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Lynn Tramonte @lynntramonte.bsky.social · 1d

Small towns are not a monolith when it comes to the politics of immigration. And ICE raids make the issues personal to us. Check out what's happening in Mount Vernon. #OhioIsHome www.ohioimmigrant.org/blog/2025/10...

After Panchos Tacos Raid in Mount Vernon, Are We Really Divided on Immigration? — Ohio Immigrant Alliance

Pancho’s Tacos in Mount Vernon, population 17,000, is a beloved Mexican restaurant that is temporarily closed due to an immigration raid. The community is rallying behind the restaurant. ABC 6 intervi...

www.ohioimmigrant.org

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1d

That’s right! Thanks, Fox News!
www.foxnews.com/politics/squ...

Squad 2.0: Meet America's next wave of radical Democrats shaping the party's future

Progressive Democrats, including Zohran Mamdani and Omar Fateh, have emerged as the new generation of candidates responding to President Donald Trump's second term.

www.foxnews.com

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Lynn Tramonte @lynntramonte.bsky.social · 1d

Ohioan: “Trump loves chaos + more chaos he creates, more fear he creates. A populace that's fearful can't think straight + can't reason rationally about what's happening, + I worry about America.”
abc6onyourside.com/news/local/m... #OhioIsHome

Mount Vernon rallies behind Mexican restaurant after Homeland Security raid

A beloved local restaurant in Knox County remains closed this week following a Homeland Security Investigations raid that led to the detention of four employees

abc6onyourside.com

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Lynn Tramonte @lynntramonte.bsky.social · 2d

Art helps us process “place,” especially when govts build borders overnight & force us to live btw. Indigenous ppl understand this. Learn about Ohio's indigenous communities from Guatemala + Mauritania, & Federico Cuatlacuatl’s exhibit at The Sculpture Center. www.ohioimmigrant.org/blog/2025/10...

Examples of Indigenous art in Ohio and how to understand place, displacement, and future. — Ohio Immigrant Alliance

Federico Cuatlacuatl’s “Xoxal: Baño de Fuego” is on exhibit at Cleveland's The Sculpture Center until November 8. Art helps us process the idea of “place,” especially when governments build borders...

www.ohioimmigrant.org

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Lynn Tramonte @lynntramonte.bsky.social · 2d

Art helps us process “place,” especially when govts build borders overnight & force us to live btw. Indigenous ppl understand this. Learn about Ohio's indigenous communities from Guatemala + Mauritania, & Federico Cuatlacuatl’s exhibit at The Sculpture Center. www.ohioimmigrant.org/blog/2025/10...

Examples of Indigenous art in Ohio and how to understand place, displacement, and future. — Ohio Immigrant Alliance

Federico Cuatlacuatl’s “Xoxal: Baño de Fuego” is on exhibit at Cleveland's The Sculpture Center until November 8. Art helps us process the idea of “place,” especially when governments build borders...

www.ohioimmigrant.org

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Lynn Tramonte @lynntramonte.bsky.social · 3d

Go to our TikTok for several Habi Gawlo videos to see what we mean. She's a legend. You don't want to miss a chance to hear her perform live. Here's one: www.tiktok.com/@ohioimmigra...

✨ A powerful moment from Pulaagam — poet & comedian Souleye Ball joined Habi Gawlo on stage to perform Hayo Bell in Columbus, Ohio. 🎶 #fulani #culture #ohio

TikTok video by ohioimmigrant

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Lynn Tramonte @lynntramonte.bsky.social · 3d

Special guests at 11/15 OIA Family Reunion: Habi Gawlo, Ayman Soliman & Geronimo Ramirez.

Ohio is home to tremendous humans who lead with ❤️. Meet them, enjoy free Senegalese food, be in community & support our organization at Chez Rama in Columbus! www.ohioimmigrant.org/events-list/...

A Black woman wearing a detailed head scarf smiles at the camera. The words say Habi Gawlo, griot in white, against a magenta background.

A smiling Egyptian man in glasses is standing. The words say Ayman Soliman, Imam and Leader, in white, against a magenta background.

A smiling Ixil man with a moustache and beard. The words say Geronimo Ramirez, Comunidad Sol in white, against a magenta background.

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Lynn Tramonte @lynntramonte.bsky.social · 4d

We're having our first-ever Ohio Immigrant Alliance Family Reunion on November 15 at Chez Rama in Columbus! It's a chance to celebrate each other and all that we've survived this past year. I hope you'll join us. Details and RSVP here. www.ohioimmigrant.org/events-list/... #OhioIsHome

Ohio Immigrant Alliance Family Reunion and Fundraiser — Ohio Immigrant Alliance

If you believe Ohio is home for everyone, you are part of the Ohio Immigrant Alliance family. Come to our first-ever Family Reunion! Celebrate our community and gather with old and new friends. Enjoy ...

www.ohioimmigrant.org

Lynn Tramonte @lynntramonte.bsky.social · 5d

On Nov. 15, this is where we'll be: Ohio Immigrant Alliance #familyreunion & fundraiser at Chez Rama in Columbus.

Join us! Celebrate our community.

We couldn't have gotten through this year without each other.
Free food, griot Habi Gawlo & more. #OhioIsHome www.facebook.com/events/14509...

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5d

And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.

by Raymond Carver

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 6d

My career is listening to people who flee places that get increasingly unsafe. A few months of "wait & see" can make a world of difference for safety & prospects. I've lived under authoritarianism myself.

Leticia James getting indicted, Mark Bray trying to flee & being stopped.

This is not okay.

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Lynn Tramonte @lynntramonte.bsky.social · 6d

Day 3 to tell Ohio Guard NO militarized streets. 84th Adjutant General Brigadier General Matthew S. Woodruff: invading our cities isn't what you signed up for. Stay true to values + be proud of your service. 614-336-4499 / [email protected]. www.ohioimmigrant.org/blog/2025/10...

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 6d

"On Wednesday, Mr. Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, rode the full route of the M57, a crosstown bus that traverses Midtown Manhattan and is one of the city’s slowest, to remind New Yorkers that he wanted to speed up their commutes."

Mamdani Rides Slow Bus to ‘Fast and Free’ Buses Event

www.nytimes.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 6d

"training" is the consistent liberal canard. nope people, this is THEIR JOB. they are doing what they are hired to do.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6d

yeah, trump has made very clear that he doesn’t think black people deserve to be in jobs of influence! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

www.nytimes.com

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 6d

Anyone else remember that old SNL sketch in which Jon Lovitz is playing Michael Dukakis and Dana Carvey is playing George H.W. Bush and they're debating and in mid-debate Dukakis turns to the camera and says, "I can't believe I'm losing to this guy"?

Yeah, *that*

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Lynn Tramonte @lynntramonte.bsky.social · 7d

As Oprah would say -- FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER....

Ohio Immigrant Alliance is making our 1st two anthologies available, in digital format, for FREE! Download them here.

bit.ly/FreeBookOIA #OhioIsHome

Get free digital copies of the Ohio Migration Anthology here, or purchase paperbacks. — Ohio Immigrant Alliance

The Ohio Migration Anthology is a publication of the Ohio Immigrant Alliance that features artists of all types with a connection to Ohio and to migration of some kind. We've published two volumes to ...

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Lynn Tramonte @lynntramonte.bsky.social · 7d

Day 2, call/email DeWine to say we don't want military in Ohio cities. We want our leaders to build communities + bring ppl together.

614-466-3555 + governor.ohio.gov/contact

#OhioIsHome #NoICEGuard

Did you miss Day 1? Make 2 calls + send 2 emails (see www.ohioimmigrant.org/blog/2025/10...)

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 7d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Lynn Tramonte @lynntramonte.bsky.social · 8d

In Ohio we're launching 3 days of 📞 ✉︎ bc we DON'T WANT National Guard in our streets! We remember Kent State. We have Guard members in our families. We need anti-poverty measures, not militarization.

Take 2 simple actions for 3 days: www.ohioimmigrant.org/blog/2025/10... 🙏 ❤️💪 #OhioIsHome

Just Say No! To the National Guard in Ohio Communities — Ohio Immigrant Alliance

Rep. Max Miller has called for the deployment of the National Guard to Cleveland. Vice President J.D. Vance has criticized Cincinnati, and spread lies about Springfield. Ohioans are tired of politicia...

www.ohioimmigrant.org

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Lynn Tramonte @lynntramonte.bsky.social · 8d

In Ohio we're launching 3 days of 📞 ✉︎ bc we DON'T WANT National Guard in our streets! We remember Kent State. We have Guard members in our families. We need anti-poverty measures, not militarization.

Take 2 simple actions for 3 days: www.ohioimmigrant.org/blog/2025/10... 🙏 ❤️💪 #OhioIsHome

Just Say No! To the National Guard in Ohio Communities — Ohio Immigrant Alliance

Rep. Max Miller has called for the deployment of the National Guard to Cleveland. Vice President J.D. Vance has criticized Cincinnati, and spread lies about Springfield. Ohioans are tired of politicia...

www.ohioimmigrant.org

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Lynn Tramonte @lynntramonte.bsky.social · 8d

CBS News is now “the thinking person’s Fox.” 🤮

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8d

crazy that one of the most storied institutions in american journalism is going to be run by two people with basically no experience to do it

Exclusive | CBS News taps Adam Rubenstein — once ostracized at NY Times for liking Chick-fil-A — as new deputy editor

Sources expect Rubenstein will effectively run the Free Press now that Weiss will be busy steering the editorial direction of shows like “60 Minutes,” “Face The Nation” and …

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Lynn Tramonte @lynntramonte.bsky.social · 9d

Important educational video on the difference between ICE and the National Guard. Key point -- National Guard doesn't have to hide their faces. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tjo_...

The National Guard and ICE: Know the Difference

YouTube video by Unite 4 Veterans

www.youtube.com

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Lynn Tramonte @lynntramonte.bsky.social · 10d

The whole lot of them.

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 10d

I said what I said: Kristi Noem should be tried at The Hague for crimes against humanity.

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Lynn Tramonte @lynntramonte.bsky.social · 10d

MUST-READ.

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 12d

Michael Hauser Tov's new Reuters Institute report offers practical techniques that could transform Trump coverage. But media organizations seem more interested in maintaining broken norms than fixing them. www.readtpa.com/p/we-already...

We Already Know How to Cover Trump's Lies. So Why Aren't Newsrooms Doing It?

A new playbook from the Reuters Institute lays out concrete techniques for covering authoritarian politicians. The problem isn't figuring out what to do — it's getting anyone to actually do it.

www.readtpa.com

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