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Ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono, heh.
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Botany, geography, natural history, humans, and the arts. Pacific Northwest, Alaska, Hawai'i. Thomas R. Belfield - MA - Department of Geography - University of Hawai`i at Mānoa. Nānā ao. 📍Yakama lands.
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Ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono, heh. @pnwgeographies.bsky.social · Jun 3
Free Hawai'i.
Hawai'i Aloha
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Shane Liesegang, SJ @sjml.bsky.social · 6h
Sarah Jeong remains very smart and I wish this wasn't such an insightful breakdown of Where We Are™ but it sure is

Media really needs more analysis that actually *understands* the internet, as in what things are like for people who are immersed in it, because they're increasingly driving everything
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 8h
I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...
American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming
The Frog is owning the president.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 6h
Lots of Epidemic Intelligence Service officers ("disease detectives") gone.
In-country staff in Africa (including those helping to manage the current Ebola outbreak) are fired.
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 9h
For more information about the Friday night massacre at CDC, I wrote up an analysis of who got terminated and what that means for public health.

Grateful to @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social for supporting and amplifying. We are in really terrible trouble.

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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 4h
www.neurology.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Gee, what mass disabling event could explain this? Oh, I know.
Rising Cognitive Disability as a Public Health Concern Among US Adults | Neurology
Background and ObjectivesCognitive disability—defined by the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) as serious difficulty concentrating, remembering, or making decisions because of a physi...
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Northwest Treaty Tribes @nwtreatytribes.org · 8h
Silver Reef Casino in Ferndale will host a screening of FISH WAR, the feature-length documentary about the Fish Wars of the '60s and '70s and resulting Boldt Decision, at 6 p.m. Mon., Oct. 13. The event is free but donations to Bellingham SeaFeast will be accepted.

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Ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono, heh. @pnwgeographies.bsky.social · 6h
oh, he has seen them and approves.
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Ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono, heh. @pnwgeographies.bsky.social · 9h
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A decade of work. I'm the lead author here. The back story would be an entire book, one that I am considering writing. My book about Hawai'i and aloha ʻāina.
(PDF) Rare Plant stabilization projects at Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park
PDF | Summary report of rare and endangered Hawaiian plants restoration. | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
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Ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono, heh. @pnwgeographies.bsky.social · 9h
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Years of data collecting and wondering around looking into lava tubes.
(PDF) Rare plants of the Mauna Loa Special Ecological Area, Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park
PDF | Reports were scanned in black and white at a resolution of 600 dots per inch and were converted to text using Adobe Paper Capture Plug-in. The... | Find, read and cite all the research you need ...
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Ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono, heh. @pnwgeographies.bsky.social · 9h
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This is my first publication. Old but unsurpassed. And yes, I did do all that, sometimes alone, out in the East Rift where you can disappear into deep crack and never be heard from again.
(PDF) Botanical survey of Kilauea Volcano East Rift craters: Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
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Ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono, heh. @pnwgeographies.bsky.social · 10h
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Finally got published.
(PDF) New Northern Range Extension for Arnica discoidea Benth. (rayless arnica) – Darland Mountain^J Yakima County^J Washington
PDF | Botanical surveys. New northern range extension for Arnica discoidea (rayless arnica) | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 11h
In its recent ruling, the Hawaii Supreme Court vowed to protect the due process of Hawaii residents; the majority opinion stated that the state constitution offers more safety than the federal constitution’s “suddenly fluid protections.”
Hawaii Supreme Court Expands Rights of Defendants, and Once Again Rebukes SCOTUS
The justices ruled that Hawaii’s constitution requires police to record interrogations. And they vowed to protect due process for Hawaii residents—unlike, they said, the Roberts Court.
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The Hawaiian Alphabet Book @hawaiianalphabet.bsky.social · 10h
The Hawaiian Word of the Week: Papa'i.

#hawaiianlanguagemonth #Oahu #Hawaii #hawaiilife #hawaiianlife #kanakamaoli #kānakamaoli #kanakamāoli #kanaka #kamaaina #kamaainakids #ʻōlelohawaiʻi #ʻolelohawaiʻi #ʻōlelo #olelo #hawaiilife #aloha #Papa'i #Papai
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Tam-Rah @blue-fire1.bsky.social · 1d
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What Happens In The Brain When People Grow Up Speaking Hawaiian And English?
Most research focuses on global languages like English, French or Chinese. Hawaiian voices have largely been left out.
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Ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono, heh. @pnwgeographies.bsky.social · 1d
People were saying that for a long time and it was a wildly discussed topic. And finally here we are exactly as bad we said it would be.
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Ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono, heh. @pnwgeographies.bsky.social · 1d
Not to mention all current and legal environmental policy is now a long forgotten thing.
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OPB @opb.org · 1d
Trees in three national forests in Oregon will be auctioned off for logging by the end of the month, even though the federal workers preparing these timber sales are not getting paid and many of their colleagues in the U.S. Forest Service are furloughed.
Logging in national forests in Oregon continues, despite government shutdown
The U.S. Forest Service plans to auction off trees in the Deschutes, Wallowa-Whitman and Umatilla national forests by the end of the month.
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Ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono, heh. @pnwgeographies.bsky.social · 1d
Maybe North Korea gets it own nuclear testing site.
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Ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono, heh. @pnwgeographies.bsky.social · 1d
Oh, this will certainly win him his coveted Piece of Shit Prize.
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(numunu, quahadis band) - Sky Kwihnai Pihi (name) @anarcho.bsky.social · 1d
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Trump Drops the Hammer on Farmworkers
At the end of the season, he cuts wages of 400,000 workers by a third.
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Ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono, heh. @pnwgeographies.bsky.social · 1d
Putin is her only friend.
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Ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono, heh. @pnwgeographies.bsky.social · 1d
behave: frog says no
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Ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono, heh. @pnwgeographies.bsky.social · 1d
Trump wins Nobel Villain Prize!
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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 1d
Hanging onto every bit of good news

The river has come alive in the Klamath with wild Chinook salmon. The wider ecosystem is healing.

This most powerful story of Indigenous-led #rewilding after the largest dam removal in US history keeps getting better.

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One Year After Klamath Dam Removal, 'There's Just Fish Jumping All Over the Place': Scientists Describe Improvements to Water Quality and Wildlife
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Honolulu Civil Beat @civilbeat.bsky.social · 1d
Building on their work with Yosihiko Sinoto a half-century ago, the archaeologists have reunited at Bishop Museum.
Opinion: This Trio Helped Unlock The History Of Polynesian Voyaging
Building on their work with Yosihiko Sinoto a half-century ago, the archaeologists have reunited at Bishop Museum.
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Ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono, heh. @pnwgeographies.bsky.social · 1d
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DC Group Spends Thousands To Influence Maui Vacation Rental Bill
Some Hawai‘i nonprofits are objecting to the mainland organization's meddling in local politics and overall lack of public transparency.
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Ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono, heh. @pnwgeographies.bsky.social · 1d
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Quieting invasive coquí frogs to hear the heartbeat of Waimānalo
The sounds of invasive coquí frogs have been heard in Waimānalo since at least 2021. On a recent Thursday night, HPR's Savannah Harriman-Pote went out with a state-led team of volunteers trying to res...
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Ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono, heh. @pnwgeographies.bsky.social · 2d
yeah, well just take a good hard look at him.