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Bruce Arthur

@brucearthur.bsky.social
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Toronto Star columnist, nice guy, jump shooter.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 36m
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28m
nationalize everything Elon Musk owns.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 4h
Ahem, from more than 3 years ago www.mediaite.com/politics/tru...
mediaite.com
Trump Reportedly Wants to Bring Back Firing Squads and Air Executions on Television If Re-Elected
“The [former] president believes this would help put the fear of God into violent criminals. He wanted to do some of these [things] when he was in office"
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 1h
Elon Musk loves Canadian separatism. Thankfully, this great country doesn’t. (I suggested much stronger versions of this headline but we are a reputable paper, and I accept that.) www.thestar.com/opinion/elon...
thestar.com
Bruce Arthur: Elon Musk loves Canadian separatism. He could help further unite our country
What a week for the idea of breaking Canada apart. Quebec doesn’t want a separation referendum at the moment, but had enough of a multi-party electoral logjam that the Parti
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h
Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 2h
We need to root out and oust conservatives from institutions of higher learning. We need to retire or impeach and remove conservative judges. We need to prosecute every official in this lawless administration and ICE agents.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 2h
The entire Republican Party and broader conservative movement need to be smashed to bits. Donor networks gotta be exposed and disrupted. All the outside machinery needs to be dismantled. And electorally it must lose over and over and over and over. We need a truth and reconciliation commission.
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 3h
Radio Rwanda
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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 4h
Like I keep thinking about Jamelle Bouie's belief that Trump won't fire Hegseth because Hegseth will 100% implement orders to fire on a crowd.
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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 4h
Can't quite draw the straight line but livestreaming a firing squad feels adjacent to "Trump wanted the protesters in 2020 shot, and didn't get it".
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Patrick deHahn @pdehello.bsky.social · 4h
An ICE member shot and injured someone in the Bronx of New York City: "A grey vehicle with a bullet hole in the windshield could be seen in the middle of the road."
cbsnews.com
ICE agent shoots person in the Bronx, law enforcement sources say
A person has been hospitalized after being shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in the Marble Hill section of the Bronx on Thursday, law enforcement sources said.
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 4h
Freaks. Sick.
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static.klipy.com
Homer Simpson: Get Ready For Something Stupid
ALT: Homer Simpson: Get Ready For Something Stupid
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Happy Saturday
Michael Tracey: “Go fuck yourself”

Jared: “Buddy I would rather drive off a bridge than live the life you make for yourself”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h
come 2028 vance will be cutting ads specifically denouncing his in-laws for coming to the united states
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 12h
Again: AI is an attack on humanity.
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 23h
Caitlin Flanagan viciously attacked a friend of mine for being sexually assaulted. She’s the scum of the earth.
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Flydubai pilot was deep into manosphere content, routinely used derogatory sexual slurs about women, and wanted a tradwife Misogyny is a gateway drug www.ft.com/content/a92b...
ft.com
The online life of the Flydubai attacker
[FREE TO READ] Co-pilot of flight 1073 gravitated towards the ‘manosphere’ and expressed misogynistic views
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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026
Trump: *says horrible thing* the media: he didn’t actually mean it Trump: no I definitely one hundred percent meant it
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Before he was appointed, Kash Patel was flagged by FBI counterintelligence agents as being deeply enmeshed in influence operations run by the Russians and Chinese. After he took over, Patel began systematically eliminating all Russian and Chinese counterintelligence capacity. What to make of that?
npr.org
As Trump focuses the FBI on immigration, counterintelligence is falling behind
The cuts come as a consequence of President Trump and FBI Director Kash Patel's focus on violent crime and immigration, leaving other priorities understaffed.
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The US needs a Hague but just for corruption, which can be separate from their Hague on immigration crimes, which naturally would be separate from their Trump-specific Hague
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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 07/10/2026
This is shameful of the countries who buckled under the pressure www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request
Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Elon also retweeted Ezra Levant this morning. Feels significant.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 07/10/2026
reading this, recalling how quickly the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman slipped out of the news
phoenixnewtimes.com
Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
You AI shitheads are actively hurting children because you just can't break up with your imaginary friend in the phone who tells you that you are cool and drafts your fantasy football team for you
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
oh my GOD
phoenixnewtimes.com
Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 07/10/2026
This is so damn bleak. "The Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals ruled this week the biological sex of a transgender woman fatally shot by Samuel Ward Jr. in June 2022 was not only relevant to Ward’s claim of self defense but supported it." jamiescoop.substack.com/p/court-judg...
jamiescoop.substack.com
Court: Judge ‘misled’ jury on biological sex
Tennessee appellate court first to rule on gender identification ‘evidence’
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Beyond the comedy timing here, the way he runs gives this an almost Arrested Development vibe
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Bingo
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Not enough, is the clear answer
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
What have we fucking learned
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Stephen A. Smith is a malign influence on both politics and sports. And beyond that, it feels to me like he's becoming boring
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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hungarians managed to bring down Orban after 16 years by showing that he had been actively enabling and pardoning real acts of sexual abuse of children after spreading hysteria about imaginary harm to children from “gender.” Surely the Americans could learn from this
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026
interesting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic”
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The Simpsons: Krusty the Clown Illusion
ALT: The Simpsons: Krusty the Clown Illusion
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Very interesting idea
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is pretty rich given that we withdrew from the World Health Organization, the same group we're demanding Russia tell about the incident.
wsj.com
Exclusive | U.S. Escalates Pressure on Russia Over Siberia Lab Death
The U.S. has warned Moscow that its failure to disclose details about the death violates international health obligations.
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Same with a pandemic. Same with the current war. Same, sadly, for everything
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Not a very convincing Canada performance against the US, and while I appreciate Jesse Marsch’s political honesty very much, it would have been cooler with a better result
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the tech industry is about to invent books
Andrew Yeung 
@andruyeung
X.com
We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This strikes me as really fuckin bad
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Unforgettable
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 05/10/2026
[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!
forbes.com
Knobs Returning To Some Automakers’ Vehicles, To The Relief Of Many
Auto companies are listening to the complaints of consumers, who want their knobs and buttons back.
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Henry Gilbert (Beloved Podcast Personality) @talkinghenry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Skydance now owns Nick, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Comedy Central, and MTV, effectively ending US TV animation as we know it. Countless jobs will be lost, and fewer new shows will be created. An apocalyptic scenario for cartoons, yet it's maybe the 5th-worst thing about the Paramount-WB merger!
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Love this. Boozary is a genuine hero.
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A secret third thing @secretthirdthing.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"chatGPT thinks I am a genuis" is just the modern version of "I think this stripper is in love with me"
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I didn't realize Michael Lewis has a new book on DOGE. I'm gonna have to read this one
nytimes.com
Book Review: ‘Blockers,’ by Michael Lewis
A new book celebrates the federal bureaucrats who were quietly doing their jobs when the Department of Government Efficiency started squeezing them out last year.
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
can’t think of a better example of AI being mostly a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist also it can’t help when this is your user base
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@nic_carter
X.com
this is about me and i'm not sorry! i don't have time
to autistically read forums and random team news
or whatever.
i'm sure spending hours and hours running your
fantasy team is a good ROI if you're unemployed but
some of us have jobs
also my team is stacked so that's another point in
the Al columnAndrew Weiner • @DickeyNate • 18h
What's the point if playing fantasy football if
you're just going to automate it

nic carter
@nic_carter • 17h
there's no point to fantasy football, it's grown ass
men pretending to draft NFL players

OpenWindowManiac @Cit_rusK •17h
Then just don't do it?

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@nic_carter
X.com
social obligation
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