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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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Obviously staged photo of Gavin Newsom thoughtfully paging through Beloved by Toni Morrison, with To Kill a Mockingbird, 1984, Maus, and another book in a tastefully messy stack on the table
November 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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In chart form (with a slightly different basket of comparison agencies) bsky.app/profile/empt...
Chart of 50k federal hires in "immigration and security" offsetting 48.4k job losses at HHS, USAID, DOI, DOT, NASA and DOJ
November 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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This is a good question. Reuters reports Trump admin has hired 50,000 workers, primarily in immigration enforcement.

For context, that's equivalent to the total number of job losses in Health & Human Services, Veterans Affairs, USAID and Interior COMBINED, per the Partnership for Public Service
Chart of agencies with most workforce reductions under Trump 2, from Partnership for Public Service
November 14, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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the burger in question
November 14, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Linda Yaccarino hot dog tweet
November 12, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Biggest story of the day, per Fox News: Gavin Newsom's reaction to a Turning Point event at UC Berkeley
November 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Always a delight to read new research on the effects of screaming at birds phys.org/news/2025-11...
Phys.org: Shouting at seagulls could stop them stealing your food, research shows
November 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Say what you will but this is pure, raw poetry. "I ain't bendin' over just to please a crowd" sir why does the crowd want you to bend over
Walk my walk lyrics via Spotify
November 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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what did they know and when did they know it
Statue of Paul Bunyan and Babe in Bemidji
November 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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It's also crazy that this is happening in places seen as "climate refuges" or as not susceptible to extreme weather: some of the highest rates are in Minnesota, apparently on account of increasing hail claims.
Census table showing top 10 states for property insurance cost: Florida is #1, Minnesota is #9
November 12, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Oh. I wonder what else Michael Wolff has been sitting on.
The three separate email exchanges released on Wednesday were all from after Mr. Epstein’s 2008 plea deal in Florida on state charges of soliciting prostitution, in which federal prosecutors agreed not to pursue charges. They came years after Mr. Trump and Mr. Epstein had a reported falling out in the early 2000s. One was addressed to Mr. Epstein’s longtime confidante Ghislaine Maxwell, while two were with the author Michael Wolff.
November 12, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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This chart and its implications are absolutely bonkers. From Axios. www.axios.com/2025/11/04/h...
Chart showing the median age of U.S. homebuyers rose from about 31 in the early 80s to 59 today.
November 11, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Rewrite of the famous Onion "Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades" article: Fuck Everything, We're Doing Fifty Year Mortgages
November 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Great moments in localization
All Otsego headline: Republicans Accuse SUNY Oneonta Grad Jack Smith of Bias in Trump Investigations
November 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Dozens of corrections! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/b...
At Bloomberg, an experiment with A.I. to generate news article summaries has resulted in dozens of corrections. A note appended to one, an Aug. 1 article about Switzerland’s reaction to President Trump’s tariffs, said: “A faulty A.I. summary was removed for misrepresenting surplus as a deficit.” And the publication removed a summary on a Sept. 22 feature about private equity because it had misattributed a quote. Bloomberg has said that 99 percent of A.I. summaries met the outlet’s editorial standards
November 9, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Viral tweet: "My 3-month-old son is now TWICE as big as when he was born. He's on track to weigh 7.5 trillion pounds by age 10 "
November 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Unfortunately there are like a million local news outlets reporting that it's Findlay, despite the statement from Novo Nordisk 🙃
November 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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That said, props to @heathercherone.bsky.social and WTTW for not mincing words thusfar
WTTW headline: Federal Judge Says Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino Lied About Being Hit With a Rock Before Deploying Tear Gas in Chicago
November 6, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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People dunking on the bad NYT headline are missing out on the article itself, which features a diverse set of viewpoints ranging from "feminism is bad" to "feminism is bad."
Ross Douthat: Men and women are different. That is a core premise of conservatism in the age of Trump, that liberalism and feminism have come to grief by pretending that the sexes are the same. But what does that difference really mean? Should the right be trying to roll back the entire feminist era? Or is there a form of conservative feminism that corrects liberalism’s mistakes? My guests this week, Helen Andrews and Leah Libresco Sargeant, are both conservative writers, both critics of feminism, but they have very different views of what a right-wing politics of gender should look like.
November 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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I love a well-balanced discussion!
November 6, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Sneak preview of the future Republican Party platform
A draft policy paper called for robust incentives to induce heterosexual married couples to have more children. Subsequent drafts suggested awarding straight married couples an additional “half vote” in federal elections for each of their children, according to people involved.
November 6, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Incredible paragraph in a story about a meeting where the COO told staffers "If we see someone leaking, you’re fired." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
This report is based on interviews with 22 current and former Heritage employees and senior figures in the Republican Party, many of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution. It’s also based on recordings of Heritage meetings and phone calls obtained by The Washington Post, drafts of policy papers and organization chat logs.
November 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Like this type of response comes across as nails on the chalkboard for a big segment of the electorate.
JAKE TAPPER: Do you see Mamdani as the future of the Democratic Party? JEFFRIES: No. I think the future of the Democratic Party is going to fall, as far as we're concerned, relative to the House Democratic caucus and members who are doing a great work all across the country as it relates to our need to both take back control of the House, but in doing so, make sure that we're communicating to the American people, like, we understand you deserve better than the country that you have received.
November 4, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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November 2, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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The swamp was full of thin filamentous ice this morning, something I've never seen before. Apparently called "hair ice," only forms on rotting wood under narrow temp/humidity conditions, in the presence of a certain species of fungus! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_ice
Filamentous ice growing out of a rotting log Filamentous ice growing out of a rotting log Filamentous ice growing out of a rotting log
November 2, 2025 at 9:33 PM