The Daily Beans

Thursday, October 29, 2026 Today, FBI agents have expressed deep concern over being ordered to take legally dubious steps such as seizing voting machines on election day; a Brazilian judge has ordered an investigation in JD Vance’s donor network; ICE arrests have surged in California in the run up to election day; Republican influencer James O’Keefe has been charged with voter fraud in Minnesota; Flavio Bolsonaro landed in Miami with his family after Trump offered them asylum; Hasan Piker is suing Scott Jennings for $72M for defamation; Alaskan Republican Lisa Murkowski has endorsed the Democrat for governor; labor leader Delores Huerta has died at age 96; plus Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.

Tuesday, October 27, 2026 Today, Lula has defeated Bolsonaro in Brazil - overcoming a first round defeat in an amazing upset; the Ramaswamy ad has pushed the largest newspaper in Ohio the Cleveland Plain Dealer to reverse its position on endorsements; Jeanine Pirro tried to charge Comey under the Espionage Act but she couldn’t get a grand jury to indict in time; the White House has been sued again over media bans as press groups seek a wider injunction; a federal judge has ordered the reinstatement of Maurene Comey to her job with backpay; former Justice Department prosecutors form a new group to take on cases they say Todd Blanche is ignoring; tens of thousands of election observers are set to descend on polling places November 3rd; House Judiciary Democrats have released a 50-page report detailing Trump’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein; Pete Hegseth wants Marsha Blackburn to appoint him to fill her Tennessee senate seat if she wins the governor’s race; Justice Elena Kagan accuses the conservative majority of undermining democracy; plus Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.

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Friday, October 27th, 2023 In the Hot Notes: at least 18 people are dead and another 13 injured after shootings in Lewiston Maine; New York Republicans push ahead with a resolution to expel George Santos from the House; NRA revenue is in free-fall after dues and membership plummet; A federal judge has struck down Georgia’s congressional and legislative maps ruling that they violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act; Ford and the United Auto Workers Union have reached a tentative deal that includes a record pay raise; Republicans delay more than $1B in HIV program funding; a former healthcare executive is charged for a multi-million dollar Medicare fraud scheme; the DoJ responds to Trump’s motions to stay his DC gag order and to alert the court of his advice of counsel defense; the US economy grew at a blistering rate in the third quarter; the Ohio secretary of state has quietly removed 26,000 people from voter rolls; plus Allison delivers your Good News. Dana is out and about.

October 23rd, 2024 John Kelly confirms to the Atlantic that Trump called military and veterans suckers and losers; the Georgia Supreme Court unanimously upholds the block of the State Election Board’s last minute rule changes; US officials confirm the smear of Tim Walz was Russian propaganda; Rudy has been ordered to hand his property over to Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss; judges have rejected the RNC lawsuits challenging some overseas ballots in Michigan and North Carolina; the former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO has been charged with sex trafficking over a dozen victims; a Philadelphia man has been charged for making gruesome threats against a person recruiting poll watchers; the Army has been ordered to release the report of the Trump incident at Arlington National Cemetery; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News. Guest: Timothy Snyder On Freedom by Timothy Snyder Other Books (timothysnyder.org) Twitter - @TimothySnyder Substack - Thinking About...

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Wednesday, October 21, 2026 Today, Elon Musk ordered the takedown of Starshield communications in Ukraine; the justice department arrested 28 alleged non-citizens for being registered to vote - most registered as Republicans; the Navatek Susan Collins bribery scheme also included Lindsey Graham and James Clyburn; Hegseth left military families in harm’s way during the chaotic evacuation of a Navy base in Bahrain; Trump and Hegseth are refusing to release weapons aid to Ukraine; the US Supreme Court has refused to hear former National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox’ appeal of her termination case; Vivek Ramaswamy used Amy Acton’s estranged abusive mother in an attack ad; Donald went ballistic with rage at Andrew Feinberg in a bizarre Oval Office presser; A federal judge on Tuesday lifted a ban on Rep. Justin J. Pearson and five others from attending future Memphis City Council meetings; plus Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.

Monday, October 19, 2026 Today, orders to throttle Starlink and Starshield in Ukraine came from the White House after Elon Musk approached Donald Trump about it, the White House issued an executive order exempting Russia from the Lindsey O. Graham Russian sanctions act passed by Congress, Mark Zuckerberg's META took down the No Kings Instagram account for four hours during the largest early vote activation protests in history, Representative Ilhan Omar is demanding the immediate return of her property seized during the raid on her home arguing the DOJ circumvented a judge’s order regarding the warrant, a social media mob swatted the Cornell 7 Jane Doe, Zacharia was fired as press secretary after only five days on the job but not after she posted a photo that inadvertently included a photo of Trump’s golf course plans, a judge has tossed Trump’s lawsuit against New York’s sanctuary city policy, Trump invokes executive privilege in the Kennedy Center debacle, ICE is planning a $100M domestic spy program, and a judge threatens Trump with sanctions for delaying his deposition in his own lawsuit against the BBC; plus Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.

The DOJ told Katie Phang to file a FOIA for Epstein files, but the DOJ is denying Allison's FOIA for Epstein training videos. Todd Blanche can't have it both ways. Allison and Katie discuss on this week's episode of The Breakdown.

Monday, October 16th, 2023 House Democrats refuse to help the GOP as Jim Jordan schedules a Speaker vote for Tuesday; a former IRS contractor pleads guilty to stealing tax returns and giving them to the press; the DoJ has decided to re-try a health care fraudster for six counts the jury was hung on after Trump pardoned him; Judge Beryl Howell has awarded more sanctions against Giuliani in the Ruby Freeman/Shaye Moss defamation suit; the Truth Social media partner is returning $1B of investments after many asked for their money back; Lauren Boebert spent campaign cash at her Beetlejuice boyfriend’s bar; the US Labor Relations Board says Elon Musk illegally fired a Twitter employee; an Illinois man has killed a six-year-old muslin boy and stabbed his mother in a hate crime; Secretary of State Antony Blinken gives a press conference in Cairo about President Biden’s newly appointed a special envoy to lead humanitarian efforts in Gaza; plus Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.

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Wednesday, October 14, 2026 Today, Kimberly Guilfoyle is out, according to the new White House press secretary who stumbled embarrassingly through her first appearance at the podium; the Supreme Court will take up a case to decide whether DOGE is subject to the Freedom of Information Act; DHS is separating migrant children from their parents then labeling them unaccompanied minors; Judge Reyes has extended her order blocking Trump from making any changes to the D.C. municipal Golf Course; the Talarico campaign actually provided timestamped video surveillance tapes to the New York Times to prove that he was never in Ohio; Anthropic says AI could replicate itself in home devices within months; a judge blasts Elon Musk for lying about a FEMA employee paying for luxury hotel rooms for migrants in New York City; plus Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.

Monday, October 12, 2026 Today, the Trump administration is criminally investigating television networks over pool coverage; the White House released some of Jack Smith’s Volume II documents to falsely claim he tapped Susie Wiles’ phone; Donald announces an energy ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia to the surprise of President Zelensky; Customs and Border Protection told the court that the taxpayer funded pro-Trump ads end Sunday; Trump’s border wall construction cut into an ancient ground carving older than Stonehenge; the US imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court just hours after a judge on the court won the Nobel peace prize; Trump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policy; Kimberly Guilfoyle bribed her way into an Eric Trump dinner in Davos; an update on the Cornell 7 investigation; a drunk off duty ICE officer passed out on someone’s lawn in Fresno and ended up getting shot by the homeowner; plus Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.