Hahaha, I used to lecture my coworkers about this and got myself branded in just about every newsroom I worked in as "a maverick" for it
https://twitter.com/fvaraorta/status/1385610399324676098
I had two standard lectures that really cemented my reputation as a loose cannon: "The Cops Are Not Our Friends and Their Press Releases Cannot Be Blindly Trusted" and "For Fuck's Sake Why Isn't Anybody Paying Attention to the Goddamn California Nazis."
Welp
Oh yeah, and then there was my two-beer conspiracy theory, "White Supremacist-Riddled Border Agencies Will Be the Tip of the Fascist Spear in the Coming Attempts to Destroy Democracy." I drove everybody nuts with that one for years. I have no idea what I'm going to talk about now
By the way, all of these were very standard lectures/conspiracy theories for anybody covering the border. Impossible to watch what was unfolding there and not conclude that a power grab was on its way.
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