Chris Ingraham
@cingraham.bsky.social
Investigative reporter, Institute for Justice. Formerly: Minnesota Reformer, Washington Post, Brookings, Pew. Orange cat evangelist. Ask me about my swamp.
Not the Onion: Trump administration declares tubas and trombones a national security threat www.classicfm.com/music-news/d...
Trump administration declares brass instruments a national security threat
Critics are shocked by the brass neck of it.
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I leave Mollie at the foot of the wheel! One always finds one's burden again. The struggle itself toward the horizon is enough to fill a hamster's heart. One must imagine Mollie happy.
Vox@vox.com · 14h agoMollie, a 10-month-old pet hamster in the Netherlands, probably runs a lot more than you. But even though his mileage is impressive (10k a night!), it points to a larger issue about owning small pets — that they’re living in captivity that’s against their nature.
Flock's CEO says he's spending 80% of his time doing national media and is encouraging police departments to share "sob stories" with local media to generate favorable coverage. signalakron.org/akron-flock-...
NEW: Today the Institute for Justice released an expanded database of Flock and other license plate camera abuse, cataloging 140 incidents including: -- 39 cases of stalking -- 55 other incidents of individual officer misconduct -- 31 errors -- 15 miscellaneous abuses ij.org/the-ij-datab...
Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.
Birthdate and name matches are causing US Citizens to get arrested in error by ICE as they board airplanes. This is the same level of rigor they're bringing to claims of fraudulent voting, and is obvious as an error-prone method to anyone who has taken an introductory stats class.
You folks who summarize breaking news without providing links, please stop.
Pretty much the whole point of reading fiction is getting to spend time in someone else's weird fucked-up little mind, you lose that entirely if it's just Claude regurgitating Cliff's Notes for you
Matt Pearce@mattdpearce.com · 2d agoI’m learning that the people who gamified paragraphs are having trouble reading books. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...
Every six months a writer goes on parental leave, is driven insane by watching 10,000 hours of Paw Patrol, and writes another one of these articles, and they're always great.
Jim Swift@jimswift.bsky.social · 2d ago
I don't think there should be a defibrilator on Snowdon. And that's a hill I'm prepared to die on
My favorite Royce White anecdote is when he got tricked into thinking that a map of public water fountain locations was a map of crime minnesotareformer.com/2024/06/12/g...
New York Post @nypost.com · 5d agoEx-NBA player, GOP Senate hopeful Royce White to declare for WNBA Draft as transgender
"Dozens of people were detained by immigration authorities during Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota despite having permission to live and work in the United States because they were victims of a crime and reported it to the police." minnesotareformer.com/2026/08/07/i...
During Operation Metro Surge, ICE arrested dozens of immigrant crime victims • Minnesota Reformer
Years ago, Rosa watched from inside the car as men robbed her husband at gunpoint, shortly after they’d arrived in Minnesota from Guatemala. The couple had a pending asylum case, but once they reporte...
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Andy Ogles, one of the most virulently bigoted members of Congress, lost his primary www.tennessean.com/story/news/p...
Andy Ogles becomes one of few Tennessee incumbents ever defeated in a primary
Andy Ogles' primary loss to Hatcher places him on a short list of Tennessee congressional incumbents defeated by voters before the general election.
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Few things drive me more batty than the notion that cropland is a precious resource that needs protecting. Crop farming is one of the most ecologically destructive human practices there is; a corn field is a sterile biological desert.
Dave Vetter@davidrvetter.bsky.social · last wk.Welsh Conservatives on Instagram this morning, campaigning on behalf of fossil fuels during a record-breaking drought that has parched the country and set the stage for severe wildfires.
Bill Cassidy finally figured out a way to bump his RFK Jr. confirmation vote out of the first sentence of his obit.
"USA Today Co. has made a deal with software company Palantir to analyze and monetize user behavior, the company announced on Thursday." www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/amer...
America’s largest newspaper chain, USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data as search traffic falls
USA Today Co. has made a deal with software company Palantir to analyze and monetize user behavior, the company announced on Thursday. In its Q2 earnings call Thursday morning, USA Today Co. chairman...
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They're suing another Ohio convenience store because they have a fucking moose in their logo www.fox26houston.com/news/buc-ees...
Buc-ee's sues Ohio chain for trademark infringement, arguing logos too similar
Buc-ee's has filed a federal lawsuit, claiming trademark infringement against the Ohio-based Mickey's chain of convenience and gas stations.
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amy brown@amybrown.xyz · 7d agooh my god
New: Flock planned to use cameras in hundreds of thousands of Uber, Lyft, and delivery driver vehicles as a way to collect more license plate data. Pitched the idea to an Attorney General. Would basically turn Uber/Lyft into roaming surveillance vehicles www.404media.co/flock-pitche...
Flock Pitched a Plan To Turn Uber and Lyft Drivers Into Roaming Surveillance Vehicles
A Flock presentation shows the company planned to use around 350,000 Uber, Lyft, and delivery drivers to collect license plate data for its surveillance system.
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NEW: The Minnesota Supreme Court ordered a new trial for an alleged fentanyl dealer after the Polk County Attorney’s office misstated the law in their instructions to the jury minnesotareformer.com/2026/08/04/m...
what's next? my taxes paying for roads I may never drive on?
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · last wk.Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
New: we've obtained the guide Flock makes for police to try to convince cities to buy Flock cameras, even when there is widespread opposition to it. Encourages police to "own the narrative before someone else does," need to have a "carefully scripted presentation" www.404media.co/own-the-narr...
‘Own the Narrative’: Leaked Flock Guide Shows How It Teaches Cops to Promote Its Tech
"This document shows a coordinated effort from Flock Safety to compel law enforcement agencies to convince our elected leaders to represent their interests as a company rather than the interests of co...
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Also: the best polisci evidence we have says there is no vote penalty for progressives vs. mods. Hong & El-Sayed are favored to win in Nov, like any D. We won't have counterfactuals, but if close, win or lose, it'll reinforce the polisci finding. If they lose by a lot (they won't), another story...
A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social · last wk.You guys, nominating the person who earned the most votes is now an “ideological purity test.”
This shit is insane. I feel like I'm losing my mind.
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · last wk.FLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.
On Jan. 11, Gregory Bovino watched as his Border Patrol agents dragged a man out of his car at a St. Paul Speedway, knelt on his back until he lost consciousness, and dragged his limp body into the back of a van. The man's name is Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano and this is his story.
Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano survived a violent arrest in St. Paul. It still haunts him. • Minnesota Reformer
The morning of Jan. 11 began for Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano with an ominous warning: The gas light on his Jeep Cherokee was glowing yellow on the dashboard. He didn’t want to go to work at the r...
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"In Wisconsin, a police officer allegedly used Flock to check whether his ex-girlfriend had gone to an abortion clinic, according to a police affidavit for a case set for trial this month."
Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com · 2w agoNew: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo
Well beside the point but there's no way there are that many years between 2020 and now. 2020 was 3 years ago tops
Kevin Collins@kwcollins.bsky.social · 2w agoRepublicans largely erasing their party id advantage among Americans without a college degree seems like a finding from the Pew NPORS study that should be getting more attention www.pewresearch.org/politics/fac...
