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Sara @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This choice will take jobs from existing cab/rideshare drivers and I am very concerned about winter driving and ice as a public danger. I cannot believe the mayor is framing this as “open for business.” People will be hurt—whether through a skidding car or by losing wages.

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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social

wired.com

ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

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Sara @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is an incredible piece—and if you don’t know much about ABA, autism, or the intersection with private equity you will learn a ton. If you do know about those things, you will learn a ton as well. I didn’t know the conversation therapy overlap with ABA, but it clicked when I read it.

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 01/10/2026

Please reskeet

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Sara @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've been trying to avoid the details of the Cornell story, which is getting more difficult. I am scared, I think, to be faced with whether things are the *same* as when I was young...or if they've actually gotten *worse* despite all the efforts over the decades. News has been too much lately.

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Sara @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There is some kind of bug going around that is a weird cold. Not covid, not strep, but I had a sore throat and exhaustion for over a week and then my child caught it and has been the same. If you get a mysterious sore throat...be prepared to have it drag out. There aren't many other symptoms.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Cutting this much from the university budget will mean that some of the core functions of the university will be lost. It’s not possible to just do more with less — to work smarter, to trim around the edges. We’re going to have to do less with less.” Gift link: www.startribune.com/umn-cuts-sta...

startribune.com

Perry: What we lose if the U cuts $225 million

"Austerity doesn’t work. Instead, it creates a death spiral, where reduction in services leads to reductions in revenue, which lead to reductions in services, which leads to reduction in revenue, whic...

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Sara @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Patrick is very conservative (Bush appointee, clerked for Scalia, also see any of his writings). It has been fascinating to watch how this all has played out, and I wonder how many times he voted for Trump (I suspect not at all post-Jan 6, but who knows).

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EHB on BET @ehbforbet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Many people who were critical of MPD cost overruns were denounced as alarmist or anti-police. Now MPD has admitted to the abuse of overtime hours. I am grateful current leadership is cracking down but deeply frustrated by this betrayal of the public trust and the time it took to get answers.

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Sara @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I just used the Bureau of Land Management new GLO site and it is barely functional for how people use it (also frequently doesn't even load results). The old 1990s style interface actually worked, this is a mess.

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Sara @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’m a cultural elite because I’m old and I have musical genre preferences and was in high school in the 1990s. This week’s autocreated playlist includes the Jayhawks, Aimee Mann, and Indigo Girls. I’m clearly a monster and snob.

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Andy Lettuce @andy.hopepunk.club · 26/09/2026

MN voters: amending the state constitution requires a majority of voters to vote yes - abstaining from the school funding question on your ballot this year is effectively a no-vote. Please take a sec to get informed before you submit your ballot! www.lwvmn.org/2026-constit...

A portion of the MN official ballot that reads

Constitutional Amendments
Failure to vote on a constitutional amendment will have the same effect as voting no on the amendment.
To vote for a proposed constitutional amendment, fill in the box next to the word "Yes" on that question. To vote against a proposed constitutional amendment, fill in the box next to the word "No" on that question.
Increasing funding to school districts
Shall the Minnesota Constitution be amended to increase the funding going to all school districts from the permanent school fund, which is a fund that supports school districts without raising individual income or property taxes, effective July 1, 2027?

(This is a photo of my ballot where I have selected yes)

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Sara @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m slightly sorry for the absolute tear I’m on about the school thing. But so many families that suffer just can’t deal with one more thing and silence about their suffering is self-preservation and protection for their kid. I’m trying to ride a line without revealing too much (protection).

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Sara @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Director Emerick wrote a Facebook post that I encourage you to read. This really is the experience of disabled kids at MPS right now—and the experience of their invisibility to far too many. It does usually seem to be that no one who hasn’t experienced this cares.

Joyner Emerick

People do realize that students with disabilities, including chronic trauma that manifests as observable/ externalized behavior, change "placements" all the time, right?

From public to specialized charter, from federal setting Ill to IV and back, from district to district, on administrative transfer, on IEP team decision, in and out of residential treatment facilities, in and out of carceral facilities, because of push-out, because of bullying, because of neglect/abuse at school, because of LEA legal non-compliance, because of physical space/facilities access, because of programmatic or staff availability.

Students with disabilities absorb frequent changes to where they go to school because of the failures of our systems of education to serve them, teach them, keep them safe. In many cases, these placement changes actually represent a district breaking federal law, but families don't have the resources to fight back.

In almost four years on the school board I've gotten ZERO constituent emails expressing concern about how the leadership decisions that create that reality impact the friendships of students with disabilities, their sense of place and well-being, their educational trajectory, or their family capacity.

Try it with abled kids, though, and it's a very different story.
There is NOTHING inherent to children with disabilities that makes them better able to handle these changes, which are nearly never based on the preference or convenience of the family, but instead based on acute daily safety considerations or forced on families by administrative process.
Why will we fight to protect "stability of placement" for abled kids but say nothing about the continuous placement destabilization for kids with disabilities?

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Sara @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The article mentions the hobby horse I’m on. Getting an autistic child into a school in which they are comfortable should be *top priority*. Autistic children miss far more school than non-autistic kids due to many factors. It’s unacceptable—but typical—that the district didn’t act on this.

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Teresa Heffernan @tjheffernan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Around the globe people are protesting this invasive surveillance tech just as they fought the Staatssicherheit in the former East Berlin, fought for freedom Tiananmen Square in 1989, etc. Passing it of as "cute" is just desperate.

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Sara @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My parenting win of the century—I’ve been lecturing my child about algorithms and the alt-right pipeline (and its variants) for most of their young life. One of their friends has gotten sucked into videos of women making “healthy meals” for their kids. I said — that sounds a bit trad wife pipliney.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 25/09/2026

New MPS video responding to feedback from last week‘s school-closure presentation. MPS clearly states it won’t save money but will make offerings/support more resilient year after year, especially in face of $250m state special ed cut (thanks Demuth)! Notes school board set timeline & can change it.

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Sara @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My child has math panic attacks (worse since our experience last year) so I offered monopoly in place of online math today and spent two hours on the floor and my back has communicated that I am too old to sit on the floor for anywhere near that long.

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Sara @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Just like in the economic crisis of 2008, the budget cycle of institutions like the U had the bad hit come in like 2010. I don’t know how many research dollars have been lost (and no one knows how long the federal government will be unstable), but I imagine all that is hitting worse now.

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 24/09/2026

Frey talking past the critics here. Question is about MPD financial mismanagement. He insists the overspending is a function of necessary overtime. But MPD overspent it's budget in nearly every category. youtu.be/d9HIZe3g4bQ?...

youtu.be

Full interview with Mayor Jacob Frey on Minneapolis Police Department spending

Watch 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS' full interview with Mayor Jacob Frey on the oversight of Minneapolis Police Department spending.

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Bill Childs @billchilds.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Anyway. There's a lot more, including some fairly detailed allegations of retaliation and threats which are harder to concisely screen-shot. Go and read it. Her shouldn't be mayor; I believe this even with enormous skepticism of police testimony as a rule.

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Sara @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

St. Paul, I think you’ve stumbled into a scandal-ridden era that is more reminiscent of the city’s past than its last 60ish years. It won’t beat the turn of the 20th century, but man…

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Sara @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There are so many WTF? things in this (the tweet following this sent my eyebrows up to the ceiling). This behavior is atrocious.

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Sara @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I scheduled my kid’s Covid shot and am incredibly irritated with how much the CDC under RFK jr has messed up our ability to know what recommendations exist. CDC says: consult with your child’s health care provider (oh yeah, definitely let’s have everyone do that en masse).

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Mark Snyder @snyde043.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🛎️ 🛎️ 🛎️

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Soren Stevenson @sorenwithward8.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

On Friday, three members of the Board of Estimate and Taxation (BET) released a letter expressing concern about a pattern of unsustainable and unaccountable spending within the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD).

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Sara @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is the best thread I’ve encountered as a reaction to the NHJ article. People absolutely do overestimate their parenting acumen (I know I did) and I’d add on behalf of parents of kids with any kind of disability that people underestimate how much disdain exists in schools for those kids.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 22/09/2026

The impacts were so much broader and deeper than reported in the media. Also with community responses of mutual aid and community defense. So many stories being shared. Nobody could do everything but everyone did something. We each know our little part but not what people did in the next town.

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Aleesa @akuzee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In 2003, a MN mom diagnosed with postpartum psychosis went to prison for the murder and attempted murder of her twin baby boys. Decades later, she reflects on renewed attention to postpartum mental health and why she thinks she didn’t recieve the same sympathy. share.mprnews.org/jDXF/xasjgsh9

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For Naomi Gaines-Young, Lindsay Clancy case is the latest that 'could have been prevented'

The attention on Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial resembles a “watershed moment” that occurred in Minnesota more than 20 years ago. In 2003, two Minnesota mothers killed their children in separate incide...

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There is something so unbelievably bleak about an article that calmly walks readers through how to navigate being laid off after 50, losing your health insurance, and somehow surviving the years until Medicare. What a broken country.

nytimes.com

Laid Off After 50, and No Health Insurance? Here’s What to Consider. (Gift Article)

At best, older workers will struggle to find health insurance that bridges the years before they qualify for Medicare at age 65.

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Elena @misseleneous.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

At this conference! Follow this live thread from Aaron. I’ll add some limited highlights/reflections on my end throughout the day.

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Sara @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I found out last night that when the kids in kindergarten drew their “what I want to do when I grow up,” my child did the following: “I am five, I don’t know.” “I want to win the lottery.” (This was not allowed). “I don’t want to be anything listed on the board.” (There were ten jobs listed).

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If executive branch creates a system so that people under government control can be located and then just stops listing some people in that system — despite their still being under government control — that should be a five-alarm fire for the other branches, the states, and the public.

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Having just spent several hours studying how railway signal towers operated around 1920, I understand why these people use AI, but the hill I'll die on is that the work of scholarship *is* the time spent doing the research, which helps me understand the past in ways I couldn't otherwise comprehend

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Sara @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’m not seeing this talked about a ton, but in regards to MN public schools there is a constitutional amendment to get people to vote yes on that will increase distribution from a very large pot of money. (It would go from 2.5% of dividends/interest to 4.5% of full market value).

CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENT 1
Increasing funding to school districts
Shall the Minnesota Constitution be amended to increase the funding going to all school districts from the permanent school fund, which is a fund that supports school districts without raising individual income or property taxes, effective July 1, 2027?

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Erica @ericamauter.com · 21/09/2026

This crossover episode of Code Switch and Our Ancestors Were Messy was so good! This was my first time experiencing the Our Ancestors Were Messy Concept which sounds like a super cool thing to attend live and host @nicholehill.bsky.social was super fun. pca.st/episode/913c...

pca.st

Our Ancestors Were Messy: a Black history comedy show

In 1775, half a million enslaved people had to pick a side in a war between two groups of white men who both claimed to want freedom. In this live episode of Our Ancestors Were Messy, friend of the…

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Josh Martin @joshmartinmpls.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Since it’s no longer just “the lefties” taking issue with Frey’s approach to governance, but the *entire* City Council… maybe, just maybe, Frey is the one with the problem? www.startribune.com/mpd-budget-o...

For a change, everybody in the Minneapolis City Council chambers seemed to agree.

The often-divided council was united last week in its disappointment that Mayor Jacob Frey’s office would not allow police representatives to attend the meeting to answer their questions about budget overspending, sending written responses instead.

Even council members normally aligned with Frey were upset.

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Sara @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’m eavesdropping on morning advisory and starting grinning when I heard the teacher talking about Renaissance art, specifically the old man faces on Jesus. My kid was immediately typing because we’ve watched so much about that era and religious art.

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Sara @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I’ll be honest that I’ve already spent an unreasonable amount of this weekend crying about the education system and what it did to my kid that I am trying to fix, but this just sent me into another sobbing fit. Different issues, but I also feel like I failed my kid by trying to live my ideals.

nytimes.com

In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)

A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.

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Sara @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I said this about a different slur the other week—but the things that come out of your mouth when you’re angry and upset are incredibly revealing. I hate this timeline where people think slurs about disabled people are just fine to say.

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Sara @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

When I was up north last month scanning things, one of the items I had was this random ticket, which almost looks new. There's no deeper purpose to this post other than people who like random upper midwest history/random railroad worker artifacts may find it neat.

Red ticket: third annual ball of Fargo Lodge No. 125, brotherhood of railroad trainmen at armory hall, fargo, N.D., december 31, 1890, tickets $1.00.

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Sara @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Facebook is advertising to my wife that it can add my dead mother’s birthday to her calendar. Um, thanks? It’s ridiculous that they had to publicly apologize to Eric Meyer 10+ years ago and have basically not changed at all.

meyerweb.com

Inadvertent Algorithmic Cruelty

I didn’t go looking for grief this afternoon, but it found me anyway, and I have designers and programmers to thank for it.

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Sara @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Let’s shift gears to me being more fun. I was going through a will circa the 1880s and the utter pettiness was absolutely *chef’s kiss*. Sam had six sons. In his will, he was like—I already gave enough to my three oldest, they’re fine (that’s not that uncommon). Then the pettiness comes.

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