"Sahar and Mehmood contacted lawmakers and the Pakistan Consulate, trying to expedite his deportation. They even offered to buy the plane ticket themselves," but instead ICE detained their father for two months, and he died after a 38-hour flight to Pakistan via Maine, Iceland, Bulgaria, and Georgia

Chicago-area father dies shortly after ICE's deportation process to Pakistan

Ayaz Ahmed, 61, had no criminal record and had several diagnosed chronic health conditions when his children say he was detained, deported, and died mysteriously over the summer.

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Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 14h ago

“For eight days, Ahmed's children had no contact from their father. He disappeared from ICE's detainee locator website.” "Then, on Aug 3, Ahmed's family in Pakistan called his children to share the worst news possible: Their father was dead.”

making online gambling illegal

Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 20h ago

What is an unsexy policy that if passed would immediately help millions of people?

Today, I led 11 of my Senate colleagues in calling on House & Senate leadership to strip the upcoming defense bill of provisions that MANDATE defense & intelligence cooperation with Israel — including one advanced by Netanyahu himself.   This doesn’t make us safer, see why ⬇️

Senator Chris Van Hollen@vanhollen.senate.gov · 4mo ago

Tomorrow, the Senate will take a key vote on the $1.1 TRILLION defense bill. It not only fails to rein in Trump’s Iran war, it also has a provision touted by PM Netanyahu to MANDATE more U.S. defense cooperation with Israel. None of this is in our national security interests. I will vote NO.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A 36-year-old Costa Rican man whose family says he complained of missing insulin shots and meals to manage his diabetes is the third detainee to die in less than six months at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Louisiana. Set 18 2026

As a former Imagineer who primarily drew concept art, this just shows the Disney leadership has no clue about how creativity works. Someone send them a copy of The Illusion of Life.

Cartoon Brew@cartoonbrew.bsky.social · 2d ago

Disney has partnered with Adobe to develop AI tools that turn artists' sketches into finished concept art. The deal is the latest example of Disney's investment priorities in a year otherwise defined by layoffs and cost-cutting. www.cartoonbrew.com/artificial-i...

More alleged threats from @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social Is this Trumpian politics the change people voted for?

CNN: “.. Multiple credible whistleblowers have approached Huffman’s committee in recent weeks to voice concern that the Interior Department is getting rid of records in anticipation of forthcoming scrutiny ..” @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/11/10/p...

Baltimore DSAs fundraising campaign to relieve local medical is at $6,198.99 out of $10,000 goal! Help us get there! Please share ❤️🫡

Greater Baltimore DSA@baltimoredsa.org · last mo.

As socialists, we believe it is an absolute travesty that anyone could have their finances turned upside down for what is fundamentally a human right: access to health care. That's why we've launched a fundraising campaign to relieve debt for those in our area! Donate at gbdsa.org/s/UndueDebtR... !

Support For Medicare For All: 🔵Democrats: Support: 88% Oppose: 6% 🟣Independents: Support: 65% Oppose: 24% 🔴Republicans: Oppose: 55% Support: 32% 🟠MAGA: Oppose: 61% Support: 28% YouGov / Nov 6, 2026

This disastrous bill (BAAJA) will make things many times worse because of all the poison pills in it. Thankful both of my Senators voted against this.

Danny Cullenward@ghgpolicy.org · yesterday

In a nutshell, the bill does some great things on electric grid planning (a key step for climate policy), but effectively scrambles the National Env Policy Act, Clean Water Act, and Endangered Species Act. Plus it locks in permit conditions issued by Trump in perpetuity and  …

UPDATE: 22 Democrats led by @schumer.senate.gov vote to advance Trump/Republicans' deregulatory bill that will make it easier for Stephen Miller to build more ICE warehouses and Big Tech to build out more data centers.

The capitol switchboard is 202-224-3121. If you care who leads the senate and you have a Dem senator, they need to hear from you. www.newsweek.com/chuck-schume...

Chuck Schumer’s future in doubt as momentum grows for Chris Van Hollen

Chris Van Hollen is reportedly in “active listening mode” as Democrats organize an effort to replace Chuck Schumer as their Senate leader.

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Even Al Gore agrees: We need clean energy permitting reform, but as this bill currently stands, it “would be an extremely serious mistake”. We urge our Senate colleagues to reconsider and vote no, and to continue finding a path forward that respects Tribal sovereignty, protects the environment. ⬇️

hearing massie say hegseth ordered 243 extrajudicial killings is just so horrifying.

The new batch of Democrats are built different 🔥

just saying: between this flavor of thing and public sentiment on data centers, now would be a great time to undermine fossil capital as thoroughly as possible

Joe Katz@joekatz45.bsky.social · 3d ago

Environmental groups are Very Excited about flipping the PSC in Georgia, which "regulates electric and natural gas utilities in Georgia and plays an important role in setting (consumer) rates... also can influence where that energy comes from, whether coal, natural gas, nuclear or renewable."

elected dems actually coming out against schumer as leader and doing it early at that is one of the all time happy to have been wrong moments for me

BeshearStan@beshearstan.bsky.social · 2d ago

Woah. Richard Blumenthal is against Schumer being majority leader. He’s one of the most establishment-leaning Dem Senators, so this is a huge development

Israel did not just commit genocide in Gaza, it committed a systemic ecocide to make the land itself uninhabitable for Palestinians: Since 2023: -97% of tree crops have been lost -95% of shrubland has been lost -82% of annual crops have been lost

Dr. El-Sayed: "I would like us to figure out how to stop subsidizing genocide, and apartheid, in other places. I would like us to figure out how to stop making deals with countries like Saudi Arabia or the UAE, who are doing genocide in Sudan. I would like us to actually promote our values."

The reddest House seat Dems are poised to flip is TN-4, where Victoria Broderick, a progressive who backs Medicare for All and is openly pro-trans rights, leads. Trump won it by 24. She ran on a shoestring budget with no party support. Here are other Democrats who flipped deep-red seats.

Senator @vanhollen.senate.gov, please put yourself forward as Majority Leader. We need someone who will take some risks, who can communicate to the public and who will support ending the fillibuster. Please do it!

the thing about this I think is that a lot of casual transphobia does not survive contact with an actual trans person. people get hopped up on online bullshit stories, but faced with a real life human being, all the air goes out of it

Ryan@ryan62.bsky.social · 2d ago

Sarah McBride put up the strongest margins of any Dem on the ticket in DE, basically matched 2018 Dem margins, *and* flipped Sussex County blue for the first time since 2012. Seems pretty clear there’s no penalty for trans candidates at this point

I TOLD YOU. Van Hollen for Senate Majority Leader. MAKE YOUR CALLS.

Laura Bassett@lebassett.bsky.social · 2d ago

New in Politico Playbook: Sen. Chris Van Hollen has “received an outpouring of calls and is now in active listening mode. The door is not shut.”

BUILDING THIS ON THE ORIGINAL LAND OF THE PISCATAWAY CONOY TRIBE 🫡

Governor Wes Moore@govwesmoore.bsky.social · 2d ago

This month, we honor the Indigenous peoples who have called Maryland home for thousands of years, and the more than 120,000 Marylanders with Native American or Indigenous ancestry who are part of our communities today.

Anthony Blinken, who served as Secretary of State under President Biden and lied to Congress by doctoring a report on Israel's compliance with international law, sat alongside Trump's second Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and falsely claimed Israel has never tried to harm civilians.

Blinken, Pompeo offer robust defense of Israel at major Jewish gathering

The former Republican and Democratic officials made a bipartisan appeal to preserve U.S.-Israel ties amid declining support for Israel in both parties, while expressing sharply different views on the ...

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Our number one push right now needs to be the addition of gender identity and sexual orientation to all blue state constitutions. And this would not be politically hard to do. "Equal rights for LGBTQ+ people" polls extremely well. And then let courts enforce the implications of it.

Still giddy about this. Come January there will be zero Republican governors anointing themselves imperator wardens of the holy southern border. No national guard stunts, no meme bussing, no Prigozhin-esque rants about asylum seekers in front of a platoon of state troopers.

I am struggling to construct a counter-factual narrative for how this is not a massive realignment of national American politics. Texas will be able to run a democratic socialist for federal office, maybe as soon as 2028.

Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her)@themodsisyphus.bsky.social · 4d ago

Damn. Talarico wins this race without Dem strongholds Harris, Travis, or Dallas. This really was an extinction level event for the gop.

It's incumbent on us to protect our neighbors over the next two years. Top priority. If you live in Baltimore and don't know how to help, send me a DM.

Clara Jeffery@clarajeffery.bsky.social · 4d ago

“worksite amnesty is over. We will be at the farms. We will be at the factories. We will be in the industrial hubs. We will be talking to DoorDash and Uber Eats.” www.politico.com/news/2026/11...

Make him do it. Veto a minimum wage bill. An anti-corruption bill. An end the war bill. A stop ICE bill. A save medicaid bill. A lower prices bill. Make him veto everything people want. Create the contrast, electoralize it, win in '28, and then make it all law in '29. cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_ful...