Sign in

If you know you know

@privatechand.bsky.social
9.7K followers 3.7K following 8.2K posts

Historian at a US university. Posts about history, India, technology, extremism. Do not feel safe, due to past Hindutva harassment, sharing identity publicly.

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by If you know you know
Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 23h
Official monthly data is in, and US solar power generation hit a new record high, up 21% compared to this time last year!
a graph of US monthly solar generation
151121236
Reposted by If you know you know
Jeff Nascimento @jnascim.info · 28/09/2026
Organismo ligado à CNBB produz relatório mostrando histórico de ataques da extrema direita contra os católicos www.brasildefato.com.br/2026/09/28/e...
brasildefato.com.br
Exclusivo: organismo ligado à CNBB produz relatório mostrando histórico de ataques da extrema direita contra os católicos
Bispos e demais integrantes da Confederação Nacional dos Bispos do Brasil (CNBB) receberam, nesta segunda-feira (28), um relatório produzido pela Comissão Brasileira de Justiça e Paz (CBJP)…
15514
Reposted by If you know you know
Jeff Nascimento @jnascim.info · 28/09/2026
📑 Ataques à CNBB e aos seus Bispos: Recorrência, intimidação e disputa política — Linha do tempo de 2018 a 2026 jnascim.info/AtaquesContraCNBB
A página do sumário lista 13 seções: síntese da controvérsia (p.3), panorama e vínculo com a reflexão interna da Igreja (p.4), períodos cronológicos — 2018-2020 (campanhas, desqualificação e intimidação), 2021-2024 (boicotes e ofensas), 2025-2026 (novos temas) —, um capítulo dedicado a 27 de setembro de 2026 (acusação, circulação e comentários), resposta da CNBB e medidas de proteção, registros de memória de hostilidade, conclusão sobre atores e método, um anexo com 33 registros posteriores à circulação de uma "fala", e um índice de 61 publicações digitais preservadas.

Um destaque em amarelo afirma que "a recorrência está documentada desde 2018", explicando que o material reúne posts originais da CNBB e organismos católicos, críticas e registros jornalísticos de contexto — não uma lista de 58 ataques independentes.
4362142
Reposted by If you know you know
Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 17h
God I'm so tired of seeing rapists everywhere. I hate these fucking braindead pigs, I hate watching them gorge on power and money for no reason except that they want it, I hate knowing they're torturing women with impunity, I hate seeing their smug stupid fucking faces on the news.
41578209
Reposted by If you know you know
Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 9h
It is a conference mostly comprised of people who are mainlining LinkedIn AI-generated posts, so of course - but it is SUCH A WILD demonstration of how just a handful of companies now have their hands on the levers for how basically most of the world's business people create language IRL / realtime
5467
Reposted by If you know you know
Diane de Vignemont @diane2v.bsky.social · 13h
My latest, for @newlinesmag.bsky.social: Pope Leo and the Trojan Cross From far-right billionaires to ultraconservative TikTok influencers, a who’s who of France’s identitarian Catholics hijacked the pope’s visit to France newlinesmag.com/spotlight/ho...
newlinesmag.com
How France’s Religious Nationalists Hijacked the Pope’s Visit
From far-right billionaires to ultraconservative TikTok influencers, the movement laid Easter eggs all along Leo XIV’s trail through Paris
054
Reposted by If you know you know
Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 8h
Yields on 30-year Treasuries are now higher than at any point in 24 years: Evening Briefing Americas
bloom.bg
Tuesday Was a Bad Day for Bonds and Stocks
Get caught up.
32411
Reposted by If you know you know
The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 8h
In North Kordofan, Sudan, musicians are struggling to make a living as the country’s brutal civil war disrupts everyday life The RSF have intensified deadly drone attacks on government-held towns in the frontline state, deepening insecurity and making it difficult for musicians to earn a living.
086
Reposted by If you know you know
Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 15h
One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here.
2839431038
Reposted by If you know you know
New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 8h
NEW: Buryats, a persecuted minority in Russia, have been denied asylum in the U.S. After a near miss with ICE, a truck driver recalls the Russia he fled and shares his fears of deportation, in this report by Andrea Prada Bianchi and Soyonbo Borjgin for @newlinesmag.bsky.social
newlinesmag.com
ICE Turns Its Sights on Buryat Asylum-Seekers
A member of the persecuted Russian Mongol minority reveals the life he hopes to keep in the US, and the one he dreads if deported
064
Reposted by If you know you know
Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Senior editor Cereese Qusba spent months reporting on the case before breaking the news of the lawsuit on September 18.”
thecut.com
How Student Journalists Broke the ‘Cornell Seven’ Case
“Our coverage was absolutely completely raw from the lawsuit and nothing was concealed. At a minimum, that’s what we can do as the student newspaper.”
221485514
Reposted by If you know you know
Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Coming up Tues, 6 Oct - Towards an Oceanic Art History of the Early Modern Portuguese World Speaker: Elsje van Kessel Host: ARTES, Iberian & Latin American Visual Culture Group To register for the event and to receive a Zoom link, sign up here: artes-uk.org/online-progr... #earlymodern
Digital event poster featuring ships on water in the background, human figures in the foreground; text with event detail in white.
0179
Reposted by If you know you know
ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 18h
shutting down frat houses won't end rape culture, but it will disorganize a lot of rapists, and i think that's probably worth doing if only to destabilize what is apparently an ecology of organizations that functionally exist to rape women per the whole "purpose of a system is what it does" insight.
83744713
Reposted by If you know you know
Jim Kane @kanejim.bsky.social · 9h
Good timing…
WASHINGTON, Sept 30 (Reuters) - The US securities ​regulator is set to propose rules on Wednesday aimed at expanding retail investors' access to private assets that have ‌traditionally been reserved for professionals, potentially offering higher returns but also exposing everyday Americans to more risk.
The Securities and Exchange Commission's proposals are part of a broader push by US President Donald Trump's administration to "democratize" private assets, such as private equity, private credit, real estate and venture capital, that can potentially result ​in higher returns than traditional stock and bond portfolios.
084
Reposted by If you know you know
Business History, a Taylor & Francis Journal @businesshistory.bsky.social · 10h
Just published! 🌍️ ✈️ doi.org/10.1080/0007... @tandfresearch.bsky.social @mariehuber.bsky.social and Jonathan Krautter show that African postcolonial multinational business was not driven by politics alone. #BizHis #AirAfrique #AfricanHistory #EconHis #Postcolonial #MNEs #StateOwnedEnterprise
145
Reposted by If you know you know
Sojourners @sojo.net · 8h
"Revisiting the long history of Christianity and slavery can challenge assumptions that people bring into discussions about racism in the present." sojo.net/articles/opi...
sojo.net
Reexamining What Early Christians Thought About Slavery
Jennifer Glancy’s ‘Slavery in Christianity’ helps us understand that lying about the past won’t help us understand the present or build a better future.
051
Reposted by If you know you know
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 17h
Time for this classic again.
123128174344
Reposted by If you know you know
Scroll @scroll.in · 8h
For #MahaswetaDevi, history happened in forests and villages, when indigenous groups refused the terms imposed on them. scroll.in/article/1091... Like Jhansir Rani documents Jhansi’s alleys or Aranyer Adhikar traces rebellions in the Chhotanagpur plateau, Amritesh Mukherjee writes.
021
Reposted by If you know you know
Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 8h
10,000 ICE agents are swarming all over the country as we speak, using heavy weaponry to raise the salience of immigration on a daily basis
410816
Reposted by If you know you know
Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 8h
www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
Screenshot of Times Literary Supplement note on Anchit Sathi’s article “AI and the crisis of the author” stating that “We have removed this essay. AI was used in its preparation. The TLS editorial guidelines prohibit the use of AI in the writing and editing process. The author states that he was unaware of the policy.”
4288
Reposted by If you know you know
Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 8h
1,200 reported incidents of sexual assault, dating & domestic violence, and stalking lead to 7 expulsions or dismissals. Cornell has positioned itself as higher ed's industry leader in teaching rape culture to America's future male economic elites. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
usatoday.com
Cornell rarely expels students in sex assault cases | Exclusive
A third of undergraduate women say they've been sexually assaulted. But on average, Cornell reported expelling just one attacker per year.
56222
Reposted by If you know you know
Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 13h
Jesus Christ Cornell
What use was it to bring the writer and activist Chanel Miller to campus in the spring just for fraternity brothers to scroll, bored, on their phones as she movingly shared her experience as Emily Doe, the victim of Brock Turner? As I wrote at the time, I was floored and dismayed as I sat in the audience with one of my brilliant undergraduates; we heard Miller’s shattering account of being sexually assaulted by Turner behind a dumpster at Stanford University after a fraternity party. Her talk was riveting, and there was so much to learn from it. And yet many of the male students who hailed predominantly from fraternities — 15 percent of each chapter was required to be in attendance — were so tuned out that Miller commented ruefully: “You know, this has been my hardest gig, because they didn’t turn down the house lights. I’m not sure how you professors do it, because it’s so hard looking out at this sea of mildly disgruntled faces. I mean, I’m sure you’re all very moved, but …,” Miller smiled. The implication being, it didn’t seem like it, from her angle.
191698378
Reposted by If you know you know
kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Seattle
195192175490
Reposted by If you know you know
Mere Smith @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
FATALITY
A tweet from Joyce Carol Oates: overall takeaway from the Curtis Yarvin profile is that there must be millions of smart-aleck show-offy kids who annoy their teachers and go on to annoy other adults through their lives with their “contrarian” pose that hardens to a carapace over their faces; until, as adults, they still harbor a delusion that, if there is a king, or a fuhrer, he’d be impressed with the guys motor mouth and appoint him to his cabinet rather than deleting him with a negligent swipe of his wrist as Stalin did routinely.
222628423
Reposted by If you know you know
New York Amsterdam News @nyamnews.bsky.social · 8h
New U.S. sanctions target South African officials over claims of anti-white discrimination, which the government calls baseless. #SouthAfrica
amsterdamnews.com
Trump administration hits South Africa with new sanctions over alleged discrimination against whites
Trump administration sanctions on South Africa focus on alleged discrimination against whites and economic policies.
031
Reposted by If you know you know
Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 8h
Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Khaled's $300 billion wealth fund is a key player in the UAE's “Zero Hormuz” strategy — spending heavily on ports and infrastructure to redraw trade routes in the Gulf. Read more: bloom.bg/4yqwQOE 📷: Haruna Furuhashi/Pool/Getty Images
2134
Reposted by If you know you know
Marianne Dhenin @mariannedhe.bsky.social · 8h
Grassroots coalitions in a growing number of states are working to pass legislation to cut municipal or state ties to ICE. New Mexico and New York have both done it this year. I covered those efforts here:
newsletter.mariannedhenin.com
New Mexico Becomes the Latest State to End Cooperation With ICE Under New Law
Activists say ending local and state cooperation with ICE is a key way to obstruct Trump’s mass deportation machine.
06319
Reposted by If you know you know
Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social · 8h
The Bodies, Nature, Knowledge Track organizers are excited to announce a thrilling panel at this year’s #SCSC2026! Female Bodies and Regimes of Legibility in the Seventeenth-Century Hispanic World Organizer: Daniela Ruiz Chair: Pablo F. Gómez Papers include...
113
Reposted by If you know you know
CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 18h
The far right is taking power all around Latin America. This weekend, Brazil will choose whether to return Lula to office or put Bolsonaro's son in power. Our Brazilian comrades explore the stakes, arguing that only grassroots direct action can address Brazil's problems. crimethinc.com/Brazil2026
crimethinc.com
"If Bolsonaro wins, they kill us; if Lula wins, they let us die.”
What the 2026 elections in Brazil mean for the Americas.
113579
Reposted by If you know you know
The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 8h
Egyptian authorities have arrested and detained the entire editorial team of six journalists working at Matsadaash, an investigative journalism and fact-checking outlet. The whereabouts of the journalists remain unknown at the time of writing.
078
Reposted by If you know you know
Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 8h
I am sure this has nothing to do with @cmu.edu cracking down on the free speech of its students and faculty. Students and faculty suspended etc. Griffin is an atrocious anti Palestinian.
1125
Reposted by If you know you know
Ian @ianagp.bsky.social · 8h
Once again the apathy shocks me. 4,508 KIA, plus 179 UK KIA, over a million excess deaths in the region (mostly Iraqi) and... nothing. No anger in defeat. No somber reflection of what went wrong. No celebration for the end of the mission. Nothing.
64817
Reposted by If you know you know
ironeconomist.bsky.social @ironeconomist.bsky.social · 9h
Someone wishes for the good old days and the monkeys paw has decided we should do: (1) a 1970s oil crisis (2) a 1990s tech cycle (3) a 2010s eurozone debt crisis All at once.
811925
Reposted by If you know you know
Scroll @scroll.in · 10h
Discover 30 works of fiction translated into English from Indian languages, from Assamese and Bengali to Kannada, Konkani and more, spanning stories of love, memory, caste, migration, identity, history and belonging. Check the full list here: scroll.in/article/1095... #InternationalTranslationDay
0106
Reposted by If you know you know
Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 20h
Everyone employed at a postsecondary institution (& esp deans of students) should read Kate Manne's powerful essay: "Cease to be a place where sexual assault is often subject to less punishment than protesting and plagiarism. ... become a place where our sons are not initiated into rape culture."
09933
Reposted by If you know you know
The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 10h
Hedge-fund titan Ken Griffin is donating $2 billion to start a Carnegie Mellon University campus in Miami, part of the largest-ever individual gift toward higher education.
on.wsj.com
Exclusive | Ken Griffin Is Making the Largest Donation to Higher Education in U.S. History
The Citadel CEO’s gift will launch a Carnegie Mellon University campus in Miami.
43114
Reposted by If you know you know
Science as Culture @sciasculture.bsky.social · 11h
Volume 35, Issue 3 is finally out with the first part of the Forum on Tech Oligarchy! Edited by @keanbirch.bsky.social, the issue includes 14 articles about the emergence and the political, economic, and social implications of techno-financial elites. 🔗https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/csac20/current
02010
Reposted by If you know you know
Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
UK ‘should be merciless’ in attracting foreign researchers. Labour 2026: Emily Thornberry supports Global Talent Fund expansion, as science secretary backs UKRI chief. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...
researchprofessionalnews.com
UK ‘should be merciless’ in attracting foreign researchers - Research Professional News
Labour 2026: Emily Thornberry supports Global Talent Fund expansion, as science secretary backs UKRI chief
235
Reposted by If you know you know
Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 12h
🚨🚨 @coe.int of Europe said yesterday that the #US formally notified it that it would leave the Group of States against Corruption, or #GRECO. Only two other countries have left GRECO before — #Russia and #Belarus. The fall of the #US on the world scene is striking. apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com
US withdraws from European anti-corruption panel in latest shift away from global groups
The Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from a top European anti-corruption watchdog.
47650448
Reposted by If you know you know
Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
TMZ reports that Diego Sarabia, one of the Cornell students accused of sexual assault, has been fired from his job at Wells Fargo as prosecutors reopen their investigation
tmz.com
Cornell Student Diego Sarabia Loses Wells Fargo Job Amid Alleged Sexual Assault Case
Diego Sarabia, one of the Cornell students accused of sexual assault, is suddenly out of a job at Wells Fargo as prosecutors reopen their investigation of the alleged 2024 incident ... TMZ has learned...
1042353547
Reposted by If you know you know
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
20752301418
If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Lmfao bully him harder it’s working people.
064
Reposted by If you know you know
The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A 94-year-old Jewish human rights barrister was among more than 80 people arrested outside the Labour Party conference in Liverpool while demonstrating in support of Palestine Action. The arrests came as Ed Miliband told critics of the government’s policy on Palestine: “We hear you. You were right"
11428811255
Reposted by If you know you know
The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 28/09/2026
More than 38,000 residential school survivors testified to the abuse they experienced as children. Next September, Canada plans to destroy their records.
thenarwhal.ca
Canada plans to destroy thousands of residential school testimonies. These women are trying to save them
The 38,000 testimonies are the largest body of evidence about children’s experiences in these institutions. Journalist Connie Walker and lawyer Kimberly Murray say losing it would mean losing history — both painful and illuminating
12324240
Reposted by If you know you know
Rest of World @restofworld.org · 29/09/2026
After doubling its market share in high-bandwidth memory, Samsung is closing the gap with rival SK Hynix as both South Korean chipmakers compete to become indispensable to Nvidia and OpenAI restofworld.org/2026/samsung-sk-hyn…
083
Reposted by If you know you know
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 28/09/2026
‘In an age of statue-toppling, it is jaw-dropping to see the words “Mussolini Dux” still carved into the 17.5-metre marble obelisk that fronts the sports complex of the Foro Italico in Rome.’ @danigaravelli.bsky.social on the cult of Mussolini. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
lrb.co.uk
Dani Garavelli · Diary: Cult of Mussolini
A couple of days before I arrived in Predappio, I read that Hitler’s birthplace in Austria had been compulsorily...
0139
Reposted by If you know you know
Lisa Smith @historybeagle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The #EarlyModern Recipes Online Collective annual transcribathon, w/ @wellcomecollection.bsky.social & @rcpmuseum.bsky.social, is 13 Nov. Guest speakers on old age and domestic care are @emmamarshall.bsky.social and Lynn Botelho. Hope you can join us! Details here: emroc.hypotheses.org/5254 #HistMed
emroc.hypotheses.org
2026 Transcribathon Schedule Announced
Recipes through the Ages Friday, November 13, 2026 Join EMROC, Wellcome Collection, and theRoyal College of Physicians for a day of transcribing, virtual chatting, and live talks.  This year we are ex...
01817
Reposted by If you know you know
Global Voices @globalvoices.org · 29/09/2026
In this month's edition of Undertones, we dive deep into a narrative used by leaders in the United States and other countries to delegitimize protests. Support our Protest in Democracy #GVSpotlight globalvoices.org/2026/08/24...
globalvoices.org
Equating protest with terrorism: A narrative against dissent
In this month's edition, we dive deep into a narrative used by leaders in the United States and other countries to delegitimize protests.
02112
Reposted by If you know you know
Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Elizabethan playhouses were supplied by a network of tailors, merchants & craftswomen. Their names survive in records, but little is known about their lives. I’m working on new research that brings the stories of these makers & traders centre stage. Here is the project in biscuit (cookie) form. 🍪
A photograph of eight rectangular biscuits (cookies) arranged in two rows on a square white plate. The plate is framed on all sides by a trailing vine pattern in green with pops of red. The biscuits are mostly in shades of ivory, cream, yellow, and grey, with a burst of vivid red and blue in one corner of the arrangement. Moving across the top row of biscuits from left to right, the designs include: neat lines of handwritten names in an early modern parish register; a section of a hand-drawn map from 1561 featuring St Paul’s Cathedral, with street names like ‘Carter Lane’ visible in a tiny spiky font; an extract of text from a funerary monument printed in an early modern book, ending ‘So transitory is our glory’; a section of embroidery from a funeral pall featuring metallic silver armour, crossed gold keys, and two hands holding up a crown. The biscuit designs on the bottom row include: horses prancing past shopfronts on Cheapside in the mid-sixteenth century; a receipt written in early modern secretary hand, which is difficult to read; a portrait of a stern-looking women dressed in a ruff, pearls, and sober dark clothing; swirling calligraphy and dense secretary hand featuring on a will dating from 1638.
15558165
Reposted by If you know you know
Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
21074412423