Over night, as I was monitoring events and trying to report what we could confirm in the editor’s blog, I was so focused on phone reporting, monitoring twitter and monitoring police scanners, that I oddly neglected what has always been one of TPM’s core ways of collecting information, our emails from you. I followed the situation from the first alert about the shooting at MIT until about 6 AM when I turned things over to the rest of the team and got a few hours of sleep. I’d missed reports like this one from TPM Reader CM sent in at 1:36 AM last night …

I’m a Prime subscriber and a long-time reader. I live on Dexter Ave. in Watertown, Mass. where we just experienced what I can only describe as war.

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