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Dayna Bateman
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incurably curious // recovering tech worker, emerging writer // 2025 ALR Essay Prize // https://campsite.bio/daynabateman // Storyknife, Tin House, Granta Memoir Alum
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I kinda love that a 45 single (VG+) of my dad's 1965 release is selling for sixty-freaking-dollars on the Discogs used vinyl marketplace 💛

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November 7, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Children are the largest recipients of SNAP benefits. Also: Seniors, the disabled and the folks who care for them. Because that's what civilized countries do: Support their citizens when they need support and ensure they can live with dignity
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Who receives SNAP? children 39% over 60 20% disabled adults under 60 9% full time caregivers 7%
November 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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“Now, do you believe in rock and roll? Can music save your mortal soul?”

Visited the crash site. Paid our respects.

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October 5, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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In response to the Trump directive to edit America's trail talkers, a coalition of librarians, historians and others organized through the University of Minnesota has launched a campaign called “Save Our Signs.” It is asking the public to take and upload photos of existing content at national parks.
Trump told park workers to report displays that disparage Americans. Here's what they flagged. Descriptions and displays at scores of parks and historic sites have been flagged for review in connection with an executive order from President Trump In addition to reshaping the way the parks present history, the executive order could result in the removal of information about the risks climate change poses in the present day at Cape Hatteras National seashore. For instance, the internal documents show that a park service employee asked the Trump administration to review a sign that explains how rising seas are threatening the habitat of wild horses: "We do not believe it to be in violation, but would like someone to review if messaging of climate change and sea level rise reduces the focus on the grandeur, beauty and abundance," the employee wrote
July 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Found a buried interview with Producer Paul Rothschild about the final days of recording PEARL with Janis Joplin and wanted to share -- enjoy »
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Paul Rothschild on Janis Joplin and Pearl and Buried in the Blues, in conversation with Bob Hamilton of Radio Report
July 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Related »» marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
June 16, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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I think the technical term is Jesus H. Christ » marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
June 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Because local farmers and hungry school children are profligate spenders? Another misguided cut in the name of government efficiency. This is what #corruption looks like.
USDA cancels $1 billion in funding for schools and food banks to buy food from local suppliers » www.cbsnews.com/news/usda-ca...
"We know that this time of year we can count on the Worcester Food Hub," Carlson said. "They may not be huge orders every week, but we know that they're coming to take something every week, so if that were to all of a sudden drop off [...] It's just not, not good."
March 15, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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The federal government is "targeting these papers because [they contain] a certain message that the government doesn't like, and in doing so, it's endangering patient safety and public health."

Doctors Sue HHS for Removing Patient Safety Papers
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Last month, MedPage Today reported on the removal of papersopens in a new tab or window by Schiff, Royce, and additional authors from the Patient Safety Network site in the wake of a Trump administration Office of Personnel Management (OPM) memorandum, "Initial Guidance Regarding President Trump's Executive Order Defending Women." Each of the removed papers had a term, such as "transgender," "gender identity," "non-gender-conforming," or "LGBTQ" that violated OPM guidance. Now, OPM, AHRQ, its parent agency HHS, and their respective leaders have been named as defendants in the complaint filed by Schiff and Royce. "I think a lot of people in medicine feel very threatened, right now, and very apprehensive about what the future holds,"
March 12, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Once upon a time, en route to somewhere else, I spotted a road sign that indicated I was a few miles from Seneca Falls. SENECA FALLS! I had never been, so I made an unplanned stop. It was there at the National Park Service Historic Site that I read the Declaration of Sentiments for the first time. 🧵
March 8, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Remedies: Walks through the maples and pancake breakfasts
March 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Also: Bastille Day.

Headline from today's @nytimes.com

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But Mr. Musk’s fortune rests on more than his individual talent. He built his business empire in a nation with a stable political system and an unwavering commitment to the rule of law, and he built it on a foundation of federal subsidies, loans and contracts. Mr. Musk’s companies have received at least $38 billion in government support, according to an analysis by The Washington Post. NASA has invested more than $15 billion in SpaceX; Tesla has collected $11 billion in subsidies to bolster the electric car industry.
March 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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“Trump is so obsessed with the problem of free riders that he forgets that it has been in America’s interest to drive the bus.” —Joseph Nye in The Financial Times // Trump and the end of American soft power - on.ft.com/4ibq4E6 via @FT
President Donald Trump does not understand soft power. His background in New York real estate gave him a truncated view of power limited to coercion and transactions. How else can one explain his bullying of Denmark over Greenland, his threats to Panama, which outrage Latin America, or his siding with Vladimir Putin over Ukraine, which weakens seven decades of the Nato alliance — not to mention his dismantlement of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) that John F Kennedy created? All undercut American soft power.
March 8, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Here's the thing about agriculture: it operates according to the seasons. You plant when the environmental conditions are Go. That means Spring. We're coming up on Spring and farmers need funding to do what they've always done in the Spring: Plant. If they don't plant, we don't eat. #ReleaseTheFunds
March 6, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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“Musk has said he uses ketamine regularly, so for the past couple of years, public speculation has persisted about how much he takes, whether he’s currently high, or how it might affect his behavior.” —Shayla Love in @theatlantic.com
Ketamine is called a dissociative drug because during a high, which lasts about an hour, people might feel detached from their body, their emotions, or the passage of time. Frequent, heavy recreational use—say, several times a week—has been linked to cognitive effects that last beyond the high, including impaired memory, delusional thinking, superstitious beliefs, and a sense of specialness and importance. You can see why people might wonder about ketamine use from a man who is trying to usher in multi-planetary human life, who has barged into global politics and is attempting to reengineer the U.S. government.
March 6, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Your word of the day: Sakoku (鎖国 / 鎖國, "chained country")
March 2, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Interesting take/ proposed strategy from @theatlanticpr.bsky.social »
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“Corruption is patrimonialism’s Achilles’ heel because the public understands it and doesn’t like it. It is not an abstraction like “democracy” or “Constitution” or “rule of law.” It conveys that the government is being run for them, not for you. The most dire threat that Putin faced was Alexei Navalny’s “ceaseless crusade” against corruption, which might have brought down the regime had Putin not arranged for Navalny’s death in prison.”
March 1, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Ran a Google search to try to find a cool artist's smock, and was treated instead to this 1970s cover model wearing a smock in a hayfield giving major bedroom eyes. Of course I clicked. And now the "surely you want to buy this" algorithm is following me everywhere I go online
A book on Smocks and Smocking with a 1970s model looking low and smoldering at the camera while standing in a (hat possible) hayfield
January 26, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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Here it is » “The mystic screen of sound with which they are invested by their radios provides privacy for their homework and immunity from parental behest.”

Radio. Marshall McLuhan was talking about transistor radios. 2/2
Paperback cover of Marshall McLuhan's 1964 UNDERSTANDING MEDIA: THE EXTENSIONS OF MAN
January 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Well here's some happy juice 🥹 full on gush over at Instagram » www.instagram.com/p/DDF0p43vQs...
DERACINATION, OR HOW TO DISAPPEAR by Dayna Bateman Winner, American Literary Review 2024 Non-fiction Competition Selected by Jaquira Díaz
December 2, 2024 at 10:07 PM
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Why measure what’s missing? Like explosive cholesterol numbers that prompt your doctor to advise the lifestyle changes that will keep you alive, there are things we can do to keep our Bortle Scale numbers in check – and our starry night skies visible.

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Bortle Class 1 sky over the Sonoran desert, where the sky is so dark the Milky Way casts a shadow on the ground. Photo by Jim Vajda
September 19, 2023 at 8:07 PM
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Humanity is slowly losing access to the night sky, and astronomers have invented a new term to describe the pain associated with this loss: "noctalgia," meaning "sky grief."

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Illustration of Bortle Classes 1-9 demonstrating how ALAN interferes with our ability to see the starry night sky
September 19, 2023 at 8:02 PM