Dana Bacon

Bluesky a band: DINOsaur Jr.

People Magazine is covering it while the Washington Post's top political story is "Trump defends White House redecorating — and Cheesecake Factory — from Obama’s mocking," and the Trump-Epstein story is nowhere to be found on its site. people.com/former-miss-...

HHS wants a new Medicare code that pays doctors extra only when they attribute a patient’s symptoms to a vaccine. Vaccine critics say doctors are paid to push vaccines. We aren’t. Under this code, we’d be paid to blame them. My new piece in @cidrap.bsky.social: www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

Fear is cheap to produce.

this is fucking appalling. i already knew james dolan (who owns the knicks and madison square garden) was a douche but this is next-level. www.nytimes.com/athletic/771...

“For years, economists dismissed corporate collusion as crankery and blamed bird flu for high prices. Then the feds found evidence that could prove the cranks right, and almost nobody noticed.” www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Happy weekend www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...

“I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!” NETWORK (1976) In a decade littered with cinematic masterpieces, Paddy Chayefsky & Sidney Lumet’s movie is right up there at the top of the list. #PeterFinch

This is such a scoop. For many reasons, including: Trump had made a couple of comments about Omar in the first term, but neither she nor Somali Americans were a Trump obsession at that time. (But Somalis _were_ a Miller obsession.) www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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

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.

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...

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

“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.”

Sarah Huckabee Sanders's ad depicting a white man on welfare has conservatives screaming "Make the cast more diverse!"

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...

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...

T.P. SQUAD They’re cops. And they’re gonna wipe out crime. ABC Thursdays 9pm, this fall!

Gonna obliterate my personal trade deficit with Safeway by starving to death.

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 ... "

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...

I'm not sure how to prepare you for quite literally the goofiest looking hit-by-pitch I've ever seen

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

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.

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...

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.

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!

"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

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

en esta economía??????

New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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.

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.

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...

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.

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

@annleckie.com just finished reading The Raven Tower - what a strange, wonderful book! Thank you for creating it.

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.

finally scientists will be able to answer the world's most vexing question: "who would lose if the jets could play themselves"

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...

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.