jignasha pandya

Social-justice minded experience designer with focus on Equity+Creativity.
All tweets are my own.
RT ≠ endorsement.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

This is Jana Shortal and she has something she wants to say and everyone should listen to her! 👇👇👇

[Tina Smith @SenTinaSmith]

“There is simply no legal reason for keeping this mother 1800 miles away from her children.

“[She] has already lost important bonding and nursing time with her baby. While the Court recognizes that many families are suffering due to [..] ICE actions in the District of Minnesota, there is something particularly craven about transferring a nursing refugee mother out-of-state.”

Michael Davis
Senior U.S. District Judge
District of Minnesota

[Michael Tracey @mtracey]

People act like the Minnesota chaos is just about generic enforcement of immigration law, when it's actually about a specific (and specifically aggressive) ICE operation that was only launched in December 2025 -- pompously called "Operation Metro Surge" -- following a series of unrelated political controversies involving Minnesota.

Namely the issue of Somali public services fraud, which has nothing in particular to do with "illegal immigration," as in the type of thing that ICE agents are typically charged with investigating, because whatever you may think of the Somalis, nothing about their apparent fraud is rectified by the ongoing ICE street "surge" -- the Somalis, by and large, have proper legal status, whether you like it or not.

So the operation, and its seemingly arbitrary focus on Minnesota, appears openly punitive in nature, rather than rationally targeted against an area with an especially outsized prevalence of "illegal immigrants," of the kind that ICE has a mandate to investigate.

By all available evidence, it's principally motivated by Trump not liking Tim Walz and Ilhan Omar, et al.

DHS openly brags it's the "largest DHS operation ever." Why else would this be taking place in Minnesota, which has a relatively low population of illegal immigrants, and relatively low violent crime, compared to other states?

[Katrina vandenHeuvel @KatrinaNation]

Nominate Minneapolis for the Nobel Peace Prize

[Nisha Patel, MD MS, Dipl of ABOM, CCMS @DrPlantel]

Some of y’all are more afraid of seed oils, non-organic food, and carbs than you are of the actual shit happening in the U.S. right now.

If your biggest fear is a bagel instead of injustice, cruelty, and systems failing real humans, your priorities are wildly off.

[🥀_ Imposter_🥀 @Imposter_Edits]

If you can get beaten over your 1st amendment right, and murdered over your 2nd amendment right, you have no rights.

[Brian Stelter @brianstelter]

A statement from the family of Alex Pretti, obtained by CNN:

"We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the hero term lightly. However his last thought and act was to protect a woman.

The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He has his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down all while being pepper sprayed.

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you."

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but…

If agents can pull a legal firearm from your holster, then open fire on you because you had a firearm…

Then no one actually has the right to conceal carry.

[Mikel Jollett @Mikel_Jollett]

Guess which one of these two people the federal government murdered for "holding a weapon."

[Jeet Heer @HeerJeet]

Turns out "America First" meant "we're going to murder American citizens."

[Carrie Coon @carriecoon]

Remember, the dehumanization started the day he came down the escalator.

Dehumanization is an essential tool for fascism: scapegoating the target group serves to normalize cruelty, justify state violence, control through fear, and ultimately erode civil rights.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

AOC: "How rich is it that she is saying showing up to the scene of a protest with a legally owned weapon should be grounds for a person's death, execution at the hands of the state, by the same party and administration that praises Kyle Rittenhouse."

[Acyn @Acyn]

Protester: They say they are coming in to save us from some evil? They are talking about our neighbors. Let us carry on our lives safely and not in fear of getting shot if we help a woman as I saw happen. Alex, let’s say his name. Alex was murdered while he was helping.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

AOC: "An ICE officer had violently pushed a woman to the ground and he had come over to help get her up and that is what precipitated this incident that very quickly led to an execution in the streets. What we are seeing here is a momentous pivotal moment for the United States."

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

To be clear about what this depicts: An immigration officer threw a woman onto the ground. Alex Pretti, a registered nurse on scene as a legal observer, is filming and goes to help the woman up. He is then pepper sprayed and thrown to the ground for no discernible reason. Many officer surround and assault him; one removes his firearm, which police say appears to have been legally registered. They then execute him with a hail of bullets.

They are, objectively speaking, both cowards and criminals, while Pretti is what we teach people an American ought to be.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Drop Site obtained harrowing footage of the latest killing which appears to be from the perspective of the woman in pink filming from the sidewalk

[Aisha Chughtai @aishaforward10]

I’m on scene at Eat Street after federal agents shot one of our neighbors. Community members on site. We’re legally observing the literal 100+ Border Patrol & ICE agents here. They’ve deployed chemical irritants in one of the most dense neighborhoods in Mpls. Be safe. Fuck ICE.

[Jewish Voice for Peace @jvplive]

STOP STARVING GAZA NOW: The people of Gaza have called on us to act and we have the duty to answer. We are joining the call to people of conscience all over the globe to stand against the U.S.-backed Israeli-manufactured famine in Gaza. Children, elderly, and people of all age groups are being gruesomely starved, with deaths due to malnutrition on the rise each and every day.

THE TIME TO ACT IS NOW — join us in a solidarity fast for Gaza this Thursday, July 24th, and Friday, July 25th for a global day of action against those complicit in this brutal act of mass starvation and genocide. Stay tuned for action details. Thank you to @palyouthmvmt for organizing.

[Jeremy Diamond @JDiamond1]

Saif Musallat was just 20 years old. He owned an ice cream shop with his dad in Tampa.
On Friday, Israeli settlers beat him to death, according to his family.
Our interview with his heartbroken father & his quest for justice:
https://t.co/5h0UgpjkOU

[jignasha pandya @jignasha_p]

@duolingo - can I have my streak back please? It was over 600 days! 😭😭