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Jason "Red5" Lyall

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Prof @Dartmouth. Director, FieldLab. Carnegie Fellow. Diversity and military effectiveness, war, humanitarian aid, USAID, sci fi. Author, DIVIDED ARMIES (2020, http://amzn.to/2Y80f25). 🇨🇦 #FirstGen #VermontZen

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 2h

"let them eat popcorn"

Butt teeth! Butt teeth! Butt teeth! @panic.gay · 2h

Meanwhile, at the White House

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A full military band will meet guests at the door to play "Melania's Waltz,' a song composed especially for the film by Hollywood composer Tony Neiman. The band will stay on to play songs from Hollywood movies for the guests.

The event will have glossy, commemorative black and white popcorn boxes for guests, served by gloved waiters so they won't get fingerprints on them. Specially framed tickets to the movie will also be available to take home.

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Butt teeth! Butt teeth! Butt teeth! @panic.gay · 2h

Meanwhile, at the White House

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 3h

Absolute banger of a comment on r/military:

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jaderemedy • 4h ago
And now comes the most nauseating part of this whole goddamn mess: the hypocrisy. The same loud-mouthed idiots who spent years screaming about tyranny are suddenly dead fucking silent, or worse, cheering, now that it's their side doing it. "ThEy'Re cOminG fOr OuR gUnS!" "GoVerNMenT oVerReAch!" "ShAll nOt bE inFrinGeD!" All that chest-thumping bullshit evaporated the second armed federal agents started terrorizing people they don't like.
Let me get this straight: a civilian gets shot dead by federal agents, and the only thing you brainless cunts can muster is
"well, DHS says he had a gun"? THAT'S your red line? Guns are sacred when they're strapped to your waist, but magically become a death sentence when they're used as a post-hoc excuse by the government? Either the Second Amendment applies to everyone, or you never believed in it at all. Fucking pick one and own it.
This is exactly what tyranny looks like, by the way. Not jackboots marching in formation, but armed agents roaming neighborhoods, stopping people, killing civilians, and then daring the public to question it. Tyranny is execution followed by a press release. Tyranny is labeling the dead a "threat" so the state doesn't have to explain why someone's life just ended in the street. Tyranny is demanding obedience while shredding due process and calling it order.
And all you so-called "freedom lovers" are fucking fine with it, as long as it's brown people, immigrants, protesters, or anyone you've already dehumanized. Turns out "don't tread on me" actually meant "tread on them." You weren't afraid of tyranny.
You were afraid of losing dominance. There's a difference, and this moment exposes it completely.
"Just comply" isn't a principle. It's cowardice dressed up as common sense. It's the language of people who have already accepted that the state gets to decide who deserves rights and who doesn't. And once you make that deal, don't act shocked when the line moves, because it always fuckin…

Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 4h

10 seconds of Vermont zen, good for deep breathing and for gathering strength for the good fight

Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 5h

Turns out you can fit a lot of Good Trouble in the US

[SCUTTLEBUTT] @fack.bsky.social · 6h

There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:

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[SCUTTLEBUTT] @fack.bsky.social · 6h

There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:

21 minutes ago

Jazmine Ulloa

Hundreds of immigrant mothers and children detained at a South Texas facility on Saturday protested the killing of a 37-year-old man in Minneapolis, chanting "Let me out" and "Libertad," or "Liberty," according to an immigration lawyer who witnessed the demonstration.

Eric Lee, the lawyer, said he had been waiting for his client in the visitation area of the family detention center in Dilley, Tex., when detention officials abruptly asked him to leave. Once outside, he peered through a chain-link fence and saw hundreds of women and children walking out of the facility and chanting in protest.

Lee said his client later told him on the phone that he and other detainees were outraged over the latest killing in Minneapolis and the detention of Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old boy from Ecuador detained with his father in Minneapolis and sent to Texas.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 9h

ICE / DHS employees: I know there’s way more alarm internally than is public. Text me via signal at 202-510-1268. I’ll protect your anonymity

Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 10h

When we hold the criminal trials for ICE (and we will), we need to remember to include those who run the social media accounts for their role in gaslighting us and fanning the flames of violence

Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 11h

DHS (once again) announces conclusion (within 3 hours) without any investigation.

- Conclusion about federal agent's intent
- Conclusion about individual's intent
- Implicit conclusion about timing of disarming the individual and shooting him

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 10h

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 11h

Minneapolis police chief Brian O'Hara says that the victim was a 37-year-old white man and US citizen with no criminal record and that he was a legally permitted gun owner.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Sayre: "My background is in international humanitarian response in conflict zones in Yemen, Haiti, Syria, Iraq, and Ukraine. What I've seen here is what I've seen there. A powerful entity violently and intentionally terrorizing people."

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11h

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.  ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 11h

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 11h

“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment

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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 12h

If you’re not from here, I need to explain this execution was on Eat Street, a commercial corridor of restaurants and coffee shops that literally everyone goes to. Normies, queermos, weirdos, neighborhood folks. Whatever that place is in your city, imagine ICE executing someone in cold blood there.

Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 1d

“We now go live to Elbridge Colby for comment…”

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

The Pentagon has released a National Defense Strategy that chastises U.S. allies to take control of their own security and reasserts the Trump administration’s focus on dominance in the Western Hemisphere over a longtime goal of countering China.

Trump administration's defense strategy tells allies to handle their own security

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

Trump administration's defense strategy tells allies to handle their own security

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Politico @politico.com · 1d

Pentagon no longer views China threat as top priority

The document, a dramatic shift from previous administrations, reinforces many of the military moves already undertaken by the president.

dlvr.it

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Sio Cal @siocal.bsky.social · 1d

The only time NATO Article 5 has been enacted was for the US after 9/11.

I stood on Ramp Ceremonies for 26 Canadians. And the Multinational Role 3 team fought like hell to save coalition lives. American, NATO, and the greater coalition.

Don't fucking tell me we stood back. We fucking stood up.

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just Dave @justdave.bsky.social · 1d

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Jason Chavez @jchavezmpls.bsky.social · 3d

Please help us bring Liam Adrian Cornejo Ramos (he’s only 5 years of age and is currently in pre-K. Yesterday, he and his father were kidnapped by ICE. This will help the family with legal services to help reunite Liam and his dad with their family.

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Donate to Help Bring 5-Year-Old Liam Home, organized by sarai Orquiz

Liam Adrian Cornejo Ramos is just 5 years old and currently in pre-K. Yesterday, he and h… sarai Orquiz needs your support for Help Bring 5-Year-Old Liam Home

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 3d

Can’t reform this

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars

A masked ICE officials with a 5 year old child

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars

Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 3d

Your moment of much-needed Vermont zen

Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 3d

This is every parent’s worst nightmare

Joe @joealv.bsky.social · 3d

Just saw on KARE 11 that this boy was sent to a detainment facility in Texas and that his family didn't know his whereabouts for almost 24 hours.

Disco @discosaurus.bsky.social · 3d

This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 3d

This picture broke me, but the description of this kidnapping by a witness who says ICE referred to this precious child as “it” as they took him away fills me with an unspeakable, murderous rage.

Andrew Karre @andrewkarre.bsky.social · 3d

Sharing this report of ICE depravity from Facebook at the request of community member. This is from a suburb north of ICE-occupied Minneapolis.

The text is from her post on Facebook.