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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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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 1d

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity

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

A classmate said to me today, “I want to be you when I grow up.”

I almost said, so do I! But instead settled on, “I don’t know who I want to be when I grow up.”

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

I need both! Hopefully they’re on sale by me.

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

Or STUFF, lots of STUFF.

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Arkansas Advocate @arkansasadvocate.com · 1d

Via @tessmvrbin.bsky.social: While some Arkansas hospitals have seen success after being designated as rural emergency hospitals, granting them more funding in exchange for reducing or eliminating inpatient services to focus on emergency and outpatient treatment, the program won't work for all.

Trading inpatient care for more federal money works for some, not all rural Arkansas hospitals | Arkansas Advocate

Rural hospital administrators consider patient volume and the needs of the communities they serve when deciding whether to pursue new federal funding streams.

buff.ly

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

A moment of zen. A beautiful cup of tea.

Brown tea inside a blue and white tea cup, which sits on a matching plate a top an intricate wooden platter.

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

And they don’t even park in the garage

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 2d

🚨THIS IS A BIG DEAL. Chicago journalists are suing the Trump administration for using excessive force against reporters & protestors in violation of the 1A.
The press here is doing astounding work documenting how ICE is out of control. The violence they face in doing so is obscene.

The protests at the Broadview ICE facility and the federal government’s violent
attempts to silence the protesters became a story of great interest to the local Chicago media and
was also covered in the national press. Much of the coverage described the federal officers’
abusive tactics. Defendants sought and are seeking to quash this coverage by attacking and
intimidating members of the Press on the ground there.
85. Federal immigration officers at the Broadview ICE facility have repeatedly and
intentionally singled out persons whom they know to be members of the Press for violence,
assault, and intimidation. These assaults are not incidental or unintentional. They are undertaken
by design to intimidate journalists on scene and to frustrate and suppress coverage of the federal
officers’ actions toward protesters and immigration detainees

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

I heard a great horned owl tonight when I stepped out to take a photo of the moon.

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Arkansas Public Policy Center @uaexppc.bsky.social · 2d

Voters in Ozark have a special election in November. We partnered with the Franklin County Extension Service on a fact sheet about the referendum on the city's entertainment district ordinance.

Early voting starts Nov. 12. Election Day is Nov. 18.

www.uaex.uada.edu/business-com...

#ARballot

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 3d

Statement from Illinois Governor JB Pritzker

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.
We must now start calling this what it is: Trump's Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state's military troops.
I call on Governor Abbott to immediately withdraw any support for this decision and refuse to coordinate. There is no reason a President should send military troops into a sovereign state without their knowledge, consent, or cooperation.
The brave men and women who serve in our national guards must not be used as political props. This is a moment where every American must speak up and help stop this madness.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 3d

DOJ: CA NG is already federalized

Judge: You are an officer of the court. Do you think this is an appropriate way to deal with my order? Appropriate way of dealing with ruling you disagree with?

DOJ: Well, I'm not a policy maker

Judge: You're a lawyer

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

No, but I remember how hotels would take my mail or there were lots of mailboxes around towns to drop postcards in! (I do remember Hallmark selling stamps)

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: Oregon and Portland filed an amended complaint in their lawsuit against Trump tonight, with a new plaintiff added who is joining them: California. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF OREGON
PORTLAND DIVISION
STATE OF OREGON, the CITY OF PORTLAND, and the STATE OF CALIFORNIA
Plaintiffs,
v.
DONALD TRUMP, in his official capacity as
Case No.
AMENDED COMPLAINT FOR DECLARATORY AND INJUNCTIVE
RELIEF
OF DEFENSE; KRISTI NOEM, in her official apacity as Secretary of Homeland Security; nd U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY,
Defendants.

N. Cross-State Deployment of California National Guard to Oregon
110. On the evening of Saturday, October 4, 2025, after this Court issued a temporary restraining order blocking the attempted federalization of Oregon National Guard personnel to deploy to Portland, Oregon, the U.S. Army Northern Command communicated to the California Military Department Executive Leadership that they intended to send 200 of the federalized California National Guard personnel in Los Angeles to Portland.
111. As of 6:30 a.m. on Sunday, October 5 one transport carrying approximately 100
federalized California National Guard personnel had already departed from Los Angeles to Portland, with additional transport scheduled for later in the day. Additionally, California
Military Department Executive Leadership learned that all 300 federalized California National
Guard personnel will be imminently deployed to Portland.
112. Also on Sunday, October 5, 2025, the California Military Department received an order extending the federalization of the 300 federalized California National Guard personnel
through January 31, 2026.

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

Not a cultural hole but I hated Saved by the Bell.

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 3d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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

Saved the best for last. (Deal with it class of 2000).

Saturday morning cartoons = whatever older brother controlling remote decided.

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

Are you of the Oregon Trail generation??

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 3d

"'The Linen Closet' will likely be one of the most popular installations at the biennial... Not in the least because the city — if not the nation or indeed the entire world — is in dire need of places of comfort and repose... This is a soft biennial for hard times."