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Jason "Red5" Lyall
@jaylyall.bsky.social
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Prof @Dartmouth. Director, FieldLab. Carnegie Fellow. Inequality and military effectiveness, war, humanitarian aid, USAID, sci fi. Author, DIVIDED ARMIES (2020, http://amzn.to/2Y80f25). 🇨🇦 #FirstGen #VermontZen

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Paul Johstono @profpaulj.bsky.social · 16h
And then Spartan Oliganthropia enters the chat

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 17h
“The U.S. no longer has emission standards of any meaning,” said Margo T. Oge, who served as the E.P.A.’s top vehicle emissions regulator under three presidents and has since advised both automakers and environmental groups.

“Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”
With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules
www.nytimes.com

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 1d
Only 14 classes to teach, and 96 assignments left to grade, before I get my first sabbatical in 9 years
a man is walking down a hallway carrying a backpack .
ALT: a man is walking down a hallway carrying a backpack .
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 2d
"By God, I'll fight til Hell freezes over then I'll cut the ice and fight on!"
crindivisible.bsky.social Cooper River Indivisible @crindivisible.bsky.social · 3d
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 2d
Just ordered that one, too

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 2d
Just started Kemp and am enjoying so far

Reposted by David R. Miller, Jason Lyall

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 2d
how we got here
“nothing is real until it hurts me” slogan replaces “don’t tread on me” slogan on a Gadseden flag

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2d
Everyone in America should see this and think about what it implies. And have the courage, like him, to stand up.
crindivisible.bsky.social Cooper River Indivisible @crindivisible.bsky.social · 3d
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 2d
The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.

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Lauren Harper @laurenleharper.bsky.social · 2d
"You have to vote for us.”
Trump tells soldiers to vote GOP in campaign-style rally at Fort Bragg
Army policy prohibits partisan displays, and most service members refrained from cheering.
www.washingtonpost.com

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 2d
The US DOD has just blacklisted military personnel from taking courses at most of America's top universities and specialist tech and medicine schools, including Harvard, Yale, MIT and Johns Hopkins. Somehow I don't see the PLA making this kind of unforced error.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 3d
no foreign foe has ever dreamed of being able to sack and pillaging this country the way Trump admin and its congressional and scotus enablers do every day.
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A leading American research lab is slated to lose its critical supercomputing facility, according to a letter released by the National Science Foundation.https://cnn.it/3MoF7zU

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CNN @cnn.com · 3d
A leading American research lab is slated to lose its critical supercomputing facility, according to a letter released by the National Science Foundation.https://cnn.it/3MoF7zU

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

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Cooper River Indivisible @crindivisible.bsky.social · 3d
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 3d
Your moment of roadside #VermontZen, abandoned trucks edition

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 3d
Another illegal boat strike, this time killing 3 people, bringing the total to at least 124 dead in at least 38 strikes

www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/p...
US strikes alleged drug boat, killing 3 | CNN Politics
The US military conducted a strike against another alleged drug-trafficking boat on Friday, killing three people, according to US Southern Command.
www.cnn.com

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Natasha Bertrand @natashabertrand.bsky.social · 3d
New: Military officers could soon find dozens of top colleges and universities across the US (list in replies) abruptly off limits for tuition assistance as part of Hegseth’s campaign against schools he describes as being biased against the US military
www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/p...
Pentagon may bar tuition aid for top universities in Hegseth’s crackdown on ‘biased’ schools | CNN Politics
Military officers could soon find dozens of top colleges and universities across the United States abruptly off limits for tuition assistance as part of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s campaign again...
www.cnn.com

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 3d
US Sec of State Rubio skips Ukraine meeting with European leaders in Munich. He canceled attendance at last minute in move that EU official calls ‘insane’
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Rubio skips Ukraine meeting with European leaders in Munich
US secretary of state cancels attendance at last minute in move that EU official calls ‘insane’
www.ft.com

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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · 3d
Shameful and norm-violating for the President to give this type of partisan speech with a military audience.
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Trump, speaking to troops in North Carolina, is now attacking ex-governor and Democratic Senate candidate Roy Cooper as a "disaster" who was culpable for a woman getting her "throat slit"

(note the total silence from the crowd)

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 3d
New study at The Lancet estimates that the illegal dismantling of USAID will result in up to 9.4 million deaths by 2030 alone

Some 2.5 million will be children under the age of 5

No hell too hot, no prison too brutal, for the DOGE boys who did this
One year on from dismantling of USAID, study projects that global aid cuts could lead to 9.4 million deaths by 2030 | CNN
It’s been one year since the Trump administration dismantled the US Agency for International Development (USAID), with aid cuts leading to the closure of HIV clinics in South Africa, the termination o...
www.cnn.com

Reposted by Kori Schake, Jason Lyall, Virginia Sapiro

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
Trump, speaking to troops in North Carolina, is now attacking ex-governor and Democratic Senate candidate Roy Cooper as a "disaster" who was culpable for a woman getting her "throat slit"

(note the total silence from the crowd)

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 5d
According to multiple NYT sources, it wasn’t even military personnel at Fort Bliss that fired an anti-drone laser at alleged cartel drones. It was CBP who used the weapon on loan from DoD against a child’s party balloon they mistook for a drone. The Pentagon gave CBP an anti-aircraft weapon.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 5d
Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones.

Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

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Marcel Dirsus @marceldirsus.com · 5d
Quite the chart

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 5d
Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands

Reposted by Michael E. Mann, Nandita Sharma, Richard B. Aronson , and 8 more

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 5d
Jayapal: To the survivors in the room, if you are willing, please stand. And if you are willing, please raise your hands. If you have still not been able to meet with this DOJ. Please note for the record that every single survivor has raised their hand.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @thefarce.org · 6d
They're Letting Cancer Patients Die to Fund Concentration Camps

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Veterans → Goons Trump cut VA positions and froze hiring for nurses and psychologists—while 94% of VA facilities report severe staffing shortages. That money instead paid thousands of militarized agents to invade Minnesota and shoot Alex Pretti, a VA ICU nurse, dead while he lay prone on the ground. Veterans who earned their care are denied it so goons can terrorize American citizens. Care for Starving Children → Fascist Influencers Trump killed USAID funding, creating a $60 billion gap. The Lancet estimates 22.6 million preventable deaths by 2030, including 5.4 million children under five, as a result of all the funding cuts in 2025 around the world, as allies aped the Trump regime’s cuts. In just six months, 600,000 people died preventable deaths, mostly in Sub-Saharan Africa. Where did some of that money go? To fund far-right movements in Europe. We’re literally taking money from starving children and giving it to Nigel Farage, supporting Nazi-ish parties in Germany, and funding that weird mix of fascist and Putin-purchased movements across Europe. Cancer Research → Measles Outbreaks Bobby Jr. terminated or froze 320 grants researching cancer, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, and heart disease—$561 million redirected away from cures. Meanwhile, measles outbreaks are hitting detention centers holding children like five-year-old Liam Ramos. We’re trading the possibility of curing cancer for the certainty of preventable disease spreading in camps where we’re holding American children.

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 6d
Yeah, I agree, I've definitely seen higher estimates, especially with these overall totals of nearly 2 million KIA + WIA