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Kristin Netterstrom Higgins

@knetterstrom.bsky.social

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Public Policy doctoral student. Interested in direct democracy, voting, Arkansas news & journalism. ❤️ native plants & FOIA. NFPW board. Past president of Arkansas Press Women. Ex journalist. Former 312 feral child, Cubs fan.

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Kristin Netterstrom Higgins @knetterstrom.bsky.social · Aug 28

Dear libraries. This topic name will not help me find a non fiction book right now.

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Kristin Netterstrom Higgins @knetterstrom.bsky.social · 3h

Same. Same. And I do not know her phone number despite paying for it.

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Annalise Ophelian @dr-ophelian.bsky.social · 8h

The documentary I made with Miss Major 10 years ago is on Vimeo on Demand. If you want to spend some time with her on screen tonight and learn some abolitionist trans history while you're at it, it's free to rent with the code "shinebright" vimeo.com/ondemand/major

Watch MAJOR! Online | Vimeo On Demand

The award-winning documentary "MAJOR!" follows the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender elder who has been fighting for…

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Kristin Netterstrom Higgins @knetterstrom.bsky.social · 8h

My teenager went to a “2000”-theme party and they handed over their phones to reproduce 2000 (even though I had a cell in 2000). Best part is she & friend got locked inside a camper and couldn’t call anyone for help. They crawled out an emergency exit.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 1d

Screwworm, which is a major threat to cattle and is already affecting beef prices, is advancing toward our southern border faster than expected.

No wall will keep it out. And the USDA inspectors who monitor it are currently furloughed.

Cuellar: Furloughed USDA inspectors can’t check for New World screwworm

A South Texas congressman says U.S. Agriculture employees who are responsible for checking for New World Screwworms and ensuring the pest doesn’t cross the border have been furloughed and are not w…

www.borderreport.com

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Marci Baranski @ecomarci.bsky.social · 22h

Something I noticed being back in the US after 4 years in Bangkok is you need an app or login for *everything*. My heated mug, phone company, and thermostat need an app. I needed a password to check-in at the salon (I didn't remember it, that was fun).

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Kristin Netterstrom Higgins @knetterstrom.bsky.social · 22h

It’s awful. I need 3 log ins to check my email.

Kristin Netterstrom Higgins @knetterstrom.bsky.social · 1d

My latest take is AI is the sin of greed reincarnated.

Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 1d

I think we got ourselves into this state as a society by believing in the tool-sellers’ promises and now they are pushing a way to make the chaos more unaccountable and less connected to our actual desires (AI) as a solution to the problem they made

Nshrubs @nshrubs.bsky.social · 1d

I have 13 different accounts I have to log in to at school just to do my job. Email, SIS, reading curriculum, math curriculum, science curriculum, explore learning, employee online login, HR/contract login, PD login, Google drive login, parent square, staff resources login, OSPI/eVal login.

Kristin Netterstrom Higgins @knetterstrom.bsky.social · 1d

I have coworkers who have two emails for the same university system and the IT gods demanded they stop email forwarding from one account to the other “for security purposes.” No one cared about what made life easier for the employee.

Kristin Netterstrom Higgins @knetterstrom.bsky.social · 1d

I am grateful to know I’m not the only person. This stuff ruins my day.

Kristin Netterstrom Higgins @knetterstrom.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve been yelling at trees every day. I don’t want to be tied to a phone.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 1d

I counted up the number of ways (platforms, accounts, apps) that people in my professional and personal lives plus healthcare systems and kid’s school are contacting me and uhh. This is objectively impossible.

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Kristin Netterstrom Higgins @knetterstrom.bsky.social · 1d

This. X a billion.

Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 1d

it is so bananas - aside from @jessicacalarco.com I don't see anyone talking about the *level* of bureaucratic capacity necessary to navigate a job & family responsibilities these days

Kristin Netterstrom Higgins @knetterstrom.bsky.social · 1d

Work “tech” ruins my day every day. The junk folder is just another inbox despite my best efforts to mark things as not spam.

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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 1d

School offers hikes instead of detention. Teachers are seeing results.

“People seem really different in a good way at the end,” said Leslie Trundy, a Maine high school counselor and avid hiker. www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...

School offers hikes instead of detention. Teachers are seeing results.

“People seem really different in a good way at the end,” said Leslie Trundy, a Maine high school counselor and avid hiker.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 2d

Envisioning the EPA Police going door-to-door, raiding family medicine cabinets + teen girls’ dresser drawers, when the mifepristone alarms go off down at the wastewater treatment plant

The E.P.A. Followed Up on an Unusual Request About Abortion Pills

www.nytimes.com

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Kristin Netterstrom Higgins @knetterstrom.bsky.social · 2d

Is it standard for 80 year olds to do radiation? My father was told hormone suppression was only recommendation. (He died of this cancer last year)

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Kristin Netterstrom Higgins @knetterstrom.bsky.social · 2d

I learned about that in Home Ec but still have never eaten it. That sure doesn’t look like biscuits and gravy this morning.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3d

UPDATE: Judge Perry issued an opinion explaining why she blocked the Texas National Guard deployment in Chicago.

She begins with Alexander Hamilton’s rejection of a “preposterous” idea that the Constitution lets a President deploy a State’s militia to a different State for political retribution. 🧵

OPINION AND ORDER
Since this country was founded, Americans have disagreed about the appropriate division
of power between the federal government and the fifty states that make up our Union. This
tension is a natural result of the system of federalism adopted by our Founders. And yet, not even
the Founding Father most ardently in favor of a strong federal government believed that one
state's militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution, calling such
a suggestion "inflammatory," and stating "it is impossible to believe that [a President] would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs." But Plaintiffs contend that such
an event has come to pass, and argue that National Guard troops from both Illinois and Texas
have been deployed to Illinois because the President of the United States wants to punish state elected officials whose policies are different from his own.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Kristin Netterstrom Higgins @knetterstrom.bsky.social · 3d

Labyrinth doesn’t hit the same way when *you* are the parent of a teenage girl. I wouldn’t have left my baby with her.

a man is holding a baby in his arms and looking at a crystal ball .

ALT: a man is holding a baby in his arms and looking at a crystal ball .

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Kristin Netterstrom Higgins @knetterstrom.bsky.social · 3d

I just finished listening to it (!!) because research and all.

Kristin Netterstrom Higgins @knetterstrom.bsky.social · 3d

Woah what is with that parking garage next to a house!?

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Kristin Netterstrom Higgins @knetterstrom.bsky.social · 3d

Looking forward to Tuesday night with @halseanderson.bsky.social in Fayetteville!

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