Busy morning in kpop news
10.03.2026 11:02
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Busy morning in kpop news
"For the next phase of my career, I look forward to some independence and finding new spaces to share my work in line with my personal goals."
Another CBS News journalist leaving and talking about independence. Bit of a not-so-subtle hint at what's happening over there.
My name is Marisa Kabas, and I'm an independent journalist who publishes The Handbasket. I'm reaching out about a matter that involves your team and that continues to trouble me. In June of last year, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and I filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan Police Department to compel them to release body camera footage from the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace. What followed was months of back and forth with their lawyers, arguing why it was in the public interest to release the un-redacted footage in its entirety. Though tiny segments were handed over, that wasn't enough: We wanted all of it.Β On February 18, 2026, a DC judge ruled in our favor, and your reporter Mark Segraves sent a kind note of congratulations that day. Then on Monday, March 2nd, the footage was handed over to me and excitedly announced I'd received it and would be reviewing it in the coming days and sharing what I learned. When Segraves emailed me this past Thursday asking for my phone number, I didn't think much of it. But when he called me just before 2pm on Friday to let me know NBC4 Washington would be airing a segment at 5pm, I grew concerned.Β Segraves said he'd obtained some of the footage via a FOIA request that week after he heard the footage had been released to me. He said he'd credit the work of RCFP and me, but it was little comfort. I asked if he'd known the day before when he emailed me for my number, why didn't he tell me then? He didn't have a good answer for that. He acknowledged all the hard work I'd done getting this footage released. I asked him if he could hold the story until Monday, to which he replied that he's "not just a blogger" (implying that that's all I am, presumably) and that he'd have to check with his editor. I said fine. Nearly an hour later he called back to say his editor refused to hold the story, but that they were happy to interview me via Zoom to add to the package, and I said I would.
What followed was two hours of furiously writing and posting clips of the footage to Youtube so I could get something published before the 5pm broadcast, and in the midst of that, recording a quick Zoom interview with a person who was about to take credit for my work. At 4:59pm ET, The Handbasket published a piece titled "Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid." Then I tuned into NBC4 Washington via your website to catch the broadcast, and my instinct to rush to get something out first was proven right.Β "It's a story you're seeing first on News4," your newscast began. "For the first time we're getting an inside look at what happened the day the Trump administration took over the US Institute of Peace. News4 obtained more than four hours of police body camera video from that day." What followed was more than six minutes of clips and commentary from Segraves, but it's not until six minutes and 21 seconds into the piece that he mentions my name (mispronounced though he asked for the correct pronunciation on Zoom), "The Handbasket blog," and the RCFP's foundational role in bringing this footage to light. I was angry, but didn't feel there was much I could do. Then I saw the version NBC4 posted to Instagram and TikTokβthe video itself made ZERO mention of the RCFP or my work, only briefly acknowledging it in the written caption on Instagram, and not even bothering to do that on TikTok. An average viewer with no background on the case is lead to believe that this footage was released because of your efforts. When I saw that, I decided I couldn't let this go. It's difficult to explain what it's like to spend nearly a year working on a story only to have another reporter and outlet surreptitiously take credit for it; months of work and personal risk only to have another reporter lying in wait to swoop in. What NBC4 did was immoral, unethical, and to be frank, just truly sucked.
I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:
Omg the time change left me in such a mess yesterday
holy shit
food
#γ€γ©γΉγ #Illust #illustration
It's another foggy sleepy hollow kind of morning
People are missing the point in replying to this. Shes not a billionaire because she gives her money away to charity and help people ten times over.
But think about all the money she gives away TO help. She should have been one waaaaay before now
She is quite literally the billionaire that ISNT.
Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
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When I said I wanted Gen Z to change the world, I did not mean these two clowns, and I did not mean this
Ah, so weβre in the Spring of Deception right now
I'm unsure how people really think people were downplaying a virus that can kill you, make you go blind, wipe out your immune system for years, and oh yeah come back and kill you a decade after you thought you'd shaken it.
The episode page for The Wicked Ladies-in-Waiting on Tapas. It features a new cover image with the main couple and a note that the new season begins on March 26.
Omg this one is coming back too!!
The chapter page for Flower of Allure on Manta. It features a new cover image with the main couple in an embrace and showered with flowers. There is a note that Season 2 is coming on March 12.
It's coming back next Thursday!!
maybe if kpop stans put as much effort into learning korean instead of insulting and forcing idols to learn english they'd realize it's fucking hard to lean a new language!!! just a thought
Chuando Tan
Chuando Tan
Chuando Tan
Chuando Tan
Ainβt nobody tell me about Singaporean photographer and former model, Chuando Tan, who was born in 1966β¦making him 60 years old. Geesh
Yuck
And there it is
There is no Democratic Party without Black women
Fog was so thick this morning, it was like driving through a horror movie.
Oh Cube, you remain so fucking useless. It would have been helpful to announce that i-dle was performing on the Today Show BEFORE the exact same day they performed. I cannot.
The last of the snow has melted from the front yard. That's it! No more snow!!
All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post β including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East β based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.
idle miyeon #kpop
Baby Don't Cry comeback at the end of the month
#kpop #bdc #BabyDontCry
You know, the snow was almost all melted in my front yard. Alas. It's once again blanketed in white.
tomorrow is with one of the biggest election days of the year. there's so much to go over it's hard to know where to start.
so, let me help:
here are the *10* elections i'm watching the most closely, *at the state and local level* (=no federal elections included!)
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IG KellyClarksonShow βWunmi Mosaku reveals Michael B.
Jordan's crazy trick to playing Smoke AND Stack!β
What a talent! π€βπΎ
Oh look. Snow. Again.
