I spoke with the authors of the study, Christian Gläßel and
@ascharpf.bsky.social, who drew direct parallels between the creation of secret police in authoritarian regimes and what is happening under the Trump administration.

Right now, the signals of impunity for loyalists stands out.

...that we can't avoid confronting, characterized by profound and shameless moral depravity. There's no dialogue possible with such a movement. It must be crushed rhetorically, intellectually, and politically, and thrown back to the netherworld that it should have never been allowed to leave. 2/2

Here are two key frames of the video. (Changed language on the first notation.)

Rules-based international order has had a rough couple of decades, but this pretty much ends it entirely. Both the strikes and the capture of Maduro are also blatant violations of US domestic law too, of course.

Central to this conversation was the new Trans News Initiative, an interactive tool tracking trends in coverage over the last 5 years.

Check it out here!
transnewsinitiative.org

Im profoundly committed to access as care, access as process. Some of you need to understand that since chatGPT etc have entered the fray, many profs are seeing truly detrimental effects on students' engagement, learning and community. Caring about that isn't ableist/being a cop/technophobic.