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Connections US 2025 registration now open Registration for the 2025 Connections (U.S.) conference is now open. This year the conference is hosted by Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) at their Kossiakoff Conference and Education Center in Laurel, MD. The form linked…

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noem saying thery're going to "liberate" california from its leaders seconds before federal law enforcement restrains and removes one of the state's senators from the room—like what else needs to be said

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When a cabinet member announces "We are using the military to liberate an American city from its elected leaders," where do you go from there. What is left to say. The idea of that being anything short of a near-universal "Wait, what the fuck is going on" moment proves how far we've backslid.

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DHS is also lying about him being repeatedly told to back away. The video shows the men who pushed him don’t even open their mouths, they just grab him and get them out of the room without saying a word.

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Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

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EXCLUSIVE: American Security Contractor Unloads On US-Israeli ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’

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Yes, maybe someday someone will write a book about all the stuff that happened in international politics after World War II. I guess until then, we just won't know. 🙄

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Remarkable to watch the US isolate itself by disparaging allies that fought and died alongside it, by betraying local allies like the Afghans who sided with us, and by looking to shred collective defense deals like AUKUS. (Also, as a Canadian, go fuck yourself Pete)

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This is a real thing being posted and circulated by the Department of Homeland Security, referring to undocumented immigrants as “foreign invaders” and urging good Americans to turn them in. (I’ll leave it to BlueSky historians to find comparisons to WWII era materials.)

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Good, and long overdue move: Canada joins allies (UK, Australia, New Zealand) in imposing sanctions on two far-right Israeli ministers, Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich.

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The Overton Window has shifted all the way to ban all non-white people from coming to America. It was never about illegal immigration.

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European Vales Center for Security Policy: Chinese quarantine of Taiwan resulting in European paralysis The following piece was written for PAXsims by an anonymous contributor. In a previous entry from a PAXsims reader wrote a commentary on report on a series of games on (or related to)…

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Prigozhin 2.0

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This is the dinner bell being rung for political consultants. All across the country, they have started salivating without knowing why. The more sensitive among them have suddenly felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if billions of dollars have suddenly cried out "some take me."

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WWN: Wargaming training series The Women's Wargaming Network will be holding a 6 week live Zoom course on professional wargaming, taught by Dr. Yuna Wong. You'll find full details and a registration link at the WWN website.

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Connections UK 2025 tickets live Tickets are now live for the Connections UK 2025 conference for wargaming professionals (9-11 September 2025 at Brunel University). Tickets cost £250 for three days, including lunch. There are also a limited number of supported places for students. As usual, there…

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Fight Club International: Designing wargames for PME Fight Club International has recently recorded a number of webinars on designing wargames for professional military education, featuring —to date—Philip Buckingham (Canadian Army), Andrew Somerville (Australian Army), and Nicholas Royer (US…

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Mission Critical: Climate and Security Game Jam Posted on behalf of Archipelago of Design. Wargaming Community, We’re excited to invite you to take part in a new international initiative at the intersection of game design, climate adaptation, and security innovation. The Archipelago of Design…

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Some people deny reality because they’re confused. Some deny it because they’re scared. Some because they’re angry. But then there’s something deeper, something more organised. Something I call disordered denial.

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CNN Academy: Voices from the Global South With support from the Gates Foundation, CNN Academy is offering a special programme on public and humanitarian health reporting for storytellers and content producers from the Global South. For those who are selected, this will involve two months of online…

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This is ripe with game ideas! #ébowsup newrepublic.com/article/1947...

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Join the Resistance: The Never 51 Game Jam The following announcement is posted on behalf of the organizers of the Never 51 Game Jam. Never 51 is a global game jam to explore the chaotic possibilities of a world where America adds a 51st state against the will of the people. We are inviting…

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Students getting practice teaching #wargames for Leader Professional Development - Quartermaster General, @rexbrynen.bsky.social Aftershock, QUICK, and Conflict of Heroes. Next up a discussion of what lesson the #wargame is useful to teach & how we did at Army University

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Sky News: The Wargame On June 10 Sky News and Tortoise will launch a five-part podcast which "imagines how a Russian attack on the UK could play out – and invites real-life former ministers, military chiefs and other experts to figure out how to defend the country." A top team of former government…

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Congratulations to the McGill Political Science alumni serving in our next parliament: @AnnaMGainey.bsky.social, Secretary of State (Children and Youth); and MPs Raquel Dancho, @KarinaGould.bsky.social, @AIaconoMP.bsky.social, Patricia Lattanzio, Scott Reid, Jonathan Wilkinson, and John Williamson!

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The RAF dropped 5.2 MILLION pounds of bombs on Dresden in a single night.

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The USS Harry S. Truman and its strike group launched the “largest airstrike in the history of the world” from an aircraft carrier during recent operations near Somalia.

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Joint Canada-France-UK statement on Palestine. www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/stat...

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Israel’s finance minister touts genocide: "The approach is entirely different from anything in the past… now we conquer, cleanse, and stay… what remains of the Strip is also being wiped out…. The population will reach the south of the Strip – and from there move to third countries.”

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Simulation & Gaming (June 2025) The latest issue of Simulation & Gaming 56, 3 (June 2025) is now available. Editorial The Playing Field of Publishing – How do you Play Your Best Game? Marlies P. Schijven and Toshiko Kikkawa Research Articles Examining the Relationship Between Mental Workload,…

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Students taking the Homeland Security elective played @rexbrynen.bsky.social Aftershock today. A great game about logistics and disaster management!!

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The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor has lost access to his email, because Microsoft canceled it

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Israel has rapidly accelerated its destruction of Rafah in April and May. It's hard to understand the magnitude of this, even when spending time analyzing recent satellite imagery. From me, Samuel Granados, Aaron Boxerman, and @rileymellen.bsky.social Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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@jacobtlevy.bsky.social, Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory, has published a new op-ed in The Washington Post on the Qatari government's gift of a jumbo jet to President Trump and legal loopholes 👉 Read the full article here: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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True story: When I was a contractor at a NASA facility I kept M&Ms on my desk. A civil servant I worked with ate a few one day. The next day I came in to find a pound bag on my desk. He wanted to "reimburse" me because he didn't want the few he ate to be seen as a gift. Anyway

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Possibly the most brazen, bald-faced corruption in American political history abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...

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The Economist says that the Gaza health ministry's death toll, criticized by some as inflated and as Hamas propaganda, might actually undercount the death toll (it could be as much as double).

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“Extreme-right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich has warned that with this new plan, “within a few months ... Gaza will be totally destroyed”.” www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

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Join @anikaganness.bsky.social next Wednesday, May 14th as she wraps up her postdoctoral fellowship with a talk on “The Past, Present, and Future of Child Welfare in Canada.” This event will be hosted in person at the @IRPP.org! Learn more and register for the event here: irpp.org/irpp-event/c...

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what is fascinating to me is the number of people whose “knowledge” of government appears to just be an accumulation of cliches and stereotypes + an inchoate sense that if something is big and costly then it must necessarily be “wasteful”

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After serving more than 130 million total meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza. #ChefsForGaza (1/5)

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AIwillreplaceyou Games Part of the final exam in this year's POLI 452 (conflict simulation) course asked students to evaluate a serious game "proposal" that was entirely generated by AI. The purpose of the question was to encourage (and evaluate) critical thinking skills with regard to…

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TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

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1/ The US government has ordered the Swedish city of Stockholm to end its diversity, inclusivity and equality (DEI) programmes within 10 days. The city authorities say the demand is "bizarre" and they won't be complying. ⬇️

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Incubation: A matrix game simulation of pandemic response in a fictional Canadian province The following article was written for PAXsims by Ben Taylor of Colcestrian Consulting. When the first chickens fell ill on a quiet farm outside St. George, few could have foreseen the political, social, and…

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Our debut on BlueSky -- follow for updates on faculty research, events, and all things political science at McGill. Stay tuned for more!

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Wish I had opportunities like this when I was in college. Serious simulation gaming and #wargames weren’t considered #GamesForLearning in my time (and at some levels/fields still aren’t). At least my cousin found @rexbrynen.bsky.social's course challenging and engaging.

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Quite the payoff

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Another year of conflict simulation at McGill The term is over, grading is done, and it’s time to look back at the 2025 edition of POLI 452 (Conflict Simulation) at McGill University. The class, as usual, consisted of forty undergraduate students: this time, 26 women and 14 men. Course performance…

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We Are Coming, Nineveh by @nutspublishing.bsky.social is a wonderful game. Every game is different with plans going awry real fast. I had the Old City (Mosul) on lock before Daesh tunneled out with another unit reforming in my rear creating a giant breach in my perimeter.

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