Wednesday, January 28th, 2026 Today, Gregory Bovino has been demoted and sent back to El Centro as Tom Homan heads to Minneapolis; Kristi Noem throws Stephen Miller under the bus telling reporters that he fed her the domestic terrorist language she used; Democrats in the Senate start coalescing around a list of demands to fund the government; the Kilmar Abrego vindictive and selective prosecution hearing has been canceled due to weather; DOJ says there will be no civil rights investigation into the murder of Alex Pretti; Trump holds a two hour meeting with Kristi Noem amid backlash from Minneapolis; a US judge orders the ICE chief to appear in court or be held in contempt; two drug boat survivors have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Trump administration; and Allison delivers your Good News.
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Today, Gregory Bovino has been demoted and sent back to El Centro as Tom Homan heads to Minneapolis; Kristi Noem throws Stephen Miller under the bus telling reporters that he fed her the domestic terrorist language she used; Democrats in the Senate start coalescing around a list of demands to fund the government; the Kilmar Abrego vindictive and selective prosecution hearing has been canceled due to weather; DOJ says there will be no civil rights investigation into the murder of Alex Pretti; Trump holds a two hour meeting with Kristi Noem amid backlash from Minneapolis; a US judge orders the ICE chief to appear in court or be held in contempt; two drug boat survivors have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Trump administration; and Allison delivers your Good News.
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msw media. Hello and welcome to the Daily beans for Wednesday, January 28, 2026. Today, Gregory Bovino has been demoted and sent back to El Centro as Tom Homan heads to Minneapolis. Kristi Noem has thrown Stephen Miller under the bus, telling reporters that he fed her the domestic terrorist language she used. Democrats in the Senate start coalescing around a list of demands to fund the government. The Kilmar Abrego vindictive and selective prosecution hearing has been canceled due to bad weather. The Department of Justice said there will be no civil rights investigation into the murder of Alex Pretti. Trump holds a two hour meeting with Kristi Noem amid backlash from Minneapolis. A U.S. judge orders the ICE to appear in court or be held in contempt. And two drug boat survivors have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Trump administration. I'm your host, Allison Gill. Hey, everybody. Dana is out today. She had made some last minute travel plans. Also, the long awaited Abrego hearing that. I've been waiting for this for months. It's been canceled. This is the hearing on vindictive and selective prosecution where the government has to prove they're not vindictively and selectively prosecuting him. It was supposed to be today, but it's been postponed. And here's the little note from the court. It says the court convened a telephone call with all parties. The parties agreed that continuing the evidentiary hearing set for January 28 was in the best interest of the parties. Due to weather, the hearing is cancelled. The party shall provide the court with at least three agreeable dates to reschedule the evidentiary hearing. But everybody, we do have a lot of news to get to today, regardless of not being able to cover that hearing. So let's hit the hot notes. Hot notes. All right, first up from the Atlantic, Gregory Bovino has been removed from his role as Border Patrol commander at large and will return to his former job in El Centro, California, where he's expected to retire soon. And that's according to a DHS official and two people with knowledge. Bovino's sudden demotion is the clearest sign yet that the Trump administration is reconsidering its most aggressive tactics after the Murder Saturday of 37 year old Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents under Bovino's command. President Trump appeared to signal in a series of social media posts, a tactical shift in the administration's mass deportation campaign. Trump wrote that he spoke with Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, whom the White House had blamed for inciting violence. And the two men are now, quote, on A similar wavelength. Tom Homan, the former ice chief who Trump has designated the border czar, will head to Minnesota to assume command of the federal mobilization there. That's according to Donald Trump. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and her close advisor Corey Lewandowski, who were Bovino's biggest backers at dhs, are also at risk of losing their jobs, according to two people familiar who spoke to the Atlantic. Now, the New York Times reported that Trump met Monday night in the Oval Office with Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski for nearly two hours as his administration tries to shift its strategy after federal agents killed a second Minneapolis resident over the weekend. The meeting came after Ms. Noem requested to see the president. That's according to the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Trump apparently did not suggest during the meeting that either Ms. Noem's or Mr. Lewandowski's jobs were at risk. But it was the latest sign that the president is concerned about the bipartisan criticism of the administration's response to the murder of Alex Pretti, who was shot 10 times by immigration agents on Saturday and after he was apparently filming with his iPhone. The Oval Office meeting also included several of Trump's top aides, including Susie Wiles, his chief of staff, Caroline Levitt, the press secretary Stephen Chung, his communications director. Oddly, Stephen Miller, the top aide to Trump who oversees the administration's immigration strategy, was not part of the meeting. That's interesting to note. Now, the meeting came the same day as Trump announced he was sending Tom Homan, the border czar, to oversee the operations in Minneapolis. The move was seen as a way to elevate an official who is steeped in Immigration and Customs Enforcement's long standing practice of prioritizing targeted arrests rather than the kinds of sweeping raids the Trump administration has carried out in cities across the country. At the same time, the administration was planning to move Gregory Bavino at Border Patrol. He's the official whose harsh tactics have drawn sharp criticism, and they were planning to move him out of the city. Now, Kristi Noem has been the face of the administration's immigration crackdown, and she's been among the most vocal in spreading false accusations against Mr. Pretti, including labeling him a domestic terrorist. But get this, Kristi Noem's language that Alex Pretti wanted to massacre federal agents on all of that, that was dictated to Noemi and her department by the man most responsible for the controversial operation, Stephen Miller. That's according to four sources who spoke to Axios. Quote, everything I've done, I'VE done at the direction of the president and Stephen, that's what Kristi Noem told someone to relayed her remarks to Axios. Quote, Stephen heard gun and knew what the narrative would be. Pretty came to massacre cops. That's according to another source familiar with the strategy. Quote others within the White House attempted to clean up the DHS statement prior to it being sent, but it had already been disseminated. That's what someone else told Axios. Now Something else happening from Ms. Now President Donald Trump's Justice Department has decided there will be no civil rights investigation into the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti. Instead, two units of DHS will investigate their officers and the man they killed, according to three people briefed on the steps and internal records reviewed by msnow. A, Customs and Border Protection office will investigate whether its own officers followed agency policy in the shooting, according to the people. Another DHS unit, Homeland Security Investigations hsi, will investigate whether Pretti broke any laws. That unit is part of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and normally focuses on tracking down human trafficking and narcotics rings and threats to national security. Now they're investigating Pretti. It was widely assumed the Justice Department would also not conduct an independent civil rights probe of Pretti shooting after choosing not to launch a probe of the fatal shooting of Renee Goode on January 7th. That view was reinforced when news broke this weekend that DHS would take the lead in the Pretti probe. An FBI document described to Ms. Now says that Border Patrol officials requested FBI help gathering evidence after the shooting, but that all evidence, excluding firearms and casings, were turned over to DHS officials from the bca. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension say that it is investigating Saturday's shooting, but a spokesperson told Ms. NOW that federal agents are not sharing information from any probe the federal government has launched, nor has BCA been given access to any evidence. A Justice Department official confirmed there's no current DOJ investigation, but said, we are not going to prejudge the facts. Really, you're not? You're not going to come out and say he was going to massacre cops and that he's a domestic terrorist? Because there's a lot of prejudging going on, Ms. Now continues. At some later point, if the evidence presents itself, we may investigate. Evidence doesn't present itself, you go and find it, you dumb fucks. Now, as the White House reels from Republican backlash over a second American killed in Minneapolis clashes between protesters and federal immigration officers, both current and former FBI and Justice Department investigators say the handling of the Pretti shooting and of the shooting of Renee Goode violates Justice Department policy and deviates dramatically from how such a shooting by an officer should be probed. They grimly warned that the Trump administration's response since Saturday, which included a false description of the shooting before any investigation had been conducted, signals a Justice Department no longer devoted to facts and fairness. So thanks to msnow for that reporting. Now, in a couple of days, Democrats in the Senate are going to have to decide on a government funding strategy or a, not funding the government strategy. This story comes from me@militaryroad.com and to write this article I spoke with several, appropriations experts on background. So these people are way smarter than me. So that's where I get my information from for this article. I say it as you probably know by now, a lot of the government is set to shut down on January 31st without funding, and at least seven Democrats are needed to advance the package. In the Senate, it may be more Democrats if a couple of Republicans are no votes. The six bills that have been lumped together to vote on include T. HUD, SFOps, or State and Foreign Operations, Labor, HHS and ED FSGG, which is general government services like Washington D.C. the Executive Office of the President and the Courts and then Defense and then dhs. Those are the six. However, ice, which is part of dhs, receives supplemental funding from the Big Ugly bill and those funds are available during a shutdown. So keep that in mind if the government shuts down. ICE continues to be fully funded and unrestricted. Detention centers, operations, flights, payroll, all of it. Customs and Border Protection is also funded during a shutdown by the BBB with about $60 billion. Right now, Democrats are circling around five demands to reform ICE and Customs and Border Protection that would be needed to secure their votes for cloture on this funding package. There's no final list yet, but most seem to agree on these five. And this is according to Senator Chris Murphy, who appeared with Greg Sargent on an episode of the Daily Blast. Those five demands are that DHS must cooperate with state investigations. That's huge. That Customs and Border Protection stays at the border. That's also a big deal. That judicial warrants are required for arrest, which they are under the fourth Amendment, but I guess they want to drive that point home. They're asking for officer identification and body worn cameras and that agents stay out of churches and schools. Now, when discussing these five demands, Senator Chris Murphy said, if we do not fight right now, I think it could result in a massive withdrawal from participation in politics altogether. And that's How Democracy Dies. We have to show as the primary opposition party that we're willing to stand up and fight for the country. So also keep that in mind. One of our most progressive senators says that these demands are a, fight that we should take on. But many people have asked me why one of those demands isn't that we rescind the $135 billion in ICE and Customs and Border Protection slush fund money from the big ugly bill. Well, as of last week, the consensus was that clawing back those funds would be a non starter for Republicans, which would lead to a shutdown of those agencies I mentioned. And the problem with that plan is that some of the stuff that would get shut down include things that would be at risk like SSI payments which would be set to end April 1st. It would halt new NIH grants. It would pause new clinical trials. So if you were about to start a clinical trial for a life saving drug, you'd be kicked off that trial. It would put Section 8 at risk. Annual Head Start grants would not go out. Stuff like that. TSA wouldn't be paid, likely leading to airports shutting down. And all the while ICE and Customs and Border Protection would still be fully funded and operational doing all their stuff. That was the thinking a couple of days ago. But two things. A lot has changed in the last 48 to 72 hours. The Republicans have blinked. Trump has sent Bovino packing after a productive call with Tim Walls, replaced him with border czar Tom Homan. Kristi Noem and Lewandowski, like I said, spent two hours in the Oval Office Monday when the decision was made to swap out Customs and Border Protection leadership. Multiple Republicans and right wing pundits from Senator Curtis of Utah to Governor Greg Abbott have spoken out against what ICE is doing. Tim Pool called Trump weak and said, I don't see him winning this one. Mike Pence called for an independent investigation into the murder of Alex Pretti. Trump administration officials were upset with Bovino and Gnome's blatant lies right after the murder. Even the New York Post is calling Kristi Noem iced Barbie. I have not seen this level of criticism from the right since the days following January 6th. Even moderate Democrats who usually vote for funding are either regretting their vote in the House like Tom Suozzi, or vowing to block funding in the Senate like Cortez Masto and Jackie Rosen, with some of them even calling for the impeachment of Kristi Noem. And today, Hakeem Jeffries said that if Trump didn't Fire Noem immediately that he would begin drafting articles of impeachment. So with this dramatic fallout, the landscape has changed considerably since last week when we thought that demanding a rescission or clawing back of the big ugly funding for ICE and Customs and Border Protection was a non starter. Second, Democrats will likely demand the DHS funding bill be pulled out as a separate bill. Now, that would require the rest of the bills to go back to the House if they pass the Senate. And if Republicans refuse to do that, if they refuse to pull DHS out, then the broader shutdown of the government would be on Republicans. That would be their refusal. Now, Senator Murphy said on that podcast of the broader defunding of ice, he said, quote, I think the fight is in the Senate right now. I mean, we have real power. We can decide not to shut down the entirety of these operations because as you know, Even if the DHS doesn't have appropriations, they still have $70 billion left over from the reconciliation bill. That's the BBB. But it's not easy for them to transfer over all their operations from regular budgetary appropriations to money from the big beautiful bill. It would slow them down. It would slow the illegality down. But I think we should just focus on this legislative moment in which we hold power. We can constrain their illegality. That's probably the most important thing. We can show people that we're not willing to back down and that we aren't powerless. So Senator Chris Murphy is saying that by looking for these 5ish reforms or whatever, they land on the constraints on ICE and Customs and Border Protection. That is the fight. However, I have spoken to some who have told me that a few Democrats might be considering a demand to rescind at least some of that ICE funding from the BBB in addition to the restrictions listed above. But consider this. Republicans won't agree to fully defund their own agenda. And we can't make demands for broad reforms without having the majority in at least one of the houses of Congress. Now, personally, I think it's worth a shot to try to claw back some of that slush fund. Go big or go home, right? And since we have Republicans on the ropes and they're especially vulnerable right now, we might be able to get it done. But I'm not going to fault Democrats if we're unable to rescind that slush fund and end up with only restrictions like the one Senator Murphy discussed. I'd rather have some guardrails in place than a broader shutdown that endangers some of the most vulnerable among us with zero restrictions on fully funded ICE and CBP operations. All right, next up from the post, Minnesota's chief federal judge has demanded the acting head of U.S. immigration and Customs Enforcement personally appear in court on Friday, threatening to hold him in contempt for what the judge described as repeated defiance of court orders amid the agency's enforcement efforts in the state. Quote, the court's patience is at an end. That's U.S. district Judge Patrick Schlitz. And he wrote this in a remarkable filing late Monday, summoning acting ICE Director Todd Lyons to his courtroom. Schlitz cited several instances in which ICE failed to grant detained immigrants bond hearings that had been ordered by the courts. Quote, the court acknowledges that ordering the head of the federal agency to personally appear is an extraordinary step. That's what Schlitz wrote. He's an appointee of G.W. bush, by the way, and former law clerk of Scalia. He went on to say. But the extent of ICE's violation of court orders is likewise extraordinary and lesser measures have been tried and failed. Schlitz's summons arose out of a case involving an Ecuadorian man who remains in ICE custody despite the judge ordering his release more than two weeks ago. The judge said he would cancel Friday's hearing and the summons of Lyons if the agency could prove before then that the detained migrant had been released. Since the start of the Trump administration's immigration enforcement effort in Minnesota, dubbed Operation Metro surge, the state's seven full time U.S. district judges and and a stable of semi retired colleagues have struggled to manage a sharply increased caseload. Court dockets have swelled with hundreds of cases involving immigrants seeking release from ICE detention. This month alone, federal judges in Minnesota have filed more than 280 requests. That's according to a Washington Post analysis of court dockets in the state. Those figures mark a steep rise from previous months when the number of such filings rarely reached 10 per month, 280 versus 10, quote. It's put a tremendous burden on our court staff and on lawyers. That's U.S. district Judge Eric Tord, a Trump appointee. He said that at a court hearing Monday in St. Paul. Quote, They've been asked to respond or prepare filings on remarkably short timetables. Our court staff has essentially been working around the clock. The escalation in filings has come as the Minnesota courts have also been tasked with hearing broader cases, grappling with thorny legal questions about the legality of the surge and the investigation of the fatal shooting Saturday of Alex Pretti by Border Patrol. Quote, I think it kind of goes without saying that we're in a shockingly unusual time. That's what District Judge Kate Menendez said Monday at a hearing on a request from Minnesota authorities to curtail ICE's operations. Just days earlier, Menendez, who was appointed by Biden, had issued an order in a separate case barring federal agents deployed as part of the surge from detaining or using tear gas against peaceful protesters. That decision has been stayed by an appeals court amid the flood of cases. Schlitz and the district's other judges have repeatedly expressed exasperation through a series of increasingly sharply worded rulings over what they have described as the administration's failure to comply with their orders in immigration cases and unprecedented conduct by prosecutors pushing to charge demonstrators protesting ICE's operations in the state. Quote there has been an undeniable move by the government in the past month to defy court orders or at least to stretch the legal process to the breaking point in an attempt to deny noncitizens their due process rights. That was Senior U.S. district Judge Michael Davis, an appointee of Clinton, who wrote Sunday in a ruling ordering the release of an Ecuadorian migrant detained last month. Much of the conflict with the Minnesota judges has been driven by the Trump administration's move to overturn years of legal precedent and require mandatory detention for all immigrants facing deportation across the country. The overwhelming majority of judges, including many Trump appointees, have ruled that the policy is unlawful and that noncitizens must be provided a chance to seek their release on bond while awaiting deportation proceedings. The issue has reached a crisis point in Minnesota as immigration authorities have swept up scores of migrants. Davis, in a separate ruling last week, decried the government's treatment of illegal refugee from Myanmar who was detained earlier this month and immediately moved to a detention center in Texas, leaving behind her family, including a five month old infant she was nursing. She was flown out of Minnesota before she had the opportunity to challenge her detention on the grounds for her removal from the country. Quote, there's simply no legal reason for keeping this mother 1800 miles away from her family, davis wrote, adding later in his ruling, there is something particularly craven about transferring a nursing refugee mother out of state. In other instances Schlitz cited in his order Monday summoning Lyons to court, some immigrants who had been granted bond hearings by the courts had seen their detentions extended instead or had been flown out of state despite orders that ICE keep them in Minnesota. Schlitz said the courts had been extremely patient with the government throughout, even though it decided to send thousands of agents to Minnesota to detain aliens without making any provisions for dealing with the hundreds of habeas petitions and other lawsuits that were sure to result. Schlitz vented similar frustrations with the federal surge in a remarkable series of missives he sent last week in the St. Louis based U.S. court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit, which oversees matters arising from Minnesota and six other states. I'm also dealing with a number of emergencies, including a lockdown at the Minneapolis courthouse because of protest activity, the defiance of several court orders by ICE and the illegal detention of many detainees by ICE, including yesterday a 2 year old. That letter came in response to a series of highly unusual moves the Justice Department undertook last week in its push to charge anti ICE demonstrators who interrupted a Jan. 18 church service in St. Paul. Prosecutors have charged three protesters with conspiring to violate the congregants constitutionally protected rights to religious expression. But a US Magistrate judge refused to sign arrest warrants for another five of those people, including Don Lemon, former CNN Anchorage, and one of his producers, citing a lack of probable cause. Justice Department lawyers rushed to push Schlitz to overturn that decision, and when he refused, they raced to the 8th Circuit, describing the case as a national security emergency. The appeals court rejected the government's request to intervene, and the Justice Department has since dropped its efforts to overturn the magistrate judge's decision. But before that conclusion, Schlitz described the department's conduct in the case as unprecedented in his letters to the appellate court. The worst behavior alleged about any of them is yelling horrible things at the members of the church. None committed any acts of violence, he wrote. He said he had surveyed judges in Minnesota and in other courts in the 8th Circuit's jurisdiction, none of whom could remember such aggressive tactics by prosecutors when required by judges to bolster a criminal case. The reason this never happens is likely that if the government does not like the magistrate judge's decision, it it can either improve the affidavit and present it again to the same magistrate judge, or it can present its case to a grand jury and seek an indictment of Lemon and his producer, Schlitz added in a separate letter, quote, there is no evidence that these two engaged in any criminal behavior or even conspired to do so. Though much of the judge's correspondence to the appeals court was focused on the details of the protester's case, his letter Friday also offered a rare glimpse of the personal strain the administration surge has placed on judges dealing with the fallout. Schlitz noted that the Justice Department's demands for immediate action had come while he was working from home and caring for his adult son who is mentally disabled. Meanwhile, immigration raids continued to roil his city. Protests abounded, and within hours of his last letter, Pretti would be fatally shot. Amy Sweezy a University of Minnesota law professor, praised Schlitz and the other federal judges in Minnesota for their efforts to handle the increased caseload, serve fairly as independent arbiters of the law. But it is impossible, she added, for them to do so completely divorced from what's happening outside their courtrooms. Quote, they're members of this community. They live here and they're experiencing it, too. Now, as I was writing this script today and as I was putting that story in these notes, Roger Parloff posted on social media, quote, the petitioner whose non release prompted Chief Judge Schlitz to threaten ICE Director Todd Lyons with contempt has now been released, according to what the civil chief of the U.S. attorney's office has told his attorney and what his attorney has relayed to me. All right, next up from NBC, family members of two Trinidadian men were killed in a US Strike on an alleged drug smuggling boat in October and they are suing the US Government. They filed their lawsuit Tuesday accusing it of wrongful death and extrajudicial killings. The lawsuit is the first of its kind to be filed against the Trump administration in federal court over its military campaign against alleged drug smuggling vessels in the Caribbean. Chad Joseph, 26, and Rishi Samarou, who's 41, were killed in the U.S. military strike Oct. 14 when they were on a boat traveling from Venezuela to Trinidad. Their family members allege this in the lawsuit. The lawsuit says Joseph and Samaru had been fishing in the waters off the Venezuelan coast and worked on farms in Venezuela. It says they were returning to their home in Las Cuevas and Trinidad and Tobago when their boat was struck. Kegseth and Trump said the strike killed all six men on the boat. Trump described them as six male narco terrorists and said the boat was affiliated with a designated terrorist organization and that it was trafficking narcotics. The strike was the administration's fifth in a campaign that had struck three dozen boats and killed at least 125 people. In response to a request for comment, a spokesperson for the Pentagon said, per long standing department policy, we don't comment on ongoing litigation. NBC News asked the White House for comment now. The families were not notified that their loved ones had been killed, but both held memorial services after they learned of the October 14th strike and after Joseph and Samaru were never Heard from again. Joseph's mother and Samaroo's sister are suing the government on behalf of the two men's surviving family members. The lawsuits were filed by lawyers from the aclu, the center for Constitutional Rights, Jonathan Hafetz, a professor at Seton Hall Law School, and the ACLU of Massachusetts. It says the Oct. 14 airstrike violated two federal statutes. The Death on the High Seas act, which allows family members to sue over wrongful deaths that occur more than three nautical miles from the United States, and the Alien Tort statute, which allows foreign nationals to sue in federal court over violations of international law. The Trump administration has told members of Congress that the US Is in a non international armed conflict with drug cartels, citing that as a justification for using lethal military force. The lawsuit challenges that justification. It says there's no armed conflict and that therefore the laws of war do not apply. Quote, these premeditated and intentional killings lack any plausible legal justification. Thus, they were simply murders ordered by individuals at the highest level of government and obeyed by military officers in the chain of command. The lawsuit quotes the Trinidadian government as saying the government has no information linking Joseph or Samarou to illegal activities and that it has no information of the victims of US Strikes being in possession of illegal drugs, guns or small arms. Joseph's mother and Samarou's sister say in the lawsuit that the two men were the primary breadwinners for their families and they were simply returning home from working in Venezuela when they were killed. According to the lawsuit, Joseph lived in Las Cuevas, Trinidad, with his common law wife and their three minor children. But he often traveled the 20 nautical miles to Venezuela for work. He would sometimes stay in Venezuela for weeks or even months, and during this trip, he had been working there since April. The lawsuit says that in the weeks before he was killed, Joseph had struggled to find a boat in Venezuela to take him back to Trinidad. It says he became increasingly fearful of making the trip home after the Trump administration began its boat strike campaign. The lawsuit says Joseph called his wife and mother daily and, that his last call was on October 12th to tell them that he had found a ride back home. But he never returned. Quote, chad was a loving and caring son who was always there for me, for his wife and children, our whole family. I will miss him terribly. We all do. That's Joseph's mother. Lenore Burnley said in a statement, went on to say, we know this lawsuit won't bring Chad back to us, but we're trusting God to carry us through this and we hope that speaking out will help us get the truth and closure we need. Sam Rue worked in construction before he spent 15 years in prison for his participation in a homicide and also frequently traveled to Venezuela for work in construction and farming. According to the suit, he shared photos of the farm he was working on with his sister before he died. Quote Rishi used to call our family almost every day. And then one day he disappeared and we never heard from him again. That's Sally Car Khorasing, Rishi Samaru's sister. 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And your good trouble comes from Leona Waller's substack. it is a flyer that you can go and see on the sub stack or substack page. We'll have a link in the show. Notes. If every American did three of these five things, ICE would be stopped in its tracks. And those things include. Let me get over to my little picture here. put my glasses on so I can read. Call your lawmakers. Right, we've got that. Boycott these companies. There's a whole list. Home Depot, Target, Amazon, Whole Foods, Hilton. Prepare Your community, a local network of witnesses and whistleblowers can keep families together and save lives. So organize your neighbors. You can make recurring donations to the IMPACT Fund for Immigrants Rights, National Immigration Justice Center, Immigrant Defense Project. That's even like three bucks a month. Makes a huge difference. The, fifth thing you can do is share this flyer with everybody that you know. So I'm going to have a link to that and that substack in the show notes for your good trouble. And thank you so much to Leona Waller for that substack post. All right, first up, from Dorian Pronoun. She and her ah are dear queens of all the beness, I know you. We are gleefully boycotting businesses that contribute to ice, like Starfox, Target, or Target Stopo, et cetera. But how about getting some love for small businesses that are willing to post peaceful protesters welcome in their windows, proposing some good trouble here, inspired by Minneapolis, owner of Dreamhaven Books. I love Dreamhaven Books, Greg Ketter, whose, bookstore sales exploded when folks figured out that he was captured on video protesting ICE in the streets. I don't know if this is practical, but I would love to see small businesses adding wording to their websites or hanging signs in their windows saying peaceful protest is constitutional. That way we can happily patronize them without forcing them to put fuck ICE or other inflammatory statements out that might lead to some kind of them being targeted by the wrong folks. Penzi Spices, Dreamhaven Books, and others out there are on the right side of history, so we should show them the inside of our wallets. For Podpet Tariff. I'm including my friend's Kitta that is named Donkey. I wasn't sure at first if that was a cool cat name, but now I'm sure it's cool as hell. Keep the home fires of righteousness burning in this too snowy weather. Love you both. That is a beautiful kitten. Is that a rag doll or a Norwegian snow cat? Dorian, thank you so much for that. That's a great idea. Next up, from Robin. Hey, Beanie Queenies. I'm writing to send you videos of my goats named Johnny and June and my two miniature donkeys named Tin and Copper to help bring some smiles. Unable to upload videos so pictures will have to do. Donkeys eating carrots, goats standing in the field. I love little donkeys. Look at the tiny donkeys. I want one. I, want one. Where do I get a tiny donkey? Can I keep him in my small house? This is amazing. Thank you for that, Robin. Next up, from Sean Pronouns, he himself agdg I'm pretty sure you will find this particular correspondence in compliance with the ethos of good news. On, Monday of last week, upon waking up to the news of the Pentagon's aim to deploy 1500 reserve airborne troops to places they weren't wanted, needed, and would only pour fuel on an inferno, a strange chemical reaction like cracking a light stick happened inside of me. Despite not currently having a job, I chose a name for the cause. Pair of Troopers. Get it? Paratroopers. Pair of troopers called everyone in my Rolodex despite them all backing out last minute, dug up some reserve savings and made my first jump from 15,000ft in Zephyr Hills, Florida on Saturday. And thank that particular meteorological higher power for giving us the perfect day. Especially considering what was happening in the rest of the country. Because I have truly found a new family. Skydiving felt so natural and has provided me with a kick in the life force to really gain laser focus on support, variety and tip top physical shape to get my certification over the next two to three years. After reviewing my video footage, I had an initial onset of imposter syndrome as well as hating my recorded voice and being in front of a camera due to my non veteran status as my charity of choice to raise funds is Veterans for Peace. But after flying back north and waking up to the final rights performed so eloquently by Alex Pretti, all of those worries jumped out of their own plane. And honestly, I couldn't allow feelings of anger or rage or vitriol on the tarmac or in the air for a first experience like that. Especially when my nephews would be watching, I revert back to knowing what I'm doing. While it's not yet perfected, it's still an act of selflessness and courage. You can see my jump shawnshawnshawnlovejoy on Instagram and donate to Veterans for Peace. Thanks to Zephyr Hills for my whole new world. Thanks to my Queens for changing the independent media landscape one bean at a time and my friend's parents. Beautiful Bella is attached and there is a redaction bar. So I'm supposed to guess the breeds here, but the closeout is in the immortal words of they might be giants. Thanks for being S E X x Y more than enough. Mr. M. Shawn Lovejoy this dog is amazing. it looks like a Bernadoodle or a poodle with some sort of cattle dog. Let's see. Bernadoodle. Look at that. Ooh, ooh. M. I got it right. Bernie's Mountain Dog and Poodle mix. I got a dog. Right. Of course. Dana's not here when I get the dog. Right? I'll have to tell her about it tomorrow. Sean, thank you so much. And be careful. I did some skydiving, Cocoa Beach, Florida back in the 90s. It was super fun, but not anymore for me. But there's. There you are. The tarmac. Hell yeah. That's so cool. All right, next up from Jenny. Pronouns she and her hi, AG and dg. Here's a bit of good trouble and it's super easy for everyone. Put on the song Love Train by the OJS on repeat and dance really badly for at least 10 minutes. I heard this song in a clip of a Minneapolis vigil played by a, killer brass band in the dark to a dancing crowd. Love Train is such a classic psych up song and a hell of an anti fascist call to action. So move your body and start an actual love train. Throw a neighborhood potluck so the people around you get connected and have each other's numbers. If shit goes down nearby, make cookies and leave them with a note at your neighbor's doors. Be really generous with little things with your neighbors. Now is the time to build your community. If you need a community, let me suggest your local Unitarian Universalist society. The Unitarians have a non creedal philosophical religion where protesting for justice is part of worship. No one will ask you to believe anything more than a responsible commitment to justice, equity and compassion for all people. The Unitarians have a deep bench of activist experience and provide the safety of protesting with a church group with no commitments other than open community. I want to shout out, Minneapolis Unitarian ministers Ashley Horon and Ashley Harness for their moral leadership this month and for sharing their real love that has been built on the ground in the Twin Cities. And get some classic disco on and move your body to Love Train. Then start a love train with your neighbors by sharing food in solidarity like the heroic people of Minneapolis. Love. Jenny from Brooklyn. Jenny from Brooklyn. Thank you so much and thank you for paying your tariff. And the tariff, by the way, is the OJ's singing love train. Next up from Jenny, a small blue dot in Texas. Good morning AG and dg. Shout out to Dana. You mentioned your Dallas show on Mother's Day and Maylie's two old ladies. Very happy. My best friend and I immediately got VIP tickets to your show. Can't think of a better way to celebrate Mother's Day. You made our day. After a heartbreaking weekend for my pod pet tax. I'm Attaching a picture of my grand dogs. Don't guess their breeds. Guess their names. Love you both. You bring us hope. Their names are redacted. All right, on the left we got, Batman, and on the right we have Robin. It is Batman and Robin. And the reason I was able to guess that, fair listeners, is that they are wearing Batman and Robin outfits. I'm not psychic. All right, next up, from Cody, pronouns they and them. Thank, you for sharing key news stories that I can't always find everywhere else. This is the first podcast I listen to each morning, often white knuckled. Lately, I've been listening for years now, and I most appreciate the unapologetically pro human and pro LGBTQ2S stances that both of you and your whole team espoused. 2s stands for two spirit. I have. Well, not really a true correction, more of a yes. And AG said that ICE is being removed from Minneapolis is a small win, and I have to push back a little on that. I also recognize there's no way AG actually thinks this is a small feat, nor that she in any way means to discount what it took to get to this point. My yes, and we've all been witnessing Trump's war of retribution against the people. Yes, it's about immigration on the surface, as the orange dictator and his Project 2025 coordinators are using the tired tactic of claiming immigrants is dangerous as their main excuse to openly terrorize blue cities. It's also about revenge. The fascist autocrat himself has even said so on camera, that he wants to take revenge against those who didn't vote for him or, who actively opposed him in 2020 and 2024. Yeah, and I'll break in here. Not just that, Cody, but he said, Minnesota, your retribution is here. So, yeah, obviously we have to be real fucking for real about this. We're in the middle of a fascist revolution. Listen to any revolution experts. They'll make your blood run cold. Describing what we're living through now, the people of Minneapolis, immigrants, indigenous people, and their allies are showing us that a counter revolution focused in freedom and dignity for all is indeed possible. They showed us we don't have to let ourselves be crushed under the boots of fascist pigs and incels. We could stand up for ourselves and our neighbors and our communities, and we can push out a terrorist militia like ice. They showed us that peaceful resistance works, that we must come together to use our numbers, our voices, and our art as our weapons. Pushing ICE out of Minneapolis is a massive victory. People died for this. People spent Many long days battling bitter cold and fear tactics and tear gas for this. When ICE tried laying siege to their city, they shut their city down for this. They showed the rest of us that it's possible to fight back in the face of a fascist regime that wants to convince us the only way we survive is if we cower and conform. That shit gives me hope where I had none for years, as MAGA continued to corrupt our government and our culture. The people of Minneapolis, New York City, Chicago, Louisiana, Tucson, and many more, they give me hope. Now I can't claim to know what comes next, nor that the next victory won't be as quick as three weeks. I just know that the majority of people want to lead good lives and they will reach a breaking point where they can no longer sit and watch their neighbors being brutalized. Ultimately, we the people will not let fascists win. It goes entirely against our collective nature. We have to fight back in whatever way we can until this shit reaches our cities. We can use our voices and our buying power and our art to resist. And we must keep watch. When Trump's army of fascist pigs reaches our cities. We must learn to use the tactics Minneapolis used to protect their streets, blocks and neighborhoods. Oops. Didn't realize this would be such a long message. Podpet tax. Three fluff goobers. Almost three years old now. First pick is the babies in the first few days after I brought them home. Oh, they're so good. Little tuxedos and a dog sitting in a car. Yeah. Thank you for that. I love that. Yes. And Cody, the reason I say I was being trounced on social media for declaring it a win. Like, it's not. It's nothing. It's not over. There's still work. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So I was, I guess I was, I don't know, a little gun shy about. About putting, it the way you just put it, Cody. So thank you. You're absolutely right. All right, everybody, Dana will be back in your ears tomorrow. Until then, please take care of yourselves. Take care of each other, take care of the planet, take care of your mental health, take care of your family. I've been ag. 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 Studios. 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. 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