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Carina Sunshine

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I'm a 30 year old trans gal, union maid, psychonaut, and avid tabletop role player. Hit me up if any of that interests you! I am the extreme left they warn you about. DMs are open :)

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Carina Sunshine @carinasunshine.bsky.social · Nov 28

🧵 (1/?) Hey all, I know that some (most) of you don't know me, so I'm here to be clear. :) I am an anarcho-syndicalist (despite the following images) who believes in equal rights for all, the abolition of the wage system, nuclear energy, space travel, The Revolution, and rehabilitation of...

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 15h

This concentration of wealth has progressed with every US presidency. And then people ask

“How did we get here?”

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Carina Sunshine @carinasunshine.bsky.social · 15h

We plan to feed 500 each drive. We're expanding where we're handing food out, doing this more often, including resources we didn't last time, and adding an option each month that isn't just soup!

Carina Sunshine @carinasunshine.bsky.social · 15h

It sounds like a very real possibility that Soup Drive 2 will become Soup Drive 3 and 4 and maybe even more, monthly. This will be hard, both in terms of labor and funds. We're making a Venmo for our group that will be posted by several people all over soon. Last year, we fed 250 people. This year..

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💢Marx was right.🕊 @paulwalker44.bsky.social · 1d

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Briahna Joy Gray
@briebriej..•10h S
You know the people around her are telling her this is a good look. I wish one person who loves her would pay her the respect of being honest with her about what accountability and grace looks like.
Kaivan Shroff
@KaivanShroff • 1d
Harris slams protestor during book tour.
"You want to talk about legacy? Let's talk about the legacy of mass deportations, of not voting, and Donald Trump."

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It's Sakher 🍉 @sakher23.bsky.social · 1d

Please don’t scroll past this.
I’m still here… still fighting to survive.
I’m sick, my father is very sick — and we have no way to get treatment.
We live in a tent, in the freezing cold, with nothing but the wind and the sound of our hunger.
More words in the first comment …
GFM: gofund.me/f116bf44

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Carina Sunshine @carinasunshine.bsky.social · 1d

"All the use of force will be stopped from now on. The people work for the benefit of the many, not for the few."
- Brigadier General Nonos Mbinina Mamelison of Madagascar

Madagascar's government has been overthrown.

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AnarchoTerran @anarchoterran.bsky.social · 1d

And then we feed them to the homeless...

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Carina Sunshine @carinasunshine.bsky.social · 1d

Fellow Workers, against the bosses and bureaucrats. The fascists are feeding on them. Killing the parasite won't be enough. The host must go, too. (7/7)

Carina Sunshine @carinasunshine.bsky.social · 1d

The first person. I don't talk about him much. He was my best friend. We talked about God and Chance and Fate on those drives. Why things are the way things are. He never told me the answers. He always just asked the next question. I came to my own conclusions, young. It's us, all of us, (6/🧵)

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Carina Sunshine @carinasunshine.bsky.social · 1d

Naomi's kitchen. He had a seafoam green truck with a thin (relatively) purple stripe bored by thinner white stripes running along it. It had a covered bed. We would volunteer our time, his truck, and gas to pick up bread from grocery stores and bring it to a food bank. This one, too, is in (5/🧵)

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Carina Sunshine @carinasunshine.bsky.social · 1d

The first person. Not many of mine are. I remember my cross country drives, the people I met, the hardships I saw. It shaped me. So did my grandfather. He was a Union plumber. When I was young, he and my grandmother moved to Texas to help with my siblings and I. He and I delivered bread for (4/🧵)

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Carina Sunshine @carinasunshine.bsky.social · 1d

Reentry. My entire life plays out, not in sequence, not in succession, even but all at once, like an ocean flooding me. Old, long forgotten childhood memories come back, even. My first Pokemon encounter was a Gyarados card forgotten on the side of the road. I was young. This memory is in (3/🧵)

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Carina Sunshine @carinasunshine.bsky.social · 1d

I think of life's great loves lost, of all those future joys, and of the ones I've lost along the way. I dream of tomorrow, Fellow Workers and Friends, of Liberty and Love! And I think of how grey things are. My cat sits in the window and watches me think, gazing and waiting for my inevitable (2/🧵)

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Carina Sunshine @carinasunshine.bsky.social · 1d

My mind is racing with a thousand ideas right now. I think of the girl I'm chatting with. I think of the woman of yesteryear. I think of that Scooby Doo villain my child brain used to hide a memory. My mind flies with thoughts of my partner sleeping upstairsand of my inevitable move. (1/🧵)

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 2d

Don't forget that your homeless neighbors, the people living in the streets & out of their cars around you that you see every day, are part of your real world community.

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Carina Sunshine @carinasunshine.bsky.social · 1d

Fire goes in the fireplace says the brain worm

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 2d

If you're worried about Climate Change, it's billionaires
If you're worried about Mass Extinction, it's billionaires
If you're worried about poverty, it's billionaires
If you're worried about Genocide, it's billionaires

Unite to deal with the cause of ALL the problems, Greed.

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Carina Sunshine @carinasunshine.bsky.social · 1d

Why is this so common? Why was this true in California and Florida and Houston, TX? Why were things allowed to get this way? Why do we punish the biker and pedestrian so heavily? (6/6)

Carina Sunshine @carinasunshine.bsky.social · 1d

Past another 2 intersections that have no protected crossings to walk 12 minutes back. Also uphill and downhill. All this is to cross the street. Or I can drive. It's very simple driving. The 30 minute path, I cross a steep ramp exiting a hardware store. I often take the other route. (5/🧵)

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Carina Sunshine @carinasunshine.bsky.social · 1d

I live across the street from my favorite breakfast joint. It's a cute little spot with vegetarian options in the corpse of a Waffle House. There are 6 lanes + a suicide lane to cross to get there. My other options are a 15 minute walk downhill to walk 15 minutes back up or walk 12 minutes (4/🧵)

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Carina Sunshine @carinasunshine.bsky.social · 1d

So are the community center, the park it sits in, the school across the street, and the walking trail surrounding it all. It's too bad the sidewalk and bike lane both end before you get there. You have a good quarter mile with no shoulder, even. Just a steep hillside or the road. (3/🧵)

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Carina Sunshine @carinasunshine.bsky.social · 1d

Probably terrified as a semi passes a foot away from the sidewalk at 50+ mph. The "bike lane" is the only barrier.

The library is down the road; you have to walk under the freeway and rail line with inches of space between you and cars to get there on foot. Still, it's a nice library. (2/🧵)

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Carina Sunshine @carinasunshine.bsky.social · 1d

I'm enjoying the cooler air this evening, sitting with the cat on the balcony. My neighbor sits on hers and knits. We acknowledge each other. A truck nearly hits a sedan. It's [redacted busy street name]; nobody is surprised. I watch as a pedestrian and her dog nervously look around, (1/🧵)

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 2d

#OtD 12 Oct 1919 150 Royal Navy sailors mutinied and broke out of their ships at Port Edgar upon hearing they were being sent to the Baltic to fight against the Russian Revolution. The desertion prevented the First Destroyer Flotilla from departing stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8435...

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 1d

He seems to be thinking about the afterlife kind of a lot.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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