Carina
@asiarican.bsky.social
From Maui
Hobbies: birding, reading, embroidery, going to museums
Hobbies: birding, reading, embroidery, going to museums
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flashes of colour on a grey day - red crested pochard, great spotted woodpecker, kingfisher ❤️🧡
December 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
flashes of colour on a grey day - red crested pochard, great spotted woodpecker, kingfisher ❤️🧡
I truly don’t understand fireworks during Christmas.
December 25, 2025 at 2:50 AM
I truly don’t understand fireworks during Christmas.
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A rare owl showed up at Fort Sumter. Birdwatchers are waiting hours for a glimpse. www.postandcourier.com/news/fort-su...
A rare owl showed up at Fort Sumter. Birdwatchers are waiting hours for a glimpse.
A burrowing owl is calling the walls of Fort Sumter in the Charleston harbor home. Sightings of the bird in Charleston are rare, exciting bird watchers.
www.postandcourier.com
December 24, 2025 at 7:53 PM
A rare owl showed up at Fort Sumter. Birdwatchers are waiting hours for a glimpse. www.postandcourier.com/news/fort-su...
I could never not track the books I’ve read each year. It doesn’t have to be public but it absolutely needs to be written down.
December 25, 2025 at 2:35 AM
I could never not track the books I’ve read each year. It doesn’t have to be public but it absolutely needs to be written down.
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My most common email at the moment is from Uber Eats and I just unsubscribed from it and I’m so happy. It’s SO annoying.
December 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
My most common email at the moment is from Uber Eats and I just unsubscribed from it and I’m so happy. It’s SO annoying.
Yesterday I completed something I’ve always wanted to do, a Christmas Bird Count. It was just as fun and rewarding as expected. Proud to be part of it 125 years after it started!
December 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Yesterday I completed something I’ve always wanted to do, a Christmas Bird Count. It was just as fun and rewarding as expected. Proud to be part of it 125 years after it started!
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good morning from Dublin
December 17, 2025 at 9:27 AM
good morning from Dublin
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People love to shit on Dems but House Dems, in the face of an authoritarian executive branch and deferential House Speaker have in the first year: forced two discharge petitions (Epstein and ACA), and might win a government shutdown. Not bad for the minority!
it really feels like the end is near for Mike Johnson's speakership after a critical mass of House Republicans this morning forced a vote on ACA subsidies over his resistance
December 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
People love to shit on Dems but House Dems, in the face of an authoritarian executive branch and deferential House Speaker have in the first year: forced two discharge petitions (Epstein and ACA), and might win a government shutdown. Not bad for the minority!
Mike Johnson needs to get used to even more defeats. But maybe he’s not defeated because he didn’t hear it!!!!
Massive defeat for Mike Johnson. Still has to clear the senate, but this is what Dems wanted all along. Johnson has essentially lost control of the gavel after Epstein and now this. Weakest speaker in history.
December 17, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Mike Johnson needs to get used to even more defeats. But maybe he’s not defeated because he didn’t hear it!!!!
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KIM: Have you had a convo w/POTUS about using the FCC to go after critics?
CARR: Heheh. I don't get into the specifics of conversations
K: Would it be appropriate for him to give you direction to pressure media companies?
C: I'm not gonna get into hypotheticals
K: The easy answer is 'no'
CARR: Heheh. I don't get into the specifics of conversations
K: Would it be appropriate for him to give you direction to pressure media companies?
C: I'm not gonna get into hypotheticals
K: The easy answer is 'no'
December 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
KIM: Have you had a convo w/POTUS about using the FCC to go after critics?
CARR: Heheh. I don't get into the specifics of conversations
K: Would it be appropriate for him to give you direction to pressure media companies?
C: I'm not gonna get into hypotheticals
K: The easy answer is 'no'
CARR: Heheh. I don't get into the specifics of conversations
K: Would it be appropriate for him to give you direction to pressure media companies?
C: I'm not gonna get into hypotheticals
K: The easy answer is 'no'
One of the highlights of my year is knowing a Connections theme about Seinfeld because I watched the entire series this year.
December 1, 2025 at 12:02 AM
One of the highlights of my year is knowing a Connections theme about Seinfeld because I watched the entire series this year.
Why are reading Tik Tok trends so annoying?
November 26, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Why are reading Tik Tok trends so annoying?
Someone in a jeep is blasting Californication and usually it would annoy me but it’s a very catchy song.
November 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Someone in a jeep is blasting Californication and usually it would annoy me but it’s a very catchy song.
Never buy from Shein!
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Never buy from Shein!
Trump is only cognizant of words that make him seem powerful and ones he can use to insult people. I truly think he doesn’t know how to come up with other sentences and actually know the meaning of it.
November 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Trump is only cognizant of words that make him seem powerful and ones he can use to insult people. I truly think he doesn’t know how to come up with other sentences and actually know the meaning of it.
Glorious.
November 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Glorious.
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Epstein survivor Haley Robson refutes Mike Johnson: "The survivors that don't want to be public are Jane Does. They've been protected and their names have been redacted the whole time ... I don't care if my name is redacted is not."
November 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Epstein survivor Haley Robson refutes Mike Johnson: "The survivors that don't want to be public are Jane Does. They've been protected and their names have been redacted the whole time ... I don't care if my name is redacted is not."
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I’m not gonna enjoy a romance book as much if I feel like it’s TOO perfect and I don’t know how to put a finger on that
I just like It a little messy 🌶️📚💙
I just like It a little messy 🌶️📚💙
November 18, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I’m not gonna enjoy a romance book as much if I feel like it’s TOO perfect and I don’t know how to put a finger on that
I just like It a little messy 🌶️📚💙
I just like It a little messy 🌶️📚💙
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It will not go to the 5th Circuit. By law it goes straight to SCOTUS. Ron DeSantis is a moron.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:23 PM
It will not go to the 5th Circuit. By law it goes straight to SCOTUS. Ron DeSantis is a moron.
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Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats kicked Thune's ass today. Now the Epstein bill is onto Trump;s desk for signing.
www.politico.com/live-updates...
www.politico.com/live-updates...
Thune denies Johnson’s demand for Epstein bill changes
Senate GOP lawyers found the bill ‘sufficient,’ Thune said.
www.politico.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats kicked Thune's ass today. Now the Epstein bill is onto Trump;s desk for signing.
www.politico.com/live-updates...
www.politico.com/live-updates...
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If my anger towards those defending sexual predators were visualized...
Current eruption in Hawaii.
Current eruption in Hawaii.
November 18, 2025 at 11:44 PM
If my anger towards those defending sexual predators were visualized...
Current eruption in Hawaii.
Current eruption in Hawaii.
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Court ruled the TX gerrymander is illegal in part bc it was spurred by a letter from Trump's DOJ that demanded a redrawing for explicitly racial reasons.
(First 2 images.)
@mcpli.bsky.social had told Bolts of DOJ letter: "starts to look a lot like intentional racial discrimination."
(3rd image)
(First 2 images.)
@mcpli.bsky.social had told Bolts of DOJ letter: "starts to look a lot like intentional racial discrimination."
(3rd image)
November 18, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Court ruled the TX gerrymander is illegal in part bc it was spurred by a letter from Trump's DOJ that demanded a redrawing for explicitly racial reasons.
(First 2 images.)
@mcpli.bsky.social had told Bolts of DOJ letter: "starts to look a lot like intentional racial discrimination."
(3rd image)
(First 2 images.)
@mcpli.bsky.social had told Bolts of DOJ letter: "starts to look a lot like intentional racial discrimination."
(3rd image)
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This is why I talk about sheriffs a lot when it to comes to immigration: they decide (in most states) on whether to hold people for ICE at all!
ICE abducted Leticia Jacobo and tried to deport her, she is Native American.
Polk County Sheriff’s Office, which held her for ICE, admitted that it was a ‘clerical error’.
Her family fought through layers of bureaucracy to stop her from being disappeared.
www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/202...
Polk County Sheriff’s Office, which held her for ICE, admitted that it was a ‘clerical error’.
Her family fought through layers of bureaucracy to stop her from being disappeared.
www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/202...
Native American woman nearly deported after Polk County Jail issues ICE detainer by mistake
A Native American woman from Arizona was nearly deported by federal immigration officials after a clerical error at the Polk County Jail. The woman's family had to scramble to prove she was Indigenous...
www.iowapublicradio.org
November 18, 2025 at 3:21 AM
This is why I talk about sheriffs a lot when it to comes to immigration: they decide (in most states) on whether to hold people for ICE at all!
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KERNEN: If we're reversing some tariffs to try to help affordability, isn't that acknowledging that tariffs were responsible for some of the higher prices and inflation?
HASSETT: This is nothing new
HASSETT: This is nothing new
November 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
KERNEN: If we're reversing some tariffs to try to help affordability, isn't that acknowledging that tariffs were responsible for some of the higher prices and inflation?
HASSETT: This is nothing new
HASSETT: This is nothing new