Monday, June 2nd, 2025 Today, Ukraine destroyed more than 40 military aircraft in a drone attack deep inside Russia; the new Office of Personnel Management hiring plan includes loyalty essays; ICE raids a restaurant on a Friday night in San Diego and uses flash-bang grenades to disperse the protesting crowd; Kristi Noem said a migrant threatened to assassinate Trump but that appears to have been a set up; Donald Trump shared a conspiracy theory on Truth Social saying Biden was executed in 2020 and the man that was President until 2025 is a robot clone; top officials overseeing deportations at ICE are leaving their positions; a Women is suing Kansas over a law that disregards end-of-life wishes during pregnancy; Dan Bongino and Kash Patel say video shows that Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide; Elon Musk denies a report that he took so much ketamine he doesn’t pee right; the CDC keeps recommending Covid vaccines for children in defiance of RFK Jr; a Reagan appointed judge orders the Trump administration to fund Radio Free Europe; PBS has filed suit against the Trump regime for first amendment violations; the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reject’s Trump’s bid to move forward with massive federal government reductions in force; California opens an inquiry into Paramount and Trump; the government has ended a critical HIV vaccine effort; elderly and disabled Californians with more than $2,000 could lose Medi-Cal; a Jeffrey Epstein survivor is suing the FBI for failing to address her claims; Taylor Swift gets her music back; and Allison delivers your Good News.
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Today, Ukraine destroyed more than 40 military aircraft in a drone attack deep inside Russia; the new Office of Personnel Management hiring plan includes loyalty essays; ICE raids a restaurant on a Friday night in San Diego and uses flashbang grenades to disperse the protesting crowd; Kristi Noem said a migrant threatened to assassinate Trump but that appears to have been a set up; Donald Trump shared a conspiracy theory on Truth Social saying Biden was executed in 2020 and the man that was President until 2025 is a robot clone; top officials overseeing deportations at ICE are leaving their positions; a Women is suing Kansas over a law that disregards end-of-life wishes during pregnancy; Dan Bongino and Kash Patel say video shows that Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide; Elon Musk denies a report that he took so much ketamine he doesn’t pee right; the CDC keeps recommending Covid vaccines for children in defiance of RFK Jr; a Reagan appointed judge orders the Trump administration to fund Radio Free Europe; PBS has filed suit against the Trump regime for first amendment violations; the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reject’s Trump’s bid to move forward with massive federal government reductions in force; California opens an inquiry into Paramount and Trump; the government has ended a critical HIV vaccine effort; elderly and disabled Californians with more than $2,000 could lose Medi-Cal; a Jeffrey Epstein survivor is suing the FBI for failing to address her claims; Taylor Swift gets her music back; and Allison delivers your Good News.
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Um, MSW Media Media. Hello, and welcome to the Daily beans for Monday, June 2, 2025. Today, Ukraine has destroyed more than 40 military aircraft in a drone strike deep inside Russia. The new Office of Personnel Management hiring plan includes loyalty essays. ICE raids a restaurant on Friday night in San Diego and uses flashbang grenades to disperse the protesting crowd. Kristi Noem says a migrant threatened to assassinate Trump, but that appears to have been a setup. Donald Trump shared a conspiracy theory on Truth Social saying Biden was actually executed in 2020 and the man that was president until 2025 is a robot. Top officials overseeing deportations at ICE are leaving their positions. A woman is suing Kansas over a law that disregards end of life wishes during pregnancy. Dan Bongino and Kash Patel says that video shows Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide in prison. Elon Musk denies a report that he took so much ketamine he doesn't pee right. The CDC keeps recommending Covid vaccines for children in defiance of RFK Jr. A Reagan appointed judge has ordered the Trump administration to fund Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. PBS has filed a lawsuit against the Trump regime for First Amendment violations. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejects Trump's bid to move forward. With massive federal government reductions in force. California opens an inquiry into Paramount and Trump. The government has ended a critical HIV vaccine effort. Elderly and disabled Californians with more than $2,000 could lose medical. Uh, A Jeffrey Epstein survivor is suing the FBI for failing to address her claims. And Taylor Swift gets her music back. I'm your host, Alison Gill. Hello. Hello. Happy Pride, y' all. That is a record for the longest intro of headlines on the Daily Beans. It is Pride Month. I'm thinking of Dan Savage's words today. He said, anyone who tells you that making time for joy is a distraction or a betrayal has no idea what they're talking about. Watching clips of the protests against Bryant, it's remarkable how much fun these gays and lesbians at those protests in the 1970s that I saw on TV when I was 11 had. It's remarkable how much fun they were having at those protests. And during the darkest days of the AIDS crisis, we buried our friends in the morning, we protested in the afternoon, and we danced all night. And it was the dance that kept us in the fight, because it was the dance we were fighting for. It didn't look like we would win then. It didn't look like we would win marriage equality in 2004, but we did. Right now, it doesn't feel like we can win. But we can, but only if we fight and dance. So thank you, Dan Savage. Happy Pride, everybody. Dana's going to be back in your ears tomorrow. Thank you for all your patience while she's out doing the good work that she does. So I'm going to do my best to get through all the news quickly, efficiently and with appropriate profanity today. And there might be more profanity than usual because I'm pretty outraged about what happened in my tiny San Diego neighborhood this past Friday. Fox 5 San Diego reports that shockwaves are still rippling through the tight knit community of south park after ICE agents stormed Buona Forchetta on Friday afternoon after seeing the heavily armed response spill from the restaurant onto beach and 30th Street. Neighbors weren't taking what happened sitting down. Quote, we're organizing, but tonight I bought $50 to give for the families. That's what Jean DeCarlo Wagner said, who frequents Buona Forcheta. What they did was wrong, heavy handed and traumatizing. That's what she said. And in a statement, M Buona Forchata said in part, we're working closely with our attorneys to locate and support our detained employees and their families. They used flashbangs to disperse the crowd. Children were running and screaming. It was fucking chaos. I've been in this neighborhood for almost 30 years. I live right on the border of north park and south park in a little neighborhood called Altadena. And I know that this is motivating people to join us in March on June 14 for the no Kings rally. Ice is a domestic terror organization. There's no two ways about it. And here in our neighborhood and in neighborhoods across the country, we aren't going to take it lying down. Now, I realize that this administration probably wants us to share these videos because they see them as propaganda meat for their base. But the vast majority of Americans, including a lot of Trump voters, are not okay with what's going on. They want us to protest so they can invoke emergency powers if we step one toe over the line like they did in 2020. So please stay vigilant, know your rights, have a lawyer you can contact and get out there and make your voices heard. So I'll see you on June 14th. And fucking Joni Ernst. Oh my God, I'm sure you by now, you've all seen the video of her at a town hall where somebody's talking about how she, you know, wants to gut Medicaid. And somebody said, but people will die. And she said, well, we're all going to die. And then she put out a quote, unquote apology video. But it's anything but. She doubled down. She said people were, you know, basically mocked people for being outraged by her comment and then told people to find Jesus while she's strolling through a cemetery. Just disgusting. And she's up for reelection in 2026. So let's go get that seat. Also later in the show, we're going to be talking with trial attorney and founder of Speak up for Justice Paul Kiesel. And we're going to talk about the regime's attacks on the judiciary. But for now, we have a record number of headlines to get to. So let's kick it off with some quick hits.
And to make a long story short, too late.
All right, let's talk a little bit about the docket. Last week was an historically bad week for the Trump regime in court. Federal judges last week blocked his tariffs in two courts, blocked him from canceling international student visas, ordered him to return a man he disappeared to Guatemala, ordered him to give due process to men he disappeared to South Sudan, ordered him to return a third man wrongfully disappeared to El Salvador, blocked him from removing medical papers about gender identity from the health and human services websites, struck data down. Trump's executive order targeting law firms allowed a lawsuit against Musk and Doge to go forward, ordered the release of a Harvard scientist that was arrested for bringing inert frog embryos into the country and blocked Trump from ending congestion pricing in New York. Now, of course, these orders are only as good as the people who follow them. But the trend continued into the weekend from Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. A US district judge on May 30 granted radio free Europe and Radio Liberty their third request for a temporary restraining order in its lawsuit against the US Agency for Global Media and ordered the agency to immediately disperse May funding. Judge Royce Lamberth also rejected USAGM's argument that the agency is not obligated to release the funds because other donors reportedly intend to provide financial support. Lamberth said the parties were, quote, in virtually the exact same situation they were a month ago when the court granted a temporary restraining order and ordered the USAGM to disperse the funding. In April, Lamberth said in his May 30 order that USAGM has again refused to enter into a one month extended agreement to cover the funding for May and that Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty have not received the congressionally appropriated funds for the month, quote, the court's reasoning that justified the entry of the April TRO applies with equal force. Now that's what Judge Lamberth said. Also from the government executive the court has allowed a federal court has allowed a pause on all layoffs at most federal agencies to remain in place. This is the ninth Circuit Court of Appeals actually rejecting the Trump administration's bid to block the lower court's injunction and likely sending the matter to the Supreme Court for final adjudication. A UH ruling prevented most reductions in force and agency reorganizations from taking place will continue indefinitely after the U.S. court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled in a 2 to 1 decision in favor of the unions, municipalities and advocacy groups that sued over the workforce reduction plans. The Trump administration brought the case on an emergency basis, seeking a stay of a district court ruling that had found President Trump likely acted outside his legal and constitutional powers. The majority, led by Judge William Fletcher, detailed several agencies that have experienced or are set to go through significant layoffs. It found irreparable injury is likely to occur. The plaintiffs are likely to succeed on the merits and the balance of interests do not favor a stay. And from the Washington Post, PBS has sued the Trump administration. They did it on Friday, nearly one month after the president issued an executive order targeting its federal funding. In a complaint filed in federal district court in Washington, the public broadcaster alleged that the government violated its First Amendment rights. PBS also said the order unlawfully interfered with the Public Broadcasting act of 1960, which established the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a non profit entity that oversees federal funding to PBS and npr. PBS was joined in its suit by Northern Minnesota Public Television, a PBS member station. Its suit comes days after npr, which was also a target of Trump's order, sued the government on similar grounds. And also from the Post, three women and two doctors are suing Kansas over a law that nullifies a person's decision about end of life care if they're pregnant. And in what appears to be the first such lawsuit since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the women, one of whom is pregnant, argued that preventing pregnant people's advance medical directives from being acted upon violates their rights to personal autonomy and equal protection under the Kansas Constitution. That's according to a petition filed Thursday in a state district court. Scrutiny of end of life laws surged this month after the news um emerged from Georgia about a brain dead pregnant woman whose family said she was kept on life support to obey the state's abortion ban. The case raised complicated questions about how end of life decision making powers and abortion bans can coexist in a post Roe era and whether they should. The women bringing the Kansas lawsuit say the state's pregnancy exclusion wrongfully negates the deeply personal health care decisions they have specified in their advance directives. If diagnosed with a terminal condition while pregnant, estate laws unjustly discriminatorily and categorically disregard their clearly expressed end of life decisions when they are pregnant. That's what the lawsuit says. And from Semaphore the California State Senate has invited two former top CBS figures to testify in a new inquiry into whether the network's parent company has violated state laws against bribery and unfair competition. Paramount offered President Donald Trump's 2024 campaign $15 million to settle a lawsuit filed against CBS over lightly edited interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris in October. That's what the Wall Street Journal reported earlier this week. Trump refused the settlement, threatening to file an additional lawsuit against the company seeking federal approval for its merger with an entertainment company called Skydance. The settlement talks have infuriated many staff members at cbs, as well as many national Democrats who believe that Paramount is caving to pressure from Trump to settle a frivolous lawsuit. In a new letter sent May 30, the chair of the California State Energy Utilities and Communications Committee, Josh Becker, and the Judiciary Committee chair Thomas umberg invited former 60 Minutes producer Bill Owens and former CBS News President Wendy McMahon to testify in an upcoming hearing on the recent proposed settlement of the lawsuit. All right, everybody hang in there. We've got the hot notes right after this quick break and I will get you all the news that's fit to swear about. Stick around. We'll be right back after these messages. 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Everybody. Welcome back. It's time for the hot notes. Hot notes. All right, first up, some good news from the Associated Press. A Ukrainian drone attack has destroyed more than 40 Russian planes deep in Russia's territory. That's according to Ukraine's security service. On Sunday, while Moscow pounded Ukraine with missiles and drones just hours before the new round of direct peace talks in Istanbul, a military official who spoke with the Associated Press on the condition of anonymity said the far reaching attack took more than a year and a half, 18 months to execute, plan and execute, and was personally supervised by President Volodymyr Zelensky. In his evening address, Zelensky said that 117 drones had been used in the operation. He claimed the operation had been headquartered out of an office next to the local FSB headquarters. The FSB is the Russian intelligence and security service. The military source said it was an extremely complex operation. It's called Operation Spiderweb, by the way, involving the smuggling of first person view drones into Russia where they were then placed into mobile wooden houses and they were taken out on flatbed trucks and launched one by one where they destroyed 34% of Russian bombers. This is just such a cool operation and uh, it's such a good day for Ukraine. And this is just ahead of those quote unquote peace talks in Istanbul. Well done, Ukraine. Next up, as part of its effort to politicize the civil service, the Office of Personnel Management has released its merit hiring initiative. This is from government Executive job applicants will soon be quizzed on their favorite Trump administration policy as part of the hiring process. And that's according to an OPM Merit hiring plan memo that went out this weekend. Quote, how would you help advance the president's executive orders and policy priorities in this role? That's one of four essay questions that job seekers must answer if they're seeking any federal position. GS5 or above. Quote, Identify one or two relevant executive orders or policy initiatives that are significant to you and explain how you would help implement them if you were hired. This is a loyalty test. The federal government's dedicated HR agency published the plan via joint memo from Vince Haley, director of Trump's Domestic Policy Council, and OPM Director Charles Ezell. The government is a hodgepodge of bipartisan reforms developed under both Trump and former President Biden to accelerate and improve the hiring process, alongside plans to eradicate long standing efforts to make the federal workforce more reflective of the populace. Now this is right from the Project 2025 handbook and it's a big part of fascist regimes to take us back to a federal workforce that has allegiance to a person and not the Constitution or the law. I suspect there will be lawsuits about this. All right, next up from the times, several Immigration and Customs Enforcement leaders are actually leaving their jobs. The agency announced this on Thursday in the third major change among its leadership in recent months. Kenneth Ganalo, the top ICE deportation official, is retiring. Garrett Ripa is leaving his job as Mr. Ganello's deputy to return to a regional leadership role in Florida. And the person running the agency's Homeland Security Investigations, or HSI wing, Robert Hammer, is moving to a different job at ice. The Trump administration has struggled to meet Trump's campaign promises of mass deportations, grappling with the lack of extensive resources despite efforts to bring in personnel from other parts of federal law enforcement. We talked about this project 2025. The cost and the coordination necessary to deport what Trump says is 21 million people is mindboggling and next to impossible. One of Mr. Trump's immigration officials, Tom Homan, his top one, has repeatedly said the agency needs to be doing more and that he wanted to see more arrests. That's what actions like what happened in my neighborhood this weekend are about and why. The administration, with the help of the corrupt Supreme Court, by the way, are turning legal immigrants into undocumented ones so they can arrest them and meet their quotas. Now check this bullshit out. This is from cnn. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem posted a stunning allegation on Wednesday that an undocumented migrant Sent a letter threatening to kill Donald Trump, promising to self deport after the assassination. That's what she posted. Quote, thanks to our ICE officers, this illegal alien who threatened to assassinate President Trump is behind bars. That's what she wrote in a social media post that included a letter and a picture of the man arrested. DHS also sent out a press release. The story was picked up by multiple news outlets. The president's allies used it to highlight what they see as the dangers of undocumented migrants and the work of the administration to build boot them out of the country. The problem? Investigators believe the migrant was a victim of a setup. Law enforcement believes the man, Ramon Morales Reyes, never wrote the letter, which was sent to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office and other law enforcement agencies. That's according to several sources. Instead, investigators suspect the letter was intended to benefit a separate person who's currently awaiting trial in a robbery and assault case in which Reyes is the victim. They do not consider the threat to be credible in investigating the case. Agents believe the person may have been involved in sending these letters claiming to be from Reyes in an attempt to have Reyes deported before he could testify against him as the victim at trial. Makes you wonder what else is a setup. The assassination attempts, gnome's purse being stolen. It's all weaponization, plain and simple. Speaking of setups from NBC, the FBI's top two leaders said in interviews on Fox News that the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide. And they promised to release surveillance video from the federal jail in New York City where he was found dead. Officials in the first Trump administration ruled that Epstein's death in 2019 was a suicide, but it has remained the subject of conspiracy theories suggesting he was murdered because of his connections to high profile celebrities and politicians. Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino, a former pro Trump podcaster, said Thursday morning on Fox News after, uh, crying about how hard his job was. Yet the video showed that no one entered or approached Epstein's cell at the time of his suicide. Bongino also says no forensic evidence had been found suggesting that another person was present. Quote, m. There's no DNA, there's no audio, there's no fingerprints, there's no suspects, there's no accomplices, there's no tips. There's nothing. That's what Bongino said, who asked members of the public to share any evidence of wrongdoing in the case. If you have it, I'm happy see it. There's video, clear as day. He said he's the only person in there and the only person coming out. You can see it, can we? Because you haven't released it, nor have they released the Epstein files. Despite a bunch of fanfare, though it probably takes a really long time to remove Trump from all those files. And speaking of Epstein, this is from NBC. Epstein accuser Maria Farmer filed a lawsuit against the federal government Thursday, alleging that it failed to protect her and other victims of the convicted sex offender and Ghislaine Maxwell. The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia, accuses the Justice Department, the U.S. attorney's Offices and the FBI of negligence and negligent infliction of emotional distress. According to the lawsuit, Farmer first reported to the FBI she was sexually assaulted by the pair in 1996 and warned that they, quote, had committed multiple serious sex crimes against girls, including her minor sister. This is against Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Farmer also allegedly told the FBI that Epstein stole nude and partially nude photos of two of her minor sisters who he transported across state lines, and that he and others engaged in possession, production and distribution of sexually lascivious or exploitative images of children which could constitute child pornography. Farmer reported these allegations to the FBI again in 2006, a decade later. Quote, despite the seriousness of the allegations, the likelihood that criminal conduct was continuing the requirements of federal regulation and mandatory express policy to investigate or conduct a serious preliminary inquiry regarding such allegations and, if indicated, refer such allegations to local investigators and prosecutors, the statutory designation of the FBI as a mandatory reporter of child sex abuse and exploitation and the federal prioritization of investigation of child pornography and child sex abuse crimes. The FBI, in violation of its mandatory obligations under regulations and DOJ policies, chose to do absolutely nothing. Farmer and her attorneys alleged the FBI agent she was speaking to hung up on her and that no one at the agency followed up, quote, as a result, Epstein and others working with him were able to threaten bodily harm to Maria and her family for decades, forcing her to relocate many times and even change her name. In the meantime, Epstein exponentially multiplied his sexual abuse, exploitation and trafficking of girls and young women. We'll keep an eye on this lawsuit for you. And in health news from the post, coronavirus vaccines are still being recommended for healthy children if their doctors approve, according to updated immunization schedules published late Thursday by the CDC, contradicting HHS Secretary RFK Jr. S announcement earlier in the week. The revisions, which also say the vaccines are no longer advised during pregnancy, add to the confusion surrounding the Trump administration's move to bypass the traditional system for immunization advice through expert review and CDC guidance. The CDC did not remove the COVID vaccines from the childhood schedule, as Kennedy said they would when it updated its website late Thursday, and instead the agency recommends the shots based on shared clinical decision making, meaning children can get vaccinated if their parents and doctors agree. Next up from the Times the Trump administration has dealt a sharp blow to work on HIV vaccines, terminating a $258 million program whose work was instrumental to the search for a vaccine. Officials from the HIV Division of the National Institutes of Health delivered the news Friday to the program's two leaders at Duke University and Scripps Research Institute. Both teams were collaborating with numerous other research partners. The work was broadly applicable to a wide range of treatments for other illnesses, from COVID drugs to snake antivenom and therapies for autoimmune diseases. The program's elimination is the latest in a series of cuts to HIV related initiatives and to prevention of the disease in particular. Separately, the NIH also paused funding for a clinical trial of an HIV vaccine made by Moderna. The cuts will derail hard won progress against HIV over the past few decades, and that's according to public health experts. This week, the administration also withheld funds that were due to states and territories for HIV prevention work. In Texas, the state Department of Health Services asked grantees to pause all activities until further notice. In Mecklenburg county in North Carolina, the health department had to lay off 10 staffers. And already many African countries have uh reported serious disruptions in their efforts to curb the epidemic. Mitchell Warren, an executive director of the HIV prevention organization avac, said, it's just inconceivable how shortsighted this is. Next up from Calmatters, Cindy Soto, a quadriplegic who requires round the clock care, has been on Medi Cal for most of her life. Recently, she came into a modest inheritance, about $8,000 that has helped cover her daily expenses. But it also means she would lose her state health insurance under a new proposal from Governor Gavin Newsom. Newsom has proposed restoring a $2,000 limit on an individual's assets, including savings accounts and property other than a home and a car, and $3,000 for couples to qualify for Medi Cal. Anyone 65 and older disabled who exceeds that limit would be ineligible. $2,000 in assets disqualifies you under Newsom's new plan, Newsom is also proposing a cap on how much home care medical enrollees like Soto could receive. In unveiling the proposal, Newsom said that California has a spending problem and needs to make difficult choices to address the state's $12 billion deficit, which he attributed in part to the growing Medi Cal costs. What his proposal would save the state $94 million this budget year and 500 million the next year out of a $12 billion deficit. But health advocates say it's almost impossible for someone to live with just $2,000 of assets in California. Rent often exceeds that amount, and medical expenses not covered by insurance quickly add up. What the fuck? Gavin Newsom um, but he just took a hard right turn at some point, right around the time he had started his podcast and had Bannon and Charlie Kirk on, or whoever the fuck that was. What the fuck? This is California, okay? I'm just. I don't even know what to say anymore. Next up from Rolling Stone. If his posts on his social media site X are any indication, Elon Musk is letting a New York Times report that he's taken so much ketamine he can't pee. Get to him, quote. To be clear, I'm not taking drugs, musk wrote on Saturday. The New York Times is lying their ass off. I tried prescription ketamine a few years ago and said so on Twitter, so this is not even news. It helps for getting out of dark mental holes, but I haven't taken it since then.
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Musk was allegedly taking ketamine, ecstasy, psychedelic mushrooms, all during the 2024 campaign, the new York Times reported Friday. He apparently used ketamine so heavily it affected his bladder, a known issue caused by chronic ketamine use. Sources said he was using ketamine almost daily and mixing it with other drugs. His usage reportedly troubled those around him. It's unclear whether his alleged drug habit continued when he became part of the Trump administration. Uh, it's pretty fucking clear to me, you guys. Ketamine, a dissociative anesthetic, has become increasingly popular, including among the teetotaling influencers on the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. Quote, I'm in meetings with dozens to hundreds of people every day, and I'm photographed constantly. If this BS from New York Times were true, it would have been extremely obvious. Musk posted. It has been extremely obvious. You at events, rolling your neck around, making fork sculptures at dinner tables, uh, rolling your eyes back in your head, clenching your jaw, licking your lip. It's obvious to the rest of us. The Times pointed out that Musk's behavior has been erratic, like his insulting the Secretary of state, Marco Rubio, and his posting incessantly on Twitter at all the hours of the Day and night. During an appearance with Trump in the Oval Office Friday, Musk was sporting a black eye, which he blamed his five year old son, also named X, for giving him a black eye shiner. I assume he probably just fell down and whacked his face, like, literally fell down a K hole like in real life. Some folks are like, oh, it's interesting, uh, Stephen Miller's left handed and his wife just left to go work with Musk. Hmm. Anyway, the kid did not give that guy. And if the kid. You know what? I just can't. That little human shield takes him with him everywhere he goes, right up there on his shoulders, behind his head. Anyway, here's some good news from the BBC. Quote, all of the music I've ever made now belongs to me. That's a quote from Taylor Swift announcing the news on her official website. I've been bursting into tears of joy ever since I found out this is really happening. This whole saga began back in June of 2019 when Music Manager Scooter Braun bought Swift's former record label, Big Machine. And with it, all of the songs from Taylor Swift, Fearless speak, now, red, 1989 and reputation. Swift had personal objections to the deal, blaming Braun for complicity in the incessant manipulative bullying against her by Kanye west, one of his other clients. Swift responded to the original sale of her masters by vowing to re record those records, effectively diminishing the value of those master tapes and putting ownership back into her own hands. To date, she's released four re recorded albums, known as Taylor's Versions, with dozens of bonus tracks and supplementary material. So congrats to Taylor Swift for getting all of her music back, photography, all of her intellectual property. That she has to buy this back from dudes just pisses me off, but I'm glad she has them. All right, y' all, it's time for some good trouble. What are you guys doing getting into trouble? Your mission today, should you choose to accept it, U.S. immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE put out a tweet from ICE.gov this past weekend and it says, contact us if you were harmed by an alien. So I think you should contact them and tell them your alien abduction stories. 85548 voice. The number is 85548 voice. Once again, 85548 voice. Contact ICE and let them know if you've been harmed by an alien. You can also go to ice.gov/voice all right, we'll be right back with trial attorney and founder of Speak up for Justice, Paul Kiesel. Followed by the good news. Stick around, we'll be right back.
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Hey everybody, welcome back. As promised, we're here with trial attorney and founder of Speak up for Justice. His Name is Paul Kiesel. Paul, welcome to the Daily Beans.
Allison, thank you so much for having me on board this morning. Appreciate it.
I am so excited to talk to you. I just watched your most recent webinar with folks like, uh, there was a Ninth Circuit, uh, judge. We had Rachel Cohen on there, Attorney General from North Carolina. Very, very fascinating conversation about the attacks that we're seeing on our judiciary and the rule of law. And there was a really great explanation of the phrase the rule of law that we all say over and over again. But, um, you know, I think sometimes we use it so often that it can lose its meaning. And so I thought it was very, very good for the, for the judge there from the Ninth Circuit to. About that.
Yeah, look, it's the hallmark of our democracy is the fact that we have a legal system that provides protections for us in the event we're arrested, uh, called due process, uh, that provides for courts to have reach impartial decisions based upon, uh, prior rulings, um, and to do so free of the political labeling that has become common over the last several, um, years.
Mhm. Yeah. And I thought that you, um, had Attorney General from North Carolina, Jeff Jackson on as well, who had a lot of important things to say about the threats to the judiciary and how, you know, he works, even though he's got a D next to his name on the ballot. And some of these attorneys general do. And we know that judge, uh, elections are nonpartisan, but that he takes a lot of pride in the fact that when he works with, and for some people, he may politically disagree with his guiding star. His. His compass pointed to due north. Is the rule of law correct?
In fact, one of the things we pointed out was that all of us as lawyers in California or in the entire country, take an oath. And that oath is to, um, uphold the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of California if we're here, and to take responsibilities as officers of the court, which means we have a responsibility not just to our clients, but to the legal system itself, to make sure we preserve the integrity of what we do. And part of the reason why Speak up for justice got started was that there was a tremendous amount of criticism coming towards the courts. And no one was standing up for the courts. No one was speaking. The judges can't speak for themselves. Judges are prohibited from commenting on their decisions. Their speech cases need to speak for themselves. That's all they can do. And yet, as the criticism starts being lobbed into them, as, um, Judge Boasberg, uh, is proposed to be impeached because legislators don't agree with his decision. That's not how the system works. And unfortunately there's not. And now there will be a, uh, system to be set up where the legal community can speak up for the judges and for the integrity of our judicial system. Because not to do that, Alison, puts our jurists at great risk. Um, judges do not have security. There is no Secret Service. The best they have is when they're in court. They're behind, uh, a court that has marshals there protecting them. But the minute they walk out that door and they go home, they are exposed to every vulnerabilities. We are as citizens without any protection at all. And that's dangerous right now.
Yeah. And let's talk a little bit about that, uh, and the integrity that is required of officers of the court, especially these days on the Department of Justice side. Because as you brought up Judge Boasberg, he said in his courtroom, in one of the due process cases, one of the Alien Enemies act cases, he said, my clerks, I tell them every day that the greatest treasure they have is their candor and reputation with the court. And we are starting to see very quickly, within a matter of months, the deference usually given to the Department of Justice by the courts being eroded even at the Supreme Court level. They're no longer taking the word of these officers of the court. And that sort of erosion of the faith in the rule of law, I think is extremely dangerous and could take years to build back.
Yeah, I was just looking for some notes from my last presentation. I pointed out that Deputy Solicitor General Edwin Needler, so Solicitor General Kneeler, Deputy Assistant Needler has argued before the Supreme Court 160 times during his career. And several weeks ago, he gave his final argument before the justices. And for the first time in history, all nine justices gave him a standing ovation. That does not happen. I've never even heard of a single judge standing up to applaud the efforts. But part of the reason why they did so was because they were commending him for his candor, care and integrity with which he addressed the court over those 160 arguments. And that's so critical because as an officer of the court, your client can tell you to do something when you go into a courtroom, but you have a greater duty to the legal system itself to follow what you believe in your heart is the correct response. And unfortunately, uh, tragically, several Justice Department lawyers who have made arguments or not made arguments that they believed would support the arguments they were to advance in Front of the court wound up being fired.
Yeah. We talk a lot on the Unjustified podcast with Andy McCabe about Rouveni, who had admitted that the disappearance of Abrego Garcia was an error and that he should be brought back to the United States. He was fired. We see what happened in the Eric Adams case. Eleven, I think, Department of Justice lawyers were fired, and these weren't. This wasn't a woke Marxist group of lawyers either. You know, this was, um. These were people like Sassoon and, and, and things like that that, you know, had stood up and said, I am not going to do this, or I am not going to claw back $20 billion that was appropriated to this group. I. I refused to do that. And. And then, I mean, I even remember, I think it was Emil Bovet who sat a group of public corruption lawyers in a room and said, figure out among you who is going to file this motion to dismiss the case against Eric Adams. And if you don't, I'm going to fire all of you.
Yeah. And to be clear, this is a, uh, nonpartisan issue. Right. It's political, because that's sort of the framework with which we're discussing it. But this is not intended to be a partisan issue. This is an issue regarding the guardrails we have in this democracy and the rules of court and the integrity we all bring into that court process is not a political one, but a nonpartisan one. And I think that's kind of lost in, um, the white noise of the battle lines that are being drawn. We need to recognize the courts are obligated to follow the precedents that have been set out there with reasonable limits on what they do going forward into the future.
Yeah. And something else that I was, um, really glad to see on your most recent webinar and Speak up for justice was Rachel Cohen, formerly of Skadden Arps, and, you know, who talked at length, very succinctly and fantastically about the attacks on big law and law firms. And we've seen a lot of capitulation from, like, Paul Weiss and some of the other firms. And then we see some pushing back. We saw a fantastic ruling from Judge Leon, who I think we broke because he had, like, no less than 26 exclamation marks in his ruling about Wilmer Hale. And, uh, only one of those exclamation points belonged to President Trump. So we see the fight happening. We see some people capitulating, and then we see others who are pushing back.
Correct. And look. And a part of it, you know, you started out with the. The founder slash co founder. Here's the reality. Three months ago, uh, I was home with my mother in New Jersey and reading the New York Times. And the criticism, rightfully so, as the Paul Weiss firm was taking a knee, that no lawyers were speaking up, no one was really articulating the concerns of our judicial system in simply agreeing to do pro bono services of an untold amount of time or money or projects. And I got together with a number of prominent federal judges, uh, the most important of which is the current president elect, Leo Gordon, Judge Gordon, um, who sits in New Jersey, and Judge Esther Salas, who has her own unique story to tell. And I knew them from other activities, and I pretty much said, look, I think we need to do something. I think the federal judiciary and the legal community need to find a process to have an outlet to really identify, uh, for Americans what the risks are. And so, with the help of Judge Gordon and Judge Salas and some other prominent federal judges, we've been able to pull this together, um, and really set a process going where we can have a continued dialogue to address these issues. Because every single week there's more information to share and greater risks that we face.
Yeah, agree. And recently, the Judicial Conference, which is a group of, I think, former, uh, chief judges, and it's a pretty conservative group as far as who nominated them, got together and talked about issues that they're having with security. And the New York Times is reporting a number of threats against judges is multiplying at an exponential rate. And they actually discussed the possibility or the potential of having the US of either appointing the head of the US Marshals Service or having the US Marshal Service move under the judiciary system so that they had, like, the Supreme Court, their own sort of security, uh, detail. And as we know, the U.S. marshals would be the ones that would carry out any particular, certain contempt orders that might come, you know, from the courts. And to hear judges having concerns that the Attorney General could withhold Marshall service is frightening. Terrifying.
Uh, that's the right word. Frightening is really the right answer. And Esther Salas, for those of you viewers that do not know this Judge Salas, in 2020, a disgruntled litigant who happened to be a lawyer went to her home in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and shot and killed her son Daniel, and shot and critically wounded her husband, Mark, who survived. He was in search of, um. Judge Salas did not get to Judge Salas, but took their only son from them. That led to the passage of the Danny Andrew legislation, which Provides some protection for judicial information that's now sealed and bad people can't get access to. But from Judge Salas, it's a very personal issue involving security because of what happened to her. And recently in the last month, there have been dozens and dozens of pizzas delivered anonymously to federal judges across the country. And the person who purportedly delivered it for who was sent in the name of Was Danny Andrew. They're sending pizzas anonymously? Not anonymously, but people we don't know who are sending pizzas to judges in the name of a murdered young man of a federal judge. What does that tell you? It tells you we know where you live, Judge. And if you don't kind of get with the party line, do you want this to happen to your family? That is frightening.
Right? At first everyone's like, oh, so what? Pizza pranks or whatever. But, yeah, when you, when you hear about the way that it was discussed, uh, regarding, uh, Judge Salas, regarding the Judicial Conference, that, that was a message. That was a straight up, we know where you live message and, uh, a threat as far as I'm concerned. And so I'm not surprised that they were like, we need our own. We need the marshals up under the judiciary.
Yeah. And I think the point is, and I'm so glad you're doing this, because the more people that understand the risks to our legal system, uh, the more people will ultimately do something. And, um, the Speak up for justice website, um, and the process of putting different activities that individuals can get engaged in, from phone banking to in person protests, to letters to their legislators, to do something affirmatively. Because I feel there's a lot of need from people that want to do something. And that's right. We need to do something. We can't be passive because historically, in 1933, the first thing Adolf Hitler did was he fired 850 judges. Two thirds of them were Jewish. And he disbarred every single Jewish lawyer in 1933. He went after the legal system and nobody stood up for them in 1933. And we know what the history of that was, and we just simply cannot have a reversion to that level of autocracy or danger to our judicial system. And we all need to come together, uh, in again, a nonpartisan way to support the pillar of our democracy, which is our judicial system.
Yeah, we saw it with Bibi Netanyahu. And then the people of Israel stood up and took to the streets and said, no, we are not going to let you disband our judiciary that is a pillar of our democracy.
Correct. What he tried to do was prevent the Supreme Court of Israel to rule on any, uh, legislation that comes out of the Knesset. So essentially any rule of law they pass at the Knesset becomes the rule of law of Israel because the Supreme Court justice wouldn't have the right to do it.
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And before October 7th, every weekend, hundreds of thousands of people were taking to the streets in Israel, which is millions in this country by proportion, and they were supporting the judicial system. We need to do the exact same thing here and now to protect our justice.
We do. And I think we're just getting started. I know we have the no Kings rally coming up on June 14th. I love what you're doing talking to actual federal judges and people who are involved, involved, uh, in some of these big law firms on your webinars. And it will take an act of Congress to, for example, allow the judiciary to appoint the head of the marshal service. It would take. And of course in the big billionaire bailout bill, they have a section in there that would, um. Well, it's kind of a toothless section about, uh, trying to defang the contempt proceedings by not allowing judges to consider $0 appropriate for a security deposit. It. But again, it's. To put it in there in the first place shows the attack on the judiciary that is starting to foment.
Exactly. And look, that has nothing to do with spending. That's all about a political agenda to defang the court that would essentially hold the forces of power, uh, to be responsible and hopefully either the parliamentarian removes that, uh, piece from the bill or Congress themselves, uh, decide not to, uh, include that. And I love that big beautiful billionaire bill.
Yeah, the billionaire bailout bill. Well, we have all of our listeners, we're using the 5 calls app to continually poke their Congress people about removing that provision, among many other things that Congress can be doing. So I appreciate your time today. Before I let you go, just talk a little bit. We talked a lot about this most recent webinar. You've had one previously. And uh, what's coming up and where people can get more information to, to join in the conversation.
So the SpeakUpForJustice law is the website. They just go to the browser tab. Speak up for Justice. They'll get there. And we're going to have that be as a resource centric place for people to go to, to figure out what activities they can do, uh, as a call to action. Because I think we need to have calls to action. Uh, our upcoming programs are going to include Several other prominent federal judges participating in discussions. Our next one, I believe, is going to be June 26th, and our one after that's going to be July 31st. My hope on the 31st is I'm going to have a, uh, Republican senator and a Democratic senator discussing these issues from the Judiciary Committee to really address, uh, some of the contemporary issues that are going forward. So that's like my next one after this, I hope, will include a bipartisan, uh, approach from the U.S. senate.
Great. Well, for all that information, Speak up for Justice Law. We appreciate your time today, sir. Trial attorney, founder of Speak up for justice. Uh, Mr. Paul Kiesel. Thank you. Thank you, uh, Esquire, Attorney at Law, sir. I appreciate your time today.
Thank you, Alison, very much.
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Yeah, that's the ticket. My other two are Beelink EQ14 and Beelink S12 Pro. The Beelink EQ14 hosts streaming servers for video and music, my home network dashboard, and my ebook library management software. The other server, my Beelink S12 Pro, hosts my UniFi controller for my WI FI access point, and it's what I usually test new services on. My servers in the Dell C6220 are named after pirate ships and my other servers are named after the Constitution class Starfleet ships. Basically, I have private music and video streaming services and ways to obtain media for them. I also have my own ebook library and a way to obtain books for it. In addition, one of my servers controls my WI fi. Um, that's a rough translation of what I said from nerd into normie. Thank you for that, Patrick. Because I was like, okay, now that is fancy af, my friend. There's a photo of the stack here. Dang. Well done, Patrick. Love it. Cool. You got a hobby. Send it in to us. Next up, Amy Pronoun. She and her Jayapal has something called the Resistance Lab, which teaches folks how to organize and use tactics to peacefully but effectively attack the things that the present administration is doing to turn our democracy into an oligarchy, autocracy, and all the other crazy arcases. It's free on Zoom. On June 1st, we had 1700 people from 46 states in at least 7 countries. Highly recommend. For more info, visit pramilaforcongress.com thanks. Thank you, Amy. Excellent. Great advice. Next up, Dorian pronouns she and her to my bodacious beanies. Uh, I thought of you today, and especially Allison, since she's going to head up the no Kings rally in San Diego. The reason I'm inspired to write today is because I think you might maybe sort of kind of be show tunes gals. And you might really understand how jazzed I was when a song from 1776 came up in my shuffle just now. In that song, John Adams, one of our good presidents, sings, is anybody there? 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Happy, however, was not so happy. In fact, the poor cat was a hot mess. He probably would have done well to live in a household with a high strung Weimaraner named Stormy. And wait, uh, without a hype was like really? That's very oddly specific. Would have done well to live in a household without a high strung Weimaraner named Stormy. And I'm pretty sure if given the chance, Stormy would have made a Scooby Snack out of Happy. Suffice to say, the Happy was very skittish, but when no one was home, he would get into things like pull the curtains down, destroy the toilet paper, or kick all the pillows off the sofa. He was mischievous. In our home we had two Siamese kitties. Their names were Dao, pronounced Teo. Okay. And Serena. Unfortunately, I was little when we lost Teo, but Serena and I grew up together. Serena had a wildly fabulous registered name. Crikey Sue Cinnamon Serenade. She was the best cat that a kid could grow up with. She was my best buddy, and she was not skittish. 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