It isn’t the how is your weekend going thread. That’s the old business thread. Where people update past personal business shared or respond to old threads and secrets. Like the sewing machine and emergency food anons. Sometimes people respond to old secrets because they watched something that featured in a secret within the last few weeks.
So even if you don’t think detained immigrants are a political topic, it was off topic. But she knows detained immigrants are a political topic and always puts those comments in the political thread until tonight.