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Troy Nahumko
@troynahumko.bsky.social
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Essayist, traveler and musician. Author of 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐋𝐞𝐟𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐞, 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐚́𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬, 𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐧 published by the University of Alberta Press. Also been known to play the Blues.
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Troy Nahumko @troynahumko.bsky.social · 1d
Una bienal con 650.000 € de dinero público, un teatro vacío y Vargas Llosa proyectado como santo patrón del “liberalismo”.
Poca cultura, mucho decorado.
La verdad huele a polvo y a poder viejo.
📖 En @ctxt_es
👉 ctxt.es/es/20251001/...
#CulturaSubvencionada #VargasLlosa #Extremadura #BienalVargasLlosa
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Troy Nahumko @troynahumko.bsky.social · 1d
La última vez que me presenté sin invitación a un funeral al que las familias me habían pedido expresamente que no asistiera fue un poco incómodo, debo admitirlo.
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Sam Jones @swajones.bsky.social · 2d
‘Mud on our hands; blood on his’: fury lingers one year after Spain’s deadly floods
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
‘Mud on our hands; blood on his’: fury lingers one year after Spain’s deadly floods
Survivors in Valencia call for consequences, particularly for regional president, after country’s worst natural disaster this century
www.theguardian.com
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Troy Nahumko @troynahumko.bsky.social · 2d
Sin duda, el mejor resumen del panorama electoral extremeño que he visto hasta ahora.El primer párrafo por sí solo es oro.
Si hay un escenario mejor que el de Extremadura para demostrar lo tóxico que es el funcionamiento de los partidos políticos, lo desconozco.
#Extremadura
#eleccionesextremadura
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Troy Nahumko @troynahumko.bsky.social · 6d
Richard Ray Farrell showing what the Blues is also for.
youtu.be/uNlkbIOnlqY?...
#StopICE
#FuckICE
Ice Man
YouTube video by Richard Ray Farrell - Topic
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Troy Nahumko @troynahumko.bsky.social · 8d
This photograph by Pablo Monge in El Pais is a Spanish update of Grant Wood's American Gothic painting.
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Troy Nahumko @troynahumko.bsky.social · 8d
¿Se ha vuelto el Washington Post 'woke'? O esperen, ¿quizás este artículo no trataba para nada sobre la libertad de prensa?🤔
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Hundreds of people cover the Pentagon. These are the 15 who signed its new press policy.
The Federalist, the Epoch Times, and One America News signed the Defense Department’s press rules. The rest are freelancers, independent or work for media outfits based overseas.
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Troy Nahumko @troynahumko.bsky.social · 8d
Pero claro que esto sería 'fake news' ¿no?https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trumps-moves-against-media-outlets-mirror-authoritarian-approaches-to-silencing-dissent
Trump's moves against media outlets mirror authoritarian approaches to silencing dissent
Since taking office in January, President Donald Trump has waged an aggressive campaign against the media unlike any in modern U.S. history, making moves similar to those of authoritarian leaders that...
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Troy Nahumko @troynahumko.bsky.social · 8d
Si incluso Fox News finalmente lo hubiera entendido,uno pensaría que Espe podría haber visto presagios.Pero supongo que eso es asumir demasiado. La libertad de expresión es, por supuesto, sagrada, pero que publiquen algo tan hipócrita y engañoso no habla bien de ello. edition.cnn.com/2025/10/14/p...
Analysis: Fox News rebuke shows Trump’s attacks on First Amendment are hitting roadblocks | CNN Politics
Despite the Trump administration’s growing efforts to target disfavored speech and media coverage, the First Amendment is showing growing signs of resilience.
edition.cnn.com
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 12d
The “sane-washing” is for the news media
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Troy Nahumko @troynahumko.bsky.social · 12d
About time?
Let's hope it's catchy
#NoKings
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Troy Nahumko @troynahumko.bsky.social · 12d
Los “violentos” se disfrazan de unicornios y ranas.
Los que sueñan con Hitler van en traje.
El mundo es un chiste malo, pero al menos aún sabemos reírnos.
🦄 ¡Soltad los unicornios! 👉 www.hoy.es/opinion/troy... #NoKings #SoltadLosUnicornios #AbsurdResistance #PunkNotPower
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Troy Nahumko @troynahumko.bsky.social · 13d
You can scrub the wall, but not the memory. My new piece for @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social looks at what happens when states try to erase dissent — and why the scars always remain.
👉 counterpunch.org/2025/10/16/censorship-is-chaos-disguised-as-order

#Censorship #ArtAsResistance #Banksy #FreeSpeech
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 14d
Do Whatcha Wanna, Portland.
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Troy Nahumko @troynahumko.bsky.social · 16d
Remember the days when they pretended they didn't buy elections? I'm starting to see what they mean when they talk about transparency.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16d
Trump on Milei: "If he loses, we will not be generous with Argentina."
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 18d
Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns’s new PBS series, “The American Revolution,” tells the nation’s founding story. Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg asks Burns: What would the Founding Fathers make of this political moment in America?

Watch the full discussion: https://bit.ly/3J6Yqfc
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Troy Nahumko @troynahumko.bsky.social · 19d
'Conservatism' (and vicariously humanity and the planet ) can and only will be saved by conservatives (the real wooly ones with bushy eyebrows and who believd in right, wrong and truth) who take back the reins. Without the stepping forward, we're screwed.
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Troy Nahumko @troynahumko.bsky.social · 19d
Halfway through this and couldn't recommend it more. Especially in today's climate.
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Troy Nahumko @troynahumko.bsky.social · 19d
Reading East West Street by Philippe Sands and can't help but draw parallels as his contemporaries said that Lemkin's warnings about the Reich and what they were planning were exaggerated.
The signs are there. The canary in the coalmine is long dead.
www.goodmorningamerica.com/culture/stor...
Turning Point USA announces counterprogram Super Bowl halftime show
Turning Point USA announced a counter-programming Super Bowl halftime show, set to air during Bad Bunny's official halftime performance.
www.goodmorningamerica.com
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Troy Nahumko @troynahumko.bsky.social · 20d
🔥 La ultraderecha lo ha conseguido en Extremadura: enterrar la verdad y blanquear el franquismo.
Derogar la Ley de Memoria Histórica no es política, es negacionismo.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/kil...
#MemoriaHistórica #Extremadura #NoPasarán #Democracia #Vox #España
Kill It with Fire - Boston Review
In Spain, ultra-nationalist efforts to rehabilitate Franco extend the global right’s war on memory.
www.bostonreview.net
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Troy Nahumko @troynahumko.bsky.social · 21d
I thought I was writing about Jasper — until an editor handed me a secret key, and I began writing to Jasper instead.

Returning to Jasper National Park changed how I see place, distance, and home.
www.jasperlocal.com/2025/10/08/o...
#Jasper #CanadianRockies #TravelWriting #OnBorrowedRoads
On Borrowed Roads: Rediscovering Jasper - News
"Returning to Jasper this summer, I found myself rerooting, as an Albertan who spent most of my adult life abroad." The palette beyond our engine was a blinding white. Not snow, not ...
www.jasperlocal.com
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University of Alberta Press @ualbertapress.bsky.social · 21d
Our author, Troy Nahumko (author of STORIES LEFT IN STONE: Trails and Traces in Cáceres, Spain), has written an article on book bans in Florida and, now, in Alberta. Check it out on rabble.ca:
https://bit.ly/48k6cwK

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The lists we keep, and the ones that keep us
Lists can chronicle our growth, or a society's regression.
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ferna1diez @ferna1diez.bsky.social · 22d
El bulo que utiliza el PP para acusar al PSOE de tener Caja B

"Ojo a este sobre"

"¿Es un sobresueldo?"

"NO"

"Ese sobre es una liquidación de gastos"

"Por eso asoma una monea de un euro"

"¿Alguien conoce que se pague un soborno con céntimos de €?"

Gran Ignacio Escolar

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Troy Nahumko @troynahumko.bsky.social · 22d
It’s #BannedBooksWeek — a reminder that censorship isn’t always about pulling books from shelves.

My latest for CounterPunch looks at one of those myths

☕🇨🇦 Canada’s Cowboy Calvinism and the Polyester Gospel:
👉 www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/07/c...

#BannedBooksWeek #FreedomToRead #AntiCensorship
Canada's Cowboy Calvinism and the Polyester Gospel
It wasn’t the man himself that hit me first, but the hat, an obscene little crown of polyester tyranny, lopsided and ridiculous, perched on hair so white
www.counterpunch.org
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University of Alberta Press @ualbertapress.bsky.social · 23d
STORIES LEFT IN STONE explores the lives, histories, and artistic legacies of Cáceres and Extremadura. Author @troynahumko.bsky.social has lived in the old town of Cáceres, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, for over a decade.
https://bit.ly/40532bM
##travel #GOT #spain #spaintravel #wanderlust
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