Kira Shishkin: The News in One Text a Day

0:00 – Intro — who is Kira Shishkin and what is Informed.now?
1:45 – Why reading the news in America has become exhausting
3:10 – How it works: one SMS per day, primary sources only
5:20 – Why they link directly to the source — and why no one else does
7:30 – The UN, the White House, and healthy skepticism of primary sources
10:15 – Facts vs. storytelling — why Informed.now doesn't tell you what to think
13:40 – How they decide what makes the cut: the significance filter
16:55 – Today's top stories live: OPEC output, China-Iran oil, Vietnam IP
20:10 – The two-way SMS — real humans, not chatbots
24:30 – Lou suggests FOIA requests — Kira puts it on the roadmap
27:15 – What to do when there are no primary sources (war reporting)
30:40 – Growing up in Ukraine and Israel — information warfare up close
34:20 – AI-generated war images, radicalization, and the social media echo chamber
37:50 – Kira's background: think tanks, TurboTax, private equity, crypto
41:10 – The business model: reader-funded, no ads, no investors, profitable
44:00 – Outro and where to find Informed.now