Adrian McIntyre, PhD
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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.
"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."
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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."
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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."
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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 ...
$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."
"I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man."
October 6, 2025 at 1:56 PM
$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."
"I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man."
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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...
www.mediaite.com
October 2, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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...
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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Do they learn about what happened to the Janissaries in 1826?
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WAPO EXCLUSIVE: Pete Hegseth orders rare, urgent meeting of hundreds of generals, admirals, sowing confusion and alarm
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 26, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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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Do they learn about what happened to the Janissaries in 1826?
😬
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At the risk of staying the obvious ... If you sign this, you are in no way a journalist.
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
September 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
At the risk of staying the obvious ... If you sign this, you are in no way a journalist.
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.
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.
a few thoughts (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...
Opinion | The MAGA Movement Is Not a Debating Society
www.nytimes.com
September 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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.
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.
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.
September 18, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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.
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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...
A New Democratic Think Tank Wants to Curb the Influence of Liberal Groups
www.nytimes.com
September 18, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...
"the righteous endeavor to protect the legitimate free exchange of ideas and opinions, which requires the vigilant maintenance of appropriate behaviors"
A sphincter says what?
A sphincter says what?
Clay Higgins sent a letter to Bluesky and other social media sites threatening investigations if they don't censor speech critical of Charlie Kirk.
They don't even know who Jay is because they addressed her as "gentleman."
clayhiggins.house.gov/wp-content/u...
They don't even know who Jay is because they addressed her as "gentleman."
clayhiggins.house.gov/wp-content/u...
September 17, 2025 at 3:49 AM
"the righteous endeavor to protect the legitimate free exchange of ideas and opinions, which requires the vigilant maintenance of appropriate behaviors"
A sphincter says what?
A sphincter says what?