Kristin Netterstrom Higgins
@knetterstrom.bsky.social
Public Policy doctoral student. Interested in direct democracy, voting, reproductive justice, 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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They're not hiding it, folks—straight up neo-Nazi advertising, from the font to the language to the 11 stars for the Confederacy. Then you have the DHS openly using white nationalist language of "remigrate", which means ethnic cleansing.
This is who MAGA is now.
This is who MAGA is now.
November 30, 2025 at 6:43 AM
They're not hiding it, folks—straight up neo-Nazi advertising, from the font to the language to the 11 stars for the Confederacy. Then you have the DHS openly using white nationalist language of "remigrate", which means ethnic cleansing.
This is who MAGA is now.
This is who MAGA is now.
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What newsroom organizers learned from the years-long strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/what...
What newsroom organizers learned from the years-long strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The importance of coordination, how digital news consumption patterns limit the effectiveness of public shame, and more.
www.niemanlab.org
December 1, 2025 at 1:30 AM
What newsroom organizers learned from the years-long strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/what...
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There’s just nothing left of a university’s mission if instructors can be disciplined and fired for teaching the current state of knowledge in their fields, the degrees they issue are worth precisely the value of the paper they’re printed on and not a jot more
December 1, 2025 at 12:42 AM
There’s just nothing left of a university’s mission if instructors can be disciplined and fired for teaching the current state of knowledge in their fields, the degrees they issue are worth precisely the value of the paper they’re printed on and not a jot more
Capping signatures is a new one for me. Arkansas increased the geographical requirement instead. And a federal judge has put many of Arkansas’s new laws on hold. Good luck Oklahoma.
The Oklahoma senator who sponsored a new law to curtail citizen initiatives said he wants to “give more Oklahomans, not just the urban elites in Oklahoma City and Tulsa, a say in what questions qualify for the ballot.”
Republicans Add New Barriers to Oklahoma’s Dizzyingly Fast Process for Citizen Initiatives
A new law adds to a string of GOP-run states that have undercut direct democracy by piling on onerous new regulations and raising the threshold for signatures.
boltsmag.org
December 1, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Capping signatures is a new one for me. Arkansas increased the geographical requirement instead. And a federal judge has put many of Arkansas’s new laws on hold. Good luck Oklahoma.
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We should use the Lane Kiffin saga to be noisy that $80-100 million contracts for public employees is unacceptable, esp. in states where hunger is prevalent, not absent from either students at lsu or ole miss. The saga of elite college sports is oligarchic politics
November 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM
We should use the Lane Kiffin saga to be noisy that $80-100 million contracts for public employees is unacceptable, esp. in states where hunger is prevalent, not absent from either students at lsu or ole miss. The saga of elite college sports is oligarchic politics
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These people voted to restrict abortion in Alberta
UCP members pass resolutions on auto insurance, abortion, clean coal calgaryherald.com/news/politic...
November 30, 2025 at 6:47 PM
These people voted to restrict abortion in Alberta
This was my life 2021-2024.
Very hard eldercare and logistics is a subject I have extensive experience with. This article nails why it's so hard, including logistics, $, coordination w/ family, $ again, & no one wants to hear you talk about it. The author acknowledges she had a lot of resources others won't. Gift link:
Opinion | The People Holding Everyone Together Are Coming Apart
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:20 PM
This was my life 2021-2024.
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🚨New Paper🚨 US doctors are paid very different amounts for treating different patients—even when providing identical services.
How much less are physicians paid for treating non-White patients?
In @jamahealthforum.com, we offer the 1st national estimates. (1/7)
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
How much less are physicians paid for treating non-White patients?
In @jamahealthforum.com, we offer the 1st national estimates. (1/7)
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Payments to Physician Practices and Incentives to Serve Different Racial and Ethnic Groups
This study measures disparities across patient racial and ethnic groups in per-visit payment to physician practices from health insurers and other sources, adjusted for visit content, geographic marke...
jamanetwork.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
🚨New Paper🚨 US doctors are paid very different amounts for treating different patients—even when providing identical services.
How much less are physicians paid for treating non-White patients?
In @jamahealthforum.com, we offer the 1st national estimates. (1/7)
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
How much less are physicians paid for treating non-White patients?
In @jamahealthforum.com, we offer the 1st national estimates. (1/7)
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Approximately 5 million adult #Medicaid beneficiaries risk losing coverage due to HR 1's work requirements, with a substantial portion having chronic conditions, particularly among those aged 50 to 64.
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November 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Approximately 5 million adult #Medicaid beneficiaries risk losing coverage due to HR 1's work requirements, with a substantial portion having chronic conditions, particularly among those aged 50 to 64.
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NEW: My Udemy course 'Propaganda & Disinformation for Beginners' has helped students in 26 countries worldwide strengthen their armour against disinformation since it launched 2 years ago. Techniques Cambridge Analytica used to secretly profile millions have become a vastly profitable industry.. /1
November 25, 2025 at 6:06 PM
NEW: My Udemy course 'Propaganda & Disinformation for Beginners' has helped students in 26 countries worldwide strengthen their armour against disinformation since it launched 2 years ago. Techniques Cambridge Analytica used to secretly profile millions have become a vastly profitable industry.. /1
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The billionaires who own much of the the infrastructure of our 21st century lives have progressively enshittified that infrastructure while expanding their wealth, and then they scold us for being small-souled peasants who don’t believe in progress anymore.
it is amazing how so much tech gets unremittingly worse year on year at whatever you once used it for and less pleasant to use and more bound up with creepy politics as well as personal and environmental harms and yet also still less productive of actual goods and these are somehow great visionaries
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The billionaires who own much of the the infrastructure of our 21st century lives have progressively enshittified that infrastructure while expanding their wealth, and then they scold us for being small-souled peasants who don’t believe in progress anymore.
Basic journalism principle and they are failing
"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Basic journalism principle and they are failing
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Wait, is this the Professor Watchlist, but for media … and instead of being posted on an independent group’s website it’s on the official website of the people who control armed men with badges and a distinct disregard for the Constitution?
November 30, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Wait, is this the Professor Watchlist, but for media … and instead of being posted on an independent group’s website it’s on the official website of the people who control armed men with badges and a distinct disregard for the Constitution?
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When an ICE agent fired the tear gas canister, it hit 55-year-old nurse Vincent Hawkins in the face, shattering his glasses and concussing him.
As he was rushed to the emergency room, he wondered if he'd ever see through his left eye again.
As he was rushed to the emergency room, he wondered if he'd ever see through his left eye again.
Trump’s Immigration Forces Deploy “Less Lethal” Weapons in Dangerous Ways, Skirting Rules and Maiming Protesters
Civil rights and weapons experts cite the consequences of federal agents’ use of crowd control weapons: religious leaders shot with pepper balls and noxious chemicals. A nurse nearly blinded by tear g...
www.propublica.org
November 30, 2025 at 1:00 AM
When an ICE agent fired the tear gas canister, it hit 55-year-old nurse Vincent Hawkins in the face, shattering his glasses and concussing him.
As he was rushed to the emergency room, he wondered if he'd ever see through his left eye again.
As he was rushed to the emergency room, he wondered if he'd ever see through his left eye again.
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A White House website with a dedicated Lügenpresse tab marks a pretty bleak moment in US history.
Don't know whether this is new or has been up for awhile. Either way, when the White House creates a hit list of journalists it doesn't like, the free press is in danger. www.whitehouse.gov/mediabias/
Media Offenders
Explore the Media Bias Tracker that fact checks and holds Fake News accountable. False claims debunked, Hall of Shame for serial offenders, Leaderboard of networks ranked by Repeated Lies. Stay inform...
www.whitehouse.gov
November 30, 2025 at 12:16 AM
A White House website with a dedicated Lügenpresse tab marks a pretty bleak moment in US history.
Do churches run assisted living facilities? And if not, why not?
November 29, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Do churches run assisted living facilities? And if not, why not?
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This piece highlights how rural officials desperate for revenue are offering tax incentives and other special treatment to try to lure data centers into their communities, responding to the claim that they will be economic boosters, when they are anything but.
November 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
This piece highlights how rural officials desperate for revenue are offering tax incentives and other special treatment to try to lure data centers into their communities, responding to the claim that they will be economic boosters, when they are anything but.
I want to point out how as an undergrad 25 years ago, I had no time to read anything or watch anything or listen to anything outside of class assignments. Same thing during my masters. The only way I can “read” other things now is I drive 6-hours round trip for PhD and survive on Libby.
When I ask them: "What are you reading? What are you watching? What are you listening to?" Often, the answer is: nothing. Which has a direct effect on their over-use of prompts and AI, because they can't think of ideas, because they are literally not engaging with a single figurative thing.
November 29, 2025 at 5:16 AM
I want to point out how as an undergrad 25 years ago, I had no time to read anything or watch anything or listen to anything outside of class assignments. Same thing during my masters. The only way I can “read” other things now is I drive 6-hours round trip for PhD and survive on Libby.
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Seems like a weird thing to tweet on the day when your boss said he’d pardon someone convicted of sending 400 tons of cocaine into the US.
November 29, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Seems like a weird thing to tweet on the day when your boss said he’d pardon someone convicted of sending 400 tons of cocaine into the US.
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Trump can barely fog a mirror, his approval is in the toilet and other institutions have showed that bending the knee only brings them back for more but standing up to them often gets results.
And yet:
And yet:
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Trump can barely fog a mirror, his approval is in the toilet and other institutions have showed that bending the knee only brings them back for more but standing up to them often gets results.
And yet:
And yet:
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S Carolina bill to execute women who have an abortion
November 28, 2025 at 11:34 PM
S Carolina bill to execute women who have an abortion
Our former library director is suing the county over her firing for not “moving” books. I made the point to read the challenged books and they were all perfectly fine for their intended age groups.
Public libraries in Tennessee have begun to shut down as they carry out an order from state officials to remove children’s books containing LGBTQ+ themes or characters.
www.rawstory.com/alternet-pos...
www.rawstory.com/alternet-pos...
Alarm as Tennessee libraries shut down for Republican 'book purge'
Public libraries in Tennessee have begun to shut down as they carry out an order from state officials to remove children’s books containing LGBTQ+ themes or characters.For Popular Information, Rebecca...
www.rawstory.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Our former library director is suing the county over her firing for not “moving” books. I made the point to read the challenged books and they were all perfectly fine for their intended age groups.
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Private prison company GEO Group allegedly paid immigration detainees $1/day for work in its facility. Now it’s arguing in court that can’t be sued for that because the facility is part of a government contract. bit.ly/4pfafj2
Supreme Court Considers Private Prison Case
A private prison company seeks a ruling that could help all government contractors evade liability.
www.brennancenter.org
November 28, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Private prison company GEO Group allegedly paid immigration detainees $1/day for work in its facility. Now it’s arguing in court that can’t be sued for that because the facility is part of a government contract. bit.ly/4pfafj2
Speaking of enshittification, the Ancestry . com website has become ridiculously difficult to use over the years. Even if you’re a paid member. I’m about to go back to paper and a Google spreadshee
November 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Speaking of enshittification, the Ancestry . com website has become ridiculously difficult to use over the years. Even if you’re a paid member. I’m about to go back to paper and a Google spreadshee
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🧵Ecstatic + GRATEFUL to share the cover of my first book, The Price of Exclusion: The Pursuit of Healthcare in A Segregated Nation (HarperCollins June 2026). I can’t wait to share this in community with you. Pre-orders are available today, wherever books are sold : bookshop.org/beta-search?...
November 28, 2025 at 2:52 PM
🧵Ecstatic + GRATEFUL to share the cover of my first book, The Price of Exclusion: The Pursuit of Healthcare in A Segregated Nation (HarperCollins June 2026). I can’t wait to share this in community with you. Pre-orders are available today, wherever books are sold : bookshop.org/beta-search?...