ICYMI last Friday, Ayman Soliman is free and his asylum status was restored! He won! Watch the press conference, his first steps of freedom, and more here: www.ohioimmigrant.org/blog/2025/9/... #FreeAyman #OhioIsHome

All summer, I’ve been speaking to a Nigerian mom of two kids who won fear-based protection in an immigration court. Under a previous admin, she would have likely been released, but ICE refused to let her out and tried to deport her to Ghana -> @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Turning Point funded the Kirks’ wedding reception. If my nonprofit did that, my donors would be well with their rights to demand refunds + ding us on @charitynav.bsky.social. Not surprised they have a less than stellar rating. www.charitynavigator.org/ein/800835023

Unless you grew up in rural US, you may be missing important context about the backlash against “college + cities.” Some conservatives blame these for their strained/estranged relationships with their adult children, instead of looking at their own parenting and community pressures.

We (Ohio Immigrant Alliance) are out at Standing Rock Cultural Arts Center in Kent today, 11-3, for WTF?! Community Gathering. Bc we all need to regroup, recharge + be in community. Come see us! www.instagram.com/reel/DO3j2a0... #OhioIsHome

Another Ohioan freed from the fascist regime yesterday bc we still have some lawyers + some courts. Local govts can help by enacting more public defender programs for constituents in immigration proceedings. 👀 on my home, #ClvHts. #OhioIsHome www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/2...

As I told @newrepublic.com, "Once last week, twice today, ICE has picked me up and thrown me on the ground. Honestly, it doesn’t compare to what our neighbors who are trapped inside the Broadview processing facility are going through. They’re committing crimes against humanity there."

Ayman is free and this is important: "Attorneys also previously said authors of 2 studies cited by DHS were expected to testify at the trial and would denounce the agency’s interpretation." The gov't entire case was a house of cards. www.cleveland.com/metro/2025/0...

For more than 2 months we've been saying #FreeAyman. TODAY, AYMAN SOLIMAN IS FREE!!!! www.instagram.com/reel/DOypoSY...

Ohio Immigrant Alliance will be at Standing Rock Cultural Arts Center in Kent on SUN, 9/21 for WTF is Happening?! Community Gathering, a vibrant, family-friendly event bringing Wellness, Transformation & Freedom through art, music & community action. www.eventbrite.com/e/wtf-is-hap... #OhioIsHome

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

Horrifying. This man was robbed and shot in the leg. Then he was arrested by ICE when he reported the crime to the police. He's in jail and still hasn't been given medical care for the injury. Muscatine, IA. apnews.com/article/immi... #AbolishICE

“There is just a race for numbers with ICE,” said Lynn Tramonte, executive director of the Ohio Immigrant Alliance. “We’ve definitely seen that there’s a huge increase and they’re going for quantity over quality.” www.dispatch.com/story/news/2... @danaeking.bsky.social @dispatch.com

Thanks to all who donated to #FreeAyman, he's been able to hire top lawyers. Unfortunately, his legal fund is now 0 + asylum hearing is next week. Mahmoud Khalil's case shows why Ayman needs top lawyers. 🙏 keep donating + praying secure.givelively.org/donate/ohio-... www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

"Only about one-third of American Jews support Israel’s military operation in Gaza, according to a new survey by the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Rochester." www.ynetnews.com/article/bk9a...

An insightful conversation with @milleridriss.bsky.social, an expert on violent extremism, about the ways that gender-based bigotry fuels hate — and how national security officials need to do something about it. By @jazzmyth.bsky.social @19thnews.org 19thnews.org/2025/09/how-...

I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.

NEWS: A person is in custody after allegedly firing a gunshot at the home of Democratic state Sen. Meg Loughran Cappel, a state lawmaker in Illinois. There are no reported injuries.

•ABC: fires Kimmel for mocking Trump •CBS: fires Colbert for mocking Trump •ABC: fires Moran for slamming Stephen Miller •MSNBC: fires Matt Dowd for saying “hateful thoughts lead to hateful actions” •FOX: Champions Brian Kilmeade as he calls for Nazi state murder of America’s 600K homeless people

It'd be shame if everyone passed around this report that the DOJ, staunch defenders of free speech that they are, decided to try to hide from the taxpayers who funded the study. By which I mean this report, written not by a think tank but the Nat'l Inst. of Justice, which opens with this:

In honor of Jimmy Kimmel get suspended in part for saying "And by ‘statistical fact’, [Vance] means ‘complete bullshit’,” in response to Vance's false claim that most political violence is from the left, here's the DOJ report showing the opposite, that the DOJ conveniently just memory-holed:

Violence against women, children, and the elderly is higher in rural communities than urban centers. No one is sending the National Guard to protect them. 🤔 www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

This is the story of West African "Nicaraguans" who left home to take care of their loved ones + were menaced by human + animal predators at every step. Who said it was better to die and be buried in their homeland than become a laughingstock. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFwf... #OhioIsHome

This is the story of West African "Nicaraguans" who left home to take care of their loved ones + were menaced by human + animal predators at every step. Who said it was better to die and be buried in their homeland than become a laughingstock. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFwf... #OhioIsHome

Holding these victims of gun violence, femicide, and mysogynoir in the light. Rest In Power Eden Adugna, Feven Adugna, and Bemnet Deresse. It IS the guns, it IS the culture of mysogny, it IS the lack of mental health support. www.cincinnati.com/story/news/c...

New numbers show ICE is devouring US law enforcement: 1 in 5 US marshals, 1 in 5 FBI agents, half of all DEA agents, and over two-thirds of all ATF agents are now assigned to ICE enforcement. These are agencies with critical jobs they're now NOT doing. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-is-eat...

If you read one thing today, let it be this stunning piece of journalism from Laura Albast about the pro-Israel bias that exists across mainstream newsrooms that was edited over months with great care from my brilliant @prismreports.org colleague @sfatima.bsky.social prismreports.org/2025/09/09/j...

From @hannahallam.bsky.social @propublica.org

Why is Ayman Soliman in immigration jail? Bc the US govt won't admit it when they made a mistake. They'd rather send an innocent man to his death in Egypt. We can't let that happen. www.propublica.org/article/ayma... #FreeAyman #OhioIsHome

The FBI has this book... and they didn't arrest the person who signed that picture? Laws are for poor people.

CNN has a panel talking about Epstein and the host just mentioned (almost as an aside!) that one of the guys is a lawyer defending Ghislaine Maxwell. And rather than being a guest who's grilled about the case, he's treated like any other panelist who just happens to be minimizing the crimes.

Brett Kavanaugh “thinks his proof of citizenship is plastered all over his face. Kavanaugh is functionally saying that it’s unreasonable to ask him, a white guy, to prove his citizenship, but it’s totally reasonable to ask any Latino to prove theirs.”

Because what Trump has drawn here are the breasts of an underage girl. And I think everyone sees that—whether they’re willing to say it or not. I am. I fully understand the relationship Trump and Epstein had for 17 years, and fully understand what Trump is conveying to his co-conspirator here. 🔗:

The US Supreme Court just said “your body, my choice” to all Black and brown people in the USA — regardless of citizenship. www.bbc.com/news/article... #SCOTUS

Wow.

In Hyundai raid, company is not victim or "good guy" taking care of employees. They engaged in wage theft +, when workers threatened to report, said they'd call ICE. This is from JUNE. www.facebook.com/watch/?v=621... pasalavoznoticias.org/pago-pago-tr... 99% of these cases, only workers pay.

“I fooled myself. I had to. Everybody has to.” — An ex-Nazi. A chilling reminder that ordinary people often choose comfort over conscience. Complicity isn’t always active—it’s the everyday refusal to truly see evil.

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Women are 1/2 the global population but only 26% of news subjects & sources. Only 2 in 100 stories challenges stereotypes. In stories, women are more often quoted as eyewitnesses – not subject matter experts, despite their qualifications. www.unwomen.org/en/news-stor...

Thousands of Ohio students left without a school bus ride as private school transport expands by Julie Carr Smyth apnews.com/article/scho...

Listen to Mohammed talk about what it means to be silenced and oppressed by your own government while trying to live “normally” amid a genocidal war.

Let's get this straight. USG lies to keep Ayman in jail. Then says bc he is locked up, his asylum trial has to take place 2 months earlier than a regular case, giving lawyers to no time to prep. That's "conveniently" (for them) 2 weeks b4 federal court could free him. www.wlwt.com/article/tria...

Houleye Thiam explains "juurgal," placing paper money on the griot as she/he sings to valorize their performance. ("Pulaagam: A Celebration of Fulani Heritage" Ohio Immigrant Alliance, Columbus Arts Festival, June 2025) www.youtube.com/shorts/J7BQK... Read more: www.ohioimmigrant.org/blog/2025/04...

Houleye Thiam: "Why do Fulani people move to Ohio? There's no million $ answer to that question, but #OhioIsHome!" 👀🎥❤️https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1f5FfJ3q9mo #CbusArtsFest

Ayman Soliman never had “3 outstanding warrants in Iraq for murder + terrorism." Now USG admits allegation not "applicable to Ayman." That's gov't speak for "we messed up." The prosecution is a sham. Admit it, restore his status + release him. #FreeAyman www.ohioimmigrant.org/blog/2025/9/...

The ICE Attorney who made this egregious error is Cheryl Gutridge. When we make mistakes, we should correct them. By continuing to prosecute this sham of a case, Gutridge is willing to send a man who was already tortured to his death in Egypt. DHS needs to end this prosecution + #FreeAyman.