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Tweeter Formerly Known as @bettylies LIKES: film noir, horror, hot priests, bodily autonomy, free speech, laughs DISLIKES: liars, Pierre Poilievre (redundant, I know)

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PolytheneSpam @polythenespam.bsky.social · May 16

I don’t understand why these ancient, wealthy politicians don’t retire. I’d spend my last years in a cottage on a lake and go swimming every day. Lay out in the sun and read large print books. Heaven.

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PolytheneSpam @polythenespam.bsky.social · May 16

“The Hamas wing of the party” — 🙄

Lantsman is so abrasive and stupid. I don’t know how she gets elected.

PolytheneSpam @polythenespam.bsky.social · May 6

Is she holding up an invisible umbrella?

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PolytheneSpam @polythenespam.bsky.social · Apr 21

I let my four-year-old stay up during the debates, and she drew this picture of Pierre Poilievre. Isn’t it cute? 🥰

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PolytheneSpam @polythenespam.bsky.social · Apr 21

Yeah, nobody cares about security clearance. Get him to flip flop on guns an abortion.

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PolytheneSpam @polythenespam.bsky.social · Apr 21

I’m shocked it’s only five.

PolytheneSpam @polythenespam.bsky.social · Apr 21

He’s coming to get you, Barbara.

PolytheneSpam @polythenespam.bsky.social · Apr 21

Can I mute U.S. politics on this app?

PolytheneSpam @polythenespam.bsky.social · Apr 21

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PolytheneSpam @polythenespam.bsky.social · Apr 21

ZODIAC (2007)
dir. David Fincher

PolytheneSpam @polythenespam.bsky.social · Apr 21

‪LOST HIGHWAY (1997) dir. David Lynch‬

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · Apr 17

People keep asking why far-right alternative media outlets got to ask so many questions

The reason, once again, is because Rebel threatened to go to court and get an injunction. The Debates Commission backed down and agreed to let Rebel have one person from each of its regional "divisions"

The Commission’s April 10, 2025, response to our April 9 demand regarding Rebel News Network Ltd.
(“Rebel News”) and the 16 accredited journalists the Commission has confirmed for the Leaders’ Debates
on April 16 and 17, 2025, fails to resolve our client’s legitimate grievances. Negotiations are at an impasse.
The Commission’s insistence on capping Rebel News at one reporter and one photographer for the media
scrum—while granting multiple slots to Postmedia, CBC/Radio-Canada, and other multi-division media
organizations—reveals a starkly unfair and inconsistent policy that demands correction.
The Commission’s “one reporter, one photographer per media organization” rule (April 8, p. 1; website) is
a sham of equal treatment. Rebel News, spanning five divisions—Rebel News Canada (Ezra Levant/Efrain
‘Efron’ Flores-Monsanto), Quebec (Alexa Lavoie/Guillaume Roy), Ontario (David Menzies/Lincoln Jay),
Prairie (Sheila Gunn Reid), British Columbia (Drea Humphrey)—is unjustly confined to a single entity
(April 10, p. 1-2), while Postmedia (e.g., National Post, Ottawa Citizen, and others), CBC/Radio-Canada,
Global News (with regional arms in 2021), and CTV (national and local divisions at the 2021 scrum) enjoy
multiple slots (April 10, p. 1). The Commission dodges our demands for proof of past limits it claims to
have applied to CBC or CTV, undermining its “plurality” assertion (April 10, p. 2)—this is a deliberate tilt
against Rebel News, among many others we've easily identified through recent correspondence with the
Commission.
These rules reek of secrecy. When Rebel News applied on March 31, 2025, the Commission’s website

offered a vague “media organization” definition—“produces original news content... or covers political,
social and policy issues”—with no trace of the division-specific criteria the Commission now wields (April
10, p. 1). Rebel’s geographic (Quebec, Ontario) and linguistic (French, English) distinctions match those
the Commission accepts for CBC/Radio-Canada, yet it imposes a retroactive standard—based on uniform
letters—that was never disclosed. This smacks of the “complex and convoluted” tactics courts struck down
in Rebel News v Canada, 2019 FC 1424 and 2022 FC 313, where Rebel secured multiple questioners by
Court Order, thwarting the Commission’s predictable, recurring, and unrelenting unfairness.
The Commission’s capacity claims are a shambles. It asserts “no numerical cap” on the scrum (April 10, p.
1), yet confines it to a press room capped at 135 (p. 2), with 60+ participants from 30+ organizations (p.
1). This contradicts the Commission’s earlier “capacity restrictions” warning (April 4, p. 1), and deferring
“further details” (April 10, p. 3) invites the last-minute exclusion Rebel endured in 2019 and 2021. No
“capacity” definition or enforcement plan clarifies this mess—our 2 million viewers face irreparable harm
from the Commission’s opacity.
Regrettably, it appears the Commission is choosing to continue to disregard the Court’s prior directives to
uphold its democratic mandate, as ordered twice in 2019 and 2021. This is a flagrant breach of procedural
fairness (Vavilov, 2019 SCC 65). The Commission’s July 2024 policy lacks the division-specific criteria it
now enforces selectively, singling out Rebel News while bending for Postmedia, CBC, Global News, and
CTV.
We hereby demand, by 2:00 PM ET, April 11, 2025, written confirmation that one reporter and one
photographer from each of Rebel News’ five divisions shall be permitted to attend, participate, and ask
questions during the media scrum—on par with CBC, CTV, Postmedia, and other multi-divisional media

RE: Rebel News Media Accreditation for the 45th General Election
I am in receipt of your letter dated April 10, 2025.
I disagree with your allegation that the Commission’s application of its one reporter and one
photographer per media organization policy is unfair or inconsistent. However, rather than devote
further resources towards answering your letters and a potential injunction, which is neither
necessary nor in the public interest, I will permit Rebel News to have one reporter and one
photographer from “each of Rebel News’ five divisions” participate in the scrum for the debates
for the 45th general election. This is without prejudice to the position that the Commission would
take in any litigation commenced by Rebel News in relation to the upcoming debates or for
debates in a future election.
I do not agree with your characterizations of my prior communications, including with respect to
how the policy is being applied to other media organizations. Given the above, I do not consider it
necessary to respond to those allegations, but my silence on them should not be interpreted as
acquiescence.
Questions by telephone were permitted in 2021 as a result of COVID-19 and will not be used for
the upcoming debates.
Sincerely,

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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · Mar 18

What’s striking is that in their piece, the one that has Malcolm and her minions crowing, Sasha writes about the difficulty their trans friend had in getting the healthcare he needed. This kinda destroys the right’s pet thesis that it’s way too quick and easy to gender affirming care in the UK.

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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · Mar 18

Also, the Tavistock Gender Clinic, where it seems Sasha Carney wasn’t a patient (static1.squarespace.com/static/598d5...) wasn’t “disgraced.” Recommend this @michaelhobbes.bsky.social and @yrfatfriend.bsky.social pod if you’re genuinely curious: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/m...

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PolytheneSpam @polythenespam.bsky.social · Mar 14

Howard Lutnick is not a smart man. Does he think Canada doesn’t have access to what is said on U.S. news?

"He needed to break some guy in Ontario who said he was gonna tax American energy 25 percent…”

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PolytheneSpam @polythenespam.bsky.social · Mar 14

I came back here just to “like” this post.

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wint @dril.bsky.social · Mar 13

If i saw a child doing heroin i would jump in front of the needle and take the Hit . That is how dedicated i am to community's

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wint @dril.bsky.social · Mar 13

ok sorry . my lawyer has advised me to say that drinking israeli diarrhea is good actually no matter how many kindergartners they murked

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PolytheneSpam @polythenespam.bsky.social · Dec 30

If only. DoFo could get away with murder.

PolytheneSpam @polythenespam.bsky.social · Dec 14

It’s neat because it makes it less seasonal, if that makes sense. More sunny.

Maybe that’s just perception because I love Halloween but it’s always cold and rainy here.

PolytheneSpam @polythenespam.bsky.social · Dec 10

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PolytheneSpam @polythenespam.bsky.social · Dec 10

They can’t get past their physical attraction to both.

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PolytheneSpam @polythenespam.bsky.social · Dec 10

Look at how Trump gloated that Jill Biden glanced at him without expressing total disgust. Meanwhile, Laura Loomer is the only woman who looks at Trump as lustfully as Melania looks at Trudeau.

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PolytheneSpam @polythenespam.bsky.social · Dec 10

Trump is still jealous he got cucked by Trudeau. Look at Melania’s open body language, compared to Brigitte Macron shrinking away from even rubbing shoulders with Donald.

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PolytheneSpam @polythenespam.bsky.social · Dec 10

Look at how Trump gloated that Jill Biden glanced at him without expressing total disgust. Meanwhile, Laura Loomer is the only woman who looks at Trump as lustfully as Melania looks at Trudeau.

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