Reposted by Albert Pintokennethgray.bsky.social @kennethgray.bsky.social · 7hIt only took us two years to go from “you’re overreacting” to “public executions.” 0154
Reposted by Albert PintoYung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 6hAlways, always read the magnificent Arundhati Roy 12610
Reposted by Albert Pintoseenfromafar @seenfromafar.bsky.social · 5hWas explaining what was happening in India to my kiddos. 6 yo: why aren’t people protesting trump like this? The youth of India showing the world how it’s done. 0154
Reposted by Albert PintoAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Politics: caught in the pincers of a fascist, hindu supremacist party (RSS, BJP) Economy: ensnared by Oligarchs Ecology: wrecked in the name of Development Grounds for hope? India's most youthful generation bursting with energy & creativity www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-a...straitstimes.comFrom PhD student to Indian police’s most wanted Gen Z protester: Who is Neha Bora?Neha Bora becomes a symbol of India’s Gen Z protests over voter roll deletions and calls for the election chief’s resignation. Read more at straitstimes.com. 15117
Reposted by Albert PintoAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026"Saw this again last night and started crying laughing at 3am" x.com/MagatsuJordy... 113321
Reposted by Albert PintoAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Amazing photo in New York Times of Gen Z protests in India. 623489
Reposted by Albert PintoAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 26/03/2026“We will restore peace, stability and harmony throughout the world"-Donald Trump @katemac.bsky.social & I decided it was time for a Polycrisis podcast about the peace, stability & harmony reigning throughout the world Enjoy our first season ELECTRIC WORLD ORDER podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i... 923767
Reposted by Albert PintoLe Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 14h'Netanyahu's diatribes against antisemitism aim above all to silence his critics'lemonde.fr'Netanyahu's diatribes against antisemitism aim above all to silence his critics'Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu uses the fight against antisemitism to legitimize his alliances with Jewish supremacists and the European far right, writes historian Jean-Pierre Filiu in his column for Le Monde. 33355162
Reposted by Albert PintoMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23hThe Art of the Deal, folks. Donald is such an idiot. 37892863108
Reposted by Albert PintoAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Modi has lost it. "The govt has responded by massively increasing the security presence in the capital. Around thirty thousand police and paramilitary personnel have been deployed, internet services have been disrupted, trains to Delhi have been cancelled, metro stations and roads have been closed." 6769297
Reposted by Albert Pintobrendanamartin.bsky.social @brendanamartin.bsky.social · 14hFrom a magnificent ongoing 🧵on both rounds of the Brazilian elections. 0125
Reposted by Albert PintoAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Thank you to the great economist Jayati Ghosh. My essay synthesises recent accounts: Jayati Ghosh Making of a catastrophe Ashoka Mody’s India is broken Puja Mehra Lost Decade Nikita Sud Gujarat model Jairus Banaji on Corporate India Rishabh Kumar on Inequality CEDA @_CMIE data archive.ph/gWGXG 16411
Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 14h"Growth emerges when states can provide defense against society’s external and internal enemies...." Terrific review: x.com/JesusFerna70... 0120
Reposted by Albert PintoHari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 11/10/2026A wealth of resources here for anyone trying to understand what’s happening in India. 2340188
Reposted by Albert PintoClub Saanich @thesaanichdaily.bsky.social · 16hIt's wild and entirely predictable how little attention our corporate media is giving to the massive youth protests around the world. From France, to Brazil, to Chile, to Spain, and now India. #cdnmedia 02517
Reposted by Albert PintoAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026"Kill us, we will become ghosts and write of your killings, with all the evidence. You write jokes in court; We will write ‘justice’ on the walls." Great poetry from last wave of protests. Roger Waters recites Aamir Aziz's 'Sab Yaad Rakha Jayega' in solidarity www.thenewsminute.com/news/watch-p...thenewsminute.comWatch: Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters recites Aamir Aziz’s ‘Sab Yaad Rakha Jayega’The Citizenship Amendment Act, which makes religion a basis for Indian citizenship, has drawn criticism from across the international community. Even as protest 17316
Reposted by Albert Pintodigitaldesert.bsky.social @digitaldesert.bsky.social · 15hGift link for this story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/w...nytimes.comIndia Cut 130 Million From Voter Roll, Fueling Protests Against Modi (Gift Article)Public anger is growing over an exercise that critics say undermines the world’s largest democracy, particularly disenfranchising Muslims under the Hindu nationalist government. 0159
Reposted by Albert PintoAaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 15h"Public anger is growing over the government's purge of voter rolls... Nearly a billion people in the world's biggest democracy are being asked to show documents to prove that they should keep the right to vote." 196
Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 16h"What characterizes this moment of majoritarian muscle flexing is the heavy-handed suppression of dissent (the crux of democracy), especially in university spaces, and how the act of protest itself has been criminalized by the State." -- @rkadelhi.bsky.social phenomenalworld.org/interviews/b...phenomenalworld.orgBrand New India | The PolycrisisTim Sahay interviews Ravinder Kaur on BJP’s “India Shining” campaign, Hindu nationalist designs, and globalist visions 0132
Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 16h@rkadelhi.bsky.social:"India’s efforts to brand itself as the “world’s largest democracy” helped project it as an alternative to an authoritarian China—whence the paradox:under Modi, the very democratic advantage that shaped Brand India’s image on the world stage entailed its steady erosion at home" 1172
Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 16h"The rally for Lula in São Paulo impresses with its size. Avenida Paulista was...taken over. I dare say it's the largest rally of this election and the last ones in terms of number of people. If the PT's intention was to show strength, the goal was achieved with plenty to spare." -- @alexaguiarpoa 34910
Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 17h"If you don't mind, may I ask a question? Do you know what happened to India in 1947?" "Independence," says a young constable. "That's right. We fought for our freedom from the British, now we'll have to fight you lot for it again." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/w...nytimes.comIndian Police Round Up Protest Leaders and Lock Down Delhi (Gift Article)Thousands of young people tried to gather to protest a sweeping revision of their country’s voter roll. Security forces hauled many of them away. 09325
Reposted by Albert PintoDylan @dyl057.bsky.social · 17h"Public anger is growing over the government's purge of voter rolls, which critics say could undermine the world's largest democracy." Critics do have a point: purging a fifth of the number of voters in the last election sure could do that! 0136
Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 17h"Fear is infectious, of course. But hope is also infectious. People have courage now because they think that they can have courage." Neha Bora profiled by @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...reuters.comFrom theatre to streets, Gen Z protester Neha Bora a new face of India's youth unrestThe 29-year-old doctoral student said she did not set out to become an activist. 114545
Reposted by Albert PintoDr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 23hMoved beyond words by the transnational group of freedom fighters rising up in this fascist moment. ❤️✊ 04620
Reposted by Albert PintoAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 10/06/2025(this #NewsIfUSAWasAForeignCountry thread is a bit inspired by a legendary thread by the Kenyan satirist Patrick Gathara www.africanews.com/2020/11/06/r...) Meant to poke fun at both US exceptionalism & the Media's silly coverage of 'foreign' news. Ported from my twitter x.com/70sBachchan/... 1286
Reposted by Albert PintoAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 08/06/2025African officials express concern that the nuclear armed, ethnically volatile former British colony is sleepwalking towards a human rights disaster. #NewsIfUSAWasAForeignCountry 239395
Reposted by Albert PintoAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 06/04/2026The Middle Eastern war could cause the collapse of American fossil-hegemony and help China to remake the global energy order. @katemac.bsky.social & I argue here: www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/war... 316362
Reposted by Albert Pintotheoilroad.bsky.social @theoilroad.bsky.social · 21hThey stopped all trains to Delhi, all buses, the metro, shut down Uber, ordered hotels to stop taking reservations, turned off the internet, and have detained at least 20,000 people. 1287
Reposted by Albert Pintotheoilroad.bsky.social @theoilroad.bsky.social · 21hIt’s not at all like DC. I wish Americans would learn to stop making everything about themselves. 1151
Reposted by Albert PintoAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 24/12/2025Sonoran desert….maaaaaan 734329
Reposted by Albert PintoBenjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 18h"What does the ruling party have to fear? Why should it listen to anyone? It is the richest political party on earth, backed by the richest industrialists in the world. It can buy anything. And anyone. Or so it believes. But can this game last forever? ...It cannot." 084
Reposted by Albert PintoJamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 11/10/2026A massive, and massively underrated, threat to a functioning democracy. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/11/u...nytimes.comThreats of Political Violence Have America’s Elected Officials Living in Fear (Gift Article)A Times investigation has found that violent threats have become a new normal among public officials, reshaped private lives, cost millions in security and pushed people out of office. 118758281
Reposted by Albert Pintoherman mark schwartz @thunen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Modi working up to India’s Tiananmen? 🧵⬇️ 093
Reposted by Albert PintoMartin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026The people holding up the internet sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-th…sheets.worksThe people holding up the internetFour billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time. We counted the rest. 02316
Reposted by Albert PintoAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Kashmiri politicians are right to say that Modi and Shah first killed Indian democracy in Kashmir and are now killing it nationwide. "Kashmir model has been exported to Delhi. Welcome to the New Delhi, modelled on New Jammu & Kashmir." - Omar Abdullah x.com/OmarAbdullah... 213533
Reposted by Albert PintoAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Modi government scared of its own people. No right to movement in Delhi today www.youtube.com/shorts/i8ZE4... bsky.app/profile/shre...youtube.comDelhi Police detain politicians and journalists ahead of Jantar Mantar protest...YouTube video by Brut India 29126
Reposted by Albert PintoAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Do read this sparkling profile of Neha Bohra by Rohini Mohan "Indian police’s most wanted student protester is an unlikely heroine When the police drag Bohra along the road,the protester leans back,face placid but eyes blazing,& delivers pitch-perfect political rhetoric in literary Hindi & English"straitstimes.comFrom PhD student to Indian police’s most wanted Gen Z protester: Who is Neha Bora?Neha Bora becomes a symbol of India’s Gen Z protests over voter roll deletions and calls for the election chief’s resignation. Read more at straitstimes.com. 2285100
Reposted by Albert PintoAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Neha Vora has sparked defiance in Modi's India. Her movement has shown the emperor has no clothes @shreedaisy.bsky.social “They fear/that the defenceless & common people will stop fearing them” “Now, that day has come. We do not fear you” www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-a... x.com/newslaundry/... 27021
Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Amazing photo in New York Times of Gen Z protests in India. 623489
Reposted by Albert PintoBetter Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026All around the world, Conservatives are consistently shit at climate math - grossly overstating the costs of climate action and grossly understating the costs of climate change. 13010
Reposted by Albert PintoAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Fire & creativity of India’s youth “Bora played with lines from Gorakh Pandey’s Hindi poem Unka Dar (Their Fear): “They fear/that the defenceless and common people will stop fearing them.” “Now, that day has come. We do not fear you.” www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-a... bsky.app/profile/shre... 15615
Reposted by Albert PintoAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Arundhati Roy on how India's movement started...in BU:) "Chief Justice of India, Surya Kant, calling some unemployed young Indians cockroaches, Abhijeet Dipke, a student living in Boston, posted...on Instagram: “What if all cockroaches come together?” Millions responded." thewire.in/rights/cockr...thewire.inCockroach Democracy: Unarmed and DangerousCan all the people be fooled all the time? Can a country with a population of a billion-and-a-half be dragged around like a corpse forever? It cannot. The Cockroaches are out and about. 02311
Reposted by Albert PintoAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The actions of a terrified and weak administration. The great tragedy is that the radicalized Hindu middle classes who support him will perceive this as a sign of how "masculine" and "strong" their daddy is. 05019
Reposted by Albert PintoClaire Connelly @claireconnelly.bsky.social · 10/10/2026New Delhi is a tinder box. The Modi government is essentially shutting down roads, rail, metro, and cellphone networks, and deploying police and military personnel in response to protests calling for the resignation of the Chief Election Commissioner www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...amnesty.orgIndia: Delhi police must facilitate right to peaceful protest amid lockdown-like restrictions in capitalResponding to the sweeping and disproportionate restrictions imposed by the Delhi Police and the Government of India ahead of planned protests in the capital on Saturday 10 October, Aakar Patel, Chair... 1206107