“Deeply unpopular, immoral, illegal war”
After a briefing that appears to have clarified little, Dem senators sound the alarm about Trump’s war in Iran and the potential for 🇺🇸 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 🌿📷🦉
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 — 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 19—not 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 it—and 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: "Hawaiʻi 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 Hawai’i birds?
HPPA’s Wendy says she photographed this Maui ‘alauahio in #haleakalanps in October 2024 on a free afternoon, after firefighters contained a wildfire 🔥 that threatened to cross the boundary into the park.
#ThisIsWhereWeWork #HPPA #HALE #Alauahio #NativeWildlife🐦⬛
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."
—Laurie Anderson
On cheap drones and laser weapons:
“We have opened a Pandora’s box that terrifies me,” 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 Amazon—and I know a lot of people are—this is one more option, along with Kobo, Apple, and BN.
First Alert Forecast: High Wind Warning and Flood Watch extended until Monday evening #HNN #HINEWS #HawaiiNews
An opened box containing multiple copies of the hardback edition of Paul McAuley's novel Loss Protocol.
I began to write LOSS PROTOCOL in 2023, and here at last is a box of copies of the finished book. Published, in the UK, on February 12th.
Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."
Book covers for Linda Nagata's Red trilogy: near-future military thrillers.
Cover art for the first three volumes of Linda Nagata's Inverted Frontier series.
I'll be posting more on this later, but my books are now available at BookShop.org. This includes all ebooks, along with print editions of the more popular titles. Find them here: bookshop.org/beta-search?...
Very sad to learn of the passing of writer Jeffrey A. Carver. I don't think I ever met him in person, but he became a friend through our shared work at the writer's cooperative Book View Café. This is his website: www.starrigger.net
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
