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.
Lei of the Land
An Israeli government-sponsored trip costs us not in dollars, but in principle. It's a cost paid in the devaluation of Aloha. It tells the world that in Hawaiʻi, our most cherished symbol can be weaponized to bless a genocide.
General Disdain
From Red Hill to Hawaiʻi’s false missile alert, it becomes clearer each day the U.S. military doesn’t keep us safe. As heroic façade becomes farce, small wins, like the BLNR’s rejection of the Army’s EIS for Pōhakuloa, become possible.
Sold Out
Between President Trump’s tariff chaos, haphazard cuts to government functionality via Elon Musk’s rogue agency DOGE, and Congress advancing $5.1 trillion in tax cuts for the rich on the backs of the rest of us, it’s looking like the U.S. economy and the empire that supports it are headed for a painful, stupid end.
Demagoguecracy
A reaction to the inauguration of Donald Trump as 47th president of the United States, ushering in the official age of American Demagoguecracy, a government ruled through fear.
Price of Paradise
The Honolulu City Council is slated to vote on a new tax on homes that stand empty, a measure supporters say will force owners to rent the properties and help provide badly needed housing for local residents. Critics complain it’s unfair to the property owner.
Hate Floats
Drawn in the summer of 2016 and posted the same day Hillary Clinton secured the Democratic Party nomination for president.