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 Republican candidates advised them to “ignore guns and talk inflation” after the Uvalde shooting. F...
Jun 08, 2025•34 min
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 previously thought; US Senators are questioning Twitter’s privacy compliance under Elon; a former spy ...
Jun 07, 2025•35 min
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 expanded travel ban that includes 19 countries, he also blocked international students from studying at H...
Jun 06, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 1652
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 challenging Trump’s FEC order; the Tennessee assistant district attorney has been charged with assaulti...
Jun 05, 2025•54 min•Ep. 1651
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 King of the Hill and Parks and Rec was murdered in his neighborhood in what his husband describes as a h...
Jun 04, 2025•48 min•Ep. 1650
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 its website after the Sheriffs’ Association complained; the Supreme Court has left in place Maryland’...
Jun 03, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 1649
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 set up; Donald Trump shared a conspiracy theory on Truth Social saying Biden was executed in 2020 an...
Jun 02, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 1648
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 Sarah Palin’s nonsense again; plus Dana and Allison deliver your Good News. Follow our guest on Twitter:...
Jun 01, 2025•44 min
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’s hands on an Erik Prince group chat; a Republican has blocked the confirmation of the first Native ...
May 31, 2025•52 min
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 students from Harvard; the US says it will start revoking visas for Chinese students; Trump’s Air Force On...
May 30, 2025•46 min•Ep. 1647
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 attempt to stop congestion pricing in New York; immigration courts are dismissing cases of those sent to...
May 29, 2025•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 1646
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 confirms an investigation into the Nashville Mayor’s Office; Trump has pardoned a Virginia sheriff convict...
May 28, 2025•47 min•Ep. 1645
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 unanimously vote against the Billionaire Bailout Bill; more on the Supreme Court decision in Trump ...
May 27, 2025•35 min•Ep. 1644
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 has blocked the Trump administration from removing medical research papers from an HHS database over...
May 26, 2025•51 min•Ep. 1643
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 guest on Twitter: Hugo Lowell https://twitter.com/hugolowell Reminder - you can see the pod pics if y...
May 25, 2025•34 min
Monday, May 20th, 2024 David DePape was sentenced to 30 years in prison for attacking Paul Pelosi with a hammer, but there’s a flag on the play; Brent Bozell IV was sentenced to nearly four years in prison for his role in the insurrection; how redistricting battles could impact the 2024 election; Minnesota Republicans back Royce White to run against Amy Klobuchar; a helicopter carrying Iran’s President and foreign minister has crashed; a Trump-linked dark-money group spent $90m on racist and tra...
May 24, 2025•55 min
Friday, May 23rd, 2025 Today, House Republicans voted to pass the Billionaire Bailout Bill gutting Medicaid, Medicare, food assistance and climate tax credits to pay for tax cuts for the ultra wealthy; a federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from dismantling the Department of Education; another federal judge blocked Trump from revoking international students’ legal status; minutes before that - the Trump administration blocked Harvard from enrolling international students; the White...
May 23, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 1642
Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 Today, the Pentagon has officially accepted the illegal $400M emolument plane from Qatar; a federal judge held a hearing on the men disappeared to South Sudan and found the government violated a court order; a federal judge has blocked Trump’s firing of two Democratic members of a privacy oversight board; hundreds of rural hospitals are at risk of closing under Trump policies; Sean Duffy sold stocks right before Trump announced his tariffs; ICE is now dismissing pending ...
May 22, 2025•47 min•Ep. 1641
Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 Today, Trump prosecutors have dropped the charges against Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, but have arrested and charged Congresswoman LaMonica McIver; Trump’s Gestapo Czar doesn’t know what habeas corpus is; the Supreme Court allows Maine Rep Libby to vote again despite her censure by the legislature for transphobic comments; USAID cuts leaves food for millions rotting in storage; a federal appeals court leaves in place an order requiring the Trump administration to return Dan...
May 21, 2025•42 min•Ep. 1640
Tuesday, May 20th, 2025 Today, the Supreme Court allows DHS to reinstate secretary Kristi Noem’s order ending temporary status for Venezuelans resulting in the single largest mass illegalization event in US history; Judge Beryl Howell stops Trump from dismantling the US Institute of Peace; a top CBS executive has resigned amid Trump’s political pressure; House Republicans manage to get the Billionaire Bailout Bill out of committee; the far right Romanian candidate for president has LOST his elec...
May 20, 2025•48 min•Ep. 1639
Monday, May 19th, 2025 Today, the supreme court extends its temporary block on the removal of detainees in the Northern District of Texas under the Alien Enemies Act proclamation; the Republican bill for billionaires is killed in committee; Trump’s FEMA admits it has no plan for hurricane season; DHS asks for 20K National Guard troops to assist ICE; HHS reinstates hundreds of health care workers; an appeals court has lifted the block on Trump’s executive order targeting federal worker unions; th...
May 19, 2025•48 min•Ep. 1638
Monday, May 15th, 2023 In the Hot Notes: Rep. George Santos has admitted to his fraud in Brazil to avoid prosecution in absentia; former Marine Daniel Penny has been charged with manslaughter in a choking death on the New York subway; a porn-friendly bank wants to help fund Trump’s Truth Social; a House Republican report finds no evidence of wrongdoing by President Biden; Durham’s investigation has ended with nothing to show for it; Trump gets schooled again by a federal judge; questions linger ...
May 18, 2025•48 min•Ep. 1637
Monday, May 16th, 2022 Ten people are dead after a white supremacist domestic terrorist opened fire in a Buffalo supermarket; John Eastman loses again; the 1/6 committee subpoenas Meadows aide Cassidy Hutchinson for a third interview; we now know why the DoJ had to subpoena the National Archives for the 15 boxes of top secret documents Donald stole; and a court finds that Alex Jones can’t use bankruptcy to avoid paying restitution to Sandy Hook families in their defamation suit; plus Allison and...
May 17, 2025•55 min
Friday, May 16th, 2025 Today, the Supreme Court hears arguments on birthright citizenship and whether district judges can issue nationwide injunctions; turns out Kristi Noem wants her own plane too; Walmart announced it will start raising prices because of tariffs; Colorado air traffic controllers lost contact with planes for six minutes Monday; Missouri Republicans have repealed sick leave and wage law that voters approved just months before; RFK Jr wants to reverse Covid vaccine recommendation...
May 16, 2025•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 1636
Thursday, May 15th, 2025 Today, Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan has been indicted by a federal grand jury; a tiny company with ties to China has spent $300M on Trump’s memecoin; Pam Bondi’s DoJ has struck a deal to allow 17 Sinaloa cartel members into the United States; Governor JB Pritzker is the first to block federal access to personal data on autism; a 12 year old boy was abandoned on the sidewalk after an ICE raid in Massachusetts; a Democratic Congressman is pushing for impeachment but his co...
May 15, 2025•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 1635
Wednesday, May 14th, 2025 Today, the government failed to file its privilege log on time in the Abrego Garcia case prompting Judge Xinis to order them to file it; a trump appointed judge in Pennsylvania becomes the first to call Trumps invocation of the Alien Enemies Act lawful; the USDA reverses course and commits to restore purged climate webpages in response to a lawsuit brought by farmers; more than a dozen states slapped the Trump administration with two new lawsuits on Tuesday accusing it ...
May 14, 2025•55 min•Ep. 1634
Tuesday, May 13th, 2025 Today, the US accepts the first planeload of white Afrikaners while still somehow unable to get the people back from El Salvador; the ICE detention facility in Newark has been served with violations by the city after the mayor’s arrest; Andrew Cuomo loses $622,000 over concerns of improper super PAC coordination; Republicans in the Senate push back against Trump’s takeover of the Library of Congress; the fight to save Medicaid heats up after House Republicans release thei...
May 13, 2025•52 min•Ep. 1633
Monday, May 12th, 2025 Today, Nosferatu Stephen Miller announces the White House is considering suspending habeas corpus , Qatar gives Trump a $400M luxury jetliner to use as Air Force One; the Mayor of Newark Ras Baraka was arrested by the administration at an ICE facility; Trump has fired the Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden; Rumeysa Ozturk has been released from ICE custody in Louisiana on bail after six weeks of unlawful detention; Trump is going to stop tracking the cost of extreme weathe...
May 12, 2025•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 1632
Friday, May 12th, 2023 Today, in the Hot Notes: E. Jean Carroll is weighing suing Donald Trump for defamation again after his appearance on the CNN Town Hall Wednesday night; Merrick Garland gives the green light to transfer forfeited Russian funds to Ukraine; a three-judge panel is poised to uphold January 6th obstruction cases; the FDA ends the ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men; plus AG and Dana deliver your Good News. Our Guest Steve Vladeck One First https://substack.com/@step...
May 11, 2025•50 min
May 13th, 2022 Donald Trump is under federal investigation for those 15 boxes of classified documents he stole; five Republican members of Congress have been subpoenaed by the 1/6 committee; Congresswoman Katie Porter raises concerns about a Trump bribery scheme; and there’s a giant black hole at the center of the galaxy; plus Allison and Dana deliver your Good News. Follow our guest on Twitter: Hugo Lowell https://twitter.com/hugolowell Reminder - you can see the pod pics if you become a Patron...
May 10, 2025•44 min
