The screaming will continue until the news improves

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say www.reuters.com/world/middle...

“Asked whether Americans should be worried about retaliatory attacks at home, Trump acknowledges the possibility. ‘I guess,’ he says.”

It's always "like dogs"

Dow falls 900 points as oil resumes surge toward $80 a barrel amid Iran conflict: Live updates

so Iran has apparently knocked out and destroyed / disabled to some extent two U.S. THAAD batteries This is a massive deal. Aside from the expense, this is not a weapon system we just have a ton of lying around. You don't replace these easily. defencesecurityasia.com/en/irgc-dest...

they speak through history with one voice

At a potentially historic business and diplomatic conference last week in Hawai'i, leaders from Pacific Island nations and territories talked to American business leaders about how to connect their remote islands — and their people — with the global economy www.staradvertiser.com/2026/03/02/h...

Leaders from Pacific Island nations and territories gathered this week in Hawaii for what may prove to be a historic diplomatic and business summit aimed at promoting private sector investments and contracts across island communities in Oceania. www.staradvertiser.com/2026/02/25/h...

Important piece from @wesleymorgan.bsky.social and Matthieu Aikins: "They Fought for the C.I.A. in Afghanistan. In America, They’re Living in Fear. A shooting in Washington, D.C., threw their immigration status into jeopardy." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/m...

Interesting argument that joins the corruption/attack Taiwan reasons for Xi's removal of top leaders. The corruption is so pervasive it creates "rational pacifists" who know that war will kill their business. So the anti-corruption drive is aimed at Taiwan. asia.nikkei.com/opinion/xi-s...

Interestingly, I tried asking the free-tier of Gemini, Claude, and ChatGPT to identify the original source of this image for me, and all of them failed quite miserably (and all except Claude initially assumed it was a movie still).

As the U.S. military eyes China, it has big plans for arms manufacturing in the Pacific — and Hawaii sits at the center of its vision. www.staradvertiser.com/2026/02/16/h...

After the fall of Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan regime promise amnesty and reconciliation — but for hundreds still jailed and thousands facing charges, justice remains uncertain. n.pr/4c0zHFL

One thing that's sticking with me is the absolute carelessness the government had about redacting the names of victims (they exposed two survivors whose identities had been sealed for 20 years), juxtaposed against the precision with which they hid the names of alleged perpetrators.

News: The Bari Weiss-led CBS News is set to slash its staff by at least 15% in the coming months, according to people briefed on the network's layoff plans. More details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cbs-news-l...

this may draw a lot of mockery On Here but it's true, the u.s. build a mount everest of soft power that it is now in the process of burning to ashes

Honolulu’s Mayor is reaching out to Taiwan’s President asking him to renovate the crumbling Chinatown Cultural Plaza, which is owned by Taipei. A reminder of Hawaii’s very international politics www.staradvertiser.com/2026/02/08/h...

OK so now the former CEO of Tumblr is running the Washington Post. Tumblr. A company whose history is a textbook case study in corporate value destruction.

To increase Grok’s popularity, xAI embraced making sexualized material, rolling back guardrails and ignoring internal warnings about the risks of producing such content, according to more than a half-dozen former employees of X and xAI.

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

This is probably hyped up a bit, but it's not unrealistic to think the current administration may pick a fight with Vietnam. I mean, Nigeria for crying out loud. apnews.com/article/viet...

The Economist's excellent Mark Tully obituary observes Indians revered him because, unlike the country's own broadcasters, he "told them on the BBC what was going on in their own country". Underscoring Auntie's huge mistake in creating a paywall for today's users of BBC News online in America...

$40 an hour for what would probably be one of the sixty most accomplished fiction writers in America

Greg Bovino appears to be driving back to California after being reassigned from Minneapolis. Eagle-eyed observers spotted Bovino in South Dakota and Wyoming as he travels west in a convoy of SUVs.

Xi’s Military Purge May Set Back His Taiwan Ambitions www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/w...

"This glacier alone represents about 2.5 feet of sea level rise all over the world." @pbsnews.org www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

"In short, the investment firms treated Black Press like an asset-backed hedge, not a journalistic enterprise." This is a fairly common model among privately held media companies www.cjr.org/feature/carp...

Difficult read about the company that gobbled up newspapers in Oregon. Suzanne Roig, the now-former Bulletin business reporter at the end of the piece, and her husband, former Bulletin city editor Mike Gordon, were mentors to so many young reporters. www.cjr.org/feature/carp...

In just a few years, Carpenter Media has become the country’s fourth-largest newspaper operator. Some reporters wonder if it isn’t the cruelest. Read @loisparshley.bsky.social with support from @economichardship.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/feature/carp...

40 years after the Challenger disaster, here in Hawai'i some members of the community have been paying tribute to crew member Ellison Onizuka — who is both the first Asian American and the first person from the islands to go to space. www.staradvertiser.com/2026/01/28/h...

“.. U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard speaks on the phone while standing inside a vehicle loaded with boxes outside the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center after the FBI executed a search warrant there.” @reuters.com

People think China's internet censorship is like Xi Jinping pointing a wand and erasing posts or something but the reality is it's the big Chinese internet companies who do almost all the heavy lifting because they know if they don't they stop being rich and powerful.

I feel even worse for the fresh graduates who ARE passionate and are seeing employers basically going "I can't trust your degree because too many students can AI cheat" in addition to all those going 'we're not hiring because the robot can do it (it can't)'

Good write up here of the winter storm including climate connections, unequal impacts, and high level response. insideclimatenews.org/news/2601202...

"as a tool of authoritarian conflict management, the Board of Peace arguably upholds three basic principles: Might is right, ethnic cleansing is an appropriate tool of conflict resolution, and war is an opportunity for real estate development." read @danaelkurd.bsky.social

One note on this story. It says that I argued the gutting of local and regional media has meant that "narratives harden around priorities defined by coastal power centers." What I actually said was specifically in DC and NYC, the gutting of West Coast and Pacific media has been stark.

In just a few years, Carpenter Media has become the country’s fourth-largest newspaper operator. Some reporters wonder if it isn’t the cruelest. Read @loisparshley.bsky.social with support from @economichardship.bsky.social www.cjr.org/feature/carp...

In Hawai'i, Carpenter Media owns the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Midweek, the Hawai'i Tribune-Herald and West Hawai'i Today. Notably, West Hawai'i Today no longer has any reporters and is essentially a ghost paper.

Background: Carpenter Media owns the Juneau Empire, the Homer News and Peninsula Clarion - where reporters and editors quit this year in protest of corporate leadership interfering with news, but the company has a much wider footprint of buying up news outlets and gutting them.

For years I’ve been begging for a comprehensive look at Carpenter Media and their whole deal and it dropped this morning; tales about an existential threat to local news in my hometown and others like it. From the Alaska resignations to mass layoffs to unrealistic quotas and ghost papers.

The loss is cumulative: Fewer local reporters means a public discourse increasingly detached from the full geography of American power and responsibility. It also leaves the journalists who once filled those pages with nowhere to go. Read more here: www.cjr.org/feature/carp...

Gunmen opened fire on a crowded soccer field in Mexico on Sunday, killing 11 people and injuring 12, in an attack that appeared to highlight the persistent violence from the nation’s cartels despite the government’s efforts.

"Does Xi's Purge of Generals Make It More Or Less Likely that China Would Attack Taiwan?" by @brianhioe.bsky.social

"The current chaos, emblematic of the interregnum between the post World War Two order and a new global order yet to emerge, will probably continue for some time to come." mickryan.substack.com/p/davos-don-...

It is important to know that despite its prominence TikTok loses billions of dollars and tweaking algorithms lays havoc to your ad sales. Oracle is gonna destroy this thing and it’s going to combine with the data center debt and consume it whole www.theinformation.com/articles/tik...

President Trump called the media “the enemy of the American people” in a social media post a month after he was first sworn in as president in 2017. Since then, he has taken aim at media outlets and personalities he dislikes.

Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.

From a journalist from #Iran whom I managed to connect with (the internet is still largely out). Sharing with permission. “I don't know anyone who doesn't know a person that has been killed. I can't describe the hell we experienced.” 1/2