Kristin Netterstrom Higgins
@knetterstrom.bsky.social
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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Dear libraries. This topic name will not help me find a non fiction book right now.
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When Trump posted an AI video of himself flying a jet and bombing Americans with feces, the media decided it was no big deal. Why? Because he’s been bombing us with feces for a decade, and the media are used to it.
Their normalization is easing us into tyranny.
My Stop the Presses newsletter.
Their normalization is easing us into tyranny.
My Stop the Presses newsletter.
How news coverage eases us into tyranny
When the media act like things are normal, they don’t reassure us – they gaslight us
www.stopthepresses.news
November 11, 2025 at 1:25 PM
When Trump posted an AI video of himself flying a jet and bombing Americans with feces, the media decided it was no big deal. Why? Because he’s been bombing us with feces for a decade, and the media are used to it.
Their normalization is easing us into tyranny.
My Stop the Presses newsletter.
Their normalization is easing us into tyranny.
My Stop the Presses newsletter.
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The USA has executed at least 7 veterans this year alone. around 200 are on death rows across the country. We are a country that teaches people to kill, and then executes them.
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Can PTSD Be Linked to Violence?
How morally responsible can we hold Eddie Ray Routh for the death of Chris Kyle?
psmag.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The USA has executed at least 7 veterans this year alone. around 200 are on death rows across the country. We are a country that teaches people to kill, and then executes them.
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This week's Big Feature @motherjones.com: A look at how Dreamers—who came to the US as kids—went from being protected by the government to being targeted by it.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Then they came for the Dreamers
Immigrants brought here as children were told they wouldn’t be deported. Now, they’re being targeted anyway.
www.motherjones.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
This week's Big Feature @motherjones.com: A look at how Dreamers—who came to the US as kids—went from being protected by the government to being targeted by it.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Via @grajeda.bsky.social: A federal judge on Monday again converted a temporary restraining order to a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a state law that requires displays of the Ten Commandments in public schools.
Third preliminary injunction issued in lawsuit against Arkansas’ Ten Commandments law | Arkansas Advocate
A federal judge on Monday again converted a temporary restraining order to a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a state law that requires displays of the Ten…
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November 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Via @grajeda.bsky.social: A federal judge on Monday again converted a temporary restraining order to a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a state law that requires displays of the Ten Commandments in public schools.
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In most Missouri prisons, daily correspondence is limited to emails, digital mail, postal mail, telephone calls and video visits. In a recent piece, Summer Breeze spoke with six fathers on what it's like to parent from prison.
Six Fathers on What It's Like to Parent From Prison
Incarcerated parents say it’s important to stay connected to their children, despite the challenges prison presents.
prisonjournalismproject.org
November 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
In most Missouri prisons, daily correspondence is limited to emails, digital mail, postal mail, telephone calls and video visits. In a recent piece, Summer Breeze spoke with six fathers on what it's like to parent from prison.
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With talk of absurd GOP proposals to replace Marketplace tax credits with HSA contributions & require people to buy health services directly, this is just like a Project 2025 proposal to eliminate #Medicaid coverage & convert funding to vouchers/HSA contributions: ccf.georgetown.edu/2024/06/17/p...
November 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
With talk of absurd GOP proposals to replace Marketplace tax credits with HSA contributions & require people to buy health services directly, this is just like a Project 2025 proposal to eliminate #Medicaid coverage & convert funding to vouchers/HSA contributions: ccf.georgetown.edu/2024/06/17/p...
I love my veterans; I wish the library were open today.
November 11, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I love my veterans; I wish the library were open today.
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“Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government.” 11/10/25
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Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue for Jack Smith Searches (1)
Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
“Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government.” 11/10/25
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I sent a photo of a weird snake roadkill to a friend and she wrote me back “ummm that’s an armadillo.” I’m so embarrassed.
November 11, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I sent a photo of a weird snake roadkill to a friend and she wrote me back “ummm that’s an armadillo.” I’m so embarrassed.
It took me a few minutes but then I was like, oh Michael JONES whose journal article I just read for class. Fun times.
Had an amazing time with one of my favorite guest scholars, discussing our graduate programs, NPF, and much more. Grateful for the generous support from the Political Science Department and the Gosack Endowment at the University of Arkansas!
November 10, 2025 at 2:07 AM
It took me a few minutes but then I was like, oh Michael JONES whose journal article I just read for class. Fun times.
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This year’s PSJ submissions are over 640, surpassing last year’s 612, likely exceeding 700 by year-end. Including revisions, totals should pass 1,000. This growth reflects our expanding, improving policy community. Thanks for your support!
November 9, 2025 at 1:28 PM
This year’s PSJ submissions are over 640, surpassing last year’s 612, likely exceeding 700 by year-end. Including revisions, totals should pass 1,000. This growth reflects our expanding, improving policy community. Thanks for your support!
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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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Arianna Sofia Veraza and her parents were driving to Sam's Club for milk, eggs and diapers yesterday when they heard helicopters and horns blaring yesterday. They had turned around to leave when a federal agent pepper-sprayed them through a car window.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...
Pepper-sprayed Berwyn family rattled after getting caught up in federal blitz
Southwest Side politicians condemned Saturday’s pepper spraying and the federal sweep of Little Village as “state-sponsored terrorism” at a news conference Sunday.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Arianna Sofia Veraza and her parents were driving to Sam's Club for milk, eggs and diapers yesterday when they heard helicopters and horns blaring yesterday. They had turned around to leave when a federal agent pepper-sprayed them through a car window.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...
The cold air tonight demanded I make chili. It was a toss up between chicken and beef but beef ($7 a pound!! Omg) won out because I wanted black beans and corn and tomatoes and chili.
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 AM
The cold air tonight demanded I make chili. It was a toss up between chicken and beef but beef ($7 a pound!! Omg) won out because I wanted black beans and corn and tomatoes and chili.
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Excellent essay here on the slow strangling of mass literary culture in the West - most clearly in the US, but it's obviously happening here too
November 9, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Excellent essay here on the slow strangling of mass literary culture in the West - most clearly in the US, but it's obviously happening here too
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🚨BREAKING: A civil rights organization sued the Trump administration Saturday over a new policy barring nonprofits from helping new U.S. citizens register to vote. The lawsuit calls the policy part of a “broader effort to ensure that new Americans cannot exert their democratic will on the nation.”
Lawsuit Blasts Trump’s Bid to Keep New Citizens From Registering to Vote
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
🚨BREAKING: A civil rights organization sued the Trump administration Saturday over a new policy barring nonprofits from helping new U.S. citizens register to vote. The lawsuit calls the policy part of a “broader effort to ensure that new Americans cannot exert their democratic will on the nation.”
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"What drives people to Chicago public libraries are the materials they want to check out. Circulation rates since 2022 have increased by 17.5%.
Among the nine largest library systems serving populations of over 2M residents, CPL ranks second lowest in terms of spending per resident."
Among the nine largest library systems serving populations of over 2M residents, CPL ranks second lowest in terms of spending per resident."
The People Want to Read: on the massive budget cuts proposed for Chicago Public Library. What's at stake and what you can do, whether or not you live in Chicago.
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The People Want To Read: On Massive Budget Cuts Proposed in Chicago
If passed, Chicago Public Library will lose half their budget for acquiring new books and materials.
buttondown.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:19 AM
"What drives people to Chicago public libraries are the materials they want to check out. Circulation rates since 2022 have increased by 17.5%.
Among the nine largest library systems serving populations of over 2M residents, CPL ranks second lowest in terms of spending per resident."
Among the nine largest library systems serving populations of over 2M residents, CPL ranks second lowest in terms of spending per resident."
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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At least they FINALLY admitted why they refused to negotiate on the shutdown. First they lied and promised Dems they would “negotiate” this, but only AFTER they voted for the CR. But Dems were correct when they assessed that Republicans NEVER intended to extend these subsidies.
November 9, 2025 at 12:53 AM
At least they FINALLY admitted why they refused to negotiate on the shutdown. First they lied and promised Dems they would “negotiate” this, but only AFTER they voted for the CR. But Dems were correct when they assessed that Republicans NEVER intended to extend these subsidies.
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Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.
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It's not even noon yet and feds (specifically Border Patrol and BOP officers in this caravan with Bovino) have fired tear gas, pepper balls, and bean bag rounds at people in Little Village and Cicero.
November 8, 2025 at 5:55 PM
It's not even noon yet and feds (specifically Border Patrol and BOP officers in this caravan with Bovino) have fired tear gas, pepper balls, and bean bag rounds at people in Little Village and Cicero.
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Thanks to a grant, a pro-choice group in Little Rock, is offering free, walk-in pregnancy ultrasounds two Saturdays a month. It's a welcome alternative to the services offered by "crisis pregnancy centers," which come with an anti-abortion message attached.
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Free pregnancy ultrasounds offer help in barren Arkansas reproductive health landscape - Arkansas Times
Thanks to the help of a grant, the Y.O.U. Center (Your Options, Understood) is now offering free, walk-in pregnancy ultrasounds for anyone who needs it two Saturdays a month.
arktimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Thanks to a grant, a pro-choice group in Little Rock, is offering free, walk-in pregnancy ultrasounds two Saturdays a month. It's a welcome alternative to the services offered by "crisis pregnancy centers," which come with an anti-abortion message attached.
arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...
arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...
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The father was a U.S. citizen.
But he was Latino, so Brett Kavanaugh says it’s fine.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
But he was Latino, so Brett Kavanaugh says it’s fine.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
Immigration Agents Arrest Man in L.A. Raid and Drive Off With His Toddler
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:19 AM
The father was a U.S. citizen.
But he was Latino, so Brett Kavanaugh says it’s fine.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
But he was Latino, so Brett Kavanaugh says it’s fine.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
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They're going to the highest court in the land to avoid feeding children.
November 8, 2025 at 12:16 AM
They're going to the highest court in the land to avoid feeding children.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles seems an off place for No Diggity.
November 8, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles seems an off place for No Diggity.