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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CDC website altered at Robert F. Kennedy's behest to reflect his belief that "all events depicted in the film Ghostbusters really happened."
November 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
CDC website altered at Robert F. Kennedy's behest to reflect his belief that "all events depicted in the film Ghostbusters really happened."
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Can’t wait till they check in with Nick Fuentes
This is nuts!
Why is WAPO writing up anyone’s speculation about who the suspect might be?
I get that Laura’s statements and actions are at times newsworthy given her influence on Trump, but no one’s speculation — outside of a government official’s — should be written up this way.
Why is WAPO writing up anyone’s speculation about who the suspect might be?
I get that Laura’s statements and actions are at times newsworthy given her influence on Trump, but no one’s speculation — outside of a government official’s — should be written up this way.
November 27, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Can’t wait till they check in with Nick Fuentes
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"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
How to explain AI to your family this holiday season | CNN Business
Politics, football and movies are among the many topics that tend to come up around Thanksgiving. In 2025, a new question may arise at the table: Why the heck is everyone talking about AI, and what sh...
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November 27, 2025 at 4:04 AM
"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
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First, they rewired information spaces (exploiting attention dynamics & inherent vulnerabilities of social & digital media). Building upon that advantage, they reconfigured the political systems. Now, they use both to shift values into something that would have been unrecognizable mere months ago.
It's not just that the United States has stopped trying to promote liberal democratic ideas internationally. It's that the United States is actively trying to promote the contrary. It's trying to turn more countries into Hungary.
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U.S. to Press Europe and Other Allies on ‘Mass Migration,’ Document Says
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November 27, 2025 at 12:11 AM
First, they rewired information spaces (exploiting attention dynamics & inherent vulnerabilities of social & digital media). Building upon that advantage, they reconfigured the political systems. Now, they use both to shift values into something that would have been unrecognizable mere months ago.
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This has been obvious for 10 days now but @nymag.com needs to announce a deep dive
Investigation into everything Nuzzi has ever written
Investigation into everything Nuzzi has ever written
November 26, 2025 at 11:45 PM
This has been obvious for 10 days now but @nymag.com needs to announce a deep dive
Investigation into everything Nuzzi has ever written
Investigation into everything Nuzzi has ever written
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Will give you 5:1 that this tease is already known to be a nothing-burger.
This is a lot, but (allegedly) Olivia Nuzzi sent a secret recorder with a sketch artist to tape Trump at Mar-a-Lago so she could feed campaign intel to RFK, where [pauses to take a breath] something Trump said about his assassination attempt “would shatter our understanding of recent history”??
November 26, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Will give you 5:1 that this tease is already known to be a nothing-burger.
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god I hope Olivia Nuzzi never gets paid even one more cent by a single publication for the rest of her life
November 26, 2025 at 10:29 PM
god I hope Olivia Nuzzi never gets paid even one more cent by a single publication for the rest of her life
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If the Nuzzi blast radius doesn't impact both the new editor of VF and the NYT profiler, then something wrong. Holy shit.
November 26, 2025 at 8:51 PM
If the Nuzzi blast radius doesn't impact both the new editor of VF and the NYT profiler, then something wrong. Holy shit.
Humans can always get lazier
November 26, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Humans can always get lazier
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If a whereabouts violation ban is the end of Penny Oleksiak as an elite swimmer - and people in swimming think it is - then her legacy is that she changed swimming in this country, and was the best swimmer we had produced, and then things slowly fell apart. www.thestar.com/sports/olymp...
Bruce Arthur: The sad truth to Penny Oleksiak’s two-year ban and the potential end to her meteoric swimming career
The 25-year-old Oleksiak formally accepted a two-year ban Tuesday for whereabouts violations related to drug testing.
www.thestar.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:20 PM
If a whereabouts violation ban is the end of Penny Oleksiak as an elite swimmer - and people in swimming think it is - then her legacy is that she changed swimming in this country, and was the best swimmer we had produced, and then things slowly fell apart. www.thestar.com/sports/olymp...
Especially when it seems like Lizza could be considered relatively complicit in the elevation of RFJ Jr. to a position where he could attempt to destroy US public health infrastructure and actually, legitimately kill people
Lizza doling this story out in a series of paywalled posts to drum up subscribers to his newsletter is just so utterly brazen, so spectacularly shameless, so quintessentially 2025 ... it's breathtaking. You gotta tip your hat.
November 26, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Especially when it seems like Lizza could be considered relatively complicit in the elevation of RFJ Jr. to a position where he could attempt to destroy US public health infrastructure and actually, legitimately kill people
It's helpful to remember that every single thing Trump does is at best a scandal and quite regularly a crime
Now here’s the kind of news you drop going into a long holiday weekend. Maybe no one will notice. 🤡
@nytimes.com
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@nytimes.com
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November 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
It's helpful to remember that every single thing Trump does is at best a scandal and quite regularly a crime
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Politicians who make political decisions to deploy the military into situations that get service members killed for no good reason. They need to be held accountable.
November 26, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Politicians who make political decisions to deploy the military into situations that get service members killed for no good reason. They need to be held accountable.
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Whether this was random street crime or targeted political violence, I think it was bad for the president to unnecessarily put the National Guard in harm’s way like this. They simply don’t need to be there.
November 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Whether this was random street crime or targeted political violence, I think it was bad for the president to unnecessarily put the National Guard in harm’s way like this. They simply don’t need to be there.
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The conservative movement is part corporate counterrevolution and part hate movement.
SCOOP: The Trump administration has instructed employees and grantees not to use U.S. funds to commemorate World AIDS Day — because the observance was started by the World Health Organization.
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Trump Administration Cancels U.S. Observance of World AIDS Day
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November 26, 2025 at 7:38 PM
The conservative movement is part corporate counterrevolution and part hate movement.
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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fuck everyone involved in this decision. scum.
SCOOP: The Trump administration has instructed employees and grantees not to use U.S. funds to commemorate World AIDS Day — because the observance was started by the World Health Organization.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
Trump Administration Cancels U.S. Observance of World AIDS Day
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:22 PM
fuck everyone involved in this decision. scum.
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OF COURSE the leaked transcript was an attempt to disrupt damaging US-Russian peace talks, which are extremely dangerous for Europe and Ukraine
www.nbcnews.com/world/russia...
www.nbcnews.com/world/russia...
Kremlin says leaked U.S. call is an attempt to disrupt Ukraine peace talks
President Donald Trump, whose envoy Steve Witkoff will visit Moscow next week, said he had no deadline for a deal after earlier pressuring Kyiv to endorse a proposal by Thanksgiving.
www.nbcnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:21 PM
OF COURSE the leaked transcript was an attempt to disrupt damaging US-Russian peace talks, which are extremely dangerous for Europe and Ukraine
www.nbcnews.com/world/russia...
www.nbcnews.com/world/russia...
Has anyone asked ICE's various goons whether they think they are playing racist Grand Theft Auto
I'm ICE, boys. I love crashing cars, getting divorced, crashing cars, bargain bin jeans, texting while driving, crashing cars, OLD GLORY, and let's not forget my one true passion in life—crashing cars
ICE agents involved in another vehicle collision, this time in Mesa azmirror.com/briefs/ice-a...
November 26, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Has anyone asked ICE's various goons whether they think they are playing racist Grand Theft Auto
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oh this is absolutely what i think. i think they feed him fake polls and outright AI slop
At this point, I wonder if he isn't lying when he says he has "my highest Poll Numbers, ever" since it's entirely possible that's what his aides are telling him. It's quite likely that there's an entire Potemkin village built around Trump right now.
Trump responds to a detailed report about his waning energy and propensity to sleep through on-camera events by calling the New York Times's Katie Rogers ugly
November 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
oh this is absolutely what i think. i think they feed him fake polls and outright AI slop
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Secretary Pete Hegseth, a Princeton graduate, was unable to comprehend that photographs create mirror images of their subjects. Here's why affirmative action has lowered the standards of Ivy League admissions.
November 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Secretary Pete Hegseth, a Princeton graduate, was unable to comprehend that photographs create mirror images of their subjects. Here's why affirmative action has lowered the standards of Ivy League admissions.
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CDC to Americans: drop dead
The CDC has turned off its vaccine search tool.
The vaccines.gov site now gives an error when you enter a valid zip code.
They also removed text saying “Vaccines can help you stay healthy” and added a banner saying the site is being updated.
The vaccines.gov site now gives an error when you enter a valid zip code.
They also removed text saying “Vaccines can help you stay healthy” and added a banner saying the site is being updated.
November 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM
CDC to Americans: drop dead
If a whereabouts violation ban is the end of Penny Oleksiak as an elite swimmer - and people in swimming think it is - then her legacy is that she changed swimming in this country, and was the best swimmer we had produced, and then things slowly fell apart. www.thestar.com/sports/olymp...
Bruce Arthur: The sad truth to Penny Oleksiak’s two-year ban and the potential end to her meteoric swimming career
The 25-year-old Oleksiak formally accepted a two-year ban Tuesday for whereabouts violations related to drug testing.
www.thestar.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:20 PM
If a whereabouts violation ban is the end of Penny Oleksiak as an elite swimmer - and people in swimming think it is - then her legacy is that she changed swimming in this country, and was the best swimmer we had produced, and then things slowly fell apart. www.thestar.com/sports/olymp...
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I think we can safely say that the Leavitt's brother called ICE on his ex, the mother of his child, and I have to say: I have no desire to respect, find common ground or share the country with these monsters.
“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.”
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
‘Brazil is not her home.’ Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, brought to US as child, detained by ICE. - The Boston Globe
Bruna Ferreira, 33, was brought to the United States as a child in 1998. She is now in removal proceedings in Louisiana.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I think we can safely say that the Leavitt's brother called ICE on his ex, the mother of his child, and I have to say: I have no desire to respect, find common ground or share the country with these monsters.
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"We finish each other's sentences"
November 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
"We finish each other's sentences"