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Jason "Red5" Lyall
@jaylyall.bsky.social
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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 Website: www.jasonlyall.com .. more

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 8h
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 10h
No money for starving kids in Gaza, South Sudan, or Afghanistan but, sure, $50 million for polar bears in Greenland (that's $100k per bear). Make it make sense.
Trump’s new foreign aid plan eyes $50 million for Greenland’s polar bears
Documents reviewed by The Post show the administration may spend millions to protect vulnerable wildlife, proposals that stunned critics of its moves to gut foreign assistance.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 1d
Hegseth’s sprawling hunt for Charlie Kirk critics spans nearly 300 investigations
Hegseth’s sprawling hunt for Charlie Kirk critics spans nearly 300 investigations
The inquiry, resulting in a smattering of disciplinary action so far, follows an extraordinary directive aimed at silencing criticism of the slain activist and Trump supporter.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 1d
Attention university presidents and boards of trustees:

"Those who oppose authoritarianism have to play a different game, creating solidarity among an unwieldy coalition, which knows that if everyone holds together, they will surely succeed."
Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.
www.nytimes.com
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 2d
Can't reform this
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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 2d
Here’s video of the incident
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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 2d
Here’s video of the incident
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 2d
NGL, Kim wore it best
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d
Kim Jong Un in giant pants. Oscar Issac looking at some kind of electronic tablet. Oscar Isaac in giant pants.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2d
Literally unconstitutional; Congress has the power of the purse under Article I. Trump is trying to create a personalist regime where every dollar of federal spending is allocated at his whim.
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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 2d
absolute mad king behavior here. singlehandedly raise taxes, then singlehandedly dole revenue out whenever advantageous
White House says it will use tariff revenue to fund federal food aid for mothers and young children | CNN Politics
The Trump administration said Tuesday it will use tariff funds to keep afloat a federal food assistance program for nearly 7 million pregnant women, new moms and young children during the government s...
www.cnn.com
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d
NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 2d
Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.
Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators
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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 2d
I guess we’re at the “desegregation was bad” op-Ed’s in NYT stage of MAGA’s campaign to create Jim Crow II.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 2d
This oped is actually pretty bad. Caldwell claims that “the military of the 2020s has been as overburdened by the imperatives of progressivism as schools were by the duties of racial integration in the 1970s” and that Hegseth “outlined a nuanced vision of the military’s purpose” in his speech.
Opinion | That Hegseth Speech Was Actually Pretty Good
www.nytimes.com
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 2d
This oped is actually pretty bad. Caldwell claims that “the military of the 2020s has been as overburdened by the imperatives of progressivism as schools were by the duties of racial integration in the 1970s” and that Hegseth “outlined a nuanced vision of the military’s purpose” in his speech.
Opinion | That Hegseth Speech Was Actually Pretty Good
www.nytimes.com
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 2d
Celebrating small wins this morning: Our new R package, geocausal, just broke 8,000 downloads. If you're interested in causal inference with spatio-temporal data, you can grab it on Github or CRAN

github.com/mmukaigawara...
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 2d
"All nine institutions must reject this proposal: it is a thinly veiled attack on academic freedom; it is a test case for whether Trumpists can get away with demanding loyalty oaths; it exceeds the president’s powers to begin with..."
- @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social
US universities must reject Trump’s ‘compact’. It is full of traps | Jan-Werner Müller
The administration is trying to make nine universities an offer they seemingly cannot refuse
www.theguardian.com
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Alexia Katsanidou @alexiakatsanidou.bsky.social · 2d
Great paper on the state of political science osf.io/preprints/os... by @guygrossman.bsky.social et. al. We have become more diverse, more quantitative, and more collaborative.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 3d
My new op-ed with @lkfazio.bsky.social:

Trump sent a 'compact' to our universities. They should reject this devil's bargain.
Any institution that yields to these broad and intrusive demands would forever be subservient to the whims of the government.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 4d
Some news: Psyched to announce that I'm joining @thebulwark.com as economics editor next month.
I'm currently still on mat leave, but will return to co-hosting @theweekendprime.bsky.social as well soon.

crampell.substack.com/p/nu-news
Nu, News
I'm joining The Bulwark as Economics Editor.
crampell.substack.com
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 4d
NGL, I'm alarmed by the prospect of US Navy officers applauding the extra-judicial execution of "terrorists" (along with other parts of Trump's speech). We're watching the real-time politicization of the US military
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
Trump: "In recent weeks the Navy has supported our mission to blow the cartel terrorists the hell out of the water. You see that. And you know, there are no boats in the water anymore. We can't find any ... what we're doing is actually an act of kindness."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
Trump: "In recent weeks the Navy has supported our mission to blow the cartel terrorists the hell out of the water. You see that. And you know, there are no boats in the water anymore. We can't find any ... what we're doing is actually an act of kindness."
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 4d
I know this has been memory-holed, but an actual court of law upheld the use of race in US Naval Academy admissions because diversity was seen as a national security imperative

www.axios.com/2024/12/06/n...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
Trump: "We won World War 1. We won World War 2. We won everything in between. We won everything before. And all of the sudden they decide to change the name. They went woke then too, you know. Woke is a long term. Word."
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 4d
Wait until Pete finds out that 38% of the US Navy is non-White, including 25% of its officers
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
Hegseth to the Navy: "Your diversity is not your strength"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
Hegseth to the Navy: "Your diversity is not your strength"
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taber @kvetch.gay · 6d
this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 6d
More Pete-induced churn in the Pentagon
Hegseth fires top Navy official
Jon Harrison is the latest Pentagon official who Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has removed from office.
www.politico.com
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 6d
This is straight-up murder.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 6d
Pete Hegseth: “Earlier this morning, on President Trump's orders, I directed a lethal, kinetic strike on a narco-trafficking vessel affiliated with Designated Terrorist Organizations in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility. Four male narco-terrorists aboard the vessel were killed..”
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth # @ CX.com @SecWar Earlier this morning, on President Trump's orders, I directed a lethal, kinetic strike on a narco-trafficking vessel affiliated with Designated Terrorist Organizations in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility. Four male narco-terrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike, and no U.S. forces were harmed in the operation. The strike was conducted in international waters just off the coast of Venezuela while the vessel was transporting substantial amounts of narcotics - headed to America to poison our people. Our intelligence, without a doubt, confirmed that this vessel was trafficking narcotics, the people onboard were narco-terrorists, and they were operating on a known narco-trafficking transit route. These strikes will continue until the attacks on the American people are over!!!!
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 6d
Pete Hegseth: “Earlier this morning, on President Trump's orders, I directed a lethal, kinetic strike on a narco-trafficking vessel affiliated with Designated Terrorist Organizations in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility. Four male narco-terrorists aboard the vessel were killed..”
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth # @ CX.com @SecWar Earlier this morning, on President Trump's orders, I directed a lethal, kinetic strike on a narco-trafficking vessel affiliated with Designated Terrorist Organizations in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility. Four male narco-terrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike, and no U.S. forces were harmed in the operation. The strike was conducted in international waters just off the coast of Venezuela while the vessel was transporting substantial amounts of narcotics - headed to America to poison our people. Our intelligence, without a doubt, confirmed that this vessel was trafficking narcotics, the people onboard were narco-terrorists, and they were operating on a known narco-trafficking transit route. These strikes will continue until the attacks on the American people are over!!!!
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