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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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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 23h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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

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

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

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

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

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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 2d

Y’all gather up. @youthmediaproject.bsky.social
and @mississippifreepress.org are about to drop a co-published and powerful Mississippi immigration story reported and written by two amazing Jackson-area high-school students.

Seriously. Read it.

a close up of a red light that is lit up in the dark

ALT: a close up of a red light that is lit up in the dark

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Dennis Koch @dejayk.bsky.social · 2d

Wyoming library director wins $700,000 after being fired for defending LGBTQ+ books

Terri Lesley has won $700,000 after she was fired for refusing to remove #LGBTQ+ books.

www.advocate.com/news/wyoming...

Wyoming library director wins $700,000 after being fired for defending LGBTQ+ books

Terri Lesley has won $700,000 after she was fired for refusing to remove LGBTQ+ books.

www.advocate.com

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Scripps Research @scripps.edu · 2d

The NIH has awarded a $14.2M Director’s Transformative Research Award to a team led by Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist @ardemp.bskyverified.social, Prof. @liye-tsri.bsky.social and Assoc. Prof. @xinjin.bsky.social to map interoception and build the first atlas of this hidden sixth sense.

Scripps Research-led team receives $14.2M NIH award to map the body’s “hidden sixth sense”

www.scripps.edu

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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

So much feed. I often think about how what I see growing isn’t necessarily grown for human consumption.

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

It’s painful.

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

My stomach is rumbling, which is so dumb.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 3d

New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 3d

Perry: The federal government is "temporarily enjoined from ordering the federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois."

That's it. Thanks again for following.

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 3d

Perry: "I see no credible evidence there is a danger of rebellion in the state of Illinois."

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 3d

DOJ lawyer Eric Hamilton this morning: “The president’s judgement is unreviewable.”

Perry: Federal law permits the federalization of guard troops in three instances, "not whenever (the president) determines when one of them is met."

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 3d

Nearly 2 hours into the hearing, Perry finishes questioning lawyers for the Trump administration.

She is now questioning Christopher Wells for Illinois about who should determine whether a rebellion is occurring.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

"...including while she was praying with her eyes closed and hands lifted, wearing a clerical collar and stole."

religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 2d

RFK Jr. has a new theory on autism. He thinks circumcision could be a factor.

It confirms what many of us have suspected for a long time.

They genuinely believe their brains are in their dicks.

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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 5d

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