I’m on the ground in Minneapolis reporting for @statuscoupnews.bsky.social on the ongoing immigration raids. A group of agents are leaving the ICE facility now. Make sure to follow Status Coup for updates and a livestream at around 3 on YouTube

This is clearly only about oil. Trump keeps saying he’s taking back “our“ oil. Absolute insanity.

Hegseth is drunk

Unless you are Juan Orlando Hernández

BREAKING: A Wisconsin judge convicted of obstructing the arrest of an immigrant in a courthouse resigns as the GOP threatens impeachment.

A successful CIA hack of Venezuela's military payroll system, insider fights for spy agency resources, and messy opposition politics: A WIRED investigation revealed a secret Trump-era attempt to oust autocratic ruler Nicolás Maduro. www.wired.com/story/trump-...

Has anyone heard from Tulsi Gabbard this morning?

China is exporting a surveillance empire built on U.S. technology. An AP investigation found Tibetans in Nepal are trapped under constant watch.

That shady effort to delay the Olympic wage? Apparently Karen Bass was "instrumental in making that happen" 😮‍💨 LAT reporting she arranged a meeting between VICA president Stuart Waldman — and LA28 board member, it should be noted! — and MHD, who then introduced the motion to slow the wage increase

Important to remember that the TikTok deal, which delivered the app into the hands of pro-Trump billionaires, was only made possible by President Biden and the Democrats. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

“I focus on Drew as a particularly grotesque case study of the breed of professional hate-peddlers that America is all too aware and fond of. The deluge of misinformation that promulgated in the immediate wake of the attacks was fueled by American social media platforms” slate.com/news-and-pol...

#3: When the right-wing ecosystem was sainting Charlie Kirk after his death and other outlets were soft-peddling him in the face of that pressure, @tinadesireeberg.com and I wrote this piece about how that was happening. We included a thorough look at Kirk’s far-right extremism and bigotry.

1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.

Pool report from @joeygarrison.bsky.social — new plaques installed outside the Oval Office that mock past Democrat presidents. The one that names Barack Hussein Obama says he presided over the "highly ineffective 'Unaffordable' Care Act," among other critiques.

Immigration enforcement agents strike a man in a parking lot with a vehicle- he then gets up and runs before being tackled by other agents in Rialto California

“It’s not totally out of the realm of possibilities that this idea was planted or floated by whoever this confidential human source might be.”

Council for National Policy operation to shut down the nonprofit Southern Poverty Law Center unfolding in Congress right now in a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee. The Daily Signal (Heritage Fdn), Family Research Council, and Turning Point USA are all CNP. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrLw...

NEW: U.S. Military Willing to Attack “Designated Terrorist Organizations” Within America, General Says “That is one of the concerns with the administration asserting that the President essentially has a license to kill outside the law,” says expert. theintercept.com/2025/12/16/t...

Even starting to get the ‘same victims affected multiple times in their lives’ stories like with increased American mass shootings.

BREAKING: Two terrorists opened fire at a Hanukkah celebration in Bondi Beach, Sydney, killing at least 11 people and wounding 29 others. This video shows the moment 43-year-old Ahmad El Ahmad, an unarmed civilian, tackled one of the terrorists, seized his weapon, and neutralized him.

Journos, remember: "Reporters sometimes dislike the idea of litigating because they want their work — not themselves — to be the story... But access to information is a muscle that must be flexed... We must fight against each attempt to chip away at our legal rights." Amen to this from @rcfp.org!

We talk about press consolidation here. If you’re interested in orgs supporting a free and independent media, check out @freedom.press freedom.press/donate/

NEW: 9 ex-DOJ lawyers who resigned from antisemitism investigations into UCLA and other UC campuses say they were pressured to find UC guilty of violations in a rushed and politically motivated process. One called it a "fraudulent and sham investigation." www.latimes.com/california/s...

50501 SoCal is heading up a protest against LAPD brutality at ICE protests

LAPD's "Capt. Hollywood" - once accused of warning CBS about sex assault allegations against CEO Les Moonves - will not face criminal charges. Some detectives say LAPD brass undermined the investigation. Latest w/ @lacrimes.bsky.social & @liborjany.bsky.social www.latimes.com/california/s...

The Trump administration is now requiring new H-1B visa applicants to pay $100,000. School districts that depend on hiring foreign workers to fill teacher jobs, especially in special education and bilingual education, say they can’t afford the new fee. bit.ly/48CJ24k 📊 Sophie Sullivan

It's actually pretty brilliant. They can make $100M a year doing absolutely nothing, producing no value whatsoever. It's pure evil.

Son-in-Law Watch: ".. Kushner has been acting as one of America’s most powerful diplomats .. And the deals Kushner is negotiating .. overlap with his business interests, with little consequence since he is operating as a private citizen." @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

WE ARE LIVE NOW! bsky.app/profile/stat...

Absolute rubbish. The biggest DT threat continues to be right wing extremists. That’s what the DOJ data shows. The Trump administration deleting it changes nothing.

"Either you're going to resign, Trump’s going to fire you, or you will be impeached." Rep Delia Ramirez to Krist Noem during the House Homeland Security Committee meeting

Absolutely fantastic investigative reporting on Instacart's AI price gouging scheme: youtu.be/osxr7xSxsGo?...

🚨"You're gonna get sprayed!" ICE agent yells as he points pepper spray canister at our videojournalist JonFarinaPhoto for the crime of...journalism. "He's with us," ICE replied when Jon asked why another journalist was able to cover their activity but he wasn't. FULL VIDEO ⬇️

O'Hare-based Border Protection officer sexually abused, robbed women at gunpoint, indictment claims UPDATED @chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

The Trump administration must stop deploying the California National Guard in Los Angeles and return control of the troops to the state, a federal judge ordered Wednesday in an emphatic ruling. apnews.com/article/cali...

Wendy Carrillo, a candidate for CA State Senate, announced this week: “I want to be clear: I do not accept contributions from individuals affiliated with AIPAC or its donor network” More politicians are abandoning AIPAC, something you didn’t see 6 years ago mailchi.mp/wendycarrill...

On Tuesday December 2, the Los Angeles City Council shut down a proposal that would have restricted the LAPD’s use of tear gas and 40 millimeter foam rounds against protestors and people in Los Angeles. @shoton35mm.bsky.social shares more details on the falied proposal.

Just listened in on the press conference with #EugeneOR Police Chief Chris Skinner and he confirmed that a camera being inadvertently turned back on is what led to the contract termination.

lol what

I think this is probably a new era of grand jury practice where there is communal awareness of abusive policing. The GJ just doesn't believe the state. I'm not an expert on the history of grand juries, but my sense is that this is the first time we are seeing that phenomenon at scale.

pretending to want a kraterocracy is part of the tell that these guys are hugely insecure and not very bright. but ok, let’s pass out the knives.

Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

I see the destruction of veracity at @cbsnews.com has begun. Absolutely tragic.

Pretty baffled whenever these types of stories come out how little we hear from elected officials representing LA as they appear on panels at public events trying to convince us that the economic benefits of hosting megaevents outweighs the risk

"Haha! Wipe out!" Status Coup's @JonFarinaPhoto captured ICE agents laughing as they ran over a local Minneapolis resident with their car on December 9th, 2025.. ICE agents can also be seen pepper spraying residents and activists. #iceagents #iceraids #icenews #minneapolis #iceprotest #news

Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial." "Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."

An armed Israeli settler was seen blocking a Palestinian farmer from ploughing his own land in Hebron, occupied West Bank.

actual LOL on this comment on the reddit page for our pipe bomber scoop. old.reddit.com/r/news/comme...

ABC cuts the video quickly, which doesn’t give you a proper sense of just how reckless this shooting was. The cop shoots the kid in the back, and after that shouts “San Diego Police!” The AP version shows the actual shooting: youtu.be/1zbeKUFK828

New videos and photos shared with 404 Media show a Border Patrol agent wearing Meta Ray-Bans glasses with the recording light clearly on. This is despite a DHS ban on officers recording with personal devices...