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Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Polarization is the distraction, not the problem. I mean, it's a problem but not THE problem ...

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Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I must once again remind you ... www.propublica.org/article/toho...

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

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Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"My old girlfriend from Oklahoma was gonna fly out for the dance but she couldn't cause she's doing some modeling right now."

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Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sorry I'm not available to take your call. I'm busy signing Denny's menus.

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Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Taps the sign: bsky.app/profile/adri...

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Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Because, at the end of the day, COWARDICE is defensible ("I need this job," or "We can't jeopardize our funding," or some other plausible albeit pathetic justification can be given). But COMPLICITY in the murder of children, not to mention the extermination of an entire population, is INDEFENSIBLE.

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Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

We must regain our ability to be horrified by the horrors of genocide. We must allow our revulsion and righteous anger at both the brutality of the IDF and the brazen untruths spouted by its defenders to override the civility and professional courtesy we've adopted to preserve our paychecks.

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Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The claim that the ICRC didn't inform the IDF of its presence and field movements is patently untrue. I know many of us are inured to the bad faith arguments and bald-faced lies of IDF spokespeople and pro-Israel propagandists. Some degree of numbness is a necessity in our lines of work. But...

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Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Side note: the current term of art in international humanitarian law is "parties to the conflict," not "belligerents." But the older term fits both the character limit of a Bluesky comment and the character of the Israeli state/military, so I'm going with that. In any case ...

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Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I assure you that everything described by Muhammad Shehada rings true. If anything, aid agencies over-coordinate and over-communicate. The ICRC has a singular mandate (and a unique relationship to belligerents) and thus defines coordination and communication differently than we did at Oxfam. cont.

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Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

On a personal note, I was a humanitarian aid worker in this region and have extensive, firsthand experience of how relief agencies operate. (I even wrote a PhD dissertation about the media/comms/advocacy dimension of this work. It's not as good as I wanted it to be, but what ever is?) And so...

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Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It's tempting to use the word "cowards" to describe the BBC producers and/or executive leaders who killed this segment on the killers of Hind Rajab. But the COWARDICE is systemic, not personal, and by no means limited to the media. It's the norm, not the exception. The correct word is COMPLICITY.

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Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"When they go low, we go high" was a righteous and principled position to hold at the time. Those days are over. Sweep the leg. No mercy.

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Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Props to Ken Burns for publicly acknowledging the limitations of his prior work. Side note: This reminds me of the no-smoking ad John Waters recorded for the Nuart Theatre in LA, which was still being played at the UC Theatre in Berkeley in the late 90s.

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Dan Kennedy @dankennedy.net · 28/07/2026

An interesting public media initiative one year after the Great Defunding. "WAMC is building a new collaborative with newsrooms around the region, including the [Albany] Times Union, The Berkshire Eagle, and the Adirondack Explorer to meet this need and reach people where they live."

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A New Local Journalism Collaboration

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Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Every human on Earth belongs to a single biological species. Racism hinges on the false belief that physical differences have any inherent significance whatsoever. Building one's identity on claims of another's inferiority is a sign of pathological insecurity. White supremacy is weaksauce.

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Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

X is what's left when you drop the SE from SEX. This elision is not accidental: it's a Freudian parapraxis, a "motivated forgetting." The name itself tells us what the incels on X are trying to supress: In Spanish, "se" is a reflexive pronoun—meaning it's an action you only ever do to yourself.

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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

lol

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Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Still can't believe that The Odyssey opened with a land acknowledgement delivered in dactylic hexameter, followed by an apology in English for the flagrant linguistic appropriation.

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Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Definitely better. But mine was funnier.

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Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

"Oh, do ya? Well, that's funny, because I happen to have The National Archives right here, so, so, yeah, just let me... [pulls an archivist out of the strongroom] "Come over here for a second...tell him!"

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Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

"Oh, really? Well, it just so happens I teach a class at Minnesota Law called "Originalism for Fun and Profit." So I think my insights into the late-medieval manorial system, well, have a great deal of validity!"

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Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

"I mean, aren't you ashamed to pontificate like that? And the funny part of it is, manorialism, you don't know anything about manorialism!"

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Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

In which @anthonymkreis.bsky.social reaches offscreen and pulls The National Archives into view à la Marshall McLuhan in Annie Hall.

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Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

The 21st-century klan wears red caps instead of white hoods, consumes Fox News and alt-right podcasts instead of The Searchlight and other klan publications, and has traded secrecy for center stage. It has achieved what the 1920s klan could only aspire to: control over every branch of government.

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Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

"The awareness that they are about to make the continuum of history explode is characteristic of the revolutionary classes at the moment of their action."

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Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Targeting noncombatants is a war crime. Journalists are noncombatants. Aid workers are noncombatants. The overwhelming majority of people living in neighborhoods that have been flattened by the IDF are noncombatants. There is no justification, legal, moral or otherwise, for these heinous crimes.

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Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

It's also a question that grad students and contingent faculty have been asking for a while now.

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 15/04/2026

Sign this petition to help free well-respected journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin. A contributor to numerous outlets, including The New York Times, PBS, and Al Jazeera English, he is jailed in Kuwait on vague charges for sharing news on social media. #FreeAhmed

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Kuwait: Release journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin from detention | SIGN NOW

An award-winning Kuwaiti-American journalist has been detained since March 2 for sharing publicly available, CNN-verified footage. Journalism is not a crime.

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Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I find it incredible — as in literally not credible — that when the president orders fast food delivery in DC, the driver who shows up is the same person who's shown up in multiple videos with Rs from multiple states. Grammy may be a gig worker, but she's also on the payroll.

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Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Malignant, aggressive Stage-4 idiocy.

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Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Being recommended by Jon and reposted by Glenn is all the evidence I need to determine that this is not, in fact, worth watching.

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Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

THIS IS NOT WHO WE ARE. Unless we do nothing. If we're unwilling to stop the madness — and the madman — this IS who we are.

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Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Like Faulkner said, "The past is never dead. It's not even past." As an undergrad in the early 90s, I took an interdisciplinary class called "Hate," co-taught by a cultural historian and a social psychologist. Things today are, like, 87 times worse. (95% CI [1, 999], p = .00001)

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Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

@lollardfish.bsky.social Your timing is impeccable. Not a campus talk, but we're putting together a podcast mini-series on exactly this topic. Would love to have you join us for an episode. Will DM to discuss.

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Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I believe it was Friday night, not last night. But yes, that's the one. "Thoughtful" was the adjective I used to describe his commentary in the CPAC piece. Did you watch it? You're more than welcome to take issue with his reporting on Starmer, of course, but why do it here?

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