Sangeeta Malhotra
Astronomer, dog feeder, bird watcher, maker of bad, dad jokes.
Views expressed are all mine, and not of my employer, family, or voices in my head.
- Reposted by Sangeeta MalhotraThese were the people who held the careers of female scholars in their hands . This is who was shaping or epistemological world
- Reposted by Sangeeta MalhotraThe headline should be, "DHS to keep 2,000 immigration officers in Minnesota." Instead, it seems the entirety of the traditional media went with, "DHS to withdraw 700 immigration officers from Minnesota." This presser worked like a charm.
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- Reposted by Sangeeta MalhotraThe thing about caucuses is Elizabeth Zuna Caisaguano is a 4th-grade student in Columbia Heights, the same school little Liam attends. Earlier this month, during the first week back from winter break, Elizabeth and her mother, Rosa, were taken by ICE while on their way to school.
- Reposted by Sangeeta MalhotraWoman with legal status taken from her family home in St Paul by ICE, flown to Texas, held for two weeks before being ordered released by a judge. She lost her job. She's afraid to go outside because agents keep coming to her home. www.kare11.com/article/news...
- Reposted by Sangeeta MalhotraIt’s 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies
- Reposted by Sangeeta MalhotraLiam Conejo Ramos is not alone. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...
- Reposted by Sangeeta MalhotraJust left an ICE Protest in Portland OR that started at City Hall and marched to the ICE building. Main demand was "revoke" the lease that lets the agency use their building. Crowd was 500-1000. They gassed massively after about an hour. Had to pull a lot of 16-17 year old girls out of the gas.
- Reposted by Sangeeta MalhotraNational Guard deployments cost taxpayers almost half a billion dollars www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
- Reposted by Sangeeta MalhotraLiam, 5, has been freed, but four other students from his school district remain detained in Texas. Two boys from his elementary school were taken Thurs “This isn’t something we are prepared or trained for. We’ve dedicated our lives to protecting + educating children,” school superintendent told me
- Reposted by Sangeeta MalhotraWe know that 4more children from Liam's school are still in ICE custody in TX. But we still do not know how many children from MN in total have been detained by ICE.
- Reposted by Sangeeta MalhotraEpstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
- Reposted by Sangeeta MalhotraHey if no one has said it to you, and you need to hear it: You do not have to read the Epstein files. Wait for a journalist to report on it. Believe victims. You do not need to traumatize yourself.
- Reposted by Sangeeta MalhotraThis morning, federal agents staged at the Powderhorn Park Recreation Center lot and began to throw chemical irritants at observers. They also kidnapped an observer. Our parks are meant for our children, youth, and neighbors. They should never be militarized zones meant to separate families. 1/
- Reposted by Sangeeta MalhotraTo all the Minnesotans who are making their voices heard and protesting peacefully: The world is watching, and when change comes, it will be because of you.
- Reposted by Sangeeta MalhotraI was there, too, and this is one of those children, leaving the scene.
- Reposted by Sangeeta MalhotraA Mexican immigrant was taken to a hospital after bones in his face & skull were broken while in federal custody. ICE said he tried to flee while handcuffed and “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall," but hospital staffers said that couldn't explain fractures & bleeding throughout his brain.
- Reposted by Sangeeta MalhotraSchumer leads the Ds in the wimpiest positioning ever. "When it comes to federal agents entering homes without a warrant or refusing to identify themselves, is it even possible to find a halfway position that makes any sense, as opposed to simply demanding that those actions and behaviors stop?"
- Reposted by Sangeeta MalhotraMINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!” So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it (H/T longtimehistory)
- Reposted by Sangeeta MalhotraAn extraordinary document. Read it. “Attached to this order is an appendix that identifies 96 court orders that ICE has violated in 74 cases. … ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”
- BREAKING: Judge Patrick Schiltz cancels contempt hearing Friday where ICE chief Todd Lyons was to be forced to testify, but excoriates ICE for defying almost 100 court orders in last month. "ICE is not a law unto itself," Schiltz writes. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
- Reposted by Sangeeta MalhotraJust visited with Liam and his father at Dilley detention center. I demanded his release and told him how much his family, his school, and our country loves him and is praying for him.
- Reposted by Sangeeta MalhotraOssoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."
- Reposted by Sangeeta MalhotraNEW: Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old who ICE agents in Minneapolis nabbed last week and shipped off to a Texas detention facility with his dad, is now in poor health, his school superintendent told me today www.huffpost.com/entry/liam-c...
- Reposted by Sangeeta MalhotraIncredible self own for the US. The damage being done to the US scientific enterprise is generational. We will look back on this as a tipping point where the US chose all on its own to stop leading the world in science. www.science.org/content/arti...
- Reposted by Sangeeta MalhotraFederal deployment to Minneapolis "is steady state and expected to continue as planned," per Border Patrol memo leaked to me
- Reposted by Sangeeta MalhotraThis is the democratic opposition party in Italy protesting against ICE involvement in the Winter Olympics in Milan
- Reposted by Sangeeta MalhotraToday on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we mourn the 6 million Jewish lives and countless others murdered by the Nazis. It’s on all of us to learn from this dark period in history, reject hatred and division, and work to stamp out antisemitism in all its forms.
- Reposted by Sangeeta MalhotraVideo from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”
- Reposted by Sangeeta MalhotraUN Geneva on Holocaust Remembrance Day: "The genocide started with apathy & silence in the face of injustice, and with the corrosive dehumanization of the other. Today and always, we need to remember this. And we must stand up for our shared humanity."
- Reposted by Sangeeta MalhotraCBP chief Bovino has confirmed that the officers who executed Alex Pretti in the street yesterday are not only *not on administrative leave,* they have all been reassigned to other jurisdictions and are all on the street today. This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting
- Reposted by Sangeeta MalhotraPeople are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.
- Reposted by Sangeeta MalhotraMinnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.
- Reposted by Sangeeta MalhotraMy friend Sara posted this about the superb care her father received from with Alex Pretti Absolutely heartbreaking
- Reposted by Sangeeta Malhotrahey everybody lifelong tech expert here > "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps
- Reposted by Sangeeta MalhotraThis has stayed with me today.
- Reposted by Sangeeta MalhotraA reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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- Reposted by Sangeeta MalhotraAnother ruling just yesterday in Minnesota: A federal judge calls it "particularly craven" that ICE transfered "a nursing refugee mother" out of state. Ta Eh Doh Lah was admitted as a refugee from Myanmar in 2024, has no criminal history and a 5-month-old. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- Reposted by Sangeeta Malhotradamnit damnit that's misinformation. THIS is Curtis Evans. It's hard to keep the patriots being gassed by fascists straight
- Reposted by Sangeeta MalhotraStatement and leadership from Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on ICE funding. If you are following an account that attacks Chuck Schumer more than John Thune, you really shouldn't be.
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- Reposted by Sangeeta MalhotraWe could have spent the trillion dollars on the backlogged courts doing immigration hearings. We could have made entry easier by investing in modern and better ports of entry We could have used the rest for healthcare for everyone and food for the poor. We could have had a better place.
- Reposted by Sangeeta MalhotraMasked federal agents in Minnesota just shot and killed another person. We must put a stop to Trump’s ICE. Now. Stop the funding, stop the occupations, stop the killings.
- Man shot by federal agents has died, police chief says www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
- Reposted by Sangeeta MalhotraYall outside of MN need to know that observers are STILL out protecting their neighbors. Right now. They know the news and they’re still out there.
- Reposted by Sangeeta MalhotraICE detained a 2-year-old girl in Minneapolis and put the child on a flight to a detention center in Texas, despite a court ordering her release: www.startribune.com/agents-detai...
- Reposted by Sangeeta MalhotraWe have citizen patrols checking empty cars like this for children and animals that were left behind in the negative temps because that’s where we are at as a society.
- Reposted by Sangeeta MalhotraIndia’s holdings of US Treasury bonds have fallen to a 5-year low as the nation pushes to support its currency and diversify its reserves. People “are looking to diversify away from US assets, and I would kind of describe it as quiet-quitting of US bonds" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
- Reposted by Sangeeta MalhotraShocked at how big the crowd is in Minneapolis. Don’t know an exact number but it’s in the many, many thousands. It is so cold your tears freeze to your face and your hands ache and yet people are here.
- Reposted by Sangeeta MalhotraWe’re gonna need a bigger hell
- A 2-year old. This is a baby. newrepublic.com/post/205638/...
- Reposted by Sangeeta MalhotraWise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."
