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Hello and welcome to the Daily Beans for Monday, February 3, 2025.

Today, the Trump administration is dismantling federal law enforcement through massive purges at the FBI and Department of Justice.

Elon Musk's OPM continues to seize government systems, including

the payment system at the Department of the Treasury. The pardoned insurrectionists' recidivism rate

grows as a rioter is wanted for soliciting a minor. Trump kicks off a trade war with our closest

allies while giving a break to China. And we have our new Democratic National Committee

leadership. I'm Alison Gill. And I'm Dana Goldberg.

Hey, Dana. How are you holding up? I'm doing okay. You know, I had my first gal of the year in New York

last night for the human rights campaign. And honestly, Alison, it's what we've been preaching to all

of our listeners, the community in the room and the joy and the people that were ready to fight and not just

lay down and let this happen. It was really empowering. I think we covered the story on the beans

that the human rights campaign in Lambda Legal is suing the federal government for their

unconstitutional

ban on our trans military. And last night, I was able to raise $50,000 toward that lawsuit so that,

you know, because these lawsuits cost upwards of $1.5, $2 million, each of them. And a lot of these

lawyers are working pro bono. So it felt nice to do something. And last night,

to be in community and to have joy and to have laughter, even in the face of everything we're

dealing with, it was really, really nice. So I suggest, and we always covered this at the end,

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