Steve Saideman

I don’t think Trump continuing to look weak by trying to give Putin what he wants does much for him politically. And how can Zelensky agree to give up territory currently under Ukrainian control? Trump’s Russia First policy is an utter disaster.

damn that’s a lot of economic anxiety

Also once the convoy was stalled most of the personnel just abandoned their vehicles and headed for nearby Basra. Sure there were casualties but most estimates are in the range of an a relatively breezy weekend for Russian infantry in Ukraine.

Highway of Empty Tanks.

Bombing people in a fake war and then trying to disappear them to a notorious torture prison.

A layer cake of atrocities.

since using Calbiri (easier for visually impaired people) rather than TNR costs literally nothing, this is just ableism for its own sake. these are the kind of people who resent seeing a wheelchair ramp.

The amount of time I have to talk about segregation these days is disorienting

quite something that almost every court in the land except like one in Amarillo and the highest in the land routinely tell Trump to go pound sand

Celebrating seven years of CDSNing

Last but not least is our military personnel team led by @svh.bsky.social and Irina Goldenberg with Joakim Berndtsson and Linna Tam-Seto

Our next panel is our Security theme.

I'm sure having every fucking politician in this stupid ass country talk down the benefits of a liberal arts education and slowly destroy universities - which young men already disproportionately avoid - will sure help things.

Is there any research showing thst public service like conscription or national service program actually does anything to how folks identify, whether it impacts public literacy about defence?

JC Boucher

Civ-mil panel

JC Boucher launches the civ-mil panel at the Year Ahead @cdsn.bsky.social

The Year Ahead starts with Alex Moens, Andrea Charron, ans Stephane Roussel

I have made these for the past few years and they are delightful.

Christmas Chocolate Cookies I love these dark, fat patties of chocolate shortbread exuberantly topped with festive sprinkles. There’s something so cheering about the sight of them, but they have more in their favour than looks: ...

#RecipeOfTheDay is so simple, so lovely, so sweetly festive: it’s these sprinkle-covered Christmas chocolate cookies! www.nigella.com/recipes/chri...

He will get fragged

Bianca Siem, Armon Jeffries, Stella-Luna Ha, and Chimdinma Chijioke.

Our next session has our past and present undergrad excellence scholars discussing their experiences

Justice Jackson nails it, but that this has to be spelled out is so depressing.

62% of Germans say that Germany can no longer rely on the US nuclear umbrella for its security.

Source koerber-stiftung.de/site/assets/...

Our afternoon starts with a roundtable of our book workshop veterans with @smartel.bsky.social, Sarah Greco, and @thomashughes.bsky.social, moderated by @srdj.bsky.social

Linna Tam-Seto

Manu Ramkumar

Sanjida Amin

Our second panel has our post docs speak about their experiences with the @cdsn.bsky.social. Great to see what they have been doing since

Partner panel

Cesar Jaramillo

Caroline LePrince

Shawn Guilbault

A great start for today's @cdsn.bsky.social Symposium with our partners telling us about their experiences wirh us and recommendations for future partnerships

Great views of ottawa from the former shopify space

Ottawa on a frigid blue sky morning

Enjoying the great Ottawa tradeoff: winter blue skies mean cold days. Better that way than the reverse

Melissa Jennings, our chief op officer Sherry LaPlante, our events and money person. With these doing the heavy lifting, I just smile and wave.

Getting ready for the CDSN Symposium, marking the end of our 7 year SSHRC Partnership Grant. We are bringing back our post docs, undergrad excellence scholars, book workshops, and other participants to figure out what we did and what we can learn if we get funded again. So grateful to these two

So Europe now knows what the official US strategy is, and its main hope lies in the Trump administration being too incompetent to implement it.

Banking on the (selective) incompetence of your most important ally is not a great position to be in.

This is not possible because Trump did a peace there.

I came up with a top ten worst things in Trump's national security strategy saideman.blogspot.com/2025/12/top-... The only good thing? Elbridge Colby must be pissed off.

My sister gave it to me at Thanksgiving

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