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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 11h

DING DING FUCKING DING

www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 14h

Next, Elon Musk buys Comet Pizza and installs a dungeon.

Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 15h

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.

Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

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John Lurie @johnlurie.bsky.social · 10h

Scissors were invented in Egypt in 1500 BC

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 10h

🚨 Kyiv is under heavy Russian fire.

As of now, at least two people are injured as ballistic missiles and waves of drones pound the capital, according to Ukraine’s Air Force.

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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 10h

OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE

Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 15h

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.

Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 10h

The indictment stipulates that it would have been fraudulent for James to enter any side agreement requiring her to rent the property, then implies that the FACT that she rented it suggests she had such a side deal. It’s the stupidest shit I’ve ever seen.

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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Robin Mcmichen @robinmcmichen.bsky.social · 13h

Michael Stipe on the Fall/Winter '25 cover of Zeit Magazin (Mann)! 🔥 @michaelstipe.bsky.social @remhq.bsky.social

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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MKrebs 🇺🇦🇲🇺🇪🇺 Antifa under secretary @mkrebs.bsky.social · 12h

WTF? He's a priest now?

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NPR @npr.org · 12h

Dominion Voting Systems, the company at the center of false fraud claims about the 2020 election, has been acquired by an entity called Liberty Vote. n.pr/3Wv0EIt

Dominion, the voting tech company at the center of false 2020 claims, is sold

Dominion Voting Systems, the company at the center of false fraud claims about the 2020 election, has been acquired by an entity called Liberty Vote.

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 12h

Letitia James on her indictment: I'm a proud woman of faith, and I know that faith and fear cannot share the same space. And so today, I'm not fearful. I'm fearless. And as my faith teaches me. No weapon formed against me shall prosper. We will fight these baseless charges aggressively.

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MKrebs 🇺🇦🇲🇺🇪🇺 Antifa under secretary @mkrebs.bsky.social · 12h

They just had to add "perceived" here. How pathetic can @nytimes.com get.

Editing the Blue-Gray Lady @nytdiff.bsky.social · 12h

Change in Abstract

Before: President Trump has long spoken of seeking vengeance against his political enemies. Here’s a list of whom he is targeting.
After: President Trump has long spoken of seeking vengeance against his perceived political enemies. Here’s a list of whom he is targeting.

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 12h

you could walk through Times Square buck naked with one of those car-dealership inflatable men tethered to your head, setting off bottle rockets as you go, and you would not be as desperate for attention than this sweaty twerp

a shitty post even by chris Cillizza's standards: "What if...Donald Trump actually deserves the Nobel Peace Prize?"

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Ira 'Bluebeard Homer' Goldman @kdbyproxy.bsky.social · 14h

RFKjr with today's Kinsley gaffe: "We're doing the studies to make the proof."

And Grok got it: "It implies a predetermined intent to manufacture or fabricate evidence in support of a conclusion"

#Tylenol

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14h

ICE is a rabid animal and must be put down. Its rogue agents must be unmasked, stripped of their badges, and prosecuted. Its leaders must be imprisoned.

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MKrebs 🇺🇦🇲🇺🇪🇺 Antifa under secretary @mkrebs.bsky.social · 14h

I have seen the future!

The tech world will remain so hyper-focused on AI that all the more mundane aspects of the digital world will collapse due to neglect.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 14h

Pay less attention to Trump's brainmush press statements and more attention to who is guiding the operations of DHS units on the ground

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 14h

MLRS on a residential area, with no regard for human lives, as per usual, and with no consequences or even deep concerns from the west, as per usual

MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 19h

🙏 Zaporizhzhia region. Kushugum community. Russian terrorists are shelling civilians using MLRS.

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MKrebs 🇺🇦🇲🇺🇪🇺 Antifa under secretary @mkrebs.bsky.social · 14h

Feeder App: Sorry we don't do 5G, only 2.4G

WiFi set-up app: Sorry, you have to download and set up the new version.

Feeder App: No go. Stick the tiny thing in the tiny hole to reset the camera.

Aargh!

a close up of a white kitten with its mouth open and looking at the camera .

ALT: a close up of a white kitten with its mouth open and looking at the camera .

media.tenor.com

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MKrebs 🇺🇦🇲🇺🇪🇺 Antifa under secretary @mkrebs.bsky.social · 14h

I bought myself a bird-feeder/camera. So I am presently going through the obligatory afternoon of wi-fi set-up HELL. JFC.

Instructions: Plug the unit in for 10 hours to charge the battery.

Unit (very loudly with no way of stopping it): BOOP BEEP BEEP, BOOP BEEP BEEP, BOOP BEEP BEEP, ...

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 14h

"The notion that any of this might have anything whatsoever with Tylenol is something RFK made up, because he’s a moronic grifter, or more probably a grifting moron" www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/the-...

The first cut is the deepest - Lawyers, Guns & Money

We did it! We are now officially the dumbest place on Earth: I asked Aaron Rodgers about this, and he tells me that there’s some very limited evidence suggesting the possibility of a correlation betwe...

www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 16h

“The neurotypicality is stored in the foreskin”

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 17h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

MKrebs 🇺🇦🇲🇺🇪🇺 Antifa under secretary @mkrebs.bsky.social · 14h

Do you remember The Editors' post about this? Something about it being the level Bush would be at if he murdered Wilford Brimley live TV.

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MKrebs 🇺🇦🇲🇺🇪🇺 Antifa under secretary @mkrebs.bsky.social · 14h

John Harwood

zeteo.com/p/who-is-ste...

Sinister, Malevolent, Venomous: Stephen Miller Is Like No Other White House Aide in Modern US History

Miller, the deputy White House chief of staff, has never hidden his disfigured and dangerous psyche. But now Donald Trump has empowered him to execute his fascist impulses.

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MKrebs 🇺🇦🇲🇺🇪🇺 Antifa under secretary @mkrebs.bsky.social · 17h

So Madonna is the latest to get her face replaced with a hideous human mask.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 17h

From @theathleticfc.bsky.social: As Madonna demonstrated at Chelsea on Saturday, high-profile figures rarely go unnoticed when they attend soccer games in England.

While some might be there for the glamour, others are undoubtedly die-hard fans.

Celebrities at Premier League matches: Commotion, cameras and commentator tip-offs

After Madonna's visit to Stamford Bridge on Saturday, we look at clubs' most famous supporters and go in search of the real die-hards

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