Chris Ingraham

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Investigative reporter, Institute for Justice. Formerly: Minnesota Reformer, Washington Post, Brookings, Pew. Orange cat evangelist. Ask me about my swamp.

The classroom marks a new venture for Realbotix, a Toronto-based robotics company formerly known as Tokens.com, that helped customers use cryptocurrency to rent “digital land” in the Metaverse. In April 2024, the company acquired Simulcra, the Las Vegas parent company behind RealDoll, which has spent decades creating hyperrealistic sex dolls and later expanded into sex robots that remain on the market today. In a statement to New York Focus, a spokesperson explained that over the past two years, Realbotix has built a new team focused on education, health care, and wellness applications, and that Realbotix and RealDoll do not share employees, payroll, physical locations, or technology. She said Realbotix “is pursuing a transaction with a Nasdaq-listed company that is intended to separate the businesses at the ownership level” with completion expected by September.
SEO chum ad: Cooperstown: New Option For Blurry Eyes [bizarre photo of dark-haired woman placing a spoon over one of her eyes]
Michael Bluth I don't know what I expected
Say the line Bart meme except it's this CBS NEws headline: Another Georgia officer arrested over alleged Flock camera misuse as internal audits continue uncovering cases
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FB post from AI slop vendor "Are We Good": She's been telling you. You've been missing it. arewegood plugs into iMessage on your Mac and shows you what she actually needs — from the texts she already sent. AI slop photo of a befuddled guy looking out the window at a stack of printed out text messages?
Headline from NewYorkUpstate.com: "Upstate NY school district will deploy a humanoid robot teacher this fall." Includes photo of an uncanny valley-ass fembot talking to students
After the amendment passed on a unanimous voice vote, here’s state Sen. Jim Abeler, R-Anoka: “That doesn’t legalize marijuana — we didn’t just do that.” He chuckled. His DFL co-chair, Rep. Tina Liebling of Rochester replied, “Oh, are you kidding? Of course you have. No, just kidding. We’ll do that next, OK?” Well, actually, they did it.
Deranged Twitter ad David Ball Today, we’re introducing whole-genome sequencing for teams. Companies can now offer WGS as a benefit through @genomecomputer Each person’s data stays private and is never shared with their employer. We deliver annotated .genome files ready for AI-assisted self-exploration.
Orange chud cat outside
DEC issues swimming advisory after aggressive beaver attacks 2 swimmers on Upstate NY island
Naomi Wolf No! No!! tweet
Insta post by the saturday salon with a really goofy "cease and desist notice" purportedly from Palantir
Rahul Sidhu on Twitter, sharing copy of same letter: "People ask me about the mass Flock disinformation campaign. This is a really good example. Flock never sent this letter, these people made it up (with a forged signature) to try to manipulate people. We are pro-democracy. People SHOULD have discussions and lectures like this."
Rufo in 2023: "Leave the cheap identity politics rhetoric to the Left"
Guy pointing one gun at his own head and a separate gun at someone else
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In 1968, Donald Trump graduated from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and began his professional career working for his father's real estate and construction firm, Trump Management (also historically known as Elizabeth Trump & Son).
Table showing OCCUPANT OUTCOMES with 3 out of 9 filed under "Release Bad Data"
“Every one of those stops is a high-risk encounter where a wrong move, a misunderstanding, or a moment of fear can turn deadly,” said Michael Soyfer, an IJ attorney who is representing residents of San Jose and Norfolk in lawsuits challenging their cities’ ALPR surveillance networks. “No one should have to prove their innocence on the side of the road because a camera couldn’t tell a zero from an O.”
Shor on Twitter: I really was against court packing until today - but we really have to constrain executive authority after Trump and now court packing is the only way to do it - I don’t really understand what the conservative legal theorists expect everyone else to do here
2008 CNN headline: “The columns… it’s all a bit much, say conservatives”
Red Lake County sheriff’s report of somebody leaving a bike in somebody else’s yard
lonely horse
A decade ago, Emmer created a Congressional Somalia Caucus with then-U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison. When people in St. Cloud called for a moratorium on Somali immigrants, he pushed back, calling the proposed ban “un-American.” “If you’re asking me how I feel about immigrant populations who are in this country legally, and who are actually trying to find a better way for themselves and their families, I support it wholeheartedly,” he said at a town hall in 2015. Minnesota has the largest population of Somali-Americans in the U.S.
A decade ago, Emmer created a Congressional Somalia Caucus with then-U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison. When people in St. Cloud called for a moratorium on Somali immigrants, he pushed back, calling the proposed ban “un-American.” “If you’re asking me how I feel about immigrant populations who are in this country legally, and who are actually trying to find a better way for themselves and their families, I support it wholeheartedly,” he said at a town hall in 2015. Minnesota has the largest population of Somali-Americans in the U.S.
The video shows two officers in plain clothes and vests reading “sheriff” holding Johnson on the ground. Johnson shouts out, “Bro, what the f*** are you doing?… what are you doing? My hands in the air.” One of the officers, who appears to have dropped his badge in the scuffle, picks up a Taser off the pavement and presses it into Johnson’s back. Johnson shrieks, and another bystander is heard yelling, “He’s not fighting.” “You’re arrested,” one of the officers says. “For what?” Johnson asks. “I don’t know, for fighting with a cop.”
WBNG Facebook post: A Binghamton man was arrested on numerous felony charges relating to an alleged online threat he made in WBNG’s comment section. Photo of a scraggly wild-eyed lookin guy
“He is stalking my whereabouts through my license plate. I fear for my safety. I fear for my kids safety as they drive my car sometimes when they are home from college. I have never been to McHenry County and he has no reason at all to run my plate at all let alone that many times for personal use and that has me really worried. Those LPRs are near my house as well so he knows everything about me and Im fearful for my safety,” the petitioner said.
Purposes of the Conspiracy7. The purposes of the conspiracy include the following: a. Preventing the enforcement of federal immigration law by force, intimidation, and threats; b. Opposing the authority of the United States government; c. Preventing, hindering, or delaying by force the execution of the laws governing the identification, detention, and removal of non-citizens, to include the Immigration and Nationality Act; and d. Preventing, impeding and interfering federal law enforcement from discharging their duties, including enforcement of federal immigration law by force, intimidation and threats.
Scanning electron micrograph of some weird shaggy looking single celled organism
Cancer Nation, an advocacy group, did a national survey of patients who were finished with their treatment. It found that about a third of them reported anxiety about their cancer coming back, and problems with "not feeling like their old self."
NYT hed: To Get the Strait Open, Trump Had to Leave the Hardest Issues for Later
viral photo of mysterious red mummy juice and bones
OP commenting "he is pro se" followed by a cascade of "comment removed by moderator" replies
Democrats Must Learn to Talk Sports Politicians need as much attention as possible, as frequently as possible, while seeming as relatable as possible. A cheat code exists to hit all three objectives. By Nathaniel Frum
Illinois code snippet: (505 ILCS 87/10)     Sec. 10. Vegetable garden defined. As used in this Act, the term "vegetable garden" means any plot of ground or elevated soil bed on residential property where vegetables, herbs, fruits, flowers, pollinator plants, leafy greens, or other edible plants are cultivated. (Source: P.A. 102-180, eff. 1-1-22.)     (505 ILCS 87/15)     Sec. 15. Right to cultivate vegetable gardens. Notwithstanding any other law, any person may cultivate vegetable gardens on their own property, or on the private property of another with the permission of the owner, in any county, municipality, or other political subdivision of this state. (Source: P.A. 102-180, eff. 1-1-22.)
More Tillys came in. Some were too pixelated. Some too airbrushed. Most were too porny. Whether A.I. is really not trained on copyrighted material is a matter of some debate, but it appears to be trained on the most plentiful material online, which is the home videos you’ve uploaded to YouTube and porn, which could account for the amount of Tillys that appeared on a bed, half-dressed, or dressed but aggressively nippled.
This investigation revealed deeper surveillance of REDACTED and REDACTED by Tyler Bryan that neither of the victims were aware of. I located Winnebago County Sheriff's Office records specific to Tyler Bryan's police record searches and license plate recognition (LPR) data. This data and search functions are only available to Law Enforcement and more specifically to Winnebago County Sheriff's deputies, which Tyler Bryan was employed as at this time in 2025. The search records showed that Bryan was monitoring REDACTED movements by searching her license plate movement data at least 20 times between July and October of 2025. Thirteen (13) of those plate searches were in October of 2025, including the day Bryan attempted to get REDACTED to go outside with him on 10/22/2025. The data also showed that Bryan searched for REDACTED home/business address in country police records, and REDACTED license plate (LPR search) in the same time frame of months leading up to October of 2025.
dumbass drawing of george washington riding a dinosaur
Amy Klobuchar at the MN state fair in 22 or 23, surrounded by four large beefcake firefighters
Oklahoma City remains one of the NBA’s smallest markets. We lack the glamour of Los Angeles, the nightlife and beaches of Miami, Florida, or the finance and media power of New York City. Yet we built something remarkable anyway. Rather than buying relevance, we created it. Rather than following others, we reimagined our own path to success by relying on the resources and skills we had with discipline and our own brand of resilience.
I’ve been navigating New York airspace for a long time. I’ve seen noise abatement battles, slot pressures, FBO politics, ramp shortages, and ground stop cascades out of Newark Liberty International. The regulatory environment around New York has never been simple. But what’s unfolding right now is different — and every aircraft owner, operator, and frequent private traveler flying into the New York metro needs to understand what’s coming before it arrives. This isn’t about airspace. It’s about politics. And the pattern is unmistakable. The Pattern Is Already Established New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani ran on a platform of taxing the wealthy, and he has moved aggressively to make good on that promise. The pied-à-terre tax — a surcharge on high-value New York City real estate owned by non-residents — has passed. It’s modeled on policies already implemented in London and Vancouver. More recently, Mamdani proposed reducing New York’s inheritance tax threshold from $7.5 million to $750,000 — a figure so low it would capture virtually any New York homeowner. Own a $1 million condo and your spouse dies? Under this proposal, heirs might need to sell the property simply to cover the tax bill.
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The bill alters the disposition of property and proceeds ordered forfeited in a nuisance abatement or forfeiture action. Currently, forfeited property and proceeds are applied first toward restitution and cost recovery for a list of stakeholders, and 50% of the remainder is granted to the local governmental body with authority over the seizing agency, 25% of the remainder is granted to the local behavioral health administrative services organization, and 25% of the remainder is granted to the law enforcement community services grant program fund. The bill amends the disposition of the remainder so that 50% is granted to the local governmental body with authority over the seizing agency, 25% is granted to the fund, and 25% is granted to the local behavioral health administrative services organization.
NYT headline: Is Trump tuned out to Americans' financial worries? A remark suggests Yes.
Lott said she took a digital political ad for Gleason, altered the bullet points and then shared it with three people. Gleason contends the meme contains materially false information. (KSAT)
PRRI report April 2026: “Despite anecdotal claims of a religious revival, our data show that Americans’ religious affiliation held steady in 2025 while worship weekly attendance did not increase,” said Melissa Deckman, CEO of PRRI. “Looking at young adults, there is a shift happening – but it’s not Gen Z men becoming more religious, as some suggest. Instead, young women’s declining religiosity has brought them on par with their male counterparts for the first time.” Young women (18-29) have shed religious labels steadily since 2013, when 29% identified as religiously unaffiliated. By 2024, that figure grew to 40%, and in 2025, it increased to 43%. While there has been a slight pause in the overall rate of religious disaffiliation, religious affiliation did not grow in 2025. The percent of Americans who identify as members of white Christian traditions saw little change between 2024 and 2025.
The siblings said in court filings that the speakeasy is “intentionally discreet,” with access through a back-alley door tucked between a wall and a wood fence adorned with a small decorative barber pole. There’s no front-facing signage but social media advertises “carefully curated cocktails.” Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers and the state barber board, in opposing the injunction, argued that: “Speakeasys operate on the principle of deception. They are, by design, a public house that appears at first glance to be something else. This is often unlawful.”
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On the morning of 05/04/26, a Red Lake County business owner reported someone was impersonating their business by using a website with their business’ name to advertise the sale of high-performance farm equipment. The incident has been referred to the FBI’s Internet Crimes Task Force, and it has also been reported to the fake website’s host. The owner of Vatthauer Farm Supply would like the public to be aware that they do not have a website, and they only conduct business in person or over the phone.
On the morning of 05/02/26, a Red Lake County deputy, the Red Lake Falls Ambulance and the Red Lake Falls Fire Department responded to a Terrebonne Township residence because a man had accidentally nailed his finger to a roof while shingling. It took rescue crews approximately 30 minutes to free the man and get him off of the roof. He was transported to Riverview ER in Crookston by the Red Lake Falls ambulance and is expected to fully recover.
OP: Seems to have cooled down and smoke has dissipated Three different commenters: CALL THE FIRE DEPARTMENT
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Tweet from Bill Melugin: BREAKING: @FoxNews is on scene in Portsmouth, VA where the FBI is raiding the office of Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore L Louise Lucas, a Democrat and close ally of VA Governor Spanberger. Fed law enforcement sources tell FOX this is in connection to a major corruption probe argle bargle