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CáitKate @cait05.bsky.social · 7h

A nation behind bars: Why has Israel imprisoned 10,000 Palestinians?

For every Palestinian Israel freed in the ceasefire deal, it apprehended 15 more. The number of political prisoners in its jails has doubled since the war began www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/...

Why has Israel imprisoned 10,000 Palestinians?

For every Palestinian Israel freed in the ceasefire deal, it has apprehended 15 more.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 6h

You realize I'm making fun of myself right? *I'm* on Bluesky.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 7h

Yep!

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 7h

Taylor Swift. She got mad cause I said Hayley Williams was the better lyricists.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 7h

I knew this was going to get me a block, lol.

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 7h

The artist you love just wrote an entire song dedicated to tearing down Black women simply because her fiance was attracted to them but ok.

And critiquing someone's *art* is not tearing down a person.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13h

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

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 13h

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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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 7h

Mary, I'm going to hold your hand when I say this...

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 7h

Anyway there are ways of getting the word out and making this a big deal and not all of the above has to be crazy expensive. A lot of it is nimble. Radio is still a thing too. And advertising on podcasts. Also they saw the shut down coming...

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 7h

Some of us can't take pain medication because our stomachs are bad.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 7h

You can!

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 7h

🤣

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 7h

Ok this is unfair to Bluesky.

Bluesky is firmly middle-aged social media. Facebook is geriatric.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 7h

Like Schumer's video is cute and all but the only reason I saw it is cause I'm on Bluesky the geriatric social media.

I'd also be reaching out to local dems too because people know their locals even more than their federal reps and this has local effects. It's not just happening in DC

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 7h

Also, certain reps have the juice on social - I'd be leveraging those. But those are also the same reps that dem leadership keeps trying to shut up so there's an inherent problem there.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 7h

Most people are not really consuming news because it's less stressful to tune out Trump news than pay attention. And most of the "normal" media outlets aren't writing news stories that say this plainly, and the right-wing ecosystem is just straight up lying.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 7h

If it were in charge, I'd be posting up billboards and mobile bus signage and YouTube ads to that effect esp in swing districts.

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 12h

I'm sorry but it's just wild we are in the middle of a government shutdown and the House Republicans are REFUSING TO SHOW UP FOR WORK so they can protect billionaire pedophiles and billionaire tax breaks.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 7h

The artist you love just wrote an entire song dedicated to tearing down Black women simply because her fiance was attracted to them but ok.

And critiquing someone's *art* is not tearing down a person.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 10h

They're giving kids measles and then telling them not to take tylenol

Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 12h

6 in 10 adults disapprove of Kennedy's work; even among MAHA supporters, 30% disapprove. via @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/h...

Trust in federal health leadership is failing under RFK Jr., new poll finds | CNN

Most of the American public does not approve of the way Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is running the nation’s health agencies, according to a new KFF poll, and there’s erosion of trust in reliable vaccine inf...

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12h

Okay this is a good headline

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 12h

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

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max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 12h

New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.

Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 10h

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A screenshot from the washington post. The headline reads Justice Department indicts N.Y. attorney general

A screen shot from Democracy Docket. The headline reads: In Latest Political Prosecution, Trump's DOJ Indicts New York AG Letitia James

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 11h

Are we great yet?

Mark Bray, a Rutgers University professor and expert on anti-fascist groups, is fleeing to Spain with his family due to death threats that stem from a campaign by Turning Point USA and other conservative groups to get him fired, falsely labeling him as an antifa member.

Antifa expert at Rutgers University says he is moving to Spain because of death threats

An expert on anti-fascist groups who teaches at New Jersey’s flagship state university is moving his family overseas.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 11h

To every city there is a reason, and a style of protest under the heaven.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 11h

The competition is from October 19-25 so there's not much leverage you can use against Indonesia short of cancelling the event.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 11h

"Indonesia has drawn a clear line for decades...That stance was never about pettiness or isolationism, it was a reflection of Indonesia’s conviction that no sporting event should legitimize an apartheid state,”

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