Bruce Arthur

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Toronto Star columnist, nice guy, jump shooter.

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This is such an important story in Canada, because it's happening all over, or will soon: toxic, conspiratorial, disordered people who are among us, and who are increasingly organized. www.thestar.com/news/investi...

Threats. Claims of insurrection. A council under siege. When alt-right activists targeted Pickering, the city was unprepared for the chaos that ensuedwww.thestar.com Those claiming to be fighting for freedom are mounting disruptive campaigns that are overtaking agendas and consuming scarce resources.

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no it still looks like absolute shit what the fuck is wrong with you people

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why does this doll look like it’d write the worst op-ed in the world

Wow!

True North: not journalism, but it's this

NEW: Top Shopify executive’s right-wing media website rails against immigrants while defending a legally designated terrorist group. The right-wing Canadian media website ‘True North’ deleted its interview with the founder of the Proud Boys shortly after being contacted by PressProgress:

Shopify Executive’s Right-Wing Media Website Rails Against Immigrants While Defending a Legally Designated Terrorist Grouppressprogress.ca Right-wing Canadian media website ‘True North’ deletes interview with the founder of the Proud Boys after being contacted by PressProgress

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Canada's right-wing populist is aping from all the same transphobic bullshit as the GOP. We're already seeing the effects. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Justin Ling: Queer rights are in danger in Canada. Pierre Poilievre owns some of the blamewww.thestar.com The Conservative leader is playing politics with the lives of trans Canadians, writes Justin Ling.

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Ivy League law school dipshits who can't count atoms much less identify oxidation states have decided they get to tell you if your air is clean or not

Still marveling at Gorsuch's Ohio v. EPA opinion, in which he confused nitrogen oxide (a pollutant) with nitrous oxide (laughing gas). He did this five times, never once getting it right—in an opinion overruling the EPA's own expert scientific analysis! s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...

I am late on posting the series on Toronto sports that colleague Dave Feschuk and I have written: The Beaten Path. Here's the opener, on the sorry state of sports in the city: www.thestar.com/sports/leafs...

Playoff failures, rising ticket prices, frustrated fans. How did we get here? An inside look at Toronto’s miserable sports scenewww.thestar.com In a five-part series, the Star examines the Leafs’ civic curse, the Raptors’ fall from grace, the Jays’ executive mess and the role money played.

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“Fascism sucks up power left unattended” deserves to be carved over the entrances to grand public buildings

largest french turnout in 40 years, to keep the nazis down. fascism sucks up power left unattended

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That's the good stuff.

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have said this before but trump’s brain is pretty obviously far more cooked than biden’s if you listen to what they actually say. but the presentation - basically trump being a spaz - makes trump *look and sound* less cooked to many people i think

Biden v Trump is a pretty direct ageism thing. Trump is aging worse than Biden, but due to vanity and aging in different ways Trump codes as less old and therefore gets way less shit for it.

The tendrils go back and forth, side to side. When I went and reported on an anti-vaccine hospital protest in 2022, one guy who had become attached to the movement told me, "I've never met so many flat-earthers in my life."

Something grimly funny about how like 10 years ago, every harmless crank who believed in stuff like flat earth and fake moon landing would either be radicalized into antisemitism or gradually revealed it, but now all these people are open antisemites and they stumble into flat earth

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round earther

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Transit funding = antifascist praxis

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Official act. Immune.

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the conservative theory of law in one headline

A safe supply doctor effectively being threatened with jail; economists attacked. Under Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative Party's attacks on experts have accelerated: blunter, nastier, and more personal. Is this the future in Canadian governance? www.thestar.com/politics/peo...

Bruce Arthur: ‘People should be afraid’: Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives have been targeting experts. Is this just the beginning?www.thestar.com Experts whose research and opinions don't dovetail with the policies of Pierre Poilievre's Tories are becoming political targets, Bruce Arthur writes.

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this is 100 percent right. the SCOTUS decision here is part of Project 2025, it is preemptively helping Trump consolidate his dictatorship crookedtimber.org/2024/07/02/s...

Supreme Court Rules Hitler Immune from Prosecution for Burning Down Reichstag, Seizing Absolute Powercrookedtimber.org If the current Supreme Court had held comparable office in Weimar Germany, that is, its opinion in Trump v. United States would have rendered the judgment in this post’s headline. Never mind …

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RFK Jr. is still somehow only the second worst guy running for President

"But when asked about the sexual assault allegations by a former babysitter, Kennedy did not want to comment."

RFK Jr. Doesn’t Deny Groping Allegation in Wild Interview: ‘I Have So Many Skeletons in My Closet’www.mediaite.com https://youtu.be/Ke08e2Bfz00?si=AgeYHd61CJ7G0WoP Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was the subject of a buzzy profile in Vanity Fair that exposed several unsavory stories from h...

Wait what

funny enough, I've subsequently been told that he did recognize me. and just had the convos anyway

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Quietly, maybe the shittiest, most despair inducing moment of the debate was Dana Bash asking Biden "Do you support any legal limits on how late a woman should be able to terminate a pregnancy?"

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Fast tracking a Judge Dred type world where Federal Judges ride around in their motorcycle thrones demanding bribes from all they oversee.

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anyway I have a hearing in less than three hours about whether i'm a journalist

Turns out Perplexity, the AI company that has been ripping off journalism, started by posing as academics and using those fake credentials to scrape Twitter www.404media.co/perplexitys-...

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If the human race lasts another 1,000 years they will look at this time as another dark age because almost nothing that we have done and poured our lives into will have survived.

Come ON, Paramount! What the hell?! latenighter.com/news/paramou...

Paramount Axes Comedy Central Site, 25+ Years of Daily Show Clips Gonelatenighter.com One of the richest repositories of late-night videos—including 25 years of clips from 'The Daily Show' and the entire run of 'The Colbert Report'—is no longer.

Connor McDavid has carried the expectations since he was a boy, and last night he came as close to the goal as he ever has, and he wasn't enough. This is the life of a great one, and the Oilers owe it to him (and to Leon Draisaitl) to give him another chance. www.thestar.com/sports/nhl/c...

Bruce Arthur: Connor McDavid’s epic Stanley Cup playoff ends with a Conn Smythe. It’s not the trophy he wantedwww.thestar.com Connor McDavid became the second skater to win the Conn Smythe in a losing effort. The trophy he really wanted, the Stanley Cup, will have to wait.

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Get their asses

Music labels sue AI music generators for copyright infringementarstechnica.com Suno and Udio could face damages of up to $150,000 per song allegedly infringed.

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Hey @washingtonpost.com remember when you understood what happened on J6?

This is straightforwardly, inarguably true, you fuckers. The Biden campaign saying it doesn't make it a "caricature based on selective editing." That's just horseshit that you're making up

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“AI” is the culmination of the tech industry. Every time you use it, you destroy the environment, erode labor protections, endanger workers overseas, enrich the ruling class, and make something unforgivably worthless, all at the same time – and it's all hidden from you in a frictionless distraction.

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What in the ever-loving fuck… www.rawstory.com/trump-attack...

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Was just reminded of the funniest news story of my adult life.