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Here to support #Resist #ElbowsUp, #FBPE, #NATO, #EU, #FreeDC women’s rights, heroes, snarks and the arts. Miss 🇨🇦, 🇧🇪, and having a voting representative on the Hill. (DC)

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3h ago

This couple came legally. They applied for asylum before their visas expired, wanting to do it all by the books. After six months, they applied for work permits to stay afloat, passing background checks. They worked legally and paid taxes while government delay dragged on. Then ICE came for them.

The couple quickly became key to Chicago’s nightlife, curating events and performing in some of Chicago’s most popular venues. They were getting ready for their biggest venture yet: following Karol G’s tour across the country, hosting unofficial afterparties. But on Sunday morning, as the couple walked out of their rideshare outside of Midway Airport, they were apprehended by federal immigration agents. The two were on their way to take a flight to Washington, D.C., the first stop of the tour. They never made it through the door. The Department of Homeland Security said it had arrested Panqueva, 26, and Paez, 27, for overstaying their visas, which both expired in 2022. But their attorney, Enrique Espinoza, said the pair had applied for asylum within the required time frame before their visas expired. The two both have asylum cases, Social Security numbers, work permits and the documents required for their ongoing legal process, Espinoza said.
Laura Rodríguez Presa@lauranrodriguez.bsky.social · 6h ago

The couple’s arrest outside Midway Airport aligns with what immigration attorneys across the country have observed in recent months: an increase in ICE arrests at airports of people traveling domestically with expired visas but pending immigration cases. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/08/05/c...

Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca · 3h ago

I never thought I’d see testimonies like this before the U.S. Congress. These are grown men who should know fact from fiction, yet they stand there shamelessly gaslighting the American people & performing for an audience of one. It’s both astonishing & deeply sad to see how far the U.S. has fallen.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8h ago

holy shit -- Schiff ties Trump's judicial nominees in knots by asking them who won the 2016 before *before* asking them who won in 2020, which results in them sounding like election deniers about Trump's victories!

Andrew Lawrence@ndrew.bsky.social · 13h ago

if establishment candidates want to start winning primaries again all you have to do is say that rich people have too much money and that youll prosecute trump admin staffers and republicans that have broken the law

Angus Johnston@angus.bsky.social · 13h ago

The decisive failure of GOP referenda in Kansas Amendment 1 and Missouri Amendment 4 yesterday is yet another reminder of something I've been saying for a while: Voters, even Republican voters, now regularly despise and repudiate GOP attempts to use them to destroy democracy.

Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢@regimecpa.bsky.social · 24h ago

It’s so cool to elect republicans and use ballot initiatives to overturn all their policy

Stephen Wolf@stephenwolf.bsky.social · yesterday

Missouri Republicans have relentlessly tried to destroy ballot initiatives after voters used them to protect abortion rights, legalize weed, raise the minimum wage, and reform redistricting. They are currently sabotaging a veto referendum that should have suspended the GOP's new House gerrymander

John Kostyack@kostyack.bsky.social · yesterday

Excellent thread. The digital sovereignty movement as the key to preserving human rights in the face of rising authoritarianism.

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2d ago

Obviously, the non-American world has a digital sovereignty problem - Trump has means, motive and opportunity to order his tech companies to shut down any public official, large corporation, or individual who displeases him: pluralistic.net/2026/06/18/t... 1/

A beautiful 17th century world map. It has been altered. Amongst the various creatures and ships that float in the map's seas now also float various 1950s and 1960s mainframes and components, along with Trump's disembodied hair and mouth.
Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 5d ago

JOSH: So what are you going to do? TOBY: Whatever I can to stave off the chaos, mayhem, and self interest that lies just beneath our civil disguise. (The West Wing)

whet moser@whetmoser.com · 6d ago

i think there are… people who conduct themselves in ways that invite negative attention, and however conscious they are of it, how much they can control it, or their motivations, it’s unhealthy for everyone involved to feed it. i feel like middle school is when you really learn this

Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf@rahmstorf.bsky.social · 2w ago

Yesterday afternoon 14:09 in Lacanau Océan in France. A pale red sun through the smoke tinged everything in Mars style orange. Welcome in the climate emergency! Despite all denial of the fossil fuel lobby, it’s scientific fact: CO2 emissions heat up Earth & make fires worse. 🔥🔥🔥

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2w ago

I've mentioned this before, but one reason Navarro, a talentless hack and liar, hates the Canadians is because they are extremely skilled and technically orientated trade negotiators and he keeps getting outplayed by them in any actual detail-orientated agreement.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Peter Navarro claims that Canadian officials are "some of the most dishonest people I've ever met. They stab you in the back ... they're screwing us"