Bruce Arthur
@brucearthur.bsky.social
Toronto Star columnist, nice guy, jump shooter.
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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...
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They fired all the generals who wouldn't go along, then they kicked all the reporters out of the Pentagon.
January 3, 2026 at 7:48 AM
They fired all the generals who wouldn't go along, then they kicked all the reporters out of the Pentagon.
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I'm well aware that this cbs line is just cynical but also it would be so funny if they actually made a nightly news cast that is just like: ZERO EXPERTS, ALL ANALYSIS IS FROM SOME DUDE WE PULLED OFF THE STREET AND HES CONFUSED ABOUT WHY WE ARE FILMING HIM IN THE BUFFALO WILD WINGS PARKING LOT
I truly cannot wait for these incredibly stupid people to find out what happens when you try to wave the flag harder than Fox News
January 3, 2026 at 1:25 AM
I'm well aware that this cbs line is just cynical but also it would be so funny if they actually made a nightly news cast that is just like: ZERO EXPERTS, ALL ANALYSIS IS FROM SOME DUDE WE PULLED OFF THE STREET AND HES CONFUSED ABOUT WHY WE ARE FILMING HIM IN THE BUFFALO WILD WINGS PARKING LOT
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this admin is profoundly and absolutely detached from reality, in a directly internet and slop-enabled way that I do think is genuinely unique in history.
Yeah uhhhhhh I'm not sure there's any precedent at all for a war that literally just didn't have public buy-in, or a material effort at generating same? In like, all of American history??
January 3, 2026 at 7:27 AM
this admin is profoundly and absolutely detached from reality, in a directly internet and slop-enabled way that I do think is genuinely unique in history.
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This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets.
polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...
polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...
January 3, 2026 at 7:49 AM
This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets.
polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...
polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...
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Again, they’re fundamentally authoritarian right down to their core: they believe you’re not even allowed to want to know what they’re doing. We’re not citizens, we’re subjects, and our duty is to simply trust that our betters have this well in hand.
January 3, 2026 at 7:46 AM
Again, they’re fundamentally authoritarian right down to their core: they believe you’re not even allowed to want to know what they’re doing. We’re not citizens, we’re subjects, and our duty is to simply trust that our betters have this well in hand.
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impeach him. try to do it once a month, if necessary. build the case over and over to not just the American people but to the world that this isn’t the way things should be here, that this isn’t the way we should use our power abroad.
January 3, 2026 at 7:36 AM
impeach him. try to do it once a month, if necessary. build the case over and over to not just the American people but to the world that this isn’t the way things should be here, that this isn’t the way we should use our power abroad.
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no creature is more dangerous than a man who has deluded himself into believing reality does not apply to him: the entire leadership of the U.S. government now consists entirely of these horrifically destructive freaks
January 3, 2026 at 7:12 AM
no creature is more dangerous than a man who has deluded himself into believing reality does not apply to him: the entire leadership of the U.S. government now consists entirely of these horrifically destructive freaks
He’s constantly is a cursed hall of cracked mirrors, and all he sees is fractured versions of his own twisted monstrous visage
January 3, 2026 at 7:05 AM
He’s constantly is a cursed hall of cracked mirrors, and all he sees is fractured versions of his own twisted monstrous visage
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Associated Press:
“CARACAS, Venezuela — At least seven explosions and low-flying aircraft were heard around 2 a.m. local time Saturday in Venezuela’s capital, Caracas.”
“CARACAS, Venezuela — At least seven explosions and low-flying aircraft were heard around 2 a.m. local time Saturday in Venezuela’s capital, Caracas.”
January 3, 2026 at 6:44 AM
Associated Press:
“CARACAS, Venezuela — At least seven explosions and low-flying aircraft were heard around 2 a.m. local time Saturday in Venezuela’s capital, Caracas.”
“CARACAS, Venezuela — At least seven explosions and low-flying aircraft were heard around 2 a.m. local time Saturday in Venezuela’s capital, Caracas.”
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Explosions Reported in Venezuela’s Capital
It was not immediately clear what caused the blasts.
The United States has been building pressure on Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s authoritarian president, for months.
By Anatoly Kurmanaev
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...
It was not immediately clear what caused the blasts.
The United States has been building pressure on Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s authoritarian president, for months.
By Anatoly Kurmanaev
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...
Explosions Reported in Venezuela’s Capital
www.nytimes.com
January 3, 2026 at 6:45 AM
Explosions Reported in Venezuela’s Capital
It was not immediately clear what caused the blasts.
The United States has been building pressure on Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s authoritarian president, for months.
By Anatoly Kurmanaev
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...
It was not immediately clear what caused the blasts.
The United States has been building pressure on Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s authoritarian president, for months.
By Anatoly Kurmanaev
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...
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The ballot box, where we decide if rape is wrong
January 14, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The ballot box, where we decide if rape is wrong
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A Japanese artist made the print DHS lifted to spread anti-immigrant hate. Can't make this up.
January 2, 2026 at 11:24 PM
A Japanese artist made the print DHS lifted to spread anti-immigrant hate. Can't make this up.
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Bari Weiss and her benefactors vastly overestimate the remaining percentage of Americans who want their racism watered down. There's no market for the diluted stuff any more when people can get it undiluted directly from the source.
Incredible. CBS Evening News announces five new “simple values” — instead of their “38-page handbook” — as they roll out Tony Dokoupil is lead anchor.
One of those values is simply: “We love America and make no apologies for saying so.”
One of those values is simply: “We love America and make no apologies for saying so.”
January 2, 2026 at 10:36 PM
Bari Weiss and her benefactors vastly overestimate the remaining percentage of Americans who want their racism watered down. There's no market for the diluted stuff any more when people can get it undiluted directly from the source.
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i quite like idea that someone on here had of treating any criminal act committed by an ai as having been committed by the ai company’s ceo
January 2, 2026 at 10:40 PM
i quite like idea that someone on here had of treating any criminal act committed by an ai as having been committed by the ai company’s ceo
What a streak he is on
Drake has been accused in a federal class-action RICO lawsuit of using the online sweepstakes casino to boost the play counts of his music across the major streaming platforms.
Drake accused of using an online gambling platform to inflate play counts of his music
The Canadian rapper and two others are also accused in a RICO lawsuit of using the Stake gambling platform to transfer money between themselves.
nbcnews.to
January 2, 2026 at 9:45 PM
What a streak he is on
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The leaders of every major institution have straight-up fricasseed their brains with 16 hours of daily Twitter time and are now incapable of any thought that can’t be formulated as “CHEW ON THIS HOT TAKE: [biggest pander imaginable].”
January 2, 2026 at 9:34 PM
The leaders of every major institution have straight-up fricasseed their brains with 16 hours of daily Twitter time and are now incapable of any thought that can’t be formulated as “CHEW ON THIS HOT TAKE: [biggest pander imaginable].”
At least this one is on small ice, but yeah, it does feel like that. I’d want guys who can make the most special offensive plays with the least space
Like they saw Canada's team in Turin and thought "yeah, that's it"
January 2, 2026 at 9:31 PM
At least this one is on small ice, but yeah, it does feel like that. I’d want guys who can make the most special offensive plays with the least space
Team USA almost feels like a karaoke version of the worst instincts of Hockey Canada in terms of conservatism and role vs. talent, and adds Team USA’s eternal bunker underdog mentality. They still may win, but I wouldn’t hate to be Team Canada right now
Building Team USA: Guerin on leaving Robertson, other scorers off roster for Miller, Trocheck, etc. — ‘Have to fill roles’
By @Peter_Baugh and me
www.nytimes.com/athletic/693...
By @Peter_Baugh and me
www.nytimes.com/athletic/693...
Building Team USA: Guerin on leaving Robertson, other scorers off roster — 'Have to fill roles'
www.nytimes.com
January 2, 2026 at 9:22 PM
Team USA almost feels like a karaoke version of the worst instincts of Hockey Canada in terms of conservatism and role vs. talent, and adds Team USA’s eternal bunker underdog mentality. They still may win, but I wouldn’t hate to be Team Canada right now
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Curtis Yarvin, JD Vance’s friend & ideological influence, ended 2025 by claiming “only Hitler spoke the truth” about “too many subjects” & “Hitler was a genius.”
Extremism isn’t fringe on the right. Once marginal online extremists like Yarvin are influential at the highest levels of government.
Extremism isn’t fringe on the right. Once marginal online extremists like Yarvin are influential at the highest levels of government.
January 1, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Curtis Yarvin, JD Vance’s friend & ideological influence, ended 2025 by claiming “only Hitler spoke the truth” about “too many subjects” & “Hitler was a genius.”
Extremism isn’t fringe on the right. Once marginal online extremists like Yarvin are influential at the highest levels of government.
Extremism isn’t fringe on the right. Once marginal online extremists like Yarvin are influential at the highest levels of government.
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Here is the editor of Tablet agreeably reposting someone calling nonwhite NYC immigrants "worthless biotrash." It's astonishing how quickly this stuff has escaped containment
January 2, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Here is the editor of Tablet agreeably reposting someone calling nonwhite NYC immigrants "worthless biotrash." It's astonishing how quickly this stuff has escaped containment
lol
Incredible. CBS Evening News announces five new “simple values” — instead of their “38-page handbook” — as they roll out Tony Dokoupil is lead anchor.
One of those values is simply: “We love America and make no apologies for saying so.”
One of those values is simply: “We love America and make no apologies for saying so.”
January 2, 2026 at 9:17 PM
lol
One dangerous thing I have noticed for a while is people who should know better use Grok and cite Grok. Don’t do that! It’s chief utility is to show how insane and morally corrupted Elon and the Internet Poisoned Right are
So over the last year, Elon Musk’s Grok:
• Generated sexualized images of children
• Posted white nationalist, antisemitic and Nazi content
• Shared private user data on Google
• Etc…
• Generated sexualized images of children
• Posted white nationalist, antisemitic and Nazi content
• Shared private user data on Google
• Etc…
Grok says safeguard lapses led to images of 'minors in minimal clothing' on X reut.rs/498SoUk
January 2, 2026 at 6:39 PM
One dangerous thing I have noticed for a while is people who should know better use Grok and cite Grok. Don’t do that! It’s chief utility is to show how insane and morally corrupted Elon and the Internet Poisoned Right are
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Corrupt tech billionaires are buying power to tilt the world in their favor.
Even the co-founder of Y Combinator is saying it. ⬇️
The radical death cult rising from Silicon Valley venture capital is metastasizing rapidly.
It's an existential threat to democracy and humanity.
Even the co-founder of Y Combinator is saying it. ⬇️
The radical death cult rising from Silicon Valley venture capital is metastasizing rapidly.
It's an existential threat to democracy and humanity.
January 2, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Corrupt tech billionaires are buying power to tilt the world in their favor.
Even the co-founder of Y Combinator is saying it. ⬇️
The radical death cult rising from Silicon Valley venture capital is metastasizing rapidly.
It's an existential threat to democracy and humanity.
Even the co-founder of Y Combinator is saying it. ⬇️
The radical death cult rising from Silicon Valley venture capital is metastasizing rapidly.
It's an existential threat to democracy and humanity.
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congrats to everyone who had "day one elon musk child porn scandal" on their 2026 bingo free space. which is, i feel safe to assume, everyone.
January 2, 2026 at 3:48 AM
congrats to everyone who had "day one elon musk child porn scandal" on their 2026 bingo free space. which is, i feel safe to assume, everyone.