Ksenia Karelina was wrongfully detained and imprisoned in Russia for over a year while visiting her family. Today, after far too long, she'll arrive back home in California. Welcome home, Ksenia. - ThreadSky

schiff.senate.gov • 78 days ago

Ksenia Karelina was wrongfully detained and imprisoned in Russia for over a year while visiting her family.

Today, after far too long, she'll arrive back home in California.

Welcome home, Ksenia.

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midi-p-chan.bsky.social•77 days ago

You think Derp47 will be there to welcome her or golfing while sulking because he has to have a "talk" with his boss Pooty later so he can give yam tits his "performance review" for the week?

charge256.bsky.social•77 days ago

Jeez, she was Lucy she wasn't sent to El Salvadore on arrival in the US.

richdoolsjr.bsky.social•77 days ago

Does that mean that the person who was here from Russia was sent back to be killed by Russia??

3goodeyes.bsky.social•77 days ago

Deflect away from who russia got.

rachelmaria55.bsky.social•77 days ago

She was an idiot for going there in the first place.

sparklebear85.bsky.social•77 days ago

She has duel citizenship. She probably has friends and family there.

rachelmaria55.bsky.social•77 days ago

I knew that - she was visiting her parents. Anyone going to that benighted nation is stupid, and should instead pay for that loved one to visit in another country. I suggest Canada🇨🇦

menace101.bsky.social•77 days ago

How about the Aussie American that flew home to bury his sister and was detained at the US border? This shit is insane

rachelmaria55.bsky.social•77 days ago

Had not read about this . Have you a link to this?

casuallychaotic.bsky.social•78 days ago

Will she be okay arriving in the US, or will ICE seize her and ship her to El Salvador without legal process as soon as she lands?

oldpolitics.bsky.social•77 days ago

But the man you traded for her was so much worse. ???

gawdfraud.bsky.social•78 days ago

Hello Senator - no need to send a message. I am sure diaper boy will waddle his diaper clad ass to personally greet her. He is such an empathetic person….

70weight.bsky.social•78 days ago

I bet there's an Adam Schiff in another country who relates a similar story of their countryman detained illegally in the US.

That isn't what we are becoming. It's what we are now. #AbolishICE

bribri1701.bsky.social•77 days ago

Why would anyone go to Russia in the first place? Her family is there? Still not safe, obviously. If her family cared about her they would tell not to come.

Seriously.

dan-marq.bsky.social•77 days ago

Why are you on X?
Please consider closing your account.

queeniam.bsky.social•78 days ago

Long time coming, thank God, as You are welcomed back home‼️

etclcsw.bsky.social•78 days ago

While everyone is looking in the wrong direction Cash Patel out of ATF sound big but it isn't the real issue here. The Secretary of the Army Driscoll is now in charge of a Law Enforcement Agency. This appears like the beginning of a consolidation like the Nazi Sturmabteilungen (SA) in May 2, 1933.

mariamwatt.bsky.social•77 days ago

How can we bring someone out of Russia but not out of El Salvador?

newworldpeace.bsky.social•77 days ago

Uhhhh….yeah….California and the U.S. looks so much better than Russia these days. 😖😖😖

mepafford.org•77 days ago

Who is #SEXOFFENDER #CONVICT #Trump Kidding With These "Prisoner Swaps"?

A U.S. Amateur Ballerina-for a Criminal guilty of exporting microelectronics to Russia for manufacturers working with the Russian military.

A U.S. School Teacher-for a Criminal guilty of money laundering.

#America Knows!
🇺🇸

ane-sofie.bsky.social•77 days ago

Unless she fails one tick on some checklist, gets wrapped in an emergency blanket, and hustled off to a chain-link pen in a desert, never to be seen again. Or maybe not.

jeanpauldelier.bsky.social•77 days ago

Praising Trump again?

kalamantra.bsky.social•78 days ago

What about Palestinians imprisoned by Israel death squads? You SAY YOU SUPPORT THIS! Get the fuck off this site where you cosplay as a decent human being. Try posting about supporting Israel. See what that gets you.

andrewlevesque.bsky.social•78 days ago

Indeed, welcome back...I hope trump doesn't say he is responsible for her return because that would be a step too far!...

stgael.bsky.social•78 days ago

How many Californians will be wrongfully detained for being Hispanic Senator?

kayeliza491.bsky.social•77 days ago

Sorry she was detained and that she has to come home to this chaos but I know here is better than where she was. Welcome home and good work @schiff.senate.gov

susanaangel.bsky.social•78 days ago

Thank you for all your help, Senator. We are resisting with all our might. Please continue to help us. There's real suffering happening out here, and it will get much worse without the resistance of the House and the Senate.

eye8urcake.bsky.social•77 days ago

Yes, yes, we all know y'all can get the White people back who are dumb enough to go to these places. Now get the non-White people back who were just trying to live their fucking lives when Shitler and Co. scooped them up.

keenaiskander.bsky.social•77 days ago

Thank you! Absolutely true!

jamesawhitehead.bsky.social•77 days ago

So the US can negotiate for someone to be released by Russia but not those detained in El Salvador?
When do they come home?

freshbreezes.bsky.social•77 days ago

The people in El Salvador are in a US owned private prison. They will come home when US citizens begin to truly care about their fellow citizens regardless of race or class.

cirroccojones.bsky.social•78 days ago

Gee, that's swell!

Any chance we can do the same for the people that Trump did this to?

whatmaybe.bsky.social•78 days ago

I love how we get a ballerina and they got someone who committed espionage against the US. Seems like a good deal! Matches all the previous exchanges too

gregorythomson.bsky.social•78 days ago

What Russian spy was traded?

c-rd.bsky.social•77 days ago

https://apple.news/AeM8eYTRQSA-n9K0wuQ_9DQ

catlady49ers.bsky.social•78 days ago

Honestly, people should not travel to Russia. They can FaceTime their family.

magziepie1920.bsky.social•78 days ago

That has been my immediate response when hearing of Americans being harmed or held hostage in foreign unsafe countries. But I also try to remind myself that my experience as a white American is going to skew my opinions into unfair judgments. I've never had to really even leave my tristate area...

magziepie1920.bsky.social•78 days ago

to visit loved ones, for goodness sake. But international travel is very common for many people, and visiting family in person is prioritized so much more in other cultures compared to mine.

catlady49ers.bsky.social•78 days ago

Then they know the risk when they go there. If they get captured, we have to spend our tax money getting them out. We also often need to release some of their violent criminals from our/Europe’s prisons in return for their release!

magziepie1920.bsky.social•78 days ago

I def understand that frustration. It seems obvious to us. But I'm not sure if places like Russia and Gaza have ever been actually "safe". Maybe part of it is desensitization to the danger? I'm mostly trying to understand why people travel back there & how to keep my own biased judgements in check.

1956bentley.bsky.social•78 days ago

I have traveled in Russia. 20 years ago. I wouldn’t go now.

catlady49ers.bsky.social•78 days ago

I’ve been to Russia, too, but many years ago. I would definitely not go there now!

greenideassleep.bsky.social•77 days ago

People can’t travel to the USA. We’re far worse than Russia.

catlady49ers.bsky.social•77 days ago

Not sure we’re far worse than Russia. But if I lived abroad, I wouldn’t come to the U.S. So sad!

lolacrane.bsky.social•77 days ago

Didn’t the US just remove a Russian student for an op ed condemning Russia? But now they’re helping to release this woman who Russia was holding for supporting 🇺🇦? How are they different? Because one is a citizen and one is not? I think that line is about to blur. This is making my brain explode.

waldojeffers-13.bsky.social•78 days ago

Are you fugging kidding me?
You really think now is the time to be pointing fingers at Russia for unlawful detention?
#DemsAreComplicit

irishbynature.bsky.social•77 days ago

Are YOU taking the credit for her return?
What did YOU do?
Write a letter?

choyudeok.bsky.social•77 days ago

Where do you get he's taking credit? Would you prefer the senator from California not even mention her return home to.. California ?

greggldavis.bsky.social•77 days ago

Are you taking credit for the destruction of the Constitution? You should ...

limousine-liberal.bsky.social•78 days ago

Good for Ksenia.

Now can we work on the innocent asylum seekers being tortured in Bukele’s concentration camp?

mustlovesports.bsky.social•77 days ago

I am sooo happy for her release

nalanidesjard.bsky.social•78 days ago

#democracyisdying
#handsoff
I cannot believe we're going to have to fight person by person for our rights while this regime kidnaps Americans by the hundreds...
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-maryland-deportation-trump-9f46dd62890befdc321ed1ab56107470

ginalolabridgetta.bsky.social•77 days ago

Great news

What about the coup donald’s inflicted on us and the fact that millions of voters have to question how they’re gonna be able to vote.
and disinformation is off the charts

It’s not business as usual Adam

jodielister.bsky.social•77 days ago

Depending on her answers at the border she could experience detention in 2 countries and then compare the 2 for us.

ocert52.bsky.social•77 days ago

This

beararound.bsky.social•77 days ago

I seriously don’t have a fucking clue why people go to Russia and I know someone who just went to Russia

mimisf.bsky.social•77 days ago

Is the following true? Is the Communications dep't of Social Security moving to Twitter or not?
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/social-security-administration-reportedly-switching-210100542.html

the1andonlyd-r-e.bsky.social•77 days ago

Sounds like what's happening to those people in El Salvador

coughlinbrett.bsky.social•76 days ago

What the fuck kind of country is it where you visit and they don't let you leave?

Oh Wait? Our country will send you to an El Salvadorian Prison for having a body tattoo.

#ICE #DHS

momsword.bsky.social•77 days ago

Can you explain why dems voted for the Save Act? We are owed an explanation for our voting rights being given away

kallenemvalts.bsky.social•77 days ago

Now do the same for Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

joyfulsearcher.bsky.social•77 days ago

🇺🇸👏

whoiskf.bsky.social•77 days ago

Get these motherfvcking murderers out of office & deep in a prison cell. For fvck's sake.
This & murdering innocent civilians in El Salvador
murdering kids by spreading disease & letting them die of cancer
murdering women who have traumatic miscarriages.
ENFORCE! CHRIST!
https://bsky.app/profile/apnews.com/post/3lmj6o7tbbe2x

invisiblebetty.bsky.social•78 days ago

Great that she was released, but appalling that she was being held because of donating like $52 to a Ukraine charity while the guy who she was "traded" for was accused of smuggling U.S. technology to assist the Russian military

fabkarenla.bsky.social•77 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/fabkarenla.bsky.social/post/3lmjacepi5s26

jrfree.bsky.social•78 days ago

And Putin is Trump's hero🤮

anotherben.bsky.social•77 days ago

In exchange for…….?

world-wanderer.bsky.social•77 days ago

Only to be picked up upon her arrival, #Kidnapped & #Disappeared by the Trumpian #Gestapo #ICE & be deported back to #Russia ???

So what “favors” did #Trump promise his Handler, #Putin , in exchange for Ksenia’s release?

todmanpla.bsky.social•77 days ago

I think she'll be shocked at what she's coming back to.

tmhinck.bsky.social•77 days ago

Great. Now do Kseniia Petrova.

thomashsears.bsky.social•77 days ago

We can get people wrongfully detained by a foreign nation in that nation, but we can't get people wrongfully detained by our nation in a foreign nation?

Weak ass bullshit

gomezyque1.bsky.social•77 days ago

Can she pick up Abrego Garcia on her way back home?

greenideassleep.bsky.social•77 days ago

Zionist coward bought by AIPAC

greenideassleep.bsky.social•77 days ago

You’ve been quiet about sending people to El Salvador torture concentration camps and you’re also quiet about Israel sending Palestinians to torture concentration camps. I wonder why?

diamonddeb87.bsky.social•77 days ago

WHY DID YOU VOTE TO CONFIRM A NOMINEE LAST NIGHT??????

bradagain.bsky.social•77 days ago

Fuck you Schiffty, bring back Garcia and all the other illegal deportees. Stop giving Trump wins.

transitfossil.bsky.social•78 days ago

what did we give up to putin to bring her back?

leosstankytaint.bsky.social•77 days ago

Curious isn't it? We can get people back from Russia, but not El Salvador. Actually, not that curious, is it?

cmnotesandviations.bsky.social•78 days ago

President Trump facilitated the release of Karelina after weeks of negotiations with the Kremlin.

reggiewallinsky.bsky.social•78 days ago

The Kremlin has traded us a schoolgirl and a schoolteacher for a cyber-hacking money launderer and a weapons dealer.

cmnotesandviations.bsky.social•78 days ago

Still better than a pot head basketball player for “the merchant of death.”

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/08/americas/viktor-bout-profile-prisoner-swap-intl/index.html

recursiverealms.com•78 days ago

How long until ICE picks her back up and sends her to a gulag instead?

dkwally.bsky.social•77 days ago

Where's Kilmar Abrego Garcia? Her renegotiated release gave Russia a spy named Artur Petrov who smuggled US military technology to RUSSIA. There are Americans as old as 72 who have been there for decades. What about them?

rorofosho.bsky.social•77 days ago

All the people in this thread ragging on getting an American citizen home after being wrongfully detained sound exactly like the impotent outrage I was reading from MAGA folks when Biden got Griner home. Horseshoe theory is real and it’s unbecoming.

meanderingheart.bsky.social•77 days ago

I am so glad that she is home. So relieved. If that were my daughter? Oh my gosh. But the Griner situation was really difficult for magas because Biden, and Griner is Black. And Griner is gay. And Griner is big and athletic and women should be little and quiet and adorable.

meanderingheart.bsky.social•77 days ago

They simply do not see Griner as fully human.

violetmountain.bsky.social•78 days ago

Please spread the word on No to the Save Act & the Rogue District Court Suppression Act!

hthiefs.bsky.social•77 days ago

This is America now.

ozarktsunami.bsky.social•78 days ago

when will people learn, don't visit russia. don't visit usa. don't visit n. korea. i hear new zealand is a wonderful place.

citizenw.bsky.social•78 days ago

That’s “funny”.
I thought you were going to say El Salvador.

emperor-dan.bsky.social•77 days ago

So they lady that donated $50 to Ukraine was traded for an arms dealer?
Why didn’t we send Seal Team 6 in to take her back by force?

chiefskitty.bsky.social•78 days ago

💙🫶🏼💙

pcoop1960.bsky.social•77 days ago

Thank you senator for all your hard work. Just a regular citizen in Texas fed up with all of trump’s bs ‼️🇺🇸💙🇺🇸

faafo64.bsky.social•77 days ago

DONT COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS TOO SOON…

wethepeoplestill.bsky.social•77 days ago

STOP GOING TO RUSSIA AND OTHER COUNTRIES WITH DICTATORS.

menace101.bsky.social•77 days ago

Hence the massive sudden decline in tourism to the US, the rest of the world understands the assignment

tincanfury.bsky.social•77 days ago

did we have to give up any jailed Russian oligarchs?

martinaenglington.bsky.social•77 days ago

Sounds like what happens in America right now.

idontgiveatwit.bsky.social•77 days ago

Did Donald trump ask Putin to hold her until after he was inaugurated....just like Ronald Reagan did with the hostages in Iran? #hostages #Reagan #trump

moonmanpics.bsky.social•78 days ago

and the prisoner we swapped for her was a Putin agent illegally buying and exporting banned military grade electronic gear from the USA to Russia.

lawgrade.bsky.social•77 days ago

When will Abrego Garcia and Mahmoud Khalil return to their families, Senator? They are currently wrongfully detained and imprisoned in torture jails because of the US government? Or do they not count because they’re not white? And one of them is Palestinian?

mediate4u.bsky.social•77 days ago

The problem is that there is U.S. bipartisan agreement on the Genocide in Gaza. For all the Senator’s timely prosecution of Trump & Republican fascism, never once was Israel, Gaza, Palestinians or Genocide ever mentioned. NOT ONCE! It’s as if he stood up without pants after his morality speech!

biglazz.bsky.social•77 days ago

Jesus was a Palestinian and was the child of refugees. That has not gotten much coverage in mainstream media.

dr0923.bsky.social•77 days ago

You voted for this.

https://bsky.app/profile/jaredlholt.bsky.social/post/3lmi7zhwch225

bobhawaii.bsky.social•77 days ago

No one should be going to Russia

aquariuswarrior.bsky.social•78 days ago

We need to bring back the people we sent to a torture prison in El Salvador NOW! It's UNAMERICAN, & wrong on all levels. We have due process for a reason! This is unacceptable! We have innocent people in there!

tabbys-corner.bsky.social•78 days ago

By the way, she and her boyfriend are friends with Trump so I really don’t give a shit!

tabbys-corner.bsky.social•78 days ago

And what about Abrego Garcia?

greggldavis.bsky.social•77 days ago

Even Russia didn't "disappear" her to a foreign hell hole.

jake5226.bsky.social•78 days ago

What about the ballerina?

sspringtime784.bsky.social•77 days ago

Mulan here. Thank you for saying what the Con man in Chief should have said.

gardener4ever.bsky.social•78 days ago

Don's next step to control Musk.
Tesla needs many parts/components made in China.
Don will decide which components will be subject to the tariffs. He'll use his " instincts" to decide which components are exempt from tariffs.
If Musk kisses the ring; don's China tariffs will be favorable to musk.

killiplaw.bsky.social•77 days ago

Sounds like something ICE would do to a person.

montealto.bsky.social•77 days ago

Fantastic news.

kdaver.bsky.social•76 days ago

From one dictatorship to another...

debbiefr.bsky.social•78 days ago

That's good news!!

May her healing begin. Welcome home, Ksenia.

cruzankenny.bsky.social•78 days ago

And we traded her for an arms dealer.
WNBA player and right-wing dancer exchanged for some evil fucking people.
Diplomacy is weird.

cirroccojones.bsky.social•78 days ago

Y'know, maybe Americans shouldn't go to Russia. It never seems to end well.

justhangingout.bsky.social•77 days ago

You're setting your political future on fire sir.
https://bsky.app/profile/paleofuture.bsky.social/post/3lmjh324aws2i

jmeyernj.bsky.social•77 days ago

indeed

joes-spot.bsky.social•78 days ago

I wonder if CBP will detain her and seize her phone?

hungrytop71.bsky.social•78 days ago

Welcome home Ksenia! Bien Venida de Regreso a California!!! Welcome home!!!

k9k9dancer.bsky.social•77 days ago

The elected Felon will probably detain her here, too.

pilyocmorningstar.bsky.social•77 days ago

no, he loves Russians

jiggy-g.bsky.social•77 days ago

WHY ARE PEOpLE EVEN GoNG TO RUSSIA?

obearwan-kenobi.bsky.social•78 days ago

Won't be long until we start seeing these types of posts about America too. A disgrace.

buckygrad.bsky.social•78 days ago

At what cost?

gypsie.bsky.social•77 days ago

Senator, something must be done about this. This is Nazism.

rinative.bsky.social•77 days ago

Don’t ever go back!

prismascuro.bsky.social•78 days ago

It’s great that she is back.
However, the message needs to be any American or person residing in the USA who goes to Russia, you have chosen to be kidnapped by Russia, so that you are used as a hostage by Putin.
We aren’t coming for you.

mdanielsmith.bsky.social•76 days ago

Wonder how long before she decides it's better where she was?

marseydotes.bsky.social•77 days ago

This could (already?) happen in America under the Trump regime!!

menace101.bsky.social•77 days ago

It’s already happening, why you think everyone including allies have issued travel warnings? It’s $300 USD, probably less now the dollar is dropping, to fly from Aus to the US, lowest in decades, and the planes are leaving empty.

billthecat71.bsky.social•77 days ago

Now America is doing this, too

elizdp.bsky.social•77 days ago

Kind of a frying pan/fire situation then.

captmandr8ke.bsky.social•78 days ago

A move by Putin in an attempt to buoy the negative polling on the Tangerine Tyrant. I'm glad she's home but let's see this for what this really is.

euros2999.bsky.social•77 days ago

Welcome back home!!!❤️🤍💙

oldyoungfart.bsky.social•78 days ago

Let's just hope they don't grab her and send her it to a detention facility just for show. Sorry if I sound pessimistic, but I'm sure it's kind of obvious why.

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