Pinned
Thwarted raid attempt in South Minneapolis. Agent asks woman if she’s a man. Full video to come on @statuscoupnews.bsky.social
Tina-Desiree Berg
@tinadesireeberg.com
International woman of mystery. MA Philosophy. Anteater. Chief Muckety Muckraker. Signal TDBerg.24 https://linktr.ee/district34
15.1K followers2.8K following4.2K posts
Pinned
Thwarted raid attempt in South Minneapolis. Agent asks woman if she’s a man. Full video to come on @statuscoupnews.bsky.social
Tina-Desiree Berg reposted
And this is an operation tied to 3rd or 4th tier GOP guys. There is so much right wing dark money flowing around, and this is probably just one of several smaller schemes. We don't fully know the plots.
$250k to totally flub a question, paying kids $200 a head to yell at a candidate!?! WTF insane that the GOP is constantly accusing protesters of being paid and then paid out a quarter of a million to just one protester's org www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Tina-Desiree Berg reposted
Tina-Desiree Berg reposted
"This is spiraling for CBS. The audience is already fleeing," a former CBS News staffer told me. "This type of political stuff from an on-air reporter is only gonna speed up the audience's escape."
Hearing from my sources that this "over the top" tweet from Jan Crawford is being discussed internally at CBS. At the same time, as those same sources noted, "Jan is protected by Bari" and has been a very vocal acolyte of Weiss. "She just can't help herself," one network insider said.
Tina-Desiree Berg reposted
Tina-Desiree Berg reposted
Award-winning American photojournalist Heidi Levine describes being violently attacked by a mob of Israeli settlers while covering the olive harvest in Turmus Ayya near Ramallah this morning. By Oren Ziv @mekomit.bsky.social
Tina-Desiree Berg reposted
We reviewed FBI documents that showed a sweeping pay-to-play investigation involving Sen. Susan Collins was in motion. Then Trump shut down the unit in charge. Had we found a road map to corruption in Congress? We decided to dig deeper.
Imagine sending this message and accusing someone else of "incel behaviour". No self awareness at all lol.
The White House response to questions about why the photos were altered and if they obscured a map of East Potomac. (In a follow-up message, Cheung said the questions were “typical incel behavior.”)
Tina-Desiree Berg reposted
I kid I chatted with recently used the term "BoomerMaxxing". I think this is a perfect example of what he is talking about....
“I’m old. I’ve paid my home off,” said Ray Warner, a 72-year-old Akron resident. “Why would I pay property tax?” Across the country, homeowners are asking the same question and revolting against property taxes at a scale not seen in a half century.
Tina-Desiree Berg reposted
🔴 BREAKING - Israeli settlers beat French mayor, attack European diplomatic cars in West Bank
Tina-Desiree Berg reposted
Calling a federal judge histrionic is quite the litigation strategy, let’s see how that works out for them!
TONIGHT: DOJ moves for Judge Reyes to disqualify in the East Potomac Golf Course case. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Only Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward is on the motion. Reyes ordered a response to be filed by the plaintiffs on Sunday.
Tina-Desiree Berg reposted
Tina-Desiree Berg reposted
I saw the original thread and remember the framing quite differently… am glad @tinadesireeberg.com shared her actual day-of perspective. I remember Karen Bass not meeting the moment — and I can see the blatant attempt to re-write history.
Some of this footage is mine. Her response that day was actually pretty weak and she refused to comment on ongoing treatment of the press by her LAPD chief. She was there a very small amount of time and was politely asking for them to leave. She demanded nothing and left before they did.
It’s pretty wild how much money they are throwing at defeating Raman. My guess is that they perceive her as being a threat to their high pay rates and oversized budgets. (I objectively think taking half of the city’s budget is oversized.)
FWIW, LAPD is already largest chunk of LA's budget -- and they demand more money each year. Their pay rates are wildly high by comparison to departments in more expensive areas like, say, NYPD. LAPD officer is a six figure job you can get with a GED and fewer hours of training than a barber.
Tina-Desiree Berg reposted
Tina-Desiree Berg reposted
Tina-Desiree Berg reposted
The L.A. Mayor's race raises new questions about the candidates' relationship with controversial power player Rick Jacobs. Earlier, I obtained emails between Mayor Bass' admin and Jacobs - after public allegations of harassment against him. "Hi Rick [...] The Mayor would like to meet this week."
Nithya Raman’s campaign quietly deleted at least three photos from its Flickr page that prominently featured Rick Jacobs, one of the more controversial figures in L.A. politics. Read more: buff.ly/CcPvMSy
Tina-Desiree Berg reposted
Replying to @controller.lacity.gov
Never before in this City’s history has a private organization been financially backstopped by the City of Los Angeles taxpayers to carry out an endeavor of this size and scale. Our data request for financial information from LA28 AGREED to by the City and LA28 is due today.
Tina-Desiree Berg reposted
Supreme Court justices who served prior to 1966 stayed for a median of 15.3 years. But for the justices who served after 1966, that number jumped to 25.7 years (not including the current justices). bit.ly/3VmxQ7X
Tina-Desiree Berg reposted
Despite assurances from the Trump administration, ProPublica found the government has turned its vast security and surveillance apparatus against the Tohono O’odham Nation. “The drones flying over us all day,” one tribal member said, “it’s a lot.”
Tina-Desiree Berg reposted
too early to tell how this is going electorally speaking but generally I find the US right's loudness wrt anti-Asian racism bizarre strategically speaking, especially since they adopted opposition to DEI as a major front and had many other plays wrt Hindu nationalism and the like
Loudoun County is swinging heavily left, including the most South Asian areas (D+20 shifts!) Looks like Republicans anti-Indian racism backfired heavily
Tina-Desiree Berg reposted
One key difference between Bass & Raman that isn't getting the play it deserves was present in the debate last night: Data transparency & its importance to local government. During my last stint at the city, I saw the differences between the two firsthand. It is also why I'm voting for Raman.
Bass and Raman tussle in final debate of L.A. mayoral runoff election
Some of this footage is mine. Her response that day was actually pretty weak and she refused to comment on ongoing treatment of the press by her LAPD chief. She was there a very small amount of time and was politely asking for them to leave. She demanded nothing and left before they did.
Tina-Desiree Berg reposted
Tina-Desiree Berg reposted
Tina-Desiree Berg reposted
“The ultraconservative group Rockbridge, led by Peter Thiel and JD Vance, has landed in Brazil *** Its mission includes influencing election campaigns and political mobilization.” 9/26/26 (Rockbridge now claims that its Brazil satellite never got off the ground.) … 1/ share.google/k31p82YiBVOZ...
Tina-Desiree Berg reposted
Ex-boss filed a $12 theft charge against an ex-employee because she got a restraining order in response to his creepy behavior. Charge was never prosecuted, but it gave ICE an excuse to arrest and detain her. Congratulations to the 58 Democrats who voted for the Laken Riley Act. You own this.
This is why Billionaires buy these media companies. They want to control the narrative and don’t care what it costs them
Meta took down the No Kings instagram; TikTok banned the Musk documentary account for supposedly violating its political posting policies. A reminder that platforms are owned by the wealthiest of people, control the means of media distribution, & put their thumbs on the democracy scale as they wish
Tina-Desiree Berg reposted
Trump always gets exhausted and loopy in the home stretch. This was Nov. 2, 2024, just three days before that election. It was so shocking I don't think any major TV news network covered it.
The part of the election runup where every day brings videos of Trump getting up in front of some battleground audience in his dumb hat and going "frankly you're terrible people, really disgusting. A bunch of stupid people and their awful kids. [long break for laughter and applause] Ugly as shit,"
Tina-Desiree Berg reposted
Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...
Tina-Desiree Berg reposted
Status Coup's Tina-Desiree Berg spoke to protesters who blocked Trump’s border wall expansion at the U.S-Mexico border in Arizona for 2+ months. In response, they were brutally attacked. www.statuscoupsubstack.com/p/were-on-th...
Tina-Desiree Berg reposted
Tina-Desiree Berg reposted
Tina-Desiree Berg reposted
Masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villagers on Friday, setting olive groves on fire and slinging rocks. Caught in the attack was Post photographer Heidi Levine. “They just kept kicking me and kicking me, like probably 50 times,” Levine said. https://wapo.st/4yt6dHY
Tina-Desiree Berg reposted
On October 13, protesters rushed to a Walmart parking lot where ICE agents were reportedly staged following a nearby detention. To disrupt the operation, demonstrators smeared peanut butter across the agents' vehicle windows—and Status Coup’s @tinadesireeberg.com captured the entire incident live.
Tina-Desiree Berg reposted
Status Coup reporter @tinadesireeberg.com Desiree-Berg reported live from a Los Angeles rally where U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Ro Khanna headlined support for California’s Proposition 40.
Tina-Desiree Berg reposted
An investigation found that Andre Marinho had “incorporated a Brazilian branch of [the Thiel-backed] Rockbridge” & that a “businessman whom Marinho introduced to Rockbridge…became involved in Flavio Bolsonaro’s campaign…” The the businessman admits Rockbridge ties “but denies channelling…funds.” 1/
Tina-Desiree Berg reposted
This is incorrect and suggests the Post is unaware that "World War Eleven" is a trolling reference to a slip of the tongue Omar once made, before immediately correcting herself, in a viral clip (which cut out her correcting herself) that the president *frequently refers to* when he insults her
"The investigation, nicknamed 'World War Eleven' within the administration because of the uproar it could cause, has accelerated in recent weeks, the senior official said." wapo.st/4hTG5zP
Tina-Desiree Berg reposted
Tina-Desiree Berg reposted
If there’s evidence of fraud or other financial crimes, let’s see it. But trying to denaturalize and deport a sitting member of Congress over mistakes a parent allegedly made on immigration forms when she was a child is immoral and reprehensible. We can’t stand for it.