Reposted by Carlos BarragánHoward French @hofrench.bsky.social · 25/06/2025A special moment that never gets old, unboxing a new book after years of work on it. Please help me welcome The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide. 401581217
Carlos Barragán @carlos-barragan.bsky.social · 26/06/2025London friends! I am reading for the Soho Literary Reading Series at the Big Penny Social on July 11. Get tickets for Geoff Dyer and other great writers and stay for the 600-people party. dice.fm/event/mxeqnr...dice.fmSoho Reading Series Tickets | £3 | 11 Jul @ Big Penny Social, London | DICESoho Reading Series presents the Happiness and Love Gala Readers: - Zoe Dubno - Geoff Dyer - Olivia Sudjic - Molly Steemson - Toye Oladinni - Orlando Reade... 020
Reposted by Carlos BarragánJerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 22/06/2025From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11. 1101643356
Reposted by Carlos Barragánelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 21/04/2025One thing that I will say of my upbringing is that supporting the most vulnerable in our societies is non-negotiable. As far as I am concerned, if you say you have faith but reject this basic premise you, to quote James Baldwin, "are not a believer, and I don't care what church you go to" 110921
Reposted by Carlos BarragánNils Redeker @nilsredeker.bsky.social · 26/05/2025Bleakly poetic finale for one of Europe’s big green industrial hopes: there’s now a homepage auctioning off the entire Northvolt factory in Sweden - complete sell-off, right down to the parking signs and bike racks. nvx.psauction.com?gad_source=1... 14718
Carlos Barragán @carlos-barragan.bsky.social · 14/05/2025My 2023 Atavist story, The Romance Scammer on my Sofa, was translated into Portuguese by the fabulous Brazilian magazine Piaui Magazine. piaui.folha.uol.com.br/viagem-golpe...piaui.folha.uol.com.brUma jornada pelo mundo dos golpes amorosos - revista piauíViajei à Nigéria em busca do namorado virtual que enganou minha mãe. Acabei me deparando com uma legião deles 000
Reposted by Carlos BarragánBrian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 12/05/2025We have been warned for years about AI becoming all-powerful and destroying the human race but of course the real danger is that these systems enable a lazy and reckless ruling class to offload decision-making and avoid accountability 918755
Carlos Barragán @carlos-barragan.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Let's do this with the Brits living in Spain just por las risas. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...standard.co.ukMigrants will have to learn English 'to A-Level standard' to get UK visaThe immigration white paper, due to be published next week, will lay out Sir Keir Starmer’s plan to get tougher on migration rules in the wake of Reform UK’s wins at the local elections 010
Carlos Barragán @carlos-barragan.bsky.social · 07/05/2025The west’s shameful silence on Gaza "The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity." www.ft.com/content/f5fd...ft.comThe west’s shameful silence on GazaThe US and European allies should do more to restrain Benjamin Netanyahu 010
Reposted by Carlos BarragánJacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 19/04/2025For the FT, I wrote an essay about why the daily experience of the Internet keeps getting worse, tipping us into madness and conflict. I gather ideas about slop, enshittification, and dead internet theory under what I call "the hostile Internet." www.ft.com/content/5d06...ft.comWelcome to slop world: how the hostile internet is driving us crazyThe last bits of fellowship and ingenuity on the web are being swept away by a tide of so-called artificial intelligence 20548134
Carlos Barragán @carlos-barragan.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Is Warfare the most realistic war film ever made? By @adrianhorton.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ap...theguardian.comIs Warfare the most realistic war film ever made?In Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza’s brutal and immersive new film, memory informs the events that take place in real time to a unit of soldiers in Iraq 000
Reposted by Carlos BarragánJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 14/04/2025and yet they come to Europe and lecture everyone on free speech 45762851435
Carlos Barragán @carlos-barragan.bsky.social · 14/04/2025El mejor novelista en español de siempre. elpais.com/cultura/2025...elpais.comMuere Mario Vargas Llosa, gigante de las letras universalesEl escritor hispano peruano, premio Nobel de Literatura en 2010, fue autor de obras maestras como ‘Conversación en la catedral’ 000
Carlos Barragán @carlos-barragan.bsky.social · 13/04/2025My new fav website: wtfhappenedin1971.comwtfhappenedin1971.comWTF Happened In 1971?Visit the post for more. 010
Reposted by Carlos Barragán60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 07/04/202560 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5 10522772212827
Reposted by Carlos BarragánSatan’s Niece @krissychula.bsky.social · 06/04/2025This is high art 526263137515
Carlos Barragán @carlos-barragan.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Fantastic piece by Sarah Churchwell. "The Great Gatsby is not simply a story of defeat. It is an elegy for a dream that continues to struggle on, undespairingly, even when it has already been lost." www.ft.com/content/dd6f...ft.comHow Gatsby foretold Trump’s AmericaA century after it was published, F Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece is more relevant than ever. Sarah Churchwell on the trouble with ‘careless people’ 010
Carlos Barragán @carlos-barragan.bsky.social · 05/04/2025I guess I can call myself a writer now? The Yahoo Boys (Fall 2026) -- Will be available in your fav bookstore in the US (FSG), Spain (Reservoir Books), UK (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) and Germany (Shurkamp). Literary agent: @ameliaatlas.bsky.social 150
Reposted by Carlos BarragánPatrick Radden Keefe @praddenkeefe.bsky.social · 29/03/2025It feels so surreal as an American to hear about Green Card holders asking relatives of mine to delete text exchanges on their phones for fear that they'll be searched by the authorities and those private conversations will become the pretext for illegally deporting them. But here we are. 39983290
Reposted by Carlos BarragánTade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 25/03/2025You start with one word. You keep going until you reach 70 or 80 thousand, maybe more, maybe less. Then the real work of shaping begins. It's months later, maybe years, and you don't even know if anyone's going to like it, much less pay the price of a coffee and croissant for it. Madness. 416824
Reposted by Carlos BarragánThe Associated Press @apnews.com · 24/03/2025Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning film “No Other Land” in the occupied West Bank on Monday, and he was then detained by the Israeli military, activists on the scene said.bit.lyOscar-winning Palestinian director is attacked by Jewish settlers and detained, activists sayActivists say Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning film “No Other Land” in the occupied West Bank, and he was then detained by the Israeli military. 8218911131
Reposted by Carlos BarragánMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 19/03/2025if you need it:freedom.pressThe 2025 journalist’s digital security checklistOur digital security training team's checklist to help journalists secure their digital life. 26137
Carlos Barragán @carlos-barragan.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Je suis Khalil www.ft.com/content/bcd3...ft.comJe suis KhalilThe fate of the detained Columbia University graduate is a test of how easily Trump can slide into lawlessness 012
Reposted by Carlos BarragánMatthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Waiting for someone to float Madagascar as an option just to complete the irony 38523
Reposted by Carlos BarragánJim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 13/03/2025Anyway, if MailOnline are going to stick their story behind a paywall then I'm going to make mine available for free for 24 hours. So have a read, stick this in your WhatsApp group, and just help me spread the word about where to get the real thing. www.londoncentric.media/p/harry-pott...londoncentric.mediaHarry Potter and the unpaid tax billA London Centric investigation reveals one of the capital's most garish gift shops owes hundreds of thousands of pounds in unpaid taxes — and uncovers its mysterious owners. 20763391
Carlos Barragán @carlos-barragan.bsky.social · 08/03/2025If Europe wants something it likes to call a “rules-based order”, it will have to make it for itself www.ft.com/content/4d59...ft.comUS global leadership has never been plain sailingTrump is the heir to a national-populist strain that runs deep in American politics 000
Reposted by Carlos BarragánEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 06/03/2025This bullshit cost Bellingcat tens of thousands of pounds, which we're unable to recover, so if you'd like to support Bellingcat, you can find details here: www.bellingcat.com/donate/bellingcat.comDonate - bellingcatYour donation to Bellingcat is a direct contribution to our research. With your support, we will continue to publish groundbreaking investigations and uncover wrongdoing all around the world. Financia... 012726
Carlos Barragán @carlos-barragan.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Hace algo más de cinco años entrevisté a Alexander Dugin. Escuchando lo que dice uno entiende mejor la bazofia intelectual que defienden J.D. Vance y compañía. www.elconfidencial.com/mundo/europa...elconfidencial.comDugin, el 'filósofo más peligroso del mundo': "No quiero destruir ni aniquilar Europa"Aleksandr Dugin, ideólogo de las teorías más tenebrosas que recorren Europa y Rusia, habla sobre geopolítica, conspiraciones y... de un encuentro hasta ahora desconocido con George Soros 000
Reposted by Carlos BarragánOwen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 28/02/2025After the AfD's surge on Sunday, far right parties are the most voted-for of any grouping in Europe, for the first time in history: www.economist.com/graphic-deta... 48639278
Reposted by Carlos Barragánm @keptsimple.bsky.social · 18/02/2025a good example of how the world is getting dumber. the new politico playbook writer didn't know who FDR was until a reader told him about that whole "new deal" thing. this newsletter is read by every important person in DC. 781121452415
Reposted by Carlos BarragánAdam Tooze @adamtooze.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Far-right AfD wins more than 1/3 of Germans who identify as workers. 2328
Reposted by Carlos BarragánJeremy Cliffe @jeremycliffe.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Blimey. Asked about Trump, Merz says he’s in close contact with European leaders about becoming “independent” from US (and confesses “I never thought I’d say that on TV show”). Casts doubt on value of NATO summit in June. This from a die-hard Atlanticist. Things are moving fast. 422121635
Carlos Barragán @carlos-barragan.bsky.social · 23/02/2025A very insightful take on the copy-and-paste geopolitics of today by @javierblas.bsky.social. President Trump’s fixation on extracting elements from the war-torn nation is an illusion. There are no rare minerals in Ukraine worth $500 billion. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...bloomberg.comRare Earths in Ukraine? No, Only Scorched Earth.President Trump’s fixation on extracting elements from the war-torn nation is an illusion. 010
Carlos Barragán @carlos-barragan.bsky.social · 19/02/2025One by one, Trump is implementing every step of Project 2025—dismantling checks and balances, purging disloyal federal employees, removing dissenting judges, and ignoring court rulings. How is this any different from an authoritarian power grab? www.ft.com/content/9d09...ft.comDonald Trump makes bid for control of independent US regulatorsExecutive order will force watchdogs including the Federal Reserve and SEC to submit draft regulations to the White House 171
Reposted by Carlos BarragánJeremy Cliffe @jeremycliffe.bsky.social · 14/02/2025About once every half-million years, Earth's magnetic poles switch. After day 1 of #MSC2025, I can't think of a better metaphor for the European politics of the transatlantic alliance: everything is reversing. 8431101
Carlos Barragán @carlos-barragan.bsky.social · 15/02/2025This move fast and break things is already backfiring. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...bloomberg.comDismissed Nuclear Bomb Specialists Recalled by Energy DepartmentThe Energy Department is seeking to bring back nuclear energy specialists after abruptly telling hundreds of workers that their jobs were eliminated, according to two people familiar with the matter. 000
Reposted by Carlos BarragánRafael Méndez @mendezrafael.bsky.social · 15/02/2025"La generación que sostuvo el orden de la posguerra ha desaparecido. Era gente que se sentía íntimamente ligada a Europa, pero esa generación está desapareciendo y Europa ya no es una prioridad". www.elconfidencial.com/mundo/2025-0...elconfidencial.comLa contundente respuesta de un politólogo sobre cómo ve Europa desde Estados Unidos: "Estáis paralizados"El analista de Asuntos Europeos de Georgetown (Washington) cree que somos mucho más fuertes de lo que pensamos, pero que la división interna y el complejo de inferioridad nos atenazan 011
Reposted by Carlos BarragánStanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Quite amazing for the American VP to be giving lessons on liberty to Europeans while his boss bans the Associated Press from news briefings because it calls the Gulf of Mexico by its actual name. 7437145
Reposted by Carlos BarragánCaroline de Gruyter @carolinedegruyter.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Quote of the day: “The road to the authoritarian state is lined with people who advise you not to exaggerate” 7709248
Carlos Barragán @carlos-barragan.bsky.social · 12/02/2025The EU should move fast and 1) Establish a Rearmament Bank www.euronews.com/my-europe/20... 2. Double EU Budget with a joint borrowing scheme. www.politico.eu/article/spai...politico.euSpain pushes to double EU budget to over €2 trillionMadrid wants governments to be jointly liable for borrowing huge amounts of money to boost the bloc’s coffers. 020