A powerful kona storm will begin impacting the western end of the state as early as Tuesday, then spread across the remainder of the island chain by midweek.
#KonaStorm
"Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth. None of them through the Strait of Hormuz."
βBill McKibben
500 dead tropical fish of various species laid out on the ground β wasted! Mostly yellow tang.
Fish found in a dumpster before the aquarium trade was regulated. A bill to ban it in West Hawaii is coming to the state House floor for a final vote possibly this week. Then to the Senate. It may be permanently ended. #marinelife
At the suggestion of my friend @katiepryal.bsky.social, I will start posting some of my old MauiTime stories, which vanished online when the paper closed in 2023, to my website. Iβm starting with this piece I wrote 2 days after a wildfire destroyed Lahaina. anthonypignataro.com/2026/03/08/r...
This is incredibly on point.
Spot oil prices grab the news, but itβs the impact weβre about to witness to petrochemical and derivative production that should really scare the shit out of folks.
Itβs the sort of shock that could ripple through our global industrial economy for many months.
If you were investing in the future would you like to spend a billion or more dollars a day on a war for oil or would you like to spend that money to rapidly reduce your dependence on oil?
Now we get to see both of those approaches in real time.
βDeeply unpopular, immoral, illegal warβ
After a briefing that appears to have clarified little, Dem senators sound the alarm about Trumpβs war in Iran and the potential for πΊπΈ boots on the ground
> @covie93.bsky.social
It would be cool to have a legislature that acted to defend its own constitutional prerogatives and, maybe as a treat, the interests of the people it represents too.
I think if I'd gotten away with attempting a coup, suffered no consequences for it, then won an election four years later, got away with executing citizens in the streets and foreigners in boats, and successfully abducted a head of state, I too might think I could just bomb my way to regime change
A Maui 'amakihi, a yellow green bird with a silver-black curved beak and a very stern expression, perched on a pilo branch with one orange pilo berry visible
For the #BirdOfTheDay theme #PowerPose , you've got to love 'amakihi attitude. This is HIS pilo bush, back off! #birds πΏπ·π¦
Dear news media,
When you note in your State of the Union coverage that many Democrats are boycotting the address, SAY WHY.
Cite Trump's constant lying, the Epstein files cover-up, the acceptance of bribes, and federal agents murdering people. Your audience deserves that information.
Thank you.
The implication here is straightforward: that people with platforms, including Democratic politicians and media, need to keep highlighting the threat to democracy specifically βΒ centering democracy as an issue in both word and deed.
To save democracy, you have to actually talk about democracy.
The NY Times dutifully reporting that the Supreme Court sided with Trump only 42% of the time and with Biden 54% of the time sort of leaves out the necessary context that Biden was doing normal, completely legal presidential stuff, and Trump was doing insane crimes
Today is also the anniversary of FDR's signing of Executive Order 9066, which authorized the forced removal of 120,000 Japanese Americans from the West Coast.
February 19βnot a great day in American history!
Interesting article on the complexities of recessive genes. I've also recently read "The Gene: An Intimate History" by Siddhartha Mukherjee, which I highly recommend.
www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...
Awesome. Thank you.
A portion of the book cover of the novel THE RED: FIRST LIGHT showing the helmeted face of the story's protagonist.
Book covers for the Red trilogy, showing the protagonist against a backdrop of fire, ice, and the planetary horizon.
Random book promo post...(ok, not entirely random):
THE RED: FIRST LIGHT is a near-future military thriller in which a cynical young army lieutenant finds he must reckon w/the true meaning of his oath to defend the country against all enemies, foreign and domestic. mythicisland.com/the_red_firs...
Years ago I was given a copy of Anthony Doerr's novel "All the Light We Cannot See." I finally got around to reading itβand it was wonderful. Here are my brief thoughts on it:
hahvi.net?p=8198
Ongoing coastal erosion is a huge issue in Hawaii and elsewhere. From Maui Now: "HawaiΚ»i officials worry bills to help property owners with coastal erosion could put public beaches at risk" mauinow.com/2026/02/13/h...
pam Bondi screaming "have you seen the stock market at an Epstein victim
May this follow her the rest of her miserable life.
In a normal government, this results in the resignation of multiple cabinet officials (Transportation, Defense, and Homeland Security), and the closure or (at least!) radical reorg of the cartoonishly incompetent agency at the center of it: CBP.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...
Research results on vaccine reactions due to rare genetic variations:
www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...
Do you know your Hawaiβi birds?
HPPAβs Wendy says she photographed this Maui βalauahio in #haleakalanps in October 2024 on a free afternoon, after firefighters contained a wildfire π₯ that threatened to cross the boundary into the park.
#ThisIsWhereWeWork #HPPA #HALE #Alauahio #NativeWildlifeπ¦ββ¬
A reminder: The Attorney General of the United States should be the people's lawyer, not the president's personal attorney. The Department of Justice should act to protect the public, not the occupant of the Oval Office and his political allies.
Republicans just had a press conference showing photos of ICE arrests of "pedophiles, drug traffickers, murderers," and Democrats should do the same thing but with pictures of ICE agents who committed the same crimes.
A thought for 2026: "If you think technology will solve your problems you don't understand technology - and you don't understand your problems."
βLaurie Anderson
On cheap drones and laser weapons:
βWe have opened a Pandoraβs box that terrifies me,β the founder of Skyfall said.
Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
A new post is up at my blog. It's about BookShop dot org and why it's different: hahvi.net?p=8195 If you're looking to move on from Amazonβand I know a lot of people areβthis is one more option, along with Kobo, Apple, and BN.
