doug Collins has ordered all pride flags removed from facilities; the Kansas governor has vetoed a ban on gender affirming care for minors...
Feb 14, 2025•1 hr•Ep. 1570
Thursday, February 13th, 2025 Today, the Army issues guidance that it will not stop gender affirming care for trans active duty service members; the US inflation rate rises drastically in the first report since Trump took office; a federal judge allows the fork in the road resignation program to go forward; the teachers union is suing DOGE over a breach of privacy; an Elon Musk order triggers the firings of SBA employees that were prematurely fired last Friday; election security experts have bee...
Feb 13, 2025•54 min•Ep. 1569
Wednesday, February 12th, 2025 Today, the First Circuit Court of Appeals has denied Donald Trump’s bid to continue withholding federal grants; Donald fired the USAID inspector general one day after the IG released a report criticizing the dismantling of the agency; Judge Amy Berman Jackson has reinstated Hampton Dillinger as special counsel after Trump wrongfully terminated him; a federal judge in Boston expanded the restraining order against Trump cutting aid to the National Institute of Health...
Feb 12, 2025•48 min•Ep. 1568
Tuesday, February 11th, 2025 Today, the Trump defendants win a ruling in the Arizona fraudulent elector scheme; California approves $50M to protect immigrants; the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employees have been ordered to halt operations and work from home because Russel Vaught is closing headquarters; the Trump DoJ has filed to end the court order blocking access to the Treasury payment system (will cover on cleanup); Trump’s blockade of Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act is devastating ...
Feb 11, 2025•45 min•Ep. 1567
Monday, February 10th, 2025 Today, the Treasury claimed dogebag Marko Elez didn’t have write access to our federal payment system when he actually did; the National Institutes of Health cuts billions of dollars in biomedical research funding effective immediately; a federal judge has paused Trump’s effort to gut USAID citing irreparable harm; another federal judge temporarily shut down Trump’s bid to end birthright citizenship; yet another judge paused the fork in the road resignation deadline; ...
Feb 10, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 1566
February 12, 2021 The Democrats wrap up their impeachment arguments; Trump’s Justice Department sought to block an investigation into Giuliani; Republicans are leaving the GOP; dozens of anti-Trump Republicans are in talks to form a new party; Justice Department says that a leader of The Oathkeepers waited for Trump’s signal to attack; President Biden terminates Trump’s emergency declaration at the Southern border, and seeks to defund the wall; plus AG and Aimee Carrero (@aimeecarrero) deliver y...
Feb 09, 2025•1 hr 1 min
Feb 9, 2022 In the Hot Notes: a witness list from federal prosecutors gives us an inside look at the upcoming trial of a Three Percenters affiliate; the FBI has arrested another insurrectionist who was out on bail for attempted murder when he stormed the Capitol; McConnell breaks with the RNC and called the Capitol attack a violent insurrection; the FBI is investigating a meeting that took place between Enrique Tarrio and Stewart Rhodes on January 5th; plus Allison delivers your Good News. Follo...
Feb 08, 2025•36 min
