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Tim W

@timwearing.bsky.social

Well, it looks like the Raptors will face a Pistons team on Wednesday without Duren and Stewart.

✶ MarcusD ✶ @marcusd.bsky.social · 1d

Pistons, Hornets fight.

February 10, 2026 at 3:03 AM

Tim W

@timwearing.bsky.social

Vancouver deserves another chance after the debacle of the first one. So many things worked against the success of the franchise, including historically bad management (which was actually recommended by the league) and a historically low Canadian dollar.

Doc Naismith @docnaismith.bsky.social · 1d

Hearing Vegas and Seattle are next in line for NBA teams… makes sense, but I’d really love to see Vancouver or Montreal get serious consideration one day too. Canada can definitely support another team.

Dillon @dillonnba.bsky.social · 1d

From Brad Townsend:

“I’m hearing the NBA Board of Governors are likely to vote on expanding by two teams this summer and Las Vegas and Seattle are favored.”

If the NBA expands into the Las Vegas and Seattle markets, the West will need to shed one team. Looking at Wolves, Grizzlies, and maybe Pels.

February 9, 2026 at 8:59 PM

Tim W

@timwearing.bsky.social

I’m late on this, but congrats to @blakemurphy.bsky.social for being called up to the big show and not making a fool of himself.

February 4, 2026 at 6:17 AM

Tim W

@timwearing.bsky.social

Catherine O’Hara’s death overshadowing everything in these chaotic times is something Moira Rose would be proud of.

January 30, 2026 at 9:47 PM

Tim W

@timwearing.bsky.social

What?? This can’t be true. She is a true Canadian treasure.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 11d

The legendary Catherine O’Hara has died.

She was 71.

Per TMZ.

January 30, 2026 at 6:20 PM

Tim W

@timwearing.bsky.social

Here’s a question. If you were starting a team right now, would you rather start it with a 19 year old Cooper Flagg or a 26 year old Luka Dončić?

NBA @nba.com · 12d

Despite the loss, Cooper Flagg put on a HISTORIC performance at home 🔥

🏀 49 PTS (New career-high, Most-ever by a teen)
🏀 10 REB
🏀 20-29 FGM
🏀 Mavericks rookie record for PTS in a game

January 30, 2026 at 8:09 AM

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Christopher Walder

@waldersports.bsky.social

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January 29, 2026 at 2:28 PM

Tim W

@timwearing.bsky.social

Out here, we didn’t get the snow or cold the rest of the country did, and in fact had beautiful weather that I took advantage of… #nature #vancouver #landscapephotography #photography

January 28, 2026 at 10:18 PM

Tim W

@timwearing.bsky.social

This is utterly disgusting. If you allow this to happen, where through your direction actions or your support of the actions, then you are a morally reprehensible person.

MaddowBlog @maddowblog.bsky.social · 15d

"Let us go." Immigration attorney Eric Lee shares a drawing by his five-year-old client, stuck in an immigration prison.

January 27, 2026 at 5:35 AM

Tim W

@timwearing.bsky.social

Good to see Collin Murray-Boyles made the rookie team. Would love to have seen Shead on the sophomore team, and considering he was a second round pick it’s amazing he can be considered a snub.

NBA @nba.com · 15d

The 2026 Castrol Rising Stars Player Pool!

NBA Rookies and Sophomores will be drafted onto three teams on Tuesday (1/27) at 7:00pm/et on Peacock, with NBA G League players to comprise the fourth team.

January 27, 2026 at 1:21 AM

Tim W

@timwearing.bsky.social

Casino Royale came out 20 years ago?!?!? That’s unpossible! That would make me…

….a lot older than 20.

January 26, 2026 at 2:36 AM

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting.
2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE.
4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.

7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack.
8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk.
10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.
12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.

13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.
18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear

witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values.
I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct.

Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.

January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM

Tim W

@timwearing.bsky.social

Foggy Vancouver in the late afternoon. #vancouver #fog #sunset #photography

January 22, 2026 at 7:37 PM

Tim W

@timwearing.bsky.social

@yahoosports.bsky.social comparing Collin Murray-Boyles to Draymond Green. The second comparison to him in a week. #raptors https://youtu.be/1e8Zsg-gd9I?si=ZocU0XshbVAHYphh

January 22, 2026 at 8:07 AM

Tim W

@timwearing.bsky.social

Hitler purged the civil service of those who weren’t loyal. He targeted a class of people as enemies and had a special police force round them up in mass arrests (and anyone opposition). Then he talked of expanding Germany, in part, for strategic reasons. Why does this seem so familiar?

January 20, 2026 at 6:37 PM

Tim W

@timwearing.bsky.social

A Sunday landscape photo from a recent hike. #nature #waterfall #forest #photography #landscapephotography

January 11, 2026 at 7:02 PM

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Doc Naismith

@docnaismith.bsky.social

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January 11, 2026 at 4:55 AM

Tim W

@timwearing.bsky.social

I’ve always believed that most people do what they believe is right, even if that’s often warped by outside forces that don’t lead to the most moral choices, and demonizing the people for those beliefs isn’t helpful…
…but…
…you don’t say things like this if you aren’t a horrible person.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Jan 10

A deleted tweet by a Toronto Sun national politics reporter.

January 10, 2026 at 11:32 PM

Tim W

@timwearing.bsky.social

I don’t really care about the Trae Young trade other than fact I’m glad he wasn’t traded to the Raptors.

January 8, 2026 at 6:00 AM

Tim W

@timwearing.bsky.social

My only New Year’s resolution was to illegally invade Venezuela in order to take its oil, but I guess that’s not going to happen, now.

January 4, 2026 at 6:20 PM

Tim W

@timwearing.bsky.social

I normally post photos from my hiking trips, but here’s a video to start the year off. #hiking #mountains #britishcolumbia #nature

January 2, 2026 at 6:40 AM

Tim W

@timwearing.bsky.social

Scenes from Christmas morning.

December 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM

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Keith Boykin

@keithboykin.bsky.social

The New York Times investigated 346 people who donated at least $250,000 to Trump and found that more than half of them (197) have received pardons, jobs, government contracts, special treatment, or favors.