After Lake Placid the Star investigated Canadian skeleton coach Joe Cecchini: his alleged mistreatment of athletes, his financial control in the sport, and the reason so many athletes are scared not only of speaking out, but that he could show up at their door. www.thestar.com/sports/olymp...

I sincerely hope that JD Vance gets this reaction every single place he goes.

American athletes were cheered, and JD Vance was booed, and Italy is having a good night

God, the fans in Milan are cheering so hard for Ukraine

True art. True humanity. What the struggle is all about.

Israel was definitely booed. Not universally, but more boos than cheers in the Milan stadium

While we're watching the athletes at the opening ceremony, here's a column on the Olympic ski jumping crotch scandal, though it doesn't seem like much of a scandal: Citius, altius, fortius, penis. www.thestar.com/sports/olymp...

It really is

We have about 70 countries to go, so if you wanted to read this, go for it

It's a pretty good reason to stop doing TV I guess

meanwhile, in America

No boos for JD Vance, because they put him in a group shot that included Italian President Sergio Mattarella, clever

I love Olympic opening ceremonies

After Lake Placid the Star investigated Canadian skeleton coach Joe Cecchini: his alleged mistreatment of athletes, his financial control in the sport, and the reason so many athletes are scared not only of speaking out, but that he could show up at their door. www.thestar.com/sports/olymp...

I don't think Gus actually peed out this message, but I endorse the message itself

The Canadian Olympic Committee is dreaming of medals, excitement, more funding, and oh yeah, another Canadian Olympics. Which, frankly, is less likely than any of that other stuff. www.thestar.com/sports/olymp...

They're Abrego-Garcia-ing a child -- punishing him because his very existence is inconvenient to them. It's gutter bigotry and petulant sadism all the way down.

This sums up so much of why we are where we are

honestly feels unbelievable: Lindsay Vonn attempted and completed her training run today, a week after tearing her ACL, hitting a top speed of 74 mph. They haven't fixed her ACL, it's just flopping around in there. And her other knee is made out of titanium. Very literally built different

JD Vance and Marco Rubio took in the USA-Czechia women’s hockey game Thursday night, accompanied by security men and the stink of their administration. Americans will likely get booed at these Olympics, even if only some of them will deserve it. www.thestar.com/sports/olymp...

The entire anti wokeness nonsense of the past decade was about making this kind of gutter racism broadly acceptable again bsky.app/profile/adam...

JD Vance and Marco Rubio took in the USA-Czechia women’s hockey game Thursday night, accompanied by security men and the stink of their administration. Americans will likely get booed at these Olympics, even if only some of them will deserve it. www.thestar.com/sports/olymp...

What would the reaction be if this were Russia, or China?

This was to be expected - after cutting support to pro-democracy civil society last year, the US state is now looking to actively support far-right affiliated think tanks and charities in Europe.

this is just one city, they did this everywhere.

bad bad bad www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

The Washington Post may have gutted its newsroom for no reason, but if you want highbrow versions of three-day-old Fox News monologues, you can still get it.

You really need to read this to appreciate how deranged it sounds. The standard view that judicial warrants are necessary to forcibly enter residences is blamed on “subversion” by “deep state actors.”

Well, JD Vance and Marco Rubio just arrived at the USA-Czechia women's hockey game

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

It’s not really an Olympics until the Russians launch a cyber attack

Iconic Canadian snowboarder Mark McMorris is a game-time decision after his big crash, sounds like:

Rovell being a dick. What else is new.

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

Epstein: “the girls and i are going to see elon musk at space x tomorrow, are you around,”

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

Man, Milan’s hockey arena - the most famous hockey arena in the world for the next two and a half weeks - could have been much worse. It was very, very close. www.thestar.com/sports/olymp...

Man, Milan’s hockey arena - the most famous hockey arena in the world for the next two and a half weeks - could have been much worse. It was very, very close. www.thestar.com/sports/olymp...

Bring back honor. If you are in charge of an organization and send an email detailing this many failures in its strategic vision, you need to resign at the end of it.

This whole thing where billionaires snap up media properties so they can run them into the ground to make it harder for people to call them and their cronies to account is extremely obvious and very tiresome. It also limits our access to largr information about culture and the world, also by design.

Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests

the $75 million Jeff Bezos set on fire for that Melania propaganda piece could have funded most independent newsrooms for literally decades

I am so angry on behalf of everyone axed by the cretinous turds running the Washington Post today. The best sports section in America. A glittering international crew. It's the ruination of a precious thing by a principle-free rich man, and it makes me sick to my stomach.

A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

Jeff Bezos had $75 million to bribe Trump for the Melania movie but cut 16,000 jobs at Amazon and is cutting more at the Washington Post today. And somehow people *dont* want to campaign on the issue of evil billionaires.

So fucking infuriating watching Bezos and his cronies kill the Post. Taking away sports, books, and international reporting so you can write opinions praising Trump is so damn bleak.

I personally do not think some rich man should be able to buy an institution like this like a toy and then break it when he doesn’t want to play with it anymore. bsky.app/profile/benm...

Democracy dies in darkness, they say, as the cretins running the Washington Post systematically switch off light after light

It's genuinely kind of funny that the ALL-AMERICAN MAGA HALFTIME SHOW is going to have the guy who sang this as its headliner right in the middle of all the Epstein stuff

god trying to convince lindsey vonn to do something else