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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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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 11h

BREAKING:

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

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13h

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

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 13h

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 · 13h

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 · 14h

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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Martin Jay @martinrjay.bsky.social · 15h

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 · 16h

"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 · 17h

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

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20h

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 · 17h

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.

Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 1d

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18h

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20h

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21h

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Linda UWS<->VT ⓥ @lindavt.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t downplay what these lunatics are doing. DOGE crawled a staggering amount of private citizen’s data.

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 1d

🚨🚨🚨Chicago - NOW!🚨🚨🚨
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Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 1d

OMG! Dream candidate!

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 1d

Please consider coming to the University of Hawaii and working in the sociology department with me!

Assistant Professor (Sociology of Health and Quantitative Methods) (0084832)

Title: Assistant Professor (Sociology of Health and Quantitative Methods)Position Number: 0084832Hiring Unit: UHM College of Social Sciences - SociologyLocation: Manoa CampusDate Posted: September 24,...

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 1d

Adelita Grijalva won her election fair and square.

Now House Speaker Mike Johnson is refusing to swear her in because she would be the final signature to release the Epstein files.

Mr. Speaker, respect democracy. Obey the law. Swear Representative Grijalva in immediately.

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California Fast Food Workers Union @cafastfoodunion.org · 1d

Today we marched on the boss at Carl's Jr. in Los Angeles to get one of our members what she’s owed: she’s files claimed of over $30,000 in unpaid wages and penalties.

Fast food workers in Los Angeles on average lose almost $3,500 a year, because employers are paying us below the minimum wage.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

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Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 2d

Monsters

ICE kept most offices open in shutdown — but not the one inspecting detention centers

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s entire Office of Detention Oversight has been placed on furlough, despite surging numbers of detainees.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 3d

Reminder that we still don’t know what happened to the 1,000 immigrants who went missing from Alligator Alcatraz.

Their families and attorneys can’t locate them.

They’ve been disappeared.

People are still being sent to that horrible place without any due process.

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Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 3d

Just got my copy of this new children’s book about an abolitionist hero of the ages. Based on the book by @marcusrediker.bsky.social

Need more for all the beautiful tots in my life!

Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 3d

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Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 3d

NEWS: DC US District Court issued an emergency motion to stop ICE from detaining unaccompanied immigrant children in adult facilities once they turn 18. This ruling enforces a permanent injunction + halts a directive to place newly “aged-out” youth into adult ICE detention.

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Ewart, Dave @davidewart.bsky.social · 3d

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) still hasn't sworn in an Arizona Democrat who won her special election last month, and she suspects he's blocking her to prevent the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva came to Washington last week

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3d

Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 3d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 3d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Josiah Walrus @josiahwalrus1.bsky.social · 3d

17 year old psycho charged with killing two girls by running them over while they rode their bikes. One of the girls had made fun of Charlie Kirk and he left an online trail of videos talking about how angry that made him as he pranked her with pizza deliveries. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdcR...

17-Year-Old Suspect In Hit & Run Murder Is Vincent Battiloro

YouTube video by Inside Edition

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