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%

Wow, the level of cowardice is astounding.

That just requires the rest of us to be extraordinarily brave.
No problem. Nothing to see here. It's all fine. We can all trust Trump to be honest about his "popularity".

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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No problem. Nothing to see here. It's all fine. We can all trust Trump to be honest about his "popularity".

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

There’s never been a time when only White people ilved in the US.

What this Nazi is talking about is wanting whites to dominate all others. He’s fine with us as his nannies, cooks, cleaners, drivers, etc.

Classic white supremacism: stay in your subordinated place or else.

Not going to happen
Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.

Does this mean “FCK Trump”?

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Will Fox be updating their story on this and giving it the same amount of airtime as they did initial arrest?
Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.

The ranting and railing, lying and stealing, vanity and vengeance: all this is part of the fascist aesthetic

By acting this way, Trump and his gang signal that, if you join them, you get to act this way too

That’s what the pardons of Jan 6 goons was about. That’s what the DHS goon squad is about

I'm thinking of all the times Trump and other right-wingers make hay out of people breaking the law when released on bail or parole and whip up a "law and order" feeding frenzy

Yet, not a peep on this one.

It's not enough to point out that these creeps are hypocrites, but we need to keep a record
"A jury in Florida found the man guilty of five charges, including molesting a child under 12 and another under 16...

"He tried to silence one victim by claiming he would receive $10 million from the Trump administration as restitution for Jan. 6 defendants...

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Thank you, brave people in Minnesota who stood up against Trump's "mass deportation" policies!

This would not have happened without you.

We need to ensure that Trump's personal goon squad receives the same un-welcome that the great people in Minnesota gave!
Trump Administration Live Updates: Democrats Block Funding Bill as Homeland Security Shutdown Looms
www.nytimes.com

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"A jury in Florida found the man guilty of five charges, including molesting a child under 12 and another under 16...

"He tried to silence one victim by claiming he would receive $10 million from the Trump administration as restitution for Jan. 6 defendants...

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
For anyone wondering what Greg Bovino has been up to lately…

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.
bit.ly
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.
NEGUSE: AG Bondi, that man works for you now, right? The man in that video from J6 yelling 'kill them!' at cops. His name is Jared Wise.

BONDI: He does work for us, yes. I believe he was pardoned

NEGUSE: And you expect hard-working police officers to believe you take law enforcement seriously?

“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