makana
@hemakaainana.bsky.social
Studied thermofluids now do data engineering. Housing advocate, first chair in the peanut gallery. Aloha, akua, ea!!
People/the media say TheRail is billions of dollars over budget but that’s not true. It’s prolly $100 million or so over budget but that’s it. The budget was always around $10B and Iʻm positive everyone knew that. It’s bang near the average for the USA per mile/km which is shocking for HI 1/2
Transit Costs Data – 2025 Update
What the data is telling us
Most recent update: 05/08/2025
Here we present some visualizations of our data. The data covers only a portion of rail projects in each city/country and, in many instances...
transitcosts.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:31 AM
People/the media say TheRail is billions of dollars over budget but that’s not true. It’s prolly $100 million or so over budget but that’s it. The budget was always around $10B and Iʻm positive everyone knew that. It’s bang near the average for the USA per mile/km which is shocking for HI 1/2
This is stupid
November 11, 2025 at 12:13 AM
This is stupid
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Starting on Monday, Nov. 10, at 9 a.m., applications will open for the OHA Emergency Assistance Program. Learn how to apply here: https://tinyurl.com/3aefyzef
November 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Starting on Monday, Nov. 10, at 9 a.m., applications will open for the OHA Emergency Assistance Program. Learn how to apply here: https://tinyurl.com/3aefyzef
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"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.
#Art #Artist #Cartoon #DigitalArt #EditorialCartoon #Hawaii #Illustration #ClimateJustice #ClimateChange #Energy #Renewables #Sustainability
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.
#Art #Artist #Cartoon #DigitalArt #EditorialCartoon #Hawaii #Illustration #ClimateJustice #ClimateChange #Energy #Renewables #Sustainability
November 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
"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.
#Art #Artist #Cartoon #DigitalArt #EditorialCartoon #Hawaii #Illustration #ClimateJustice #ClimateChange #Energy #Renewables #Sustainability
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.
#Art #Artist #Cartoon #DigitalArt #EditorialCartoon #Hawaii #Illustration #ClimateJustice #ClimateChange #Energy #Renewables #Sustainability
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I think Dealbook does a disservice to its readers by calling CMBS "exotic financial instruments" and not contextualizing the relative size of any of the markets involved here.
This is insane. This is *literally* doing the same mechanics of the housing crisis and 2008 recession but to create debt to finance construction of AI data centers
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
November 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I think Dealbook does a disservice to its readers by calling CMBS "exotic financial instruments" and not contextualizing the relative size of any of the markets involved here.
My favorite thing about a HOA is how they prove the gov is actually amazing. You’ll easily dump $2500 a year into a HOA and all you’ll get for it is one dinky park. Meanwhile you pay $10k in property taxes which yes is more but you get dozens of parks, the lifeguards, ems/fire, miles of road, etc.
HOA’s need to be abolished. Their purpose was and always will be to suppress diversity and force assimilation and “sameness” under the guise of “neighbourhood character”. They are among the tools that are used against people to make them fit their predetermined “ideal neighbour”. 10/🧵
November 9, 2025 at 6:14 AM
My favorite thing about a HOA is how they prove the gov is actually amazing. You’ll easily dump $2500 a year into a HOA and all you’ll get for it is one dinky park. Meanwhile you pay $10k in property taxes which yes is more but you get dozens of parks, the lifeguards, ems/fire, miles of road, etc.
Not a fan of anyone in this pic, but I don’t know that we should be judging countries merit on their GDP. Like countries can be interesting, beautiful and exciting without being economic powerhouses.
incredible that these guys have a massive hard on for a country that, if it were a state, would rank behind kansas in terms of wealth and which would be a total backwater if it weren’t economically integrated with more functional countries
November 9, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Not a fan of anyone in this pic, but I don’t know that we should be judging countries merit on their GDP. Like countries can be interesting, beautiful and exciting without being economic powerhouses.
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CU, the highly anticipated convenience store from South Korea, is finally set to open its first U.S. location in Downtown Honolulu next Wednesday, Nov. 12.
The chain’s first Hawai‘i store is at Bishop and Hotel streets in the Executive Centre, where 88 Mart and Longs Drugs used to be.
The chain’s first Hawai‘i store is at Bishop and Hotel streets in the Executive Centre, where 88 Mart and Longs Drugs used to be.
Korean Convenience Store CU Hawai‘i Opens Downtown Next Week—Here’s What You’ll Find
7-Eleven, get ready: CU’s first U.S. store will feature a ramyun bar, street foods, ice cup drinks, collabs with local businesses and more.
www.honolulumagazine.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:52 AM
CU, the highly anticipated convenience store from South Korea, is finally set to open its first U.S. location in Downtown Honolulu next Wednesday, Nov. 12.
The chain’s first Hawai‘i store is at Bishop and Hotel streets in the Executive Centre, where 88 Mart and Longs Drugs used to be.
The chain’s first Hawai‘i store is at Bishop and Hotel streets in the Executive Centre, where 88 Mart and Longs Drugs used to be.
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There is something deeply broken about an economy that creates trillionaires while people get buried under the cost of living and 42 million go hungry. The ultra-rich should realize that my Billionaires Income Tax, aimed at ensuring they pay their fair share, represents the moderate path forward.
Tesla shareholders have approved a pay package that could make CEO Elon Musk, already the world’s richest person, the world’s first trillionaire. https://cnn.it/43KZnkA
November 7, 2025 at 1:57 AM
There is something deeply broken about an economy that creates trillionaires while people get buried under the cost of living and 42 million go hungry. The ultra-rich should realize that my Billionaires Income Tax, aimed at ensuring they pay their fair share, represents the moderate path forward.
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Access to the sacraments is the tip of the iceberg. They won't allow clergy access bc they aren't running a proper detention facility. The scandal that religious protests are highlighting is not that the detainees' religious rights are being violated, but that ALL their rights are being violated.
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Access to the sacraments is the tip of the iceberg. They won't allow clergy access bc they aren't running a proper detention facility. The scandal that religious protests are highlighting is not that the detainees' religious rights are being violated, but that ALL their rights are being violated.
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Although we're not where we should be, we're on a significantly better trajectory than we were 10 years ago.
10 Years After the Paris Climate Agreement, Here's Where We Are (Gift Article)
Has anything really changed in the decade since the Paris Agreement was reached? Actually, quite a lot.
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Although we're not where we should be, we're on a significantly better trajectory than we were 10 years ago.
We need biosecurity so bad it’s not even funny
Another Destructive Beetle Is Spreading, Killing Hawaiʻi’s Trees
Big Island farmers want the state to tackle the Queensland longhorn beetle before it spreads to the rest of the state and wreaks havoc like the coconut rhinoceros beetle.
www.civilbeat.org
November 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
We need biosecurity so bad it’s not even funny
It’s interesting what news about OHA is allowed to get coverage. I know Kahele is controversial—and clearly peeps in media want to milk that drama—but this is important for folks to know. $6.1M including up to $1,200 in supplementary income for those on furlough from Feds.
#🌺news
#🌺news
OHA Trustees Approve $6.1 Million in Emergency Relief for Native Hawaiian Beneficiaries Impacted by Federal Shutdown - The Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA)
The Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) Board of Trustees, meeting today in Hilo, approved a plan to expend up to $6.1 million in OHA emergency assistance funding to Native Hawaiian beneficiaries impacte...
www.oha.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:28 AM
It’s interesting what news about OHA is allowed to get coverage. I know Kahele is controversial—and clearly peeps in media want to milk that drama—but this is important for folks to know. $6.1M including up to $1,200 in supplementary income for those on furlough from Feds.
#🌺news
#🌺news
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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...
Governor proposes $10 billion federal investment in Army land negotiations
“A negotiated settlement, rather than a protracted contested condemnation, offers the clearest, most efficient path to achieving these goals,” his letter said.
www.hawaiinewsnow.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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...
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Could be Hawaii but instead Gov Green wants us to give up on our renewable commitments and go all in on LNG (liquid natural gas) which didn’t make sense 7 years ago and doesn’t make now. www.civilbeat.org/2018/07/lng-... #🌺news
November 6, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Could be Hawaii but instead Gov Green wants us to give up on our renewable commitments and go all in on LNG (liquid natural gas) which didn’t make sense 7 years ago and doesn’t make now. www.civilbeat.org/2018/07/lng-... #🌺news
trying @leaflet.pub out as a place to draft my thinking before I work with @limbyhawaii.org folks to finalize it.
Does Hawai'i's Housing Ladder Work?
hawaii.leaflet.pub
November 6, 2025 at 8:01 AM
trying @leaflet.pub out as a place to draft my thinking before I work with @limbyhawaii.org folks to finalize it.
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Worth noting for organizers looking to replicate Zohran’s victory:
Two structural things that he might not have won without —
1. Robust publicly financed elections
2. Ranked choice primary elections
These structural reforms massively help underdog candidates and make democracy more real.
Two structural things that he might not have won without —
1. Robust publicly financed elections
2. Ranked choice primary elections
These structural reforms massively help underdog candidates and make democracy more real.
November 5, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Worth noting for organizers looking to replicate Zohran’s victory:
Two structural things that he might not have won without —
1. Robust publicly financed elections
2. Ranked choice primary elections
These structural reforms massively help underdog candidates and make democracy more real.
Two structural things that he might not have won without —
1. Robust publicly financed elections
2. Ranked choice primary elections
These structural reforms massively help underdog candidates and make democracy more real.
So Gov has released his letter outlining demands. In many ways it is not unreasonable but I think it's disheartening that he is presuming eminent domain action by Feds. This is a package we should be negotiating ~for the lease~. Not for the transfer of title.
#🌺news
#🌺news
governor.hawaii.gov
November 5, 2025 at 7:50 AM
So Gov has released his letter outlining demands. In many ways it is not unreasonable but I think it's disheartening that he is presuming eminent domain action by Feds. This is a package we should be negotiating ~for the lease~. Not for the transfer of title.
#🌺news
#🌺news
Brah this is what the left is missing. government needs to be run well if you want more of it. People need to see it succeed to believe in it.
Anyway thatʻs why they should extend rail to Makana Aliʻi before they do it to Ala Moana
Anyway thatʻs why they should extend rail to Makana Aliʻi before they do it to Ala Moana
Why did the attacks on Mamdani’s socialism fail? A key reason: He made clear he was a “sewer socialist,” a forgotten American tradition created by left-wing mayors who asked to be judged not by theories but by whether they deliver public services effectively & fairly.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/o...
Opinion | The ‘Sewer Socialism’ of Zohran Mamdani
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Brah this is what the left is missing. government needs to be run well if you want more of it. People need to see it succeed to believe in it.
Anyway thatʻs why they should extend rail to Makana Aliʻi before they do it to Ala Moana
Anyway thatʻs why they should extend rail to Makana Aliʻi before they do it to Ala Moana
i low key feel bad for the dpp here. this behavior is obviously unacceptable even if there was no quid pro quo. If they didnʻt can this employee you can bet weʻd be reading the exact opposite story about how this was all a sign of ongoing coruption or something about paid administrative leave.
The city accused a plans examiner of preferential treatment. The employee said she was trying to help permit applicants.
Honolulu Fired Building Permit Worker Who Cut Through Delays For A Few People
The city accused a plans examiner of preferential treatment. The employee said she was trying to help permit applicants.
dlvr.it
November 3, 2025 at 8:53 PM
i low key feel bad for the dpp here. this behavior is obviously unacceptable even if there was no quid pro quo. If they didnʻt can this employee you can bet weʻd be reading the exact opposite story about how this was all a sign of ongoing coruption or something about paid administrative leave.
helped out at a food distribution today. a stupefying need for food today. if you have the time, your hands are needed. if you have the food or can donate thats needed too.
November 1, 2025 at 11:11 PM
helped out at a food distribution today. a stupefying need for food today. if you have the time, your hands are needed. if you have the food or can donate thats needed too.
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The new Gates climate memo isn't a pivot; it's a continuation of "a consistent pattern of downplaying clean energy while promoting dubious and potentially dangerous technofixes in which he is often personally invested," @michaelemann.bsky.social argues in @thebulletin.org:
You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it
What Gates is putting forward aren’t legitimate arguments that can be made in good faith. They are shopworn fossil fuel industry talking points.
thebulletin.org
October 31, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The new Gates climate memo isn't a pivot; it's a continuation of "a consistent pattern of downplaying clean energy while promoting dubious and potentially dangerous technofixes in which he is often personally invested," @michaelemann.bsky.social argues in @thebulletin.org:
Too many pupule drivers kēia lā so hope this discourages some of them
Beginning Nov. 1, drivers caught running a red light or speeding through an intersection could receive a citation in the mail, up to $200 for a first offense. More details in the story: https://tinyurl.com/yc2ef3zh
November 1, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Too many pupule drivers kēia lā so hope this discourages some of them