Nandita Sharma (@nsharma101) — Bluesky Profile

27 minutes ago

Their *actions* caused reputational damage.

The videos expose their actions.

This is government censorship to protect the people who damaged our systems and destroyed people’s lives with no thought.

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1 hour ago

Many Muslims are US citizens.

Fascists are expanding the groupings they want “gone.”

Remember: the Nazis also began with fantasies of “mass deportation,” but didn’t stop there.

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6 hours ago

E.P.A. Moves to Weaken Limits on a Cancer-Causing Gas

Capital over people, over and over and over again.

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23 hours ago

JUST IN: Judge Shah in Illinois has blocked the Trump admin from yanking $600m in public health funds from four blue states, saying it appeared to be a “contrived” and illegal effort to punish them for sanctuary immigration policies storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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22 hours ago

Jesus. Fucking. Christ. This kid wants to get out of detention in time for his school spelling bee. What the fuck are we doing.

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1 day ago

Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.

"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men."

Just saying it right out loud now.

newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

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22 hours ago

Stunningly cold and calculated ignorance in the service of fascism.

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1 day ago

WIRED named the DOGE operative accused here of planning to take Social Security data to his new job. It's John Solly, and he works for the government contractor Leidos, a company that has millions in contracts with SSA.

read more here:

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1 day ago

#BoycottUSAWorldCup

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1 day ago

Honored to share the experience of mutual aid from the ground level. It's not the particular place, but the process and the people, that make it work.

Now go! Go and help your neighbors!

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1 day ago

A recently published study from a team of researchers in Europe attempts to measure the degree to which X’s algorithm is poisoning the brains of those who continue to use it. The study, which took place in 2023, randomly assigned around 5,000 X users to view either their algorithmic or chronological feeds over a seven-week period, and then measured the effects on users’ political attitudes and online behavior.

For anyone who does not have a vested interest in the financial success of X, the findings are pretty grim. The researchers found that the “For you” tab shifted users’ political opinions toward more conservative positions on certain issues—for example, the then-ongoing criminal investigations into President Donald Trump, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. They found that the algorithmic feed increased user engagement, promoted conservative-coded political content, and demoted posts from traditional news sources, which appeared in users’ algorithmic feeds 58.1% less often than they did in users’ chronological feeds.

Finally, and maybe most troublingly, the researchers found that these effects were asymmetric—that although turning the algorithm on changed users’ views, turning it off did not move views in the other direction. After the study, the chronological feeds of participants the study exposed to the algorithm contained 60% more posts from conservative accounts and 28% more posts from conservative political activists, relative to the chronological feeds of study participants who did not use the algorithmic feed. The researchers attribute these results to the types of accounts that users encountered in the “For you” tab and eventually chose to follow, thus adding those accounts to their chronological feeds, too.

In other words, once the X algorithm moves you to the right, you probably stay there. And if you use the X algorithm long enough, even on those occasions when you decide to peruse the “Following” tab, you will probably see more conservative-coded content than you would have if you had never checked out the “For you” tab in the first place.

I know we all understood that the post-Musk version of Twitter featured more right-wing slop, but this academic study of the algorithm's effects is pretty astonishing: Just 7 weeks of using the "For you" feed made X users more sympathetic to Trump www.fastcompany.com/91507338/x-a...

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1 day ago

I Watched 6 Hours of DOGE Bro Testimony. Here's What They Had to Say For Themselves The hours of videos provide fascinating, or perhaps horrifying, insight into the thinking of someone inside DOGE.

I have watched 6 hours of a DOGE bro deposition. The whole thing, start to finish. It's a fascinating, and horrifying, look at the people who caused so much damage, didn't really achieve anything at all, while still being so sure they are right. Here's what they said: www.404media.co/i-watched-6-...

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1 day ago

Officer having anxiety attack took ambulance sent for man dying from police shooting, report says A man who was shot by Connecticut police last year and later died had to wait 10 extra minutes for another ambulance to arrive at the scene, after another officer having an anxiety attack took the first one.

A man who was shot by Connecticut police last year and later died had to wait 10 extra minutes for another ambulance to arrive at the scene, after another officer having an anxiety attack took the first one.

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1 day ago

Nazis of Color - UNICORN RIOT In May 2023, when Mauricio Garcia killed eight people in an outlet mall in Allen, Texas, it seemed like just another senseless mass murder similar to innumerable school shootings. But when it came out...

why I co-authored this piece a few years ago

unicornriot.ninja/2023/nazis-o...

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3 days ago

On the one-year anniversary of his detention by federal authorities, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and First Lady Rama Duwaji welcomed Mahmoud Khalil, his wife Noor, and their baby boy, Deen, to Gracie Mansion to break the fast together.

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1 month ago

National TPS Alliance v. Noem, No. 25-5724
JAN 28 2026
MOLLY C. DWYER, CI
U.S. COURT OF APPE.
Mendoza, Circuit Judge, with whom Wardlaw, Circuit Judge, joins as to Parts I and II, concurring:
I wholeheartedly agree with Judge Wardlaw's opinion and its conclusion
that Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem exceeded her authority under 8
U.S.C. § 1254a when she vacated and terminated Temporary Protected Status
("TPS") for Venezuela and Haiti. I believe Judge Wardlaw's explanation is
sufficient to dispose of this case.
However, I write separately to underscore why we must not permit government agencies to justify their actions with pretext, especially when that pretext is cloaking animus on the basis of race or national origin. When decision-makers repeatedly broadcast their impermissible reasons for making a decision, we should heed the fitting words of Maya Angelou and "believe them the first time."
Maya Angelou, Oprah Winfrey Show (Harpo Productions broadcast, June 18,
1997). And as the Supreme Court cautions, we cannot allow agencies to eschew
their obligation to engage in reasoned decision-making and instead use
administrative procedure to reach preordained outcomes. I therefore author this concurrence to explain why the Secretary's actions would not stand had we
reached the merits of Plaintiffs' Administrative Procedure Act ("APA") claims.

We cannot ignore the backdrop of extraordinary statements by direct
decision-makers when assessing whether the agency's proffered rationale was
genuine or merely a pretext for an ulterior (and impermissible) motive. The record
is replete with public statements by Secretary Noem and President Donald Trump
that evince a hostility toward, and desire to rid the country of, TPS holders who are
Venezuelan and Haitian. And these were not generalized statements about
immigration policy toward Venezuela and Haiti or national security concerns to
which the Executive is owed deference. Instead, these statements were overtly
founded on racist stereotyping based on country of origin.
Stereotyping on the basis of race or country of origin can never form the
basis of "reasoned decision making" nor can it provide a "rational connection between the facts found and the choice made" necessary to survive review under
the APA. All. for the Wild Rockies v. Petrick, 68 F.4th 475, 493 (9th Cir. 2023)
(internal quotation marks and citations omitted) ("The touchstone of 'arbitrary and
capricious' review under the APA is reasoned decisionmaking." (alterations and
internal quotation marks omitted) (quoting Altera Corp. & Subsidiaries v. Comm'r,
926 F.3d 1061, 1080 (9th Cir. 2019))).

Animus based on race or national origin can never qualify as a "political
consideration[]" or "Administration priorit[y]" that falls beyond a court's scrutiny
of agency decision-making. Dep't of Com., 588 U.S. at 781; see Vill. of Arlington
Heights v. Metro. Hous. Dev. Corp., 429 U.S. 252, 265-66 (1977) ("I]t is because
legislators and administrators are properly concerned with balancing numerous
competing considerations that courts refrain from reviewing the merits of their
decisions, absent a showing of arbitrariness or irrationality. But racial
discrimination is not just another competing consideration. When there is a proof
that a discriminatory purpose has been a motivating factor in the decision, this
judicial deference is no longer justified.").
Here, the Secretary's statements are neither isolated nor stray. They are
numerous, specific, and closely tied to the agency action at issue. Cf. Trump v.
Hawaii, 585 U.S. 667, 701-02 (2018). Many of the assertions were made within
days or hours of the Secretary's decision to vacate TPS for Venezuela and Haiti.
Here, the Secretary's and President's statements of ethnic hostility and prejudice
toward TPS holders who are Venezuelan and Haitian reveals the ugly truth of bad
faith and impermissible animus.*

At its core, the APA enshrines a fundamental principle: agencies of the
federal government "must pursue their goals reasonably" and in a manner that is
transparent to the people they serve. Dep't of Com., 588 U.S. at 785. When
executive officials short-circuit statutory guardrails or base decisions on hidden
motives, it is not a mere technical lapse but an affront to the rule of law. Judicial
vigilance in these circumstances is essential to ensure that regulatory power
remains tethered to law and reason, not the whims of hidden motives or prejudice.
In sum, while the Executive may certainly shape an agency's policy within
the scope granted by Congress, it may not do so by subverting the APA's
requirements or by smuggling racial or national origin animus into the administrative process. Animus is never a legitimate basis for agency action and will always constitute arbitrary and capricious decision-making.
The law's promise of accountability demands no less than candor and reasoned decision-making from those entrusted with immense regulatory powers.
Here, that promise was betrayed, and it is our duty to say what is already plainly
known to the public.

Judge Mendoza concurs to call Trump and Noem racist xenophobes.

“It is our duty to say what is already plainly known to the public.”

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2 days ago

I can't say that I'll be boycotting Chili's as it has been years since I've been in one, and you can't really boycott a restaurant you already don't go to. That said, I'll be happy not to change my habits, transphobia leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

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2 days ago

V.A. Begins Drive to Put Homeless Veterans Into Guardianship

Classic Trump: use the violent, coercive power of the nation-state as a hammer against anyone deemed to be a "social problem."

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2 days ago

Hanno Brankamp's important new book: Occupied Refuge: Humanitarian Colonization and the Camp in Kenya!

Marking a much-needed shift within refugee studies, it situates the politics of refugee camps + their neoliberalization in a broader discussion of colonialism, postcolonialism, and decolonization.

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3 days ago

A. Do you not know about Clinton's disastrous immigration "reforms" of 1996 (which made the system even more brutal and restrictive)?

B. The only good immigration regime is no immigration regime (i.e., freedom of mobility for all).

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3 days ago

Trump Antisemitism Inquiry Demanding List of Jews at Penn Heads to Court

The Trump administration is literally demanding a list of Jewish faculty, students, and clubs from my employer. How did we get here?

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3 days ago

Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job The Social Security inspector general’s office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive in a major potential security breach, said people familia...

He allegedly said "he needed help transferring data from a thumb drive “to his personal computer so that he could ‘sanitize’ the data before using it at [the company.] ... [and] that he expected to receive a presidential pardon ... ." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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3 days ago

Nazir Afzal: ‘Class Discrimination Isn’t a Complex Mystery – It’s a Structural Issue Quietly Enforced, Politely Denied, Endlessly Deferred’ – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition The Chancellor of Manchester University has co-authored a new report, ‘Class Ceiling’, examining working-class participation in the creative industries across Greater Manchester. He spoke to Hardeep Matharu and Peter Jukes about how opportunities for people from poorer backgrounds has declined since the 1960s, and why his work prosecuting the grooming gangs perpetrators as the former Chief Crown Prosecutor for the North West informed his insights on class

🟨 Print Edition — Nazir Afzal: ‘Class Discrimination Isn’t a Complex Mystery – It’s a Structural Issue Quietly Enforced, Politely Denied, Endlessly Deferred’

The Chancellor of Manchester University has co-authored a new report, ‘Class Ceiling…

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4 days ago

As of today almost all vendors in New York City will no longer have to worry about being given a criminal record for simply vending.

hellgatenyc.com/free-the-ven...

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3 weeks ago

The United States government is currently utilizing (and rapidly expanding) a network of concentration camps deliberately designed to make your fellow human being suffer and die. If you've ever read about the holocaust and thought "what would I do" now is the time to think of an answer and quick.

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4 days ago

Anyone who quotes Burke to talk about social problems exposes themselves as a conservative who valourizes stasis in the things they like and change in the things they don’t like. Talk about “hyper-individualism!”

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4 days ago

Excellent point! I'm pointing out that nationalists don't like to talk about the costs of immigration and border controls, but blather on about "protecting the nation" and "national culture." This includes moderates, centrists, and compromisers who also accept restrictions on free mobility

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4 days ago

This is not true—driver’s licenses aren’t acceptable under the SAVE Act without additional proof of citizenship. The fact that they keep doing this sleight of hand should make clear that the SAVE Act is not something that “every American gets”

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4 days ago

EXCLUSIVE: I’m the Palestinian Who Has Been in ICE Detention for Almost a Year Don't forget us on International Women's Day, writes Leqaa Kordia.

“If you want to honor the strength and resilience of women, remember those of us locked behind these walls.”

In a new essay released on International Women’s Day, Leqaa Kordia reflects on nearly one year of inhumane treatment in ICE’s detention centers.

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4 days ago

Just called and his office staff are as rude as you’d expect from people who accept a job from a fascist.

I can take a bit of rudeness to let them know that there is opposition to such vile comments.

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