Bruce Arthur

Texas House Democrats offer a brief response to Gov. Greg Abbott's threat of arrest and expulsion: "Come and take it."

Feel like its a bad sign about the health of the republic that Pritzker has to talk about TX Dems like they’re the Polish government-in-exile in London

Uphill battle here but solidarity with Texas Democrats- they are standing up for democracy - they deserve all the appreciation and love from around the country for fighting till the end.

UPDATE: Governor Abbott just threatened to REMOVE THE TEXAS DEMS FROM THEIR SEATS if they don’t return by 3pm Monday (so Republicans can steal 5 seats in Congress using a special session about the flooding as cover) — and charge them with FELONIES.

We are over the cliff.

Bruce Arthur: Summer McIntosh wins fourth gold at swim worlds. She’s still early in her race with history Toronto phenom capped the Singapore meet by winning the 400-metre individual medley, in 4:25.78, short of her own world record of 4:23.65.

"This meet I learn more than any other meet ever, and that says a lot." Summer McIntosh won four golds and one bronze at the worlds: she's racing history at 18 years old, and she has so far to go. But this was one of the great weeks anyone's ever had. www.thestar.com/sports/amate...

I think the use of chatbots for stuff like this is intended to train people to use it to avoid everything that’s painful or hard. It can write the obituary, the breakup text, the complaint letter. It’s meant to separate humans from their difficult feelings. Seems bad.

Breaking character: I stan for Sesame Street and The Electric Company. Go back and watch, they are witty, educational, and just plan good tv.

Summer McIntosh is female swimmer of the meet, fairly obviously. Leon Marchand of France was the male swimmer of the meet. Two Bob Bowman athletes, now.

Canada’s women’s 4 x 100 medley relay also finishes fifth. And Kylie Masse, who handed off the opening leg in third place, has not decided yet what she wants to do with the rest of her life.

Canada’s men’s 4 x 100 medley relay finishes fifth. New Canadian record. And a young team.

Ledecky is the only other female swimmer to win four individual golds at one worlds. Sarah Sjostrom is the only other female swimmer to win five individual medals at a worlds. Summer McIntosh had an incredible week.

Never a doubt. Fourth gold of the week.

She's a body length ahead after about 70 metres. Yeah

Here comes Summer, looking for gold number four in the 400 IM. And yes, I should have written swum above, but I was addled by Singapore's heat, or something

When a Russian wins — and they are back at the swimming worlds as Neutral Athletes, after being banned due to the war in Ukraine — you get to hear the announcer say, "Please stand for the anthem for World Aquatics." It's about as good an anthem as you'd expect.

As for relays tonight, Summer is in: Women's 4 x 100 medley relay is Kylie Masse backstroke, Sophie Angus breaststroke, Summer McIntosh butterfly, Taylor Ruck freestyle. Men's relay is Blake Tierney, Oliver Dawson, Ilya Kharun, Josh Liendo.

Currently watching an apparently famous Hungarian opera singer and violinist and other Hungarian musicians perform to mark the next world swim championships in Budapest. During rehearsal earlier, they had to show the Singaporean drummers how to drum. This is a cultural experience, as these things go

Elon Musk’s DOGE Burned Through $21.7 Billion of Taxpayer Cash A report added up all the costs associated with DOGE and found it wasted billions by paying employees not to work, cancelling projects and more.

Just obscene.

www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musks-d...

Thank you, Scott.

A lil TL cleanse for the aces fans mad at the L and lynx fans worried about phee #WNBA

Whether it's conservatives assassinating State Senators in Minnesota or liberals refusing to sell Alan Dershowitz pierogis in Martha's Vineyard, both sides have taken incivility to an extreme.

Bruce Arthur: Inside the race of the century, where Summer McIntosh tried to conquer 800 ‘master’ Katie Ledecky, but fell just short The 800-metre freestyle was an all-time race, but McIntosh faded at the end to take bronze. Five world swimming championship golds will have to wait.

“Just a master. Like the van Gogh of painting. Just in control from the first stroke to the last.” Summer McIntosh tried to conquer the greatest female swimmer ever, and the result was the best distance race ever swam, a Katie Ledecky gold, and a hard, hard lesson. www.thestar.com/sports/amate...

This is like going to church and throwing a hundred dollar bill into the collection plate and then booing the priest

if Canadian leaders were focused on non-extractive growth, they'd poach all of the STEM researchers

The competition for Most Pathetic is so strong these days but damn the Dersh is just elite. He has basically reoriented his entire career & output to complaining about how everyone in his chosen home hates his fucking guts.

Some great points here. We need to expand the province’s protected areas as well as improve access to public waterfronts. So much of Ontario’s lakeshores are privatized and closed to the growing population.

See also: Ontario Place.

A country is more than just its ruling class, and I will die on the hill that American history has been a battle between those who see America as a horrifying fascist hellscape and those who see it as a beacon of multiracial democracy. And I'm not ready to admit defeat in that battle just yet.

Bruce Arthur: Inside the race of the century, where Summer McIntosh tried to conquer 800 ‘master’ Katie Ledecky, but fell just short The 800-metre freestyle was an all-time race, but McIntosh faded at the end to take bronze. Five world swimming championship golds will have to wait.

“Just a master. Like the van Gogh of painting. Just in control from the first stroke to the last.” Summer McIntosh tried to conquer the greatest female swimmer ever, and the result was the best distance race ever swam, a Katie Ledecky gold, and a hard, hard lesson. www.thestar.com/sports/amate...

More on Trump’s nominee to lead the office investigating Jack Smith:

➡️ He said that the descendants of slaves should pay reparations to the descendants of slave owners

➡️ He urged Congress to make J6 a national holiday

➡️ He called for Trump’s birthday to be made a national holiday (“MAGA Day”)

Was on deadline. Incredible, incredible race. Summer was raw and honest and angry afterwards; this race will burn in her for a long time. Lani Pallister was almost bemused: she didn’t expect a silver. And Katie Ledecky, once again, is Katie goddamn Ledecky.