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

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"

💥 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

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

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

🇪🇸🎙️ 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...

"We all know that acquaintance...when given 2 options, will always pick the wrong goddamn one. The poor bastard who stands in the supermarket, eyes darting like a junkie rabbit, and still ends up in the line that moves slower than a Soviet bread line." www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/19/t... #gaza

LA VIÑETA | La batuta ✍ Por Bernardo Vergara

"Y contra eso, contra esa nada que se disfraza de todo, solo tenemos una herramienta: la insistencia obstinada, casi heroica, en que las palabras importan, en que la verdad importa, en que todavía es posible —y necesario— hablar en serio." -Isabel Coixet en El Pais archive.ph/4pIQV

Book bans are here to “protect” kids…from queer kisses & Judy Blume. But David buying his wife with a sack of foreskins? That’s “heritage.” Read: Foreskins for Freedom open.substack.com/pub/troynahu... #Bookban #Censorship #Alberta #Oldtestament

I didn't know MAHA meant Make American High Again... You learn something new everyday. www.wsj.com/world/americ... #MAHA #MakeAmericaHighAgain

Bloqueos. Viñeta en @diario.red www.diario-red.com/articulo/vin...

wow

For all you English teachers out there struggling for some material these first few classes until everyone gets their coursebooks etc. Here's somewhere to start: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_42t... #tefl #teachingEnglish #ESLteacher #Englishteacher

Imagine a Spanish politician actually meaning the words they say? Where words go to die. www.surinenglish.com/opinion/troy...

"It is sometimes considered gauche, in the world of American political commentary, to give words the weight of their meaning." Just think about that for a second... www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...

This isn't simply a case of lacking English...this is the case of someone lacking grey matter...Unbelievable.

Pico Iyer in Falling Off The Map, writing in the early 90s. 30 years later it feels like prophesy. #overtourism #touristed2death #masstourism

For all you #TEFL teachers out there. This looks promising indeed.

Ummm Teen Vogue doing what the mainstream media won't do? “cost to liberty” Ouch...

The Ghost of Suppressed Protests Past.

#Alberta 's Gilead slide... www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/07/c... #Albleg #Abed #bookbans #freedomtoread

The bitter embarrassment in #Alberta serves as a warning to all those who flirt with the western Taliban movement. Spain is not vaccinated against this. www.surinenglish.com/opinion/troy... #bookbans #bannedbooks #Freedomtoread #ALBleg #ABEd

Alberta's move to change the name of the province to Gilead in the New York Times. archive.ph/TObsl #AlbertabecomesGilead #Nobookbans #Its2025

Alberta: Now accepting bids for purity tests. www.bbc.com/news/article... #bookbanning

"La palabra 'woke' no fue pensada como una declaración de moda ni como un chiste para los monólogos. Se forjó en el fuego, una advertencia contra la complacencia, un código de supervivencia en un mundo hostil". @troynahumko.bsky.social explica su origen. ctxt.es/es/20250801/...

@troynahumko.bsky.social talks to locals and expats, a travel guide, a journalist, a university professor, an English teacher, a photographer, and shares his experience and theirs in STORIES LEFT IN STONE. https://bit.ly/40532bM ##travel #GOT #spain #spaintourism #spaintravel

📢 Woke no es una moda, ni un insulto. Es una advertencia. Nació entre canciones y juicios racistas, y hoy sigue resistiendo entre burlas, censura y fascismos con traje. Un ensayo brillante de @troynahumko.bsky.social

Leadbelly in Spanish

🆕‘Woke’: la palabra que no quería morir Registrada por primera vez en 1938, durante los días de segregación del sur estadounidense, resuena igual de clara aquí y ahora. Más vale estar despierto para defender nuestros derechos. Mantenerse woke‼️ Una tribuna de Troy Nahumko ✍️ ctxt.es/es/20250801/...

Este saltó a la prensa nacional española. Nada mejor que un poco de Leadbelly. Tal vez "woke" no es lo que pensabas que era... ‘Woke’: la palabra que no quería morir ctxt.es/es/20250801/...

Be like Trump, talk like Trump

Author @troynahumko.bsky.social‬ was in Edmonton this summer and we got to meet him IRL for the first time. Troy lives in Spain and wrote STORIES LEFT IN STONE: Trails and Traces in Cáceres, Spain. The book has travelled the world with readers, but this was a special stop. https://bit.ly/40532bM

Abascal dice«cualquier persona que resida en España tiene derecho a profesar su religión siempre y cuando renuncie expresamente a imponerla o a defender prácticas incompatibles con nuestras leyes» ¿Eso significa que las mujeres ahora pueden ser sacerdotisas tambien?

Asked Chat GPT to define modern conservative politicians and it brought up this story. Guess it's learning fast. www.eldiario.es/lacrispacion...

𝐀 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐃𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 While the atavistic troglodytes pine for imaginary racial purity and the times before tomatoes, potatoes and Blues... A groovier look is possible. www.surinenglish.com/opinion/troy... #Blues

"Es la tristeza de ser rechazados no por lo que hacemos sino por lo que somos, por nuestra piel, nuestras facciones, por haber nacido de nuestros padres." -Najat El Hachmi archive.ph/lvuDU#select...

𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐭. They’ve turned “woke” into a punchline so you won’t notice the punch coming. It was never about almond milk... It meant...and still means stay awake. Eyes wide. Danger near. My latest with @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social‬ www.counterpunch.org/2025/07/18/t... #woke #wokeness

Cuidado con odiar "La cocina española no se entiende sin la patata, el tomate y el pimiento, tres cosas que los Reyes Católicos no hubieran identificado si se las hubieran puesto delante." archive.ph/LktRn#select...

One of the things I’ve always admired about life in Spain is how public public space truly is. A square is not something to pass through—it’s something to dwell in, not fenced-off amenities with wristbands and surveillance. troynahumko.blogspot.com/2025/07/pool...

"Por coherencia, los ultranacionalistas no deberían revolverse contra los inmigrantes, sino contra los empresarios que los precisan." Las fobias El insulto, la marginación y la persecución del inmigrante tiene graves consecuencias archive.ph/boiZa

When politicians call an extreme weather event that kills children and causes widespread devastation "an act of God" it's rarely a statement of deep faith. It's just a way of asserting virtue while denying responsibility for their own actions that contributed to the event.

When I once suggested to Mavis Staples that new generations of her listeners might be unaware of her history as a civil-rights activist, she nodded. “People forget the history or some don’t know it at all,” she said. “That’s why I have to be the history.” New from @gregkot.bsky.social now at Matter

Uhhh, I think they're called cars and private jets and stuff... thehill.com/homenews/hou...

Today, a war criminal under indictment from the ICC will be welcomed to the White House. Trump, like Biden before him, has aided and abetted the extremist Netanyahu government as it has systematically killed and starved civilians in Gaza. It is a shameful day in America.

Jan Morris from "A Writer's World".

Curious that this was published in an American magazine... www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Watch today's press conference; the lengths Hegseth goes to please Trump is nauseating--> www.c-span.org/program/news...