Nandita Sharma
nsharma101.bsky.social
Nandita Sharma
@nsharma101.bsky.social

There (really) is no place like home.

Home Rule (2020, Duke U. Press)
Home Economics (2006, U of Toronto Press)
Sociologist of mobilities, nationalism, racism, and state power
#NoBorders
nanditasharma.net

Political science 35%
Sociology 26%

Answer: the same manufactured fear-mongering that is driving people into the arms of "strongmen" who promise to "keep them safe."

Fear of everything except the fascists who will absolutely terrorize and abuse you.

Con job extraordinaire.
i think the better question is what happened to Gen X that we had total freedom as children but then refuse to grant that same freedom to our own children
Absolute truth. We’d drop our books and disappear into the cornfield, or the pine forest, or the hardwood jungle in the creek bottom. Total HUCK FINN wild roaming savages.

It. Was. Wonderful.

This guy has already drunk the MAGA Koolaid.
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

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i think the better question is what happened to Gen X that we had total freedom as children but then refuse to grant that same freedom to our own children
Absolute truth. We’d drop our books and disappear into the cornfield, or the pine forest, or the hardwood jungle in the creek bottom. Total HUCK FINN wild roaming savages.

It. Was. Wonderful.

I remember telling a friend decades ago now, about how "many of these stars are long gone," and how pissed off she was at me.

The Neapolitan Quartet of 4 books by Elena Ferrante (pseudonym)

4 beautiful, captivating, and haunting books:
My Brilliant Friend (2011)
The Story of a New Name (2013),
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (2014)
The Story of the Lost Child (2015),

Are "doomerism" and "doomcasting" the new Bot vocabulary to shut down serious consideration of WTF is happening right now?

This is not the time to think the guardrails will hold. They are already mostly down.
A stunning detail the ICE chief shared in this hearing that was supposed to be a brag, except it isn't: ICE has arrested 379,000 people between Jan. 2025-Jan. 2026 -- but only 8,700 were suspected gang members or known suspected terrorists.

That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
Congresswoman Uses Simple Math To Show How Broken ICE Is
www.huffpost.com

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When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means
Congressman wants to round up and deport people who liked Bad Bunny’s show. This is the Republican Party.

Anti-global South take? WTF?! I learned this from feminist environmentalists from the freaking "Global South" dude.

watch the news

Yes, of course it does. This doesn't counter the fact that a key reason people are Vitamin A deficient today is because of the loss of their land, Big Ag, and monocropping.

GMOs such as "golden rice" are a capitalist fix to a problem created by capitalists.

Difficult to accept "golden rice" as a "solution" when GMO crops lead to more vitamin deficiency. The loss of vitamin A-rich food is due to Big Ag taking so much land and planting monocrops. Sad, indeed.

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The people who support mass deportation policies never cared about whether people have "criminal records," and I caution people who want to stop mass deportations that they should not focus on the "criminal records" either.

And the disease is capitalism.

Capitalism allows for a grotesquely unequal society in which the wealthy create and rely on impoverishing huge swaths of humanity in their quest for profits.

Those who are rendered disposable by capitalists are considered disposable by the rest of us. That's sick.

Remember the maxim: Be Prepared

Or another one: Better safe than sorry (in our smugness about the impossibility of Trump destroying the election system)

Maybe that’s another way that racism and nationalist anti-immigrant politics warps the mind: the belief that you never have to learn anything new. That is stagnation and it is oddly celebrated by fascists.

Abolish ICE is the minimum

Then, we need to talk about the inherent violence required to steal people’s freedom of movement and how that warps society

Until we recognize we live in a shared planet, we are doomed to endless cycles of nationalist terror

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Massachusetts is the only state run by Democrats that still partners with ICE. I dug into this and found that it’s had profound and very troubling consequences: at least 164 people funneled straight from state prisons to ICE since 2023 alone.

New in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/massachusett...
Inside ICE’s Only Contract with a Blue State - Bolts
Luis Perez waited 53 and a half years to be freed from prison. When his day finally came, on Jan. 16, 2025, he could practically feel the warmth and quiet... Read More
boltsmag.org
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.

If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
www.ajc.com

It’s a tragedy that we didn’t try to delegitimize nationalism too. Instead, nationalism was equated with “liberation” and “love.” And, most places around the world were nationalized. Here we are: on the verge of a world fascist nation-states
“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English”

my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."

Banal white supremacism. WaPo inadvertently repeats that the u.s. is racialized as white and english-speaking.

Even though Bad Bunny is a US citizen, he "illustrates the nation's immigration divide" simply because he is not white and sings in spanish.
The Super Bowl halftime show, with Bad Bunny showcasing Latin music before a global television audience expected to top 100 million, will illustrate the nation’s immigration divide whether or not the reggaeton star delivers an explicit political message.
The enthusiasm — and scorn — surrounding Bad Bunny’s star turn at the Super Bowl
The halftime show will illustrate the nation’s immigration divide whether or not the reggaeton star makes an explicit message about Trump’s deportation drive.
www.washingtonpost.com
There are a growing number of reports of agents impersonating construction workers, delivery drivers & anti-ICE activists, heightening fears in the state.

That's deceptive & unconstitutional, because they use trickery to get around warrant & consent protections.
ICE Uses Disguises and Fake Plates for Immigration Enforcement in Minnesota
A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not respond to inquiries about whether the men were federal immigration officers. As the sweeping imm...
ground.news
Criticizing our country is a right afforded to us by the constitution.

Or a nationalist (the nation-state being the structure that depends upon immigration controls as its very own divide and conquer strategy).

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🔥 EVA VICTOR: “Fuck ICE. I hate ICE. ICE is evil, racist, and violent, and I don’t think it should exist… shut the fuck up, Ricky Gervais and Kevin O’Leary— I’m here for one night and I can say what i want.”

(From @variety.com )
As a totally anecdotal measure of how normies are fed up: I’m on a peloton Super Bowl ride right now where 80 people are riding with #AbolishICE as their leaderboard tag