Adrian McIntyre, PhD
@adrianmcintyre.bsky.social
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• Upskilling Workshops + Consulting
- Positioning & Messaging for GEO/AEO
- Next-Gen Media Training
- Executive Branding
- Podcast Strategy
- AI Visibility
🎓 Anthropology + Linguistics
🗨️ Semantics is my love language
• Upskilling Workshops + Consulting
- Positioning & Messaging for GEO/AEO
- Next-Gen Media Training
- Executive Branding
- Podcast Strategy
- AI Visibility
🎓 Anthropology + Linguistics
🗨️ Semantics is my love language
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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.
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.
Hey @timmarchman.bsky.social every time I read descriptions of the June incident, I can't help but wonder if Ross broke the rear window, reached in, and tased Muñoz-Guatemala, CAUSING him to accelerate (and drag Ross) as his muscles involuntarily contracted and his body went rigid. 🤔
NEW: Court records obtained by @wired.com show that an FBI agent's testimony contradicted claims Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who killed Renee Nicole Good, made under oath in December; the testimony also raises questions about Ross following his training. This is by @hudsongiles.bsky.social and me:
FBI Agent’s Sworn Testimony Contradicts Claims ICE’s Jonathan Ross Made Under Oath
The testimony also calls into question whether Ross failed to follow his training during the incident in which he reportedly shot and killed Minnesota citizen Renee Good.
www.wired.com
January 13, 2026 at 2:53 AM
Hey @timmarchman.bsky.social every time I read descriptions of the June incident, I can't help but wonder if Ross broke the rear window, reached in, and tased Muñoz-Guatemala, CAUSING him to accelerate (and drag Ross) as his muscles involuntarily contracted and his body went rigid. 🤔
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It is impossible to overstate the degree to which the entire national political media's coverage of the 2024 presidential campaign, especially once Harris won the nomination, was deeply, fundamentally, shamefully unserious about the stakes & the candidates.
I can still recall all the tut-tutting from the media when Harris made this argument.
Kamala Harris at her closing campaign rally:
"Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
"Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
January 11, 2026 at 5:55 AM
It is impossible to overstate the degree to which the entire national political media's coverage of the 2024 presidential campaign, especially once Harris won the nomination, was deeply, fundamentally, shamefully unserious about the stakes & the candidates.
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From a @columjournreview.bsky.social interview with actor and free press activist John Cusack. www.cjr.org/the-intervie...
"...not as a commercial interest to be protected, but more as a democratic function to be preserved. And that distinction is important."
Very important. Too often Ignored.
"...not as a commercial interest to be protected, but more as a democratic function to be preserved. And that distinction is important."
Very important. Too often Ignored.
January 7, 2026 at 5:16 PM
From a @columjournreview.bsky.social interview with actor and free press activist John Cusack. www.cjr.org/the-intervie...
"...not as a commercial interest to be protected, but more as a democratic function to be preserved. And that distinction is important."
Very important. Too often Ignored.
"...not as a commercial interest to be protected, but more as a democratic function to be preserved. And that distinction is important."
Very important. Too often Ignored.
I must once again remind you that 43 out of 45 US presidents have ordered military force against foreign adversaries without a formal declaration of war.
It's going to take more than another impeachment to unfuck this place.
It's going to take more than another impeachment to unfuck this place.
January 4, 2026 at 2:52 AM
I must once again remind you that 43 out of 45 US presidents have ordered military force against foreign adversaries without a formal declaration of war.
It's going to take more than another impeachment to unfuck this place.
It's going to take more than another impeachment to unfuck this place.
An extreme disregard for US law has become the de facto US government policy, while our record on international law speaks for itself... and says nothing reassuring.
Trump doesn’t appear to have any congressional approval for a declaration of war, and doesn’t seem to have notified the Gang of Eight about any of this.
Before we talk international law, there seems to be some *extreme* disregard for US law here, too.
Before we talk international law, there seems to be some *extreme* disregard for US law here, too.
Rules-based international order has had a rough couple of decades, but this pretty much ends it entirely. Both the strikes and the capture of Maduro are also blatant violations of US domestic law too, of course.
January 3, 2026 at 4:26 PM
An extreme disregard for US law has become the de facto US government policy, while our record on international law speaks for itself... and says nothing reassuring.
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Now is really not the time to sow distrust and punch down on independent media. It’s particularly galling to do in light of how we’ve actually gotten news and information about the latest global conflicts and federal corruption in the U.S.
January 3, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Now is really not the time to sow distrust and punch down on independent media. It’s particularly galling to do in light of how we’ve actually gotten news and information about the latest global conflicts and federal corruption in the U.S.
All I want for Xmas is a @karaswisher.bsky.social WOTD desk calendar with 365 days of glorious name-calling:
Thirsty Dingbat
Unctuous Toady
Termagant
Boy Men
Giant Man Babies
Space Karen
Chaos Monkey
Uncle Satan
Musk-splainer
Feckless
etc.
(Too bad I'm on still on Santa's naughty list.)
Thirsty Dingbat
Unctuous Toady
Termagant
Boy Men
Giant Man Babies
Space Karen
Chaos Monkey
Uncle Satan
Musk-splainer
Feckless
etc.
(Too bad I'm on still on Santa's naughty list.)
Now this thirsty dingbat weighs in: "Katie Miller Gives ‘60 Minutes’ a Bonkers Lecture After Pro-Trump Censorship" www.thedailybeast.com//katie-mille...
Katie Miller Gives ‘60 Minutes’ a Bonkers Lecture After Pro-Trump Censorship
MAGA’s new favorite mouthpiece is holding forth on journalistic ethics amid the firestorm that’s beset one of the nation’s top investigative shows.
www.thedailybeast.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:08 PM
All I want for Xmas is a @karaswisher.bsky.social WOTD desk calendar with 365 days of glorious name-calling:
Thirsty Dingbat
Unctuous Toady
Termagant
Boy Men
Giant Man Babies
Space Karen
Chaos Monkey
Uncle Satan
Musk-splainer
Feckless
etc.
(Too bad I'm on still on Santa's naughty list.)
Thirsty Dingbat
Unctuous Toady
Termagant
Boy Men
Giant Man Babies
Space Karen
Chaos Monkey
Uncle Satan
Musk-splainer
Feckless
etc.
(Too bad I'm on still on Santa's naughty list.)
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Most discussions about “misinformation” treat the problem as if people simply don’t have good enough critical-thinking skills. It sounds intuitive, but it’s not entirely accurate. The problem isn’t just individual ignorance, it’s the structure of the information environment people are placed into.
Finland has emerged as a global leader in countering “fake news”. Here's how they've done it
Teaching when to trust
As fake news accelerates, we need to teach our children how to think critically. Finnish schools are leading the charge
newhumanist.org.uk
December 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Most discussions about “misinformation” treat the problem as if people simply don’t have good enough critical-thinking skills. It sounds intuitive, but it’s not entirely accurate. The problem isn’t just individual ignorance, it’s the structure of the information environment people are placed into.
"Accountability journalism" is a professionalized form of truth-seeking and truth-telling that has very little in common with the self-serving suck-uppery of so-called "access" journalism.
Seriously everything, EVERYTHING about the RFK/Nuzzi/LIzza moment is an argument for a newsroom where you pitch stories in front of each other and editors who shield you from your own worst impulses.
November 27, 2025 at 6:10 PM
"Accountability journalism" is a professionalized form of truth-seeking and truth-telling that has very little in common with the self-serving suck-uppery of so-called "access" journalism.
... at which time the turkey was perma-pardoned for all federal crimes—past, present, and future—and appointed to a Cabinet-level position so it could enrich itself with impunity in perpetuity. 🦃🤡
The good news: the president has pardoned the turkey.
The bad news: two hours later the turkey was arrested for running a ponzi scheme and committing acts of gross sexual imposition.
The bad news: two hours later the turkey was arrested for running a ponzi scheme and committing acts of gross sexual imposition.
November 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
... at which time the turkey was perma-pardoned for all federal crimes—past, present, and future—and appointed to a Cabinet-level position so it could enrich itself with impunity in perpetuity. 🦃🤡
The loudest voices are often the wrongest. Bill Gates is one of them.
@dfenton.bsky.social recommends a clear course of action:
"TALK MORE ABOUT HOW CLIMATE CHANGE THREATENS THE PEOPLE AND PLACES WE LOVE. Spend more time and money reaching the public with the truth."
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@dfenton.bsky.social recommends a clear course of action:
"TALK MORE ABOUT HOW CLIMATE CHANGE THREATENS THE PEOPLE AND PLACES WE LOVE. Spend more time and money reaching the public with the truth."
1/2
When @billgates.bsky.social yelled at me about Climate Change, and climate hushing elsewhere in news and politics. #climate @theframelab.bsky.social @gilduran.com @nytimesoped.bsky.social @joeroganhq.bsky.social @nytopinion.nytimes.com
When Bill Gates Yelled At Me About Climate Change
David Fenton recalls Bill Gates yelling at him in 2010 about climate change. 15 years later, Gates still gets it wrong and he's not alone.
www.theframelab.org
November 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The loudest voices are often the wrongest. Bill Gates is one of them.
@dfenton.bsky.social recommends a clear course of action:
"TALK MORE ABOUT HOW CLIMATE CHANGE THREATENS THE PEOPLE AND PLACES WE LOVE. Spend more time and money reaching the public with the truth."
1/2
@dfenton.bsky.social recommends a clear course of action:
"TALK MORE ABOUT HOW CLIMATE CHANGE THREATENS THE PEOPLE AND PLACES WE LOVE. Spend more time and money reaching the public with the truth."
1/2
November 14, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Hey @safety.bsky.app, found an account making death threats you should suspend.
this is a far more explicit death threat from people with the actual means to carry it out
November 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Hey @safety.bsky.app, found an account making death threats you should suspend.
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Remember the immigration raid on the apartment complex in Chicago almost two months ago? The one with the Black Hawk helicopter and federal agents rappelling on ropes? @ProPublica decided to take a deeper look. We found little evidence to support the government’s claims. 🧵
November 13, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Remember the immigration raid on the apartment complex in Chicago almost two months ago? The one with the Black Hawk helicopter and federal agents rappelling on ropes? @ProPublica decided to take a deeper look. We found little evidence to support the government’s claims. 🧵
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Public radio fans don’t have to wait wait any longer — the NPR news quiz is coming back to Phoenix for the first time since 2014.
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! brings live show to Phoenix for the first time since 2014
Peter Sagal and Bill Kurtis, hosts of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, are taking their weekly comedy show on the road to Arizona Financial Theatre on Dec. 4.
www.kjzz.org
November 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Public radio fans don’t have to wait wait any longer — the NPR news quiz is coming back to Phoenix for the first time since 2014.
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The administration hates “fake news” so much it keeps stealing journalists' work for its ICE sizzle reels.
Why can't it find footage from those supposedly better outlets it wants in the WH and Pentagon?
Maybe they don’t make content worth stealing?
Why can't it find footage from those supposedly better outlets it wants in the WH and Pentagon?
Maybe they don’t make content worth stealing?
Chicago Sun-Times demands DHS remove social posts using its photos without permission
A letter sent to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem Thursday says the government used three Sun-Times photos without permission to promote its immigration enforcement campaign. The newspaper threatened to file an intellectual property right infringement lawsuit if the posts…
chicago.suntimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
The administration hates “fake news” so much it keeps stealing journalists' work for its ICE sizzle reels.
Why can't it find footage from those supposedly better outlets it wants in the WH and Pentagon?
Maybe they don’t make content worth stealing?
Why can't it find footage from those supposedly better outlets it wants in the WH and Pentagon?
Maybe they don’t make content worth stealing?
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Our review of 700+ videos of the Portland protests shows a wide gap between the reality on the ground and the characterizations by Trump, Fox News and DHS, which said its office in the city was under “coordinated assault by violent groups.”
By @robwdavis.bsky.social and Steve Suo
By @robwdavis.bsky.social and Steve Suo
What Really Happened in Portland Before Trump Deployed the National Guard
In the two months before Trump’s decision, criminal charges were announced against only three people. On nights when physical conflict did erupt, it often came from police firing on, shoving, pepper-s...
www.propublica.org
November 9, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Our review of 700+ videos of the Portland protests shows a wide gap between the reality on the ground and the characterizations by Trump, Fox News and DHS, which said its office in the city was under “coordinated assault by violent groups.”
By @robwdavis.bsky.social and Steve Suo
By @robwdavis.bsky.social and Steve Suo
Just when I thought I couldn't possibly love this man more ...
۞ إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَأْمُرُ بِالْعَدْلِ وَالْإِحْسَانِ وَإِيتَاءِ ذِي الْقُرْبَىٰ وَيَنْهَىٰ عَنِ الْفَحْشَاءِ وَالْمُنكَرِ وَالْبَغْيِ ۚ يَعِظُكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَذَكَّرُونَ (16:90)
۞ إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَأْمُرُ بِالْعَدْلِ وَالْإِحْسَانِ وَإِيتَاءِ ذِي الْقُرْبَىٰ وَيَنْهَىٰ عَنِ الْفَحْشَاءِ وَالْمُنكَرِ وَالْبَغْيِ ۚ يَعِظُكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَذَكَّرُونَ (16:90)
أنا اسمي زهران ممدان وعم رشّح حالي لأكون العمدة الجديد في مدينة نيويورك
November 2, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Just when I thought I couldn't possibly love this man more ...
۞ إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَأْمُرُ بِالْعَدْلِ وَالْإِحْسَانِ وَإِيتَاءِ ذِي الْقُرْبَىٰ وَيَنْهَىٰ عَنِ الْفَحْشَاءِ وَالْمُنكَرِ وَالْبَغْيِ ۚ يَعِظُكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَذَكَّرُونَ (16:90)
۞ إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَأْمُرُ بِالْعَدْلِ وَالْإِحْسَانِ وَإِيتَاءِ ذِي الْقُرْبَىٰ وَيَنْهَىٰ عَنِ الْفَحْشَاءِ وَالْمُنكَرِ وَالْبَغْيِ ۚ يَعِظُكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَذَكَّرُونَ (16:90)
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The Democratic Party would do well to look to the social programs of the Black Panther Party as inspiration if SNAP disappears on Saturday. Just running party-sponsored food drives and regular party-sponsored spaghetti dinners in some major cities would be both helpful and good PR.
October 30, 2025 at 5:55 PM
The Democratic Party would do well to look to the social programs of the Black Panther Party as inspiration if SNAP disappears on Saturday. Just running party-sponsored food drives and regular party-sponsored spaghetti dinners in some major cities would be both helpful and good PR.
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it’s kind of funny that the New York Times, which is probably at least 50% Ivy League on the editorial side, is one of the primary drivers of contemporary anti-intellectualism, but not really funny in a good way
What Zohran Mamdani Learned as an Africana Studies Major at Bowdoin
www.nytimes.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:55 PM
it’s kind of funny that the New York Times, which is probably at least 50% Ivy League on the editorial side, is one of the primary drivers of contemporary anti-intellectualism, but not really funny in a good way
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the costumes will get bigger until morale improves
October 18, 2025 at 10:44 PM
the costumes will get bigger until morale improves
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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...
October 15, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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...
It's Indigenous Peoples' Day, and I must once again remind many of you:
October 13, 2025 at 10:11 PM
It's Indigenous Peoples' Day, and I must once again remind many of you:
The government asserts that Trump's post on Truth Social authorizes the action. A judge should be asking who actually writes those ...
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.
(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.
October 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The government asserts that Trump's post on Truth Social authorizes the action. A judge should be asking who actually writes those ...