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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

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1d

A reminder that the Kennedy Center is the literal and legal and congressional designated presidential memorial to JFK. This would be like Trump tearing down the Lincoln Memorial to build something “better.”

HudsonRiverCroc @hudsonrivercroc.bsky.social · 1d

He’s going to tear it down

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 1d

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 2d

It's hard to overstate how ell-organized the portland march that got gassed was... organizers made the crowd promise to be peaceful, said the march would slow in front of the ICE building but not stop, that we would stick to one chant (ICE Out). They did absolutely everything right and got gassed.

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

That’s a great stack of books

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

Your moment of Vermont zen, full moon edition

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 2d

I was there. They were indiscriminately firing multiple canisters into a huge peaceful crowd. Fucking cowards

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Dumb Runner @dumbrunner.bsky.social · 2d

I saw it too:

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 2d

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

Reposted by Steven Heydemann, Will Jennings, Tom Clark , and 28 more Steven Heydemann, Will Jennings, Tom Clark, Scott L. Greer, Brian Leiter, David Feldman, Jamie Morgan, Rosemary A. Joyce, Anders Nilsson, Rebecca Tushnet, David R. Miller, Adrian Daub, Gerald Friedman, James Goodwin, Anne Norton, Timothy Burke, Jason Lyall, Jelena Subotić, David Murakami Wood, Aurélien Mondon, Mark Rice, Ann Bartow, Philipp Sarasin, Henry Jones, Massimo Faggioli, Stella M. Rouse, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Dan Immergluck, Jeannette Sutton, Virginia Sapiro, David Darmofal

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

straight up Gestapo shit

DHS: Want affordable housing? Help report illegal aliens in your area. Call 866-DHS-2-ICE.

If you are an illegal alien, you can take control of your departure using DHS.GOV/CBPHOME.

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

Can't reform this

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here.

(clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here.

(clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)

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

Now only 22 classes left to teach before my first sabbatical in 9 years (not that I’m counting or anything)

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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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 2d

Harvard professor Steven Levitsky, who studies democracy backsliding, on Don Lemon's arrest:

“This is a new dimension. In democracies, journalists don't get arrested. In authoritarian regimes, journalists get arrested."

More in @status.news: www.status.news/p/don-lemon-...

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely surreal to continue to hear about drawdowns and lowered temperatures and things calming down in Minneapolis when, as far as I can tell, literally nothing has changed on the ground

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

New Noah Kahan single just dropped

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRzE...

Noah Kahan - The Great Divide (Official Lyric Video)

YouTube video by NoahKahanVEVO

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d

a giant. RIP

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 3d

The legendary Catherine O’Hara has died.

She was 71.

Per TMZ.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 4d

With these and other petty moves executed by Pete Hegseth, Trump’s loyalist secretary of “war,” the White House and Pentagon appear strangely determined to undermine, and even erase the evidence of, Black patriotism.

Celebrating Black military service is not “DEI woke shit.” It’s essential to America’s defense.

The Trump administration has sullied the legacy of soldiers our nation relies on.

www.motherjones.com

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

Oh Canada 🇨🇦

sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 4d

Hudson Williams gives a full body leg up hug to a smiling Prime Minister of Canada Mark Carney

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

lol we’d play “ice hockey” in hell

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4d

Trump says China will not let Canada play hockey after they sign a trade agreement.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4d

Trump says China will not let Canada play hockey after they sign a trade agreement.

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J. Kelly Nestruck @nestruck.bsky.social · 4d

Tonight I watched Prime Minister Mark Carney take the actual Heated Rivalry Canada fleece from Hudson Williams, slip it on and say: “This is true soft power.”

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

Great and somewhat frightening article by @oliverkaplan.bsky.social on how anti-ICE mobilization in Minneapolis is borrowing from a playbook used by civilians in war zones

Anti-ICE protesters are following same nonviolent playbook used by people in war zones across the world to fight threats to their communities

Americans are learning and doing the kind of work that civilians in war zones worldwide have done for decades: dealing with threats by organizing to help protect their neighbors and communities.

theconversation.com

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 4d

The college at which I'm employed, which has signed a contract with the AI firm that stole books from 131 colleagues & me, paid a student to write an op-ed for the student paper promoting AI, guided the writing of it, and did not disclose this to the paper. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...

College approached and paid student to write op-ed in The Dartmouth

The Dartmouth ran the article on Nov. 17 without knowledge that the College had been involved. 

www.thedartmouth.com

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Hidetaka Hirota @hidehirota.bsky.social · 4d

Akira Iriye, one of the pioneers in the internationalization of U.S. history, passed away. RIP.
www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...

Akira Iriye, leading historian of Japan-U.S. relations, dies | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis

Akira Iriye, a Harvard University professor emeritus and a leading scholar on the history of international relations, died on Jan. 27. He was 91.

www.asahi.com

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melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social · 4d

all while cutting PhD spots. loser stuff. www.ctinsider.com/news/educati...

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 5d

Prepare for white hot rage www.huffpost.com/entry/liam-c...

5-Year-Old in ICE Detention Is Sick, Says Top School Official

The 5-year-old who was taken by federal agents in Minneapolis is being held behind bars with his father in Texas.

www.huffpost.com

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 6d

TOM HOMAN: “We’re going to create a database where those people that are arrested for interference, impeding and assault, we’re going to make them famous. We’re going to put their face on TV. We’re going to let their employers, in their neighborhoods, in their schools, know who these people are.”

daviss @daviss.org · 6d

Story: www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/u...

Alex Pretti was in earlier confrontation with federal agents who tackled him, broke his rib, sources say | CNN

Federal immigration officials have been collecting information on protesters and agitators, sources told CNN.

www.cnn.com

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 6d

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...