Hawaiʻi Appleseed is growing a suite of data-forward resources, including our Economic Justice Dashboard and Federal Medicaid & SNAP Policy Timeline, and now an interactive Budget Tracker to help make sense of the #budget negotiations going on. #hawaii #policy #data hiappleseed.org/press-releas...

New York — Two years after students occupied Hamilton Hall (naming it "Hind's Hall" in ode to the little girl killed by Israeli forces), Columbia students & faculty are demonstrating on campus, honoring Palestinian scholars killed by Israel's genocide. Video: Sunrise Columbia

"Tools of the Trade" PRP's former PAC board member Vlad Devens is up for Chief Justice. That's a conflict too big to gavel over. Full Senate vote coming. Speak up now. #ethics #hawaii #supremecourt #moneyinpolitics #darkmoney #pacs #politics #senate

People get SO upset when I mosey up to them and punch them square in the face for no reason. They're like "that's extremely rude and antisocial" and I'm just like:

Marking our 250th year by having the British King visit to remind us about the development of the rule of law, while the president reads lines presumably written by Stephen Miller about the transcendent nobility of the mythic English blood.

Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.

seems like a great technology to build literally everything on

We cannot allow all these data centers running on oil and natural gas to be built, y’all. We simply cannot. The Earth is too precious. To accelerate CO2 production for a technology this stupid is so profoundly reckless

in cuba news, the senate is going to be voting TOMORROW on whether the us will use military force against cuba you can fill out a form at this link to tell your congress member that you want them to oppose this and to show support on a war powers resolution instead acere.org/urge-your-re...

"Tools of the Trade" PRP's former PAC board member Vlad Devens is up for Chief Justice. That's a conflict too big to gavel over. Full Senate vote coming. Speak up now. #ethics #hawaii #supremecourt #moneyinpolitics #darkmoney #pacs #politics #senate

This is a position that should lead to expulsion in a Democratic majority

Interesting to see which journalist types are out here talking about the WHCD attendees' trauma tonight but haven't said anything about the huge recent spike in journalists actually being killed while doing their job! Telling, maybe!

And prices only increased 1.5%. So a $4 burger would now be $4.06. At the same time, hundreds of thousands of workers got substantial raises, with the average raise registering at more than 10%. capitalandmain.com/despite-apoc...

A new report from the University of California shows that the state's decision to raise the minimum wage for fast food workers to $20/hr didn’t hurt jobs, or raise prices much. Data from over 2,000 restaurants shows that the $20/hr minimum wage didn’t reduce employment. /1

"States rights" I cry as I forcibly federalize and strip away parts of a state

At least we already know they'll fail

i’ve worked in tech more than 20 years. it has never been more ridiculous.

This senior retirement village really is my favorite place in the world. The old dogs are the best!

Republican leadership intended to vote to gut the Endangered Species Act today… and then didn't have the support needed, so they pulled the bill. Happy Earth Day! 🌍

“The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant and so devastating that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored because it cannot survive their being repeated.” —Justice Robert H. Jackson, Chief American Prosecutor, Nuremberg, 1946

Mass shooting in Winston Salem NC kills 2 kids and 8 injured Schools nearby all went on lockdown all day! Not even a blip on the radar really. 😔🤷🏻‍♀️ #NC #NCpol wlos.com/news/local/m...

The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.

as it becomes clear that Yes has won in VA and gerrymandering will pass, a message to Republican voters: you brought this on yourselves you convinced the most fairness-obsessed, That Wouldn’t Be Fair-minded voters in the country to affirmatively vote to put you in the dumpster you earned this

US veterans occupy Congress building in protest over Gaza/Iran The Veterans against Genocide group, some of them holding folded US flags and others wearing keffiyehs, stood silently www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

Many. Such. Cases.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

If this man had murdered eight strangers the story would lead every news outlet. But because they are his children, it's "family violence," "domestic violence" -- undeserving of the same attention. Even though this violence is much more common www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...

Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government won’t say if any agents have been punished. (Published Jan. 2026)

Jesse Jackson and Marvin Gaye playing one-on-one.

History will ask: why did no one send armies to liberate Palestine? It's complicated isn't an answer.

"ICE Breaker" They said "law and order." They meant "hoods and handcuffs." My new #cartoon pulls back the mask on America's secret police, and its white supremacist lineage. #art #artwork #illustration #editorialcartoon #digitalart #ICE #KuKluxKlan #fascsim #secretpolice #oligarchy #WhiteSupremacy

"ICE Breaker" They said "law and order." They meant "hoods and handcuffs." My new #cartoon pulls back the mask on America's secret police, and its white supremacist lineage. #art #artwork #illustration #editorialcartoon #digitalart #ICE #KuKluxKlan #fascsim #secretpolice #oligarchy #WhiteSupremacy

Content warning. This is John Abendshien, 79. He previously owned the Winnetka house where “Home Alone” was filmed. He was just arrested & charged this week and charged on 7 counts of CSAM of children aged 4 to 15. Once again. Not an immigrant. Not a drag queen. Not a Mexican. smh

@schatz.bsky.social Schatz himself, alongside some GOP opponents of the legislation, has accepted significant campaign contributions from interest groups seeking to stop the bill from becoming law.

@schatz.bsky.social Schatz’s wife runs a real estate consulting firm, Schatz Collaborative, that currently works with large property investors who could be hurt by the bill.

@schatz.bsky.social(D-HI) was the lone Democrat to vote against the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, which would prevent investors from buying up large quantities of single-family or duplex homes to turn into rentals. @willcaron.bsky.social

Small Missouri town ousts half its city council after $6 billion AI data center approval — petition calls for mayor's removal as frustration (and violence) over AI data centers mounts |

"I believe Donald Trump was sent by God." "Why? Did He run out of locusts?"

What Do Authoritarians Fear Most? People Who Stick Up for Each Other. truthout.org/articles/wha...

Call your senators now

"Ethical Relativity" NASA's Artemis II found a black hole out beyond the moon. Turns out the Hawaiʻi House of Representatives got there first. #Hawaii #Ethics #Politics #OpenGov #NASA #ArtemisII #Moon #BlackHole #Art #Cartoon #Illustration #DigitalArt #EditorialCartoon #LinesOfAttack

"Ethical Relativity" NASA's Artemis II found a black hole out beyond the moon. Turns out the Hawaiʻi House of Representatives got there first. #Hawaii #Ethics #Politics #OpenGov #NASA #ArtemisII #Moon #BlackHole #Art #Cartoon #Illustration #DigitalArt #EditorialCartoon #LinesOfAttack

A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week. For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead. One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.

Super Typhoon Sinlaku is now peaking at Category 5 strength and is likely to make landfall on Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands in about 36 hours. The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands is a US territory. They're going to need all the help they can get after this storm.

Plaul Blarf Mlall Clop

My hottest “I have no data to back this up” take is that phones aren’t making young people less happy. What’s making them less happy is living in a world where everyone is having their reality defined by recommendation algorithms that can only care about whether something keeps you watching.

A powerful man sexually pursuing a young woman who works for him is oppressive. It immediately limits and reshapes her future to her detriment, whether she is physically forced into it or not. It’s coercion either way, and that is why it’s so wrong. It’s an abuse of power.

100% concurr with KC. I'll add that not a single voter currently knows what Democrats will do should they win the House or Senate. Not one thing and we're halfway into April. Not a single thing outlined. Nothing for voters to rally FOR.