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Carlos Barragán

@carlos-barragan.bsky.social
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Investigative reporter. US literary agent @ameliaatlas. UK agent @HarrietPoland (CAA). The Yahoo Boys (FSG, 2026). In London now.

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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
A 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.
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Carlos Barragán @carlos-barragan.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
London 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...
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Soho Reading Series Tickets | £3 | 11 Jul @ Big Penny Social, London | DICE
Soho Reading Series presents the Happiness and Love Gala Readers: - Zoe Dubno - Geoff Dyer - Olivia Sudjic - Molly Steemson - Toye Oladinni - Orlando Reade...
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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.
We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time."
Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history - which is no doubt true - but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a wartime economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed.
That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
One 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"
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Nils Redeker @nilsredeker.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Bleakly 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...
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Carlos Barragán @carlos-barragan.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
My 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...
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Uma jornada pelo mundo dos golpes amorosos - revista piauí
Viajei à Nigéria em busca do namorado virtual que enganou minha mãe. Acabei me deparando com uma legião deles
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
We 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
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Carlos Barragán @carlos-barragan.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Let's do this with the Brits living in Spain just por las risas. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
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Migrants will have to learn English 'to A-Level standard' to get UK visa
The 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
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Carlos Barragán @carlos-barragan.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
The 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...
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The west’s shameful silence on Gaza
The US and European allies should do more to restrain Benjamin Netanyahu
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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 19/04/2025
For 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...
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Welcome to slop world: how the hostile internet is driving us crazy
The last bits of fellowship and ingenuity on the web are being swept away by a tide of so-called artificial intelligence
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Carlos Barragán @carlos-barragan.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Is Warfare the most realistic war film ever made? By @adrianhorton.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ap...
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Is 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
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
and yet they come to Europe and lecture everyone on free speech
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Carlos Barragán @carlos-barragan.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
El mejor novelista en español de siempre. elpais.com/cultura/2025...
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Muere Mario Vargas Llosa, gigante de las letras universales
El escritor hispano peruano, premio Nobel de Literatura en 2010, fue autor de obras maestras como ‘Conversación en la catedral’
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Carlos Barragán @carlos-barragan.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
My new fav website: wtfhappenedin1971.com
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WTF Happened In 1971?
Visit the post for more.
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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
60 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
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Satan’s Niece @krissychula.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
This is high art
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Carlos Barragán @carlos-barragan.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Fantastic 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...
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How Gatsby foretold Trump’s America
A century after it was published, F Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece is more relevant than ever. Sarah Churchwell on the trouble with ‘careless people’
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Carlos Barragán @carlos-barragan.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
I 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
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Patrick Radden Keefe @praddenkeefe.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
It 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.
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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
You 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.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 24/03/2025
Israeli 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.
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Oscar-winning Palestinian director is attacked by Jewish settlers and detained, activists say
Activists 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.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 19/03/2025
if you need it:
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The 2025 journalist’s digital security checklist
Our digital security training team's checklist to help journalists secure their digital life.
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Carlos Barragán @carlos-barragan.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Je suis Khalil www.ft.com/content/bcd3...
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Je suis Khalil
The fate of the detained Columbia University graduate is a test of how easily Trump can slide into lawlessness
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Waiting for someone to float Madagascar as an option just to complete the irony
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 13/03/2025
Anyway, 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...
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Harry Potter and the unpaid tax bill
A 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.
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Carlos Barragán @carlos-barragan.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
If Europe wants something it likes to call a “rules-based order”, it will have to make it for itself www.ft.com/content/4d59...
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US global leadership has never been plain sailing
Trump is the heir to a national-populist strain that runs deep in American politics
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
This 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/
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Donate - bellingcat
Your 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...
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Carlos Barragán @carlos-barragan.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Hace 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...
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Dugin, 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
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Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
After 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...
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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
a 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.
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Adam Tooze @adamtooze.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Far-right AfD wins more than 1/3 of Germans who identify as workers.
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Jeremy Cliffe @jeremycliffe.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Blimey. 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.
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Carlos Barragán @carlos-barragan.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
A 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...
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Rare Earths in Ukraine? No, Only Scorched Earth.
President Trump’s fixation on extracting elements from the war-torn nation is an illusion.
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Carlos Barragán @carlos-barragan.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
One 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...
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Donald Trump makes bid for control of independent US regulators
Executive order will force watchdogs including the Federal Reserve and SEC to submit draft regulations to the White House
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Carlos Barragán @carlos-barragan.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
No more debate about fascism.
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Jeremy Cliffe @jeremycliffe.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
About 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.
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Carlos Barragán @carlos-barragan.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
This move fast and break things is already backfiring. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Dismissed Nuclear Bomb Specialists Recalled by Energy Department
The 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.
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Rafael 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...
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La 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
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Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Quite 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.
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Caroline de Gruyter @carolinedegruyter.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Quote of the day: “The road to the authoritarian state is lined with people who advise you not to exaggerate”
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Carlos Barragán @carlos-barragan.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
The 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...
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Spain pushes to double EU budget to over €2 trillion
Madrid wants governments to be jointly liable for borrowing huge amounts of money to boost the bloc’s coffers.
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