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Cats. Dogs. Bikes. No maga or musk. 🇬🇧🇨🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇺🇦🚴‍♀️🏃‍♀️🐈‍⬛ 🐶 You betcha I’m woke.

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jmel55.bsky.social @jmel55.bsky.social · 1d

$20 billion to Argentina.

jmel55.bsky.social @jmel55.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a euphemism for “you’re a democrat and/or believe in science”

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jmel55.bsky.social @jmel55.bsky.social · 1d

Reduction in force.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

Post this everywhere‼️
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RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 2d

News footage from Portland shows a calm, tranquil city. But an AI video that Stephen Miller texted to Donald Trump shows the city as a burning hellhole. The truth may lie somewhere in between.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 2d

More here:

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 2d

It appears that Lindsay Halligan's prosecution of Letitia James has been assigned to Biden appointee Jamar K. Walker.

James is represented by Abbe Lowell.

U.S. District Court
Eastern District of Virginia - (Norfolk)
CRIMINAL DOCKET FOR CASE #: 2:25-cr-00122-JKW-DEM All Defendants
RECAP Actions y
Case title: USA v. James
Assigned to: District Judge Jamar K. Walker Referred to: Magistrate Judge Douglas E.
Miller
Defendant (1)
Letitia A. James
Date Filed: 10/09/2025
represented by Abbe David Lowell
Lowell & Associates, PLLC

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

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

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 2d

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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jmel55.bsky.social @jmel55.bsky.social · 2d

Yes. He will slither back to maga.

jmel55.bsky.social @jmel55.bsky.social · 2d

How will they explain the female circumcisions? lol.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 2d

Historians argue that Trump indicting his enemies one-by-one rather than having them murdered in a single night proves he’s not a fascist.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 2d

Whether it’s Joe Biden attending weekly mass or Donald Trump’s ICE agents shooting a priest in the face with a pepper ball, presidents of both sides have directly engaged with the Catholic faith.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

"There's truth underneath all this fake outrage. Conservatives really are at a disadvantage in pop culture because most creative people are liberals, which has always been true & probably always will be. While MAGA has had some success building a culture machine, what it produces is mostly banal."

Whiny MAGA freaks out over Super Bowl halftime show

Songs in Spanish? In America?

www.publicnotice.co

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 3d

October 8, 2025

Yesterday, journalists observed members of the Texas National Guard at a U.S.

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

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Craig R. Brittain @craigbrittain.com · 3d

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jmel55.bsky.social @jmel55.bsky.social · 3d

Incredible ick.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

Dude, just use a blocking app

Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social · 4d

Right up there with "anti-gun politician jailed for gun-running" we have:
www.metrotimes.com/news/michiga...

Michigan Republican pushing pornography ban linked to porn site, records show - Detroit Metro Times

A Republican state lawmaker leading a campaign to ban pornography in Michigan appears to have had an account on a pornographic hook-up website that promised users they could “find sex” and “get laid t...

www.metrotimes.com

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 4d

Think Miller needs to send in a few more battalions. Maybe Hegseth can send some elite units. Things are getting dangerous in Portland

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Bridget Stern @bridget-stern.bsky.social · 4d

Judges don’t serve at the behest of the president. They don’t serve the president at all. They serve the people, and above all protect the rule of law.

Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 4d

Our government is full of examples where there is supposed to be independence from the executive branch, especially the judiciary.

We all must stand up against his attempts to undermine the rule of law.

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 5d

There it is

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jmel55.bsky.social @jmel55.bsky.social · 5d

Similar happened to my cousin in New Zealand. Had a $200 bill and they apologized to her for the high cost.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 6d

Every DoJ attorney promoting and defending at this stuff should never again eat food that is less than 10% spit

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 8d

Opinion | Donald Trump is openly collecting bribes via his crypto scheme, and he wants to use the military against American citizens. But unlike the man he replaced, he speaks without a rasp or a stutter.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 9d

Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth wish to use the US armed forces against Americans. We found multiple experts in Moscow and Pyongyang who endorsed this approach.

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jmel55.bsky.social @jmel55.bsky.social · 9d

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 12d

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