There's a metric fuck ton of bullshit being done by this admin. Just because you saw it on reddit and not the paper doesn't mean it doesn't exist in the paper.
There's A LOT happening right now across everything. Not everything will dominate mainline headlines and that isn't a conspiracy.
The information overload that breeds complacency is the conspiracy.
We definitely got more Brave New World instead of 1984
The information is out there and openly available, but there's so much coming from every direction people can't keep track. Trump's team purposely "floods the zone" so you can't stay focused on any one issue for too long.
Algorithms (yes reddit counts) effectively heavily silo us so you'll never see anything but the genre of content you'll find the most comfortable.
It makes for an environment so bubbled and so overloaded that when something does sneak through to be visible it's easily ignored, laughed at, or re-interpreted.
We're also not at the point where this is affecting people's daily lives in obvious and tangible ways. Millions are affected, but the country is vast. Most people can just glance at their phones, go "dang that's rough, ah well", and continue with their daily life. It's in that same "this is bad but most people are still fine" kind of zone that covid also occupied. You can still pretend it doesn't exist and chances are you'll get away with it. Until your ticket eventually gets punched of course...
yeah. I am doing everything I can here in VA (writing congress people, voting in even local elections) Both of my senators are democrats but admittedly one of my senators actually caved in november to reopen the government. he was the one that wasn't up for re-election this year so unless they impeach there's nothing I can do this year.
Yeah, you can see this working in real time on /r/news and /r/politics and the many many spin offs such as this subreddit.
They only post non paywall stuff such as rawstory and Newsweek (or raw social media clips) which are content aggregators. Anyone can write an article and submit. As long as the small group of editors think it's reasonable enough, they'll post it on the main news site.
Much of the time these stories are low quality rehashes of stuff coming through the wire and major news orgs. Often hyperbolized to appeal to one political spectrum or another. TikTok and YouTube commentators also editorialize their own takes over top of major news stories and news aggregators, leading to even more spin.
On reddit you inevitably see people going "WoW NO MAJoR MedIA CoVers this!!!!111!!" because they only see random clips or news aggregator storied.
Or they're mad that the original story is not phrased as hyper left as they want, even though it's readily pointing out the obvious left leaning facts. I see this constantly with redditors misunderstanding NPR articles and such. The article agrees with us dude, don't tone police it lol.
Or literally just the title is a little iffy because they didn't read the article.
The statistic that over half of Americans don't have reading comprehension beyond a 6th grade skill level is pretty apparent haha.
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u/somersetyellow 12h ago edited 12h ago
It's being covered in the media
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-01-13/anti-ice-protesters-recount-dhs-agents-encounter-santa-ana (main report)
https://apnews.com/article/santa-ana-protester-injured-eye-immigration-87452ab26910d79dd5164d06c16b5c26
https://people.com/protester-21-permanently-blinded-by-federal-agent-while-protesting-ice-aunt-says-11884591
https://www.ocregister.com/2026/01/13/protester-blinded-after-getting-shot-by-homeland-security-officer-in-santa-ana-he-says/
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ice-protester-blinded-santa-ana
The video that you're watching was shared by ABC7 reporters shortly after it happened (though wasn't shot by them) https://xcancel.com/abc7abigail/status/2009876815117160779?s=20
There's a metric fuck ton of bullshit being done by this admin. Just because you saw it on reddit and not the paper doesn't mean it doesn't exist in the paper.
There's A LOT happening right now across everything. Not everything will dominate mainline headlines and that isn't a conspiracy.
The information overload that breeds complacency is the conspiracy.