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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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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 13h
Courtesy of colleagues at Penn
A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h
STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 1d
I've seen how this movie ends in Rome, English Revolution, and Prussia (among others) and I don't like it
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d
Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News. A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 1d
That's a first-ballot winner for the Both Sides hall of fame
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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d
Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d
Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News. A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.
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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d
Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.
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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 1d
Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this*

They don't give their opinion to the media

They don't criticize how SCOTUS works

This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders
www.nytimes.com
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 2d
Afghanistan’s Taliban-led government has accused Pakistan of launching air strikes on its capital Kabul, in a major escalation of tensions with its longtime former backer.
Afghanistan accuses Pakistan of air strike on Kabul
Alleged attack comes amid mounting tensions between the Taliban and its former supporter Islamabad
www.ft.com
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 2d
Kid Rock looks like an extra in a RoboCop commercial
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d
Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d
Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 2d
Now it's our turn, Dartmouth! No negotiations, no compromise, no dialogue, no nothing.
MIT rejects Trump administration deal for priority federal funding
MIT is one of nine schools that were asked to agree to adopt conservative priorities and policies in exchange for funding perks.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 3d
I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 3d
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 3d
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 · 4d
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 · 5d
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 · 5d
Can't reform this
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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 5d
Here’s video of the incident
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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 5d
Here’s video of the incident
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 5d
NGL, Kim wore it best
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5d
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 · 5d
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 · 5d
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 · 5d
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 · 5d
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 · 6d
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 · 6d
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 · 6d
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 · 6d
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 · 6d
"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 · 6d
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 · 6d
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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