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Michael

@bluewaterride.bsky.social

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Hawaiian noises banging on the bongos, Piano 🎹 playing, nature, cats, dogs, Indian River Lagoon, empathy, Florida 🌴 Renaissance Man. 😎 Tae te Ching 🙏☯️ Liberal tree hugger Wiccan. 😎

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 1d

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12h

Maybe Noem can go undercover to the Portland war zone so she can prove it exists.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 18h

I feel like a broken record, but I have to keep saying it over and over again: a farmer bailout won’t do much of anything because the market is gone. There will be no incentive to plant next year.

The bailout will help payoff farmer debt to the banks. That’s all.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13h

All to cover up the Epstein files.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "Hearing you say that 'everyone is smiling' in cities where troops have been rolled into feels dystopian and insane watching the response to it."

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Mickey Kuhns @mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 20h

The “Portland chaos” myth isn’t news—it’s groundwork. Inflate unrest, invent danger, then pose as the savior who must “restore order.” It’s not about law and order; it’s about softening the ground for martial law dressed up as patriotism.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 17h

If you rename the Department of Defense the Department of War, then bomb fishing boats in the Caribbean, and shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper bullet, you should automatically be barred from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for the rest of your life.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 16h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 20h

Chicago and Portland showing us how it’s DONE!!

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15h

I’ve never seen anything remotely this petty charged as bank fraud.

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 15h

NEW: Here's the two-count indictment against NY AG Letitia James. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

INDICTMENT
October 2025 Term - at Alexandria, Virginia
THE GRAND JURY CHARGES THAT:
GENERAL ALLEGATIONS
At all times relevant to this Indictment:
1. Letitia A. James ("JAMES) was a resident of Brooklyn, New York, and the borrower on a
Fannie Mae-backed mortgage loan for the property located at 3121 Peronne Avenue,
Norfolk, Virginia.
2. OVM Financial (also known as Old Virginia Mortgage / AnnieMac) was a mortgage lending business located in Virginia Beach, Virginia, engaged in the business of originating and underwriting residential mortgage loans, including those backed by the Federal National Mortgage Association ("Fannie Mae"). OVM Financial qualified as a "financial institution" within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 20(10).
3. Fannie Mae was a federally chartered corporation that purchased and guaranteed mortgages,
operating as a government-sponsored enterprise under the oversight of the Federal Housing

Finance Agency ("FHFA").
4. First Savings Bank was a state-chartered, FDIC-insured financial institution (Certificate
#29961), headquartered in Jeffersonville, Indiana, which acquired mortgage loans through assignment or acquisition. First Savings Bank qualified as a "financial institution" within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 20(1).
5. On or about August 17, 2020, JAMES, as sole borrower, purchased the three (3) bedroom,
(1) bathroom property located at 3121 Peronne Avenue, Norfolk, Virginia 23509 (the
"Peronne Property"), for approximately $137,000, financed with a mortgage loan of approximately $109,600 (Loan #4430025978) backed by Fannie Mae.
6. The loan was originated by OVM Financial under a signed Second Home Rider, which required JAMES, as the sole borrower to occupy and use the property as her secondary residence, and prohibited its use as a timesharing or other shared ownership arrangement or agreement that requires her either to rent the property or give any other person any control over the occupancy or use of the property.
7. Despite these representations, the Peronne Property was not occupied or used by JAMES as a secondary residence and was instead used as a rental investment property, renting the property to a family of (3).
8. This misrepresentation allowed JAMES to obtain favorable loan terms not available for investment properties, including a note rate of 3.000% (avoiding a 0.815% higher
comparable investment property rate of 3.815%, resulting in approximately $17,837 in rate savings over the life of the loan), a seller credit of approximately $3,288 (exceeding the seller credit for investment properties by approximately $1,096), for total ill-gotten gains of approximately $18,933 over the life of the loan.
9. JAMES' Universal Property application for homeowners' insurance indicated "owner-

occupied non-seasonal use," further misrepresenting the intended use of the property.
10. JAMES filed Schedule E tax forms), under penalties of perjury, treating the Perrone Property as rental real estate, reporting fair rental days, zero personal use days, thousand(s)
of dollars in rents received, and claiming deductions for expenses relating to the property, further contradicting the second home classification.
11. The loan was acquired by or assigned to First Savings Bank by March 2021, exposing it to risks associated with the misrepresented loan.
12. The acts described herein occurred within the Eastern District of Virginia.
COUNT ONE
(Bank Fraud - 18 U.S.C. § 1344)
13. The allegations in paragraphs 1 through 12 are re-alleged and incorporated herein.
14. From on or about August 7, 2020, through at least January 2024, in the Eastern District of Virginia and elsewhere, the Defendant, LETITIA A. JAMES, did knowingly execute and attempt to execute a scheme and artifice to defraud OVM Financial and First Savings Bank,
financial institutions, and to obtain moneys, funds, and credits owned by and under the custody and control of OVM Financial and First Savings Bank by means of false and fraudulent pretenses, representations, and promises.
15. The scheme involved falsely representing the Peronne Property as a secondary residence to obtain favorable mortgage terms, while using it as an investment property with no intended
or actual personal occupancy or use by her.
(In violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1344).
COUNT TWO
(False Statements to a Financial Institution - 18 U.S.C. § 1014)
16. The allegations in paragraphs 1 through 12 are re-alleged and incorporated herein.

17. From on or about July 28, 2020, through at least August 31, 2020, in the Eastern District of Virginia and elsewhere, the Defendant, LETITIA A. JAMES, did knowingly make and cause to be made false statements and reports for the purpose of influencing the action of OVM Financial, a Fannie Mae-backed lender, upon an application for a loan, in that JAMES represented and affirmed in uniform residential loan applications and related documents that
the Peronne Property would be used as a secondary residence, when in truth and fact, as JAMES then knew, the property was intended and used as an investment property with no intended or actual personal occupancy or use by her.
(In violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1014).
FORFEITURE NOTICE
Pursuant to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32.2(a) and Title 18, U.S.C. §
982(a)(2)(A), upon conviction of the offenses in Counts One and Two, the Defendant, Letitia
A. James, shall forfeit to the United States any property constituting, or derived from, proceeds obtained, directly or indirectly, as a result of such violations, including but not limited to a money judgment in the amount of $18,933.
If any of the property described above, as a result of any act or omission of the Defendant: (a) cannot be located upon the exercise of due diligence; (b) has been transferred or sold to, or deposited with, a third party; (c) has been placed beyond the jurisdiction of the court; (d) has been substantially diminished in value; or (e) has been commingled with other property which cannot be divided without difficulty, the United States shall be entitled to a forfeiture of substitute property pursuant to Title 21, U.S.C. § 853(b), as incorporated by Title
18 U.S.C. § 982(b)(1).
(In accordance with Title 18 U.S.C. § 981(a)(1)(C) and 982(a)(1); Title 28, U.S.C. § 2461(c); and Title 21 U.S.C. § 853(p).)

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11h

Republicans in Congress strangely silent on the Argentina bailout to benefit Bessent’s friends.

It also helps you to avoid talking about it when you are never asked about it.

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Michael @bluewaterride.bsky.social · 11h

That's what anTeiFaa says.

Michael @bluewaterride.bsky.social · 13h

She's just covering her reelection chances.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14h

I’m finding this new, more sensible version of Marjorie Taylor Greene very jarring and unsettling.

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Michael @bluewaterride.bsky.social · 13h

Well?

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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 14h

NEW AD: Winsome Earle-Sears Makes Disturbing Comments on Reproductive Rights ("Talking about the murder of those who support abortion rights? If Sears said this, what else is out there?") bluevirginia.us/2025/10/live...

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Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET @patti3333.bsky.social · 20h

Oh boy
That Antifa FROG is so dangerous
Dancing..
No baseball bat
Delusional Donnie

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Resist Republicans in Florida @flwillregret22.bsky.social · 18h

I hope you all realize that they are making a MOVIE
That's what all these STUNTS are about.

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 19h

Based on current medical &scientific understanding, there is no evidence that links circumcision to autism.

A single, highly debated Danish study from 2015 proposed a correlation between the two, but medical experts have highlighted significant flaws in the study's design & conclusions. #medical

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 17h

I knew Fox News was theater. I just didn't realize it was a repertory theater that recycles actors for different roles.

You'd think a company that had to pay $787,000,000 for deceiving its viewers would be a little more careful about blatantly continuing the practice.

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Michael @bluewaterride.bsky.social · 16h

Old news 📰

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Michael @bluewaterride.bsky.social · 16h

Because your GI Joe caravans require secured entry/exit routes. A major disruption to average daily life. Photo 📸 OP. OPERATION TIGHT JEANS.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20h

Noem claims Portland hid their war zone from her.

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