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Troy Nahumko @troynahumko.bsky.social · 1d

🔥 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 · 1d

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

&quot;Returning to Jasper this summer, I found myself rerooting, as an Albertan who spent most of my adult life abroad.&quot; 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 · 1d

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

@troynahumko.bsky.social @abbookpub.bsky.social @cdnpublishers.bsky.social

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 3d

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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Troy Nahumko @troynahumko.bsky.social · 3d

Alberta’s “pause” on certain books isn’t caution — it’s control.
Censorship rarely announces itself. It creeps in, dressed as care.
My latest piece for
@rabbleca

The lists we keep, and the ones that keep us
rabble.ca/politics/can...
#FreedomToRead #BookBans #Censorship

The lists we keep, and the ones that keep us

Lists can chronicle our growth, or a society's regression.

rabble.ca

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Troy Nahumko @troynahumko.bsky.social · 4d

Alberta’s “pause” on certain books isn’t caution — it’s control.
Censorship rarely announces itself. It creeps in, dressed as care.
My latest for @rabbleca:
The lists we keep, and the ones that keep us
rabble.ca/politics/can...
#BookBans #Censorship #FreedomToRead #Alberta #CdnPoli #CriticalThinking

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Troy Nahumko @troynahumko.bsky.social · 4d

En Cáceres(y España)borran símbolos con agua a presión, pero la Cruz de los Caídos sigue en pie.
España lava la piedra, no la conciencia.
El fascismo no se borra: se actualiza.
🩸 #IlBraghettone #MemoriaHistórica #Cáceres #Fascismo2_0 #CicatricesNoBlanqueo #banksy
drive.google.com/file/d/13KKm...

Troy Nahumko @troynahumko.bsky.social · 7d

🍔💀 Ayuso no gobierna: fríe la política en grasa rancia, la envuelve en papel brillante y la vende como “libertad”.

🔥 En Nueva Tribuna la pongo a la parrilla:
👉 www.nuevatribuna.es/articulo/act...

#FastFoodFascista #AyusoALaParrilla #PPMadrid #PolíticaBasura #NuevaTribuna

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Troy Nahumko @troynahumko.bsky.social · 8d

36 hours of travel → Joburg.
Old friends waiting.
The veld rushing past.
And Oliver Mtukudzi on repeat — a soundtrack that still plays in my life. 🎶✈️

Read the story: www.perceptivetravel.com/issues/1025/...

#JourneyThroughMusic #TravelInSound #OliverMtukudzi

Travel in the Key of Tuku on the Zimbabwe Border

A jet-lagged traveler crossing checkpoints to the Zimbabwe border finds that music with lyrics he can’t understand can communicate volumes.

www.perceptivetravel.com

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Troy Nahumko @troynahumko.bsky.social · 10d

Las palabras no son inocentes. Una fosa no es lo mismo que una tumba. En «La fosa de las palabras» desarmo el disfraz de neutralidad y muestro cómo la política se esconde —o se revela— en cada metáfora.
👉 Léelo aquí: elcuadernodigital.com/.../la-fosa-...

elcuadernodigital.com

Troy Nahumko @troynahumko.bsky.social · 11d

✨ Nueva columna Camino a Ítaca en HOY ✨
Cuento de hadas con uniforme
¿Qué pasa cuando los cuentos de hadas se ponen uniforme? 🪖📖
Reflexiono sobre cómo el poder transforma las historias que heredamos — a veces torciéndolas, a veces dándoles nueva vida.
troynahumko.com/spains-caste...

Spain’s Caste System: A Fairy Tale in Uniform - troynahumko.com

Do you ever wonder how fairy tales survive—or crumble—when they’re dressed in uniform? In my latest Camino a Ítaca column for HOY, I explore exactly that: how

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elDiario.es @eldiario.es · 14d

Descubre quién dijo qué: El discurso racista de PP y Vox ya es indistinguible www.eldiario.es/politica/pp-...

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Troy Nahumko @troynahumko.bsky.social · 13d

Lo que la gente parece pasar por alto es que quizás la injusticia más flagrante sea que nadie, ni un solo político, será responsable de este enorme gasto público. Esta es la verdadera tragedia. Como siempre, nadie es responsable.
ctxt.es/es/20250901/... @ctxt.es
#Extremadura
#valdecañas

Valdecañas, las nefastas consecuencias de la insumisión ambiental de la Junta de Extremadura

La Administración incumple con descaro la legislación que ha promulgado y debería defender

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elDiario.es @eldiario.es · 15d

El presidente de RTVE planta cara a los ataques de Vox: “No estamos para blanquear ni exaltar el franquismo” www.eldiario.es/vertele/vide...

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Troy Nahumko @troynahumko.bsky.social · 18d

Bueno, en cierto modo llevan razón. Es imposible tejer un estado con el Bantustan que tienen ahora con los asentamientos etc.

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Troy Nahumko @troynahumko.bsky.social · 18d

Funny how the article seems to miss this: "Disney stock (NYSE:DIS) has dropped by nearly $4 billion following the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel, triggering widespread backlash and boycotts across its platforms and upcoming releases"

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 18d

Breaking news: Jimmy Kimmel will return to television Tuesday, nearly one week after ABC took his show off the air under pressure from the Trump administration, station owners and critics over comments he made after the killing of Charlie Kirk.

Disney brings back Jimmy Kimmel, sidelined after Charlie Kirk comments

“Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on ABC was taken off air following backlash from President Donald Trump, FCC Chair Brendan Carr, Nexstar, Sinclair and a bevy of conservative critics.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Troy Nahumko @troynahumko.bsky.social · 19d

💥 Nuevo artículo: “España, Sarajevo de postureo”.
Mucho discurso, poco compromiso real.
¿Seguimos mirando hacia otro lado?

👉 www.nuevatribuna.es/articulo/soc...

#España #Política #Opinión #DerechosHumanos #Postureo

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Troy Nahumko @troynahumko.bsky.social · 20d

Coinciding with #CáceresIrishFleadh, I talk with Brendan Boyle about my book, Stories Left in Stone, Trails and Traces in Caceres, #Spain, #Extremadura, bad translations, great bookshop owners and overused words for underappreciated places. open.substack.com/pub/brendybo...
#storiesleftinstone

Exploring under-explored Extremadura

With Troy Nahumko, author of Stories Left in Stone: Trails and Traces in Cáceres, Spain.

open.substack.com

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Troy Nahumko @troynahumko.bsky.social · 20d

The stories that remain to be told. Waiting for the Conrad of the submersibles.

Sam Jones @swajones.bsky.social · 20d

‘Just imagine spending hours, or days, stuck inside one of these things. It is total madness’. By @tomphillips.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

‘Insane journeys’: inside the narco-subs that cross oceans carrying hundreds of millions of pounds of cocaine

Poorly paid crews risk their lives on voyages in ‘propeller-driven coffins’ to smuggle drugs from Brazil to Europe

www.theguardian.com

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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 20d

joshua @joshuagrotheer.bsky.social · 20d

@anntelnaes.bsky.social was correct

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Brendan Boyle @brendanboyle.bsky.social · 21d

🇪🇸🎙️ La Comunidad Podcast.

Have a listen with your churros - a great chat with Troy Nahumko about his new book, why Extremadura is worth the effort needed to get there, and what to see and do (and eat) in the magical Cáceres.

Enjoy, share, gracias!

open.substack.com/pub/brendybo...

Exploring under-explored Extremadura

With Troy Nahumko, author of Stories Left in Stone: Trails and Traces in Cáceres, Spain.

open.substack.com

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Troy Nahumko @troynahumko.bsky.social · 21d

Funny, they don't seem to provide any proof for supporting terrorism beyond the fact that they are against the genocide. You'd think that they would be only all to happy to support their claims, otherwise it would like like they've been Kimmelled.

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Troy Nahumko @troynahumko.bsky.social · 21d

Obviously this person on Medium 'did their own research'...73% of the small group of people they met at the local Starbucks? After doing my own 'research' it seems that 99% of them that I know won't even go back to visit until the dumpster fire is thrown in jail.

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