Steve Saideman
@smsaideman.bsky.social
#CivMil relations; Director, @CdsnRcds; saideman.blogspot.com; Co-host, Battle Rhythm podcast cdsn-rcds.com/battlerhythm, International Relations professor. Used to study nationalism/ethnic conflict.
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Not really. I recognize this is a space where folks aren’t actually looking for nuance, but the history of these units is neither clean nor clear cut.
November 28, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Not really. I recognize this is a space where folks aren’t actually looking for nuance, but the history of these units is neither clean nor clear cut.
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Once again, I never want to hear anything, ever again, from these people or this party about national security or the threat of a rising 🇨🇳 or American power/hegemony or any of the other things that they clearly do not care about or have any idea about how to address.
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NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected?
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
www.livescience.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Once again, I never want to hear anything, ever again, from these people or this party about national security or the threat of a rising 🇨🇳 or American power/hegemony or any of the other things that they clearly do not care about or have any idea about how to address.
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I feel physical pain reading these announcements. I think of the brilliant graduate students that I know studying, e.g., food systems, political violence, & civic engagement & see one of the biggest opportunities for them to bring their work to fruition being extinguished out of malice & ignorance.
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected?
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
www.livescience.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I feel physical pain reading these announcements. I think of the brilliant graduate students that I know studying, e.g., food systems, political violence, & civic engagement & see one of the biggest opportunities for them to bring their work to fruition being extinguished out of malice & ignorance.
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Realizations that are just hitting me that ought to have been obvious: you can’t have a high trust society in a high corruption environment
It’s almost as if rule of law is a prerequisite for the kind of world we want to live in
It’s almost as if rule of law is a prerequisite for the kind of world we want to live in
November 27, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Realizations that are just hitting me that ought to have been obvious: you can’t have a high trust society in a high corruption environment
It’s almost as if rule of law is a prerequisite for the kind of world we want to live in
It’s almost as if rule of law is a prerequisite for the kind of world we want to live in
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This article is charitable to Trump as it assumes he's been acting in good faith but it does present a fairly accurate picture of the last 10mo. The main points are important--russia resists any compromise even though it's not winning on the battlefield and Trump absurdly keeps trying to cajole Pu.
November 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
This article is charitable to Trump as it assumes he's been acting in good faith but it does present a fairly accurate picture of the last 10mo. The main points are important--russia resists any compromise even though it's not winning on the battlefield and Trump absurdly keeps trying to cajole Pu.
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I'm thinking of the National Guard shooting victims today, and hoping for the best for them. And I am also thinking about the craven politicians who decided to put them in harm's way because they choose to govern by menacing and by staging stunts. May the fates they deserve befall every one of them.
November 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I'm thinking of the National Guard shooting victims today, and hoping for the best for them. And I am also thinking about the craven politicians who decided to put them in harm's way because they choose to govern by menacing and by staging stunts. May the fates they deserve befall every one of them.
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Threadlet.
With DC shooter now identified as an Afghan national not the antifa secret agent White House hoped for a good time to remember the Trump admin has gutted domestic anti-terrorism capacity and reassigned many to finding grandmothers to arrest at immigration hearings.
November 27, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Threadlet.
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It didn’t even take 6 hours.
November 27, 2025 at 3:13 AM
It didn’t even take 6 hours.
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We dont even have the facts of the case but the Trump admin is determined to call people away from their regular lives so they can just stand around in DC
BREAKING: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Trump administration would send hundreds of additional National Guard soldiers to the nation’s capital after two soldiers were shot in the city Wednesday.
Trump Admin to Escalate D.C. Military Takeover After Two National Guard Members Shot
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
We dont even have the facts of the case but the Trump admin is determined to call people away from their regular lives so they can just stand around in DC
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the requirement is, of course, “be white” amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
Trump says Haiti no longer meets requirements for TPS. Haitians have to leave
The Department of Homeland Security said TPS for Haiti ends Feb. 3, 2026, affecting over half a million people who may face return to gang-controlled Port-au-Prince.
amp.miamiherald.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
the requirement is, of course, “be white” amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
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To be clear Lizza’s story is that Nuzzi sat on important matters of national significance for personal benefit and he’s sat on these details until he could personally benefit.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 PM
To be clear Lizza’s story is that Nuzzi sat on important matters of national significance for personal benefit and he’s sat on these details until he could personally benefit.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
New Guns and Butter: Pie Limitations. Instead of cookies, I am making two apple pies. Intalk about the different toppings, my limitations when it comes to pretty pies and my strategy to deal with that limitation, and then I talk about Hegseth and Kelly www.instagram.com/reel/DRiKAVy...
Steve Saideman on Instagram: "A Thanksgiving edition of Guns and Butter. Making apple pies at my sister's house. My other sister was cameraperson.
Awkward taping in front of an audience: two sister...
This Thanksgiving episode of Guns and Butter delves into the importance of understanding limitations, both in baking and international relations. Our host shares their experience making two delicious ...
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November 26, 2025 at 8:55 PM
New Guns and Butter: Pie Limitations. Instead of cookies, I am making two apple pies. Intalk about the different toppings, my limitations when it comes to pretty pies and my strategy to deal with that limitation, and then I talk about Hegseth and Kelly www.instagram.com/reel/DRiKAVy...
Tom is half right. Hegseth is the wrong choice. But so is someone who served more than two decades. Kelly has more distance than Mattis or Austin, but civ control of the military requires truly civ mindsets.
Hegseth is a dude-bro sporting some questionable tattoos, a creation of television who’s acting as if he won "The Apprentice: The Nuclear-Weapons Season."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Senator Mark Kelly Is in the Wrong Job
He should be secretary of defense.
www.theatlantic.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Tom is half right. Hegseth is the wrong choice. But so is someone who served more than two decades. Kelly has more distance than Mattis or Austin, but civ control of the military requires truly civ mindsets.
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A democracy where a coordinated effort by national leaders of one party to subvert an election outcome does not lead to any real consequences is a democracy unlikely to last long
Judge dismisses Georgia criminal case against Donald Trump
Judge dismisses Georgia criminal case against Donald Trump
It was the last remaining prosecution he faced over his efforts to subvert the 2020 election.
dlvr.it
November 26, 2025 at 4:35 PM
A democracy where a coordinated effort by national leaders of one party to subvert an election outcome does not lead to any real consequences is a democracy unlikely to last long
Massive deportation always required deporting ordinary immigrants, documented and undocumented, as, yes, immigrants commit less crime than citizens.
Too bad the media failed to report on the most important policy promise.
Central to Project 2025 and to the RNC.
Too bad the media failed to report on the most important policy promise.
Central to Project 2025 and to the RNC.
This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.
November 26, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Massive deportation always required deporting ordinary immigrants, documented and undocumented, as, yes, immigrants commit less crime than citizens.
Too bad the media failed to report on the most important policy promise.
Central to Project 2025 and to the RNC.
Too bad the media failed to report on the most important policy promise.
Central to Project 2025 and to the RNC.
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Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
The best proof the GOP is a cult.
There's a big divide in how Americans are thinking about vaccines:
♦️83% of Republicans don't want an updated COVID-19 vaccine.
🔷64% of Democrats want to get or have already received an updated vaccine.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... 🧪
♦️83% of Republicans don't want an updated COVID-19 vaccine.
🔷64% of Democrats want to get or have already received an updated vaccine.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... 🧪
November 26, 2025 at 3:56 AM
The best proof the GOP is a cult.
Noem does not have Trump's immunity .... in the legal sense or any other sense
NEW: DOJ said tonight that it was DHS Secretary Kristi Noem who made the call to proceed with the deportation of more than 100 Venezuelan men to El Salvador, despite a judge's order seeking to block the transfer.
w/ @joshgerstein
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
w/ @joshgerstein
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 26, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Noem does not have Trump's immunity .... in the legal sense or any other sense
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Makes you think
The funny thing about the invention of the wheel is the guy who invented it died penniless. It wasn't until much much later that pennies were invented
November 26, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Makes you think
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This will significantly hurt all my home states (Idaho, Wyoming, and Utah) which rely heavily on tourism to our national parks.
National parks have SO MANY people from other countries (since they get real vacations!)
And they spend a lot of money on hotels, food, souvenirs, etc.
This is unbelievably dumb, it will destroy entire tourist towns
And they spend a lot of money on hotels, food, souvenirs, etc.
This is unbelievably dumb, it will destroy entire tourist towns
November 26, 2025 at 3:43 AM
This will significantly hurt all my home states (Idaho, Wyoming, and Utah) which rely heavily on tourism to our national parks.
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dems in congress shouldn't stop talking about how noem must resign and face consequences for this atrocity
The first official confirmation that Noem herself made the decision not to turn the planes around. A couple hundred men were tortured as a result — and soon after, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Trump admin’s Alien Enemies Act process was a total violation of due process.
BREAKING:
“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
November 26, 2025 at 3:41 AM
dems in congress shouldn't stop talking about how noem must resign and face consequences for this atrocity
Armed neutrality plus strict limits on arms would make Ukraine good at one thing: being ripe for the next round of Russian aggression.
Armed Neutrality for Ukraine Sounds Safe. History Says Otherwise. - nationalsecurityjournal.org/armed-neutra...
Armed Neutrality for Ukraine Sounds Safe. History Says Otherwise.
Trump’s draft Ukraine peace deal leans on “armed neutrality.” Robert Farley warns it’s unstable, costly, and almost guaranteed to set up the next war.
nationalsecurityjournal.org
November 26, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Armed neutrality plus strict limits on arms would make Ukraine good at one thing: being ripe for the next round of Russian aggression.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:11 AM