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Bruce Arthur

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Toronto Star columnist, nice guy, jump shooter.

  1. "We're all throwing dildos at women athletes to promote our memecoin" really puts a fine point on not just how sexist, mean and stupid so much of right now is, but also the grim degree to which we're just inundated with Stuff a 15-Year-Old Dipshit Would Think is Cool. A confederacy of Beavises.

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  2. A government-sanctioned "truth arbiter" will soon arrive at CBS. Their role will be to ensure that journalists do not criticize this Administration or express views that conflict with its agenda.

    This is a betrayal—not just of journalistic independence, but of the public trust. 🧵

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  3. I hate these people so much

    The WNBA's sex toys incidents appear to be part of a coordinated effort.

    The memecoin community "Green Dildo Coin" appears to be behind the instances, using the moments to drive up the value of its cryptocurrency.

    "This is a movement to me to empower the average f—ing teacher."

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  4. Victoria Mboko tops Naomi Osaka in 3 sets to win in Canada as a wild card, her first title and 3rd Canadian to win

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  5. Been reading about the rise of Nazism. So many entities - businesses, right-wing parties, trade unions - struck deals with Hitler after he became chancellor, where he promised to preserve elements of the old system. Then months later he invariably broke them and jailed or killed those people.

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  6. I know nobody under 30 will believe me, but this is the sort of scandal that ended careers, back in the before-times. Congressional hearings, weeks worth of Nightline reports, the whole works. The press lived for this stuff.

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  7. never forget and not in the corny 9/11 sense. Literally never forget what they're doing to your neighbors in your communities

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