Bruce Arthur
@brucearthur.bsky.social
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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.
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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...
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Ring is a wildly dangerous company. Always has been. But it has sort of flown under the radar the last couple years as it tried to soften its image. Make no mistake that this is an extremely dangerous surveillance dragnet:
www.404media.co/with-ring-am...
www.404media.co/with-ring-am...
With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet
Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.
www.404media.co
February 10, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Ring is a wildly dangerous company. Always has been. But it has sort of flown under the radar the last couple years as it tried to soften its image. Make no mistake that this is an extremely dangerous surveillance dragnet:
www.404media.co/with-ring-am...
www.404media.co/with-ring-am...
Hockey Canada announced Poulin will not play tonight with a lower-body injury, and is day-to-day. Only nine days left in the tournament, of course.
February 10, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Hockey Canada announced Poulin will not play tonight with a lower-body injury, and is day-to-day. Only nine days left in the tournament, of course.
you can't tell the difference?
February 10, 2026 at 1:51 PM
you can't tell the difference?
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"If the government may simply seize *someone* without due process, there is no check on its ability to seize *anyone*."
Perhaps the most fundamental check against tyranny. And it is gravely threatened.
Perhaps the most fundamental check against tyranny. And it is gravely threatened.
BONUS RULING: Judge Thomas Johnston, a George W. Bush appoiintee in West Virginia, used a recent ruling to warn of the dangers of defying due process for immigrants because of what it could also mean for Americans. It's worth a read.
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February 10, 2026 at 1:40 PM
"If the government may simply seize *someone* without due process, there is no check on its ability to seize *anyone*."
Perhaps the most fundamental check against tyranny. And it is gravely threatened.
Perhaps the most fundamental check against tyranny. And it is gravely threatened.
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Megan Oldham stood at the top of the hill with an aching back, a taped-up quad, and the fear and anxiety that comes with a crash that sidelined her leading to Milan, and a crash here at the Olympics. But she overcame that fear, and won bronze. She should be proud. www.thestar.com/sports/olymp...
Bruce Arthur: Duct tape. Bravery. A mental battle. How Canada’s Megan Oldham won slopestyle bronze at the Winter Olympics
Ontario slopestyle skier delivers after recovering from a concussion this year and then overcoming a crash at the Milan Cortina Games.
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February 9, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Megan Oldham stood at the top of the hill with an aching back, a taped-up quad, and the fear and anxiety that comes with a crash that sidelined her leading to Milan, and a crash here at the Olympics. But she overcame that fear, and won bronze. She should be proud. www.thestar.com/sports/olymp...
One day before the first showdown with Team USA, and 10 days from a gold medal game, Marie-Philip Poulin limped off, and now Canada holds its breath. www.thestar.com/sports/olymp...
Bruce Arthur: Canada holds its breath after Marie-Philip Poulin leaves win over the Czechs with an injury
The Canadians will likely face the rival Americans without Poulin on Tuesday. The bigger concern is if she will be available for a rematch.
www.thestar.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:54 AM
One day before the first showdown with Team USA, and 10 days from a gold medal game, Marie-Philip Poulin limped off, and now Canada holds its breath. www.thestar.com/sports/olymp...
Ukrainian skeleton slider Vladyslav Heraskevych will not be allowed to wear a helmet depicting victims of the Russia-Ukraine war, but after a meeting Monday night, the IOC will let him wear a black armband during competition. This is considered a compromise.
February 10, 2026 at 10:19 AM
Ukrainian skeleton slider Vladyslav Heraskevych will not be allowed to wear a helmet depicting victims of the Russia-Ukraine war, but after a meeting Monday night, the IOC will let him wear a black armband during competition. This is considered a compromise.
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This is literally what CURRENT LAW requires. It’s in the Constitution! www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
February 10, 2026 at 3:18 AM
This is literally what CURRENT LAW requires. It’s in the Constitution! www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
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U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.
February 9, 2026 at 4:07 PM
U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.
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She sounds like a female David Duke
Megyn Kelly just shouting “FOOTBALL IS OURS” at Piers Morgan about Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl show is the perfect example of this moment in time. Put it in a time capsule and send it out into space.
February 9, 2026 at 11:53 PM
She sounds like a female David Duke
Jutta Leerdam is a world-class speed skater and athlete, and she just happens to be engaged to Jake Paul, so the Jutta Leerdam show is also the Jake Paul show. In some ways these are the Olympics of influencers, too. www.thestar.com/rolling-file...
Opinion: You can’t avoid influencer culture at the Milan Olympics. Jutta Leerdam and Jake Paul are the prime example
MILAN—The Olympics used to be simpler, back in the days of amateurism and wooden skis. Back then you definitely would not see an influencer with 5.3-million Instagram followers delivering a
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February 9, 2026 at 10:22 PM
Jutta Leerdam is a world-class speed skater and athlete, and she just happens to be engaged to Jake Paul, so the Jutta Leerdam show is also the Jake Paul show. In some ways these are the Olympics of influencers, too. www.thestar.com/rolling-file...
Megan Oldham stood at the top of the hill with an aching back, a taped-up quad, and the fear and anxiety that comes with a crash that sidelined her leading to Milan, and a crash here at the Olympics. But she overcame that fear, and won bronze. She should be proud. www.thestar.com/sports/olymp...
Bruce Arthur: Duct tape. Bravery. A mental battle. How Canada’s Megan Oldham won slopestyle bronze at the Winter Olympics
Ontario slopestyle skier delivers after recovering from a concussion this year and then overcoming a crash at the Milan Cortina Games.
www.thestar.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Megan Oldham stood at the top of the hill with an aching back, a taped-up quad, and the fear and anxiety that comes with a crash that sidelined her leading to Milan, and a crash here at the Olympics. But she overcame that fear, and won bronze. She should be proud. www.thestar.com/sports/olymp...
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.
Again, I would gently recommend paying people who can comprehend, you know, things bsky.app/profile/wash...
Analysis: Weeks before he set foot on the stage, Bad Bunny’s halftime performance had already become a media event.
But if you were looking for political commentary, the closest that you got was when he said “God bless America” in English.
But if you were looking for political commentary, the closest that you got was when he said “God bless America” in English.
Analysis | Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show was expected to provoke. Did it?
The Bad Bunny Super Bowl show nodded to injustices in Puerto Rico but mostly evoked wholesome family values that meshed with the more sentimental commercials.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 9, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Again, I would gently recommend paying people who can comprehend, you know, things bsky.app/profile/wash...
I am told he once faked a wedding for content, so who knows what could happen
February 9, 2026 at 5:57 PM
I am told he once faked a wedding for content, so who knows what could happen
(The race was won by Jutta Leerdam, Jake Paul's fiancée. Alas)
February 9, 2026 at 5:44 PM
(The race was won by Jutta Leerdam, Jake Paul's fiancée. Alas)
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...