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[BLACK S.T.Ⓐ.R. @blkstrmutualaid]

Y’all don’t be being honest bout how much labor it takes to read them academic and political books especially w/ the language used in them (on purpose)

[Uahikea Maile @uahikea]

Waikīkī went off yesterday. Hawaiʻi getting loud: “In our thousands and in our millions, we are all Palestinians!”

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[Bianca Graulau @bgraulau]

I’m confused. When Ukrainians attacked back after Russia’s invasion, the US celebrated them. When Palestinians do the same against Israeli occupation, they’re condemned.

Filter the propaganda through this lens: the US empire will always choose sides based on its own interests.

[Dr. Kamanamaikalani Beamer @kamanabeamer]

Court suggested “false” and “shameful” claims made by the state that there was not adequate water available to fight the fires.

Why would the state make such claims?

https://t.co/mXV7WNuDnZ

[DA BLACK MUSUBI GURL @be_kautious]

ITS LITERALLY BEEN TWO WEEKS!!! PEOPLE STILL CANT FIND THEIR LOVED ONES!!! BROOOOOO STOP SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF US NATIVE HAWAIIANS, MAUI IS CLOSED!!!

[Ua lawa mākou i ka pōhaku 🪨 @lawaikapohaku]

Does anyone know if the Hale Paʻi survived? It was the first Hawaiian language printing press. It is located on Lahainaluna High School grounds and was serving as a printing museum and archive center.

[devilette @deviIette]

To help Mothers in Puerto Rico who need aid & support after Hurricane Fiona, please use the following donation links. 🙏🏻🚨‼️

[Uahikea Maile @uahikea]

Will @USNavy submit their plan today to defuel Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility? Why's it taken this long to publicly communicate what the plan is? 100+ million gallons of jet fuel are still sloshing around WW2-era tanks only 100 feet above Oʻahu's aquifer. #ShutDownRedHillNow

[Khara Jabola-Carolus @KharaJabola]

Demilitarizing Hawai’i is too radical? Within the last 48 hours:

•US marine stabbed his pregnant ex to death on H3 freeway

•Army vet sentenced for sexually abusing a child at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam

•US Navy officer sentenced for sex trafficking Native Hawaiian girls

[pualalea @pualaleapanaewa]

the white lotus was so insane bc how was it supposed to be a commentary about white privilege and capitalism when it centered around whites, turned their one native Hawaiian character into a criminal, and limited all other native Hawaiians to the background 🤨🤨

[Our Hawaiʻi @OurHawaii808]

It's time for a new Hawaii. The old Hawai'i. Our Hawai'i.

Join us to build a tomorrow for Hawai'i that puts local, working people first — not big money interests.

Watch, share, and take action: https://t.co/FygXcfg1Ym

[honeybee 🐝 @bitchyhoneygirl]

I might be dramatic, but nothing hurts more than seeing Haole be welcomed into the same Hawaiian spaces that reject diaspora Kanaka. Esp the Haole that were raised in Hawaiʻi, being placed over Hawaiians who (generations prior) weren’t fortunate enough to remain on ʻĀina. (1/5)

[maki @akabanaauchinaa]

I don’t want to hear anyone talking about how “strategic” the location of Okinawa/ Luchu is in the Pacific. This land belongs to Okinawans/ Luchuans. Period. No one but Okinawans should determine what goes on on our land. Let my ppl make Okinawa a keystone of peace, not of war.

[honeybee 🐝 @bitchyhoneygirl]

Hū ka mana a ka haumāna Hawaiʻi. We did what we felt was right, what we HAD to do. What’s funnier was they sat us last, at the back. we had to show them we still HERE!!! WE GO KĀKOU, ALWAYS 😭❤️🤙🏽

[Dr. Juana Hollingsworth @jewelsfromjuana]

Today, April 13,2022 I am no longer using the term “imposter syndrome”. Last night Dr.@atachine informed me this concept was developed by two white women to explain why minoritized folks feel like outsiders or face self-doubt