Sara 🏳️🌈
@saralovesyou.bsky.social
Minneapolis, nonsense, higher ed, tech, genealogy, and Minnesota in general. PhD in education. Have been called “secretly nice.” Saved a child care center, ran a tech conference. I make excellent pierogi and strudel.
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Sara 🏳️🌈
@saralovesyou.bsky.social
· Sep 3
Syndicate & Hague
Digging into Minnesota genealogy and history, and how our past still affects us today.
www.syndicateandhague.com
Hey look! I have a website now. It will have other things eventually, but for right now it has three posts about what I'm calling the St. Paul Death Register Project.
More will come--including MN-specific genealogy work.
More will come--including MN-specific genealogy work.
Taking this off poor David’s feed because I started trouble.
I really struggle with money conversations because the experience of so many white collar workers is truly not mine and it confuses me. I budget ruthlessly, so we have a working budget no matter our income.
I really struggle with money conversations because the experience of so many white collar workers is truly not mine and it confuses me. I budget ruthlessly, so we have a working budget no matter our income.
December 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Taking this off poor David’s feed because I started trouble.
I really struggle with money conversations because the experience of so many white collar workers is truly not mine and it confuses me. I budget ruthlessly, so we have a working budget no matter our income.
I really struggle with money conversations because the experience of so many white collar workers is truly not mine and it confuses me. I budget ruthlessly, so we have a working budget no matter our income.
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EXCLUSIVE: We found that Instacart is using AI algorithms to charge customers different prices for the same items.
It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too.
Our months-long investigation with @consumerreports.org and @groundwork.bsky.social found it could cost families $1200/year.
It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too.
Our months-long investigation with @consumerreports.org and @groundwork.bsky.social found it could cost families $1200/year.
We Had 400 People Shop For Groceries. What We Found Will Shock You.
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
EXCLUSIVE: We found that Instacart is using AI algorithms to charge customers different prices for the same items.
It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too.
Our months-long investigation with @consumerreports.org and @groundwork.bsky.social found it could cost families $1200/year.
It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too.
Our months-long investigation with @consumerreports.org and @groundwork.bsky.social found it could cost families $1200/year.
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“AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records…”
AI Slop Is Spurring Record Requests for Imaginary Journals
The International Committee of the Red Cross warned that artificial intelligence models are making up research papers, journals and archives
www.scientificamerican.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:30 PM
“AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records…”
When I got shingles, I couldn’t sit because of the pain in my spine. It was horrible and I will be getting the vaccine the day I turn 50 because I want to do everything I can to never experience that again!
All over my FB people talking about their bad experiences with shingles vax and dissuading each other from getting it! We need to give people real info on how to mitigate the symtoms caused by vaccines because vaccines are always better than meeting a virus unprepared. Yet drs aren't coaching ppl
December 9, 2025 at 1:40 AM
When I got shingles, I couldn’t sit because of the pain in my spine. It was horrible and I will be getting the vaccine the day I turn 50 because I want to do everything I can to never experience that again!
Children used to *die,* you utter ghouls.
December 9, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Children used to *die,* you utter ghouls.
The last five to six weeks have been intense parenting ones that have pulled me away from a lot of stuff. However, once a week or so I remember the job offer where they tried to convince me that it would be great timing because kids don’t need you much once they’re 12.
Ah, academia.
Ah, academia.
December 9, 2025 at 1:07 AM
The last five to six weeks have been intense parenting ones that have pulled me away from a lot of stuff. However, once a week or so I remember the job offer where they tried to convince me that it would be great timing because kids don’t need you much once they’re 12.
Ah, academia.
Ah, academia.
I will not read this book. However, I am captivated by its godawful, self-indulgent, writing. There are brilliant writers I went to school with—and I’m talking about the ones who had book deals—who never got 1/1000th of the attention she is getting. They had/have actual talent.
Only 17 pages in and I am winded.
This passage, folks… Don’t ever write like this. Just don’t do it.
This passage, folks… Don’t ever write like this. Just don’t do it.
December 9, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I will not read this book. However, I am captivated by its godawful, self-indulgent, writing. There are brilliant writers I went to school with—and I’m talking about the ones who had book deals—who never got 1/1000th of the attention she is getting. They had/have actual talent.
Because I am a person who falls down rabbit holes, the upcoming death project piece had me chasing down loose threads, including a convent that was once one of the shameful boarding schools in Avoca, MN. In that rabbit hole, I found this book.
Catholic Colonization in MN - Colony of Avoca
Catholic Colonization in MN - Colony of Avoca
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December 8, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Because I am a person who falls down rabbit holes, the upcoming death project piece had me chasing down loose threads, including a convent that was once one of the shameful boarding schools in Avoca, MN. In that rabbit hole, I found this book.
Catholic Colonization in MN - Colony of Avoca
Catholic Colonization in MN - Colony of Avoca
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ICE heavy in Shakopee this am.
They clearly don’t like the pressure of our observer network tracking them . Went so far as to box me (and others) in with their vehicles and take pics while we sat in a parking lot.
ICE intimidation won’t work. DM me to join our observer network.
They clearly don’t like the pressure of our observer network tracking them . Went so far as to box me (and others) in with their vehicles and take pics while we sat in a parking lot.
ICE intimidation won’t work. DM me to join our observer network.
December 7, 2025 at 8:06 PM
ICE heavy in Shakopee this am.
They clearly don’t like the pressure of our observer network tracking them . Went so far as to box me (and others) in with their vehicles and take pics while we sat in a parking lot.
ICE intimidation won’t work. DM me to join our observer network.
They clearly don’t like the pressure of our observer network tracking them . Went so far as to box me (and others) in with their vehicles and take pics while we sat in a parking lot.
ICE intimidation won’t work. DM me to join our observer network.
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It’s a story of forbidden love you won’t see anywhere else - a turkey and a Public Works truck.
December 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM
It’s a story of forbidden love you won’t see anywhere else - a turkey and a Public Works truck.
My child has been binge-watching old Buffy episodes, which occasionally has me groan out loud and yell something about heteronormativity, but has also offered good tween life advice: if someone physically grabs you so you can’t leave, they are not a person to date. It’s not passion.
December 7, 2025 at 3:40 AM
My child has been binge-watching old Buffy episodes, which occasionally has me groan out loud and yell something about heteronormativity, but has also offered good tween life advice: if someone physically grabs you so you can’t leave, they are not a person to date. It’s not passion.
I mentioned to a friend last night that without birthright citizenship my grandmother wouldn’t have been a citizen. Nor her brother, who died in a war as an American soldier. I don’t think my uncle would be either.
December 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I mentioned to a friend last night that without birthright citizenship my grandmother wouldn’t have been a citizen. Nor her brother, who died in a war as an American soldier. I don’t think my uncle would be either.
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“School officials have created a Microsoft Copilot prompt to review course descriptions with an eye toward avoiding ‘advocacy-oriented or prescriptive terms.’”
Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”
Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”
To Root Out Wokeness in the Course Catalog, This Texas University Is Turning to AI
“The AI was upset with my use of the phrase ‘women's rights movement.’”
www.texasmonthly.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
“School officials have created a Microsoft Copilot prompt to review course descriptions with an eye toward avoiding ‘advocacy-oriented or prescriptive terms.’”
Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”
Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”
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my dad has started carrying his tribal ID to work because ICE is around all the time and he thinks he’s going to get deported
then they were in the parking lot at his work this morning. two trucks of agents at 17th and Lake in mpls.
then they were in the parking lot at his work this morning. two trucks of agents at 17th and Lake in mpls.
December 6, 2025 at 2:20 PM
my dad has started carrying his tribal ID to work because ICE is around all the time and he thinks he’s going to get deported
then they were in the parking lot at his work this morning. two trucks of agents at 17th and Lake in mpls.
then they were in the parking lot at his work this morning. two trucks of agents at 17th and Lake in mpls.
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“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 5, 2025 at 10:56 PM
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
This was so well done, really good reporting!
At MPR now: Across the Twin Cities, ICE agents and activists are playing a high stakes cat-and-mouse game. The goal is to make ICE agents' jobs as difficult as possible, and protect their immigrant neighbors.
share.google/4LfU58LW6iUR...
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‘Tinted windows and out-of-state plates’: How ICE watchers look for agents in their neighborhoods
Across the Twin Cities, ICE agents and activists are playing a high stakes cat-and-mouse game. The goal is to make their job as difficult as possible, and protect their immigrant neighbors.
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December 5, 2025 at 11:53 PM
This was so well done, really good reporting!
Popped over to Moon Palace to pick up some Christmas presents and a couple of whistles. We have a good city here.
December 5, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Popped over to Moon Palace to pick up some Christmas presents and a couple of whistles. We have a good city here.
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I give @deenawinter.bsky.social & the Strib credit for bringing the wood to the MPD budget fiasco. Total Frey administration failure to a) manage & b) inform policymakers before the crisis. Election year shittery. www.startribune.com/minneapolis-...
Minneapolis police blows budget by $19.6 million; council leaders call it ‘mismanagement’
Police Chief Brian O’Hara says it’s costly to replenish the ranks, since new hires need training while existing officers still rack up OT.
www.startribune.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I give @deenawinter.bsky.social & the Strib credit for bringing the wood to the MPD budget fiasco. Total Frey administration failure to a) manage & b) inform policymakers before the crisis. Election year shittery. www.startribune.com/minneapolis-...
My gauge of local Covid/flu activity is: are a few nurses wearing masks at the clinic, or is everyone wearing them (including check in).
Everyone is wearing them today. Use that info as you wish.
Everyone is wearing them today. Use that info as you wish.
December 5, 2025 at 6:08 PM
My gauge of local Covid/flu activity is: are a few nurses wearing masks at the clinic, or is everyone wearing them (including check in).
Everyone is wearing them today. Use that info as you wish.
Everyone is wearing them today. Use that info as you wish.
Bill Cassidy is a fool, a mark, a craven man unworthy of his position. I am angriest at him because he knows better, and yet was too weak to stand up to the con man and the zealot. RFK Jr’s zealotry was well known. You can’t control or reason with a zealot. What a fool.
December 5, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Bill Cassidy is a fool, a mark, a craven man unworthy of his position. I am angriest at him because he knows better, and yet was too weak to stand up to the con man and the zealot. RFK Jr’s zealotry was well known. You can’t control or reason with a zealot. What a fool.
Ugh, I’m so mad. I think I’m going to put out a shorter piece about the mumps before the one I had to spend over 40 hours researching.
December 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Ugh, I’m so mad. I think I’m going to put out a shorter piece about the mumps before the one I had to spend over 40 hours researching.
This is exactly correct. These people are eugenicists and believe they would be too perfect and healthy to succumb to these diseases. They are wrong.
ah but you see sam, if the kids get liver cancer that just means they were meant to get it and Nature is doing its job
This regressive move will literally kill people. It's making kids' liver cancer great again. And it's a sign of more harm to come.
CDC panel recommends delaying birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/c... via @statnews.com
CDC panel recommends delaying birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/c... via @statnews.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:51 PM
This is exactly correct. These people are eugenicists and believe they would be too perfect and healthy to succumb to these diseases. They are wrong.
“Controversial” is weak language.
It will kill children. We know this because it prevented deaths in children.
Do we need to see children dying before our own eyes to care? Or does it have to be our own babies? What on earth is wrong with this country.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
It will kill children. We know this because it prevented deaths in children.
Do we need to see children dying before our own eyes to care? Or does it have to be our own babies? What on earth is wrong with this country.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
December 5, 2025 at 4:42 PM
“Controversial” is weak language.
It will kill children. We know this because it prevented deaths in children.
Do we need to see children dying before our own eyes to care? Or does it have to be our own babies? What on earth is wrong with this country.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
It will kill children. We know this because it prevented deaths in children.
Do we need to see children dying before our own eyes to care? Or does it have to be our own babies? What on earth is wrong with this country.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
In the most comedy of errors thing this week, I finally had a couple hours to sit and write—only to find that the entire 2k words I’d written a few weeks ago and needed to edit was gone.
My operating theory is that my cat stepped on my keyboard before I saved and closed and I didn’t notice.
My operating theory is that my cat stepped on my keyboard before I saved and closed and I didn’t notice.
December 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
In the most comedy of errors thing this week, I finally had a couple hours to sit and write—only to find that the entire 2k words I’d written a few weeks ago and needed to edit was gone.
My operating theory is that my cat stepped on my keyboard before I saved and closed and I didn’t notice.
My operating theory is that my cat stepped on my keyboard before I saved and closed and I didn’t notice.