Shelly Anand 🍉

mother. daughter of immigrants. granddaughter of refugees. immigrant and labor rights lawyer and co-founder @surlegal_atl. kidlit author: @agentsaba

[Shelly Anand 🍉 @maanandshelly]

Thank you @diversebooks for featuring my third picture book, In This Family! This ode to my Punjabi-Irish family comes out May 14, 2024. Please pre-order today! @SimonKIDS https://t.co/jOTzR7u5h3

[We Need Diverse Books @diversebooks]

We are so excited to reveal the cover of In This Family by Shelly Anand, coming from @SimonKIDS in 2024! Illustrated by Meenal Patel. Cover design by Lizzy Bromley. Preorder here: https://t.co/V8uEG7PGiS

[Shelly Anand 🍉 @maanandshelly]

Really grateful and impressed with @NationalCOSH ensuring that attendees feel safe from sexual harassment at conferences. Would love to see @abalel adopt something similar as a survivor of abuse at your conferences.

[Shelly Anand 🍉 @maanandshelly]

@ZaidJilani They are need to stop taking aipac money if they really want to have a shot

[@[email protected] @Imani_Barbarin]

The misinformation she’s talking about is “there’s no genocide in Gaza” not “vaccines cause autism” btw.

[Rana Ayyub @RanaAyyub]

After the Bondi Beach attack, the Australian PM chose empathy over propaganda and dogwhistle: stood with the Jewish community, met victims’ families, rejected Netanyahu’s cynical two-state claim, and visited Ahmed Al Ahmed in hospital. This is what leaders do.

[Sarayu Pani @sarayupani]

We go on about anti Indian racism online (as we must) but how many of us Indians even know what Dr. Suri has been put through by ICE?

This is real and material anti Indian racism in the US but because of his religion and his wife’s nationality we don’t care.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Elon Musk, a South African immigrant born in Africa who votes in Texas, is annoyed that Somali immigrants born in Africa get to vote in Minnesota.

There's only one thing he doesn't have in common with his fellow African immigrants in Minnesota.

[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

Never forget that 2025 is the year Elon Musk’s algorithm made anti-India garbage a cool revenue source for trailer trash like whoever this @ndcarson clown is.

[Groucho's Ghost @GrouchoG]

@ReichlinMelnick "With all these Gringos coming here, Texas doesn't look very Mexican anymore" - a vaquero in the 1830s

[Shelly Anand 🍉 @maanandshelly]

@ReichlinMelnick But we are brown and not Christian

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

This stuff is effectively indistinguishable from the kind of things they used to say about Italians 135 years ago.

[g. @GeauxGabrielle]

Birthright citizenship was established on the backs of Black people and they have been OPENLY calling for Black people’s citizenship rights (to vote, to own land, etc.) to be revoked since 2023 that I can recall.

This is a BLACK issue as well regardless of Latino people being the face

[CPI (M) @cpimspeak]

Today marks the 33rd anniversary of the demolition of the Babri Masjid - a black day in the history of independent India, when Hindutva fundamentalists launched one of the severest attacks on the secular and democratic foundations of our republic.
On this day, the CPI(M) pledges to continue the unwavering struggle against right-wing communal authoritarian forces and to resolutely defend secular constitutional values.

[Rana Ayyub @RanaAyyub]

A pregnant Indian woman was forcibly expelled across the border on the ‘suspicion’ that she was Bangladeshi. After enduring six months in a Bangladeshi jail, she has finally been brought home under orders from the Supreme Court. Democracy much !!

[𝔟𝔯𝔦𝔱𝔱 @fangsxbangs]

this is why minorities ask WHITE PEOPLE to speak up!!!

[Shelly Anand 🍉 @maanandshelly]

Thanks to @SubwayTakes I just learned that blue whales are descendants of ancient deer from the Indus Valley who then evolved into blue whales. So Punjabis, Sindhis, Baluchis, blue whales are our cousins yo!!!! https://t.co/WhMR5yVjtJ

[Roshan Rai @RoshanKrRaii]

What is the name of this disease?

[Ruwa Romman @ruwaromman]

I was proud to support Starbucks workers striking here in Georgia for better wages. For context, their CEO made $95 million last year. Starbucks must come back to the table, negotiate, and raise worker pay.