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The Daily Beans

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🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Wednesday, January 21st, 2026 Today, a Trump appointed judge strikes “US Attorney” from Lindsey Halligan’s title; DOJ prosecutors subpoena more Minnesota officials in an ongoing criminal investigation for impeding ICE as a pretext to invoke the Insurrection Act; Judge Kacsmaryk compares drag to blackface and allows college campus drag ban in Texas; Congress releases its massive funding bill ahead of a looming shutdown; the stock market takes a dive after Trump announced EU tariffs; the DOJ concedes DOGE misused Social Security data; Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney rips Trump during his Davos speech; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.

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0:00.0	M SW Media
0:03.0	Hello and
0:07.0	News
0:09.0	We're swearing
0:11.0	Daily Beans
0:15.0	Daily Beans
0:17.0	Daily Beans
0:19.0	Daily Beans, Daily Beans for Wednesday, January 21st, 2026. Today, a Trump-appointed judge has stricken U.S.
0:31.2	attorney from Lindsay Halligan's title. Department of Justice prosecutors have subpoenaed
0:35.7	more Minnesota officials in an ongoing criminal
0:37.9	investigation for impeding ICE as probably a pretext to invoke the Insurrection Act.
0:43.1	Judge Casmeric has compared drag to blackface and allows college campus drag bans in Texas.
0:50.6	Congress has released its massive funding bill ahead of a looming shutdown.
0:54.5	The stock market took a dive today after Trump announced EU tariffs over the weekend.
0:58.6	The Department of Justice concedes that Doge misused social security data.
1:04.5	And Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney ripped Trump in the United States during his Davos speech.
1:09.3	I'm Alison Gill.
1:10.4	And I'm Dana Goldberg.
1:14.8	Hello, my friend. How are you? I'm good. And I'm just going to keep doing this until this no longer
1:20.7	replies, but we're recording this on January 20th. And it is Alison Gill's birthday. I know we keep saying
1:26.5	this. I know we're in a time machine,
1:28.4	but I'm still celebrating you. What did you do to celebrate this auspicious occasion?
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