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Msw media. Hello and welcome to the Daily beans for Monday, November 24, 2025. Today, Ghislaine Maxwell refuses to appear before Congress despite being totally agreeable to sit down with Todd Blanche earlier this year. Marjorie Taylor Greene is resigning from Congress a year before her term expires. The Coast Guard has reclassified nooses and swastikas as hate symbols. After a lot of backlash, the FBI spied on a signal group chat of immigrant activists. RFK Jr. Instructed the CDC to change vaccine and autism language. The Supreme Court temporarily halts tossing out the racially gerrymandered Texas ma. A judge blocks the IRS from sharing immigration data with dhs. Democrats seek police action after Trump threatens to hang them. Democrats have swept school board elections nationwide. Mamdani owns Trump during their first Friday Oval Office meeting. And Doug Jones is gonna run for governor against Tommy Tuberville in Alabama. And finally, Marco Rubio lied to Congress about Trump's new Ukraine peace plan being authored by Russia. Your host, Alison Gill. Hey everybody, Happy Monday. Dana is traveling. She'll be back in your ears tomorrow. Just an announcement. We're launching a new video podcast called the beans talk December 1st, which I believe is this coming Sunday Monday. And you can head to the MSW Media YouTube channel and subscribe for free. We've spent the past month fine tuning it behind the scenes, so if you want to get it early and ad free, you can. You can become a sustaining member of the daily beans@patreon.com thedailybeans if you sign up at the $5 level, you'll also get premium early feeds for this podcast and premium ad free feeds for the Unjustified podcast with Andy McCabe. There are also new episodes of Unjustified out right now and a new episode of the Breakdown over on the Midas Touch Network. There'll be a link in the show notes for you and a quick breakdown of the breakdown. Go watch it. Like I said, link in the show notes. But I basically go over every single case that's about to fall apart for the Trump regime and the Department of Justice. I mean, we go through Marmar Martinez, Ian Santos Ruiz, Dana Briggs that was just dismissed by the Department of Justice itself. Sarah Ellis's diatribe of all the lies that DHS and Customs Border Protection told under oath. That is pretty eye opening. The Abrego case, the Comey case, the National Guard deployment cases, the Alien Enemies act case. They're all about to fall apart for Donald Trump. And I didn't realize how bad it was for this administration until I put them all back to back like that. At that end, there was news in all of these cases this week, so check it out if you get a moment. Also, this is Thanksgiving week, so we won't be going dark here on the beans. You'll still get the beans on Thursday and Friday, along with an episode of Unjustified this Sunday. But for patrons who are helping us put together the Beans Talk video episodes, we're going to go dark Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and then we launch to the public on Sunday. And we do that because our videographers and everybody, they're all taking the day off. So just want to thank you all for supporting us and giving us all of your feedback on that show. Also thanks to the Coronado Democratic Club for having me as a speaker this past Sunday. Just an incredible group of humans doing incredible things for democracy. What a wonderful group. Thank you so much for having me out there. All right, we have an inordinate amount of news to get to, so let's hit the hot notes. Hot notes. All right, everybody. First up, Trump is still trying to pedal the peace plan Russia gave him via Deripaska and Manafort and Kilimnik back in 2016. The Times reports Ukrainian and American officials sat down for talks in Switzerland Sunday as part of Trump's push to get Kiev to accept a peace plan to end the war with Russia. Mr. Trump has set a deadline for Thursday for Ukraine to agree to the 28 point plan that was drafted without input from Kyiv or anybody in Europe. The proposal contains many conditions that Ukraine has long rejected as non starters, including surrendering territory, slashing the size of its army and giving up some types of weaponry. Secretary of State Rubio and Steve Witkoff, Trump's special envoy, were meeting on Sunday with Ukraine's delegation to the US Mission in Geneva. That's according to US Official Dan Driscoll, the Army secretary who was also participating in the talks, saying that the discussions would include, quote, more formal engagements with the United States leaders and Ukrainians to continue ironing out this peace agreement. But as the officials were meeting, Mr. Trump lashed out at both Ukraine and Europe. Quote, ukraine leadership has expressed zero gratitude for our efforts, zero gratitude to hand over giant chunks of the Donbas region to Russia. That is just Fuck you, sir. Mr. Trump wrote that on social media. And Europe continues to buy oil from Russia. Okay. There also seems to be a continued confusion about the plan, including among lawmakers. A group of US senators claimed Saturday Mr. Rubio told them the document was not the administration's plan but a wish list for the Russians. The State Department said that's blatantly false. And Rubio also rejected the characterization, writing on social media that the peace proposal was authored by the United States. The plan says that Crimea, Luhansk and Donetsk would be considered Russian territory. Donetsk and Luhansk are collectively called the Donbas region and I hate that. It always seems like I'm bringing up the Mueller report, but my name is Mueller, she wrote on social media, and I'm going to do it again. This is from the Mueller report. Manafort also twice met Kilimnik in the United States during the campaign period and conveyed campaign information. The second meeting took place Aug. 2, 2016, in New York City. Kilimnik requested the meeting to deliver in person a message from former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, who was then living in Russia. The message was about a peace plan for Ukraine Manafort has since acknowledged was a backdoor means to for Russia to control eastern Ukraine. Several months later, after the presidential election, Kilimnik wrote an email to Manafort expressing the view, which Manafort later said he shared, that the plan's Success would require U.S. support to succeed. All that's required to start the process is a very minor wink or slight push from Donald Trump. The email also stated that if Manafort were designated as the US Representative and stalled the process, Yanukovych would ensure his reception in Russia at the very top level. First, Manafort and Kilimnik discussed a plan to resolve ongoing political problems in Ukraine by creating an autonomous republic in the eastern region of Donbass and having Yanukovych, the Ukrainian president ousted in 2014, elected to head that republic. The plan, Manafort later acknowledged, constituted a backdoor for Russia to control eastern Ukraine, and Manafort initially said that if he had not cut off the discussion, Kilimnik would have asked manafort in the Aug. 2 meeting to convince Trump to come out in favor of this peace plan. And Yanukovych would have expected Manafort to use his connections in Europe and Ukraine to support it. You can go to the online PDF version of the Mueller report. You can do a word search for Donbass, you can do a word search for peace plan. All of this will come up. This is not new. The Russians wrote it in 2016 and they wrote it in 2025. Next up from the Guardian, the FBI spied on a private Signal group chat of immigrants rights activists who were organizing court watch efforts in New York City this spring. Law enforcement records shared that with the Guardian. The FBI, the documents show, gained access to conversations in a court watch Signal group chat that helps coordinate volunteer activists who monitor public proceedings at three New York federal immigration courts. US Government has repeatedly been accused of violating immigrants due process rights in those courts. A, quote, joint situational information report from the FBI and the New York Police Department dated August 28, 2025, quoted from a chat on Signal and also characterized the court watchers as anarchist, violent, extremist actors. The two page report was distributed to other law enforcement agencies across the United States. So keep your head on a swivel when you're in ICE group chats. There could be a mole in there. Make sure those messages are set to disappear in a certain amount of time now. In a related story from the Post, a federal judge Friday blocked the IRS from sharing data with immigration enforcement officials, ruling that the tax agency violated federal law and the rights of tens of thousands of individuals in its attempt to participate in President Trump's mass deportation campaign. Treasury and Homeland Security departments in April formalized an agreement to share confidential information about taxpayers who the Trump administration suspected of being in the country illegally. Under the terms of the deal signed by Treasury Secretary Scott Besant and Homeland Security Secretary Puppy killer Kristi Noemi, immigration officials would provide the IRS with names, addresses and other identifying information for individuals they wish to detain and deport. The IRS would cross check those details against confidential databases to confirm the individual's identity and location. In August, THS requested 1.2 million names from the IRS, which returned hits matching about 47,000 individuals. But on Friday, Judge Colleen Caller Caudaly of the U.S. district Court for the District of Columbia held that the arrangement violates privacy rights that underpin the US Tax code. She said the individuals, plus the taxpayer rights groups that brought the complaint faced severe harm if the data sharing agreement was allowed to continue. She added that the lost revenue from immigrants who avoid filing taxes out of fear of deportation harms the American public at large. By depriving the government of funds, it harms all of us. So we'll keep an eye on that story. And it appears Mamdani turned Trump into a socialist, what Fox News billed as the socialism showdown. Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, Friday, Friday, Friday. We'll sell you the whole seat, but you'll only need the edge, right? That's this. They're gonna, he's gonna take him down. It turned into Trump falling all over himself to be around the mayor elect now. The MAGA backlash was swift, too, because they were all planning, all the MAGA people were planning to make Democrats wear Mamdani like an Albatross in the upcoming primaries. They were going to mamdanifi the Democrats, but that whole plan now has been shot to shit. And Momdani got everything he wanted. Trump all he got more cracks in his base. NBC reports. Laura Loomer questioned why Mamdani received a warmer welcome at the White House than Volodymyr Zelensky. Quote, if socialists are doing a good job, then I guess nobody needs to vote them out during the midterms, she said, if you're a Republican, why not just stay home in 2026 and 2028? Deal. Yeah, just stay home. Since Mom Donnie's policies are amazing. I'm confused. Really, Laura. No need to oppose the left, I guess. I guess socialism is comfortable now. No need to vote for the Republicans in 2026 is the message I'm getting from that. Am I missing something? Nope, you're totally right. Stay home, Republicans. And Elise Stefanik, Republican from New York, a Trump ally who's running for governor in that state, said she disagreed with Trump's assessment of the mayor elect, who was heavily featured in her campaign. Trump said he did not believe Mamdani was a jihadist, which Stefanik says, like, every day. Quote, we all want New York City to succeed, she said, but we'll have to agree to disagree on this one. If he walks like a jihadist, if it talks like a jihadist, if he campaigns like a jihadist, if he supports jihadists, he's a jihadist. That's what. How many times can you get the word into one sentence, lady? Mamdani even got Trump to stand. Fdr, the creator of the New Deal and a president known for his Democratic socialist agenda. And when a reporter asked Mamdani, they asked if he stood by his comments that Trump is a fascist, Mamdani said, yes. And then Trump interjected, that's okay. You could say yes, it's okay. It's easier than explaining it. I don't mind. And after that happened, reporters were like, do you still think he's a fascist? He's like, yeah. So I had no idea it was going to go down that way. That was not on my bingo card. And an MTG resigning as well. That was a wild weekend. And following a week of hints and speculations, it's official. Former Senator Doug Jones plans to enter the Alabama governor's race against Tommy d'. Urville. The news was first reported on the Voice of Alabama Politics, an online news and analysis show hosted by Bill Britt, editor of the Alabama Political Reporter. Quote, I got a call from those very, very close to former US Senator Doug Jones. And we can now report with certainty Doug Jones will file his paperwork with the Secretary of State this week to run for governor of Alabama. Go Doug, go. I know a lot of people wanted him to be the Attorney General under the Biden administration, so we'll see. Also, Politico reports that from Texas to Pennsylvania to Ohio, Democrat backed candidates ran successful campaigns in some of the nation's largest school systems and in political battlegrounds. They emphasized test scores and bus safety over debates about which bathroom transgender students use and banning books from school libraries. And the result was a set of election results at the local level that accentuated the punishment meted out against Republicans by swing voters earlier this month. Those results were accentuated by Democrats strong showing across the nation as Americans issue a stinging repudiation of the party in power. In Pennsylvania, Democrats flipped at least two dozen school board seats per an ongoing tally ongoing from progressive recruitment group Pipeline Fund. The under the radar trend was enabled by voters increasing weariness of the culture wars that helped MAGA movement and helped them engineer school board takeovers and generate hyperlocal interests in politics as the COVID 19 pandemic raged. In addition to Texas, Republicans lost seat in the suburbs of Columbus, Ohio and the national battleground of State of Pennsylvania, the result of well funded campaigns orchestrated by local leaders. School board races are typically nonpartisan, but candidates receive endorsements and financial backing from partisan groups. So well done everybody. I've yet to see in a Republican that ran opposed that won something in that election. Next up from the Post Several Democratic lawmakers sought police action Friday over social media posts by President Donald Trump in which he said they should be arrested and hanged for encouraging the US Military to disobey illegal orders. Not that. Not encouraging people to disobey. Don't break the law. Oh my gosh. At least two lawmakers, Crow and D' Aluzio from Colorado and Pennsylvania, respectively, have requested that U.S. capitol Police investigate intimidating, threatening and concerning posts made by Trump on his Truth social platform. That's according to a copy of a letter sent from Crow's office to police Thursday and obtained by the Post. Axios first reported that request. Duluzio spokeswoman Zoe Bluffstone confirmed Friday that his office also reported the posts to Capitol Police using the same language as in the letter from Crow's office. And Krissy Houlihan from Pennsylvania also said Friday that her office has filed a complaint about a threat from the president with Capitol Police. Now. Trump's social media posts came Thursday in response to A video released Tuesday of six Congress members with military or intelligence experience who cautioned that threats to our Constitution aren't just coming from abroad, but right here at home. And they urged members of the U.S. military and intelligence communities to disobey illegal orders. If you ask me, this was a brilliant and brave gambit by these six Democrats. They knew they would be faced with threats so that they could expose the violence on the right and Trump's proclivity for giving unlawful orders. Who gets mad if my friend came to me and said, don't do anything illegal? Okay, anyway, I'm just very grateful for these six members of Congress and the intelligence apparatus. Same thing. Like I said with MTG resigning a year early, she cited threats that she was receiving as a reason to step down. She's been receiving threats since she flipped on Trump. And Jasmine Crockett pointed out on cnn, honestly, I was like, you've got to be kidding. You're on the other side of the President for one week and you can't take the heat. Imagine what it's like to be in my shoes. Well said. And again, I can't figure out what made Marjorie leave her seat a year early. But whatever it is, it must be worth more than the $5 million or so she could have grifted out of staying there another year. She didn't have to run again. She could stay her full term. In the last five years, she's made about $25 million. That's about $5 million a year. So whatever it is has to be worth her tossing $5 million out the window. We'll see. We'll see. We'll figure it out. We'll find out. Maybe she just goes away. Maybe she just goes down there and lives her life and that's what she wants to do. That would be a heck of a 180 from the person that I know her to be. And today, in no shit Sherlock news, this is from the Times. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Said in an interview that he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its long standing position that vaccines do not cause autism, a move that underscores his determination to challenge scientific consensus and bend the Health Department to his will. In an interview Thursday explaining why the CDC website now says the claim that vaccines don't cause autism is not evidence based, Kennedy acknowledged that the large scale epidemiological studies of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine had found no link to autism and and that studies of the mercury based preservative thimerosal had also shown no link again. He gets money from a law firm that sues pharmaceutical companies over vaccines. He is making it easier for them to do that and kick him back millions of dollars. This has been what I've been saying since day one. And I know nobody's surprised by this, but if you think about the goal, then all of the things that they do make sense. Next up from Politico, Ghislaine Maxwell, convicted sex offender and co conspirator of Jeffrey Epstein, will refuse to answer questions of the House Oversight Committee's probe into Epstein and the Justice Department's handling of the case. That's what Jim Comer said. Good old Jamie Comer. Maxwell's legal team said she would invoke her Fifth Amendment rights if she sat with congressional investigators. Have you committed more crimes you haven't been convicted for? Fifth Amendment? Did you? You answered all of Todd Blanche's questions a couple days before he sent you to that really cushy Club Fed you're in now. After waiving your sex offender status, Comer also suggested it would be unlikely that his staff or lawmakers would sit down with her anyway. I don't know. I guess it makes sense. But how can you plead the Fifth for crimes you've already been convicted of and whose appeals have been exhausted? You know what? I cannot figure out what goes on in their minds. Just so you know. As a follow up on a story we did last week, the Coast Guard has reclassified the noose and the swastika as hate symbols after intense backlash from folks like us. So well done. We helped. Bannon writes for msnbc. As the dust settles on this story, the Post's latest reporting added. While the Coast Guard has now come out strongly against the incendiary wording of the new defunct policy, there are still significant questions as to whom approved reclassifying both a noose and a swastika as just potentially divisive in the first place. I would like to know. And I bet you would, too. All right, we've got some good trouble up first in the good news, but we're gonna take a quick break right now. We'll be right back after these messages. We'll be right back. Hey, everybody. 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