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Dana Bacon

@danabacon.bsky.social
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Advocacy/policy pro, Swedophile, geek, gamer, etc. - my views are solely my own. He/him.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It’s notable to me that TWO of the most recent women who have won a NoBel Prize were denied tenure from their institutions: Anne Carson and Katalin Karikó
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
NEW: The Trump administration keeps denying and downplaying that immigration agents have been detaining Americans. It’s wrong. We’ve found more than 500 U.S. citizens have been held against their will, including handcuffed or held at gunpoint.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Problem with Paragon: Not filing medical claims does not make a person a phantom "many insured people have no medical claims because they are relatively healthy or because they face barriers to care, such as high deductibles or transportation barriers"  www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Saying he'd be cool with Iran nuking my home city is pretty bad but not quite as bad as when Hillary said some trump supporters were deplorable so I can see why the media turned the latter into a major scandal and not the former
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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“We swim in rape culture in the United States to the point where it doesn’t even register anymore. It simply floats by with the rest of the news, barely a blip in our consciousness.”
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Everywhere in the world, they hurt little girls
Losing My Perspicacity, October 2, 2026
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Writing something where I will be liberally citing @lilymasonphd.bsky.social's latest and realizing that I can't cite every single thing I would like to because then I'm just reprinting her work. So, I've gotta thread about it instead. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Screenshot of the article website. Title is: Polarization Is Not the Problem. Author is Lilliana Mason. Journal is the Journal of Democracy, Volume 37, Number 4, October 2026. From Johns Hopkins University Press.
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 30/09/2026
Sarah Huckabee Sanders's ad depicting a white man on welfare has conservatives screaming "Make the cast more diverse!"
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026
I love this paper so much. If I had my way every single journalist, pundit, analyst, and politician in the US would read it & then read it again. I want to quote all of it. www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...
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Frontiers | The problem with polarization research in an age of extremism
"I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block i...
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Edwin Park @edwincpark.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
SHADAC at the University of Minnesota, for example, has written about how household/family size is determined a lot differently in the ACS and in public programs and it's essential to adjust for this to avoid bad estimates when comparing survey/admin data: www.shadac.org/health-insur...
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SHADAC's Health Insurance Unit (HIU): Issue Brief, Code, and Defining Families for Studies of Health Insurance Coverage
SHADAC's Health Insurance Unit (HIU) was created to aid researchers in reconciling the differences between the way that a “family” is defined in federal surveys with the way a “family” is defined by m...
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
T.P. SQUAD They’re cops. And they’re gonna wipe out crime. ABC Thursdays 9pm, this fall!
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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Gonna obliterate my personal trade deficit with Safeway by starving to death.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "
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Dana Bacon @danabacon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Professionally and personally, this is something that I hope gets done in 2027. I'm an IVF dad who was lucky to have money that others don't, and have worked with cancer survivors who need this coverage. www.startribune.com/mn-infertili...
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Burcum: The fight for fertility coverage needs a governor in its corner
"It's hard to think of a more pro-family policy than helping those confronting infertility turn their dreams of having children into reality," columnist Jill Burcum writes.
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Casey Drottar @caseydrottar.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I'm not sure how to prepare you for quite literally the goofiest looking hit-by-pitch I've ever seen
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026
i am incredibly excited to share our research about how paying people’s rent through mutual aid made an impact on minnesota this year we accidentally collected more data than anyone ever has for an effort like this, and can very seriously say we prevented an eviction bubble that everyone expected
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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In hindsight, September 11, 2001, is the day that the America I grew up in, and the one my children grew up in, diverged wildly, and everything that came after was dark and ugly in comparison.
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September 11 and everything after
I hate the false narrative about America 'coming together'
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11/09/2026
You're welcome; also this is where I remind folks that this version of me is mediated for public display/consumption. I talked about this in a piece from a couple years back (not suggesting Hannah is idolizing me here, just there's useful stuff in this piece). whatever.scalzi.com/2024/08/15/p...
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Please Don’t Idolize Me (or Anyone, Really)
In the wake of the various recent allegations involving Neil Gaiman, people have been both very sad that someone who they looked up to as an inspiration has, allegedly, turned out to be something l…
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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 05/09/2026
You know, honestly, more than monetary donations, if somebody worked at a company that had access to a lot of 18 terabyte and larger hard drives and could talk to us, that's where we are really suffering. The internet archive has no special priority in buying hard drives and those things are insane.
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Dana Bacon @danabacon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
No lie, when I was about six or seven my aunt gave me an outdated textbook on cardiac surgery. I didn't have to understand it to know the spirit behind the gift: aspire to do cool things, kid!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/08/2026
"I was not shocked that he helped somebody. My shock is that he was murdered. And no one has given us the complete truth or anyone has been held accountable. And it's been 7 months! ... there was more effort in vilifying him than pursuing justice" -- Alex Pretti's parents
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 21/08/2026
Trump's pick to lead the FDA, Heidi Overton, says the FDA, CDC, and NIH need to be "reformed" to fund more "conservative-based" research instead of peer-reviewed and evidence-backed medical science. #Trump #Overton #Science #StandUpForScience #FDA
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oh no @ili.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
en esta economía??????
nyt cooking melissa clark seis leches cake january 21, 2020
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Jørgen Heszlein @heszlein.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Oh jeez. What a great story and personal essay and it's about more than the letter but about youth and aging and creativity and—
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/08/2026
Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.
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Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned
Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.
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Shomari Stone @shomaristone.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
JUST IN : A woman’s dramatic interaction with ICE agents in Northern Virginia is going viral. It’s raising a lot of questions. An agent is seen on video pointing a gun at the woman’s face. @Fox5dc Homa Bash spoke with the woman and is live in Falls Church with the video and details.
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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Well this is terrifying. Good for him for fighting back…again.
Since then, Berulis has laid low. He filed a police report, included in the suit and viewed by WIRED, and had the car seen by a mechanic who, according to the report, found “that the driver-side front impact/airbag sensor had also been removed but noted that the remaining wires had been spliced together, completing the circuit in a manner that prevented the vehicle from detecting or logging the missing component, while also preventing the vehicle from activating its safety protocols, alerting the driver, or engaging limp mode.” The police report also indicates that fingerprints had been found on Berulis’ car. According to the police report, the case is now “inactive,” “due to the lack of any specific suspect information,” though the police’s intelligence unit was notified.
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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 08/08/2026
Arguing that LLMs are anything more than a load of numbers going into a complicated mathematical function and spitting some more numbers out. Yes they simulate. But they simulate *language*. They do not simulate the cognitive processes underlying communication.
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Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Journalists could shift American culture by stopping reporting the 3-a-day murders of American women as "arguments". An argument is two people with opposing views, each with some merit. 'I want a divorce' vs. 'I'm going to kill you' is not an argument. www.fox10phoenix.com/news/2-found...
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Argument over impending divorce leads to apparent murder-suicide in Lake Havasu City: PD
Two people were found dead on August 1 after an apparent murder-suicide inside a Lake Havasu City home, according to local police.
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 05/08/2026
Three years ago, EPA proposed cybersecurity rules for municipal water systems. Republicans sued to prevent the rules from going into effect, and that was the end of that. Now seven states' water systems are under attack by Iran.
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Suspected Iran Cyberattacks on U.S. Water Supply Follow Years of Warnings and Neglect (Gift Article)
Federal and state officials are racing to address an assault on the nation’s water supply that they believe is the work of Iranian hackers.
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Dana Bacon @danabacon.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
For a junk drawer to legally qualify as a real junk drawer, what is the ONE absolute mandatory item it must include? A paper clip that was bent out of shape for some one-time purpose and then vaguely bent back into shape.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Trump “came up with a completely false quote saying I acknowledged things I never said. “My god." — Brad Karp, then the chairman of the law firm 2/2
Among the leadership of Paul Weiss, there was enthusiasm for resolving the executive order, according to multiple people involved. Even Ms. Dunn, who had helped the Harris campaign, pushed to finalize the deal.
"Let's get this done!!!!" Ms. Dunn wrote to Mr. Karp and other senior leaders in an email reviewed by The Times.But that evening, when Mr. Trump announced the deal on Truth Social, he put his own twist on the agreement. He said that Paul Weiss had agreed to "not adopt, use, or pursue any DEI policies." At the same time, the White house put out a statement declaring that Mr. Karp had
"acknowledged the wrongdoing of former Paul, Weiss partner, Mark Pomerantz""
Mr. Karp was floored. "I cannot believe this," he wrote to partners in an email reviewed by The Times. "He changed the agreement, added a no-DEI provision, and came up with a completely false quote saying I acknowledged things I never said. My god."
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Let me tell you, having chronicled Pentagon-style war game on attacking Iran nearly 25 yr ago, every single "surprise," "darkening turn," "narrowing option," spreading warfare," "rising casualties," "no easy exit," etc that comes drip-by-drip is EXACTLY why GHWB WJC GWB OBAMA BiDEN did NOT do this
From page full of headlines about things going to hell in Iran.
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Dana Bacon @danabacon.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
@annleckie.com just finished reading The Raven Tower - what a strange, wonderful book! Thank you for creating it.
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Paul Bleicher @pbleic.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Astonishing. RFK Jr. adds 8 members to a 6 member FDA advisory panel. 6 of them were sellers of peptides, and the 7th a compounding pharmacist. In an 8-6 vote with all 8 votes coming from these new panel members, the panel approved 4 peptides against the objections of FDA scientists.
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FDA Panel Supports Lifting Restrictions on Four Peptides (Gift Article)
In an all-day hearing, the agency’s scientists argued against allowing broad access to unproven drugs that the agency had banned three years ago.
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Shane McNichol @ontheshanetrain.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
finally scientists will be able to answer the world's most vexing question: "who would lose if the jets could play themselves"
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Jake Tapper, long-suffering Philly sports fan @jaketapper.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
A CNN investigation — 18 Days In Minnesota: The false claims, chaos and coverups behind the Trump administration’s killing of two American citizens www.cnn.com/2026/07/22/p...
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18 Days in Minnesota: The false claims, chaos and coverups behind the Trump administration’s killing of two American citizens | CNN Politics
This is the story of the 18 days between the killing of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, the highly questionable ways the Trump administration handled immigration enforcement and the shootings, and the agg...
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
His father-in-law (and the grandfather of the white appearing baby he’s holding) is Dinesh D’Souza, who was born in India and first set foot in the US at the age of 17.
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The American dream belongs to Americans.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
They made so few mistakes in Minnesota that two people were murdered, the ICE head was let go, and the agency has been sued numerous times for its crimes. Other than that? Flawless.
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Dana Bacon @danabacon.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Dear world, I'm sorry we opened a Hard Rock Cafe in the middle of the World Cup final.
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Hank G @neqone.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Just to show how grotesquely out of balance everything is, consider that the median net worth in the US is just under $200K vs his $270 Billion net worth. So this is the equivalent of a normal person spending $60.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
When journalists asked me "where we will see the effects of DOGE on outcomes?" one of my responses was "during crises...as long as media connect the dots." Well, dots connected: www.wired.com/story/cdc-cy...
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The CDC Has a Cyclospora Lab. DOGE Downsized It Last Year
“Based on simple math, these outbreak responses—which require rapid, timely responses—are going to be greatly diminished,” the former CDC lab director tells WIRED.
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Darren Ewing @sadknob.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
i first met sam neill in the late 80's on the set of jeremy brett's sherlock holmes. i think it was manchester studios. he and jeremy were pals. i was moving a light wi'out gloves cause i'm a tosser. i burned my hand. yelled "FUCK!" jeremy came right over, sam (who was visiting) in tow. (1/4)
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Max Hailperin @maxhailperin.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I've now finished reading the Voter Registration report and I want to commend the OLA on how well researched and written it is. Anyone who carefully reads it, not in search of ammunition for a preconceived point but to learn, will come away better understanding Minnesota voter registration.
auditor.leg.state.mn.us
Voter Registration
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 07/07/2026
"His wife has said that he relied on an inhaler for asthma, but ICE agents rejected her attempt to give them the device when he was taken into custody."
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 02/07/2026
Investment accounts owned by President Trump engaged in more than 300 previously undisclosed stock purchases on April 8, 2025, one day before his surprise announcement that he would pause a number of his “Liberation Day” tariffs, his financial disclosure report says.
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Trump discloses 327 unreported stock trades made a day before his first tariff pause
Their disclosure, more than 14 months after they occurred, is the latest revelation to fuel calls for greater scrutiny of the president’s financial assets.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
New at Can We Still Govern: The One Big Beautiful Bill Act was signed on July 4, 2025. It is the blueprint for Trump's second term. A year on, Gabriel Scheffler explains three major lies at the heart of the law's Medicaid provisions. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/one-year-o...
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One Year On from the One Big Beautiful Bill:
Separating Fact from Trump’s Medicaid Fictions
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