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February 2, 2026 News Read
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With Supreme Court Ruling Coming, Hawaii Democrats Push More Carry Restrictions

Hawai‘i’s proposed anti-ICE laws mimic Minneapolis in the worst ways

ASD: … the laws they’re proposing would recreate the very conditions that fostered a battleground in Minneapolis. If passed, they would increase, not decrease, the likelihood of danger for everyone involved — arrestees, protestors, ICE agents, bystanders. Everyone.

How?

Let’s back up a second. If you’re upset about Minneapolis, do you ever wonder why you aren’t upset about cities in Texas, Florida, or Tennessee, where ICE is also detaining, arresting and deporting illegal immigrants?

What made Minneapolis different?

Specific decisions by Minnesota politicians and lawmakers to withhold local law enforcement support. This forced ICE to conduct its arrests in public, while these same politicians gave fiery speeches denouncing ICE as unbridled fascists. Officials there even withheld the local police support that would’ve kept order as the fired-up activists took the most confrontational approach possible…

We went into more detail in the original article, so to keep it brief, a package of House and Senate Bills would do such things as prohibit local law enforcement agencies from entering into an agreement with ICE to carry out immigration enforcement on ICE’s behalf; prohibit ICE from interviewing people while in local custody (even though this is the safest place to do it); prohibit local cops from inquiring about a person’s immigration status; limit information sharing between state and county agencies and ICE; and more.

Green has promised to fast-track this legislation. Maybe, instead, legislators should be thoughtful and deliberate. …

read … Hawaiis-proposed-anti-ice-laws-mimic Minneapolis-in-the-worst-ways

What More can Hawaii do to help random adults Transsexualize other peoples’ Children?

CB: … In 26 states, bans on pediatric gender-affirming care threaten providers with loss of licensure, funding, or even incarceration….

In February 2025, Hawaiʻi’s Senate Ways and Means Committee unexpectedly tabled legislation during the legislative session that would have provided much-needed legal protections for institutions and organizations providing care for patients seeking access to gender-affirming healthcare. Other West Coast Health Alliance states (California, Oregon, and Washington) and over a dozen others have those protections.

We commend Gov. Josh Green for subsequently joining other governors in a lawsuit challenging federal actions that restrict healthcare access for trans, intersex, and non-binary youth. …

At Hawaiʻi Health & Harm Reduction Center, gender-affirming care means providing patients with medically appropriate services such as primary care, hormone therapy, mental health support, care coordination, and help navigating insurance and social services….

(TRANSLATION: “Castration.”)

In November 2025, HHHRC received a transformative $2.5 million gift to establish the Erin Pouline Investment for Gender Affirming Health….

REALITY: SB1150-Still-Legalizes Kidnap-of-Children-for-Sex-Change

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Classified Whistleblower Complaint About Tulsi Gabbard Stalls Within Her Agency

WSJ: … A U.S. intelligence official has alleged wrongdoing by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard in a whistleblower complaint that is so highly classified it has sparked months of wrangling over how to share it with Congress, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the matter.

The filing of the complaint has prompted a continuing, behind-the-scenes struggle about how to assess and handle it, with the whistleblower’s lawyer accusing Gabbard of stonewalling the complaint. Gabbard’s office rejects that characterization, contending it is navigating a unique set of circumstances and working to resolve the issue.

A cloak-and-dagger mystery reminiscent of a John le Carré novel is swirling around the complaint, which is said to be locked in a safe. Disclosure of its contents could cause “grave damage to national security,” one official said. It also implicates another federal agency beyond Gabbard’s, and raises potential claims of executive privilege that may involve the White House, officials said.

The complaint was filed last May with the intelligence community’s inspector general, according to a November letter that the whistleblower’s lawyer addressed to Gabbard. The letter, which was viewed by The Wall Street Journal, accused Gabbard’s office of hindering the dissemination of the complaint to lawmakers by failing to provide necessary security guidance on how to do so….

Gabbard has been an enigmatic figure in the Trump administration, sidelined from major national-security matters and tasked with investigating the results of the 2020 election that President Trump lost.

The November letter from Bakaj was shared with the House and Senate intelligence panels, making them aware of the complaint’s filing for the first time. Months later, lawmakers still haven’t received the complaint itself. Some Democratic staffers on the intelligence committees have tried to learn more about the complaint in recent weeks, with little success, congressional aides said.

The complaint is so highly classified that Bakaj said he hasn’t been able to view it himself. The Wall Street Journal couldn’t learn the substance of the allegations….

UKDM: Secret whistleblower complaint against Tulsi Gabbard sends shockwaves through DC: 'Grave damage to national security' | Daily Mail Online

SA: Gabbard facilitated Trump call to FBI during Georgia election raid | Honolulu Star-Advertiser

read … Classified Whistleblower Complaint About Tulsi Gabbard Stalls Within Her Agency

Hawaii Legislative Bill May Promote Greenhouse Gas Offset Scams

IM: … Hawaii law requires net zero greenhouse gas emissions within the state of Hawaii by 2045.

SB2903 proposes to alter that, “Mitigate its greenhouse gas emissions [by sequestering] through the local and global sequestration of more atmospheric carbon and greenhouse gases than the State produces as quickly as practicable, but no later than 2045." …

(TRANSLATION: Net Zero = ‘Buy Carbon Credits with Your Tax Dollars’)

The market for greenhouse gas credits has extensive documentation for scams, ripoffs, and fake offsets that account for most of the credits that have been sold globally….

The market is so lucrative and full of loopholes that conservation groups like Nature Conservancy and the Audubon Society have engaged in this fraud in order to increase their assets….

The Massachusetts Audubon Society has long managed its land in western Massachusetts as crucial wildlife habitat. In 2015 the organization proposed becoming a logging company and then applied to California’s forest offset program. The California Air Resources Board accepted Mass Audubon’s project into its program, requiring the nonprofit to preserve its forests over the next century instead of heavily logging them.

The nonprofit received more than 600,000 credits in exchange for its promise. The vast majority were sold through intermediaries to oil and gas companies. Energy company Phillips 66 bought 500,000 of the credits from Mass Audubon’s project, while Shell and the Southern California Gas Company acquired another 140,000.

“The Nature Conservancy recruits landowners and enrolls its own well-protected properties in carbon-offset projects, which generate credits that give big companies an inexpensive way to claim large emissions reductions.” …

Big Q: Do you support a Hawaii ban on liquefied natural gas for energy? | Honolulu Star-Advertiser – ‘NO’ = 69%

read … Hawaii Legislative Bill May Promote Greenhouse Gas Offset Scams

Affordable Housing Scam: Big Island Lawyer Gets 6 Years

CB: … In the end, Gary Zamber didn’t become a rich man for his role in the Big Island affordable housing scandal. Over the roughly seven years that he and three other residents conspired to exploit a system meant to encourage developers to build affordable housing, Zamber pocketed about $177,000 — far less than his co-conspirators.

During his sentencing hearing on Friday, U.S. District Judge Jill Otake said she found Zamber to be the least culpable of the four men who fraudulently obtained almost $11 million worth of land and affordable housing credits. But she still held him heavily responsible, sentencing him to 70 months in prison and three years of supervised release, highlighting the impact of his actions on affordable housing stock and the public’s trust in the government….

read … Operation-reverse-robinhood-big-island-lawyer-gets-6-years-for-scam

Honolulu City Council’s affordable housing bills face strong resistance

SA: … A trio of Honolulu City Council measures is drawing opposition from building developers and housing advocates alike over an effort by some Council members to potentially roll back existing incentives related to affordable housing development on Oahu.

Introduced on Jan. 22, Bills 14, 15 and 17 variously look to revise the city’s existing affordable housing laws to reduce or eliminate real property tax exemptions and similar requirements for housing incentives and waivers for developers.

Critics say these bills would undermine project financing or increase project costs dramatically, deterring affordable housing development. They also assert the measures could affect transit-oriented development, or TOD, projects slated to be built adjacent to the city’s over-$10 billion rail project that’s rolling toward Kakaako….

SA: Honolulu City Council defers affordable housing Bill 15 | Honolulu Star-Advertiser

read … Honolulu-city-councils-affordable-housing-bills-face-strong-resistance

Free school meals ‘non-sensible’

SA: … A proposal to provide meals for all students in the state’s public school system is neither sensible nor practical, particularly when other issues — many within the education apparatus — require more attention and funding….

read … Wait-and-see-on-free-school-meals

End of aquarium collecting does not lead to recovery of reef fish in Hawaiʻi waters, new analysis finds

MN: … A new analysis of state and federal monitoring data finds that yellow tang populations on Hawaiʻi reefs failed to recover — and in some cases declined — after commercial aquarium fish collecting ended, contradicting long-standing claims that the practice was sustainable ….

(TRANSLATION: The State banned aquarium collecting and there was no change in fish counts. So the antis are blaming aquarium collectors instead of acknowledging their own self-serving junk science as the problem.)

read … End-of-aquarium-collecting-does-not-lead-to-recovery-of-reef-fish-in Hawaii

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