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ICYMI: We’ve criss-crossed Michigan for several days covering rallies for Abdul El-Sayed, speaking with everyone from elderly voters fed up with Trump—and establishment Democrats—to college students so worried about high costs they are hesitant to start a family one day. WATCH BELOW:

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• LIVE Abdul El-Sayed Souls to the Polls from Detroit, MI

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Status Coup’s Jordan Chariton will be LIVE ON THE GROUND throughout the day—monitoring polling places as the Trump regime has openly vowed to dispatch ICE and DOJ polling “monitors.”

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And tonight, we’ll be LIVE ON THE GROUND starting at 8pm eastern from Abdul El-Sayed’s Election Night Watch Party in Detroit, Michigan as the polls close. There, Jordan will interview voters, campaign volunteers, and more throughout the night as results roll in.

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Status Coup will also be LIVE from Flint, where El-Sayed will be campaigning with Senator Elissa Slotkin at 1pm est. We’ll also be LIVE at 5pm est at a UAW rally will be supporting El-Sayed.

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ICYMI: Status Coup’s Jordan Chariton was ON THE GROUND in Michigan yesterday and spoke to a lifelong Detroit native, who is enthusiastically support El-Sayed’s campaign after Haley Stevens announced her endorsement for Republican Mike Rogers.

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Status Coup’s Jordan Chariton is LIVE NOW ON THE GROUND from Detroit, Michigan for a busy day of rallies for Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed. Chariton will be covering two back-to-back rallies at 1pm est and 3pm est (and possibly a third depending on logistics).

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It is fairly noteworthy that El-Sayed is rallying with Clyburn—progressives and Bernie Sanders supporters will remember Clyburn’s endorsement for Joe Biden in South Carolina during the 2020 Democratic Primary was crucial to the then-sinking Biden campaign’s victory in South Carolina. Over the years, Clyburn has also routinely come in to close congressional and senate races and campaigned for the establishment candidates over progressive challengers (he campaigned for corporate Democrat Shontel Brown over progressive Nina Turner before their 2022 congressional contest).

Then at 3pm est, Jordan will be LIVE from El-Sayed’s “Knock out the Vote” rally from Detroit.

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Status Coup reporter Jon Farina is LIVE in NYC at the Brooklyn Bridge as protesters block it to bring attention to the ICE shooting spree happening across the country. We'll be covering this protest live, filming what the NYPD does to this ICE protest, and much more.

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• New sexual assault allegations against President Trump tied to Jeffrey Epstein

• At least 5 women accusing Trump of sexual assault “in Epstein’s company or direct

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• Efforts by the Trump administration and Attorney General Todd Blanche to obstruct justice to bury the truth.

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Spirit Airlines workers lost their jobs. Now the company wants to sell their private data to AI companies — and the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA) is fighting back.

AFA President Sara Nelson joins Status Coup’s JT Cestkowski to discuss the union’s fight over sensitive employee information, including emails about medical issues and family emergencies. She challenges claims that stripping workers’ names from the data will protect them and explains why workers everywhere have a stake in this fight.

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The union is demanding safeguards in bankruptcy court, preparing protections other unions can negotiate, and pushing airlines to come to the table NOW instead of waiting for the next contract. Nelson also discusses organizing toward May Day 2028, the possibility of a general strike, and how workers can use their collective power to force corporations and lawmakers to act.

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Status Coup is one of the ONLY NATIONAL NEWS OUTLETS who has reported ON THE GROUND from Lochiel, Arizona spotlighting the border wall fight between brave protesters— who encamped for 71 days as part of a tree protest to block Trump’s border wall expansion—and the Trump administration. This ON-THE-GROUND reporting is extremely important…and EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE to fund between a reporter, cameraperson, and travel costs. Please support the LEADING INDEPENDENT OUTLET ON THE GROUND—WITH THE PEOPLE—for as low as $5 bucks a month. You can also DONATE to fund this reporting:

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Did you know there was a standoff for 71 days between peaceful land defenders and the Trump regime?

Doubt you did as mainstream corporate media ignored it.

That’s why we sent our reporter Tina-Desiree Berg down to the U.S.-Mexico border in Lochiel, Arizona to speak with some of the brave activists who have been fighting the expansion of President Trump’s fascist border wall…

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Including by protesting inside a nearly 200-year-old tree cottonwood tree, belovedly called “Grandmother Tree,” to stop Border Patrol from cutting it down and clearing it out in order to continue building the wall. Draped across it was a banner that read “Borders Kill.”

See Photos of the Grandmother tree protesters who protested within it—and protected it—for 71 days.

“They started coming in here with the Backhoe (construction machine) there and taking the trees out that people were trying to protect,” one of the protesters told Status Coup’s Desiree-Berg right in front of Trump’s border wall.

“A brave person put their life in the way and protected one of the last trees that was going to be taken down. And then the next day, some brave individuals put a tree sit (protest) up in that tree.”

That tree protest began on July 29th—on private property for which the land defenders had the owner’s permission to form a protest encampment—and remarkably continued all the way until October 5th…

When Trump’s Border Patrol stormed the camp, illegally trespassing on private property with no warrant, and attacked the peaceful protesters.

“They started arresting people, beating people up, being very violent with everyone…they just rounded everyone up and tore down the tree” a protester told Status Coup.

See photos below of the 200-year-old Grandmother Tree after Border Patrol raided the encampment, assaulted protesters, and cut it down.

During the 71-day protest, some protesters locked themselves to border wall construction equipment—thus blocking and delaying the expansion of Trump’s fascist wall.

“Our comrade managed to lock to this machinery and now construction in this area is halted; once again, camp stands strong—we will not be deterred,” a protester narrated while showing video of a protester chained to a construction machine.

In response, Border Patrol recklessly began driving the construction truck—with the protester still attached to it.

“There is somebody who is locked down to this vehicle and they are moving it. This is incredibly dangerous,” a protester narrated as Border Patrol drove the machine with the protester still attached to it.

Despite Trump’s Border Patrol shutting down the peaceful protest encampment, the protesters are still fighting—and moving to another location near the Border Wall.

“The word is continuing to spread, I think more camps are going to be started all along southern Arizona so that people are able to join together and fight together and stop the Border Wall all over where it’s being constructed…they’re trying to create a certain future, a certain world, one marked by control of borders, surveillance—that is the future we’re looking at. If we don’t fight right now, we’re gonna to be essentially living in a mass surveilled prison. As much as they say this is to keep illegal immigrants out, I don’t think it’s that insane of an idea that this is also to keep us in.”

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Approximately 500 ICE prisoners, including of Russian and Chinese descent, have launched a hunger strike inside an ICE prison in Georgia—with dozens thrown into solitary confinement and some facing punishment for standing up to horrific conditions they allege they have endured…

In many cases for several years.

The detainees inside the Folkston ICE Processing Center launched the campaign in the lead-up to an Oct. 6 inspection planned for the facility. What started as dozens of strikers quickly grew.

“As of yesterday (Oct. 8), the approximate figure that we have of people who self-report participating in the hunger strike is over 500,” said Samantha Hamilton, a movement lawyer and organizer with the Campaign to Shut Down the Folkston ICE Processing Center. Her organization remains in contact with detainees and their families, offering one of the most detailed public accountings of the hunger strike’s current scope.

Status Coup News reached out to both ICE and GEO Group. A GEO Group spokesperson directed all questions to ICE. ICE did not respond.

The strikers hoped to draw attention to the deplorable conditions in which they live. These include moldy food, worm-infested water, deteriorating physical health, limited time outside of cells, and more, despite many having no criminal record. The prison is a for-profit venture operated by the company GEO Group, the same corporation that runs the Delaney Hall ICE Processing Center where multiple detainees have died.

For organizing their fellow detainees to push for better conditions within the prison, some prisoners face disciplinary charges.

“We know that people have been charged with at least two different offenses in the eyes of GEO Group,” said Hamilton. “One is organizing a group demonstration, and two is ... conduct that disrupts.”

GEO Group has also, according to Hamilton, put “at least 30” detainees “into solitary confinement for two months.” The use of solitary confinement as a means of breaking detainee solidarity within Folkston began with a smaller group of prisoners who had recorded and released a video about conditions inside. The company then put more detainees in solitary to break the strike.

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At Delaney Hall, in New Jersey, GEO Group and the Department of Homeland Security ultimately broke a hunger strike by transferring detainees to other prison camps across the country. The separation left prisoners unable to care for one another and made outside support networks harder to access.

Severed connections with the outside world have come in a different form at Folkston. Activists who once communicated with detainees via a messaging app called Getting Out found their accounts inaccessible two days after the hunger strike began.

“Some members of our campaign who have been some of the main communicators with folks on the inside, we learned just last night, had their accounts terminated,” said Hamilton.

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Status Coup reporter Jon Farina is LIVE outside the New York City ICE prison, where protesters have gathered after ANOTHER ICE shooting, this time, shooting victim Oscar Belgal. We'll cover the ICE protest live, talk to residents about what happened, and cover anything ICE or the NYPD do against the protesters.

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Ilhan Omar’s home was RAIDED by Homeland Security investigators just 22 days before the midterm election — after years of attacks from Trump and his allies. Status Coup’s JT Cestkowski breaks down the investigation, the alarming timing, and the campaign against a congresswoman who has confronted ICE directly.

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Status Coup reporters Jordan Chariton and Jon Farina are LIVE in New York City as residents gather en masse after ICE shot a man in the neck while he was in his car with his 5-year-old child. We'll cover the ICE protest live, talk to residents about the importance of this protest, as well as any violence ICE or NYPD commit during this event.

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Another violent ICE-involved shooting took place on Oct. 8 — and a familiar face from past dubious ICE violence was on the scene with a long gun and no identifying markers of being an ICE agent.

The person in question is ICE supervisor Brenden Cuni, who, aside from being an avid fan of shooting guns for fun, has a checkered, documented past as a member of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, including being on the scene during 2025’s Operation Metro Surge last winter when a woman, whom protesters claimed was pregnant at the time, was seen being dragged on an ice shelf by ICE agents.

Many activists have linked Cuni to both incidents, with stills from video captured from both scenes. ICE has not confirmed that they are Cuni.

Court records, including testimony from a Homeland Security Investigations agent, identify Cuni as leading the Dec. 15, 2025, operation where the woman was dragged. Using videos and images of the incident shared on social media, Status Coup identified the person carrying a gun as Cuni. Video shows him briefly on top of the woman before standing to brandish pepper spray at onlookers. Those gathered to protest repeatedly yell “She’s pregnant!” Another agent kneels on the woman who is face-down on the ICE.

Photos also show Cuni at the scene of the Oct. 8 shooting in New York, wearing a reflective vest and clutching an AR-style rifle. It is the only unholstered weapon visible at the scene, though officials and publicly available evidence do not specify who fired the shots that wounded 28-year-old Oscar Belgal.

New York Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch said during a press conference Thursday night after the shooting that two plainclothes federal agents, one with a weapon drawn, could be seen on surveillance video approaching Belgal’s car. The agents moved out of the camera’s view before at least one agent fired seven shots.

Status Coup’s Jon Farina and Michelle Dao quickly rushed to Manhattan’s Marble Hill neighborhood after reports of an ICE-involved shooting began to permeate another protest in New York City. Once there, it was discovered that Belgal was shot in the neck inside his car after ICE agents approached his car in various states of dress. On Friday, Belgal’s lawyer said at a press conference that the bullet is still in his client’s neck, and he’s currently being detained at an ICE detention center in Elizabeth, NJ — the same location where Martin Soto was held until he was released earlier this week.

Additionally, a 5-year-old child in the backseat of the car was reportedly shot by ICE agents; the child was in the car because school had recently let out for the day. The child, who is believed to be Belgal’s son, was unharmed; Belgal was shot in the neck and taken to the hospital.

It is unclear who fired shots into Belgal’s vehicle. As of Friday, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that Belgal cannot be removed from the U.S. and cannot be transferred to any ICE detention facility outside of southern or eastern New York or New Jersey without the court’s approval.

NONE of those states of dress identified the people approaching the car as ICE agents. According to New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, an ICE agent approached the driver’s side of the car in plain clothes and with a weapon drawn. Later, witnesses said they heard multiple shots ringing out on streets where adults and children were outside.

“They wore construction vests and masks that concealed their faces. There was no reasonable way to identify them as ICE agents,” NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani said during a late Thursday night press conference. “School had just gotten out. The street was crowded with families and children.”

According to 2020 demographic data from the City of New York, 71.5 percent of Marble Hill’s residents identify as Hispanic or Latino.

As for Cuni, his involvement in ICE operations is well-documented:

• In Minnesota in 2025, Cuni was an ICE supervisor during “Operation Metro Surge,” where, during this ICE occupation of an American city, a woman was seen dragged along the icy streets. The video showed Cuni on the scene while other ICE agents were handcuffing the woman, and she was being pinned down and unable to get up.

• Additionally, in December 2025, Cuni allegedly wrongfully detained a U.S. citizen “because he looked Somali,” and later cooked up a false report after not being able to find anything on the person after “five searches.” The man was later identified as Angel Almonte, a Dominican immigrant. “Cuni attempted to reconcile these falsehoods by subsequently collecting the information, adding it to those systems and, after issuing the warrant, searching the databases again to ‘find’ him,” Long Island U.S. District Court Judge Gary Brown wrote in a 28-page ruling on Monday, Oct. 5.

• A petition filed in 2026 alleges that Cuni stopped a 21-year-old man in the Bronx, causing him to “fall face-first onto the pavement, fell on top of him, handcuffed him before repeatedly using a Taser while he was already on the ground, and later referred to him as ‘maldito Mexicano,’ meaning ‘fucking Mexican.’”

• In August 2026, a judge ruled that an ICE-related arrest involving Cuni was done unlawfully, due to issues with Cuni’s provided statements. In this incident, Fernando Fabian Chaglla was detained, and Cuni, as the supervisor, provided an account that was “largely” contradicted by a neighbor’s doorbell camera footage, ruling the arrest unlawful.

Cuni also has a fixation on guns — his pubic Instagram account, with the handle shooter.914, shows various weapons, photos of watches, liquor, flasks, and energy drinks. According to reports, Cuni is a resident of New Rochelle, NY. He was also previously a high school prep baseball player at a private Catholic university.

For their part, DHS and its chief, Markwayne Mullin, said ICE operations will not stop in NYC, despite calls to stop their occupation of NYC from city and state officials, including Governor Kathy Hochul. “New Yorkers are outraged tonight. Immigrant communities are terrified. And we are demanding answers,’ Hochul said in a statement on Thursday.

Mullin blamed Hochul, Mamdani, and others for not helping with ICE agents, while calling Belgal “the worst of the worst.”

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This ON-THE-GROUND GUERRILLA JOURNALISM is extremely important and EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE to produce. It is even harder to fund as a truly INDEPENDENT outlet with NO CORPORATE FUNDING. As Trump’s ICE has now increased their quotas for arrests by 1,000 a day, we expect even more ICE terror nationwide.

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We always thought Trump’s ultimate end game for his ICE terror machine was his former home of New York City—which has wholly rejected his fascism and hate. And last night, the calm before the storm might have ended.

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For four-and-a-half hours, our produce Michelle Dao and video journalist Jon Farina covered chaos in the streets of New York City as ICE—and NYPD—clashed with protesters after an ICE agent shot seven rounds into the car of 28-year-old Oscar Belgal—striking him in the neck while he was in his car…

With his 5-year-old son sat terrorized in the back seat.

***Fortunately both are alive***

“That was ICE, they run through protesters,” our Farina reported as he captured on camera an ICE agent ramming his vehicle through protesters. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE

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As our dynamic duo of Dao and Farina interviewed protesters in the streets—and gave updates to the audience watching at home—Farina warned that ICE was setting up to speed away from the hospital…

And NYPD cleared a path in the street for ICE agents to flee the hospital where Belgal had been in for hours after being shot in the neck.

Next thing we knew, several ICE agents sped through the streets—nearly hitting several protesters—and reportedly carrying Belgal out of the hospital (after shooting him in the neck hours earlier)

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We expect protests to continue today through the weekend—and based on reports that Trump’s ICE is now increasing its quota for arrests by 1,000 a day (a goal of 3,000 daily), we expect this ICE shooting to ramp up ICE terrorism throughout the Big Apple weeks before the midterm elections.

To be completely honest, Status Coup’s nationwide coverage of ICE terrorism has been unprecedented. Over a year-and-a-half, as an INDEPENDENT outlet, we reported ON-THE-GROUND in:

• Los Angeles (2 weeks of Trump’s ICE/national guard invading LA)

• NYC

• New Jersey (Delaney Hall protests for 3 weeks)

• Alligator Alcatraz

• D.C.

• Chicago (we were ON THE GROUND for 2 months)

• Charlotte

• Minneapolis (we were ON THE GROUND for 2 months)

• Maine

To be even more honest, as a small INDEPENDENT OUTLET, this ON-THE-GROUND reporting has depleted much of our funding and we have recently been struggling to earn enough to continue to cover our payroll for staff, equipment, and travel costs.

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Status Coup reporters Jordan Chariton and Jon Farina are LIVE in Kenilworth, New Jersey, as residents voice their opposition to two proposed massive AI data centers currently being considered for construction in their town. A $1.8 billion mega data center owned by CoreWeave was already approved in Kenilworth in 2025 — with ZERO input or approval from the small 8,600-resident community in Northern New Jersey.

The livestream is scheduled to begin at 5:30 p.m. ET.

We’ve covered a previous town hall where Kenilworth residents were shut down from voicing their opinions, and friends of the city council were given special treatment.

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