I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it.

This is simultaneously not an especially radical theological belief and, politically speaking (especially in the U.S. context), quite a thing for Pope Leo to say. www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266859/...

Pope Leo in remarks to journalists tonight: "Someone who says I am against abortion but I am in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don't know if that's pro-life.” www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...

That's quite the chart annotation. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

It turns out Congress isn't the only part of government willing abdicating its constitutional authority.....republican governors are quite happy to toss out their own too

This is some very, very optimistic framing for what in trumpland might be called a “concept of a plan”. I mean this isn’t even discussed, and the military never comments on it just Green. I hope it’s true but it won’t be with complacency inducing headlines like this.

Feel like even though this is nonbinding kinda flies in the face of Green’s only weeks old promise of greater transparency on this issue. His much ballyhooed website is just an announcement of what has been done and a comment box. 🤦

Listen to this sick F. 👇

disappointed to learn that Trump did not in fact endorse a rebranded version of medicaid for all this morning but instead was parroting a Q-anon conspiracy to juice his support.

low key though.

Race against Case is heating up

C. elegans is a real animal and we set out to understand how it comes to have its distinctive biogeography. Its ancestral center of diversity is in the higher elevation forests of Hawaii. Its closest relatives are spread across east Asia. Did they travel from Asia? [Preprint 🧵]

At Our Ocean in Greece last year, I was asked what topics we are not talking about. I answered, "If you ask people in my community what the three greatest threats to the ocean are, they would answer, the 'military, the military, and the military'." www.reuters.com/investigatio...

FEDERAL RESERVE STUDY: "Investors raise rents at 60% higher rates than the average increase...and higher investor share in a neighborhood is correlated with faster rent increases for non-investor landlords." But sure...go ahead & insist investor landlords have nothing to do with the housing crisis.

It’s crazy that Maui doesn’t have a single unified public water utility and as this and the Lahaina fire proved, critical they move towards that imho.

“Drat,” said Toad.

3 stories of Pele from 1950s from the UCLA Historic Archive. The stories are recorded by a wahine who was a young girl at that time. Fascinating digital.library.ucla.edu/catalog/ark:/21198/zz00092tsf digital.library.ucla.edu/catalog/ark:... digital.library.ucla.edu/catalog/ark:...

What "impact"?

They’re prolly closer to this than AGI at any rate.

Love this headline lmao. The real question is why Hawaii gets so hyped about every single run of the mill over price fast food place that’s shows up here after they had it one time drunk on the strip.

Dutch late night TV has its take

The colors of sunrise nicely complement the volcanic action right now at Kīlauea. 🌋

Transportation emissions, costs, and road deaths are sky high. Representative Huffman and I are reintroducing legislation that will deliver a greener, safer, more affordable transportation system by prioritizing transit and walking/biking infrastructure.

U.S. protest culture, however, also needs to distinguish itself from 'generic Democratic fundraising'

Today's media apocalypse makes it a good day for everyone to watch this 1998 SNL animation that Robert Smigel and Adam McKay managed to get on national TV once, before it was yanked off the air forever. www.cracked.com/article_4100...

"I can understand how these “Twitter Files”-heads feel. After all, some low-level feds suggested that Twitter remove some conspiracy posts during a global public health emergency. Compared to that rampant tyranny, a sitting president openly threatening his critics is hardly worth tweeting about."

The key to ending dark money in American politics is deceptively simple: amend state corporation law, not campaign finance law. CAP's @thmoore.bsky.social breaks it down for @USAToday.com: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

This was a delight to read on multiple levels but reading the segment disabusing the reader of Shapiro’s servile-capitalist interpretation of Macintrye was particularly enjoyable.

The perfect album for a lazy Hawaiian afternoon, or even wish you were in Hawaii lazy afternoon. music.apple.com/us/album/the...

My piece on American democratic socialism for @unherd.com unherd.com/2025/09/soci...

No, Bill Maher is wrong, and the late Charlie Kirk was wrong: Socialism isn't alien to the American tradition: America has had homegrown socialist movements going back to the early republic. @mattpolprof.bsky.social for @unherd unherd.com/2025/09/soci...

“A weekly rest day would let our team fix trails, trim trees, and keep everything safe without disturbing visitors,” said Honolulu Botanical Gardens Director Joshlyn Sand. Read for more info: https://tinyurl.com/mrx6ms76 

Did anyone vote for Trump to cripple cancer research in the US? Didn't think so, yet that is exactly what he is doing. I spent my career doing cancer research, and as a survivor of multiple cancers, I have a question: Who asked for this? No one that I know. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

Hankyoreh now has an official English translation of this editorial: english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...

The Pope is exactly right. No society can survive when one man becomes a trillionaire while the vast majority struggle to just survive — trying to put food on the table, pay rent and afford health care. We can and must do better.

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

i swear to god i am not migrating to yet another social media site so this one better get its shit together

Leaving Safeway with two boxes of cereal and milk for less than $15 dollars and feeling like it’s 2012 again.

Japan Times Editorial: "The fact that only the U.S. suffers this level of firearm-related violence renders specious the claim that this problem cannot be addressed through gun control." www.japantimes.co.jp/editorials/2...

True story: The only time I ever saw Charlie Kirk in person was when I was at the Democratic National Convention, and he was given a DNC press credential while I was being denied one.

‘Booty’ and ‘butt’ are synonyms. ‘Call’ and ‘dial’ are synonyms. But, a ‘booty call’ and a ‘butt dial’ are VERY different things.

The Japanese parent company of 7-Eleven is betting billions of dollars that it can expand its business in the United States by making its convenience stores more like the food meccas they are in Japan. | via @nytimes.com

A kāhea. Please sign, repost, and share broadly especially if in Hawaii. Let’s show that Hawaii is united behind Hawaiians. #hawaii, #kanakasky

A kāhea. Please sign, repost, and share broadly especially if in Hawaii. Let’s show that Hawaii is united behind Hawaiians. #hawaii, #kanakasky

Front page news.

Hawaii understands, sadly, Puerto Rico. This is every place the US military goes.

He veto’ed a law saying it was unconstitutional now plans to have an EO saying the same thing that could have been state law? How does that compute