My friend treats a slow reply to political news as proof I don't care

At 11:18 p.m., my phone lit up with a voice note about a political announcement. At 11:26 came, "I suppose this doesn't matter to you."

It does matter. I was washing the lunch containers for an early shift and hadn't read the announcement. This has happened three evenings in a row: a link, an urgent reaction, then a judgment about my silence.

I told my friend I'd look the next day. She said waiting was a luxury and reminded me that the decision affects her family more directly than mine. I don't want to answer that by pretending our stakes are equal. I also can't promise an immediate political response every time my phone buzzes.

What would a fair boundary sound like here—one that makes room for her concern without making my response time the measure of whether I care?