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%

This is what fascism looks like.

Federal "officers used racial slurs and sorted everyone in the crowd into groups “based on perceived immigration status,” the lawsuit says. Jenn Rolnick Borchetta, deputy director of policing at the ACLU, said people were treated “less than human.”

Clown Car.
BREAKING: The Pentagon let Customs and Border Protection use an anti-drone laser before the FAA closed El Paso airspace, AP sources say.
FAA closes airspace around El Paso, Texas, for 10 days, grounding all flights
The Federal Aviation Administration is closing the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas for 10 days, grounding all flights to and from the airport.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 1d
BREAKING: The House passed the so-called SAVE America Act which threatens to upend our freedom to vote.

The bill could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters by requiring documents like passports or birth certificates to register to vote and forcing voter roll purges. The Senate must reject it.

“Quietly withdrawn” because that’s how bullies withdraw after they’ve been defeated.
National Guard troops were quietly withdrawn from some U.S. cities
The deployments encountered repeated legal setbacks that stymied President Donald Trump’s show of force in Los Angeles, Chicago and Portland, Oregon.
wapo.st

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First, the Trump administration said it detained Leqaa Kordia for an immigration violation.

Then, they used her participation in a pro-Palestine Columbia protest to justify it.

Now, they say she supports Hamas because she sent money to family in Palestine.

She has been detained for nearly a year:
Why Has This Columbia University Protester Been in ICE Detention for Nearly a Year?
Leqaa Kordia's family worries about her health after she was briefly hospitalized last week. DHS refused to give them information about her condition and she is still 'very sick.'
zeteo.com

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People incarcerated in federal prisons have the right to attorney-client privilege — yet our justice system has not adapted to electronic communications.
 
My bipartisan bill would expand this right, enshrined in our Sixth Amendment, to include email.
Jayapal: To the survivors in the room, if you are willing, please stand. And if you are willing, please raise your hands. If you have still not been able to meet with this DOJ. Please note for the record that every single survivor has raised their hand.

Trump's white supremacist immigration policies taken to court
Trump Administration Sued Over Ban on Immigration From 75 Countries
www.nytimes.com

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
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
Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."
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
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