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Bethany Rae 🇨🇦 @orangeswan.bsky.social · 2h

As they say, money can't buy everything. For instance, it can't buy taste, sophistication, intelligence, integrity, respect....

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Bethany Rae 🇨🇦 @orangeswan.bsky.social · 3d

I can only think that the manufacturer ran short of material and the design team had to make some hard choices.

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Bethany Rae 🇨🇦 @orangeswan.bsky.social · 3d

This scandal is right up there with the tan suit thing, but I am rather enjoying the tweets from people reminiscing about the honorary aunts and uncles they had growing up.

I had some too, and to my friend's little daughter I'm not just her mom's friend who is nice to her, but *her* Auntie Beth.

Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 3d

Sorry I refuse to entertain the complete non-existent world where white people don’t know that countless cultures, including some of their own but certainly diasporic racialized ones, call their mom’s cousin’s friend’s sister they grew up with “cousin” and call close women elders “aunt/auntie”

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 3d

Obvious to say this, but the actual function of the smear job isn't to make us ask about his aunt, it's to show us the words "hijab" and "9/11" in a headline with his photo.

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Rick Ellis @allyourscreens.bsky.social · 3d

People should be happy about the Mamdami cousin/aunt story in the New York Post. Because if that's the worst thing they've got to roll out at this point, they really are desperate.

Next up:

Mamdami: "New York State Of Mind" isn't my favorite song about NYC

Mamdami: "I prefer untoasted bagels"

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Bethany Rae 🇨🇦 @orangeswan.bsky.social · 8d

Jason Momoa liked *both* Depp's and Heard's posts, sigh.

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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 9d

Angus: "This is the thing about the right wing, they're always talking about 'people living off the taxpayer' and 'pulling yourself up by the bootstraps' — no, they live off public money. But what they don't want is that public money to serve all the people, they want it to serve them."

🗣️ Preach

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Bethany Rae 🇨🇦 @orangeswan.bsky.social · 11d

Donald Trump has exactly two extraordinary qualities:

-- a savant-like ability to market himself and build a brand and a cultish following;

-- the ability to constantly find new ways and new directions in which to be a disgusting, destructive, abusive asshole.

#uspoli #blindsidedbytheawfulness

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Bethany Rae 🇨🇦 @orangeswan.bsky.social · 11d

Who had "he'll take a bulldozer to the White House" on their Trump second presidency bingo card? #uspoli

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 11d

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 12d

The Guardian is reporting that since Israel and Hamas signed the ceasefire and full hostage exchange agreement, Israel has violated the ceasefire 47 times, killed 38 Palestinians, and wounded another 143 more.

Meanwhile Hamas has released all remaining hostages.

It Was Never About The Hostages.

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 14d

You know how billionaires end up with severe cognitive deficits as a result of becoming surrounded by yes men who constantly tell them their every idea is genius? What if we made a bot that just does that to everyone. I think that would be a good idea.

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Bethany Rae 🇨🇦 @orangeswan.bsky.social · 15d

Who would *you* most like to see imprisoned for the Trump administration's many crimes against the U.S.? Stephen Miller? Elon Musk? RFK Jr.? Pete Hegseth? J.D. Vance? Pam Bondi? Kristi Noem?Linda McMahon? Tulsi Gabbard? Susie Wiles? One of the Trump kids? 2/

#theyhavetopay #onecanhardlychoose

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Bethany Rae 🇨🇦 @orangeswan.bsky.social · 15d

I've given up all hope that TFG will ever see the inside of a prison cell. BUT I find it very cheering that there are plenty of his henchpeople who have the longevity and are in a state of health to stand trial and spend decades in prison. 1/

#determinedlylookingonthebrightside #theyhavetopay

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Micah @rincewind.run · 16d

I think two things are true:

1. young republicans were always terrible and racist

2. young republicans become openly hitler-loving groypers is in fact a new and alarming development that is worth paying attention to

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Bethany Rae 🇨🇦 @orangeswan.bsky.social · 17d

I cling to the hope that Pee Pee will not survive the CPC leadership review in January 2026.

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Bethany Rae 🇨🇦 @orangeswan.bsky.social · 17d

So the teacher died peacefully, believing that they were right?

Bethany Rae 🇨🇦 @orangeswan.bsky.social · 17d

And now of course the image will receive greatly increased attention, scrutiny, and satirical commentary.

Great going, Cheeto. #asperusual

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Bethany Rae 🇨🇦 @orangeswan.bsky.social · 17d

a black cat is walking on a tile floor

ALT: a black cat is walking on a tile floor

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Bethany Rae 🇨🇦 @orangeswan.bsky.social · 22d

When I read my completed manuscript through, trying to assess it as objectively as possible, I thought, hoo boy, I can only hope that the Iguana Books editor who is assigned to work on it is a genius. 4/

#FirstTimeAuthor #Insupportable #IguanaBooks #ThisIsHappening

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Bethany Rae 🇨🇦 @orangeswan.bsky.social · 22d

The book is no longer a shining vision in my head, but a concrete thing, something apart from myself that can be assessed and used to gauge not the writing ability I aspire to have or wish I had, but that I actually have. 3/

#FirstTimeAuthor #Insupportable #IguanaBooks #ThisIsHappening

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Bethany Rae 🇨🇦 @orangeswan.bsky.social · 22d

I'm finding out that having written a book for publication -- something I have wanted to do since I could write in complete sentences -- is a double-edged sword. I mean, sure, I wrote a book! But also... I wrote a book. 2/

#FirstTimeAuthor #Insupportable #IguanaBooks #ThisIsHappening

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Bethany Rae 🇨🇦 @orangeswan.bsky.social · 22d

I've handed the manuscript of my first book, "Insupportable: Why We're Losing People to Lies & What We Can Do About It", over to my publisher Iguana Books for editing and production. 1/

#ThisIsHappening #FirstTimeAuthor #Insupportable #IguanaBooks

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Bethany Rae 🇨🇦 @orangeswan.bsky.social · 24d

I kind of wish I could have been one of Carney's communications people. I would have had some fun with this.

"President Trump, your impact on the world cannot be estimated, and your presidency will never be forgotten.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 26d

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

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