@thedarksidecat.bsky.social
Nonbinary, disabled communist. Also darksidecat@mastodon.social.
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It’s so funny to me that the Germans are like “Jewish hate is increasing” and their example is a woman holding a sign that says “Fuck U Germany”- genuinely a country convinced that hating them is the same as hating the people they slaughtered
January 20, 2026 at 6:30 AM
It’s so funny to me that the Germans are like “Jewish hate is increasing” and their example is a woman holding a sign that says “Fuck U Germany”- genuinely a country convinced that hating them is the same as hating the people they slaughtered
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Timeline Cleanse: Please enjoy this photo of a praying mantis that was sitting on top of my car windshield, but the angling and lighting were so weird it looks like a giant praying mantis wandering a corn field in Iowa.
January 10, 2026 at 1:03 AM
Timeline Cleanse: Please enjoy this photo of a praying mantis that was sitting on top of my car windshield, but the angling and lighting were so weird it looks like a giant praying mantis wandering a corn field in Iowa.
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Once again, you'd be forgiven for assuming from this coverage that she killed herself. She was murdered by two fellow students at her school - people she knew in real life, not from social media.
Mother of murdered Brianna Ghey urges Starmer to ban social media for under-16s
Mother of murdered Brianna Ghey urges Starmer to ban social media for under-16s
Esther Ghey says daughter’s eating disorder and self-harm had been exacerbated by harmful online content
The mother of the murdered teenager Brianna Ghey has urged Keir Starmer to ban social media for under-16s, adding to growing pressure on the prime minister before a crunch vote on the issue on Wednesday.
Esther Ghey wrote to Starmer on Monday explaining in detail how she felt her daughter’s eating disorder and self-harm had been exacerbated by TikTok influencers with whom she had become obsessed. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 19, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Once again, you'd be forgiven for assuming from this coverage that she killed herself. She was murdered by two fellow students at her school - people she knew in real life, not from social media.
They don't actually have any fucking right to demand a random guy subject himself to fingerprinting or facial recognition bullshit to begin with. "As with any law enforcement agency" would still be a Constitutional violation, but they have no legal right to engage in general law enforcement either
DHS is out with a new explanation of this and "he's a brown guy who looked like some sex criminals who he allegedly lived with" (his sister-in-law's story suggests that last part is made up), and they claim he refused to be fingerprinted or "facially ID'd," which I do not in any way believe at all.
January 19, 2026 at 9:26 PM
They don't actually have any fucking right to demand a random guy subject himself to fingerprinting or facial recognition bullshit to begin with. "As with any law enforcement agency" would still be a Constitutional violation, but they have no legal right to engage in general law enforcement either
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These issues themselves are fine but the refusal to place immigration and the secret police terrorizing our families alongside those issues presumably means that a bunch of leadership are white supremacists and I am fairly comfortable jumping to that conclusion at this point.
NEW: In this interview, Chuck Schumer describes the "five buckets" Dems think are key to their possibly winning a Senate majority in 2026: housing, "the high price of food [and] food monopolies playing a major role there," electricity, "the high cost of childcare," and health care.
Zero Chucks Left to Give
Chuck Schumer now sees a path back to the majority. Can he manage his way through it?
www.thebulwark.com
January 19, 2026 at 3:20 AM
These issues themselves are fine but the refusal to place immigration and the secret police terrorizing our families alongside those issues presumably means that a bunch of leadership are white supremacists and I am fairly comfortable jumping to that conclusion at this point.
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Fun fact: Black Panthers doing perfectly legal (at the time) open carry in CA in the 1960s spurred then-Governor Reagan to sign the Mulford Act into law in 1965, prohibiting it.
These people have no consistent politics outside a desperate, leering need to keep hold of power and privilege.
These people have no consistent politics outside a desperate, leering need to keep hold of power and privilege.
January 19, 2026 at 4:51 AM
Fun fact: Black Panthers doing perfectly legal (at the time) open carry in CA in the 1960s spurred then-Governor Reagan to sign the Mulford Act into law in 1965, prohibiting it.
These people have no consistent politics outside a desperate, leering need to keep hold of power and privilege.
These people have no consistent politics outside a desperate, leering need to keep hold of power and privilege.
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Smart people keep saying that the "military is at least more professional than the police" and, um, during the 1992 rebellion in Los Angeles, Marines shot up a house just for funsies?
January 18, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Smart people keep saying that the "military is at least more professional than the police" and, um, during the 1992 rebellion in Los Angeles, Marines shot up a house just for funsies?
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„Since the Gaza ceasefire was announced, 100 days ago, on 8 October, Israel's military attacks continue. Over 440 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed. Over 2,500 residential buildings have been destroyed, leaving people forced into displacement. Severe restrictions on aid inflows persist.“
🚨Despite the first phase of a fragile ceasefire being in place, people in Gaza are still being deliberately deprived of water. We must be allowed to respond at scale. Read more: bit.ly/4pJkfks
January 18, 2026 at 11:55 AM
„Since the Gaza ceasefire was announced, 100 days ago, on 8 October, Israel's military attacks continue. Over 440 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed. Over 2,500 residential buildings have been destroyed, leaving people forced into displacement. Severe restrictions on aid inflows persist.“
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The "ICE is using military tactics suited for a warzone, not for American streets" rhetoric kinda misses the point that warzones are not naturally occuring. The US military creates war zones from residential neighborhoods and the tactics are not more justifiable just because it's overseas
January 18, 2026 at 1:42 AM
The "ICE is using military tactics suited for a warzone, not for American streets" rhetoric kinda misses the point that warzones are not naturally occuring. The US military creates war zones from residential neighborhoods and the tactics are not more justifiable just because it's overseas
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This is why the thing that I will rant about at parties so much that people walk off is The Rally to Restore Sanity
This idea is absolutely brain-dead and absolutely everywhere.
January 17, 2026 at 10:50 PM
This is why the thing that I will rant about at parties so much that people walk off is The Rally to Restore Sanity
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Oh world, oh people! . My family needs a tent ⛺️ and food. My father needs medicine; the cold is weakening our bones. My mother wakes up from the intense cold. We need clothes; we need a tent, at least to shelter us from the bitter cold.
chuffed.org/project/161883
chuffed.org/project/161883
January 17, 2026 at 10:43 AM
Oh world, oh people! . My family needs a tent ⛺️ and food. My father needs medicine; the cold is weakening our bones. My mother wakes up from the intense cold. We need clothes; we need a tent, at least to shelter us from the bitter cold.
chuffed.org/project/161883
chuffed.org/project/161883
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They nearly killed this woman. Then they went on national TV and tried to smear her.
Woman Seen Pulled from Car Speaks Out: 'Lucky to be alive'
Aliya Rahman "said she was driving to an appointment at the Traumatic Brain Injury Center when the incident occurred."
She asked for a doctor and was taken to a detention center where she lost consciousness.
abcnews.go.com/US/live-upda...
Aliya Rahman "said she was driving to an appointment at the Traumatic Brain Injury Center when the incident occurred."
She asked for a doctor and was taken to a detention center where she lost consciousness.
abcnews.go.com/US/live-upda...
January 17, 2026 at 12:31 AM
They nearly killed this woman. Then they went on national TV and tried to smear her.
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Maybe think of this next time, before you give the peace prize to a very obviously bent fash crank baying for America to invade her country, depose its government and put her in charge
January 16, 2026 at 11:29 AM
Maybe think of this next time, before you give the peace prize to a very obviously bent fash crank baying for America to invade her country, depose its government and put her in charge
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She is pleading with them:
“I’m disabled! I have a brain injury! Put me down!”
She was on her way to a traumatic brain injury Center when they grabbed her and threw her in detention.
She requested a doctor, was denied and lost consciousness.
Utterly inhumane.
“I’m disabled! I have a brain injury! Put me down!”
She was on her way to a traumatic brain injury Center when they grabbed her and threw her in detention.
She requested a doctor, was denied and lost consciousness.
Utterly inhumane.
January 16, 2026 at 5:34 AM
She is pleading with them:
“I’m disabled! I have a brain injury! Put me down!”
She was on her way to a traumatic brain injury Center when they grabbed her and threw her in detention.
She requested a doctor, was denied and lost consciousness.
Utterly inhumane.
“I’m disabled! I have a brain injury! Put me down!”
She was on her way to a traumatic brain injury Center when they grabbed her and threw her in detention.
She requested a doctor, was denied and lost consciousness.
Utterly inhumane.
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What are they even mad about here? Women?
Stephen Miller is upset about Star Trek, one of the most socially progressive franchises in TV history
January 16, 2026 at 7:26 AM
What are they even mad about here? Women?
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elected democrats who want their constituents to remain non-violent in their protests of these abuses must actually offer a path for ending the abuses non-violently. they currently are not as a party and it’s a major problem.
🚨WHOA. The El Paso Medical Examiner says it will rule the death of a 55-year-old Cuban man at ICE's "Camp East Montana" tent camp as a homicide.
He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.
He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.
January 15, 2026 at 11:07 PM
elected democrats who want their constituents to remain non-violent in their protests of these abuses must actually offer a path for ending the abuses non-violently. they currently are not as a party and it’s a major problem.
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Of course they have.
To save money. To appease staff who “don’t want to mask”.
To downplay the pandemic.
It’s cost countless lives.
Never forget that hospital acquired Covid has a near 10% mortality rate.
Patients shouldn’t have to choose between care and Covid.
To save money. To appease staff who “don’t want to mask”.
To downplay the pandemic.
It’s cost countless lives.
Never forget that hospital acquired Covid has a near 10% mortality rate.
Patients shouldn’t have to choose between care and Covid.
“At stake is whether health systems have been knowingly deploying substandard protective equipment in environments where exposure to lethal airborne disease is foreseeable, continuous and unavoidable.”
Yes they have.
Yes they have.
Why the WHO respirator revolt could reshape global health governance - Business Upturn Trade & Policy
When a group of senior clinicians and public health scientists formally urged the World Health Organization in January 2026 to...
www.businessupturn.com
January 16, 2026 at 9:38 AM
Of course they have.
To save money. To appease staff who “don’t want to mask”.
To downplay the pandemic.
It’s cost countless lives.
Never forget that hospital acquired Covid has a near 10% mortality rate.
Patients shouldn’t have to choose between care and Covid.
To save money. To appease staff who “don’t want to mask”.
To downplay the pandemic.
It’s cost countless lives.
Never forget that hospital acquired Covid has a near 10% mortality rate.
Patients shouldn’t have to choose between care and Covid.
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"Officers threw flash bangs and tear gas in my car. I got six kids in the car"
"His wife, Destiny Jackson, told FOX 9 their 6-month-old infant stopped breathing and lost consciousness. She then performed CPR on her baby."
"His wife, Destiny Jackson, told FOX 9 their 6-month-old infant stopped breathing and lost consciousness. She then performed CPR on her baby."
January 15, 2026 at 8:22 PM
"Officers threw flash bangs and tear gas in my car. I got six kids in the car"
"His wife, Destiny Jackson, told FOX 9 their 6-month-old infant stopped breathing and lost consciousness. She then performed CPR on her baby."
"His wife, Destiny Jackson, told FOX 9 their 6-month-old infant stopped breathing and lost consciousness. She then performed CPR on her baby."
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Chaofeng Ge was found hanging with his arms and legs tied behind his back & yet ruled a suicide.
Randall Gamboa was healthy when detained and in a vegetative state when deported. His death won’t even count as ICE related.
Nenko Gantchev was a diabetic & denied food and meds.
Close the camps.
Randall Gamboa was healthy when detained and in a vegetative state when deported. His death won’t even count as ICE related.
Nenko Gantchev was a diabetic & denied food and meds.
Close the camps.
SCOOP from Douglas Macmillan
Medical examiner believes death of man in ICE custody was homicide, recording says
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Medical examiner believes death of man in ICE custody was homicide, recording says
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Medical examiner believes death of man in ICE custody was homicide, recording says
A fellow detainee says he witnessed Geraldo Lunas Campos being choked to death by guards at the ICE detention center in Texas on Jan. 3.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 16, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Chaofeng Ge was found hanging with his arms and legs tied behind his back & yet ruled a suicide.
Randall Gamboa was healthy when detained and in a vegetative state when deported. His death won’t even count as ICE related.
Nenko Gantchev was a diabetic & denied food and meds.
Close the camps.
Randall Gamboa was healthy when detained and in a vegetative state when deported. His death won’t even count as ICE related.
Nenko Gantchev was a diabetic & denied food and meds.
Close the camps.
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You should care about the lives of all people impacted by US imperialism because they are people but if you can’t do that you should care about the imperial boomerang coming back to get you
If you think the violence the US government does around the world isn’t directly tied to the violence they do among their own people- here’s a short thread of US cities with mainly decommissioned military vehicles to use against their own citizens
January 15, 2026 at 12:03 PM
You should care about the lives of all people impacted by US imperialism because they are people but if you can’t do that you should care about the imperial boomerang coming back to get you
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“sir? sir! I know you can’t hear me over the artillery fire but would you please stop shooting and stand still? I need to scan your QR code.”
I am introducing the Quick Recognition (QR) Act, which requires ICE and CBP officers to wear uniforms featuring QR codes. When scanned, the code would generate a digital ID displaying the officer’s name, badge number, and law enforcement agency.
ICE should be unmasked both physically and digitally.
ICE should be unmasked both physically and digitally.
January 14, 2026 at 4:55 PM
“sir? sir! I know you can’t hear me over the artillery fire but would you please stop shooting and stand still? I need to scan your QR code.”
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This is the response to me saying we need to push democrats to fight for immigrants. Genuinely it’s wild yall. The same republican talking points — that standing up is inviting bloodshed & mayhem.
This is literally what Tom Homan is saying. Congratulations!
This is literally what Tom Homan is saying. Congratulations!
January 14, 2026 at 7:00 PM
This is the response to me saying we need to push democrats to fight for immigrants. Genuinely it’s wild yall. The same republican talking points — that standing up is inviting bloodshed & mayhem.
This is literally what Tom Homan is saying. Congratulations!
This is literally what Tom Homan is saying. Congratulations!
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NEW: A Pregnant Woman at Risk of Heart Failure Couldn’t Get Urgent Treatment. She Died Waiting for an Abortion.
In North Carolina, a state that had legislated its commitment to life, Ciji Graham spent her final days struggling to find anyone to save hers.
In North Carolina, a state that had legislated its commitment to life, Ciji Graham spent her final days struggling to find anyone to save hers.
A Pregnant Woman at Risk of Heart Failure Couldn’t Get Urgent Treatment. She Died Waiting for an Abortion.
In North Carolina, a state that had legislated its commitment to life, Ciji Graham spent her final days struggling to find anyone to save hers.
www.propublica.org
January 14, 2026 at 1:00 PM
NEW: A Pregnant Woman at Risk of Heart Failure Couldn’t Get Urgent Treatment. She Died Waiting for an Abortion.
In North Carolina, a state that had legislated its commitment to life, Ciji Graham spent her final days struggling to find anyone to save hers.
In North Carolina, a state that had legislated its commitment to life, Ciji Graham spent her final days struggling to find anyone to save hers.
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An hour after NY Attorney General announces Betar must stop targeting New Yorkers, Betar tweets "Islamaphobia . org" asking: "What should we do with it?"
Site targets NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani as "an enemy to the West."
(Betar is subject to a $50,000 fine for violating the deal)
Site targets NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani as "an enemy to the West."
(Betar is subject to a $50,000 fine for violating the deal)
January 13, 2026 at 11:24 PM
An hour after NY Attorney General announces Betar must stop targeting New Yorkers, Betar tweets "Islamaphobia . org" asking: "What should we do with it?"
Site targets NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani as "an enemy to the West."
(Betar is subject to a $50,000 fine for violating the deal)
Site targets NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani as "an enemy to the West."
(Betar is subject to a $50,000 fine for violating the deal)
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Steven catches a federal prosecutor for ICE, who missed work temporarily after he was caught, by Steven, fantasizing about owning slaves, et similia, et cetera, now back on the job a year later.
And here he is doing presumably some important stuff.
And here he is doing presumably some important stuff.
January 14, 2026 at 2:29 AM
Steven catches a federal prosecutor for ICE, who missed work temporarily after he was caught, by Steven, fantasizing about owning slaves, et similia, et cetera, now back on the job a year later.
And here he is doing presumably some important stuff.
And here he is doing presumably some important stuff.