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Bethany Lilly @bethanylilly.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I cannot emphasize enough how many _good_ potatoes I have had in Toronto. Our northern neighbors understand the potato 🤌 I think I'm supposed to tag @darthbluesky.bsky.social

Dill + garlic mayo and a perfectly crunchy classic fry.

A perfectly seasoned fry with a black garlic aloi. Skin-on, you could taste the potato-ness perfectly.

This was a Spanish tortilla in a croissant. Warm, crunchy, delish. No notes.

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Bethany Lilly @bethanylilly.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Does cauliflower mean broccolini in Canada or is this just an ingredient sub?

A plate of harissa brown butter broccolini

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Bethany Lilly @bethanylilly.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Any idea why a pair of these weird looking helicopters / planes are circling Capitol Hill?

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Bethany Lilly @bethanylilly.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

There are so many people out and about outside right now without masks and I shouldn't be, but I'm shocked!

Air Now app displaying an "Unhealthy" 173 AQI

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Bethany Lilly @bethanylilly.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I don't think that pictures do this justice because it is just so massive and detailed, but.

A picture of a beautiful cherry tree, with many monkeys devouring their prey in the tree.

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Bethany Lilly @bethanylilly.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Checking in at the @politico.com Health Care Summit this morning! Quite the line up; excited to be here.

Politico Health Care Summit banner, in the East Hall of Union Station (evident from the decorations on the wall above the banner).

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Bethany Lilly @bethanylilly.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Since I am snowed/sleeted into my house. An update on the random Trader Joe's s*** I bought from a ransacked store earlier this week. 1) Cheddar and jalapeno biscuit bites. These are delicious. Kind of like shortbread crackers, but softer. Very fresh and kicky jalapeno flavor. Would buy again.

A box of Trader Joe's spicy cheddar cheese and jalapeno biscuit bites and a tray with the biscuit bites on it.

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Bethany Lilly @bethanylilly.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Thank you, @wmata.com, for getting me home safely tonight! And for having an accurate website when I set an alarm so that I could catch the last train.

A sign saying:
Glenmont 1 minute
LastTrain 8 minutes

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Bethany Lilly @bethanylilly.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I can't find it outside of Twitter. So apologies for the screen shots.

For Renee Nicole Good
Killed by I.C.E. on January 7, 2026

by Amanda Gorman

They say she is no more,
That there her absence roars,
Blood-blown like a rose.
Iced wheels flinched & froze.
Now, bare riot of candles,
Dark fury of flowers,
Pure howling of hymns.

If for us she arose,
Somewhere, in the pitched deep of our grief,
Crouches our power,
The howl where we begin,
Straining upon the edge of the crooked crater
Of the worst of what we’ve been.

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Bethany Lilly @bethanylilly.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

I appreciate that we all made the same fashion choice today.

Bethany wearing a Spirit shirt and a Spirit head wrap

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Bethany Lilly @bethanylilly.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

This should work-- it's even in Spirit yellow! Also, soccer balls are harder to draw than I anticipated.

A picture of a yellow cat with a speech bubble that says raise the cap and a small hand-drawn soccer ball.

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Bethany Lilly @bethanylilly.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

I also found this: I need to go grocery shopping and let's decide what we're sending them.

Get in touch with the league:
551 Fifth Avenue, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10176

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Bethany Lilly @bethanylilly.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Guess the theme of my party tonight!

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Bethany Lilly @bethanylilly.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

I am genuinely not sure what to say about this. I think this was the first WH holiday party I ever attended. I guess those stairs are just... gone.

Bethany standing next to a penguin decoration in front of the East Wing entrance.

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Bethany Lilly @bethanylilly.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

A drainage tunnel at the Falls of Falloch.

A small waterfall tumbles out of a drainage pipe. The other end of the drainage pipe is visible showing more beautiful forest.

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Bethany Lilly @bethanylilly.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

The Ruthwell Cross. (For the non- English literature majors, this cross has one of the earliest poems in the English language inscribed along the edges.)

An Anglo-Saxon cross from the 8th century, made of red sandstone (darker red for the places where they have replaced pieces) and covered in depictions from the Bible. It is faint in the photo, but there is writing along all the edges of the cross.

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Bethany Lilly @bethanylilly.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

One of the thousands of sheep we saw.

A friendly looking sheep is hanging out by the gate as if asking us to come let them out.

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Bethany Lilly @bethanylilly.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Some of my favorite photos from Scotland 😁

A highland coo among the Glencoe mountains.

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Bethany Lilly @bethanylilly.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Was at the Morgan Library in NYC yesterday for the Austen exhibit and also saw their psalms in medieval life exhibit (Thomas More's prayer book was the very nice coda). Also spotted @lollardfish.bsky.social's Bright Ages at the gift shop!

A selection of books on medieval issues on a table.

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Bethany Lilly @bethanylilly.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

So thrilled to join the National Academy of Social Insurance for the 60th birthday of Medicaid and Medicare.

Rebecca Vallas and Joan Alker speak to kick off the event.

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Bethany Lilly @bethanylilly.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

If you see this, drop an old pic that you still love. Still one of my favorite photos of myself ever. I'm afraid I don't remember what Julia was telling me though 🤣

Meg looks prepared to go off, I am laughing my head off, and Julia is gleefully telling me whatever it is that is making me laugh.

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Bethany Lilly @bethanylilly.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

In an effort to be positive about something, I have an eggplant fruit! And baby fruit! And more flowers!

An eggplant with a small eggplant fruit, several little tiny fruit and some flowers.

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Bethany Lilly @bethanylilly.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

"Pet a dog--preferably a golden retriever, but any will do."

Bethany's hand scratching the head of a golden retriever.

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Bethany Lilly @bethanylilly.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

I was curious what Senator Lee said after Representative Giffords was shot. I guess he doesn't believe that politicizing shootings is disrespectful to the victims anymore, 14 years later. I wonder what changed.

CW: ableist bullshitery re mental health

Utah freshman Republican senator Mike Lee, a tea party favorite, is warming Democrats not to use the Arizona shooting as a political football and claimed that the 22-year-old suspect went on a Saturday rampage because he was crazy, not a right-wing ideologue.

"We all need to resist the impulse to turn it into a political football," said Lee who toppled senator Bob Bennett in a conservative dominated party caucus last fall. "This is a tragedy and I think it's disrespectful to the victims into their families for us to try and use this for short-term partisan political gain. I don't think we can tie this incident to anything other than a person who is either evil or mentally insane or some combination of the both."

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Bethany Lilly @bethanylilly.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

A battery change and a lesson in watch straps later, my eBay purchase is looking great! Now I just need to set the right time.

A silver watch face with big numbers at 3, 6, 9, and 12 and a very fresh looking white band.

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Bethany Lilly @bethanylilly.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Still very pleased with my fashion from this trip. My last excellent Forever 21 purchase.

Bethany in a floral two piece that looks like a jumpsuit.

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Bethany Lilly @bethanylilly.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Apropos of a few things I've seen on here this morning: I gifted my niece the Riddlemaster series that I adored as a child. I've committed to my brother that I'll reread anything before I send it to her and these were just as magical as I remember.

Three books on a couch. The first is entitled "the riddlemaster of Hed", the second "heir of sea and fire", and the third "the harpist in the wind." The covers are very 70s with a lot of bright colors and fun art. The first shows a castle, a harpist, and a man with three stars in his forehead; the second is a lady with a very elaborate hairdress holding a skull with a crown up to a ghostly winged king; in the third book, the man and the woman discover the harpist again.

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Bethany Lilly @bethanylilly.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

So, they ended up in the fridge for two overnights. But they have been rolled in sugar and sliced up (for easier storage in the freezer) and the first batch are in the oven 😋

A kitchen counter covered in sliced chocolate chip shortbread on parchment paper. A knife sits next to one larger piece that hasn't been cut yet. There is a mug full of coffee also on the counter that says "The Re-Cap Show" and a compost bin.

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Bethany Lilly @bethanylilly.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

The cookies are now logs and chilling in the fridge 😁

Chocolate chunk shortbread in a log shape and wrapped in plastic wrap chilling in the fridge.

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Bethany Lilly @bethanylilly.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

When I was in Paris last fall, I went to a PSG game (they played Lyon, Lindsey was in excellent form) and brought the stadium gift flag back to my father (a huge Spirit fan) to show him that French teams did the same thing. It is now proudly displayed in the guest room I use when I come home 😭

A Paris Saint Germain flag in blue and red hangs proudly.

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Bethany Lilly @bethanylilly.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

"Rest, recharge, and reconnect for the fight ahead." So glad to join @justiceinaging.org tonight!

Dr. Jean Accius, Board Chair of JIA introducing Kevin.

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Bethany Lilly @bethanylilly.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Senator Hassan talking about transparency in hospital costs and ownership and how that's necessary for ensuring that we know what healthcare we're paying for.