Friday, January 30th, 2026 Today, Democrats in the Senate have blocked the government funding package over ICE/CBP; Pam Bondi has appointed a special attorney to oversee Trump's probe into fake 2020 election fraud claims; the Justice Department has filed federal charges against the man who attacked Ilhan Omar; a former deputy has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the murder of Sonya Massey; the 9th Circuit says DHS illegally ended the Venezuelan Temporary Protected Status program; and the Federal Reserve says it won’t cut interest rates this month; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.
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Today, Democrats in the Senate have blocked the government funding package over ICE/CBP; Pam Bondi has appointed a special attorney to oversee Trump's probe into fake 2020 election fraud claims; the Justice Department has filed federal charges against the man who attacked Ilhan Omar; a former deputy has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the murder of Sonya Massey; the 9th Circuit says DHS illegally ended the Venezuelan Temporary Protected Status program; and the Federal Reserve says it won’t cut interest rates this month; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.
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Msw media. Hello, and welcome to the Daily beans for Friday, January 30, 2026. Today, Democrats in the Senate have blocked the government funding pack over ICE and Customs and Border Protection. Pam Bondi has appointed a special attorney to oversee Trump's probe into fake 2020 election fraud. Claims the Justice Department has filed federal charges against the man who attacked Ilhan Omar. A former deputy has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the murder of Sonia Massie. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals says the Department of Homeland Security illegally ended the Venezuelan Temporary Protected Status Program. And the Federal Reserve says it won't cut interest rates this month. I'm Allison Gill.
And I'm Dana Goldberg.
Ooh. Donald Trump's gonna be pissed at Jerome Powell for not cutting his face.
Of course he is. I'm sure there'll be lots of truthing at 2am in the morning on the toilet. There will be ketchup on the walls, people.
The walls will run red with ketchup tonight. Yes. Well, they're not gonna. He's not gonna cut interest rates this month. Maybe he said later in the year, but the feds aren't gonna cut rates. And that's according to the entire board, which includes Lisa Cook. Which Donald Trump, he. Yeah. It's Fuglsang Friday here on the Daily Bean, so we'll be joined by John Fugelsang later and everyone. It is the ice out economic blackout day, January 30th. And because of that, we achieved a small feat here at the Daily Beans. You will not hear any ads today on the Daily Beans in solidarity with Minneapolis and other cities being terrorized by ICE and customs and border protection for this economic blackout. Thanks to all of our sponsors for agreeing to it. Like I said, it wasn't easy. It was on the phone all morning, but we did it. So, by the way, if you want all your Episodes ad free, if you enjoy the Ad free Episodes, you can become a patron@patreon.com MullerShiro I think it's like three bucks a month, 36 bucks for the whole year. You get the premium feed, plus early tickets to stuff. We've got a big event coming up in June. We're going to talk about that as soon as all the details are hammered out. We'll probably have a live election night gala, usually where we buy, like, the food and the drinks and we have an open bar and patrons can come to that. We have our Zoom Happy hours, which we're having one tonight, Thursday night as we record this. And it's going to be Dana, you, me, Harry Dunn, former Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn. Andy McCabe will be there, and Joshua Aaron's going to join us, the guy who developed the Ice Block app.
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I'm, not going to lie. I'm surprised this is coming from the Department of Justice. And unless I'm missing something. Is this surprising to you? Yeah.
And it might be, honestly, somebody on the ground in Minneapolis, in the U.S. attorney's office there.
Ah, that makes sense.
Then a prosecutor that's like, we gotta file these charges. You know, I know that, Hennepin County DA had them. And so maybe, you know, somebody on the ground who's a career prosecutor in that office was like, we're gonna bring these charges. And, yeah. So all of the people on the right wing, you know, manosphere or whatever, the Prologarch saying that it. She staged it. nope. she did not.
No, she did not.
Indeed.
Yeah.
All right, we have a ton of news we have to get to everybody, so let's hit the hot notes. Hot notes. All right, first up from the Times, big win on Capitol Hill. Senate Democrats on Thursday blocked the spending package needed to keep the government open past Friday at midnight, even as they continued negotiating with Trump on a deal that could avert a shutdown and lead to new restrictions on immigration. With no agreement yet nailed down, Democrats followed through on their pledge to oppose the six bill spending package, which includes $64.4 billion for the Department of Homeland Security as well as an array of government agencies, including the Pentagon, health programs, courts. We went over this nih, hud. I went over all of those, a couple of days ago on the beans. Now, after Alex Preddy over the weekend became the second American citizen to be fatally shot by federal agents in Minneapolis, Democrats have demanded that Homeland Security measures be se from the package and held up while they attempt to strike a deal with the White House and Republicans to rein in immigration officers. I want them to defund ICE altogether.
Absolutely.
Going to be easier if they are able to pull this DHS funding bill out. But for now, the entire package is stalled because it failed on a vote 45 to 55, it didn't get the 60 votes it needed to open debate. Absent a breakthrough, government funding is slated to lapse starting Saturday morning. Every Democrat opposed moving forward. Every Democrat, as did a handful of Republicans. Now, quote, this is the moment of truth. That's Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, minority leader. He said Congress must act to rein in ice and end the violence. In a hopeful sign for a potential bipartisan deal, John Thune of South Dakota, the majority leader, was among Republicans who voted against moving forward with this legislation, a procedural move that allowed him to quickly bring the legislation back for quick reconsideration if an agreement were to be struck. He said that if a compromise could be reached, he anticipated a good strong vote on both sides. Mr. Schumer and the president began negotiations late Wednesday to resolve the dispute and head off a government shutdown. That's according to two officials familiar under the tentative framework. The measure funding the security agency dhs, would be broken off for more negotiations, while the other five bills would be approved funding the bulk of the federal government for the remainder of the fiscal year. The Department of Homeland Security would then be funded under a separate short term bill. One sticking point appears to be the length of time for that stopgap bill which would keep the department funded at current levels, nothing additional. Democrats have pushed a maximum of two weeks and Republicans want three months. Why the fuck would we fund DHS for three months? Seriously, quote, hopefully we won't have a shutdown. Trump said in a Cabinet meeting. We're working on that now. I think we're getting close. Blah, blah, blah. I'm stupid. Republican lawmakers also said they were hopeful about avoiding a prolonged shutdown, which would be the second in just a few months, and criticized Democrats opposition to the funding package. Quote, this nation deserves safety and security. That's John Barrasso of Wyoming, a Republican. Number two Senate Republican. Not another government shutdown. It's on you fuckers.
You.
You own the Senate right now.
Seriously?
Jesus. The administration's talks with Democrats began after lawmakers unveiled a set of demands. They would insist on an exchange for voting for Homeland Security funding. They include banning immigration officers from wearing masks, requiring them to wear body worn cameras, requiring them to have visible identification, to end random immigration sweeps, requirements for judicial warrants for stops and searches, and requirements for immigration officers to follow the same use of force standards as community law enforcement. They also want independent investigations of the two fatal shootings in Minneapolis no more secret police. Schumer said the Republican Party must step up to the plate. Republicans in Congress cannot allow this violent status quo to continue. They must work with Democrats on legislation, real legislation. Now, I'm personally, I like these ICE restrictions, but I want them to claw back the 130 billion or so in slush fund supplemental money.
Absolutely.
For ICE and Customs and Border Protection. That's the fund from the big ugly bill that keeps these agencies open during a shutdown and fully funded and everybody gets paid. I would like to see that. So we'll see what ends up happening. But it's going to be either way, it's going to be a lot easier if they can separate out that DHS funding bill. Yeah.
Thanks so much, Alison. This one's from Bloomberg Law. The Trump administration's termination of humanitarian protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan and Haitian immigrants. It violated the Immigration and Nationality Act. This is from a federal appeals court. A plain reading of the statute doesn't allow for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, to vacate protections issued by the Biden administration. This is from a three judge panel. That's what they found on Wednesday. The ruling from the U.S. court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is the first time a circuit court has weighed in on the substance of legal battles over the administration's efforts to dismantle temporary protected status. Now, the TPS programs allow immigrants to remain in the US and work legally when their home countries are deemed too dangerous for safe returns. Dismantling those protections has been a key element of the Trump administration's mass deportation campaign targeting Venezuelans and Haitians, among other immigrants with humanitarian status. And I quote, the secretary's actions fundamentally contradict Congress's statutory design. And her assertion of a raw, unchecked power to vacate a country's TPS is reconcilable with the plain language of the statute. This is from Judge Kim McLean, Wardlaw, which is a Bill Clinton appointee. And that judge wrote that for the panel in a January 28th opinion.
Excellent. Okay, good. That's good to see. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Thank you. Judge Kim McLean, Wardlaw. All right, next up from Bloomberg Law, St. Louis based U.S. attorney overseeing the FBI search warrant executed on Fulton County's election office Wednesday received a special appointment by Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate election integrity cases nationwide. I'm sorry, I thought special prosecutors were unconstitutional and that's why you had the classified documents case thrown out. Interesting. Thomas Albus, the Trump appointed chief prosecutor in the Eastern District of Missouri, appeared on the FBI's court approved warrant rather than the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia. That enabled agents to seize records from the Atlanta government building at the center of the president's discredited 2020 election conspiracy. Bondi had previously handed Albus, formerly the top assistant to then Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmidt, the authority to conduct voter fraud probes anywhere in the United States under a statutorily permitted designation. That's according to the individuals who are granted anonymity. The 28 US code section 515 appointment allows Albus to coordinate civil and criminal cases, according to grand jury proceedings in all 94 U.S. attorney districts, spokespeople at DOJ headquarters said. The St. Louis U.S. attorney's office didn't immediately respond to requests for comment. It's unclear how many other ongoing investigations Albus is helming under this authority. Albus's previously unreported role shows the Justice Department's coordinated efforts to relitigate Trump's false claims that ballot tampering in Fulton county and elsewhere cost him the 2020 election. DOJ's Civil Rights Division has sued multiple states to compel them to hand over voter registration rolls. Multiple outlets reported Wednesday that the FBI search happened at the Fulton county election office and retrieved ballots, actual ballots, from the 2020 election. The new York Times, citing a copy of the search warrant, reported that it involved federal laws barring destruction of election related records and procuring fraudulent voter registration and votes. Albus was confirmed as U.S. attorney in December after serving in the role on an interim basis. He worked at Bryan Cave and then in the office to the assistant of U.S. attorney from 2002 to 2019 before he joined the Missouri Attorney General's office as Schmidt's first assistant. He was sworn in as a St. Louis county circuit judge in 2020. Schmidt and other GOP attorneys general backed a Texas lawsuit seeking to overturn the 2020 election results. Remember that stupid lawsuit?
Mm
In a Senate floor speech in December, Schmidt, who had served as a Republican senator from Missouri since 2023, said Albus had appeared in nearly 900 federal criminal prosecutions and civil matters and tried 15 cases to verdict.
Amazing. Unbelievable. All right, Allison, this one is from NBC. Like how I did that. All right, Allison, we're moving on. This one's from NBC. Sean Grayson, a former Illinois sheriff's deputy convicted of second degree murder for the 2024 death of Sonia Massey, was sentenced sentenced Thursday to 20 years in prison, followed by two years of supervised probation in court. Grayson gave a statement following his defense for the first time admitting wrongdoing against Massie. As we know, it was a 36 year old black mother of two who had called 911 about a possible prowler outside of her Springfield home. Judge Ryan Cadigan of the 7th Judicial Circuit Court of Illinois sentenced Grayson with the maximum penalty. He said, grayson, and I quote, that bit of unreasonable rage needs to be deterred. The defense filed a motion for a new trial in November, which the judge denied. During today's sentencing, Massey's son and daughter made statements today in court for the first time. Summer Massie, the victim's daugh, spoke about the traumatic effects of her mother's murder, saying her life has never been the same. Her eyes were locked on the paper in front of her as Grayson watched her give her statement. Massey's family and supporters were assembled inside the courtroom ahead of the sentencing, filling at least eight rows. About 50 protesters are outside the Springfield, Illinois courthouse today shouting, say her name, Sonia Massie. After Grayson was sentenced, some members of Massie's family shouted yes. While others stood up and pumped their fists. Grayson was convicted of second degree murder after jury instructions included the option to convict him of the lesser charge in place of first degree murder.
Yeah, so the first degree murder would have been 45 years. The second degree murder was four years to 20 years. and the judge gave him the full 20 years on the conviction that the jury came back with. So thank you for that, everybody. We're gonna talk to John Fugelsang in a minute for Fuglsang Fridays, and then we'll be back with the good news. Stick around after these messages.
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Hey, everybody, welcome back. It's Friday on the Daily Beans. That means it's Fugal Sang Friday. So please welcome my good friend, New York Times bestselling author of the Separation of Church and Hate, host of Tell me everything on SiriusXM progress channel, 127, weeknights, 9pm Eastern, 6 Pacific. Host of the John Figelsang show podcast. He writes the John Fuglsang substack. Please welcome John Feegelsang. Hello.
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Almost as inspiring as the people of Minneapolis this week.
Yeah, exactly. Truly incredible what they were able to accomplish. Although there's still a lot more work that needs to be done, including Senate Democrats actually refusing to fund the government as it is today on Thursday, voting no on that funding bill. It's a six bill package. I've gone over this multiple times here on the show. DHS is one part of that. They are now trying to pull DHS out. They have the leverage. The Republicans are up against the ropes. They know they're in a terrible position, and we have the leverage. And I kept calling and saying, please, you have the leverage to pull DHS funding out separately from these other five bills in this package so that we can focus on dhs. If we continue to shut down and refuse to fund ICE and Customs and Border Protection by pulling back that big beautiful bill slush fund that funds them, in the event of a shutdown, if we can pull DHS out, we just shut DHS down. We don't shut down those other six things, which include things like SSI payments, Section 8, Head Start centers, National Institute of Health grants, National Institute of Health, medical trials, things like that, life saving stuff, things that could really hurt people. So that is brilliant and I'm glad that they were able to get that first step done today and we'll see if they're able to pull DHS out from the rest of that package.
Yeah. As long as this leads to Stephen Miller actually being in a stockade somewhere in public, I think I'm okay with whatever the Democrats do. As long as Stephen Miller in a stocks, having produce thrown at him by children, is the end game in the village of this. And they take him on tour so children of every village can throw fruit at him, then I'm all for it. Because I think there's gonna be a lot of good that comes from this horrible. And one of the good things is that a lot of Americans who've never learned Stephen Miller before are gonna learn his name now. People who didn't know America's shortest Nazi, Greg, Bodino, they know him now. And we're already witnessing the civil war begin between Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem. And I hope all of your listeners take time to stop and smell the train wreck and actually enjoy this. I mean, for Kristi Noem to come out and throw Stephen Miller under the bus the way this administration throws working class white people under the bus. I mean, he's the one who dictated the language that Mr. Preddy wanted to massacre federal agents. And, I mean, it's like. And now they're all at war with each other. And who goes? And, I mean, it looks like Kristi Noem's in the doghouse. Stephen Miller's pretty safe. But it's like Succession, but with, you know, racism and Botox and, These guys, they've been so messy, so sloppy. The lies they've told. Oh, Alison. I mean. And, you know, like, here's the thing. Minnesota has between 100,000 and 130,000 undocumented people. Texas has over 2 million undocumented people. ICE was not sent to terrorize the red state with 20 times more undocumented people. And they can do this because the racists are groomed to be angry and gullible and dumb. But the White House's narrative is in free fall. And again, also, praise so much praise to the people of Minneapolis. Praise to Bruce Springsteen and Billy Bragg for putting out great songs this week. And praise to the American Federation of Government Employees, our largest federal employee union, the union that represented VA nurse Alex Preddy. They have formally called for the resignations of both Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller. I mean, this is the people who actually work for the federal government saying this administration has lost the plot. There's so much good. And, as awful as it all is, I'm sorry, I can't be a cynic yet. I'm so inspired by how many good people are out there and are raising their voice more and more.
Yeah, no, I agree. It is. It's very inspiring to see the people in Minneapolis and other cities that have been the target.
Oh, Chicago.
Of these ICE and Customs and Border Protection terrorist raids. Talk a little bit about more about the infighting between, like, Noem and Miller. There was a Cabinet meeting today. Kristi Noem was sidelined on one of the back benches, and she wasn't asked to. You know, how he goes around and has everyone publicly kiss his ass. She wasn't allowed to do that today. And looks like there's a Customs and Border Protection or a DHS jet with her name on it headed back to South Dakota right now from an ICE tracker who follows these planes. So that, I think, is important now. You know, obviously, nothing has really changed on the ground. Tom Homan isn't going to, you know, be a better deal here. But to see what the people were able to do to push back, to force this administration to, quote, unquote, pivot and deescalate, even though we know they only did it so that Senate Democrats would continue to fund dhs. Yes. To see them have to do this, to see them on their back heels for once, is really inspiring. I think it's what led the Democrats to be allowed to demand that the DHS funding bill be pulled out separately from these other bills.
Yeah, I mean, it's amazing to watch. And Pam Bondi flew into Minneapolis yesterday and didn't make a single public speech or a single public appearance. When's the last time one of these grandstanding frauds flew to an American city and didn't hype themselves up? I mean, you know, so many sources came forward and told Axios that this guy Miller, the human embodiment of infected pus, dictated the language, that Alex Preddy was gonna massacre. And for Noem to stand up there and say that she takes everything she does from the president and Stephen, that to me, said she kind of knows she's getting fired. I mean, they're already. You put a bunch of completely selfish narcissists in a room together and expect them to get along and harmonize like Trump and Elon. I mean, what might be the most positive about all of this is the narrative that's emerging, that's really catching on, that people are talking about the fact that Stephen Miller may actually be the president here. Stephen Miller, maybe Edith Wilson managing, her dilapidated husband and dictating, what her husband believes. I mean, and even if it's not true, I want Donald Trump to hear it, because turning Donald Trump against Stephen Miller would be beautiful. But, like, you look at this and you know, according to the Post this week, DHS has fired shots 16 times since July. Okay? 16 times in every single time this White House publicly declared the shootings were justified before there was any investigation. And the difference in Minneapolis, it's on camera. You know, the lies aren't landing so well. I think I've said this on your show before, but my friend, the comedian, the great Emmy winning comedian Rick Oberdon, has a line about cell phones and everybody carrying a video camera in their pocket. Little brother is watching. And this is the greatest heroes of all of this. I mean, the most powerful weapon in 2026 against authoritarianism is not a gun. It is a phone. And that's the truth the Republicans hate. I mean, the founders feared a government monopoly on weapons, but the answer is the right to record. The only thing stops a bad guy with a gun might be a good guy or a good woman with a camera. And what's awesome is here's the pattern, right? Trump loses Interest when his domination fails. It's happened in Greenland, and no one's talking about it. He has backed what we call the fuck away from violently seizing Greenland because of the rest of the world. Punched the bully in the face. And now they've already moved America's tiniest Nazi out of there. I mean, they're already trying to pull back. Donald Trump backed away from defending Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller's lies. They're scared already. Both Greenland and Minneapolis are based on lies, both framed as national security, both driven by this man's obsession with dominance. And both of the narratives are collapsing. And we've learned this about Como ver Caligula, when he's confronted with resistance, real resistance instead of submission. He doesn't fight. He gets bored. You push back. You're not gonna roll over like the beta males that surround him. He backs down. He moves on. He pretends it never mattered. And that's where he exposes the truth. It's never been about safety. It's always been about control.
Yeah.
And you can always tell when Caroline Levitt starts backpedaling on the rhetoric that came out right after the Alex Preddy murder that, you know, that he's bored and trying to back away because he's been punched in the face. Now, you know, they were already kind of mad at Kristi Noem because she. You know, earlier they were thinking about replacing her with Glenn Youngkin this month because she wasn't building concentration camps fast enough. So she's already in the shithouse.
So, yeah.
Yeah, you know, to finish the job of throwing her under the bus. But today, Mara. Mara Martinez's lawyers were in court arguing she was the woman shot in Chicago five times but survived. And she is trying to unseal a lot of the evidence in her case that got it tossed out, including some of that body Camilla evidence. And, the judge heard that case today and will probably rule in the coming days to see if we can unseal that. And she said, and her lawyers presented in court, that the reason she's doing this is because now it's more important than ever, given what happened with Renee Goode, given what happened with Alex Preddy. I was shot five times, and I survived. But I want all of this documentation out so that the public can see it. So the government is trying to keep it all under seal, all that body cam evidence under seal. And the judge sounds pretty skeptical about it, so we'll keep an eye on that. But another big story that flew under the radar this Week we covered it here on the beans. Is that those two Trinidadians, the women? A sister and I believe, a mother of two Trinidadians that were murdered in Venezuelan boat strikes. They were farmers who boated back and forth from Trinidad Tobago to Venezuela to work on some farms every now and again that they are suing the federal government here for wrongful death murder on the high seas.
What are you talking about? What is this story about people being murdered in fishing boats off the coast of Venezuela? I haven't heard about this in the news lately. Is this.
That was many what the fucks ago.
Yeah, several what the fucks ago here in the age of what the fuck fatigue. I mean, we talked about this all through the fall. I fought with Scott Jennings about this on cnn. They're murdering innocent fishermen in boats under false pretense. This was the WMDs. Fentanyl. Oh, did we say fentanyl? Sorry, we meant cocaine. Yeah. They're killing 25,000Americans a day with cocaine from these boats with outboard motors that are coming all the way from Venezuelan waters up to America and killing Americans. And that's why we have to invade and take their oil. And what was that about drugs? Have they mentioned the drugs, Alison? Have they mentioned the drugs at all since we pillaged the Strategic Petroleum Reserves and began trying to find oil companies that wanna go down there and invest and get their employees shot at for.
Years now, that pretext just sort of falls away once you got the oil in grubby hands.
Exactly. They are murderers. Pete Hegseth is a murderer. And the reason Donald Trump hires these incompetent, amoral boobs like Pete Hegseth and Cash Patel and Kristi Noem is twofold. Number one, he knows they're not gonna tell him. That's against the law, sir. And number two, he knows that they're gonna be the fall guys. They're too stupid to know it, but, I mean, Cash. But these guys, he's gonna take him off like he's lancing a boil when it gets embarrassing for Trump. Believe me, if this lawsuit gets to the discovery phase and they can't bribe these family members to drop it, Pete Hegseth will take all the blame for this and he'll be gone. The families are speaking back, and they're not doing it in op eds. They're doing it in federal court. This is the first time that the people who've lost loved ones to the murders of Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump are demanding answers. It's, Chad Joseph and Rishi Samaroo. Not terrorists, not traffickers, not narco terrorists, which is a word these curs invented so they don't have to learn names. They were fishermen trying to get home. And this is their foreign policy. Kill people, call them terrorists, don't answer questions, wrap it in a flag and dare anybody to object. But again, look at the evidence. they've stopped enforcing any of this. They've stopped talking about narco terrorism. They won't do it. And so God bless these people. And they're gonna try to bribe them, believe me. They're gonna try to put money in their hands so they'll drop this case. And I pray that doesn't happen. But we gotta give some credit to Donald Trump. We talk about how he's so old and infirm and, I mean, I'm not, you know, he is. I mean, he's not a. He's not a healthy man. He looks like his internal organs have just given up and started vaping. I mean, he's not the guy, Alison. He looks like a stress ball left in a microwave. We can talk about this, right? He's not a healthy man, but he's capable of doing multiple coverups at once. And I gotta take off my hat to the guy. He's suing to keep Jack Smith's testimony from being released to the American people. He's suing right now. I mean, he's legally covering up the murders of Renee Goode and Alex Preddy. He's lying about it. They're lying about the victim. They're blaming opponents they're already lying about. And now, on top of this, we are, as of, Friday, the day this episode launches, 42 consecutive days of Donald Trump and Pam Bondi breaking the law every single day to protect the rapists of children. Like, regardless of the fact that, oh, the illegals don't follow our laws. I mean, you can't support this guy without supporting these coverups. And he's doing so many of them all at once, and they're terrible. I mean, he's failing on every count.
And cover up the body cam footage of Marmar Martinez. Cover up the body cam footage of Alex Preddy. Cover.
I mean, all the coverups. All the coverups. All the coverups. And all of this while all this is going on. They're protecting rich men. That's Trump and Pam Bondi. That's how much they care about this word law our right wing friends avoid. You know, I've had it with these guys. Imagine voting for a 34 time convicted felon Alison and an adjudicated rapist. Paid 26 million in fines for stealing from Americans, including vets with his fraud online university, 2 million in charity fraud, had cops beaten on the Capitol steps for a lie and claiming you care about following our laws. There's nothing in ICE that is legitimate. There is nothing about this operation that you can say that you care about law, that you're a Christian, or that you respect our Constitution. It's all Nazi shit. And they're so bad at it because they've only beta tested inside the bubble. And it's not testing well with the rest of America and the rest of the world. I mean, Davos, like, my God, thanks to these Republicans, we're losing 12 and a half billion in tourism dollars this year. And no one is going to enter into any kind of business partnerships with this country or any kind of deals or treaties with this country, any kind of trade deals, unless they're other dictators. I mean, this is gonna just stink and it's gonna be so hard for these guys to keep on defending it. They are scared now. It's still we're only in the second act, but man, this is everything we predicted. They'd be too authoritarian, they'd hurt too many people, they'd get too messy and too violent. Everything we predicted is coming to pass and they're not competent enough to save their own skins. Do they let Nome take the fall or feed Stephen Miller to the wolves? It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter because that's not gonna stop the rot and it's not gonna stop people being tired of this. And it's not gonna make prices go down either. And that is the one thing that's gonna make the selfish white people put their selfishness above their obedience to Trump.
Yeah, well, the billionaires tricked people into liking the guy from Home Alone too, so that they could get tax breaks. I mean, that's what it boils down to.
You're right.
And ah, when you look at everything that this Trump has done, that's just pretty astounding. That's some cult level shit.
88 new measles cases. Ah, in South Carolina. There's some freedom for you, huh? Huh?
Wonderful Star eradicated designation for measles. It's fantastic. Thank you so much, my friend.
Thank you for all you do. Thank you for keeping me sane. I gotta be on SiriusXM 15 hours a week talking people off ledges, and you do it for me, every day on this show. Thank you.
Well, thank you My friend, it's always good to see you. I appreciate you. Everybody, check out Tell Me Everything. It's on Sirius XM progress channel 127, weeknights, 9pm Eastern, 6th Pacific. Get your copy of the Separation of Church and Hate wherever you get your books. I like to go to small bookstores and order them, that way. And I usually get 10 copies and then go around and put them in little libraries around my neighborhood. Oh, yeah, and you can also listen to the John Fugal Sank show podcast if you don't have Sirius. So thank you. I appreciate your time today, my friend.
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Everybody, stick around. We'll be right back with the good news. Everybody, welcome back. It's time for the good news. Who likes good news?
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And if you have any good news or good trouble suggestions, your good news could be tiny good news, giant good news. It could be from last week or 20 years ago. Whatever it is that'll help bring a smile to our faces, we want to hear about it. It can be a story you like to share when you're hanging out with your friends. Maybe your favorite joke or your favorite comedian, maybe your favorite Monty Python movie quote, or sketch quote, whatever it is. Your favorite Saturday Night Live skit, you can send it to us. And also we do shout outs. If you have a shout out to a spouse or a loved one or yourself self, shout outs are amazing. maybe a small business in your area that you want to tell us about or a nonprofit you'd like to share with us. We would love to hear about that. A government program that's helped you or a loved one. We'd love to hear about that, too. Send it all to us dailybeanspod.com and click uncontact. And all you got to do to get your stuff right on the air is pay your POD pet tariff, which means attach a photo of your pet. If you don't have a pet, send an adoptable pet in your area. By the way, Malia, that dog that people have been trying to get adopted for the last four months, finally got adopted. So congratulations to Malia.
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If you don't have that, send a random animal photo from the Internet. We're doing goats right now. Goats is the focus. Send us all your goats.
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24 hour goats, live, nude goats. if you don't have that, family photos, baby pictures, pictures of what you're making or creating growing in your garden. Maybe you've got some, chickens in your backyard or you know, you're knitting or crocheting or whatever it is. Send it to us dailybeanspod.com and click on contact. First up is your good trouble, and your good trouble is today. So join us in the economic blackout if you can. If you can participate in the general strike by not participating in the economy today, Friday, January 30th. And I know that not everyone can do this. I know not everyone can stay home from work. I know not everybody can pull their kids out of school. Maybe just don't buy anything from Amazon today or, you know, however you can pitch in for this economic blackout. We appreciate it. That's why we have no ads today. in today's episode is because we wanted to participate too. So that's your good trouble today.
Right on. I love it. All right, we've got a good trouble success story. I love this submission. This is from Anonymous pronoun. She Her DHS is trying to buy a warehouse in Hanover County, Virginia to build a 1500 bed ICE detention center. On Wednesday night, despite the late hour, the freezing temperatures, and the icy roads, nearly 800 people showed up to the Hanover County Board of Supervisors meeting to demand they block this. And they did. At least they blocked it as well as they can for now. So now I'm calling and emailing the board, local conservation and historical groups, the Canadian company that owns the building, and anyone else who might throw a monkey wrench into this plan. Even in the super conservative county, we've managed to temporarily stop ice and we will have a link to that article. Look at this crowd.
That's amazing.
That's awesome. For potpet tax, I present to you Kurt, currently the guest of Hanover Humane Society. This old man would love to find a forever home with humans willing to snuggle with him all day. Oh my God. Like me, Kurt is a little deaf and a little blind and loves napping in a sunny spot. Link to his adoption page and we have that in the show notes. Anonymous, you are adorable and this is fantastic. Thank you for sharing a good trouble success story. I love this idea for submissions.
I do too. Kurt is adorable. Everyone, if you're free to to adopt from the Hanover Humane Society. This old man needs a home. All right, next up from Lori Pronoun. She and her hi beans Queens. You asked about things we were creating and I just finished a doozy of a crochet project. I researched Irish fisherman stitches and their symbolism, translated some meaningful knitting stitches into crocheting, and basically wrote the pattern for this beautiful monstrosity. It took Me five years to finish due to health issues, but I was able to give it as a belated wedding gift to my sister. And it was so meaningful to be able to do something special for her despite being so sick. Thanks for all you do and for letting me brag about this. This is the biggest project I've ever completed and I'm really happy with how it turned out. Lori, it's gorgeous.
This is beautiful.
This is just incredible. And what a thoughtful gift.
Absolutely amazing. Makes me feel warm and cozy. All right, this is from a surprised author, AKA AM M. Perrin. Hello, you amazing ladies. I've been a listener since the kitchen table days, and I wanted to take a moment to say thank you. You've truly helped me keep me grounded over the last few years, and your voices have been a steady source of comfort, laughter, and sanity. I've lived with manic depression since early childhood, so mental health care and therapy have always been a permanent line item in my life. When the results of the 2024 election came in, it honestly knocked me off my mental axle and it pulled me into a darker place for a while. In one of your episodes in early 2025, you encouraged listeners to find something, anything to actively participate in as a way of coping with our reality. It felt like you were speaking directly to me, and for the first time in months, I felt like I could take a full breath again. I don't know if you truly realize how much hope you give through honest humor and, yes, a bit of cussing, but it matters more than you know. Inspired by that moment, I finally leaned into a lifeline dream of becoming a children's book author. And somehow, here I am. I've now published five children's books and eight activity books. Wow. Creating these books have given me something tangible to hold onto during a time filled with anger, uncertainty, and grief. It's been grounding in a way I didn't even know I needed. If the Legumin are interested, my books can be found online under a M M Period Parent P E R R I N I'd also love to send you ladies a copy of my latest book. Yes, it's a children's book, but I think you might enjoy it. Thank you. Oh my God, I just got to the picture. Thank you to everything you do. You are truly a light at the end of so many dark tunnels. And I'm just one voice among who wanted to say thank you. Please continue to take care of yourselves and please, please stay safe out there. For my taxes, I'd like to introduce you to my sanity, puppy Harley. I'm sure you can guess his breed pretty easily. With gratitude. AM Perrin.
I don't know. Some sort of golden doodle.
Golden doodle to me. Yeah.
Oh, my God. Adorable. Whatever it is, 100% adorable. Am Perrin. Thank you so much for that. And congratulations. Wow. Five books and eight activity books. That's just amazing. Amazing. Next up, from Florence Pronouns, she and her proud mom of identical twins, only now they're two different genders. Hello to you glorious podcasters who keep me sane. I can't start my day without listening, usually while walking my rescue dog, Buddy. I admit I ramp up the playback speed, so if I ever hear you in real life, it'll probably feel like you're underwater. Also, I daily read or listen to Heather Cox Richardson and love her recent citations of Allison's work. I've got two things for you on the same story. First, Tazewell county in Virginia is pronounced like Jaswell Tazwell, not Tazewell. Second, as Dana found, the judge was appointed by former disgraced Virginia governor Bob McDonnell, and he is the reason the government can now gleefully accept bribes. That is totally true. He was, by the way, prosecuted by Jack Smith, as his case went all the way to the Supremes, who determined that unless there's direct official acts, like a particular vote in response to the acceptance of gifts or money, it's not a bribe. Thank you both for all you do. For my POD pet tariff, I can submit the aforementioned buddy for your enlightened discernment. We adopted him a year ago after Christmas, and he's a little dream. He's 100% perfect. And also redacted. Redacted, redacted. What do you think? Lhasa apso Maltese? adorable.
Adorable, adorable, adorable.
Let's see, let's see what we got here. Bichon poodle, Pekingese, shih tzu, and lassa. Okay, I got one out of five.
Oh, my God, that's funny.
Oh, he's so cute.
So cute. So, so cute. All right, this is from Catherine Pronoun. She and her Good morning ladies of legumes. I listened every day and for feel like Ag and I were possibly separated at birth, even though I'm a year or two older. Birthday is 127. I'm constantly speaking in movie quotes and refuse to wear makeup. I wanted to send a shout out to my spouse. He's starting a coffee truck bean business and has refurbished an old camper into a brew stand on wheels, all while working at PA To A child with severe autism and keeping his family fed and clothed. makes dinners, does laundry. He's an amazing person and has a YouTube channel to set up to show all the work he's done and once complete, to make cute, witty and sometimes scandalous videos to entertain and promote his product. I know your listeners are like minded folks who live to support an underdog. So I'm sharing his link. Please share like and subscribe to the channel to get him started on the right foot. My pick is goats. Goats. Goats. Love you ladies and thank you for all you do every day. And we're gonna have a link. Oh my God, the goats.
Awesome. Okay, so there's a link to his YouTube channel. Everybody go and subscribe. It's free to subscribe. The goats are amazing and I am dying at this next picture. So I'm just gonna. From Miriam. Dad joke. I just told my granddaughter that I've always wanted to raise chickens. It's on my buck buck bucket list. The eye roll was epic. M M Bucket list. Love you. And how you keep us informed, yet sane. Look at the chicken. And this chicken is in a car. This is. That's hysterical. It's a chicken in a car. I remember my grandpa used to say chicken in a car. In a car. Can't go. And that's how you spell Chicago.
Oh my God. So good.
So when I see a chicken in a car, I think of Chicago. Thank you so much.
This is from Jen from Seattle. Pronoun she and her. Recently there was a story about a Myanmar refugee woman who was taken and transported to Houston living behind a five month old baby. She's a part of a community that a friend on the ground in Minnesota works with and he's updated us that she's been released. that's awesome. They have a lawyer traveling to Texas to escort her home to her family. I just wanted to pass on the truly good news. Now, pet tax is Josephine March Kitty in all her glory. Little baby JoJo, nine months old. Just got spayed yesterday. So is resting well?
No. Hi sweet kitty. We'll have a link in the show notes to that story. Congratulations. Amazing. They've been released and they're going back home to their family. Thank you for that Jen from Seattle. And thanks to everybody for your. For your good news. If you have any good news, good trouble, shout outs, et cetera. You want to send to us goat photos, send it to us dailybeanspod.com and click on contact. I hope everybody has a wonderful weekend. Thanks John Fugelsang. For being here with us today. Andy McCabe and I'll be in your ears on Sunday with Unjustified. I'll be on the Midas Touch Network with the breakdown and then we'll be back on Monday. Do you have any final thoughts today, my friend?
Not today.
All right, everybody, until Monday, please take care of yourselves, take care of each other, take care of the planet, take care of your mental health and take care of your family. I've been ag. I've been dg and them's the Beans. The Daily Beans is written and executive produced by Allison Gill with additional research and reporting by Dana Goldberg. Sound design and editing is by Desiree McFarlane with art and web design by Joelle Reader with Moxie Design Studio. Music for the Daily Beans is written and performed by they Might Be Giants and the show is a proud member of the MSW Media Media Network, a collection of creator owned podcasts dedicated to news, politics and justice. For more information please visit mswmedia.com msw media.