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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 · 2h

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 · 3h

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 · 8h

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 · 4h

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 · 1d

"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 · 4h

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 · 5h

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 · 5h

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 · 6h

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 · 8h

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING:

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

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

"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 · 1d

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...

maghrebi.org

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 1d

"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 · 1d

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

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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

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

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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,...

www.schooljobs.com

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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 · 2d

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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