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Christina Phillips @tischrissyp.bsky.social · Jul 16

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Christina Phillips @tischrissyp.bsky.social · Jun 23

And the one before that.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · Jun 22

On Hannity tonight, Fox News’ National Security Correspondent Jennifer Griffin reports that it’s not clear whether the U.S. was able to destroy Iran’s nuclear site at Isfahan—despite Trump’s claim that all three sites have been “completely and totally obliterated.”

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · Jun 21

President Trump: “We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan.”

Donald J. Trump & @realDonald Trump
We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan. All planes are now outside of Iran air space. A full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Fordow. All planes are safely on their way home.
Congratulations to our great American Warriors.
There is not another military in the World that could have done this. NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE!Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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clyde bruckman's ghost's final repost says free link @ultralaser.bsky.social · Jun 22

reminder that the us did a coup in iran in 1953 when the cia and mi6 deposed the democratically elected prime minister of iran because he was nationalizing the oil fields which was bad for the predecessor to bp, who had been in charge since the end of wwii

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Ir...

1953 Iranian coup d'état - Wikipedia

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Christina Phillips @tischrissyp.bsky.social · Apr 12

Sometimes, you really just need a clear headline. I don’t know why this word salad is what we got, but the story is “Musk wrongly claims migrants take advantage of Social Security. Now, the administration is declaring thousands of living people as ‘dead’ to strip them of financial freedom.”

Christina Phillips @tischrissyp.bsky.social · Apr 9

Undercover boss except it’s the heads of every federal agency, and they have to spend a week doing the lowest paid customer service job at their agency.

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Christina Phillips @tischrissyp.bsky.social · Mar 19

I work on a show about civic participation and how our democracy works, so it’s my duty to remind everyone that your congressional representatives serve everyone on their district, not just the people who voted for them. So you have every right to show up to their town halls, and be listened to.

Christina Phillips @tischrissyp.bsky.social · Mar 19

There is no federal domestic terrorism law. Unfortunately, that information didn’t come until the 5th paragraph in this NYTimes story.

Christina Phillips @tischrissyp.bsky.social · Mar 13

“It’s not MY FAULT he took your rib.”

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Christina Phillips @tischrissyp.bsky.social · Feb 25

The words I think about every day: “anticipatory obedience.” Executive orders are for federal departments only. They are not directives to the public. They are not directives to businesses. www.cjr.org/analysis/ant...

On anticipatory obedience and the media

Trump's campaign against the Fourth Estate has been unfolding before our eyes—far more effectively than some in the press would like to believe.

www.cjr.org

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Dan Cassino @dancassino.bsky.social · Feb 24

Of course data lies. Data is like people: if you torture it enough, it’ll tell you whatever you want to hear.

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · Feb 7

NEW: An internal email obtained by WIRED from a threat intelligence team monitoring US Treasury systems advised labeling DOGE operatives an "insider threat," adding that it recommended suspending their access "immediately."
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A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’
An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

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Christina Phillips @tischrissyp.bsky.social · Feb 5

If you’re curious about how NPR and PBS operate, we made a whole episode back in June where we, public media journalists, tried to understand and explain our funding, including some mythbusting. We all learned a lot. @civics101pod.bsky.social www.civics101podcast.org/civics-101-e...

The CPB and the Politics of Public Media — Civics 101: A Podcast

What is the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, or the CPB? How does it all work? And why is it SO political? In this episode, senior producer Christina Phillips explains it all. She first spoke wit...

www.civics101podcast.org

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · Feb 4

Ok here is the thing with action/praxis/protest/showing up:

Sometimes you contribute by being a megaphone. Sometimes by being a wallet. Sometimes by being a physical body. Sometimes by being fuel or being relief.

If you can’t be one thing at any given moment you can almost certainly be another.

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Christina Phillips @tischrissyp.bsky.social · Feb 4

The recording academy inviting the first responders to thank the recording academy for inviting them to be thanked by Hollywood celebs for doing their jobs is a REAL CHOICE.

Christina Phillips @tischrissyp.bsky.social · Feb 2

Okay here’s my Grammy (aka award show) beef - why do they not lavalier mic the interviewers on the red carpet? Though I do kinda like watching a celeb almost get clocked in the mouth because the interviewer is flipping the mic back and forth… never mind I’ve convinced myself we shouldn’t do it.

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Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · Jan 28

During Trump's first term, the USDA gave hundreds of expert agricultural economists and researchers an ultimatum: Relocate across the country on a few weeks' notice, or lose your job. The results were devastating – a generational brain drain. Trump's not done.
www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

Trump Has A Plan To Sabotage The Government — And It Worked Perfectly His First Term

The first Trump administration's strategy caused a "brain drain" and a generational blow to American agricultural research. And Trump’s not finished.

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Christina Phillips @tischrissyp.bsky.social · Jan 29

If there’s 1 thing I’ve learned from working on a show about how our democracy works, it is this: A president doesn’t have to prove they can do something before they do it. Most do. Trump doesn’t. The burden is on the courts, states, Congress, and the public to enforce the limits of the job.

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New Hampshire Public Radio @nhpr.org · Jan 23

The Department of Homeland Security estimates the Laken Riley Act would cost $26.9 billion to implement in its first year.

Opponents of the bill note that data shows immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than those born in the U.S., and say the act would deprive immigrants of due process.

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Christina Phillips @tischrissyp.bsky.social · Jan 18

Mar-a-lago is the New York City of Florida.

Christina Phillips @tischrissyp.bsky.social · Jan 14

Listen, the Senate Confirmation Hearings (it’s Hegseth for DoD right now) are like a study guide for all the civics stuff you thought you knew. Sit there with a search bar open, we’re talking pardons, Geneva convention, JAG, nuclear triad, etc. Also good time to see/hear the senators you elected.

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Christina Phillips @tischrissyp.bsky.social · Jan 11

I’m a journalist, and I’m really really ready for us to stop referring to people like Anita Bryant as “anti-gay activists,” as though advocating for policy that is intolerant and discriminatory against an identity or group is in the same category as other kinds of activism. The word is bigotry.

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Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · Jan 7

This right here. There are a lot of reporters who would not make good influencers for the exact reasons why they are good reporters.

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · Jan 7

If you are popular enough on social media and making content that is actually profitable enough to sustain your job and others, you’re not going to be drawn to the traditional structure of a newsroom. It would be a lose-lose situation. You’re going to exist as an independent entity

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Christina Phillips @tischrissyp.bsky.social · Dec 15

Rewatching episodes of The Crown as I’m wont to do around the holidays, because I have a different interpretation each time I watch it. This time, my read on this show is that it is deeply scathing and cynical in every single beat. Season 3 Philip midlife crisis, anyone?

a man in a tuxedo and a woman in a tiara are looking at each other and the answer is no is displayed

Alt: Screenshot of The Crown where Prince Philip shakes his head at Queen Elizabeth as he says “the answer is no”

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David Folkenflik @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social · Dec 12

At Voice of America and its parent agency, Trump and his allies launched a twin attack on the professionalism of the civil service and the independence of US journalism

Some of my past coverage:

www.npr.org/series/10541...

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