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...
That’s a whale-sized amount of Trump
November 15, 2025 at 12:14 AM
That’s a whale-sized amount of Trump
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They’re all just looting the treasury now
November 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
They’re all just looting the treasury now
lol
Breaking News: Pam Bondi assigned a prosecutor to look into Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to prominent Democrats including Bill Clinton, at President Trump’s urging.
Trump Live Updates: Bondi Assigns Prosecutor to Look Into Epstein’s Ties to Prominent Democrats
nyti.ms
November 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
lol
Earlier this year a group of government and CAF officials, plus health care leaders, gathered for only the second war games involving Canada’s health care system since 1939. It was more urgent, and less hypothetical. And it became a question about national resolve. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
Can Canada’s health system survive if we find ourselves at war?
The country at war would be more than just the logistics of hospitals and ambulances and doctors and nurses. It could become something Canada has rarely faced: a true test
www.thestar.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Earlier this year a group of government and CAF officials, plus health care leaders, gathered for only the second war games involving Canada’s health care system since 1939. It was more urgent, and less hypothetical. And it became a question about national resolve. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
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MAGA’s ongoing war on academic freedom, reflected in headlines from the last 24 hours.
November 14, 2025 at 1:17 PM
MAGA’s ongoing war on academic freedom, reflected in headlines from the last 24 hours.
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i'd love to read a real evolution of "stay woke" - i saw it evolve as:
1. in black culture, a way of pointing out structural racism
2. on black twitter, same thing but often a joke about something silly
3. white people adopt woke to mean generic antiracism
4. conservatives learn a new n-word
1. in black culture, a way of pointing out structural racism
2. on black twitter, same thing but often a joke about something silly
3. white people adopt woke to mean generic antiracism
4. conservatives learn a new n-word
“woke” as i recall originated as a kind of ironic conspiratorial posting thing on black twitter (“stay woke”), and then conservatives decided it was just “political correctness” in the millennial era bsky.app/profile/unst...
I think many of them thought woke is just like clinton-era "political correctness" when the latter was imposed from the top by imbeciles who didn't know anything about anything and woke has always been a genuinely grassroots initiative
November 14, 2025 at 2:39 PM
i'd love to read a real evolution of "stay woke" - i saw it evolve as:
1. in black culture, a way of pointing out structural racism
2. on black twitter, same thing but often a joke about something silly
3. white people adopt woke to mean generic antiracism
4. conservatives learn a new n-word
1. in black culture, a way of pointing out structural racism
2. on black twitter, same thing but often a joke about something silly
3. white people adopt woke to mean generic antiracism
4. conservatives learn a new n-word
Oh?
Georgia election interference case against Trump and allies will continue with new prosecutor to replace Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.
https://cnn.it/3JKiynX
https://cnn.it/3JKiynX
November 14, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Oh?
My favourite comedian when I was growing up was Bill Cosby and brother that is over and done with and he is a sad monster
Bob Newhart owns the spot now, by the way
Bob Newhart owns the spot now, by the way
"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.
November 14, 2025 at 7:27 AM
My favourite comedian when I was growing up was Bill Cosby and brother that is over and done with and he is a sad monster
Bob Newhart owns the spot now, by the way
Bob Newhart owns the spot now, by the way
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ONEBC RALLIES IN CUL DE SAC is the funniest possible subhead, well done
The story is actually that Dallas Brodie’s anti-Indigenous racism and generally antisocial politics aren’t welcome in Kamloops, and she was booted to the curb. Byyye. www.castanetkamloops.net/news/Kamloop...
Venue cancellation forces OneBC leader to shift Kamloops event to street outside hotel - Kamloops News
www.castanetkamloops.net
November 14, 2025 at 7:24 AM
ONEBC RALLIES IN CUL DE SAC is the funniest possible subhead, well done
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it's so funny that alex jones was totally right about everything, the government is a bunch of drug-addled pedophiles and masked regime thugs are grabbing people off the streets, and now he has to pretend it's all a hoax
November 13, 2025 at 9:44 PM
it's so funny that alex jones was totally right about everything, the government is a bunch of drug-addled pedophiles and masked regime thugs are grabbing people off the streets, and now he has to pretend it's all a hoax
Fucking anti-human Silicon Valley soullessness
November 14, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Fucking anti-human Silicon Valley soullessness
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Just got back from the federal building in downtown San Diego where our local bishop and other church leaders were leading a vigil for the immigrants unjustly incarcerated there. The leadership the church has shown on this issue is inspiring.
Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops
November 14, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Just got back from the federal building in downtown San Diego where our local bishop and other church leaders were leading a vigil for the immigrants unjustly incarcerated there. The leadership the church has shown on this issue is inspiring.
I feel the same way about having grown up with the idea of privacy being important
Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
November 14, 2025 at 3:36 AM
I feel the same way about having grown up with the idea of privacy being important
The AI pocket health graphic on the Prime broadcast was one of the dumbest things I have seen on television, since the defenders and their proximity to the quarterback are, you know, visible to the naked eye
November 14, 2025 at 2:44 AM
The AI pocket health graphic on the Prime broadcast was one of the dumbest things I have seen on television, since the defenders and their proximity to the quarterback are, you know, visible to the naked eye
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🚨Megyn Kelly in 2023 re Russell Brand: “You’re 31 years old & you have sex allegedly w a 16-year old?… She was a minor. Just because you can’t be prosecuted for it doesn’t mean it’s right.”
Kelly yesterday re Epstein: “there’s a difference between a 15-year-old & a 5-year-old”
@motherjones.com:
Kelly yesterday re Epstein: “there’s a difference between a 15-year-old & a 5-year-old”
@motherjones.com:
Megyn Kelly suddenly finds pedophilia very hard to define
When a 16-year-old accused Russell Brand of rape, Kelly begged conservatives to condemn him. Now she's splitting hairs about men "into the barely legal type."
www.motherjones.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:33 AM
🚨Megyn Kelly in 2023 re Russell Brand: “You’re 31 years old & you have sex allegedly w a 16-year old?… She was a minor. Just because you can’t be prosecuted for it doesn’t mean it’s right.”
Kelly yesterday re Epstein: “there’s a difference between a 15-year-old & a 5-year-old”
@motherjones.com:
Kelly yesterday re Epstein: “there’s a difference between a 15-year-old & a 5-year-old”
@motherjones.com:
Dominant Scottie Barnes game, and it's going to lead to a legit Raptors win.
November 14, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Dominant Scottie Barnes game, and it's going to lead to a legit Raptors win.
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The government's intelligence gathering apparatus is literally "I saw this snuff film on X" now and I have no idea why people haven't realized this or still post there regularly like you're not feeding a government surveillance firehose.
They are coming to Charlotte literally because of a few right-wing propaganda accounts on X and I am livid.
Gregory Bovino, the top Border Patrol official leading the charge on the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in cities, and his officers are heading to Charlotte, according to a source familiar with the planning. That was news to city officials. https://cnn.it/49crpZT
November 14, 2025 at 2:05 AM
The government's intelligence gathering apparatus is literally "I saw this snuff film on X" now and I have no idea why people haven't realized this or still post there regularly like you're not feeding a government surveillance firehose.
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For years, people argued that there's no point in taking climate action unless China is onboard. I'm at a COP30 event where Chinese government officials and renewable industry reps are outlining the fast-paced renewable energy transition and long-term carbon neutrality plan. The story has flipped.
November 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
For years, people argued that there's no point in taking climate action unless China is onboard. I'm at a COP30 event where Chinese government officials and renewable industry reps are outlining the fast-paced renewable energy transition and long-term carbon neutrality plan. The story has flipped.
This guy, the Atlantic guy, simply cannot write in a fashion that does not make me want to cross everything out and write START OVER in red across the top
November 13, 2025 at 9:29 PM
This guy, the Atlantic guy, simply cannot write in a fashion that does not make me want to cross everything out and write START OVER in red across the top
I have actually heard both versions: feeling guilty for supporting the US at this particular moment, and legitimate worry you wind up in a windowless cell
I legitimately think this article misses the mark, because Canadians are not avoiding travel out of some principled boycott of the USA over tariffs.
Canadians who are avoiding the USA are seeing images of masked government thugs kidnapping people and teargassing children.
Canadians who are avoiding the USA are seeing images of masked government thugs kidnapping people and teargassing children.
November 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I have actually heard both versions: feeling guilty for supporting the US at this particular moment, and legitimate worry you wind up in a windowless cell
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Wow. First, this is very interesting sanctions implementation. Secondly, really illustrates weaponized interdependence, but also how the overuse of those powers will erode US soft and corporate power and influence.
The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv
The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software
www.euractiv.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Wow. First, this is very interesting sanctions implementation. Secondly, really illustrates weaponized interdependence, but also how the overuse of those powers will erode US soft and corporate power and influence.
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a “Space Force”, if you will
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
a “Space Force”, if you will
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I really don’t like to post Elon screenshots but this was heinous is several different ways
November 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I really don’t like to post Elon screenshots but this was heinous is several different ways