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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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 1h

The scale of the Bill Belichick humiliation is really remarkable, though then I remember, well, he is a Trump man

Ollie Connolly @ollieconnolly.bsky.social · 1h

Per sources: Bill Belichick has discussed buyout options with North Carolina’s hierarchy. Belichick has signaled a willingness to trigger his own $1 million buyout if he can find a soft landing with another team or in media

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Eyes on the Fright 🎃 @eyesontheright.bsky.social · 1h

So this is, what, anyone vaguely left-wing then?

Jordan Green @byjordangreen.bsky.social · 1h

At Jack Posobiec's request, Trump is agreeing to designate "antifa" as a foreign terrorist organization.

Unlike the "domestic terrorist organization" EO issued last month, the FTO designation has real teeth, allowing the government to prosecute for material support. www.youtube.com/live/G7hQH3o...

WATCH LIVE: Trump hosts talk on antifa after calling it a 'domestic terrorist organization'

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

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Lisa Stampnitzky @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social · 4h

This really is beyond parody

Thomas M. Keck @tmksyracuse.bsky.social · 4h

Weber State administrators told student they couldn't present their research on the state's anti-DEI law at an on-campus conference on censorship(!) unless they removed all mentions of DEI from their slides

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Weber State Censors, Then Cancels, Censorship Conference

University officials said that several planned presentations violated a Utah state law banning diversity, equity and inclusion at public universities.

www.insidehighered.com

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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 4h

This is capitulation. It is not the "Department of War." If CNN concedes on this point, they'll concede on any point.

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 4h

CNN is now using the Trump preferred “Department of War” name in its official statements

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 3h

lol pretty good tv, this

Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 18h

Holy crap. Trump will make the FCC crucify Jimmy Kimmel for this.

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MSNBC @msnbc.com · 4h

“If you come for my people, you come for me. So come and get me.”
IL Gov. JB Pritzker talks to @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social about Pres. Trump's call for the governor to be jailed

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 4h

Go ahead and pick on The Hub, it's earning it

Adam Radwanski @aradwanski.bsky.social · 4h

I hate to keep picking on The Hub, but there is such a bizarre, mythologized version of Alberta’s oil history as purely free-market triumph at play here - omitting everything from AOSTRA to to TMX, with lots in between (and even before). thehub.ca/2025/10/07/r...

Rudyard Griffiths and Sean Speer: Alberta may gain a pipeline—but what would it lose?

Once you let Ottawa in the door, it’s almost impossible to give it the boot

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 5h

This might be the worst ICE video yet, because it’s literally random dudes hanging around, and then a bunch of heavily armed thugs running them down completely out of nowhere, because they’re brown. It’s a nightmare that would have seemed excessive in Jim Crow. Everyone in America should see this.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 6h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5h

Despite getting whatever anti-trans narrative they wanted out of the Charlie Kirk shooting, the American right is now blaming the Jews instead, because content must be created. It is almost like the "first they came for" thing is not hypothetical!

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 6h

It's the golden rule of grievance politics: you will never be happy. You are a permanent captive to the infinity goalpost.

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 5h

A shocking development (Note: it is not shocking)

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 1d

What do you know, the ostrich farmers owe money all over Canada for the ostrich schemes of the past. They are in arrears on $250K worth of debt and their creditors find their interim payments of ostrich oil instead of actual loonies to be insufficient
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Creditors circle as cull controversy shines light on B.C. ostrich farmers' unpaid bills | CBC News

After years of chasing debts through the courts, creditors of a high-profile ostrich farm in southeastern B.C. have filed paperwork against the Canada Food Inspection Agency in the hopes of recouping ...

www.cbc.ca

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 5h

In re-signing for two extra years, Connor McDavid finally took control of his career. It's the LeBron James model, and now we will see how far that goes. www.thestar.com/sports/leafs...

Bruce Arthur: How Connor McDavid became hockey’s LeBron James

With a short, bargain extension in Edmonton after two Cup final defeats, McDavid is taking control of his NHL career before it’s too late.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 7h

Fascists are desperate for violent disruption they can use an excuse for state violence and power grabs.

They have trouble with mockery, goofiness, and fun.

That holds across just about every type of authoritarianism. They like being feared for cruelty. They hate being laughed at and humiliated.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 19h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 6h

This is absolutely happening to the Trump admin, the problem is that the exact same dynamic has brainwashed the media and the Democrats, who are in the same bubbles. If institutions were reacting appropriately to Trump’s authoritarian excesses and demagogic lunacy, he’d be even more unpopular

audreyii_fic @audreyii.bsky.social · 6h

I might be wrong, but I think their X bubbles have led them to overestimate their own popularity and how much power over the public they've actually consolidated

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 8h

I don't think most people understand what we're facing. Not really.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 8h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 8h

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 8h

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 19h

Monstrous.

"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 22h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 18h

They had to buy the Post, gut the newsroom, and restaff with reactionary grifters that don't deserve to carry their predecessors' dirty socks; that was the only way to remake the paper, because they were never gonna get through the front door on merit.

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 19h

This little twerp, who’s been there a few months, axed two of the lions of WaPo??

Fisher is an investigative champion and had been at The Post for 39 years. Hoffman had been there for 42, and he won a Pulitzer LAST YEAR.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 20h

Last week, new WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal quietly carried out another purge of staffers, cutting editors and major names like Marc Fisher and David Hoffman, among others.

Meanwhile, he welcomed three conservatives to the section.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/washington...

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 1d

These guys are so vulnerable to defecting to Chicago

Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 20h

the guy who caught cal raleigh’s homer was wearing a shirt that said dump 61 here and he immediately took it off and had a shirt that said dump 62 here