makana
@hemakaainana.bsky.social
Studied thermofluids now do data engineering. Housing advocate, first chair in the peanut gallery. Aloha, akua, ea!!
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Skyline ridership grew by nearly 30,000 riders in November, the first full month of the rail's second segment.
Read more: https://tinyurl.com/5n75x2xv
Read more: https://tinyurl.com/5n75x2xv
December 7, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Skyline ridership grew by nearly 30,000 riders in November, the first full month of the rail's second segment.
Read more: https://tinyurl.com/5n75x2xv
Read more: https://tinyurl.com/5n75x2xv
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MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours°
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
December 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours°
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
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Tapping the sign (@boocanan.bsky.social)
December 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Tapping the sign (@boocanan.bsky.social)
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if they actually legalize kei trucks I'll put that on my 'gotta hand it to em' list, right after killing the penny
December 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
if they actually legalize kei trucks I'll put that on my 'gotta hand it to em' list, right after killing the penny
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Friday morning December 5th from 6am to 9am we will be outside of Honolulu City Hall with Teamsters Local 996. Join us to support the city transit workers who literally keep the island moving 🚍
December 5, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Friday morning December 5th from 6am to 9am we will be outside of Honolulu City Hall with Teamsters Local 996. Join us to support the city transit workers who literally keep the island moving 🚍
Worth considering that it’s folks like this we’re dealing with when we negotiate about Red Hill and the leases.
December 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Worth considering that it’s folks like this we’re dealing with when we negotiate about Red Hill and the leases.
wtf is wrong with this pity piece crying about how UnitedHealthcare is so pitiable cause they’re not making enough and they did a little fraud so now they’re in trouble as if their billions in quarterly profits weren’t the real issue. Who wrote this the UHC pr team?
December 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
wtf is wrong with this pity piece crying about how UnitedHealthcare is so pitiable cause they’re not making enough and they did a little fraud so now they’re in trouble as if their billions in quarterly profits weren’t the real issue. Who wrote this the UHC pr team?
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It's almost as if this is the culmination of one big, carefully crafted, well-executed plan.
LeverNews.com/book
LeverNews.com/book
December 4, 2025 at 3:13 AM
It's almost as if this is the culmination of one big, carefully crafted, well-executed plan.
LeverNews.com/book
LeverNews.com/book
please, please let this be a silver lining in these dark days.
December 4, 2025 at 5:47 PM
please, please let this be a silver lining in these dark days.
They look like theyʻre about to drop a Trump diss track full Bollywood style
December 4, 2025 at 5:38 PM
They look like theyʻre about to drop a Trump diss track full Bollywood style
I completely missed this but itʻs good news!
Gov Green was either ignorant of the fact that Army couldnʻt get appropriation for eminent domain without congress or was willing to ignore the law if it meant getting what he wanted. The whole thing was bad and weird on both sides.
Gov Green was either ignorant of the fact that Army couldnʻt get appropriation for eminent domain without congress or was willing to ignore the law if it meant getting what he wanted. The whole thing was bad and weird on both sides.
Hawaii no longer faces an imminent deadline to negotiate new leases for military training lands, Gov. Josh Green said Monday.
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/12/01/gov-green-discusses-military-land-lease-negotiations/
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/12/01/gov-green-discusses-military-land-lease-negotiations/
December 3, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I completely missed this but itʻs good news!
Gov Green was either ignorant of the fact that Army couldnʻt get appropriation for eminent domain without congress or was willing to ignore the law if it meant getting what he wanted. The whole thing was bad and weird on both sides.
Gov Green was either ignorant of the fact that Army couldnʻt get appropriation for eminent domain without congress or was willing to ignore the law if it meant getting what he wanted. The whole thing was bad and weird on both sides.
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Several community members are looking to nature to help control the invasive Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle, which predominantly targets palm trees but will also eat other important local crops, like kalo, kō and mai‘a.
Hawai‘i Explores Natural Approaches to Address Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle - Overstory
Community members and researchers are looking at how sulfur, insect-killing fungi and other nature-based approaches can help Hawai‘i control the invasive pest.
overstoryhawaii.org
December 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Several community members are looking to nature to help control the invasive Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle, which predominantly targets palm trees but will also eat other important local crops, like kalo, kō and mai‘a.
Hawaii really should do this. People rarely think about it but we spend an awful lot on debt servicing and and awful lot on issuing our debt. Itʻs a huge subsidy for BankOH, FHB, etc all of which are state chartered banks btw.
In 1975, Wall Street declared war on New York, sending the city into a fiscal crisis.
A forgotten public banking proposal in the state assembly could have stopped it — and put both the city and the country on the path to socialized finance.
A forgotten public banking proposal in the state assembly could have stopped it — and put both the city and the country on the path to socialized finance.
New York City’s Forgotten Public Bank Plan
In 1975, Wall Street declared war on New York, sending the city into a fiscal crisis. A forgotten public banking proposal in the state assembly could have stopped it — and put both the city and the country on the path to socialized finance.
jacobin.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Hawaii really should do this. People rarely think about it but we spend an awful lot on debt servicing and and awful lot on issuing our debt. Itʻs a huge subsidy for BankOH, FHB, etc all of which are state chartered banks btw.
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(2) A super concrete materialist populist agenda — wages, benefits, vacation, childcare costs, medical costs, housing costs, corporate oppression, etc. — that directly helps people, while hammering at the contradictions between the GOP’s populist rhetoric and oligarchic results.
November 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
(2) A super concrete materialist populist agenda — wages, benefits, vacation, childcare costs, medical costs, housing costs, corporate oppression, etc. — that directly helps people, while hammering at the contradictions between the GOP’s populist rhetoric and oligarchic results.
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If you want a serious look at the war on science, read #ScienceUnderSiege by
@peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social and @michaelemann.bsky.social.
If you want parody look at the war on science, leave it to @randyrainbow.bsky.social - youtu.be/lDHpbnbmaME?...
@peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social and @michaelemann.bsky.social.
If you want parody look at the war on science, leave it to @randyrainbow.bsky.social - youtu.be/lDHpbnbmaME?...
RFK! - A Randy Rainbow Song Parody
YouTube video by Randy Rainbow
youtu.be
December 2, 2025 at 9:18 PM
If you want a serious look at the war on science, read #ScienceUnderSiege by
@peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social and @michaelemann.bsky.social.
If you want parody look at the war on science, leave it to @randyrainbow.bsky.social - youtu.be/lDHpbnbmaME?...
@peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social and @michaelemann.bsky.social.
If you want parody look at the war on science, leave it to @randyrainbow.bsky.social - youtu.be/lDHpbnbmaME?...
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Amazon, please stop asking me if books I bought month ago met my expectations. I still have unread books I bought in 2012. Be real.
December 2, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Amazon, please stop asking me if books I bought month ago met my expectations. I still have unread books I bought in 2012. Be real.
ʻIn the teeth of the Torment Nexus, then, the Catholic task is to repair and reempower such bodies, starting with unions, and to stimulate long-atrophied muscles for Pope Leo’s “unified action.”ʻ
if we don’t get a real mass movement going we are hosed. As @petedavis.bsky.social says join something!
if we don’t get a real mass movement going we are hosed. As @petedavis.bsky.social says join something!
The Christian- and social-democratic model represents the fullest expression of Catholic Social Teaching, inaugurated in the late 19th century by Leo XIII.
My @commonweal.bsky.social essay on its prospects in time of Leo XIV, based on my Villanova lecture
www.commonwealmagazine.org/future-chris...
My @commonweal.bsky.social essay on its prospects in time of Leo XIV, based on my Villanova lecture
www.commonwealmagazine.org/future-chris...
Escaping the ‘Torment Nexus’
The fate of the 21st century turns on whether we appreciate the logic of Christian democracy and of the social teaching that inspired it.
www.commonwealmagazine.org
December 2, 2025 at 8:46 PM
ʻIn the teeth of the Torment Nexus, then, the Catholic task is to repair and reempower such bodies, starting with unions, and to stimulate long-atrophied muscles for Pope Leo’s “unified action.”ʻ
if we don’t get a real mass movement going we are hosed. As @petedavis.bsky.social says join something!
if we don’t get a real mass movement going we are hosed. As @petedavis.bsky.social says join something!
update: they did (or at least it's alive)
December 2, 2025 at 7:47 AM
update: they did (or at least it's alive)
Just pass it.
Bill 9 would slowly phase out short-term vacation rentals in parts of Hāna, South and West Maui, as well as Molokaʻi.
More here: https://tinyurl.com/bddthd6d
More here: https://tinyurl.com/bddthd6d
December 2, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Just pass it.
I really want to believe we’re capable of executing on things competently, but the fact that they’re still behind 4 months on from a software roll out that was supposed to accelerate things is not great for that hope.
O‘ahu’s Department of Planning and Permitting has closed its building permit counter this week as staff work to reduce a backlog of applications and improve processing time.
Read more: https://tinyurl.com/a6x5nm7n
Read more: https://tinyurl.com/a6x5nm7n
December 2, 2025 at 3:11 AM
I really want to believe we’re capable of executing on things competently, but the fact that they’re still behind 4 months on from a software roll out that was supposed to accelerate things is not great for that hope.
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Genuinely hilarious. Please send it to China.
November 30, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Genuinely hilarious. Please send it to China.
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The events on private property outside of Hilo were held without permits, and critics say they should not be allowed to continue, especially on agricultural land.
Festival Inspired By ‘Burning Man’ Ignites Big Island Debate
The events on private property outside of Hilo were held without permits, and critics say they should not be allowed to continue, especially on agricultural land.
dlvr.it
December 1, 2025 at 10:07 AM
The events on private property outside of Hilo were held without permits, and critics say they should not be allowed to continue, especially on agricultural land.
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Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
The state of legacy local media summed up.
Target stores are known for sparking joy in shoppers. But the Kaneohe location at Windward Mall had even more reasons to smile today during the "Heroes and Helpers" event. Read more: https://tinyurl.com/2jcdsbdd
November 30, 2025 at 7:40 AM
The state of legacy local media summed up.