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msw media. Hello and welcome to the Daily beans for Tuesday, January 13, 2026. Today, Fed Chair Jerome Powell is being criminally investigated by the Trump administration and he has issued a rare public rebuke. Senator Mark Kelly is suing Pete Kegseth over at the Pentagon. Prosecutors at the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division are declining to investigate the murder of Renee Goode. Trump says he's inclined to exclude Exxon Mobil from his plan to plunder Venezuelan oil. He also says he regrets not seizing voting machines after the 2020 election. Trump's EPA has announced it's going to stop considering lives saved when setting rules on air pollution. And Democrat Mary Peltola has announced her bid for U.S. senate in Alaska. I'm Alison Gill.
And I'm Dana Goldberg.
Hello, my friend. Welcome back.
Thank you so much. Thanks for covering me while I flew, to Florida. Listen, listeners, I know there's a lot of good people that listen to this that live in Florida, but I'm very close to the felons, other residents and it makes my stomach turn. So I'll be out of here by Thursday.
Oh my goodness. Well, stay safe down there. I know you're traveling, so thanks for being here.
Absolutely.
Glad we could make it work today, but I'm super excited about what's going on in Alaska.
I am too. Former Rep. Mary Patola is running for Senate in Alaska. She's actually handing Democrats a top recruit in the race against two term senator. This is Dan Sullivan. So NBC basically says Patola enters the race after having represented Alaska in Congress and its lone House member, its only House member, with a record of performing better than the average Democrat in the red state. Now Peltola, who is a former state legislator, first won a special election in 2022 and a full term later that year she became the first Alaska native elected to Congress, which is sort of mind blowing. But Peltola lost her 2024 reelection bid by just 3 points as Trump carried Alaska by 13 points. So with all the other races around the country really starting to gain percentage points in the Democrats favor, If we're up 14 points nationally, there's a hell of a chance Paltola could win her election this time. Yeah, people just have to get out and vote.
Yeah, she's very well liked in Alaska as well. All right, everybody, we have a lot of news to get to. Let's hit the hot notes. Hot notes. All right, first up from the Times, I just, I, you know what I was going to say, I can't believe this But I totally can. Yep. The U.S. attorney's office in the District of Columbia. Janine Pirro has opened a criminal investigation into Jerome Powell, the Federal Federal Reserve chair, over the central bank's renovation of its Washington headquarters and whether Mr. Powell lied to Congress about the scope of the project. That's according to officials briefed on the situation. The inquiry, which includes an analysis of Mr. Powell's public statements and an examination of spending records, was approved in November by Janine Pirro, a longtime ally of President Trump and, not a teetotaler who works for Fox News. She was appointed.
No, definitely not.
Yeah. To the office last year. The investigation escalates Trump's long running feud with Jerome Powell, who the president has continually attacked for resisting his demands to slash interest rates significantly. The president has threatened to fire him, even though he nominated him for the position in 2017, and raised the prospect of a lawsuit last week related to the $2.5 billion renovation. Citing incompetence, Mr. Trump told the Times in an interview last week he had decided on who he wants to replace Mr. Powell with. He's expected to soon announce his decision. Kevin Hassett, Trump's top economic advisor, is a front runner for the top job. While Powell's term as chair ends in May, his term as Governor runs through January 2028. Powell has not disclosed whether he plans to stay on at the central bank beyond this year. In a rare video message released by the Fed on Sunday, Powell described the investigation as unprecedented and questioned the motivation for the move, even as he affirmed that he carried out his duties as chair without political fear or favor. It's pretty, I don't know, interesting, I guess, that here's, you know, none of these big law firms, none of the. That capitulated, none of these, you know, corporate media enterprises and conglomerates that capitulated to Trump. Nobody made a video like this, except for. Except for this guy. So. Takes a lot of courage, and, I'm thankful that he did. We'll play the video for you on the, Beans Talk podcast. Quote, this new threat is not about my testimony last June or about the renovation of the Federal Reserve building. It's not about Congress's oversight role. The Fed, through testimony and other public disclosure, made every effort to keep Congress informed about the renovation project. Those are pretexts, he said. He warned the investigation signaled a broader battle over the Fed's independence, and it does. He said the threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Federal Reserve and setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public rather than following the preferences of the President. This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions, or whether instead monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or intimidation. Now, Powell said on Sunday the Justice Department had served the Fed with grand jury subpoenas. Prosecutors in Ms. Pirro's office have contacted Mr. Powell's staff multiple times to request documents about the renovation project, according to an official with knowledge. Starting an investigation is one thing. Presenting sufficient evidence to secure an indictment from a federal grand jury or making it stick is quite another.
Yes, it is. And I would be surprised, but box of wine shopped around for a grand jury one time. She'll do it again. Yeah. This is from cbs, who, by the way, Nikki Glazer made a fantastic joke about at, the Glowing Globes. Last night, prosecutors in the Justice Department Civil Rights Division, and this is not surprising, but it is infuriating. They were told that they will not play a role in the ongoing investigation into a fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis by a federal immigration officer. This is, according to two sources, familiar leadership in the Civil Rights Division, overseen by Harmeet Dhillon, informed staff in the division's Criminal Section that there would not be an investigation. Normally, after a high profile incident involving a fatal shooting by an officer, attorneys from the Criminal Section fly out to the scene. Multiple career prosecutors offered to do so in this case, but they were told not to. again, this is from the sources. While investigations into the excessive use of force can be pursued solely by Youth Attorney's office without direct involvement from the Civil Rights Division, it is customary for the division's federal prosecutors to take the lead on, high profile investigations, of course, like this one in Minnesota. The decision also raises questions about how far the FBI's investigation into the shooting's even going to go.
It's going to go nowhere.
I already saw a video of them towing the car in public. Yeah, that's evidence now. On Thursday, the Justice Department announced that FBI was leading the investigation into the fatal shooting of 37 year old Renee Nicole Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer. Video footage shows the officer, identified in court records from a prior incident as Jonathan Ross. He fired three rounds at the car as Good started to drive away. She was trying to get out of the way. The video also appeared to depict the officer did not take immediate steps to ensure that Good received emergency medical care after the shooting took place. A, separate video shows at the scene, officers stopped a man not only did they not provide medical care? They stopped a doctor who claimed to be there asking if he could check her pulse from even moving toward good. And on the camera you can hear them say, we have our own medical team on site.
Yeah. And they didn't have their own medical team on site.
That's exactly it.
When he said, I'm a physician, they said, I don't care. Yeah. All right, next up from the Guardian, Democratic US Senator Mark Kelly filed a lawsuit on Monday seeking to nullify the chilling attempt by the Defense Secretary Pete Kegseth to reduce the military veterans rank and pension as punishment for speaking out against the Trump administration. Kegseth has previously issued formal censure to Kelly, a decorated retired Navy captain and NASA astronaut, for alleged seditious statements he made urging service members to resist unlawful orders. It began a process that could lead to Kelly, a senator for Arizona since 2021, being demoted and having his pension cut. The lawsuit, filed in D.C. federal court, argues that comments made by Kelly and five other Democratic lawmakers, all military or intelligence veterans, in a short video to service members in November was protected free speech. The 46 page court filing accuses Hegseth, the Department of Defense, the US Navy, and John Phelan, the Navy secretary, of trampling on constitutional protections essential to legislative independence. The filing said, the defense secretary was attempting to dismantle the bedrock principles of democracy, freedom of speech and the separation of powers. Quote, his unconstitutional crusade against me sends a chilling message to every retired member of the military. If you speak out and say something the president or Secretary of Defense doesn't like, you'll be censured, threatened with demotion, even prosecuted. That's what Kelly said in a statement when he announced the lawsuit. He said, Hegseth wants our longest serving military veterans to live with the constant threat that they could be deprived of their rank and pay years or even decades after they leave the military just because he or another Secretary of Defense doesn't like what they've said, that is not the way things work in the United States of America, and I won't stand for it. The filing says Trump publicly accused Kelly of sedition and treason and demanded punishment. The secretary himself has echoed those accusations, announcing an investigation and then issued a letter of censure that not tentatively but conclusively determined that the senator's speech met the very criteria that the department must consider when reducing retirement grade. Quote, the outcome of any subsequent review of Kelly's grade, even assuming it could lawfully proceed, is foreordained. Kelly said he was respectfully asking the court to find the censure letter and related actions taken by Hegseth and the Pentagon unlawful and unconstitutional. He also asked the court to vacate those actions, quote, to preserve the status of a co equal Congress and an apolitical military.
Such a powerful statement.
Well said. In his statement, he added, there are few things as important as standing up for the rights of the very Americans who fought to defend our freedoms. So I'm very glad he's doing this.
Me, too. All right, this is from the Times. President Trump said during an interview with the New York Times that he regretted not ordering the National Guard to seize voting machines in swing states, just swing states, after his loss in the 2020 election, even though he doubted whether the Guard was, and I quote, sophisticated enough to carry out the order effectively. I think the word you're looking for is corrupt. The remarks by Mr. Trump in the interview last week harked back to one of the most perilous moments from his first term in office, when he was urged by some adv advisors to order his national security agencies to take control of voting machines manufactured by Dominion Voting Systems in an effort to find evidence that they had been hacked to rig the election against him. Interesting that he's saying this when they have lost every fucking case against Dominion Voting Machines now. The statement also came as he has continued his attacks on digital voting machines, saying that he wants to lead a movement to get rid of them altogether in advance of this year's midterm elections. Asked whether using the military to impound voting machines has been a viable option, the president questioned the sophistication of the National Guard. He said, I don't know if they're sophisticated enough. He said, you know, they're good warriors. I'm not sure they're sophisticated enough in the ways of crooked Democrats and the way they cheat to figure that out.
Okay, so the National Guard. The president says the National Guard is too stupid to pick up a machine.
That's exactly what it sounds like.
Okay.
Trump's expression of regret, while somewhat vaguely worded, was nonetheless a warning sign that he had not given up the idea that voting machines were dangerous or that they could be seized in an effort to curb fraud, which has not been proven. And a lot of the voter fraud were by Republicans. And when I say a lot, I mean of the very few they found.
It's all Republicans. It's all. All of them.
Yeah.
This frightens me. This scares me. I'll be fair again. The guardrails are gone, and we. We knew that this was an eventuality, and I'm going to vote anyway, right? Next up from Bloomberg, President Trump signaled that he's leaning toward excluding ExxonMobil Corp. Boy, I'm super sad about this poor Exxon. From his push for US Oil majors to rebuild Venezuela's petroleum industry, saying he was displeased with the company's response to his initiative. Quote, I'd probably be inclined to keep Exxon out. That's what he told reporters late Sunday aboard the presidential plane on the way back to D.C. from Florida. I didn't like their response. They're playing too cute. Trump appeared to be referring to a White House meeting on Friday with almost 20 oil industry executives where Exxon Chief Executive Officer Darren woods expressed some of the strongest reservations, describing Venezuela as uninvestable in its current state. The president's latest comments. I mean, remember, Trump's like, I know it's really hard, and the oils like peanut butter. That's all. The infrastructure is bad, but I'll pay you taxpayer dollars. I'll give you taxpayer dollars if you just do it.
The oil's like peanut butter. Maybe it should just take extra aspirin. Keep going.
Yeah, but the windmills that kill the birds. The president's latest comments also highlight the challenge of persuading the US Oil industry to commit to the ambitious, reconstruction of Venezuela's once mighty energy sector, which he announced within hours of the capture of former President Nicolas Maduro. When asked Sunday which backstops or guarantees he had told oil companies he was willing to provide, Trump said, guarantees that they're going to be safe. That there's not going to be a problem and there won't be. Trump didn't specify in what way he might seek to exclude Exxon. The company didn't immediately respond to a request for comment outside US Office hours. Probably because they're like, we don't even know what he's talking about.
That would be.
That would be the case. You want me to respond to what a bunch of fucking nonsense? Yeah. Okay.
Hard pass. Appreciate it, though. All right, this last one in the sections from the Times. For decades, the Environmental Protection Agency has calculated the health benefits of reducing air pollution using the cost estimates of avoided asthma attacks and premature deaths to justify clean air rules. Seems pretty smart. Apparently not anymore. Under Trump, the EPA plans to stop tallying gains from the health benefits caused by curbing two of the most widespread deadly air pollution pollutants, fine particulate matter and ozone, when regulating industry. That's according to internal agency emails and documents reviewed by The Times. It is a seismic shift that runs counter to the EPA's mission statement, which says the agency's core responsibility is to protect human health and the environment. Environmental law experts have said this now the change could make it easier to repeal limits on those pollutants from coal burning power plants, oil refineries, steel mills and other industrial facilities across the country. The emails and documents all show this that have been reported by the New York Times. That would most likely lower costs for companies while resulting in dirtier air. Who does that affect?
Way to point out the obvious there, New York.
I know. Shit. Thanks. Under the Biden administration, the EPA actually tightened the amount of PM2.5 that could be. And those are particles that could be admitted by industrial facilities. Now it estimates that the rule would Prevent up to 4,500 premature deaths and 290,000 lost work days in 2032 alone. Now, for every dollar spent on reducing PM2.5, the agency said that there could be as much as $77 in health benefits. That's a huge return. But the Trump administration contends that these estimates are doubtful. Why? Because they were put out by scientists.
Because the numbers are Arabic, that's why.
Yeah, that's why. And said that the EPA would no longer take health effects into account in the cost benefit analysis necessary for clean air regulations. This is according to the documents. Instead, the agency would estimate only the cost of business. You have all of these old fucking people and listen, this isn't an age thing. You've got a man that is getting close to 80 years old who's making decisions about how air and the health benefits should not be taken into consideration with this stuff. He's going to be long gone. He is going to be long gone. That's why this is a long game that Biden was talking about. By 2032, it was going to say 4,500 premature deaths. These old white guys don't give a shit about the planet they are leaving to their children.
No. And apparently all the people at the EPA don't care about all the Trump butt particulate matter that they inhale when they've got their heads up his ass. I don't understand. Like, somebody actually said they. They showed that they got their little notification. They're not going to take saved lives into account anymore. Just the costs. Business costs.
Uh-huh. For the epa.
And somebody's like, man, even Aaron Brockovich in a writer's room would be like, sorry, this is just too on the nose. We can't. I can't. We can't work with this.
Unbelievable but believable.
Totally, totally believable. Unbelievable and also totally believable. All right everybody, we've got your good news, but we have to take a quick break. Stick around. We'll be right back after these messages.
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That's awesome. All right, this is from Barbara M M. Pronoun she and her. A few weeks ago, you read a submission that talked about a protest art form called arpieta. It's a form of fabric collage traditional in Latin America. While the consumer versions are generally scenes of happy domestic life. In Chile, apieras were made to protest Pinocchio's human rights abuses. Now, I'm including here a picture of an apiera I was given during a trip to Nicaragua in the 80s. In this image, the women are lighting fires to protest the desperacitos, their disappeared loved ones. The government water tanks have been sent in to chase them away. Note the surveillance helicopter for podpet tags. I offer you our princess Blueberry. Pronouns he, him lovingly named by several different members of f family all at once. You are welcome to guess at least part of his heritage, which is Maine coon and a lot of spare parts. Thank you for being a truly independent news gang in these difficult times. And as they say in the day, el pueblo unido jama sera vensido. A people united will never be defeated.
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So the fuck Trump text is is visible when you view it in an angle. Can you see it there on the bottom right?
I can. That's awesome.
That is amazing.
I love stuff like that where it's one thing one way and you can't see it the other way. That's very cool.
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Kevin is outstanding, by the way. congratulations, Mitch. I love this. I love the Leguminati. I love that our podcast has launched so many campaigns. this is just fantastic news. Let us know how it's going. Okay, keep us posted. Next up from Betsy. She her, I'm a lifelong Minnesotan, and boy, do we need a break. Part of that is making ice's mission as hard as possible in Minnesota. Funny little thing I found online at the CIA's website. They've uploaded the Simple Sabotage Field Manual from 1944. Dana, remember we went over this on.
The beans a while back? Yes, we did.
Now, I wouldn't want anyone to get any ideas, but here's an interesting historical excerpt. For historical reasons only. General devices for lowering morale. A. Give lengthy and incomprehensible explanations when questioned. C, act stupid. D, be as irritable and quarrelsome as possible without getting yourself into trouble. E. Misunderstand all sorts of regulations, such as rationing, transportation and traffic regulations. And Jay, boycott all movies, entertainments, concerts, newspapers, which are in any way connected with the Quisling authorities. No one, under any circumstances, should read this manual from the last time we kicked the Nazis to the curb for anything other than historical interest. Just historical interest. And remember, we all do better when we all do better. My photo is sweet blank. Gorgeous. Who is my third blank? All boys named after drag queens.
Oh, my gosh, it's fabulous. I'm assuming that is a standard poodle, and a beautiful one at that.
I would think so, yes. Poodle. Standard poodle. Third standard poodle. Aw. after Drag queens. So wonderful. We'll have a link in the show Notes, by the way, for the Simple Sabotage field Manual from 1944. We've put it up there before. I think it's absolutely wonderful. But thank you so much for that. Thank you all so much for your good news. Thank you all so much for supporting us and for supporting independent media. if you want to, all of our shows are free, right? But if you want to become a patron and help support, you can do it at patreon.com mullershe wrote M U E L L E R Muller. She wrote. There's also a link on the Daily Beans Pod website for you to do that. And, you know, I just want to let you know it's very important to me. I'm actually working on writing a piece like a pledge about not using artificial intelligence. Like, we m have humans who write our copy. We have humans that do all of our editing. We don't use AI for our editing. We have humans who even make our little YouTube thumbnails. Normally, AI can generate those for you, but we, we have human beings do it. And because of our patrons, because of the people who support us, we can afford to pay extremely high wages and continue to employ human beings to do this work instead of a. And, you know, we offer also benefits, 401k healthcare, all that stuff. So I just want to thank you all for your support. It's also what allowed me to donate my. The equivalent of my veterans benefits, which you all matched by like $30,000. Dana. All told, 70,000, $75,000 went out to immigrant communities and the LGBTQ community. So it's all because of you guys. So thank you so much for your support. And, you know, if you can't swing it, just listening to this show, sharing it with others, as well. So I just wanted to take a moment to thank everybody for that.
I love that. I think we should end on it, to be honest with you.
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