John Hashimoto

Now: Frontiers Product Studio & Board @TheAssemblyNC Formerly @Deloitte @USDS @CNN and two still breathing startups. Always: @UNC

[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

The Marine Band invited young musicians of color to perform—until Trump’s executive order shut it down. But they refused to be silenced. With military band veterans stepping in, they played for a nation that needed to hear them.

🎥: @60Minutes

[Lady Jaujau @ladyjaujau]

Singing, dancing, fighting for freedom !
Happy woman's day to the brave Ukrainian women 💪🇺🇦

[John Hashimoto @johnhashimoto1]

@MorningBrew @grok what impact will this have on Deloitte’s public sector practice?

[John Hashimoto @johnhashimoto1]

@ATRightMovies Andre Holland in The Knick did not get his due.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

RETWEET if you stand with President Zelensky!

[Farzad Mostashari @Farzad_MD]

1/ After residency at Mass General Hospital, I reported to Atlanta to meet my fellow CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service Officers.

I have never felt so intimidated by my peers

The best and the brightest, they were star clinicians, had served in disaster zones; MD/PhDs and MSF.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

RETWEET if you’re proud to stand with Harrison Ford against Donald Trump!

[Davis Winkie @davis_winkie]

I’m heartbroken to share that my friend Capt. Rebecca Lobach died in Wednesday evening’s crash near DC’s National Airport.

Rebecca was brilliant and fearless, a talented pilot and a PT stud. We trained and commissioned together from @UNCArmyROTC, and we had a lot of fun along the way, too.

We were both latecomers to the ROTC program, enrolling partway through the third year, and quickly bonded over being the new kids on the block.

Rebecca and I were in a training platoon together by coincidence during summer basic camp at Fort Knox in 2018. On “branch day,” when the cadets got to explore the different Army officer career paths, she and I were walking together through a field where a bunch of helicopters were parked.

She was a few feet in front of me when she stopped, turned, and pointed out an MH-6 Little Bird (an incredibly small helicopter!). She shot me a mischievous smile and said something like, “Think we can both fit?”

My dear readers: I am 6’6”, and Rebecca (a former college basketball player) is at least 5’8”. But I’ll be damned if we didn’t somehow stuff ourselves into that cockpit. My neck hurt, and I don’t think we would’ve been able to fly it very well, but we were both beaming in the selfie she took.

Our Linda’s Downbar trivia team — Two Man, Two Woman Wolfpack — was rarely victorious but was never defeated. “Not Last!” was our team motto. We sucked at the music round because all four of us had identical taste.

Rebecca played a crucial role in helping me navigate the hardest periods of my personal life. Our friend group sustained me and kept me engaged when every fiber of my being wanted to just go numb to this world. I owe her so much.

We stayed in touch after she commissioned as an active duty Black Hawk pilot, and I as an HR officer in the NC Army National Guard. After I went into journalism, she would call me when I wrote a funny or interesting story.

I wish we’d taken a photo together when we had lunch a year ago. I wish I’d remembered to invite her to a party I hosted a week ago. I wish she weren’t dead.

You are so missed, Rebecca. This world won’t be the same without you.

[Charlie Light @charliewrich]

The last thing EBITDA sees before it's adjusted

[Josh Kaplan @js_kaplan]

THREAD: In 2023, I received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of 1000s of secret files.

It came from a vigilante with a tumultuous past, who'd done a years-long undercover operation. He didn’t tell the FBI or his family. He only told me

[Joseph Cranney @joey_cranney]

By the end of 2025, research shows a third of U.S. local newspapers will be closed for good. Many remaining are broke and understaffed. But local newsrooms are still a vital force for good in communities across the country. Proof, just in the last year, of what we stand to lose:

[Mad Men Quotes @MadMenQts]

Christmas Eve mood 🎄🍸❄️💃🏻❤️

[John Drescher @john_drescher]

Roy Cooper is, in a sense, idiosyncratic. He was the product of a political machine with roots in tobacco country, a small-town guy who navigated progressive politics with a Southern drawl. By @jeffreybillman for @TheAssemblyNC. #ncpol https://t.co/6yI0cBipvB

[signüll @signulll]

the new invaluable traits:

- taste.

- insight & intuition.

- resilience.

technology has turned roughly everything else into a commodity.

[rex volcano @RexVolcano]

seeing a lot of “Bill Belichick is just taking the UNC job to line his son up for a coaching gig” posts, and I think that’s disrespectful to a NFL legend. Bill took the UNC job to help get his girlfriend into grad school

[John Drescher @john_drescher]

The rape and killing of a young woman in Madison County first captivated Mark Pinsky as a Duke student a half century ago. Investigators botched the case but after decades of research and a recent prison interview, he knows who did it. For @TheAssemblyNC. https://t.co/cXlSNNN67p

[John Hashimoto @johnhashimoto1]

Can't let a two-year "Big Bang" anniversary go by without a launch 🎺 of my own. Say hello to Frontiers.
https://t.co/5rxbmzF8wh

[The Assembly @TheAssemblyNC]

Our founder and CEO Kyle Villemain recently appeared on @WFAE to discuss the state of local news in North Carolina:

[The Assembly @TheAssemblyNC]

Happy Sunday. As we hurdle toward Election Day, here are the stories we published last week to keep you in the know, plus where to find the rest of the coverage you need before heading into the voting booth 🧵: