Chris Ingraham

For Slate, I wrote about what it's like to get a terminal cancer diagnosis when you're 42. slate.com/life/2026/03...

I like to think of it as microdosing the pesticide residue and diarrhea bacteria, so that my body is prepared when the true threat arrives

Mayor Mamdani's got a hankering for great data design! Got a knack for data visualization and live in NYC? This job could be for you. Looks awesome (though it's temporary, though April next year.) cityjobs.nyc.gov/job/data-vis...

Global Coin Logistics sells dollars to ATM providers across the country. Last year, the DEA and CBP seized more than $1 million from GCL during two different airport seizures without charging anyone with a crime. Now, GCL and @ij.org have filed a federal lawsuit challenging those seizures.

For the fabulously wealthy, paying taxes is pretty much optional. They can borrow against their vast wealth, which is mostly an untaxed capital gain, without paying taxes. When they die, the capital gain goes to zero. And loopholes exist to bypass the estate tax too.

But for those doing the horse race “gap closing!” nonsense, please remember you‘re a big reason why “voter fraud!” claims stick, and know that state GOP have changed counting rules for mail-in votes to explicitly capitalize on your terrible coverage. They’ve used you. And you keep doing it.

It's really damning. The accusations are numerous and well-supported. But I was really struck by the descriptions of Trump's behavior -- the name dropping, strong-arming, and attempts to buy off silence. His gross rivalry with Epstein. It's all so familiar. It's shit he's been doing his entire life.

Far afield from the main point of this but "Data Republican" is a user name so profoundly stupid it causes me psychic pain

It is atrocious we have to operate under this constant credible and explicit threat from one political party, the fact we keep calling it a “free and fair election” needs some light revising

Kavanaugh stops in action: ICE tackled a non-verbal kid near his school, left him with injuries requiring surgery, and then left the scene when they realized he wasn't the person they were looking for www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...

Vicariously enjoying the giddiness the reporter must have felt when she typed out this headline

Oh it's the guy who claimed he brought back the dire wolf when he had really just made several small edits to regular gray wolf genes. This is gross but you also have to assume it's going to be extremely underwhelming.

Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.

Our investigation into allegations of data fabrication at the firm SoCal Strategies, and an alleged association with the admittedly fraudulent firm Wedgewood Polls, has resulted in the pollster wiping itself from the face of the earth. Full story at 50+1: blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/more-polls...

Most amazing part of this is that he likely would have avoided criminal charges if he had not tried to sue the legal owners for hundreds of thousands of dollars in reimbursements for the "improvements" he made on the home

Bizarre article that tries to frame passing a group of cyclists without hitting them as an impossible moral dilemma. Also, this is a massive red flag

Lot of eye-opening details in this new Post story on how Flock's lackadaisical attitude toward security -- the company didn't require 2FA until this August -- has allowed unauthorized people to access sensitive data www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

we gotta bring back shame, man society doesn’t work real well without consequences for being an enormous piece of shit in public

ICE and the IRS seized $450k from an Arizona small business and kept it without charging them with any crime, in apparent violation of federal law. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN9u...

Today we launch the first episode of my podcast. I interviewed Whitney Mitchell, whose fiancé and caretaker Garrett Foster was murdered at a BLM protest in 2020. Foster's killer was convicted by a jury and given a 25-year sentence. Then Texas Gov. Greg Abbott pardoned him.

Reminds me of polling from back in the Bush era that found white evangelicals were the religious group most supportive of torture. Most of it is tied to political affiliation, which is also telling in its own way.

Love it when a news website tells me I "earned" a free pass. My conduct has been deemed meritorious by the editors of nj dot com

Really not a great sign that "shocking stories of congressional bribery" is a now multi-part series but I'm glad someone is doing it

Marilyn Manchin Now Going Door-To-Door Trying to Shock People

As far as I'm aware there isn't any actual data showing this is becoming more common (happy to be proven wrong!). Purely media-driven panic as far as I can tell

I survived the cancer I got a few years ago because of NIH research done when I was in my teens. The Trump administration today is killing research on the cancers that our children will get.

An unexpected $30k bill - the context for this remark - would fuck me up pretty badly and that’s true of basically everyone I know

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Lisa Demuth says she voted to cap insulin prices. She voted against it at least twice. minnesotareformer.com/2026/10/16/l...

The Council on Criminal Justice recently asked ~50 crime experts across the political spectrum what was driving the recent decline in homicide, and "expansion of community violence intervention" was at the top of the list counciloncj.org/executive-su...

I've said for a long time that the economics profession owes Trump big time. You've never had a real world test of "what if a President does everything he can to raise inflation?" a generation of PhD dissertations will be written on this.

Republican Rep. Andy Harris incorrectly told a reporter they were breaking the law as the reporter and others recorded an exchange with him last night. Harris had just wrapped up a debate with Democratic challenger Dan Schwartz.

Chris warns crickets could 'self-replicate' in moist kitchen crevices, can only be stopped if you give Chris more money to buy crickets

If you're a fraternity alum (from any school/state) who experienced sexual violence as a member, I'm here to listen. I understand this is extremely sensitive and I will treat your story with the utmost discretion and care. Reach out— Signal: marisakabas.04 Email: marisa@thehandbasket.co

I’m afraid I have terrible news to share 💔 www.statnews.com/2026/10/13/h...

"404 Media first covered Raven in January 2025. At the time, the tool was available to essentially anyone, and some people in the company’s Discord server asked for help stalking women."

“Measured levels were approximately 8.3% ethanol, 0.35% methanol, and 0.48% isopropanol" like giving your baby a strong malt liquor

Some ~personal~ news: After five years, I have been laid off from @the-independent.com. I am grateful for the time I have had there. With that in mind, I am absolutely looking for new work opportunities, especially ahead if the midterms. My email is EMGarcia2009@gmail.com. My signal is emgarcia.85