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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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Dana Bacon @danabacon.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I hope Rankin-Bass is working really hard on their fire-breathing Frosty the Magma man
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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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Dana Bacon @danabacon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Don't start imbibing 🎵
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Dana Bacon @danabacon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Alfred Hitchcock? Or too famous?
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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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Dana Bacon @danabacon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The LLM of a preacher man
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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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Dana Bacon @danabacon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
@skyview.social unroll
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Dana Bacon @danabacon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Worse than the Wendy's and the White Castle. I can hear the Casio keyboard now.
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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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Dana Bacon @danabacon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Residual Gophers energy right there.
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Dana Bacon @danabacon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Maybe here's where the story ends.
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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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Dana Bacon @danabacon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
And it looks like the modeling risks become greater at higher and lower income levels (like a U graph), yes?
SHADAC data Table 1. Impacts of using alternative “family” definitions to estimate income distribution in the United States, 2021 ACS - shows variation at high and low income levels between SHADAC models of family definitions vs Census models. I think.
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Dana Bacon @danabacon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Do you have a good writeup to recommend on this point? I'd like to understand it better.
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Dana Bacon @danabacon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thanks for the fun read.
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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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Dana Bacon @danabacon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
When your high horse is your hobby horse.
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Dana Bacon @danabacon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
At the risk of thread necromancy, C&C Renegade was an odd title I loved immensely.
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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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Dana Bacon @danabacon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
But you were there for the game, not the grift. Riley has it hard.
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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 · 06/09/2026
Today I thought about, "And I need you more than want you, And I want you for all time" from Wichita Lineman. Not a rock lyric but an amazing song line at the right spot.
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Dana Bacon @danabacon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Marching in place is also acceptable!
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Dana Bacon @danabacon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I'm Dana, based in Dakota county, nonprofit lobbyist and fan of Swedish stuff. I am married with two kids and three pets of solid merit. I like in "Way It Goes" when the refrain becomes almost ethereal and you feel like you could be floating in the forest. youtu.be/n3TQKEUne5Q?...
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Hippo Campus - way it goes (Official Video)
YouTube video by HippoCampusVEVO
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Dana Bacon @danabacon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Categories and heuristics are friends!
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Dana Bacon @danabacon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
There was a pilot program in Sodertalje that came and went a few years back. Trust me, I love a good Swedish innovation story, but this one is not correct. <3
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Dana Bacon @danabacon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Underrated post.
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Dana Bacon @danabacon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
B-52s, Boy George, and Thompson Twins
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Dana Bacon @danabacon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
(This did not in fact happen but I'm playing along for satirical purposes.)
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Dana Bacon @danabacon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
My county library has it already!
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Dana Bacon @danabacon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Seat belts are terrible. My parents didn't have them and they flew through their windshields when they crashed on their way to my kindergarten graduation.
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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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Dana Bacon @danabacon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We've been watching Mindful Murder on Netflix. In German, darkly funny.
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Dana Bacon @danabacon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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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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Dana Bacon @danabacon.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Planned obsolescence catching strays 🤣
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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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