Ayman Soliman, a beloved former children’s hospital chaplain in the Cincinnati area, has been jailed by Donald Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement since July 9. Soliman was finally released today, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell Rolling Stone. Just before 1:15 p.m., Adam Allen — one of the Cincinnati …
Read More »Trump Wants to Deport a Children's Hospital Chaplain to Egypt, Where He 'Faces Death'
CINCINNATI —In recent years, if you lived in the Queen City metropolitan area and your young child was severely ill, or dying of a terminal condition, chances are good that you encountered Ayman Soliman, who until recently was a Muslim chaplain at the renowned Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. Whatever your faith …
Read More »'He Is Coming for Us': Springfield's Haitians Are Terrified After Trump's Win
SPRINGFIELD, OHIO — It’s been two weeks since Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election, in part on a pledge to aggressively purge the small city of Springfield, Ohio, of its large Haitian immigrant population. To the president-elect, it doesn’t matter that the Haitian workers and families are there legally; …
Read More »Dems Lose Ohio Senate Seat as Sherrod Brown Falls to Bernie Moreno
Sen. Sherrod Brown, the Democratic Party’s mainstay in the red state of Ohio, has been ousted from the Senate by MAGA Republican Bernie Moreno. Moreno’s win, which was called by the Associated Press at 11:27 p.m. EST, all but ensures Republicans will take control of the Senate. Brown, a pro-labor …
Read More »Trump Says Legal Haitian Migrants Are Illegal 'As Far as I'm Concerned'
Donald Trump threw logic out the window on Tuesday. During an interview with Newsmax, the former president claimed that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio — who have been given temporary protected status and are in the U.S. legally — are “illegal immigrants as far as I’m concerned.” His remarks arrive …
Read More »Springfield Mayor Rejected a Call with J.D. Vance, Emails Show
In the wake of Donald Trump and his running mate J.D. Vance’s sustained attacks on immigrants living in Springfield, Ohio, and a series of violent threats on the community, the city’s Republican mayor rejected a call with Vance, the state’s junior senator, according to emails obtained by Rolling Stone. For …
Read More »GOP Rep. Bashes 'Vudu'-Practicing 'Thug' Haitians in Wildly Racist Rant
After a Haitian advocacy group filed criminal charges against former President Donald Trump and his running mate J.D. Vance, one member of Congress responded with a racist rant that is, frankly, completely in line with the character of the modern GOP. Earlier this week, the nonprofit Haitian Bridge Alliance took …
Read More »In Springfield, Trump and Vance's Campaign of Racist Terror and Panic Is Working
SPRINGFIELD, OHIO — Before Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, and other prominent conservatives started talking about their city, the volunteers and leadership at St. Vincent de Paul — a Catholic social services nonprofit serving the broader community and Haitian immigrants — never felt the need for the state’s Department of Public …
Read More »The All-Consuming Chaos of Trump
Donald Trump’s politics of chaos and division are sucking America into a dark vortex, just seven weeks before an Election Day that could propel him back to the profound, and perilous, powers of the presidency. Trump is at his most dangerous when he’s in a bind. Months after president Joe …
Read More »Vance Pushed Lies About Haitians Despite His Office Knowing They Were B.S.
During a campaign event in Wisconsin on Tuesday, J.D. Vance told supporters that it’s not his job to check if a story is true before broadcasting it to his millions of supporters. “The media has a responsibility to fact-check,” Vance said of false claims he’s spread accusing “illegal” Haitian migrants …
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