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Nandita Sharma

@nsharma101.bsky.social

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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 nanditasharma.net

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Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 1h

When will the aid arrive in Gaza?!

All I hear is "soon," "soon," "soon."

People in Gaza have been starved of resources in the war zone they've been trapped in for 2+ years.

It must move now.

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Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 2h

OMG.

Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 2h

Didn't Keaton keep publicly supporting Woody Allen long after it became clear that he sexually abused his 7-year-old daughter?

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Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 2h

Heard Maria Corina Machado on NPR's Up First today. She dedicated her Nobel Peace Prize to Trump, kissing his ass by saying he's a peacemaker. Went on to agree with Trump's unlawful bombing of Venezuelan nationals (+ others) on ships.

Nobel does it again: gives a warmonger a peace prize.

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Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 20h

The key reason that many people hid those targeted by Nazis was that someone asked for their help.

If there is hope in our ability to defeat fascists, this is it. Many simply do not want to be on the fascists’ side.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 23h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

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Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 1d

When Trump doesn't get everything, he's been "robbed"

Each day, a new whine: Today, Nobel Peace Prize was "stolen" from him simply because he desperately wanted it, but didn't get it

Fox "News" agree: "Nobel Peace Prize goes to María Corina Machado, despite calls for Trump to receive the award"

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Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 1d

A world without borders, one that acknowledges that our freedom to move is being violently denied by nation-states, is the way out of this mess.

Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 1d

Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old.

There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.

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Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 1d

Ok: we’ll hold you to the promise that the Dems will ensure free, public, universal healthcare for all (ie a hell of a lot more than government subsidies for private, for-profit healthcare plans).

Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 2d

"Heath care is a right that should be available to every single American.

That's what this fight is all about!" - @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

This is the way

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 1d

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

PORTLAND: “The frogs are multiplying”

(#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING:

The Israeli government has officially approved the deal to end the war in Gaza.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

CNN: We have just learned that Letitia James has just been indicted by the DOJ

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 2d

Last month, ICE’s own investigators found that Texas’ massive Camp East Montana had subjected detained individuals to conditions that have violated _at least 60 federal standards_.

Detained individuals have been “held virtually incommunicado from the outside.” www.npr.org/transcripts/...

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Democrat-God @shamballa-warrior.bsky.social · 2d

Ok just in - Federal Judge Orders ICE to stop bashing people’s head, body slamming and shoving people to the ground. 👍

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d

Is there a better indication of how superficial and unhelpful mainstream media has become than that they are cutely musing about whether the domestic terrorist who changed "The Department of Defense" to "The Department of War" will get a Nobel Peace Prize—instead of reporting the fascism/terrorism.

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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 2d

"Heath care is a right that should be available to every single American.

That's what this fight is all about!" - @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

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Martin Jay @martinrjay.bsky.social · 2d

A report by UNICEF released on October 8th stated that the number of children displaced...

UNICEF says 680,000 children displaced by violence in Haiti

A report by UNICEF released on October 8th stated that the number of children displaced...

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 2d

"Every time we have been attacked w/pepper bullets or tear gas or pepper spray … it has felt like it came from anger that we were there, and not from any determined safety need or protocol," said Rev. Hannah Kardon, who has been shot w/pepper bullets _multiple times_. "They are unhinged."

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Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 2d

This is where Fox News and the worldwide web got us.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Democrats should just start insisting that they saw very real videos of people rioting at Mar-a-Lago -- overturning golf carts, setting fire to the brunch buffet, stabbing busboys with carving knives, whatever -- and calling on Trump to send the Illinois National Guard there to restore order.

Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 2d

Tragically, anti-immigrant politics is a sure-fire way for nation-states and capital to suppress any gains “citizens” could make.

The sooner we learn that solidarity across all lines of division makes us stronger, the closer we’ll all be to social justice.