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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 19h

Potential Iranian Drone Attack Led to Exit of U.S. Aircraft from British Air Base "The suspected attack was part of a complex, multipronged Iranian plot to strike aircraft and kill some of the several hundred American personnel stationed at the base, R.A.F. Fairford, the officials said"

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Potential Iranian Drone Attack Led to Exit of U.S. Aircraft from British Air Base

According to U.S. and British officials, 12 B-1 Air Force bombers from R.A.F. Fairford air base were withdrawn because of the risk of a drone attack ordered by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps...

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Potential Iranian Drone Attack Led to Exit of U.S. Aircraft from British Air Base

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 22h

[Chronologically, 1st video Oliya posted of today's events. Includes a rally and speech calling for resignation of Cornell's president.] Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 @scootercaster.com NOW: "No Justice! No Peace!" chants at Cornell University protest posted 5:15 pm · Oct 5, 2026 URL: x.com/ScooterCaste...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"The need to move the bombers out of the base, R.A.F. Fairford, was deemed so urgent that some of the planes and their flight crews left while aerial refueling aircraft were still being scrambled to support their flights to the US"

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U.S. Rushes to Withdraw Bombers From U.K. Air Base After New Threats

The withdrawal came with unusual speed, following what U.S. officials said were threats of an Iran-based plot against the installation.

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Kori Schake 🎃 @kschake.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"I don’t care about the culture war. I care about the actual war that we’re actually in, that we’re losing." @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social has had it with SecDef

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The Weak Department

Send Me! (Somewhere I can get a Lobotomy)

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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U.S. Rushes to Withdraw Bombers From U.K. Air Base After New Threats

The withdrawal came with unusual speed, following what U.S. officials said were threats of an Iran-based plot against the installation.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026

not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.

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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing

To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...

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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 02/10/2026

Gov. Kathy Hochul said she had signed an executive order appointing the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James as the special prosecutor to investigate the Cornell rape allegations.

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Hochul Appoints a Special Prosecutor to Investigate Rape Allegations at Cornell

The office of New York Attorney General Letitia James will now oversee the investigation.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Those in attendance...received a book called “The War Department Field Manual,” a compilation of Hegseth’s past speeches. In a forward written by President Trump, the troops were told: “As your commander in chief, I will not ask you to fight dumb wars.” Perfect www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

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Five Takeaways From Hegseth’s Speech

The defense secretary gave a “State of the Force” address to hundreds of officers and enlisted servicemembers at a Marine Corps base in Quantico, Va.

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“The Sopranos,” “The Wire,” “Mad Men” and “Breaking Bad,” besides being among the best shows the medium has ever produced, together served as a televisual Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse." "...all four contained clear warnings about where the country was headed, and their warnings have come true."

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Opinion | The Four TV Shows That Heralded America’s Fall

Four TV shows, now acknowledged as the medium’s high point, each cannily predicted the ways in which America would start to crack apart.

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yeah, this might be the most worrisome trend, that the good folks still inside are just keeping their heads down (understandably) and hoping this will all just blow over

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Am definitely worried about the "everything will snap back after the elections" argument that you sometimes see on here. This is going to take a lot of hard work across multiple fronts, and I'm not sure there's much appetite for it

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Generational damage being done right now

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🍁🍂 🎃 Diva for the Season 💚💙🏈🫶👠👑 @queenofthinair.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And this is also setting incentives and habits in the military organizational culture that is not easily undone. It also further erodes what little culture of academic freedom and critical obedience is still possible. Those arguing this can just be reversed are missing the larger picture.

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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...

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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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Jim LaPorta @jimlaporta.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Def. Sec. Hegseth signed a memo today that CBS News obtained two months ago eliminating civilian tenure at military service academies. The Daily Wire was first to report on Tuesday that Hegseth signed the memo CBS News first reported on. Story: www.cbsnews.com/news/dod-pen...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hard to imagine what that would be like

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

WOW

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Doesn't fit The Narrative™️, doesn't get the coverage

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Front page news, Boston Globe: Ivy provost leading charge to infuse AI into higher ed discovered using AI in academic & public work w/out disclosure--an action for which a student could fail a course or worse. Free link: archive.is/JoJbA

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I mean, did you at least ask for your F-35 parts back?

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The NY Times has repeatedly used the phrase “to heel” in reference to Trump’s crackdown on universities, implicitly clarifying that Trump goal is to establish dominance. And what exactly constitutes this “woke” ideology in higher education?

During the meeting, Mr. Trump repeatedly complained about his administration’s failure to bring Harvard University in particular to heel. The administration has been unable to hammer out a deal with the nation’s oldest and wealthiest university, a central plank of his broader push against “woke” ideology in higher education.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Pentagon cover-up of US military casualties in Trump’s catastrophic Iran War continues. 37 troops have been quietly added to the public tally of wounded personnel bringing the total to 861.

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Your moment of early autumn Vermont Zen

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ChatGPT gave the Tumbler Ridge school shooter tips on how to evade its own safeguards around violence, even helped plan the attack for maximum lethality and media coverage “Don’t use real-world locations,” ChatGPT said, later adding: “You can still be twisted. Just be clever about it.”

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Your moment of early autumn Vermont Zen

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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I hate it so much. This can happen to you too. A year ago, almost everyone doubted this would happen. I had faculty at other schools telling me I was hysterical. (Irony!) Watch for the installation of right wing figureheads without an academic background. Watch for assaults on faculty governance.

BREAKING NEWS
UT cuts all Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies courses from core curriculum

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Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) @egap.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

And in our final spotlight on #conflict research, @jaylyall.bsky.social, Kosuke Imai & @yangyangzhou.bsky.social ask if economic aid interventions—unconditional cash transfers and livelihood training—affect individual support for combatants during wartime. Read more about their #RCT: buff.ly/sf2hlPY

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Brief 60: Reducing Youth Support for Violence through Training and Cash Transfers in Afghanistan – EGAP

EGAP researchers: Jason Lyall, Kosuke Imai

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

8 Sailors in U.S.S. Lincoln Strike Group Attempted Suicide, Navy Says. The aircraft carrier with its crew of about 5,000 sailors has spent more than 300 days at sea. Rear Adm. Donald J. Guter... described the eight suicide attempts as a “disturbingly high number indicating a serious stress level”

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8 Sailors in U.S.S. Lincoln Strike Group Attempted Suicide, Navy Says

The aircraft carrier with its crew of about 5,000 sailors has spent more than 300 days at sea.

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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8 Sailors in U.S.S. Lincoln Strike Group Attempted Suicide, Navy Says

The aircraft carrier with its crew of about 5,000 sailors has spent more than 300 days at sea.

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hope they paint them with the false canopy

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Matthew Kavanagh @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is so important. Kindof blowing me away as I sit in NY at the UNGA where governments are convening to talk pandemics.

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

How Much Has the U.S. Spent on the War in Iran? The Pentagon has given its most detailed estimate to date of the cost of the Iran war: $43.6 billion. Here’s how that breaks down. (No question that this is an underestimate of the true cost).

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U.S. Estimates It Spent $43.6 Billion on Iran War. Here's a Breakdown.

A detailed look at the $43.6 billion the Pentagon has spent so far.

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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U.S. Estimates It Spent $43.6 Billion on Iran War. Here's a Breakdown.

A detailed look at the $43.6 billion the Pentagon has spent so far.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This seems like a pretty big deal: donors made illegal contributions to Susan Collins and then were awarded lucrative contracts after her office intervened with the Navy. An FBI investigation was dropped under Trump. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...

To skirt campaign finance laws and conceal the source of the funds, Navatek planned to funnel the donation through a shell company. The CEO wanted assurance that Collins would know where
the money came from. Reed confirmed that she would, the executive said - and that Navatek would get its government contracts.
After the Corner Bakery meeting, Navatek's CEO, Martin Kao, sent an initial $150,000 to the Collins super PAC using the shell company. Two months later, he told Navatek executives that Collins committed to getting the company $32 million in naval contracts, according to an internal company email reviewed by ProPublica.

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