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Bruce Arthur
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Toronto Star columnist, nice guy, jump shooter.
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · Mar 23
Harriette Mackenzie is such a rare athlete: she’s a BC college basketball star, and she is trans. This is the story of her season: an in-game attack, anti-trans hatred, outing herself, a lifetime of trauma, and how she kept going, despite it all. www.thestar.com/sports/baske...
Bullying, basketball and an online firestorm: How B.C. college star Harriette MacKenzie stood up to anti-trans hate — and won
Trans athlete Harriette Mackenzie has been ostracized most of her life. One violent play during a Pac West basketball game pushed her to fight back.
www.thestar.com
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punkademic.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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davidjroth.bsky.social
He hits a half-dozen distinct Garfield Faces in less than 30 seconds here. Remarkable work.
cwarzel.bsky.social Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 5h
the Doug Mills video embedded in the NYT Trump aging story is pretty amazing
November 26, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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economymedicine.bsky.social
This article heavily implies that ICE is being used in a custody dispute to help Karoline Leavitt's brother get his son and have the mother locked up in ICE detention
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5h
"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."

www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
REVERE, Mass. — A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts. The woman, Bruna Ferreira, has an 11-year-old son with Michael Leavitt, Karoline Leavitt's brother. Ferreira migrated with her family to the United States from Brazil as a child and is currently in custody at an ICE facility in southern Louisiana. Michael Leavitt released a statement, saying that his "only concern has always been the safety, well-being, and privacy of [his] son."
November 26, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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justinling.ca
Steve Witkoff is such a Russian patsy. Just absolutely embarrassing.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Steve Witkoff: I would make the call and just reiterate that you congratulate the president on this achievement, that you supported it, you supported it, that you respect that he is a man of peace and you’re just, you’re really glad to have seen it happen. So I would say that. I think from that it’s going to be a really good call. Because — let me tell you what I told the President. I told the president that you - that the Russian Federation has always wanted a peace deal. That’s my belief. I told the president I believe that. And I believe the question is — the issue is is that we have two nations that are having a hard time coming to a compromise and when we do, we’re going to have a peace deal. I’m even thinking that maybe we set out like a 20-point peace proposal, just like we did in Gaza. We put a 20-point Trump plan together that was 20 points for peace and I’m thinking maybe we do the same thing with you. My point is this... Yuri Ushakov: Ok, ok my friend. I think that very point our leaders could discuss. Hey Steve, I agree with you that he will congratulate, he will say that Mr. Trump is a real peace man and so and so. That he will say. SW: But here’s what I think would be amazing. SW: Yeah because listen to what I’m saying. I just want you to say, maybe just to say this to President Putin, because you know I have the deepest respect for President Putin. YU: Yes, Yes. SW: Maybe he says to President Trump: you know, Steve and Yuri discussed a very similar 20-point plan to peace and that could be something that we think might move the needle a little bit, we’re open to those sorts of things — to explore what it’s going to take to get a peace deal done. Now, me to you, I know what it’s going to take to get a peace deal done: Donetsk and maybe a land swap somewhere. But I’m saying instead of talking like that, let’s talk more hopefully because I think we’re going to get to a deal here. And I think Yuri, the president will give me a lot of space and discretion to get to the deal. YU: I see...
November 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM
brucearthur.bsky.social
I truly admire Brian's writing, and appreciate that he wrote this, but I feel dirty *on his behalf* that he had to engage with this level of material.
November 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
brucearthur.bsky.social
Just a treasure.
November 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
RIP Sean Connery you would have loved saying this headline
November 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
brucearthur.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
brucearthur.bsky.social
Poilievre cannot be anything other than what he is
journodale.bsky.social Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 13h
Poilievre is trying to goad Carney into debating the jurisdiction over pipelines, and calling him “pathetic” for not doing so. #QP
November 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
brucearthur.bsky.social
I was lucky enough to meet Colleen Jones a couple times. What a thoroughly delightful woman: so smart, so vibrant, so funny, so alive. She was a spectacular curler and much more than that, and I am grateful that the country got to see it. Rest in peace to a Canadian treasure.
November 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
Every elite authority in the UK appears to have lost their mind in precisely the same way
Reading a summary of her judgment, the judge said she was not satisfied that Linehan’s conduct amounted to harassment or that the complainant was as distressed as they made themselves out to be. In one video of Brooks confronting Linehan, the judge said that the activist looked “visibly happy and not distressed”. She said that Linehan had not tagged the activist in his social media posts, bar one, and that while his comments were “deeply unpleasant, insulting and even unnecessary”, they were not “oppressive or unacceptable beyond merely unattractive, annoying or irritating”. But the judge found that Linehan had taken Brooks’s phone because he was “angry and fed up”, and had damaged it by knocking it to the ground. She said that while the offence was not aggravated by the fact the complainant is transgender, it was because they were 17-years-old at the time. Reading a summary of her judgment, the judge said she was not satisfied that Linehan’s conduct amounted to harassment or that the complainant was as distressed as they made themselves out to be. In one video of Brooks confronting Linehan, the judge said that the activist looked “visibly happy and not distressed”. She said that Linehan had not tagged the activist in his social media posts, bar one, and that while his comments were “deeply unpleasant, insulting and even unnecessary”, they were not “oppressive or unacceptable beyond merely unattractive, annoying or irritating”. But the judge found that Linehan had taken Brooks’s phone because he was “angry and fed up”, and had damaged it by knocking it to the ground. She said that while the offence was not aggravated by the fact the complainant is transgender, it was because they were 17-years-old at the time.
November 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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beijingpalmer.bsky.social
jesus christ, is this the style standard at the BBC now? That's fucking vile, and the entire organization should be ashamed down to its bones.
variousvarieties.bsky.social Nick @variousvarieties.bsky.social · 21h
It looks like that BBC page has been updated in the last few minutes, so that's no longer the last sentence. I think part of it has been moved to this paragraph in the middle of the article, and the age is no longer mentioned:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Screenshot from BBC News article "Linehan cleared of harassing trans activist but guilty of damaging phone": She also did not find that the complainant, a biological male who identifies as a woman, "was as 'alarmed and distressed' as they portrayed themself to be by these messages and this course of conduct".
November 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
brucearthur.bsky.social
it's nuts all the way down
November 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
brucearthur.bsky.social
Two-year ban on whereabouts violations for Penny Oleksiak. I wrote about her at the World Championships. And this is just a shame, if a relatively predictable one. www.thestar.com/sports/amate...
Bruce Arthur: Penny Oleksiak is a ghost at the world championships. But the swimmer’s legacy for Canada is everywhere
Canada’s most decorated female Olympic medallist faces a two-year ban from competing after failing to notify testing authorities of her whereabouts.
www.thestar.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
brucearthur.bsky.social
As always, watch the elected conservatives who launder this banner and absorb it into their policy choices. The CPC is already on its way, there
November 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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cooperlund.online
The guys who are supporting Donald Trump, the guy most likely to be “the Antichrist” from whatever the definition of that is, sure love to accuse other people of being the Antichrist. Wonder what’s up with that.
robertscotthorton.bsky.social Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 17h
In leaked audio recordings, Peter Thiel reveals he told JD Vance to ignore Pope Leo XIV on moral issues, including the development of ethical AI. He also suggested the American pope was a tool of the Antichrist.
NEW: JD Vance’s Top Donor Suggests Pope Leo XIV is Antichrist
In a leaked lecture, Peter Thiel says he’s urged Vance to ignore the pope on moral questions — and simply pray for him.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
brucearthur.bsky.social
It’s easy, cheap, and stupid
pbump.com Philip Bump @pbump.com · 17h
I don’t understand why Weiss thinks the desired outcome of CBS News coverage is debate.
November 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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lindaholmes.bsky.social
I am stuck between how much I hate all this for the people who have their work stolen and how much I am frustrated by people who believe they should be able to do absolutely nothing to verify where something is coming from and still be confident it’s going to work.
davey.bsky.social Davey Alba @davey.bsky.social · 18h
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.

Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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cwarzel.bsky.social
when its definitely not a hostage situation
November 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
At this point, the Washpost edit page is just trolling its readers.

This is today's actual house editorial.
Opinion Editorial Board Thankful for paper towels Holiday travelers deserve better than inadequate and unsanitary hand dryers.
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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brendannyhan.bsky.social
The Secretary of Defense, ladies and gentlemen
November 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
brucearthur.bsky.social
I fear for what’s next, but this is genuinely incredible
jortsthecat.bsky.social Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 1d
This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
PITTSBURGH'S Public Source Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh journalists return to their jobs at the Post-Gazette after three years on strike After a court ruling in their favor, long-striking journalists declared victory and returned to a pivotal Southwestern Pennsylvania newsroom. They return as union organizing continues throughout the region. Stephanie Strasburg November 24, 2025 Natalie Duleba, local secretary of the guild, hugs Jon Schleuss, president of the NewsGuild Communications of America, as she hands him the mic. "The first day of this strike, our folks went over across the street and they sat down at a table, and they started talking about that they were going to take care of each other," said Schleuss, acknowledging the guild could not have known how long the path back to work would be. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/Pittsburgh's Public Source)
November 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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clarajeffery.bsky.social
Hegseth is very very terrified, deep deep down of something to do with maleness www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'
Documents show the U.S. military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts.
www.npr.org
November 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
brucearthur.bsky.social
Everyone involved with DOGE should be in prison, but at least some Canadian conservatives earnestly wrote that we needed our own version of DOGE here
November 25, 2025 at 5:06 AM
brucearthur.bsky.social
Maybe mediocre was too kind
thelincoln.bsky.social Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 1d
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"

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Bari Weiss says she wants to use her new perch at CBS News to “redraw the lines of what falls in the 40 yards of acceptable debate” in American political and cultural life. She says the aim is to sideline voices like Hasan Piker, Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes, and elevate “charismatic” figures such as Alan Dershowitz and Dana Loesch who reflect “where the vast majority of Americans actually are.”
November 25, 2025 at 4:57 AM