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Dennis K Jr

@dkjrhi.bsky.social

☯. Optimistic pessimist. recovering legislative aide. borderline irrational #DukeBasketball fan. citizen. tortured night owl. Next: #WhiskeyAtTheOldMeatFactory IG: https://www.instagram.com/denniskjr/

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Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · yesterday

My read is that there aren’t five votes to let Trump literally rig elections. Roberts and Barrett won’t greenlight overt election subversion or chaotic, illegal interference with voting. Kavanaugh and Gorsuch aren’t reliable but don’t love the chaos either. Thomas and Alito want to end democracy.

Gabriel Malor@gabrielmalor.bsky.social · yesterday

In upside-down world, Justice Alito blames "the plaintiff States and the courts" for causing the late timing of USPS' attempt to interfere in mail voting by suing to stop it. Unmentioned by Alito: USPS issued the rule in violation of an injunction. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Second, the plaintiff States and the courts bear a substantial share of the blame for the rule’s timing. In April, the plaintiff States sued to challenge the President’s internal directive to subordinates mandating a rulemaking. For months, this litigation cast a cloud over the Government’s ability to issue a final rule. The District Court entered several injunctions months later prohibiting the Government from undertaking that rulemaking. Not only was the Government subject to months of premature litigation and a series of injunctions that this Court later determined were likely issued without jurisdiction, the Government had to wait nearly another full month for this Court to issue its decision so holding. Indeed, this Court spent from late July to the end of August drafting nearly 40 pages of opinions, including two dissents, despite the Government’s public notice that it would not publish a final rule while subject to the injunctions, see 91 Fed. Reg. 44880, and its representation that it had a strong interest in issuing its rule in early- to mid-August to allow time to implement it. The plaintiff States cannot claim the timing of the rule tilts the equities
Dennis K Jr@dkjrhi.bsky.social · 3d ago

Tell me you have a chip on your shoulder over being a city dweller urbanite without telling me you have a chip on your shoulder over being a city dweller urbanite. alohastatedaily.com/2026/09/11/h...

Aloha State Daily | Hurricanes Lala and Lowell show Neighbor Islands depend on Honolulu

A high schooler from Molokai looks down at the Honolulu lights and says, “They live like rats down there.” ASD opinion columnist Sterling Higa on why the…

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Dennis K Jr@dkjrhi.bsky.social · 3w ago

“The state makes no provision for the role of the family and church in helping the addict because the state wants to displace the family and church.” - quite the statement (accusation?) made by this author alohastatedaily.com/2026/08/27/h...

Aloha State Daily | Hawaiʻi meth deaths and the wrong account of human nature

A state planner earning $139,860 a year was found dead on his apartment floor, a glass pipe in his lap. ASD opinion columnist Sterling Higa on how every…

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Dennis K Jr@dkjrhi.bsky.social · 4w ago

“Flailing regimes dehumanize minorities to distract from their failures. When the economy collapses or a war goes badly, they find a tiny group of people, make them the enemy within, and rally the country against them.”

John Harwood@johnjharwood.bsky.social · 4w ago

this piece demonstrates more clearly than anything i've read: the hysteria and hatred whipped up by the American right's cynical crusade against trans people is cruel, stupid and evil. God bless Julia Curlee. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

@sierraclubhi.bsky.social · last mo.

OHA Trustee Hulu Lindsay: "At its core this is not a question of water allocation, it is a question of whether we are willing to commit a substantial portion of a public land trust resource to private commercial use for an entire generation." 💯

@sierraclubhi.bsky.social · last mo.

*Did you know?* The state attorney general was caught lying to the Hawaiʻi Supreme Court about the Maui wildfires, to increase the amount of water that can be diverted from East Maui streams. Courts have ruled against the Land Board and AGs 8 times in 8 East Maui water cases over the last decade.

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@sierraclubhi.bsky.social · last mo.

MAUI SHOWING UP TO DEFEND THEIR WAI. Join stream protectors at the Cameron Center in Wailuku TODAY - and testify verbally at the "satellite" Board meeting space on Maui (but, why not meet on Maui when dealing with Maui's water??? 🤔😠)

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Will Caron@willcaron.bsky.social · last mo.

Well #HIPOL, the results were not what we were hoping for last night. Pretty much across the board, progressive challenges to entrenched power came up short. We even lost a progressive incumbent. But everyone who ran should be proud of what they did. It's one of the hardest things you can do.

Dennis K Jr@dkjrhi.bsky.social · last mo.

Primary polls in Hawaiʻi set to close in ~3.5 hrs. Signs through mail/early walk-in point to another abysmal turnout, especially a bummer since there’s been an impressive field of challenger + open seat candidates at the State & County levels this cycle, injecting energy to local races. #HIelections

Dennis K Jr@dkjrhi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Green’s comments on Belatti is more reason to support and vote for her as LG. Don’t let the Gov. fool you. It’s not about “looking for a fight”. The executive branch in Hawaiʻi government desperately needs perspective balance from big, dark money influence. www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2026/07/21/s...

Spotlight Now: Gov. Green weighs in on lieutenant governor race

Gov. Josh Green and Lt. Gov. Candidate John Choi join Spotlight Now to discuss Hawaii priorities.

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