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Chris Ingraham

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Reporter, Minnesota Reformer. Formerly Washington Post. "The cricket dumbass." Recently beat cancer. Orange cat enthusiast.


Chris Ingraham's avatar Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social
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He's not apologizing for having an opinion, he's apologizing for getting caught with one. I understand why things are this way, but deliberately hiding your beliefs from your audience is not the way to build trust.

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Forcing media figures to apologize for giving their unvarnished opinions is not going to boost trust in the media

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I had to double check it too, really confusing that they used a photo of the victim on a story centered on the cop

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Yeah I agree it's really confusing and they should have used something else

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Yes, he was identified previously

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Do note that the guy in the thumbnail was one of the men who was shot and killed, not the police officer

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A police officer in the town of Crookston, MN (pop. 7,300) shot and killed two men having mental health crises in the span of 45 days. The officer's middle name is "Gunner." www.startribune.com/crookston-of...

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It's 2016 and Trump has a new tone. It's 2017 and Trump has a new tone. It's 2018 and Trump has a new tone. It's 2020 and Trump has a new tone. It's 2024 and Trump has a new tone.

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The really damning thing is the NYT's story didn't even add anything to the previous shitty coverage. Just an extended exercise in innuendo and "wow really makes u think"

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We only tell kids about the tooth fairy to distract from knowledge of the fairies who accept larger bones for greater rewards

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Chris Ingraham's avatar Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social
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Finally: more money for doctors

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It’s wild how the political press does some much writing about peoples’ perceptions while hardly ever acknowledging they’re one of the main drivers of it.

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FWIW I have absolutely no idea whether Biden should withdraw, and not in the fake journalist "I've never had an opinion in my life" sense but in the actual "I have no fucking clue how this would play out" sense

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"Politics would be interesting again" is such a telling phrase, a sign that you're so insulated by money and power that it's all just entertainment for you.

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Today at the Reformer: after voters in this conservative corner of Minnesota rejected two consecutive funding levies, elementary students had to fundraise to save one of their own classrooms. minnesotareformer.com/2024/07/02/e...

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The thing I kept thinking about last night is what kind of state either of those guys is gonna be in four years from now

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Roberts, the man who dismissed basic mathematical facts about redistricting as "sociological gobbledygook"

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Launch the entire political desk into the sun

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Adam Serwer's avatar Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social
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It is very funny how one of the Supreme Court’s big issues is making it impossible to outlaw bribery because they like being bribed

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"We interviewed the 30 dumbest people in suburban Atlanta. Here's why it's important to coddle their views."

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Marisa Kabas's avatar Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social
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losing it at this part of a lawsuit brought by a former reporter at the marion county record (the kansas newspaper raided by cops last yr) against the former police chief and county attorney

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I don't think I've ever seen someone use "based" in an apolitical sense to mean "based in reality"?? I've seen it exclusively in alt right/nazi contexts but maybe I don't get out enough

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Inside me there are two wolves. This is not enough to control the deer population inside me, which is degrading the river ecology inside me. I’m attempting to release more wolves inside me to address this, but the ranchers inside me object, and

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Lee Frost | The Sinsemillier's avatar Lee Frost | The Sinsemillier @thesinsemillier.bsky.social
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"After Shari Stuart tried to explain that she has Stage 4 breast cancer and a weakened immune system, Stuart said the man called her a “f---ing liberal” and insisted masks were now illegal. He later coughed on her and said he hoped the cancer would kill her." www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/...

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The new Minneapolis Police Department contract would push officers' *starting* pay to $92,000 by next summer.

Starting salary for Minneapolis Public School teachers will be $51,000 for 2024-2025.

minnesotareformer.com/2024/06/21/u...

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Nathan Bernhardt's avatar Nathan Bernhardt @jonbernhardt.bsky.social
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uk print media shops aren't workplaces, they're daycare for grabby drunk aristos and freakish strivers who couldn't make it in any other newsroom on the planet. their only job is calling their mums to ask their uncles at the exchequer what's going on with the PM. and they can't sue me for saying so

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Seth Masket's avatar Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social
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"Sure, the robber barons were cruel and rapacious, but they ultimately gave away their fortunes to build schools and libraries" kind of falls apart when their great-grandson still has enough generational wealth to give $50M to a literal felon's presidential campaign.

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Tax cuts for the rich? That's just Econ 101 baby. But a robust social safety net? I'm gonna need to see double-blind trials published in the Chicago Journal of Rapacious Capitalism.

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It's funny that economists are devoting years of study to answer vexing questions like "does giving people money make it easier for them to pay bills."

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Republican Party of Carver County, Minnesota, celebrates Flag Day with a salute to an AI flag containing 70+ stars and 15 stripes.

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From Reuters: The U.S. military launched a secret propaganda effort during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic to cast doubt on China's lifesaving vaccine, essentially running an anti-vax campaign in the Philippines.

www.reuters.com/investigates...

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Brendel's avatar Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social
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For real though if I was a poor ass Toad living in the Mushroom Kingdom and saw Mario playing tennis with Bowser I’d be like “despite their pretend disagreements there really is only the uniparty”

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man it's a hot zone,'s avatar man it's a hot zone, @mobute.bsky.social
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Supreme Court Issues 'We Want Republicans To Be Competitive This November' Ruling, Uphold 'Pretend a Little While Longer' Precedent

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The Minnesota GOP-endorsed candidate to take on Amy Klobuchar recently posted a map purporting to show crime in Minneapolis. It was actually a map of drinking fountains. Ope!

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Minnesota Reformer's avatar Minnesota Reformer @mnreformer.bsky.social
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In ruling that bong water is a drug mixture, the Minnesota Supreme Court justices relied, in part, on the testimony of a state patrol officer who claimed that drug users keep bong water “for future use… either drinking it or shooting it in the veins.”

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Chris Ingraham's avatar Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social
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Asset forfeiture angle: the cops took Jessica's car and $2,400 in cash saying they were the fruits of drug trafficking, despite her having a *literal tax document* from the casino, dated that evening, showing the cash was casino winnings. minnesotareformer.com/2024/06/10/f...

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Chris Ingraham's avatar Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social
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all the links (handle, profile pic, tweet body) go to an external website where they're trying to sell some sort of snake oil air ionizer

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Twitter ad helpfully suggests pouring bleach directly into your HVAC system. It's not connected to any profile, so there's no way to block or report it.

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To fix the Washington Post, we've ordered a Piers Morgan from Temu

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“She is not efficient,” said one attorney who practices in south Florida. “She is very form over substance.” Another attorney described her as “indecisive.” A third attorney who’s had cases before Cannon said, “She just seems overwhelmed by the process.”

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Materialist Gnostic's avatar Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social
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It's beautiful that the media has figured out they can alternate between "inflation down, possibly bad for jobs?" and "jobs up, possibly bad for inflation?" until America elects Trump again for them.

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