By Any Other Name
I drew a cartoon of what happens if we let corporations name the new Aloha Stadium. It involves Zippy’s, Snorkel Bob’s, and a truly upsetting amount of albeit delicious garlic chicken from a favorite Keʻeaumoku Street eatery.
Illiberation
When “liberating” Iran starts with bombing school girls, the rhetoric of freedom is exposed as a lie. Examine instead the West’s history of overthrowing democracy for oil, of enabling Israel’s rogue nukes, and of serving the Epstein Class’s drive to crush the last West Asian nation resisting its financial domination.
Recusal Refusal
In 2024, the AG told lawmakers she already had the power to appoint a special counsel. In 2026, she claims she has no such power. My new cartoon exposes a contradiction at the heart of the $35k bribery investigation.
Free Pressed
In threatening the press for reporting the truth about an impaired lawmaker, a gang of Hawaiʻi senators traded their public obligation to transparency for tribal loyalty—and showed just how comfortable they've become with authoritarian tactics at home.
Top Gun Ed
Congressman Ed Case’s empty rhetoric on ICE counts for little so long as his campaign funding comes largely from the same war-profiteering donors who supply the tools of militarized policing at home and abroad.
To Give A Dam
After decades of colonial resource extraction, Dole Plantation is sticking the public with the cost of fixing its aging Wahiawā dam and ditch system. With big Ag Park dreams, a powerful Hawaiʻi Senator wonders, “how we gon’ pay for dat?”
Return of the Sunshine Boys
New legislative session, same giant obstacles. Hawaiʻi Judiciary chairs, Rep. David Tarnas and Sen. Karl Rhoads—the Sunshine Boys—stare down the 2026 gauntlet. Someone get these guys some brighter flashlights!
Gettin’ Testy
A proposed 10-minute driver's test refresher is causing full-blown adult tantrums. A cartoon and a blog post explain why the teen in line is not impressed.
Poisoning The Well
The U.S. isn’t liberating Venezuela’s oil—it’s poisoning the nation’s future with debt to create a permanent financial slave.
Minimum Rage
Hawaiʻi’s minimum wage is now $16 an hour. This hard-won raise is a down payment, not a solution. The data shows a true living wage is over $22 an hour for a worker with no children. The fight for a true living wage must continue.
The Matrix: Regulations
CONFIRMED: Big Tech’s AI is a brain-farming operation. My new cartoon exposes the mainframe to a horrified lawmaker. The blue pill is lobbyist lies. The red pill is the trampled regulation bill. The truth is on the screen.
Frightening Holiday Floats
This year’s scariest holiday floats aren’t made of papier-mâché. They’re built from Hawaiʻi’s headlines and they’re coming down Main Street to haunt your pocket book.
Conversation Starter
I’m the Conversation Starter, twisted Conversation Starter /
I’m the one who texts the threats to get the vote locked in /
I’m the one who holds the funds, the trouble I've begun.
How Do You Stop This Thing?
In a broken political wasteland, the War Rig of Manufactured Grievance crushes all in its path. Strapped to its back: a clown-car of feuding sycophants, fighting for a wheel that doesn't steer. Witness the fury on GOP Road.
The Trials of Rickules
Sing, O Muse, of the ‘Herculean’ effort that could not tame the Cretan Bull of Planning and Permitting, a maddened beast of code and chaos that now stampedes over a cliff, crushing all hope in its path.
I Ship You Not
The Young Brothers inter-island shipping monopoly just won a 25 percent rate hike from the Public Utilities Commission. Parent company shareholders are made whole, while local consumers are stuck with ever-higher food prices.
The Capitol Files
I want to believe... in a corruption-free legislature! Calls are growing to reveal the identify of the lawmaker who took $35k in cash, but senate and house leadership could do a lot more to get to the truth. 🛸📁
Greenwashed
Nothing says climate champion like a new, 20-year fossil fuel commitment. It's Go-JERA vs Go-Green, and Gov Green is greenwashing the monster.
Let Them Eat Cake
A tale as old as time: a tone-deaf leader, a pile of hoarded cash, and a starving child. Today's Marie Antoinette isn't in Versailles—he's in the White House.
Colonial Admission
The grift that keeps on taking: Ed Blum's Kam Schools lawsuit uses manufactured grievance politics to try to dismantle a real remedy for colonial harm, all in service of white supremacy.