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Christopher Ingraham🦗 Profile picture
Christopher Ingraham🦗
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Reporter, Minnesota Reformer. Ex-WaPo, Brookings, Pew. The guy who let all the crickets out. Author of If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now.
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Feb 13 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The 100 most-performed symphonies at Carnegie Hall since it opened in 1891. It's a decent approximation of what you might call the Western symphonic canon and there's so many fun things to see when you slice the data this way. Image Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven account for one-third of the 100 works included.

On the other hand, Beethoven, Brahms and Tchaikovsky account for 43% of the 8,683 total performances of these works.
Feb 8 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Pretty clear that regardless of what happens in November we are barreling toward a Dianne Feinstein situation, but in the White House. Going forward we ought to seriously consider age limits (not term limits) for federal electeds and judiciary members. Like what kind of shape do we expect either of these guys' brains to be in four years from now?
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Aug 31, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Infuriating datapoint on why American medical care is so expensive: a single New Mexico oncology practice spends $350,000 a year fighting insurance company coverage denials. propublica.org/article/how-to…
Image When we were on the Washington Post's dogshit insurance plan my wife spent *hours* every week fighting denials. Every single time it was due to fuck-ups on the insurance company's part. Absolutely infuriating.
Apr 28, 2023 • 8 tweets • 1 min read
Some personal news: got my final scans done yesterday and I officially beat stage 4 cancer! It's been exactly 8 months since I went to the local ER for obstructive jaundice, and doctors started throwing the c-word around. But it feels like an eternity
Apr 26, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Rogers is definitely a lunatic but I have to wonder about the journalistic practice of showing up at the houses of people who clearly don't want to be interviewed. If you've called them and emailed them and they haven't responded, maybe that's all you need? The impulse comes from a good place -- wanting to hold power to account and wanting to give all sides a chance to respond. But in this day and age there are so many other available channels of communication, and "stranger shows up at your house" is an extremely fraught situation
Apr 10, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
He seeks to burnish a what now Why is the news like this
Feb 20, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Three sitting members of the MN legislature have been arrested on DWI charges in the past three years. Since I know someone will ask: two Republicans, one Democrat minnesotareformer.com/briefs/house-s… My question: does any state currently have *more* sitting legislators with DWIs on their records? Or are we the champs? I don't even think Wisconsin has a single one but I'm not sure
Jan 13, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
A) Isn't weed legal in MA?
B) That's not weed, it's mashed potatoes and guacamole
C) I hope someone is FOIA'ing the hell out of everyone involved in this Given the amount of times law enforcement has falsely identified common household goods as "drugs," I'd say there's a non-zero chance this is one of those novelty weed-scented candles
Jan 12, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
CAIR-MN says it doesn't matter that a Hamline U. prof. gave students advanced notice that images of Muhammad would be shown in class: “In reality a trigger warning is an indication that you are going to do harm." mprnews.org/story/2023/01/… Every college prof reading this story:
Dec 11, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Twitter files is just long form mod/forum drama, nuclear-level hysterics over minutiae that’s hilariously inscrutable to outsiders. Every tweet in every breathless thread reads exactly like this to me
Dec 10, 2022 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Alright, you guys wanna hear a funny/gross cancer story? So one big headache throughout this whole thing has been my gallbladder. Whether due to the large stone in it or the proximity of the giant tumor in my liver, it’s had a tendency to flare up and cause a lot of pain
Nov 23, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Cancer update, and it's finally a good one: the tumor on my bile duct is not the extremely aggressive form of bile duct cancer it appeared to be, but rather a garden variety lymphoma mimicking a cholangiocarcinoma. The difference treatment-wise is night and day: they can actually treat this type of lymphoma, and completely cure it in most cases. I woke up yesterday assuming I'd be dead within a year, and went to bed with a high likelihood of being able to live a normal life after treatment.
Nov 6, 2022 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Quick cancer update: the transplant was recently ruled a no-go. Latest scans show the tumor is bigger than initially thought 1/n Other options now include chemo, immunotherapy and some more esoteric stuff. We’ll have a path forward soon. We can also finally get this stupid gallbladder out, which is great because it flared up last week in a really unpleasant way
Oct 13, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Hey everyone. I've got kind of a crappy health update to share.

I'm being treated for bile duct cancer at the Mayo Clinic here in MN. As far as cancers go it's a bad one, right up there with pancreatic cancer in terms of grim overall prognosis. (1/n) About 6 weeks ago I started feeling crappy, and then I got itchy all over and then my eyeballs started turning yellow.

Doctors initially thought it was due to a gallstone, but subsequent imaging showed a large mass in the liver squeezing my bile ducts shut.
Oct 6, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
My understanding -- and I could be wrong -- is that this would initiate a complex bureaucratic process that will take months or years to unspool. Plenty of places for DEA to gum up the works. brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/20… Image "asking DOJ and HHS to initiate the process of reviewing" is a long, long way from "legalizing" or even "de-scheduling." But that could change depending on how much pressure Biden wants to exert
Aug 20, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Minnesota police took nearly $11 million in cash and other property from people in 2021. Many were never convicted or even charged with a crime. minnesotareformer.com/briefs/minneso… Image Defenders of the practice say it’s needed to disrupt criminal organizations like drug cartels. But more than half of forfeitures involved property worth less than $1,000, suggesting they’re not going after Pablo Escobar types minnesotareformer.com/briefs/minneso… Image
Jul 1, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
New marijuana policy map just dropped thewhyaxis.substack.com/p/minnesota-le… Image Minnesota: The only state where you can take a low-dose edible, wash it down with a near-beer, and enjoy a sensible chuckle to yourself in your ice shanty
May 25, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
One of the things you hear a lot is that an assault weapons ban wouldn't do much because there are so many already in circulation. But like, the Buffalo and Uvalde murderers purchased their weapons *this year.* How would things be different if the killers weren't able to simply run out and pick up a weapon of war at the store? It's worth thinking about.
May 10, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
If I'm reading this correctly, Schumer thinks he's going to score a political win against the GOP by making them vote against an abortion bill? The same one they voted against two months ago? Wouldn't it be smarter to put up a much narrower bill -- like idk, protecting abortion for ectopic pregnancies, or in first trimester, or whatever -- to really make Republican Senators squirm?
Apr 16, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
This has actually been studied over and over again, and the conclusion always ends up the same: conservatives are more likely to get banned because they're *far* more likely to post misinformation, hate speech and garbage in violation of platforms' TOS thewhyaxis.substack.com/p/friday-chart… "platforms keep banning us for posting Nazi memes" maybe isn't the winning argument these free speech guys think it is
Apr 15, 2022 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Joe Biden: “Climate change is an existential threat”
Also Joe Biden: Absolutely begging elected Democrats to have the courage of their stated convictions. Just try it out once! See what happens!