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I was actually pleasantly shocked to hear them talk at all about the botched raid at Canal Place. I wouldn't have clicked it at all if it weren't for that effing headline (expecting the worst). Not sure how I feel about that.

I have so many feelings about that in general. ICE had the wrong building and someone let them in anyway? And were directed specifically at CP3 instead of nebulously "not here?" Resistance does not have to be big. You can just be dumb and unhelpful or give bad directions.

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I am expecting too much. But it makes me itchy knowing how willingly or unknowingly people collaborate, and how close they are.

A (genuine and serious) piece of advice I have for surviving in this media environment so headlines are not the make or break thing is to use an RSS reader. Inoreader is good, website and app, can set up custom alerts and filtering. It helps, HUGELY, to keep tabs on things.

You can also follow reddit etc communities with it. Our information stream is so, so seriously polluted. This is the best way I've found to stay aware without also going insane.

Though Insane is...malleable, definitionally - you get a much better feel for how our paper's reporting resources are spent covering high school and college sports, grouted together with press releases from local cops and bottom of the barrel AP fodder.

James Freeman Saunders

@jimborocks.bsky.social

+1 on Inoreader. It is 90% of what I want, but man I miss old school Netvibes and Google Reader sometimes.

the thing I miss most about google reader was that the information ecosystem was built to support it vs having to rely on dodgy apis or scraping.

I've only heard bits of details from various folks. Given the time first thing in morning, I wonder if they went in when someone was leaving for work or something, vs being buzzed in. Not much detail has been shared on channels I'm on, leaves lots of questions.

My understand is that yeah, they trailed in behind someone.

I was wondering if they only terrorized the one person and bailed out upon realizing their mistake (and I'm guessing some attn), or if they tried the other bldgs. Hadn't heard more.

There are also the sweeps they did later that day of laborers on Worthen Street. They bailed after meeting questions and resistance from a group of people. They fold SO quickly - it's PR to them, and grist for the nazi news mill. They can't risk looking bad.

...the did the same thing (sweeping laborers) a few days ago, but in Belvie.