Status Coup reporter JT Cestkowski breaks down a recent NBC News report on ICE operations in the Minneapolis area and explains how it ignores—and distorts—huge parts of the real story and pushes the Trump administration's propaganda.

‘They’re trying to get rich off it’: US contractors vie to rebuild Gaza, with ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ team in the lead www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Sunday Morning. Today...Remembering and sending love to all the families of Sandy Hook on this 13th anniversary But then to wake to the horrible news of Bondi Beach and Brown University Guns..Hate.. When Will it Ever Stop...Antisemitism .. My heartfelt condolences to all these families 😪🙏

From the Heritage Foundation “President Trump has made it clear…if the Indiana Senate fails to pass the map, all federal funding will be stripped from the state. Roads will not be paved. Guard bases will close. Major projects will stop. These are the stakes and every NO vote will be to blame”

“This is ideological and financial war on Americans through technology and abuse of federal power. It is a conspiracy by the government and the oligarch class to enrich themselves and their cronies—to the tune of trillions of dollars.”

"Every disturbing news report about a wrongful deportation or military-style raid of an apartment building should come as a reminder that the US government is using its prosecutorial discretion—it is *choosing*—to normalize casual cruelty and overt racism."

“It was a week. We have long since crossed the rubicon of constitutional & democratic crisis, & still last week seemed remarkable & uniquely chilling. We must not become numb to it. The actions of both SCOTUS & [DT] seemed to take the swift unraveling of democracy on an even more aggressive spiral.”

On 10/17, two survivors of an explosive boat strike were retrieved from the wreckage & brought aboard the USS Iwo Jima, one in apparent medical distress. Standard protocol calls for video & photo documentation of detainee onboarding. Instead, personnel were told to delete the footage.

A leaked memo by Bondi directs DOJ/FBI to compile a list of groups they label domestic terrorist orgs based on political views related to immigration, gender & US policy. Ken Klippenstein discusses how it expands on DT’s NSPM-7 directive, which ordered investigation & disruption of specific groups.

Christine Le Jeune was testifying against an Open AI/Oracle data center campus coming to her city of Port Washington. The officers claimed this was disorderly conduct - but I just see a woman exercising her rights as an American. Officer’s dragged her out.

The Justice Department ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.

"The two-day meeting of ACIP—the committee that once guided evidence-based U.S. vaccine policy before being upended under RFK Jr.—just wrapped. And… it was something else. Disgraceful. Unprepared. Dysfunctional. Incompetent. Terrifying. Embarrassing. Opaque. Our children deserve better. Period."

Understand the connection between DT's pardon of Hernández & his relationship w/Silicon Valley investors' (aka cultists') dream of operating Network States--billionaire-funded cities around the globe--in preparation for an alleged collapse of nation-states in the 21st century.

Duckworth: "It is a war crime. It's illegal. No matter how you put it, it's all illegal. I've been shot down behind enemy lines. Under the laws of war, you are supposed to help render aid to that individual ... you're not allowed to go back in and kill them."

The Trump regime released its 2025 National Security Strategy—which appears to have been co-authored by the PayPal Mafia and Aleksandr Dugin. It is a plan to break America away from the world, break the will of the people, and benefit Vladimir Putin.

“Alejandro was murdered," says international human rights attorney Dan Kovalik, who filed the legal petition on behalf of the family. "This is not how a civilized nation should act, just murdering people on the high seas without proof, without trial."

without birthright citizenship in the united states, you don't have a democracy and you don't have rule of law. revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.

Vance began constructing a new right establishment in 2019, joining w/mega-donors to form a secretive org. to “win nat’l elections w/55% of the vote. One way to think of Rockbridge is as…a kind of political venture capital firm…to leverage our investors’ capital” to “pursue political alpha.”

#AKavanaughStop means if you’re not white in America, you can be assaulted & kidnapped at any time by anonymous, masked men with military fatigues & military grade weapons. If you’re white, you’re assumed to belong in America. #ThisIsWhiteNationalism #RebrandedKKK #SeeYouInNuremberg

George Will: “Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement.” Read the statements made at the Cabinet meeting. The govt’s turned into an interminable episode of South Park. We are being terrorized by the most pathetic people on the planet.

The news came as a shock to Hondurans & to US authorities, who’d built a major case & won a conviction against Hernández. They’d accused him of taking bribes during his campaign from the notorious former leader of the Sinaloa cartel in Mexico, El Chapo, & of running his country like a narco state.

“Providing care for immigrants is one of scripture’s clearest commands. It is one of the great tragedies of our time that millions of Christians are cheering and applauding the administration’s brutal crackdown on immigrants.”

Madonna says, “I bet [Trump’s] never watched his best friend die of AIDS, held their hand, and watched the blood drain from their face as they took their last breath at the age of 23.” She’s right. He even turned his back on his closest friend, Roy Cohn, when he heard he had AIDS.

"I refuse to acknowledge that these people have died in vain," the pop star wrote on Instagram.

For the first time in 37 years, the U.S. is not commemorating World AIDS Day.

Potter details how Medicare Adv represents one of the most lucrative corporate scams in modern healthcare. He explains that traditional Medicare was created bc private insurers refused to cover seniors, & how for-profit insurers later rebuilt a system of exclusion, denial, & profiteering under MA.

“A Dishonorable Strike Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder” By Harvard Law Professor Jack Goldsmith (a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute & former head of the Office of Legal Counsel) 1/

North Carolina’s mid-decade gerrymandering appears to have prevailed against pro-voter court challenges, and party allegiance has apparently prevailed in the Indiana Senate, which may gerrymander its congressional map after all.

“They want to be able to operate a system that doesn’t have any rules and that can be used to maximize brutality against people, in order to accomplish a mass deportation agenda.”

"..his intention to grant “a Full and Complete Pardon” to a former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, who was found guilty by an American jury last year of conspiring to import cocaine into the United States in a sweeping drug case." The real criminals bringing drugs get pardons #Pinks

Nick Fuentes: “Infiltrate and hide your power level.” Unfortunately, we have to take the Groyper movement seriously.

BREAKING: Judge Boasberg orders the gov’t to provide declarations from every individual involved in the decision to allow planes to proceed on to El Salvador despite his order to turn them around last summer. www.courtlistener.com/docket/69741...

Offering the survivors of a missile strike no quarter and then ordering a second strike to finish them off puts Hegseth in deep, deep water. He gave an illegal order. This is either murder or a war crime. It doesn't matter what your title is, Secretary of Defense, or Fox Talk Show Host. It's murder.

“If BBC journalists are not allowed to mention a sentence in a story about censorship, then the problem is far bigger than one line in my lecture. That is precisely the dynamic my first Reith lecture describes: institutions censoring themselves out of fear of those in power.”

Jordan Chariton reports on disturbing news that ICE has been targeting Native American Tribes to house immigrants they've kidnapped as part of Trump's mass deportation campaign.

NEW: A $1 MILLION DOLLAR SANCTIONS order against Felon Trump & parking lot lawyer, Alina Habba, has been upheld by a federal appeals court. I've got the details of that order, incl. the affirmation that Trump has a “pattern of misusing the courts” for bad faith litigation. youtu.be/TCK_WP0b6XA?...

www.reuters.com/investigates... 📰 A tally by Reuters reveals the scale: At least 470 people, organizations and institutions have been targeted for retribution since Trump took office – an average of more than one a day. Some were singled out for punishment; others swept up in broader purges.

The Missouri AG is now calling on ICE to prevent pro-democracy groups from successfully collecting enough signatures on a ballot initiative to prevent a midterm Republican gerrymander of Missouri’s Congressional districts.

I hope folks realize that between Trump, Kushner, Hegseth, Witkoff, Noem, RFK, Jr., Kash Patel, and Tulsi Gabbard, this country is almost entirely undefended.

ICE kidnapped another US citizen. Before filming, the goon smashed the car’s window and dragged the driver’s US citizen brother out of the car after he refused to exit. November 25, 2025 Phoenix, Arizona

She packed for Thanksgiving. She ended up deported. No person should be in fear while traveling this holiday season. 💔 Every family deserves to be together, always. #FamiliesBelongTogether

As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.

absolutely incredible -- CNN host introduces a segment about Trump's "new healthcare proposal," but less than two minutes later breaks into her script to announce "breaking news" that Trump's healthcare proposal is being postponed

This is…brilliant.

The grift that keeps on giving to rightwingers: the demonization of trans people. The evolution of professional trans-basher Riley Gaines is pretty interesting—just follow the $. But then there’s more. The actual threat to women in sports isn’t transgender athletes; it’s their male coaches.

Democrat demands release of 'shocking' Trump-Saudi call from 2019 after Khashoggi's death reut.rs/3JPqa8R