Karrie
@karriehiggins.bsky.social
Writer, Artist, Ink-Maker, Psychogeographer. Two Best American Essays notables; Schiff Award; NEA/Iowa Arts Council grantee. http://www.karriehiggins.com
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Karrie
@karriehiggins.bsky.social
· Aug 23
I ran Redact again last night. It's automated so it deletes vast swaths of posts in a certain date range, but it's not consistent. So if it looks like I have not posted about XYZ issue, I probably actually have but for my IRL safety, I tend to scrub my feed frequently.
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“If Schumer really wanted to use his considerable influence and leverage to stop this, he could have done that,” a senior Democratic Senate aide tells Zeteo. “He didn’t.”
Furious Liberals Call for Schumer to Step Aside, Senate Dems Mostly Quiet
After their shutdown surrender, liberal lawmakers are begging their base to unite behind them anyway – as Trumpland celebrates that their opposition is a bunch of 'p*ssies.'
zeteo.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
“If Schumer really wanted to use his considerable influence and leverage to stop this, he could have done that,” a senior Democratic Senate aide tells Zeteo. “He didn’t.”
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“Despite his no vote, the entire political world knows this is a direct result of @schumer.senate.gov’s leadership … He either blessed this surrender, or was incapable of leading his caucus to hold the line.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Angry Democrats call on Schumer to resign after eight vote to end shutdown
Some lawmakers and progressive groups blame minority leader after eight senators defect
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:57 AM
“Despite his no vote, the entire political world knows this is a direct result of @schumer.senate.gov’s leadership … He either blessed this surrender, or was incapable of leading his caucus to hold the line.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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October 4, 2025 at 9:16 PM
It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale.
I sell pins, compression gloves, artist gloves, binders, hip braces, wrist braces, compression socks, walking sticks, elbow braces, bags, back braces & more!
Store details below!
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Store details below!
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Those wrist braces are the cutest!!
It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale.
I sell pins, compression gloves, artist gloves, binders, hip braces, wrist braces, compression socks, walking sticks, elbow braces, bags, back braces & more!
Store details below!
I sell pins, compression gloves, artist gloves, binders, hip braces, wrist braces, compression socks, walking sticks, elbow braces, bags, back braces & more!
Store details below!
November 10, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Those wrist braces are the cutest!!
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NEW: “Around 80% of MoveOn members that the group surveyed said that Schumer should quit his leadership position.”
www.axios.com/2025/11/10/s...
www.axios.com/2025/11/10/s...
Progressive group MoveOn calls on Schumer to step aside
"Inexplicably, some Senate Democrats, under Leader Schumer's watch, decided to surrender."
www.axios.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:10 AM
NEW: “Around 80% of MoveOn members that the group surveyed said that Schumer should quit his leadership position.”
www.axios.com/2025/11/10/s...
www.axios.com/2025/11/10/s...
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I don't remember where I saw it yesterday, but I saw something about how the captain had a "no jerks" policy for his crew on the Fitz and that's what you'd want but it also sucks knowing no jerks went down with the ship. (Obviously assessment of what qualifies someone as a jerk varies.)
November 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I don't remember where I saw it yesterday, but I saw something about how the captain had a "no jerks" policy for his crew on the Fitz and that's what you'd want but it also sucks knowing no jerks went down with the ship. (Obviously assessment of what qualifies someone as a jerk varies.)
My neurologist says I have to fail several z-drugs (for sleep) so I can get the Orexin receptor antagonist, even though all the z-drugs are wildly unsafe for me for various reasons/add to problems I have ... So he almost RXd Sonata aka zaleplon ... I said no because of above.
November 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
My neurologist says I have to fail several z-drugs (for sleep) so I can get the Orexin receptor antagonist, even though all the z-drugs are wildly unsafe for me for various reasons/add to problems I have ... So he almost RXd Sonata aka zaleplon ... I said no because of above.
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Glad to know I was right. The moment Duffy stated Thanksgiving travel would suffer. This shit was going down, because God forbid the fucking airlines miss a fucking holiday season. Assholes.
November 10, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Glad to know I was right. The moment Duffy stated Thanksgiving travel would suffer. This shit was going down, because God forbid the fucking airlines miss a fucking holiday season. Assholes.
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seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
I am at my neurologist to get my medical card renewed and I’m I’ve been waiting for nearly an hour as he chats with some old lady who just shouted, “The size of her ass! You wouldn’t believe it!”
November 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I am at my neurologist to get my medical card renewed and I’m I’ve been waiting for nearly an hour as he chats with some old lady who just shouted, “The size of her ass! You wouldn’t believe it!”
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Let my gravestone read "PUNCTUATION GOES INSIDE THE QUOTATION MARKS."
November 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Let my gravestone read "PUNCTUATION GOES INSIDE THE QUOTATION MARKS."
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local stores are lacking in containers but I was able to get napkins and plates and forks!
project cakes for kids is in full swing!
maybe you can send some containers for the rest? 💕 www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
project cakes for kids is in full swing!
maybe you can send some containers for the rest? 💕 www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
November 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
local stores are lacking in containers but I was able to get napkins and plates and forks!
project cakes for kids is in full swing!
maybe you can send some containers for the rest? 💕 www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
project cakes for kids is in full swing!
maybe you can send some containers for the rest? 💕 www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
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Schumer wriggles himself back to the dank cave he emerged from. "There was no other choice," he explains to himself with the sense of contentment that only a good defeat brings, then settles into his slime nest to sleep a dreamless, untroubled sleep.
November 10, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Schumer wriggles himself back to the dank cave he emerged from. "There was no other choice," he explains to himself with the sense of contentment that only a good defeat brings, then settles into his slime nest to sleep a dreamless, untroubled sleep.
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
Someday I will find people like this.
There’s something healing about being around the people who truly know you.
The ones you don’t have to impress or explain yourself to.
The ones that love you for who you really are.
The ones you don’t have to impress or explain yourself to.
The ones that love you for who you really are.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Someday I will find people like this.
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It is very weird seeing my friends and family slowly start to realize we're not overreacting.
Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 10, 2025 at 12:17 PM
It is very weird seeing my friends and family slowly start to realize we're not overreacting.
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American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
I am closer than ever to needing to just find a way to Europe for medical assistance in dying because of what the dems just did. Fuck them. And they expect us to just ... keep voting for them???
November 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
I am closer than ever to needing to just find a way to Europe for medical assistance in dying because of what the dems just did. Fuck them. And they expect us to just ... keep voting for them???
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Dems held out for 40 days for nothing?
November 10, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Dems held out for 40 days for nothing?
Doctor posts video talking about F N D as if it's a legit diagnosis and not just a replacement for hysteria/conversion disorder built on junk science: immediate UNFOLLOW.
November 9, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Doctor posts video talking about F N D as if it's a legit diagnosis and not just a replacement for hysteria/conversion disorder built on junk science: immediate UNFOLLOW.
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They're laughing in your face as they steal your money and make you suffer
Argentina President Javier Milei doing the “Trump dance” at Mar-a-Lago after getting an $40 billion bailout.
Meanwhile, Trump won’t renew subsides for American healthcare.
Meanwhile, Trump won’t renew subsides for American healthcare.
November 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
They're laughing in your face as they steal your money and make you suffer
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Mamdani's line that billionaires spent more to oppose his candidacy than he proposed to tax them really says it all.
Like a company that shuts down a profitable location as soon as it unionizes. The principle of maintaining control is more important.
Like a company that shuts down a profitable location as soon as it unionizes. The principle of maintaining control is more important.
November 8, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Mamdani's line that billionaires spent more to oppose his candidacy than he proposed to tax them really says it all.
Like a company that shuts down a profitable location as soon as it unionizes. The principle of maintaining control is more important.
Like a company that shuts down a profitable location as soon as it unionizes. The principle of maintaining control is more important.
Iowa City Catholic Worker has been doing excellent work for local community members targeted by ICE. They shared this fundraiser to help an Iowa woman bring her spouse back home.
gofund.me/6c158d512
gofund.me/6c158d512
Donate to Support Maria's Fight to Bring Her Husband Home, organized by Maria Lozano
Hi everyone,
My name is Maria, and I’m reaching out with a heavy heart. … Maria Lozano needs your support for Support Maria's Fight to Bring Her Husband Home
gofund.me
November 8, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Iowa City Catholic Worker has been doing excellent work for local community members targeted by ICE. They shared this fundraiser to help an Iowa woman bring her spouse back home.
gofund.me/6c158d512
gofund.me/6c158d512
Tired of that meme comparing other illnesses to cancer, claiming when it's cancer that everyone rallies, helps, raises $. Um, no.
Online friends of mine are dead because that doesn't happen.
We can talk about how one illness is deprived of support without gaslighting people w/other illnesses.
Online friends of mine are dead because that doesn't happen.
We can talk about how one illness is deprived of support without gaslighting people w/other illnesses.
November 8, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Tired of that meme comparing other illnesses to cancer, claiming when it's cancer that everyone rallies, helps, raises $. Um, no.
Online friends of mine are dead because that doesn't happen.
We can talk about how one illness is deprived of support without gaslighting people w/other illnesses.
Online friends of mine are dead because that doesn't happen.
We can talk about how one illness is deprived of support without gaslighting people w/other illnesses.