Troy Nahumko
@troynahumko.bsky.social
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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This is sobering but precise.
From Ludlow to Haymarket to Flint, the 20th Century gave us the 40-hour week, discretionary income and ultimately the American middle class. We will accept the slide back into subsistence poverty or we will have to fight the 20th Century all over again.
From Ludlow to Haymarket to Flint, the 20th Century gave us the 40-hour week, discretionary income and ultimately the American middle class. We will accept the slide back into subsistence poverty or we will have to fight the 20th Century all over again.
Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
November 14, 2025 at 12:27 PM
This is sobering but precise.
From Ludlow to Haymarket to Flint, the 20th Century gave us the 40-hour week, discretionary income and ultimately the American middle class. We will accept the slide back into subsistence poverty or we will have to fight the 20th Century all over again.
From Ludlow to Haymarket to Flint, the 20th Century gave us the 40-hour week, discretionary income and ultimately the American middle class. We will accept the slide back into subsistence poverty or we will have to fight the 20th Century all over again.
Reposted by Troy Nahumko
“Canada has lost its measles elimination status, the Public Health Agency of Canada says”
Congratulations Alberta! We did it! Thanks Dani!
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
Congratulations Alberta! We did it! Thanks Dani!
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
Canada loses measles elimination status | CBC
www.cbc.ca
November 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
“Canada has lost its measles elimination status, the Public Health Agency of Canada says”
Congratulations Alberta! We did it! Thanks Dani!
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
Congratulations Alberta! We did it! Thanks Dani!
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
Thrilled that my piece “Everywhere and Nowhere: Following Ibn Battuta Across Marbella” is a finalist with @IntrepidTimes 🌍
A journey through travel, memory & belonging — and what it means to trace history’s footsteps.
👉 intrepidtimes.com/2025/11/ever...
#TravelWriting #Storytelling
A journey through travel, memory & belonging — and what it means to trace history’s footsteps.
👉 intrepidtimes.com/2025/11/ever...
#TravelWriting #Storytelling
Everywhere and Nowhere: Following Ibn Battuta Across Marbella - Intrepid Times
Inspired by Ibn Battuta's travelogue, "The Rihla," an author seeks to find an authentic Marbella beyond its shallow facade.
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November 6, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Thrilled that my piece “Everywhere and Nowhere: Following Ibn Battuta Across Marbella” is a finalist with @IntrepidTimes 🌍
A journey through travel, memory & belonging — and what it means to trace history’s footsteps.
👉 intrepidtimes.com/2025/11/ever...
#TravelWriting #Storytelling
A journey through travel, memory & belonging — and what it means to trace history’s footsteps.
👉 intrepidtimes.com/2025/11/ever...
#TravelWriting #Storytelling
You're sitting on the throne and realize you're out of TP.
Which do you reach for?
Which do you reach for?
November 6, 2025 at 7:26 AM
You're sitting on the throne and realize you're out of TP.
Which do you reach for?
Which do you reach for?
Remember when this was the paragon of evil?? How naive..
November 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Remember when this was the paragon of evil?? How naive..
Reposted by Troy Nahumko
Teatro vacío, 650.000 € públicos y aplausos de cartón: la Bienal Vargas Llosa en Cáceres convirtió la cultura en decorado. Condenan las fake news mirando a Trump, nunca a casa.
📣Menos perfumes ideológicos y más apoyo a la cultura real.
🖋 Troy Nahumko
ctxt.es/es/20251001/...
📣Menos perfumes ideológicos y más apoyo a la cultura real.
🖋 Troy Nahumko
ctxt.es/es/20251001/...
October 30, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Teatro vacío, 650.000 € públicos y aplausos de cartón: la Bienal Vargas Llosa en Cáceres convirtió la cultura en decorado. Condenan las fake news mirando a Trump, nunca a casa.
📣Menos perfumes ideológicos y más apoyo a la cultura real.
🖋 Troy Nahumko
ctxt.es/es/20251001/...
📣Menos perfumes ideológicos y más apoyo a la cultura real.
🖋 Troy Nahumko
ctxt.es/es/20251001/...
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
Poca cultura, mucho decorado.
La verdad huele a polvo y a poder viejo.
📖 En @ctxt_es
👉 ctxt.es/es/20251001/...
#CulturaSubvencionada #VargasLlosa #Extremadura #BienalVargasLlosa
October 29, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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
Poca cultura, mucho decorado.
La verdad huele a polvo y a poder viejo.
📖 En @ctxt_es
👉 ctxt.es/es/20251001/...
#CulturaSubvencionada #VargasLlosa #Extremadura #BienalVargasLlosa
Reposted by Troy Nahumko
‘Mud on our hands; blood on his’: fury lingers one year after Spain’s deadly floods
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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
October 28, 2025 at 7:05 AM
‘Mud on our hands; blood on his’: fury lingers one year after Spain’s deadly floods
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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
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
¿Por qué ahora adelantar las elecciones? María Guardiola se la juega en Extremadura. Ha ejecutado un movimiento que no por anunciado deja de ser inesperado y arriesgado social.elpais.com/d8zt34
Guardiola se la juega en Extremadura y rompe el tablero electoral: ¿por qué ahora?
La presidenta extremeña busca la mayoría absoluta el 21 de diciembre con un movimiento arriesgado en un feudo de tradición socialista y en un contexto de clave nacional
social.elpais.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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
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
This photograph by Pablo Monge in El Pais is a Spanish update of Grant Wood's American Gothic painting.
October 22, 2025 at 9:11 AM
This photograph by Pablo Monge in El Pais is a Spanish update of Grant Wood's American Gothic painting.
Reposted by Troy Nahumko
The “sane-washing” is for the news media
October 18, 2025 at 11:32 PM
The “sane-washing” is for the news media
October 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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
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
October 18, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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
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
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
👉 counterpunch.org/2025/10/16/censorship-is-chaos-disguised-as-order
#Censorship #ArtAsResistance #Banksy #FreeSpeech
October 17, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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
👉 counterpunch.org/2025/10/16/censorship-is-chaos-disguised-as-order
#Censorship #ArtAsResistance #Banksy #FreeSpeech
Reposted by Troy Nahumko
Do Whatcha Wanna, Portland.
October 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Do Whatcha Wanna, Portland.
Remember the days when they pretended they didn't buy elections? I'm starting to see what they mean when they talk about transparency.
Trump on Milei: "If he loses, we will not be generous with Argentina."
October 14, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Remember the days when they pretended they didn't buy elections? I'm starting to see what they mean when they talk about transparency.
Reposted by Troy Nahumko
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
Watch the full discussion: https://bit.ly/3J6Yqfc
October 12, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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
Watch the full discussion: https://bit.ly/3J6Yqfc
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...
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.
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October 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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...
The signs are there. The canary in the coalmine is long dead.
www.goodmorningamerica.com/culture/stor...
🔥 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
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
October 10, 2025 at 7:03 AM
🔥 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
Derogar la Ley de Memoria Histórica no es política, es negacionismo.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/kil...
#MemoriaHistórica #Extremadura #NoPasarán #Democracia #Vox #España
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
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
October 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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
Returning to Jasper National Park changed how I see place, distance, and home.
www.jasperlocal.com/2025/10/08/o...
#Jasper #CanadianRockies #TravelWriting #OnBorrowedRoads
Reposted by Troy Nahumko
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
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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October 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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
https://bit.ly/48k6cwK
@troynahumko.bsky.social @abbookpub.bsky.social @cdnpublishers.bsky.social
Reposted by Troy Nahumko
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
👇
"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
👇
October 8, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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
👇
"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
👇
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
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
October 8, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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
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