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Monster symbols, settling claims and billowing clouds + this day in history w/televised Watergate hearings and our song of the day by Ski Mask the Slump God on your Morning Monarchy for May 17, 2018.

New fissures, the olympics of beer and heavenly whiskey + this day in history w/the Queen of America and our song of the day by Okkervil River on your Morning Monarchy for May 16, 2018.

Quiet aircraft, big data and gait recognition + this day in history w/the flight of the Faith 7 and our song of the day by Justice on your Morning Monarchy for May 15, 2018.

(ZHE) — New evacuations were ordered in the Puna district of Hawaii’s Big Island Sunday after a massive 1,000-foot-long fissure opened on Kilauea volcano, sending bright red rock and magma hundreds of feet into the air with an ominous “jet engine” sound. The fissure was initially thought to be the 18th but was downgraded after the previous one did not […]

(ZHE) — There have been a number of powerful earthquakes since the volcano started erupting. In Pahoa, the nearest village to Kilauea, some schools remained closed after the area was hit by a 6.9 magnitude earthquake on Friday, the biggest since 1975. And while the destruction is already terrible, RT reports that the relentlessly advancing lava from the Kilauea volcano in […]

Selling rights, unjust desserts and the Southwest drought + this day in history w/the Norco shootout and our song of the day by Lilly Hiatt on your Morning Monarchy for May 9, 2018.

(ZHE) — Hawaii’s Mount Kilauea volcano has erupted, sending ash miles into the sky and spewing fountains of lava in a residential area which has been captured on stunning drone footage. The eruption of Mount Kilauea caused a mass evacuation in the residential area of Leilani estates, with the the drone showing lava oozing through a local […]

"Landslides forced the closure of Kuhio Highway from the area north of Hanalei known as Waikoko to the end of the road at Haena. That left residents and tourists stranded with no way in or out... This home was in the path of one of those slides in Wainiha" (source).by Gaius PubliusThis is your periodic reminder that:

Another fake Democratic careerist running for CongressHawaii's first congressional district (Honolulu) is almost as blue as the second district. The PVI of the 2nd district is D+19 and the 1st district's is "only" D+17. Trump got 29.6% of the vote in HI-02 but actually climbed over 30% in HI-01-- 30.5%. Hawaiians didn't buy the bullshit and Hawaii is not Trump territory. In fact, Republicans there have been fleeing his toxic party.

Friday, DFA announced their endorsement of Kaniela Ing in the crowded congressional primary for the open seat in Hawaii's first district. DFA's chairman, Jim Dean, made the classic case for the candidate: