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Adrian McIntyre, PhD

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Anthropologist • Linguist • Communications Consultant 🗨️ Messaging, Marketing, and Media Training 🎤 Speaker on Communication, Culture, and the Art of Extraordinary Conversation 🌍 Anti-Humanist Humanitarian 👣 I have friends everywhere.

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Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · Feb 27

Intelectuales Apoliticos (Apolitical Intellectuals)
by Otto René Castillo

One day
the apolitical
intellectuals
of my country
will be interrogated
by the simplest
of our people.

They will be asked
what they did
when their nation died out
slowly,
like a sweet fire,
small and alone.

A grainy, black-and-white photo of Otto René Castillo, a Guatemalan revolutionary and poet. In March 1967, he and Nora Paíz Cárcamo were captured by US-backed government forces, tortured for several days, and then burned alive. He was 30 years old.

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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 20h

I'd yeet this at the heads of professional academic orgs to which I used to belong, but they wouldn't care & power comes from below anyway, so instead I yeet it, more gently, at junior scholars trying to do decolonial work. Every academic should read it. workshops4gaza.substack.com/p/against-co...

Academic conferences, especially those that require travel, are also an inaccessible way to share knowledge and research. The cost of the flight, especially for graduate students, adjuncts and other contingent academic workers; the disregard for the sick and disabled who may not wish to spend 2-3 days among hundreds of unmasked individuals; and the professional hierarchies that are reinforced through the promotion of an aggressive culture of “networking” that only rewards those who self-promote, are not only impediments to the sharing of knowledge—they contribute to the further consolidation and siloing of information among a privileged few.

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Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 1d

That's what the English teacher used to say!

Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 2d

It's been a long time since 7th-grade English class, but I'm pretty sure you fix this minor grammatical faux pas by adding an adverb: "some packages being destroyed bigly"

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Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 2d

It's Indigenous Peoples' Day, and I must once again remind many of you:

Cover of the book Custer Died For Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto by Vine Deloria, Jr.

Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 2d

Jesus was a Jew, so the whole Jews for Jesus thing has always seemed like something from the Department of Redundancy Department.

Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 2d

And if you don't trust weird links from strangers, you can go here and paste the WaPo URL yourself: archive.is

Works for most (but not all) paywalls.

archive.is

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Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 2d

Me either. I'm reading the cached version here: archive.is/y0jA9

archive.is

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Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 6d

The government asserts that Trump's post on Truth Social authorizes the action. A judge should be asking who actually writes those ...

Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 6d

Right from the start Judge Graber says she has questions for both counsels:

(1) What document authorizes the action? Is it the President's memo?

McArthur: cites the June memo, Trump's Truth Social post (!!), and a DHS memo, and "further posts on social media" in October.

Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 9d

$150 million to acquire a publication with 170,000 paid subscribers ... what a shrewd move.

"I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man."

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 13d

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report

Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

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Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 19d

I hope some of these military folks are aware of what Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II did to the Janissary Corps in 1826 😬

Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 19d

I honestly have no idea what people are taught at US service academies, OCS/OTS, military graduate schools, and so on ...

Do they learn about what happened to the Janissaries in 1826?

😬

Dan Lamothe @danlamothe.bsky.social · 20d

WAPO EXCLUSIVE: Pete Hegseth orders rare, urgent meeting of hundreds of generals, admirals, sowing confusion and alarm

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Hegseth orders rare, urgent meeting of hundreds of generals, admirals

The Pentagon has summoned military officials from around the world for a gathering in Virginia. Top generals and their staffs don’t know the reason for the meeting.

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Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 19d

(taps the sign)

Cover of the book Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto by Vine Deloria, Jr., depicting a black-and-white drawing of a bald eagle holding a tomahawk and arrows in its beak against a bright red background.

Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 25d

يعني ...

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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 25d

At the risk of staying the obvious ... If you sign this, you are in no way a journalist.

NPR @npr.org · 25d

The Pentagon is implementing new guidelines that will require journalists to sign a pledge and agree to report only approved and officially released information.

Defense Secretary Hegseth requires new 'pledge' for reporters at the Pentagon

The Pentagon is implementing new guidelines that will require journalists to sign a pledge and agree to report only approved and officially released information.

www.npr.org

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Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 25d

Or we could simply ignore that insufferable windbag ...

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Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 25d

If you've bought the lie that these folks want free speech & open, honest debate, you need to wake up and smell the rank authoritarianism.

You may enjoy their rhetoric and the way they punch down at people you don't like, but you should know that their ideas and actions are profoundly un-American.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25d

a few thoughts (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

Opinion | The MAGA Movement Is Not a Debating Society

www.nytimes.com

Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 26d

Former monarchist Lord Farquaad defends Constitution, right of Jesters to say stuff King doesn't like.

Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 26d

He was one of a kind.

Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 27d

And
bsky.app/profile/malc...

Malcolm Nance, Leading Resister @malcolmnance.bsky.social · 27d

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE:
He cannot designate an idea as a terrorist group.

There is no org called ANTIFA. There is no leadership or funding path or no membership. Also there is no terrorism law in America. Ask Luigi.

He wants to call anyone a terrorist. That’s Fascism.

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 27d

Also
bsky.app/profile/hann...

hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 27d

There is no legal category as “major terrorist organization.” It does not exist. And he can’t do this.

Just an administration of posters, basically.

Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 27d

George Carlin's take on the problem of evil: “Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed. Results like these do not belong on the résumé of a Supreme Being. This is the kind of shit you’d expect from an office temp with a bad attitude.”

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Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 27d

Thrilling.

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Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 27d

In other news, the executive committee of the not-for-profit American National Tooling and Industrial Fasteners Association (ANTIFA) called an emergency meeting late Wednesday evening to adopt a new name and update their articles of incorporation.

Screenshot of a Truth Social post from an account labeled Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump :

I am pleased to inform our many U.S.A.
Patriots that I am designating ANTIFA, A
SICK, DANGEROUS, RADICAL LEFT
DISASTER, AS A MAJOR TERRORIST
ORGANIZATION. I will also be strongly
recommending that those funding ANTIFA be thoroughly investigated in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

9/17/25, 8:26 PM

Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 27d

Oh, look ... an advance party from the craven, conceited, and utterly contemptible Consultant Class, eager to defend corporate Dems against those pesky lefties.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...

A New Democratic Think Tank Wants to Curb the Influence of Liberal Groups