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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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Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 3d

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)

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

أنا اسمي زهران ممدان وعم رشّح حالي لأكون العمدة الجديد في مدينة نيويورك

Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 4d

Clippy would like a word.

(a winword.exe, that is)

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 5d

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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Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 5d

I knew Khaled in Iraq and Jordan, and I share his disillusionment.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 7d

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

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Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 16d

Second only to the winged Van Halen logo in coolness.

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Leif Hancox-Li, PhD @struthious.bsky.social · 17d

the costumes will get bigger until morale improves

Frettie Fingers @frettie.bsky.social · 17d

#nokings
Portland frog brigade

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Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 16d

Aw, man ... all I got was a $10 Applebee's gift card.

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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 20d

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 · 22d

That's what the English teacher used to say!

Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 22d

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 · 22d

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 · 22d

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 · 22d

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 · 22d

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

archive.is

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

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 · 26d

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 · 29d

$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 · Oct 2

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 · Sep 26

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 · Sep 26

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?

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Dan Lamothe @danlamothe.bsky.social · Sep 25

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

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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 · Sep 26

(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 · Sep 20

يعني ...

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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · Sep 20

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

NPR @npr.org · Sep 20

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.

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Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · Sep 20

Or we could simply ignore that insufferable windbag ...

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