Bruce Arthur
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Bruce Arthur
@brucearthur.bsky.social
· Mar 23
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
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...
After taking a hard, awkward hit in the first, Marie-Philip Poulin is not on the bench in the second period of Canada-Czechia. US round-robin game is tomorrow.
February 9, 2026 at 9:10 PM
After taking a hard, awkward hit in the first, Marie-Philip Poulin is not on the bench in the second period of Canada-Czechia. US round-robin game is tomorrow.
Fifth place. This race was a Dutch tour de force
🇨🇦Béatrice Lamarche!
The Québec City native skates into third place in a time of 1:14.73.
She'll watch the final pair, Miho Takagi and Jutta Leerdam, to see how this all plays out and whether she wins bronze.
Hold on, folks.
The Québec City native skates into third place in a time of 1:14.73.
She'll watch the final pair, Miho Takagi and Jutta Leerdam, to see how this all plays out and whether she wins bronze.
Hold on, folks.
February 9, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Fifth place. This race was a Dutch tour de force
Seeing Berenson on there made me laugh and laugh
February 9, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Seeing Berenson on there made me laugh and laugh
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If the current moment has taught us anything, it is about the uselessness of libertarianism.
The image sums it up perfectly. The Gadsden flag was all out during the Obama era. How often do you see it now? Most of the principled libertarians were happy to trad their principles for Trumpism.
The image sums it up perfectly. The Gadsden flag was all out during the Obama era. How often do you see it now? Most of the principled libertarians were happy to trad their principles for Trumpism.
I feel like I'm losing my goddamnned mind.
This op-ed was written by Kathrine Mangu-Ward. Katherine is editor-in-chief of Reason magazine.
Reason fired @shikhadalmia.bsky.social for being too anti-Trump.
This op-ed was written by Kathrine Mangu-Ward. Katherine is editor-in-chief of Reason magazine.
Reason fired @shikhadalmia.bsky.social for being too anti-Trump.
Opinion | Libertarians Tried to Warn You About Trump
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:25 PM
If the current moment has taught us anything, it is about the uselessness of libertarianism.
The image sums it up perfectly. The Gadsden flag was all out during the Obama era. How often do you see it now? Most of the principled libertarians were happy to trad their principles for Trumpism.
The image sums it up perfectly. The Gadsden flag was all out during the Obama era. How often do you see it now? Most of the principled libertarians were happy to trad their principles for Trumpism.
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Italians, your white card has been revoked. Stefani Germanotta is a perfidious latin
February 9, 2026 at 12:16 PM
Italians, your white card has been revoked. Stefani Germanotta is a perfidious latin
Pro tip: pay people who can comprehend things, CNN
Bad Bunny's style has always defied expectations. So, amid intense speculation that he would use his Super Bowl outfit to subvert masculine stereotypes, stage a protest or publicly lambast ICE (again), it was perhaps no surprise that he did precisely none of those things. https://cnn.it/4kv3OY6
February 9, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Pro tip: pay people who can comprehend things, CNN
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1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 12:25 PM
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
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MAGA is not popular and their hold on power is crumbling under the focus and strength of mutual aid and common decency. Thank you for your attention in this matter!
February 9, 2026 at 3:38 AM
MAGA is not popular and their hold on power is crumbling under the focus and strength of mutual aid and common decency. Thank you for your attention in this matter!
Italy’s long national nightmare of JD Vance being in the country is apparently over
For the record: JD Vance ist von den Olympischen Spielen abgereist.
February 9, 2026 at 12:05 PM
Italy’s long national nightmare of JD Vance being in the country is apparently over
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This is absolutely insane. The sort of Kafka-esque nightmare you would find in a Philip K Dick book set far in the dystopian future. A window on America tumbling into autocracy.
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record
www.irishtimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 7:59 AM
This is absolutely insane. The sort of Kafka-esque nightmare you would find in a Philip K Dick book set far in the dystopian future. A window on America tumbling into autocracy.
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
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This is an unbelievable breakdown of the halftime show
First shot: sugarcane
The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times
Still used to make rum of course!
The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times
Still used to make rum of course!
February 9, 2026 at 8:13 AM
This is an unbelievable breakdown of the halftime show
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Over and over, American athletes at these Olympics are speaking out about their country and calling for love, empathy, compassion, and respect, and tellingly, are getting attacked for it. The Olympic truce apparently doesn't extend to the culture war. www.thestar.com/sports/olymp...
Bruce Arthur: U.S. Olympic athletes are speaking out about the state of their country — as Trump seethes
Athletes rarely speak out against their own governments at the Olympics. This year has proven an exception, writes Bruce Arthur.
www.thestar.com
February 8, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Over and over, American athletes at these Olympics are speaking out about their country and calling for love, empathy, compassion, and respect, and tellingly, are getting attacked for it. The Olympic truce apparently doesn't extend to the culture war. www.thestar.com/sports/olymp...
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The dull-minded fucks who are running things these days are not normal. They're not a majority. They're fucking weirdos & freaks, scared of their own shadows. Humans are creative, cooperative, & curious, they like novelty & diversity, they like movement & evolution & *life*. Fuck this death cult.
February 9, 2026 at 7:08 AM
The dull-minded fucks who are running things these days are not normal. They're not a majority. They're fucking weirdos & freaks, scared of their own shadows. Humans are creative, cooperative, & curious, they like novelty & diversity, they like movement & evolution & *life*. Fuck this death cult.
Go Seahawks, but I am not staying up in Italy for this one
February 8, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Go Seahawks, but I am not staying up in Italy for this one
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Never Forget
February 10, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Never Forget
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Nothing to worry about, just state election officials preparing for possible illegal and unconstitutional efforts by the Trump administration to tamper with the 2026 election
February 8, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Nothing to worry about, just state election officials preparing for possible illegal and unconstitutional efforts by the Trump administration to tamper with the 2026 election
Over and over, American athletes at these Olympics are speaking out about their country and calling for love, empathy, compassion, and respect, and tellingly, are getting attacked for it. The Olympic truce apparently doesn't extend to the culture war. www.thestar.com/sports/olymp...
Bruce Arthur: U.S. Olympic athletes are speaking out about the state of their country — as Trump seethes
Athletes rarely speak out against their own governments at the Olympics. This year has proven an exception, writes Bruce Arthur.
www.thestar.com
February 8, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Over and over, American athletes at these Olympics are speaking out about their country and calling for love, empathy, compassion, and respect, and tellingly, are getting attacked for it. The Olympic truce apparently doesn't extend to the culture war. www.thestar.com/sports/olymp...
Just wrote about the American athletes who are saying extraordinary things like valuing love and compassion, having complicated feelings about their country, and trying to represent their friends and families
What Hess actually said:
“Just because I’m wearing the flag doesn’t mean I represent everything that’s going on in the US.”
“Just because I’m wearing the flag doesn’t mean I represent everything that’s going on in the US.”
February 8, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Just wrote about the American athletes who are saying extraordinary things like valuing love and compassion, having complicated feelings about their country, and trying to represent their friends and families
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Valérie Maltais cried so hard her shoulders shook; her teammate cried watching the 35-year-old win her first ever individual medal at age 35, and Canada's first of these Olympics, after sacrificing so much to do so. Including waiting to start a family. www.thestar.com/sports/olymp...
Bruce Arthur: Valerie Maltais put ‘real life’ on hold for one last shot at Olympic glory. It paid off with bronze medal
The 35-year-old speedskater won her first ever individual Olympic medal, a bronze, after delaying plans to expand family to focus on Milan Games.
www.thestar.com
February 7, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Valérie Maltais cried so hard her shoulders shook; her teammate cried watching the 35-year-old win her first ever individual medal at age 35, and Canada's first of these Olympics, after sacrificing so much to do so. Including waiting to start a family. www.thestar.com/sports/olymp...
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Incredible, and revealing, shot of a tragic result for Lindsey Vonn. Jacquelyn Martin of the Associated Press captured the picture that shows how Vonn's pole made contact with the right gate at an early jump, which led to the violent crash.
February 8, 2026 at 11:40 AM
Incredible, and revealing, shot of a tragic result for Lindsey Vonn. Jacquelyn Martin of the Associated Press captured the picture that shows how Vonn's pole made contact with the right gate at an early jump, which led to the violent crash.
Stomach churning. Incredible that she tried.
Wow. That is awful. Horrible to hear those cries from Lindsey Vonn. What a terrible moment. She sounds in horrible pain. Cannot imagine the state of that leg. To even try with a torn ACL was always going to be incredibly hard.
February 8, 2026 at 11:26 AM
Stomach churning. Incredible that she tried.
As someone recently wrote, Citius, Altius, Fortius, Penis
February 8, 2026 at 9:24 AM
As someone recently wrote, Citius, Altius, Fortius, Penis
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AI will never replace the institutional knowledge and memories of an absolute legend who was *listening to the police scanner the night of the Watergate break-in.*
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...
He Was Laid Off at The Washington Post After Working There 60 Years
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 7:51 AM
AI will never replace the institutional knowledge and memories of an absolute legend who was *listening to the police scanner the night of the Watergate break-in.*
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...
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we gotta open the schools…or close down the schools. not sure. yikes
February 7, 2026 at 7:33 PM
we gotta open the schools…or close down the schools. not sure. yikes
Valérie Maltais cried so hard her shoulders shook; her teammate cried watching the 35-year-old win her first ever individual medal at age 35, and Canada's first of these Olympics, after sacrificing so much to do so. Including waiting to start a family. www.thestar.com/sports/olymp...
Bruce Arthur: Valerie Maltais put ‘real life’ on hold for one last shot at Olympic glory. It paid off with bronze medal
The 35-year-old speedskater won her first ever individual Olympic medal, a bronze, after delaying plans to expand family to focus on Milan Games.
www.thestar.com
February 7, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Valérie Maltais cried so hard her shoulders shook; her teammate cried watching the 35-year-old win her first ever individual medal at age 35, and Canada's first of these Olympics, after sacrificing so much to do so. Including waiting to start a family. www.thestar.com/sports/olymp...