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Nandita Sharma
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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
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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 20h
Companies love claiming that their cloud storage, data analytics, info fusing isn't "surveillance" because it's not "collecting" data.

This is not true. Filing cabinets were part of surveillance. Analysts reading and making sense of transcripts from hidden microphones were part of surveillance.
Microsoft says it does not think US ICE uses firm's tech for mass surveillance of civilians
Microsoft said on Wednesday it did not think the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency was using its technology for mass surveillance of ‌civilians but added that it provided cloud-based pro...
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Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social · 21h
Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647.
open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...
Prince Andrew's Arrest
Across the pond in Britain, justice and accountability is a serious matter
open.substack.com

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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 1d
As the pedophile führer's ICE Nazis are ordered to release people they've kidnapped, they do it in the dead of night to make sure it's as cruel and brutal as possible. Fortunately, compassionate Patriots are there to meet them and make sure they're ok and driven to their homes.

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Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 1d
Maine Sen. Susan Collins is now the 50th Senate supporter of the SAVE America Act — a massive voter suppression bill being pushed by Donald Trump.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 1d
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d
BREAKING — WE WON! DC Superior Court Judge Darlene Soltys ordered the DC Metropolitan Police to produce ALL body cam footage of the March 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace within 14 days.

Thanks to my @rcfp.org lawyers for their tireless work.

Details on thehandbasket.co later today!
me and my RCFP lawyers outside the courthouse this morning

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Detroit Documenters @detdocumenters.bsky.social · 1d
Detroit Police Chief Todd Bettison suspended two officers for coordinating with Border Patrol in violation of department policy. He said he “intends to terminate them."

Our public records request showed two more instances of officers calling immigration agents, with @kobylevin.bsky.social:
What we know about Detroit police calls to CPB at traffic stops
Detroit police officers coordinated with Border Patrol more often than the department acknowledged.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 2d
So....the Fourth Reich?

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Progressive News Service @prognews.bsky.social · 2d
Social media sites subpoenaed for identities behind anti-ICE accounts. "[DHS] is... sending tech companies legal requests for the names, email addresses, telephone numbers and other identifying data behind social media accounts that track or criticize the agency." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts
www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Nandita Sharma, Mary Jane Curry, Henry Jones

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Pete ICE OUT NOW 👎 Reddit banned 🙃 @barrelbucket.bsky.social · 2d
Dozens of Minnesota GOP lawmakers propose bill to criminalize residential protesting
#MN #ICEOUT #1A #FDT #WalterHudson
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Dozens of Minnesota GOP lawmakers propose bill to criminalize residential protesting
If passed, the bill would allow for misdemeanor charges in demonstrations outside a person's home.
www.yahoo.com

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 2d
BREAKING: I read the new version of the “Save America Act” (S. 1383) so u don’t have to. Here’s my summary. Point 1 is new. It requires that all 50 states send their voter rolls to the DHS to run thru DHS’s faulty “SAVE” voter purge program. Points 6 & 7 are new too. Tell ur Senators #NoOnSAVE 1/

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d
The current person in charge of ICE's procurement for detention is a GEO Group executive who ran the company's immigration detention portfolio. He was granted an "ethics waiver" from DHS allowing him to hand out contracts to GEO in his new role.
Washington Post. The former private prison exec behind ICE’s immigrant detention surge David Venturella, a veteran of private prison firm Geo Group, joined the Trump administration to help oversee an expansion of the immigrant detention system that’s benefiting his former employer.

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Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 2d
I am also surprised at how many people who think of themselves as revolutionary also think that there is some candidate who could win the US presidency who will not continue to prop up a capitalist world system of nation-states with all of its terror, including immigration controls and deportation

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 2d
There is no drawdown. There is no retreat. ICE is just redistributing their assets to better avoid accountability.
The same day DHS announced the surge would end in Minnesota, ICE activity increased in small towns
The less densely populated areas outside the Twin Cities make it harder for protesters and observers to organize.
www.theverge.com

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Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 3d
We have built a tremendous movement, with so many beautiful people, one that can surely defeat the heartless fascists.

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Nash Is Here For It @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 3d
Wow.

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Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 4d
Trump and MAGA are trying to normalize openly racist views and make it “just another political view.” This isn’t simply about exposing themselves. It is about trying to undo all the work of the anti-racism struggle

We counter it by even more openly speaking truth to power.
wajali.bsky.social Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 4d
Will it be national news? Will it cause performative outrage? Will he be censured?

Nope. Forgotten by tomorrow.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 4d
Will it be national news? Will it cause performative outrage? Will he be censured?

Nope. Forgotten by tomorrow.

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Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 4d
There were people in what is now "england," "ireland" and "scotland" who refused nationalist identities (and legal categories) and, instead, fought against those rulers who claimed to be their co-nationals. They also fought against transatlantic slavery and colonization. Their loss is our tragedy.
karl-jacoby.bsky.social Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 4d
Ah, yes, the Irish and the British have always gotten along so well. No troubles at all.

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 4d
Ah, yes, the Irish and the British have always gotten along so well. No troubles at all.

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Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 4d
The Trump regime is eliminating due process for people classified as migrants

This is yet another reminder for us all that it starts with "migrants," but it does not end there. If you currently feel unaffected, enjoy your moment, for it will not last - unless we join together and fight this for all
DOJ Moves to End Administrative Immigration Appeals to Speed Up Mass Deportations - American Immigration Council
People who lose before an immigration judge and appeal will likely see them dismissed immediately, leading to rapid deportation.
www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org

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Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 4d
"Attorneys can assist detained immigrants in filing habeas petitions to challenge their confinement. Practitioners should be working with impacted communities to meet their legal needs. Allies are raising public awareness about the human rights violations happening during enforcement operations."
Trump's Radical Mandatory Immigration Detention Policy Upheld by US Appeals Court - American Immigration Council
Millions of people could face the possibility of mandatory immigration detention without any opportunity for a bond hearing.
www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org

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Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 4d
All of this (Trump’s attempts at election interference; SAVE Act, punitive indictments, etc.) are part of the attempt to bring in a GOP dictatorship and keep it in place.

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Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 4d
Any and all deportations should be considered a serious assault on freedom - and a form
of violence.

Just because nation-states have normalized it doesn’t mean we can’t challenge it.

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Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 4d
Part of the effort to further limit membership in that violently fictitious entity, “the nation.”

Increasingly, one has to be seen as a “native” of the “nation” (doubling the fictitious categories)

One is “native” through “genealogy,” a fancy (and deceptive) way of talking about “blood,” ie racism

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
Rep. Angie Craig: "The attacks on Black and brown people in Minnesota have been egregious. At the end of the day, what they wanted out of Minnesota was for us to riot. I think this will go down in American history as one of the greatest examples of peaceful resistance from an entire community."

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 5d
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/14/c...
Chicago teen whose father was detained by ICE while she fought cancer dies
The Torres family story came to public attention after the teen’s father was detained at a Home Depot in Niles.
www.chicagotribune.com

Reposted by Nandita Sharma, Gerald Friedman, Nikolay Marinov

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WomenRiseUp2026 @womenriseup2026.bsky.social · 5d
We hate you for free!!!!!

#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 5d
I’m sorry kids, you can’t have those M&Ms, the guy who snorted coke off a toilet seat said so.

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Dr. Alexandria Brangwin 🇦🇺 @alexbrangwin.bsky.social · 5d
I don't even think #MAGA put that much thought into it.
They see the country and politics as a sporting match, and their team has to win at all costs.
Anything negative they don't like gets falsely declared as "made up" by the "other side" to dismiss it for free.