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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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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 4h

Here’s the thing with sports: when you’re in the high-pressure playoff spaces, it might feel like hell. But that’s the greatest thing about sports fandom: you get to feel it. You get to live and die. Feel it, live it, embrace it. You might never forget it, and how many things are like that?

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 4h

Mariners fans must be smoking cigarettes like the file photo of Homer

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 6h

Is it cancel culture when they threaten to kill you?

www.nj.com/news/2025/10...

Sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates speaker appearance in N.J. canceled over security reasons

Organizers canceled a sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates event in Montclair citing undisclosed security concerns.

www.nj.com

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 5h

How you doing Ryan, you doing good

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6h

RIFs can’t be done without agency leadership so this is RFK Jr extending his purge of CDC scientists to help Vought’s shutdown agenda. Genuine public health risks created by aggrieved men.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 6h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Will Saletan @saletan.bsky.social · 6h

Here's a neat trick they teach in authoritarianism school: If you purge the people who measure the effects of your policies (BLS, MMWR), you can just claim everything's great, and nobody can prove how much damage you're doing.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 6h

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 8h

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 9h

Only to be mocked by the Supreme Court.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 9h

As a group, District Judges (from across the ideological spectrum!) performing as well as just about anyone right now in defending democratic liberty.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 9h

As a group, District Judges (from across the ideological spectrum!) performing as well as just about anyone right now in defending democratic liberty.

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 9h

I still believe America has more good people than bad

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 13h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 10h

WGN, this woman’s employer, is now reporting she was not charged with any crimes and was released.

DHS said earlier she was arrested for assault for throwing objects at agents.

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 12h

Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 11h

Linked to this in the post, but I recommend reading Dr. Rasmussen's latest analysis of the ostrich debacle. I couldn't go this long, and obviously don't have this level of expertise. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 12h

I give you: my billionaire former boss clapping his hands in delight at what has been better described as "Cocomelon for adults"

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12h

Doubt.

CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 12h

UPDATE: In emailed statement to me / @reason.com, DHS alleges that WGN-TV producer Debbie Brockman "threw objects at Border Patrol’s car and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer."

Screencap of email from DHS public affairs: Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin:

“U.S. Border Patrol was conducting immigration enforcement operations and when several violent agitators used their vehicles to block in agents in an effort to impede and assault federal officers. In fear of public safety and of law enforcement, officers used their service vehicle to strike a suspect’s vehicle and create an opening. As agents were driving, Deborah Brockman, a U.S. citizen, threw objects at Border Patrol’s car and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer.

“This incident is not isolated and reflects a growing and dangerous trend of illegal aliens violently resisting arrest and agitators and criminals ramming cars into our law enforcement officers. These attacks highlight the dangers our law enforcement officers face daily—all while receiving no pay thanks to the Democrats’ government shutdown.”

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 13h

Noem is so Verhoeven-coded

William Adler @williamadler78.bsky.social · 14h

Petty garbage www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/u...

Video of Kristi Noem blaming Democrats for shutdown “rolling out” at TSA security checkpoints across the country | CNN

Travelers waiting in airport security lines across the country will now be met with a video where the Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem blames Democrats for the government shutdown.

www.cnn.com

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Nancy Armour @nrarmour.bsky.social · 14h

Unconscionable.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 14h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 15h

I have ... low faith on this

Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 15h

That's great, this is how it should be, terrific

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Melania Trump: "President Putin and I have had an open channel of communication."

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 15h

Thanks, Jim. I didn't fully appreciate farm biosecurity until the pandemic, and have learned more about it since. Among other things, this case seems bad for honest farmers!

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 15h

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I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 15h

From the inbox: "Hitler used the news media to control the people. If you really were intelligent you would see the same is happening in Canada." Some people are truly lost and can't come back, and every one is a tragedy.

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 16h

It's easier to demonize your opponents with completely made-up accusations if you base them on your own situation with your own base

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Mike Johnson: "This hate America rally that they have coming up for October 18? The antifa crowd, the pro-Hamas crowd, and the Marxists, they're all gonna gather on the Mall. It is an outrageous gathering for outrageous purposes ... all this has gotta come to an end."

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 17h

A five-point-five billion Trump golf course in Qatar, and Qatar gets an air base in Idaho.

New Trump Golf Course, $5.5 Billion Beachside Project Announced for Qatar

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 16h

“We’re all being DOGE’d,” another CBS News journalist told me about Bari Weiss' memo. “And she’s also looking out to see who will kiss up to her.”

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 18h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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