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Chris Ingraham
@cingraham.bsky.social
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Writer in upstate New York. Hiring or looking for freelance? Let's talk! Formerly: Minnesota Reformer, Washington Post, Brookings, Pew. Orange cat evangelist. Ask me about my swamp.
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Really ugly stuff about Minnesota coming out of right wing media right now. Steve Bannon today: www.rawstory.com/steve-bannon...
"And what you see in Minnesota is an act of — they hate America, they hate American citizens, dare I say they hate white people?" he continued. "We have said for a long time, this is where the rubber meets the road, this is where the fight's going to be. Bring it." "And that scum in the streets, bring it. Let's invoke the Insurrection Act and let's do it today. Let's get up there and clean out that mess."
January 15, 2026 at 5:13 PM
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Another critical piece of missing context in this story: tax dollars flow from the MSP metro to rural Minnesota. People in the city subsidize the lifestyles of people living in the country minnesotareformer.com/2023/12/04/t...
Chart of tax balances of Greater MN and Metro area, showing money flowing from latter to former
January 15, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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Patricia Abrams channeling the entire city of Minneapolis: minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/14/s...
Patricia Abrams was driving past with her sister when they saw the commotion and stopped. She told the Reformer that the ICE incursion into Minnesota is illegal and should end. “The public should know to get these motherf*cking ICE people outta here. They over here illegally trying to lock immigrants up. B*tch, y’all over here illegally — excuse my French — y’all here illegally trying to lock people up.” She added: “D’f*ck’s wrong with you?”
January 15, 2026 at 1:19 PM
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This is the extent of the detail. "Chris why are you getting ads for reptiles for sale." You know why. That's not the issue here.
GOLD BAR, Wash. (KING) - Six puppies in Washington state were rescued from a potentially deadly situation. Officials said the animals were found unresponsive due to fentanyl. Just a couple of days ago, their lives were hanging on by a thread. “All unconscious, not moving at all, not making a peep,” a firefighter said. On Sunday, people started banging on the Station 54 door to help three puppies that were unresponsive. “We figured that it was most likely due to some type of overdose,” a firefighter said. The firefighters on scene immediately gave the little puppies Narcan nasal spray. “After about three doses, they all stayed awake and started jumping around and playing and having a good time in the firehouse,” a firefighter said.
January 14, 2026 at 10:02 PM
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Absolutely insane news story that doesn't give any indication of how the puppies were allegedly exposed to fentanyl???https://www.wbng.com/2026/01/13/6-puppies-saved-suspected-fentanyl-overdose/
6 puppies saved from suspected fentanyl overdose
January 14, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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Incredible headline work defector.com/let-your-buy...
Defector on Adams Crypto scam: Let your buyers become your criers when you pull the rug out from beneath the table of success
January 14, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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please don't overlook her most important contribution to American culture
Dana Perino "I made queso" tweet, the queso looks like nuclear waste
January 14, 2026 at 3:56 PM
cingraham.bsky.social
Let's check the latest from Chuck Schumer
January 14, 2026 at 3:13 PM
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Washington Post story has details not reported elsewhere:
Investigators told Natanson that she is not the focus of the probe. The warrant said that law enforcement was investigating Aurelio Perez-Lugones, a system administrator in Maryland who has a top secret security clearance and has been accused of accessing and taking home classified intelligence reports that were found in his lunchbox and his basement, according to an FBI affidavit.
January 14, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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This language strikes me as insanely condescending. It's how I talk to my kids about doing their chores or whatever. "You're a big kid! You can think for yourself and decide how to do it." I can't imagine viewers actually like being talked to this way?
Guardian media reporter Jeremy Barr on Twitter: At the end of the show, Dokoupil seemed to address some of the criticism the show has gotten: "You may not agree with everything you hear on this broadcast, but we trust you to listen, and we trust you to decide for yourself."
January 14, 2026 at 1:55 PM
cingraham.bsky.social
Also check out the mix of active and passive voice in the second paragraph.
The woman killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis last week served on the board of her son’s school, which linked to documents encouraging parents to monitor ICE and directing them to training. The documents shed new light on Renee Good’s connection to efforts to monitor and potentially disrupt ICE operations – an association that federal officials have made clear is at the center of their review into the deadly incident that occurred as she partially blocked ICE agents in the street with her SUV.
January 14, 2026 at 12:33 AM
cingraham.bsky.social
That's the good stuff right there.
Flock is aware of the exposure enabled by its own product design and has tried to do damage control with its law enforcement customers by blaming “increased public records act/FOIA activity seeking by the public,” according to an email Flock sent to police obtained via public record request.
January 13, 2026 at 5:43 PM
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Oh interesting, they stealth-edited that paragraph. Original on the left, which didn't mention Forelle and Efthimiatou. Current version on right.
January 13, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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"show us the chart again, chris"
"say it again bart" meme except it's the chart about Gen X and lead poisoning
January 13, 2026 at 12:55 AM
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Here's Liz Collin, for instance
January 12, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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Conservative media are promoting a GiveSendGo fundraiser for the ICE agent who killed Renee Good. The page includes the following statement from the organizer: "But this didn't happen in a vacuum—it's the direct result of anti-American traitors like Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (who is Jewish)"
GiveSendGo fundraising page for Jonathan Ross: "But this didn't happen in a vacuum—it's the direct result of anti-American traitors like Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (who is Jewish)"
January 12, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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The reactionary centrist approach to journalism: if you're "criticizing both sides" you're above reproach
Matt Taibbi exchange on Twitter. Someone calls him disgusting and he responds "For quoting someone criticizing both sides?"
January 12, 2026 at 2:41 PM
cingraham.bsky.social
Gonna need to up our trail cam game because this is the only photo we got last night
Night time trail cam shot - extreme blurry deer face close up in the left of the frame
January 12, 2026 at 12:55 PM
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Consensus seems to be bobcat - here’s my 15-pound orange tabby’s paw print for scale
Hand print, two large feline prints, and one regular housecat print in the snow
January 12, 2026 at 12:36 PM
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Wildlife track knowers, what do we think this is? Rural upstate NY early this AM near a swamp
January 12, 2026 at 12:27 PM
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Would pay actual money to see the camera roll of the guy on the right
January 12, 2026 at 12:15 AM
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State and local law enforcement organizations in Minnesota have spent the past several days telling anyone who will listen that they "stand with ICE"
January 10, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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Statement from the bear:
Nov. 18, 2025 skeet from goblin.news: Look, I get it! I really do. You want to know why I was crawling around under your house, and I wish there was one simple answer, but the world just doesn't work like that.
January 9, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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One bizarre detail about the ICE agent's personal life: his father told the Daily Mail his son's wife is a citizen "but declined to say how long she had been in the US"
'You would never find a nicer, kinder person,' the father added about his son. 'He's a committed, conservative Christian, a tremendous father, a tremendous husband. I couldn't be more proud of him.' The elderly dad from North Pekin, Illinois, said his son's wife was a US citizen but declined to say how long she had been in the US. 'I do not want to go any further than that,' he added. Ross – who goes by Jon – has lived on the outskirts of Minneapolis since 2015, and served as an immigration officer since at least 2013.
January 9, 2026 at 3:21 PM
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ICE agent Jonathan Ross, who shot and killed an unarmed civilian, flew a don't-tread-on-me Gadsden flag at his house, per the Daily Mail.
One neighbor at Ross's 10-house cul-de-sac told the Daily Mail that until recently Ross had been flying pro-Trump flags and a 'Don't Tread On Me' Gadsden Flag, an emblem of the Make America Great Again movement. On Thursday afternoon there was no sign of Ross, his wife, or the flags. 'I think he's in the military. He has a military license plate,' one neighbor said. 'He had a don't tread on me flag, and Trump/Vance stickers up during the election. 'The wife is polite, very nice, very outgoing, while he's very reserved. They have a couple of kids.'
January 9, 2026 at 1:59 PM