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John McIntyre

@johnemcintyre.bsky.social
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Retired Baltimore Sun editor, flaneur. Author of “The Old Editor Says” and “Bad Advice.” Kentuckian transplanted to Baltimore.

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John McIntyre @johnemcintyre.bsky.social · 18h
The forbidden becomes commonplace.
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Dry no more
I recently discovered online that a liquor store had opened for business in Flemingsburg, Kentucky. And there's a winery there, too! It's as...
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John McIntyre @johnemcintyre.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Why, oh why, did I not follow Miss Massie’s wholesome example this morning?
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John McIntyre @johnemcintyre.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I need a name tag of some kind that I can wear at church and in public places that reads, “I am not as pompous as I appear to be.”
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John McIntyre @johnemcintyre.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I’m 75 years old with a disintegrating right hip, and if I can return the shopping cart instead of leaving it in the middle of the damn sidewalk, I’m pretty sure that most of you can, too.
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Burnt2Death @bernadettehalt.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
FROM NOW TIL NOV 3RD IT'S NOTHING BUT A DISTRACTION! FOCUS, AMERICA! VOTE, AMERICA!
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
White House Collaborators' Association.
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John McIntyre @johnemcintyre.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Where suspicion lies.
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The police suspect everybody
A crime has been committed. A person has been robbed, assaulted, or shot. The police report of the crime says that officers are seeking to ...
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🍂 Shel-leaf 🍁 Ca-pumpkin 🎃🚫🧊 [Seasonal Edition] @virtuistic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Don't love it, but I love the term "petro-masculinity." Partner (sociologist) and I talk at length about how life amid the indulgent + petulant death throes of petrol-fueled patriarchy is marked by ever larger SUVs and Kid Crusher 9000 trucks manspreading on roads, accelerating consumption + harms.
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John McIntyre @johnemcintyre.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Here’s the thing about being a retired septuagenarian: You do not have that much time remaining, but you’re perfectly free to waste it as you choose.
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John McIntyre @johnemcintyre.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
From out of the past, the notes of the Linnaeus of the newsroom. Post in comments.
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John McIntyre @johnemcintyre.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This was the day forty years ago that I reported to Calvert Street, signed the paperwork, and took a seat on the copy desk of The Baltimore Sun.
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John McIntyre @johnemcintyre.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Kathleen and I saw Coyote vs. Acme today. A hoot and a half. Strongly recommended.
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John McIntyre @johnemcintyre.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Due to circumstances ...
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How we talk now
If you are old enough, you were probably taught the "due to" crotchet.   For the youngsters in the gallery, due  was only ever supposed to b...
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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
What horseshit. She embraced gay people at the height of the AIDS crisis, embraced trans people at the height of the war against them, supported Black communities and artists, and wrote the most pro-worker's rights feminist pop song of all time. Neutral my ass
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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Republicans have spent the last year trying to defund Dolly Parton
article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Indianaarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Kentuckyarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Missouriiarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Washington
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John McIntyre @johnemcintyre.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
What would Odysseus do?
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Two ways about it
I sued to teach my editing students at Loyola Maryland a nice little word, dilemma . It's ultimately from the Greek, di , "two," and lēmma ...
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John McIntyre @johnemcintyre.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Sitting on the porch, I smelled autumn today.
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John McIntyre @johnemcintyre.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I am rereading “Emma,” with a fresh delight on every page. Emma on Mr. Elton: “And he was really a very pleasing young man, a young man whom any woman not fastidious might like.”
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
100% #BookSky
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John McIntyre @johnemcintyre.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Once I am vilified, I will take this down. Reading about apologists, respectively, for Jews and Palestinians, is like reading apologists, respectively, for Roman Catholics and Protestants in Ireland. Each has a history; each has a grievance; and each was ready to fight the other forever.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/08/2026
NEW: General Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking. Robot arms smashed into things. Hunks of metal crashed to the floor. There was even a real-life dumpster fire.
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Fiasco in the Factory: Taxpayers Funded a $533 Million Artillery Plant That Made Nothing
General Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking. Robot arms smashed into things. Hunks of metal crashed to the floor. There was even a...
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John McIntyre @johnemcintyre.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
It matters where you sit.
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Porch sitting
The porch at our front door is small, holding a round table, a small side table, and four chairs. That's the capacity. When I worked, this ...
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John McIntyre @johnemcintyre.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Let me know. Who is it who still wants to know what James Carville has to say?
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John McIntyre @johnemcintyre.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
More than this I could not say.
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It's not over
This week someone on Twitter quoted a tweet from a fellow journalist: "Not to be dramatic, but the day @APStylebook made it okay to say 'ove...
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John McIntyre @johnemcintyre.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Reading as an act of resistance.
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John McIntyre @johnemcintyre.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Everywhere in Cheever, there are little treasures: “Her accent was a fraud, her tastes were fraudulent, and the seraphic look she assumed when she listened to music was the look of someone trying to recall an old telephone number.”
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Betty Cracker of Florida @bettycrackerfl.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Bezos and the Waltons are freeloading welfare queens. We can’t afford them.
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John McIntyre @johnemcintyre.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Anonymity does not disturb copy editors, because we are indifferent to vulgar acclaim.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 26/07/2026
Once again I'm incandescently angry at our billionaire-owned news organizations. Please click through and follow the independent and local journalists in the starter packs in this thread. We HAVE to support and get our news from better sources.
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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
They’d rather be told they’re liars who should be subjected to violence by those who don’t read their work than be told they are stenographers who are failing at their stated principles by those who do read their work.
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John McIntyre @johnemcintyre.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Yes, the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner has been a joke for nearly 40 years, but it is hard to imagine that anyone with serious pretension to being a professional journalist would attend the event tomorrow with Donald Trump.
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John McIntyre @johnemcintyre.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
What have you done for me lately?
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John McIntyre @johnemcintyre.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
There was a discussion in the bar today about Episcopalians, and how they differ from Catholics and Protestants. I have an explanation, but it’s only likely to be understood by other Episcopalians: I am basically a deist with a taste for ceremony.
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💙💙🌊🌊BlueWave1801XXX🌊🌊💙💙 @bluewave1801xxx.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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A.A. Dowd @aadowd.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
THE ODYSSEY's instantly, predictably enormous success is Exhibit #32176 that the right wing's grievance-farming operation is not some great American cultural shift. Most people don't give a shit about their petty crusades.
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Jess Piper Fan Page 💙 📚 @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Go Jess 15K likes 2.8K reposts & 126 quotes all in one day👍 @piperformissouri.bsky.social / @fpwellman.bsky.social @labarnitz.bsky.social @iquitcigs.bsky.social @abbarsha.bsky.social @mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social @roray1010.bsky.social @ruralfreedomnet.bsky.social @thedefofdemocracy.bsky.social
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John McIntyre @johnemcintyre.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The Old Editor limps along. Post in comments.
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GenXJamerican🇯🇲🇺🇸 @genxjamerican.com · 15/07/2026
As an aside, if they encountered bad roads in Baltimore proper that’s a function of Governor Hogan spending all our tax money making the roads where his supporters live as smooth as possible while sabotaging Baltimore at every opportunity.
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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
America has never been susceptible to communism. It has always been susceptible to fascism. Know your history. Know your context. Know smokescreens when you see them. The threat of communism has always been a smokescreen used by fascists in America.
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The Girl of Lemongrab @mc-hesher.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
They fear us and they know they cannot kill us in a way that matters. There Will Be A Reckoning, and our revenge will be living happily in front of them. Their hell will be living in a loving egalitarian society that keeps them safe but powerless and tells them they're silly geese for talking stupid
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God @thegodshow.com · 08/07/2026
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Brooke Pierce @bpie7.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
People are right to be mad about the predictable Platner fiasco, but it's worth remembering that last year a ton of establishment Democrats supported disgraced sexual harasser Andrew Cuomo against clean-as-a-whistle Zohran. Tolerating problem men is an issue across the ideological spectrum.
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John McIntyre @johnemcintyre.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Watching Fourth of July coverage on CNN. Vapid chatter with pasted-on heartiness. Thomas Jefferson, what have you done?
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John McIntyre @johnemcintyre.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Sing it anyhow.
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A thought for the Fourth
Let us acknowledge things about our national anthem. "The Star-Spangled Banner" is mediocre verse set to the tune of an old drinking song t...
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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 02/07/2026
there are many reasons the Trump administration sucks but the fact that everyone in it is OBSCENELY wealthy and yet they're all so tacky and cheap is, like, top 5 on my list.
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Can everyone just step back and realize how insane it is that the US Supreme Court had to rule on the constitutionality of the US CONSTITUTION and the vote to uphold the Constitution wasn't unanimous!!!
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
As I was saying: anti-immigration politics is insatiable—literally cannot be satisfied—by any concrete menu of policy changes because it's not about policy! It's about ethnic purity, & purging the body politic of the enemy alien. Every 'reasonable grievance' is a stalking horse for ethnic cleansing
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msesq.bsky.social @msesq.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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John McIntyre @johnemcintyre.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Just delivered to my hospital room (vertigo, don’t ask) with get-well wishes from Hannah Gaskill, Cody Boteler, Emily Opilo, Lia Russell, Leah Brennan, Hallie Miller, and Maddi O’Neill. Even my flinty old heart is touched.
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