Lisa Hagen
@badnewshagen.bsky.social
NPR reporter. Was never really that good at Twitter either
Signal: @LisaNPR.44
Signal: @LisaNPR.44
From the bottom of my heart, thank you @brianphillips for this summary
I have zero doubts about how much more enjoyable this was than having paid attention or trying to catch up on journo group texts
I have zero doubts about how much more enjoyable this was than having paid attention or trying to catch up on journo group texts
People are calling my lede here "appalling," "nightmare fuel," "actively evil," and "a desecration of the human spirit"
The Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr. Affair Is Messier Than We Ever Could Have Imagined
Inside the most important, and also least important, story of our time
www.theringer.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:06 AM
From the bottom of my heart, thank you @brianphillips for this summary
I have zero doubts about how much more enjoyable this was than having paid attention or trying to catch up on journo group texts
I have zero doubts about how much more enjoyable this was than having paid attention or trying to catch up on journo group texts
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Thrilled to announce my new project: my friend @sohayward.bsky.social & I have a new podcast series!
AMERICAN UNEXCEPTIONALISM: Global Lessons on Fighting Religious Nationalism
We ask experts in democracy & religious nationalism around the globe to guide us.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/0...
AMERICAN UNEXCEPTIONALISM: Global Lessons on Fighting Religious Nationalism
We ask experts in democracy & religious nationalism around the globe to guide us.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/0...
001: It's Time to Leave American Exceptionalism Behind
Podcast Episode · American Unexceptionalism: Global Lessons on Fighting Religious Nationalism · 10/23/2025 · 31m
podcasts.apple.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Thrilled to announce my new project: my friend @sohayward.bsky.social & I have a new podcast series!
AMERICAN UNEXCEPTIONALISM: Global Lessons on Fighting Religious Nationalism
We ask experts in democracy & religious nationalism around the globe to guide us.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/0...
AMERICAN UNEXCEPTIONALISM: Global Lessons on Fighting Religious Nationalism
We ask experts in democracy & religious nationalism around the globe to guide us.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/0...
There is an internal narrative at NPR that listenership and support dropped because the Covid pandemic meant fewer commuters listening on the radio (Meanwhile podcasting and audio news shows like The Daily grew by leaps and bounds)
The comments on this post appear to tell a very different story
The comments on this post appear to tell a very different story
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Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
October 1, 2025 at 9:34 PM
There is an internal narrative at NPR that listenership and support dropped because the Covid pandemic meant fewer commuters listening on the radio (Meanwhile podcasting and audio news shows like The Daily grew by leaps and bounds)
The comments on this post appear to tell a very different story
The comments on this post appear to tell a very different story
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It is quite simply dishonest to describe TPUSA as a “free speech” organization and not even mention the “Professor Watchlist,” as NPR just did. Reporting on a crime does not entail adopting the victim’s views.
September 11, 2025 at 11:35 AM
It is quite simply dishonest to describe TPUSA as a “free speech” organization and not even mention the “Professor Watchlist,” as NPR just did. Reporting on a crime does not entail adopting the victim’s views.
August 8, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Is NPR erasing diverse voices?
NPR's Diverse Sources Database - an incredibly resource for qualified experts from underrepresented and marginalized perspectives -- is GONE. Click any link to the former directory and it just says "not found." One example: guides.library.columbia.edu/findingsources
NPR's Diverse Sources Database - an incredibly resource for qualified experts from underrepresented and marginalized perspectives -- is GONE. Click any link to the former directory and it just says "not found." One example: guides.library.columbia.edu/findingsources
Research Guides: Finding Underrepresented Sources: Home
A guide to resources for locating expert voices that are underrepresented in the news
guides.library.columbia.edu
July 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Is NPR erasing diverse voices?
NPR's Diverse Sources Database - an incredibly resource for qualified experts from underrepresented and marginalized perspectives -- is GONE. Click any link to the former directory and it just says "not found." One example: guides.library.columbia.edu/findingsources
NPR's Diverse Sources Database - an incredibly resource for qualified experts from underrepresented and marginalized perspectives -- is GONE. Click any link to the former directory and it just says "not found." One example: guides.library.columbia.edu/findingsources
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“We got a beating for breakfast. We got a beating for lunch. We got a beating for dinner.”
More than 200 Venezuelans disappeared to a Salvadoran megaprison have returned home. The horror stories are already emerging.
More than 200 Venezuelans disappeared to a Salvadoran megaprison have returned home. The horror stories are already emerging.
"We were kidnapped"
On Friday, more than 200 Venezuelans disappeared to a megaprison in El Salvador returned home. The horror stories are already emerging.
www.motherjones.com
July 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
“We got a beating for breakfast. We got a beating for lunch. We got a beating for dinner.”
More than 200 Venezuelans disappeared to a Salvadoran megaprison have returned home. The horror stories are already emerging.
More than 200 Venezuelans disappeared to a Salvadoran megaprison have returned home. The horror stories are already emerging.
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tada
*jazz hands*
*jazz hands*
July 17, 2025 at 4:45 AM
tada
*jazz hands*
*jazz hands*
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There's something about the way men use LLMs that feel like those men at the strip club who believe that the dancers like them for their personality and wit.
They just want a toy that makes them feel good.
They just want a toy that makes them feel good.
![Travis Kalanick, the founder of Uber who no longer works at the company, appeared on All-In to talk with hosts Jason Calacanis and Chamath Palihapitiya about the future of technology. When the topic turned to AI, Kalanick discussed how he uses xAI’s Grok, which went haywire last week, praising Adolf Hitler and advocating for a second Holocaust against Jews.
“I’ll go down this thread with [Chat]GPT or Grok and I’ll start to get to the edge of what’s known in quantum physics and then I’m doing the equivalent of vibe coding, except it’s vibe physics,” Kalanick explained. “And we’re approaching what’s known. And I’m trying to poke and see if there’s breakthroughs to be had. And I’ve gotten pretty damn close to some interesting breakthroughs just doing that.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qlnirjwff4ibiw3wchmleszo/bafkreiac2szurc5dnw6klquhpjmo7iafg4n6fwmrqyred7jrrph6h6mptq@jpeg)
July 16, 2025 at 4:19 AM
There's something about the way men use LLMs that feel like those men at the strip club who believe that the dancers like them for their personality and wit.
They just want a toy that makes them feel good.
They just want a toy that makes them feel good.
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efficiency, a toxic concept generally, is entirely antithetical to the production of thought and art!
July 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
efficiency, a toxic concept generally, is entirely antithetical to the production of thought and art!
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"conservative-leaning"
www.npr.org/2025/07/07/n...
www.npr.org/2025/07/07/n...
July 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
"conservative-leaning"
www.npr.org/2025/07/07/n...
www.npr.org/2025/07/07/n...
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Chris Rufo congratulates his "friends at the New York Times" for scooping him on the Zohran Mamdani college application thing.
July 7, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Chris Rufo congratulates his "friends at the New York Times" for scooping him on the Zohran Mamdani college application thing.
It’s so so cool to work in a media environment where news managers are terrified of even the slightest whiff of “woke” journalism and yet this kind of person is a bureau chief
TrUsT in jOUrnALisM iS at An aLLtiMe lOw
wHy?? HOw cAn iT bE
Things are really good. Everything is fine and chill
TrUsT in jOUrnALisM iS at An aLLtiMe lOw
wHy?? HOw cAn iT bE
Things are really good. Everything is fine and chill
"Trump is at the top of his game right now," says our Capitol bureau chief and senior Washington columnist Rachael Bade.
Watch Bade break down his four biggest wins of the past two weeks and read her column about how he dominated Congress here 👇
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Watch Bade break down his four biggest wins of the past two weeks and read her column about how he dominated Congress here 👇
ow.ly/XJWA50WkI3k
July 3, 2025 at 11:21 PM
It’s so so cool to work in a media environment where news managers are terrified of even the slightest whiff of “woke” journalism and yet this kind of person is a bureau chief
TrUsT in jOUrnALisM iS at An aLLtiMe lOw
wHy?? HOw cAn iT bE
Things are really good. Everything is fine and chill
TrUsT in jOUrnALisM iS at An aLLtiMe lOw
wHy?? HOw cAn iT bE
Things are really good. Everything is fine and chill
Good lord
He’s not a just a simple opponent of affirmative action; the guardian confirms he’s Jordan Lasker — a eugenicist who pals around with Nazis, and the Times is letting him funnel and legitimize his racism through their “news” paper: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
July 3, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Good lord
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I feel an under-appreciated aspect of the relationship between white supremacism and Western support for Israel is the limits to Israel’s perceived whiteness, there’s a definite tendency to discursively re-“Middle Easternize” them when their and Western objectives visibly deviate from each other.
🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 Trump says Israel and Iran “don’t know what the f*ck they’re doing.”
June 24, 2025 at 12:07 PM
I feel an under-appreciated aspect of the relationship between white supremacism and Western support for Israel is the limits to Israel’s perceived whiteness, there’s a definite tendency to discursively re-“Middle Easternize” them when their and Western objectives visibly deviate from each other.
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Refugees in Kenya have died at food distribution centers, officials noted, including a pregnant woman crushed to death during a stampede.
Aid workers said they expected more people to get hurt “as vulnerable households become increasingly desperate.”
Aid workers said they expected more people to get hurt “as vulnerable households become increasingly desperate.”
Death, Sexual Violence and Human Trafficking: Fallout From U.S. Aid Withdrawal Hits the World’s Most Fragile Locations
Exclusive State Department records show: As the Trump administration abandons its humanitarian commitments, diplomats are reporting that the cuts have led to violence and instability while…
www.propublica.org
June 23, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Refugees in Kenya have died at food distribution centers, officials noted, including a pregnant woman crushed to death during a stampede.
Aid workers said they expected more people to get hurt “as vulnerable households become increasingly desperate.”
Aid workers said they expected more people to get hurt “as vulnerable households become increasingly desperate.”
“The federal agency tasked with helping military family members gain legal status now refers them for deportation, government memos show.”
apnews.com/article/ice-...
apnews.com/article/ice-...
ICE detains Marine Corps veteran's wife who was still breastfeeding their baby
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detained the wife of a Marine Corps veteran in Louisiana during a routine immigration appointment in New Orleans.
apnews.com
June 23, 2025 at 10:41 PM
“The federal agency tasked with helping military family members gain legal status now refers them for deportation, government memos show.”
apnews.com/article/ice-...
apnews.com/article/ice-...
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NEW: The Supreme Court's conservatives halt a preliminary injunction that had restricted the Trump administration's ability to rapidly deport migrants to "third countries" where they have never lived and where allegedly face torture. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
![DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, ET AL. v.
D.V.D., ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
[June 23, 2025]
The application for stay presented to JUSTICE JACKSON
and by her referred to the Court is granted. The April 18,
2025, preliminary injunction of the United States District
Court for the District of Massachusetts, case No. 25–cv–
10676, is stayed pending the disposition of the appeal in the
United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such writ is
timely sought. Should certiorari be denied, this stay shall
terminate automatically. In the event certiorari is granted,
the stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of the Court.
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and
JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting.
In matters of life and death, it is best to proceed with caution. In this case, the Government took the opposite approach. It wrongfully deported one plaintiff to Guatemala,
even though an Immigration Judge found he was likely to
face torture there. Then, in clear violation of a court order,
it deported six more to South Sudan, a nation the State Department considers too unsafe for all but its most critical
personnel. An attentive District Court’s timely intervention only narrowly prevented a third set of unlawful removals to Libya.
Rather than allowing our lower court colleagues to manage this high-stakes litigation with the care and attention](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreietxy2onxpw2fhgui4rl6cuor52zfdsq5dirhspuslk7tqxfq4rty@jpeg)
June 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM
NEW: The Supreme Court's conservatives halt a preliminary injunction that had restricted the Trump administration's ability to rapidly deport migrants to "third countries" where they have never lived and where allegedly face torture. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
"The livestream shows Mario Guevara, who is known for his Spanish-language coverage of immigration raids, wearing a helmet and a vest identifying him as “PRESS” during a Saturday protest against President Donald Trump’s administration..."
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Metro Atlanta reporter under ICE hold following arrest at protest
A metro Atlanta journalist who was detained at a protest in DeKalb County while livestreaming to his hundreds of thousands of followers is still in custody because of his immigration […]
t.ly
June 20, 2025 at 3:43 PM
"The livestream shows Mario Guevara, who is known for his Spanish-language coverage of immigration raids, wearing a helmet and a vest identifying him as “PRESS” during a Saturday protest against President Donald Trump’s administration..."
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Please have a look at how NPR sees the work of its own reporters who highlight the well documented attacks on American civil rights underway today:
The content review this period focused on what it framed as "hot button social issues" and while it touched on several stories, here is what it said about mine:
www.npr.org/2025/06/10/g...
www.npr.org/2025/06/10/g...
June 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Please have a look at how NPR sees the work of its own reporters who highlight the well documented attacks on American civil rights underway today:
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Minnesota assassination suspect Vance Boelter seems to be associated with the authoritarian, charismatic Christian right.
2 months ago, The Christ for The Nations Institute (CFNI) honored Cindy Jacobs, a top apostle and prophet in the theocratic New Apostolic Reformation movement.
2 months ago, The Christ for The Nations Institute (CFNI) honored Cindy Jacobs, a top apostle and prophet in the theocratic New Apostolic Reformation movement.
June 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Minnesota assassination suspect Vance Boelter seems to be associated with the authoritarian, charismatic Christian right.
2 months ago, The Christ for The Nations Institute (CFNI) honored Cindy Jacobs, a top apostle and prophet in the theocratic New Apostolic Reformation movement.
2 months ago, The Christ for The Nations Institute (CFNI) honored Cindy Jacobs, a top apostle and prophet in the theocratic New Apostolic Reformation movement.
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we unfortunately do.
I would like go live in precedented times.
June 13, 2025 at 3:40 AM
we unfortunately do.
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2/2
PBS, notably News Hour, remarkably brave and unbowed under current threats.
NPR, not so much.
We see this contrast elsewhere. (Harvard v Columbia. Perkins Coie vs Paul Weiss.) It's striking.
PBS, notably News Hour, remarkably brave and unbowed under current threats.
NPR, not so much.
We see this contrast elsewhere. (Harvard v Columbia. Perkins Coie vs Paul Weiss.) It's striking.
June 12, 2025 at 11:41 PM
2/2
PBS, notably News Hour, remarkably brave and unbowed under current threats.
NPR, not so much.
We see this contrast elsewhere. (Harvard v Columbia. Perkins Coie vs Paul Weiss.) It's striking.
PBS, notably News Hour, remarkably brave and unbowed under current threats.
NPR, not so much.
We see this contrast elsewhere. (Harvard v Columbia. Perkins Coie vs Paul Weiss.) It's striking.
Ok but which ones tho
Also regret is not the same as saying something isn’t true
Also regret is not the same as saying something isn’t true
June 11, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Ok but which ones tho
Also regret is not the same as saying something isn’t true
Also regret is not the same as saying something isn’t true