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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 21h

If she wins, Mills would be 85 at the end of her first Senate term.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h

(AP) — Maine’s two-term Democratic Gov. Janet Mills will run for the U.S. Senate seat held by veteran Republican Sen. Susan Collins next year, according to two people familiar ..

@apnews.com #MEgov
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Ryan North? But - he died... 30 years ago this very night!! @ryannorth.ca · 23h

In video games, you will often find a fully roasted chicken abandoned on the ground, and eating it extremely quickly makes you feel better. What's less known is that this is also true in real life

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 22h

Minnesota cops pulled over a black postal worker who was having a stroke. They assumed he was on drugs, threw him in jail, and didn't seek medical treatment. They left him alone in a cell for hours as he lost all bodily function. He died several days later. minnesotareformer.com/2025/10/10/l...

Lawsuit: Minnesotan died after Eagan, Dakota County law enforcement ignored serious stroke symptoms • Minnesota Reformer

Jensen muted his equipment just as Moseng told him, “Before you got there, I was like, ‘Is this dude having a stro—’”

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 1d

As a longtime frog appreciator this brings me great joy

J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 1d

frog semiotics redemption arc 2025

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 1d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 1d

sending up the @stephengutowski.bsky.social bat signal

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 2d

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Jack Smith’s lawfare and James Comey’s arraignment on pathetically weak charges

Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 2d

user name checks out!

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 2d

Weeping with regret every time I set foot in one of New York's many non-nationally ranked shitters

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 2d

1973 Time Magazine cover" The Good Life In Minnesota, with Gov. Wendell Anderson holding up a large fish

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 2d

See the Minnesota park bathroom that won an award for best in the country

Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 2d

Minnesota is No. 1 in places to go No. 2: A restroom inside Bear Head Lake State Park near Ely, Minn., is a national winner.

See the Minnesota park bathroom that won an award for best in the country

The park facilities “raise expectations for public spaces everywhere,” according to Cintas, which gives out the award.

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 2d

Kind of looks like she crawled out of the laptop screen a la The Ring

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 2d

Still waiting for a more efficient explanation of everything than "Everyone got brain damage from Covid": the airline executives charging a $155 predatory premium for legroom, the guy deciding to customize his own flight experience, the chain of command aborting the whole flight—busted mind-traffic!

Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 2d

This is absolutely wild. I’m on a cross country flight. We are being diverted midway through to Denver. The reason? Some dude is sitting in the exit row who didn’t pay the $155 fee and he refuses to move back to his seat.

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 2d

We need strong role models like Lee Greenwood, whose fourth wife is younger than the children from his first marriage!

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 3d

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 2d

Probably a ton a variation I'm guessing!

Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 2d

Kids in lower income households are roughly twice as likely to have their own smartphones as those in high income homes. Similar dynamic when it comes to YouTube viewing.

Parents with lower incomes are most likely to say their child has their own smartphone, at 31%. Smaller shares of those with middle (20%) and upper (16%) incomes say the same.

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 2d

Since these are parent surveys and there's a lot of social stigma around kids' screen time, I wonder if the true numbers are even higher?

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 2d

More than half of preschoolers age 2 to 4 watch YouTube "daily."

Pew chart showing share of kids who watch YouTube "daily," per their parents:
Under 2: 35%
2-4: 51%
5-12: 54%

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 2d

More than half of kids age 11 and 12 have their own smartphones, per a new Pew survey. And close to one third of kids age 8 to 10. www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...

Pew chart showing 57% of parents of 11 and 12 year olds say their kid has their own smartphone.

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David Sacerdote @davidsacerdote.bsky.social · 3d

A decade after it was written, I find myself pulling out the @cingraham.bsky.social's gerrymandering explanation to help people understand why California’s Prop. 50 is so important to pass.

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This is the best explanation of gerrymandering you will ever see

By simplifying gerrymandering we see how problematic it really is.

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 3d

I served on the National Academy of Sciences advisory committee to the Census Bureau on the privacy formula and the biggest concern was it resulted in undercounting communities of color — and it was the Biden administration that implemented it for the 2021 data release

Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 3d

“Who was president in 2020?” is the question of our time

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 3d

The most trusted names in polling: Gallup, Pew, Amerisleep dot com

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 3d

Telling my boss I'm taking personal time to process the snow leopard DNA news

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 4d

He looks like one of Jack Nicholson's goons in The Departed (complimentary)

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