This is a gorgeous reflection. I encourage you to find a quiet, still moment to read it.

USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked

Hawai’i wants a word www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles...

The US should just give Hawaiʻi back to the Native Hawaiians.

A peculiar, ill-considered decision by Mayor Bissen on Maui. www.civilbeat.org/2025/12/maui...

Trump-esque behavior at HNL Hale. www.civilbeat.org/2025/12/here...

This guy openly flouts county land use zoning processes, sticking his middle finger at Planning Dept. officials and concerned neighbors, then has the audacity to say he’s “trying to comply in spirit”. Because he has money, so doesn’t care. Shut it down. www.civilbeat.org/2025/12/fest...

“This puts Hawaiʻi in a more advantageous position than we were in just weeks ago.” - Josh Green. Does he mean the position he, himself, stoked and put us in through his fearmongering propaganda? That one? mauinow.com/2025/11/26/g...

With all three nominees unable to gain a majority of support from its members, the Maui County Council just punted this decision to Mayor Bissen.

Neil, who now lives in Portland and encourages others to give up on Hawaii and move to CONUS, doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Green has started from a position of “you’ll condemn it I guess”. OHA is the one actually negotiating and recognizing that we have a bad hand hoping to delay.

This is an abject failure on the part of Chuck Schumer and the Senate Democratic leadership that protects him.

“Just because you say you are open to learning and understanding our culture and our perspective, does not mean you are actually doing that.” bigislandnow.com/2025/11/16/l...

We donʻt need this @#%@. www.sfgate.com/hawaii/artic...

OHA statement. On point. Gov Green is pushing us into a false dichotomy. Hawaii can and must shape the negotiation not just accept the terms Trump admin imposes. Call the governor’s office. Green has national ambitions, make it clear those are imperiled by his actions here. #trump #🌺news

I hold respect for a couple members named to this so-called advisory committee but, w/the military threatening condemnation at the onset & Josh Green a willful participant through surrender & circumvention of his own State laws, they enter with their hands tied. governor.hawaii.gov/newsroom/off...

Full snub of OHA who are pretty obvious for inclusion as literally the ONLY elected reps for Native Hawaiians. SMH. Green is too thin skinned and resentful to hold high office.

OHA has the right idea here. We should give the military a nominal cost extension for 5-10 years and hope for a more favorable negotiating environment. People want this ended, not $1 billion to fuel Greenʻs liquid natural gas pipe dreams.

AOC stock rising tonight.

Hulō @seattletimes.com www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Probably the most appalling part of Green’s “proposal” (cower) to a “negotiated settlement” (extortion) with the Army is his assertion that it will “deliver justice to Hawaiʻi”. www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/11/05/g...

“It’s a culture of repair without relationship — a system that measures success by the first press release, not the second tide.” www.civilbeat.org/2025/10/will...

When the righteous fight to protect Kamehameha Schools admissions policy passes, there should then be diligent review over if they’re doing everything they can to help Native Hawaiian children at all levels. Their decision to eliminate this program is unfortunate. www.civilbeat.org/2025/10/kame...

"If there is a truer picture of Fascism anywhere in the world than in the Hawaiian Islands, then I do not know the definition of it.” - Eagen report, 1940 www.civilbeat.org/2025/10/maka...

May Council Member Kama rest in aloha. Things on the Maui County Council are going to get very interesting in her wake.

“We make ourselves too rooted to be removed. Too practiced to be erased. Too alive to be dismantled.” - OHA Board of Trustees Chair Kai Kahele substack.com/home/post/p-...

Excellent

Awa vs Tokuda for Hawaiʻi CD2 in 2026 could get very interesting.

When “my wife is Hawaiian” is starting to sound like “some of my best friends are black”.

Justice Sotomayor with a graphic dissent as the Supreme Court allows Alabama to move forward with the execution of Anthony Boyd by lethal gas:

Spotlight Now: “basically the governor is giving stolen lands to the military. That's the accusation. And that is the view of some of the people…” Josh Green: “Let me set them straight. ok...My wife is Hawaiian. I'm working on Hawaiian homelands like no one ever saw before…”

Here we go: “Students for Fair Admissions v. Kamehameha Schools c was filed this morning in federal court in Honolulu. Hearings are expected to be scheduled for early 2026.” kside.substack.com/p/hira-news-...

Absolutely it should. www.civilbeat.org/2025/10/shou...

Gonna need to see some sustained awards buzz for Boots on Netflix.

If you’re looking for a TL;DR on Amy Coney Barrett’s thoughts during her long book tour over recent SCOTUS rulings like Dobbs, Mahmoud, racial profiling, the nebulous shadow docket decisions, and declining public trust in the Court, it’s been this…: 🤷‍♀️ c: @strictscrutiny.bsky.social

The question is who and what demographic groups will mostly benefit from Green’s housing initiatives. The answer remains murky at best. www.civilbeat.org/2025/10/gree...

“This is, simply put, bullshit.” - @chrisgeidner.bsky.social www.lawdork.com/p/barrett-tu...

“Fraught as this question may be, it’s essential that we ask it if we care who tells our stories and how they’re told.” www.civilbeat.org/2025/10/maka...

“To be clear, this is not an endorsement…” …? Could’ve fooled me. www.civilbeat.org/2025/10/lee-...

Rep. Sarah McBride nails the message and the connection here. This is why it’s been important for Democrats to stand up in this moment, while Republicans shutdown the federal government to reward billionaires and help Trump consolidate his authoritarian power grab.

This whole episode from Justice McKenna seemed uncharacteristic and weird. www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/10/07/h...

Be wary whenever someone laments “unnecessary conflict between economic growth and environmental stewardship” without naming what, specifically, he finds “unnecessary”. “…we need to get over our history” should also give a reader pause alohastatedaily.com/2025/10/02/h...

“…asking the right questions, but pushing the wrong answers…” This, from @aaronregunberg.bsky.social, is the smartest critique of Ezra Klein’s egregious era that I’ve seen. newrepublic.com/article/2011...

“What could help is if the very wealthy continue to thrive. The top end of the income distribution contributes enormously to visitor spending here.” Even with context, just pause and think about how messed up that is. alohastatedaily.com/2025/09/26/b...

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.

Clarence Thomas now, abracadabra-style, moving the goal posts on when to give deference to stare decisis is cynical, disingenuous artifice. abcnews.go.com/Politics/jus...

NEW: Hawaii's Supreme Court keeps releasing opinions that denounce the U.S. Supreme Court. The latest? A new ruling that requires the police to record all interrogations from now on. The author took it as an opportunity to say Hawaii's court will protect due process—while SCOTUS isn't:

Get excited for all the Republican-friendly sitcoms coming to ABC this fall!

“Would judging law be reduced to the act of choosing among competing accounts of the past written by different groups of historians, based on some as-yet-undefined method of determining which account is the correct one?” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

We can’t discuss the merits on the appropriateness of a specific housing development in good faith, if you blanket cast those who raise concerns as taking a pro-homelessness position.

If you’re writing an editorial about free speech rights, whether or not you find Jimmy Kimmel funny is immaterial.