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Hello and welcome to the Daily Beans for Tuesday, August 12th, 2025.

Today, Donald Trump has federalized the Metropolitan Police Department and deployed the National Guard in the District of Columbia.

Governor Gavin Newsom's lawsuit against Trump's deployment of the military in Los Angeles as a violation of the Posse Comitatis Act is underway in California.

Senator White House has written to the Bureau of Prisons asking for documents

regarding Gailane Maxwell's transfer to a minimum security facility.

Judge Engelmeyer has denied Donald Trump's motion to unseal the Gillane Maxwell grand jury transcripts.

And the Trump administration is going to put FBI agents on night patrol in Washington, D.C.

I'm Alison Gill.

And I'm Dana Goldberg.

So the dictatorship is amping up.

It sure is.

So many of these headlines make me want to scream into the streets, into a void, into my pillow.

It's such bullshit.

And a lot of it is the play that they've always been trying to play with Gain Maxwell, everything that's going on with the National Guard in D.C.

A lot of us saw this coming.

Some of it's a distraction

and some of it is just his way to continue his fascist behavior. Yeah, yeah, pretty frightening.

And I feel like this was just written. This is all, this is all like a Stephen Miller situation

with what's going on. Oh, yeah. Because Trump was up there at his conference. I'm going to talk about it in a second,

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