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Chris Ingraham
@cingraham.bsky.social
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Writing stuff in upstate New York. Formerly: Minnesota Reformer, Washington Post, Brookings, Pew. Orange cat evangelist. Ask me about my swamp.
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cingraham.bsky.social
They’re married
Orange cat and brindle pit mix cuddles face to face on the couch
December 2, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Earth Rumbles, Dishes Crash To Floor As Gerrymandering Rips Through House https://theonion.com/earth-rumbles-dishes-crash-to-floor-as-gerrymandering-rips-through-house/
Earth Rumbles, Dishes Crash To Floor As Gerrymandering Rips Through House Texas Family Torn Apart In Redistricting Tragedy
December 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
cingraham.bsky.social
the guy just loves his little treats
December 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
cingraham.bsky.social
Laughable AI nonsense aside, the guys running this "independent" effort are Republican operatives??
But the Independent Center's strategists are a far cry from political newbies. "We're political fighters," said Brandon, who served as president of FreedomWorks, the conservative grassroots group that helped turn Tea Party activists into a political force before closing its doors last year. "We have built a team of people that know how to do this. We're not going to be pushovers." Brandon works closely with Brett Loyd, who runs The Bullfinch Group, the nonpartisan polling and data firm overseeing the polling and research at the Independent Center. He previously worked on President Trump's polling team, when the president was a candidate.
December 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM
cingraham.bsky.social
"The focus on pain as an underlying cause of suicide is under-recognized in the literature and adds an important dimension to the policy discussion." Yes.
paul-bruno.com Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 17h
Marijuana Legalization and Suicides Among Older Adults www.nber.org/papers/w34519

"suicide rates among older age groups decline following the opening of recreational marijuana dispensaries, especially among older Whites, and middle-aged White males and females with low levels of education"
Marijuana Legalization and Suicides Among Older Adults
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
December 1, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
I tried to do the latter here, with an assist from @cingraham.bsky.social.

www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/18/t...
The United States Can't Afford the Opportunity Cost of Stephen Miller's Bigotry - emptywheel
Americans can't have nice things -- the nice things they used to have -- because Republicans in Congress gave much of money spent on government employees who give you nice things and instead gave it t...
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December 1, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
List of headlines from media covering FDA, most emphasizing the claim that covid killed children
November 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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markjacob.bsky.social
When a news outlet puts a reckless, undocumented claim by the Trump regime in the main headline and puts medical experts’ pushback in the smaller type, it’s making a choice. And not a good one.
NBC: “FDA claims COVID shots killed 10 children and vows new vaccine rules”
November 29, 2025 at 10:40 PM
cingraham.bsky.social
Came across an *incredible* Facebook ad in the wild, hawking some garbage herbal supplements
"Smoke all you want, just clean your lungs daily"
November 30, 2025 at 1:23 AM
cingraham.bsky.social
grandma leavitt's famous boiled macaroni
jackiantonovich.bsky.social Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 2d
Karoline Leavitt's Thanksgiving spread. Please dissect.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
A Thanksgiving spread of foods.
November 29, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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davelevitan.bsky.social
words, what do they mean

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
“I remain open to vigorous discussions and debate,” Prasad wrote to his team, adding that staff who did not agree with the core principles of his new approach should submit their resignations.
November 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
This ridiculous sentence is written like a bothsides-ish balancing statement, but it isn’t one. When the mob is in charge, paying the protection money they extort from you is a cost of doing business. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
November 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
cingraham.bsky.social
The stove appreciator
Large orange cat lounging in front of a crackling wood fire
November 28, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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carlbergstrom.com
Even the the damn twitter card for this Nature Scientific Reports is clearly AI Slop.
November 27, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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jcrutchmer.bsky.social
“It’s all a microcosm of a media industry that allowed Olivia Nuzzi and Ryan Lizza to flourish in the first place,” I say. Without a word, my dad stands up from the table, picks up the turkey, and casually dumps it in the trash. Mom pours the gravy into the punch bowl
November 27, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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dirtysexyhistory.bsky.social
I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.

Gift link:

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
cingraham.bsky.social
I'm gonna whip out the felching charts at Ingraham Thanksgiving. In for a penny, in for a pound.
brbarrett.bsky.social Brian Barrett @brbarrett.bsky.social · 5d
Do I try to explain the Nuzzi-Lizza situation to my in-laws at Thanksgiving dinner or do I just pass the stuffing and keep screaming in my own brain hmmmmmmm
November 27, 2025 at 12:01 AM
cingraham.bsky.social
The human body is a machine that converts Flamin' Hot Dill Pickle Crunchy Cheetos into things like brain cells and muscle tissue, pretty amazing honestly
November 26, 2025 at 11:59 PM
cingraham.bsky.social
From the MN Society for Professional Journalists: St. Paul police shot three photojournalists (MPR, Reuters, Sahan Journal) with "less lethal" munitions during an ICE operation yesterday. One had to go to the hospital. They say they were specifically targeted by St. Paul police.
MNSPJ condemns St. Paul police attacks on journalists The Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists strongly condemns attacks on journalists by law enforcement on Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025, during a federal operation in St. Paul. At least three local photojournalists were injured by less-lethal munitions deployed by St. Paul police officers while covering the story. One was transported to the hospital in an ambulance. All three journalists were clearly identified as press with badges and/or vests, in addition to having cameras in hand, clearly at work. All three photojournalists and multiple other local journalists on scene were also injured by chemical irritants. Kerem Yücel, with MPR News, was hit by a less-lethal munition in the shoulder and was transported to a hospital by ambulance. He has since been released and is recovering. Tim Evans, a freelance photojournalist with Reuters, was struck in the stomach with a pepper ball round. Aaron Nesheim, a photojournalist with Sahan Journal, was struck in the head with a pepper ball round. Evans and Nesheim did not require hospitalization. The three journalists hit by munitions shared with MNSPJ that they believe they were targeted by law enforcement for doing their jobs. Photojournalists are on the frontlines of documenting history and it is imperative that they are kept safe and their First Amendment rights are protected. Attacking journalists sends a message to both journalists and everyday citizens that their First Amendment rights will not be respected. The First Amendment protects the rights of journalists to report on their communities and provide information that communities need — information that, on Tuesday, was not transparently available from any law enforcement agency. We demand answers from St. Paul city leadership about why the city’s police department attacked our colleagues and a commitment to seeing that this will never happen again.
November 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
cingraham.bsky.social
Will also point out he's bragging about an "aced" cognitive test in the same post he misspells "won" and refers to counties as "districts"
justinbaragona.bsky.social Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 5d
Now we have the president calling a female New York Times reporter ugly because he's mad about a story she wrote.
November 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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regimecpa.bsky.social
The average medieval peasant could not buy a gas station delta 9 gummy and watch “Scooter Fail Compilation 5” on YouTube, which makes it difficult to compare GDP across time
November 26, 2025 at 5:03 AM
cingraham.bsky.social
Incredible stuff here. "We offer you the Necronomicon, a font of Terrible and Forbidden Knowledge. Any harm that results from peering into the abyss is due solely to the unauthorised use, unintended use, unforeseeable use, and/or improper use of the Necronomicon."
According to filings at the superior court of the state of California on Tuesday, OpenAI said that “to the extent that any ‘cause’ can be attributed to this tragic event” Raine’s “injuries and harm were caused or contributed to, directly and proximately, in whole or in part, by [his] misuse, unauthorised use, unintended use, unforeseeable use, and/or improper use of ChatGPT”. It said that its terms of use prohibited asking ChatGPT for advice about self-harm and highlighted a limitation of liability provision that states “you will not rely on output as a sole source of truth or factual information”.
November 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
cingraham.bsky.social
Wild: Democratic candidate running neck-and-neck in a special election in a TN district that was R+22 last year
fritschner.bsky.social Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 5d
Emerson finds TN-7 basically ~tied ahead of Tuesday election, with Trump underwater in a district he won by 22.

A winnable race for Dems.

If R’s lose this race their ability to control the House *this year* is a real issue.

Link to donate to Dem Aftyn Behn here: secure.actblue.com/donate/aftyn...
November 26, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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thetrueduckman.bsky.social
No. The Thing is a movie about a bunch of people who all distrust and hate each other trapped in one building as the tension between them slowly builds until it reaches a breaking point. It's a Thanksgiving movie.
November 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
cingraham.bsky.social
Having a run-in with mall cops at the Walden Galleria outside Buffalo can lead to you getting detained by Border Patrol nysfocus.com/2025/11/26/c...
How a Brush With Mall Security Can Lead to Arrest by Border Patrol
In at least one case, police may have violated a state court ruling prohibiting local law enforcement from conducting civil immigration enforcement.
nysfocus.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM