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singletrack @singletrack.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The funniest worldwide immigration situation is Malta: - getting in trouble for selling EU citizenship by investment - being told they need to stop doing it - discontinuing it but immediately starting a new “citizenship by merit” program
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singletrack @singletrack.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
We did a mid-year candidate swap a couple years ago, so I see no reason why we should break tradition by not having Kamala Harris replace Platner.
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 29/06/2026
The Reconstruction Papers is our answer to the necessities of the moment. The PDF is now free to the public. Read it now: www.liberalcurrents.com/content/file...
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singletrack @singletrack.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
All I’m saying is that Shawinigan Handshake would be an amazing band name. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawini...
en.wikipedia.org
Shawinigan Handshake - Wikipedia
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singletrack @singletrack.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I’m sorry, I can’t suspend my disbelief enough to think that Trump is actually Taravingian.
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singletrack @singletrack.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Somehow, David Cameron returned.
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singletrack @singletrack.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Little Caesars, the Omelas of pizza chains.
Chart showing grouped custome ratings by pizza chain. Most of them are grouped around slightly bad to to slightly good. Little Caesars is good to great but there is one truly horrible store shown.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
NEW! Today we @immcouncil.org released our new framework for a credible and humane interior immigration enforcement system. What does that look like? It starts with four basic principles: - Compliance - Safety - Proportionality - Accountability
1.	Compliance: Government Should Make Rules that People Can Follow, and Get People to Follow the Rules
2.	Safety: Law Enforcement Should Protect Communities from Threats, Not Treat the Community as a Threat 
3.	Proportionality: Consequences for Violations of Civil Immigration Laws Should Be Tailored, Reasonable, and Humane
4.	Accountability: Agencies and Agents That Abuse Their Power Should Be Reined In or Pushed Out
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singletrack @singletrack.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Labour will say “your strategy of implementing proportional representation and putting forth a sensible left-wing agenda pales in comparison to my strategy of winning over Reform voters” and then not win over any Reform voters.
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singletrack @singletrack.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I’m working on it, OK? It takes longer to save up for leasing one than I expected, and I’m not so sure about my DIY skills.
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singletrack @singletrack.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I would love to watch a Lebowski / Tremors / Dune crossover about a washed up hippie who takes too may hallucinogens and starts thinking they’re Paul Atreides at the same time that their small desert town runs into graboids.
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singletrack @singletrack.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
How Iran gums up the strait:
A picture of an Argo corn starch canister
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singletrack @singletrack.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Kind of a shame that they missed the chance to call him Aayatollah Khamenei.
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H.E. Cas Piancey @cascoinfoundation.org · 27/02/2026
This story is, excuse my language, absolutely fucking crazy
If accusations prove true, the trafficking scheme worked something like this: the Israeli mafia, represented by Shalom Lior Azoulay, would acquire hundreds of' kilograms of cocaine in Colombia, paying producers with crypto.

The cocaine would then be transferred to Europe hidden in power generators, often arriving in The Netherlands and then moving throughout the rest of the continent, where the co-conspirators and their associates would then receive cash for the drugs.
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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
I have spent the past several months studying the cutting-edge research on modern democracies that have defeated authoritarian leaders. I've learned that the conventional wisdom on the topic is wrong — in ways that have clear implications for the US going forward THREAD www.vox.com/politics/479...
vox.com
How to stop a dictator
I spent months studying how authoritarians like Trump lose. The answer is shockingly simple.
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singletrack @singletrack.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
This reminds me of my favorite fact about Sherman: marching bands were determined to relentlessly troll him by playing “Marching Through Georgia” whenever he was present. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marchin...
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“Sherman himself came to loathe "Marching Through Georgia" because of its ubiquity in the North, being performed unremittingly at public functions he attended. When he reviewed the national encampment of the GAR in 1890, the hundreds of bands present played the tune every time they passed him for an unbroken seven hours.[59] Eyewitnesses claim that "his patience collapsed and he declared that he would never again attend another encampment until every band in the United States had signed an agreement not to play 'Marching Though Georgia' in his presence."[56] Sherman maintained his promise for all his life. However, the song was played at his funeral.”
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singletrack @singletrack.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
The background to Jeb Bush’s “please clap” comment in 2016 was actually way more depressing in retrospect — he was saying he wasn’t going to be a divisive jerk and his audience of Republican voters just sat there stone-faced. bsky.app/profile/dept...
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singletrack @singletrack.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Incredible things are happening on r/litrpg. www.reddit.com/r/litrpg/com...
Screenshot of post on the litrpg subreddit.  It is entitled "I'm finally launching!", and shows a muscular man nude to the waist from the back, facing an even more muscular and even more nude-looking minotaur."Hey guys,

Very happy to announce that after an incredible amount of work, I'm finally ready to launch my new book - "The Staff" - which is a portal fiction story about the most infamous thief in American history.

The mods have very kindly given me permission to post the first paragraph below. I've also dropped a link to the rest of that chapter for free on my Patreon.

If you have time, I'd really appreciate a quick read and any feedback you care to offer.

Thank you!

EDIT: Thanks to everyone for the honest feedback.

Just to be clear - and here's a brand-new sentence for you - no, this book does not contain gay minotaur sex. Not even a little bit.

I'm going back to the drawing board with my artist tomorrow, and we're going to make a cover that conveys more accurately the precise amount of hot minotaur sex in this novel, which again, is zero.

EDIT 2: Apparently I also owe an apology to the small (but vocal) contingent who really wanted this to be minotaur smut. Sorry to let you down."
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 29/01/2026
I'm seeking to connect with writers in or near Springfield, Ohio. Please feel free to email me at adam @ liberalcurrents dot com, or connect with me on signal
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Scan this QR code with your phone to chat with me on Signal.
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singletrack @singletrack.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
@jonrauch.bsky.social I'm glad to see you finally acknowledging it, but I'm surprised that you're not really grappling with why you were personally so late to recognizing it or dismissive of people who got there earlier. Seems like an opportunity for reflection or like some mea culpas might be due.
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singletrack @singletrack.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
another day volunteering for the greenland invasion. everyone keeps asking if they can fuck the penguin. buddy, they wont even let me fuck it
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singletrack @singletrack.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
All I’m saying is that there’s no evidence that Ted Cruz doesn’t munch on Texas’s power lines shortly before migrating south to warmer climates to spawn.
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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
I do think there is something like The Blob and I also think it cannot be blamed for Trump’s foreign policy decisions. Both are bad, albeit in distinct ways.
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c0ast3r 🇺🇸 @c0ast3r.endrun.io · 20/01/2026
Reupping this because it is even clearer this the end goal of Trump and Vance and Rubio. It will be the most catastrophic strategic own goal as well.
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.... For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
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singletrack @singletrack.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Really sketchy and misleading fundraising email from the @roycoopernc.bsky.social campaign — they edited the sender’s name to make it look like I’d already talked to them even though it was the first email from them.
Screenshot from Gmail showing an email with the subject “following up” and where the sender set their name to “Andy, me (2)”.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 22/12/2025
it's Khmer Last Christmas season
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Justice Of Toren One Var @jyn.dev · 09/12/2025
alt history where the louisiana territory stays culturally french but has a revolution to become independent; spain keeps the western US but mexico still has a revolutionary war; and Greater Mexico is the dominant superpower in north america
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singletrack @singletrack.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
“I think the subnivean domain will define the 21st century.”
An illustration showing the subnivean domain, which is how different creatures in Arctic environments live and move in spaces under the snow.
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singletrack @singletrack.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
If you want to support a media outlet that’s not completely spineless, consider donating to the Liberal Currents fundraiser today: gofund.me/0f0dd35fe
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Donate to The Liberal Currents Startup Fund, organized by Adam Gurri
To fight fascism we need opposition media with a backbone. Liberal Currents is that. Help… Adam Gurri needs your support for The Liberal Currents Startup Fund
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 26/11/2025
There is a reason that consolidating control over the media system is one of the very first things that authoritarians do, every single time. And Trump has sought to do exactly that. We need to build and maintain a strong opposition press with a big reach: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
“As we're continually hit with a barrage of disinformation, moral chaos, and political anxiety, Liberal Currents continues to be a sanctuary for honest dialogue, clear thought, and basic decency.” —Radley Balko, independent journalist at The Watch
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singletrack @singletrack.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
One of my favorite political publications, Liberal Currents, is doing a fundraiser to try to transition from a volunteer-run part-time group blog to a full-time organization with a higher rate of output. www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
gofundme.com
Donate to The Liberal Currents Startup Fund, organized by Adam Gurri
To fight fascism we need opposition media with a backbone. Liberal Currents is that. Help… Adam Gurri needs your support for The Liberal Currents Startup Fund
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singletrack @singletrack.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Their heads were buried in the sand.
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singletrack @singletrack.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Ruin a science fiction story by replacing a character: Foundation, but instead of Hari Seldon it’s Nicholas Nassim Taleb.
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
i made a model to assign scores for how robustly US politicians oppose fascism & graded 13 leading dems criteria & method QTed, individual results in 🧵 below:
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singletrack @singletrack.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
If you’re going to say that, the least you can do is be logically consistent and oppose nominating him on the grounds that you might accidentally make Kavanaugh’s evil doppelgänger a Supreme Court justice.
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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Imma be real with you guys the "TESCREAL" stuff is basically the libleft version of rightist paranoia over "Cultural Marxism", where you just smash together a half-dozen things that annoy you and go "these things are all connected and being pushed by a nefarious secret cabal of my political enemies"
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singletrack @singletrack.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Happy Gathering All The Generals And Admirals In A Single Location Day to all those who celebrate!
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singletrack @singletrack.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
(someone who has heard today that today is the start of the apocalypse, didn’t pay attention to the details, and is frantically trying to check whether it’s started yet): “Status” “Skills” “Stats” “Inventory” “System information” “Log out”
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singletrack @singletrack.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
“Curtis Yarvin and I discuss how creating hereditary duchies in California, New York, and Vermont will secure our nation’s ideological diversity.”
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singletrack @singletrack.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Who decided to call it the Moreau envelope instead of The Envelope of Dr. Moreau? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moreau_...
en.wikipedia.org
Moreau envelope - Wikipedia
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H.E. Cas Piancey @cascoinfoundation.org · 09/09/2025
I think often of Tether. It is my claim to fame. You haven’t heard? Sit down, dear friend, and let me tell you about a money printing machine the likes of which the world has never seen before.
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singletrack @singletrack.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Department of War, but the wars are: War on Drugs War on Terror War on Woke
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
It's fitting that "kitchen table issues" is a reference to sitting down at your kitchen table to pay your snail-mail bills and balance your checkbook on physical paper, something which has been obsolete for decades.
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singletrack @singletrack.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
(For those keeping track at home, Mark Cuban's post below is dramatic foreshadowing for Trump arresting him on a pretext sometime within the next year.)
Screengrab from TV news saying, "What are you gonna do, stab me?" with the headline "Quote From Man Stabbed."
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
"Join the National Guard and fight vagrants"
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singletrack @singletrack.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
I want to write a time loop story with Trotsky as the protagonist, where he loops back to Lenin’s death whenever he dies. My working title so far is “First Pick.”
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Kate Burns @katerqburns.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
There was a request for Benny Hill
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