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Sara 🏳️‍🌈

@saralovesyou.bsky.social

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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

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.

Syndicate & Hague

Digging into Minnesota genealogy and history, and how our past still affects us today.

www.syndicateandhague.com

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Sara 🏳️‍🌈 @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 17h

Also, where else can you watch a 30 minute documentary about I-94?

Interstate 94: A History and Its Impact

I-94 connects the Twin Cities. Its history carries lessons for the future.

pbs.org

Sara 🏳️‍🌈 @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 17h

Love the American Experience documentaries, MN Experience, and there are some new ones I haven’t watched yet but want to (American Historia, Atomic People).

I acknowledge that I am weird with a weird kid, but we watched the 4 hour docs on LBJ and Reagan and had good conversations about both.

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Sara 🏳️‍🌈 @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 17h

The trailer for this looks very interesting — and a reminder that a TPT passport membership gets you on demand streaming via your donation.

And honestly, there are a slew of offerings that are useful for talking with your kids (what I always think about) regarding US or MN history.

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Sara 🏳️‍🌈 @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 18h

Anyway. If you wind up being a MN person doing dual citizenship just be aware you need both kinds of birth certificates, plus some memo attachment/notarization hoops for the non-certified one.

The only people who can articulate any of this are at the MN SOS, so don’t be like me, just ask them 1st

Sara 🏳️‍🌈 @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 18h

We had an interesting conversation with the Ramsey County person, who said she’s seen many more people who need documentation like this for countries like Ireland/Croatia/Luxemburg/Italy that offer some version of dual by descent. But it’s so unnecessarily confusing.

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Sara 🏳️‍🌈 @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 18h

I would bet money that this entire situation is based on a software decision (they didn’t used to collect actual dates of birth for parents. My parents are listed as 33 and 37 on my record, but that can’t go into a date field).

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Sara 🏳️‍🌈 @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 18h

The image of my actual birth record, information now available “non-certified,” includes my parents’ locations of birth and their ages. This is necessary to prove descent!

Same issue with my mom’s, with the place of birth only on the non-certified record that shows my grandfather wasn’t from here.

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Sara 🏳️‍🌈 @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 18h

I need to prove that my grandfather was from where he was from *and* that he is my grandfather. Part of that is having birth certificates where names, ages, and places of birth line up.

On a MN certified birth certificate, my parents’ names are there, but not ages or places of birth.

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Sara 🏳️‍🌈 @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 18h

In the saga of amassing documents required for proving descent—people keep wanting to argue with me that I need a certified birth certificate. Nope. For whatever reason, MN no longer provides “long form” certified birth certificates.

Why is this an issue?

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 20h

“This is absolutely a violation of federal law.”

For @motherjones.com, I reported about how reduction-in-forces in the Office of Special Education Programs will lead to disabled kids' needs not being met, as funding may not be distributed. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trump's new layoffs hurt disabled kids

"This is absolutely a violation of federal law."

www.motherjones.com

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

ai is a fascist tool. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Ilyasah Shabazz didn’t want to look at the AI-generated videos of her father, Malcolm X. The seemingly realistic clips — made by OpenAI’s new video-maker Sora 2 — show the legendary civil rights activist making crude jokes, wrestling with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and talking about defecating on himself.

“It is deeply disrespectful and hurtful to see my father’s image used in such a cavalier and insensitive manner when he dedicated his life to truth,” Shabazz, whose father was assassinated in front of her in 1965 when she was 2, told The Washington Post. She questioned why the developers were not acting “with the same morality, conscience, and care … that they’d want for their own families.”

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Sara 🏳️‍🌈 @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 1d

You don’t need to create a whole fake documentary anymore, so that puts more pressure on individual people to know more and have really refined media literacy.

It’s concerning.

Sara 🏳️‍🌈 @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 1d

I think a lot about power and narrative, and how power moves across generations and time.

What we’re living through with the algorithmic internet/social media plus AI slop bodes really poorly for us — it took a whole coordinated infrastructure to “swiftboat” Kerry.

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Sara 🏳️‍🌈 @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 1d

You don’t have to think an issue was important to people (or that an issue is even real—see also, the absolutely manufactured Tea Party nonsense that came with Obama’s election).

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Sara 🏳️‍🌈 @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 1d

It’s that I remember multiple other elections that turned on “both sides are the same” rhetoric and some issue—maybe as small a thing as lack of trust for one reason or another—but virality wasn’t a thing then. People weren’t going after Gore, Dole, or G HW Bush after they lost.

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Sara 🏳️‍🌈 @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 1d

The weirdest thing to me about the people protesting the Harris book tour is not that they paid a lot of money to harass her, nor that there is no “accountability” to be had while we have over three years left of this president, nor the lack of ability to understand the role of a VP.

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Sara 🏳️‍🌈 @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not super highly attended—I think it’s probably hard to reach people who don’t have it on their radar

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Sara 🏳️‍🌈 @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 1d

I should add that it’s not for kids. But is an easier time to do something when you have a thousand responsibilities for humans.

Sara 🏳️‍🌈 @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like other queer parents should know that Lush has a dance party at 3 pm once a month on Sundays for a few hours with Blowtorch DJing. (We have a little birthday outing for some October birthdays).

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Sara 🏳️‍🌈 @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 1d

As a relentless do-gooder myself, I think this kind of question should be asked of anyone in leadership. Is it about power/status? Or is there a real, human, meaningful reason?

It’s a good story, and one I will share with people I know who may not have engaged with the process yet.

David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 1d

I hope @dewayneforminneapolis.com doesn't mind me retelling a story he told me when we first met last winter. I kept it to myself because he wasn’t telling it publicly but he mentioned it yesterday. It’s one of the things that’s leading me to rank him first. A hope-its-ok-and-I-get-right 🧵:

Soren Stevenson @sorenwithward8.bsky.social · 1d

Yesterday, I hosted an incredible event, "Ward 8 for a New Mayor." We talked about why we need a new mayor and then @jazzformayor.bsky.social , @omarfatehmn.com , and @dewayneforminneapolis.com laid out why they should be our next mayor. I came away excited about all of them and will rank all three!

Sara 🏳️‍🌈 @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 1d

And yes, I am referring to ours. Because good lord.

Sara 🏳️‍🌈 @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 1d

This has also been making me nuts. I am sure that many think they can hash this out in back rooms. I need to see that they care about the administration usurping control and to *educate their constituents*.

I have zero patience for any senator who just got a 6 yr term and won’t use it.

Sara 🏳️‍🌈 @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting. We did have an entire civics class. I also have a bureaucratic pedant for a father who would correct me about the status of legislation if he felt I was reacting too soon to something. Totally normal childhood.

Sara 🏳️‍🌈 @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like American government classes stopped existing at some point. We had Civics, which covered it—but I don’t know if millennials/Gen Z got as much!

Sara 🏳️‍🌈 @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like way more time in school needs to be spent on American government.

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