Jason "Red5" Lyall

Can't reform this

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

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."

Can't reform this

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

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.

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.

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...

NGL, Kim wore it best

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...

I guess we’re at the “desegregation was bad” op-Ed’s in NYT stage of MAGA’s campaign to create Jim Crow II.

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...

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

"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

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...

Nu, News I'm joining The Bulwark as Economics Editor.

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

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

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...

The media trots out the "deplorable" comment from a decade ago to castigate the left. Once a week now Trump implies that the military should destroy democrats, and it is just how things are.

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

Beyond the apparent suggestion here that the US would have won in Vietnam and Afghanistan if only it had committed more war crimes, this is very strange coming from Trump because:

1) The US was still fighting in Afghanistan in Trump 1.0.

2) Trump himself made the decision to get the hell out.

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...

Again, if you think the creation of the Department of Defense in 1947 had anything to do with “woke” politics you should not be allowed to operate a car much less the entire American military.

"The strength of a people lies in its purity, not in its diversity."
—Tom Metzger, a white supremacist, neo-Nazi and Klansman

"Real strength comes from homogeneity, from people who share the same blood and values."
—William Pierce, neo-Nazi, author of the Turner Diaries

Wait until Pete finds out that 38% of the US Navy is non-White, including 25% of its officers

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...)

New H-Diplo/Jervis Forum Roundtable on Alex Downes' great book, Catastrophic Success, about foreign imposed regime change and why it so often fails

issforum.org/ISSF/PDF/Jer...

Hegseth fires top Navy official Jon Harrison is the latest Pentagon official who Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has removed from office.

More Pete-induced churn in the Pentagon

This is straight-up murder.

This is straight-up murder.

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

New H-Diplo/Jervis Forum Roundtable on Alex Downes' great book, Catastrophic Success, about foreign imposed regime change and why it so often fails

issforum.org/ISSF/PDF/Jer...

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion

"It is not hyperbole to say that the future of higher education in America requires that every university reject it. If any schools capitulate, the pressure will be enormous on all to fold. The only solution is solidarity & collective action against this effort at federal control over higher ed"