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picayune sasquatch @pettyyeti.bsky.social · 2h

sssnakes think Newsom should sssssign ssssssSB ssssssss79

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Ben Christopher @frombenc.bsky.social · 3h

Every single person in my feed:

What's the deal with SB 79? Has Newsom signed SB 79? What is Newsom waiting for on SB 79? Newsom better veto SB 79! If Newsom doesn't sign SB 79 tonight I'm going to move to Canada. I'm launching a SB 79 shot clock widget SB 79 S!B 79 SB 79

Newsom:

Press release from Governor Gavin Newsom: A hiss-torical day: Governor Newsom signs bills establishing state snake, state shrub

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 8h

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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Please sign sb 79, governor newsom @debonthearts.bsky.social · 4h

Cats love being adopted into the multitude of new apartments that will be built where their pet owners will be allowed to keep them if you Sign sb 79!!!!

picayune sasquatch @pettyyeti.bsky.social · 4h

do you know what cats love? windows in second-story (and up) apartments where they can watch birds! you can make so many cats happy by signing SB 79 😺💅

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picayune sasquatch @pettyyeti.bsky.social · 4h

I don't see it now, but it was in the Patriot Shop (or at least teased as a "coming soon")

NEWSOM 2026 MUG (11oz. Coffee Mug)

Official webstore of Gavin Newsom For Governor

store.gavinnewsom.com

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Ethan Elkind @ethanelkind.bsky.social · 1d

Worried @governor.ca.gov won't sign #SB79? I asked @scottwiener.bsky.social for his thoughts on Monday's @stateofthebay.bsky.social.

Listen to his response at 16:45 here:

www.kalw.org/show/state-b...

CA's New AI Safety Law / The Bay Area's Driverless Future/ "Fairyland"

California's landmark AI safety law, how autonomous vehicles will shape the Bay Area's future, the new movie "Fairyland"

www.kalw.org

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picayune sasquatch @pettyyeti.bsky.social · 4h

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

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C. Montgomery Burns @mister-burns.bsky.social · 12h

@governor.ca.gov GAVIN NEWSOM, SIGN SB79 NOW! A TREMENDOUS, HIGH-DENSITY HOUSING BILL. DON'T BE A LOW-ENERGY LOSER, DO THE WINNING THING. THIS IS A TOTAL HOME RUN FOR CA! WE NEED GROWTH, NOT NONSENSE. SIGN IT, BIGLY!

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Bobby Garrity @bobbygarrity.bsky.social · 8h

She's a 10 but she still hasn't called Governor Newsom to ask him to sign #SB79 into law 🥴🤢🤮

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picayune sasquatch @pettyyeti.bsky.social · 4h

do you know what cats love? windows in second-story (and up) apartments where they can watch birds! you can make so many cats happy by signing SB 79 😺💅

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picayune sasquatch @pettyyeti.bsky.social · 4h

@governor.ca.gov if you sign SB 79 I will hang a Make America Gavin Again flag in the window of my second-story apartment that is within 0.5 mi of public transit

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picayune sasquatch @pettyyeti.bsky.social · 4h

@governor.ca.gov if you sign SB 79 I will hang a Make America Gavin Again flag in the window of my second-story apartment that is within 0.5 mi of public transit

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Please sign sb 79, governor newsom @debonthearts.bsky.social · 5h

gavin if you sign sb 79 I will freaking plant the ~state shrub~ you designated today in my Future front yard in The home I will be able to afford one day in your honor!!!!!

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picayune sasquatch @pettyyeti.bsky.social · 6h

this remains the dumbest of dictatorships

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Willamette Week @wweek.com · 6h

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

An Interview With the Portland Chicken

Rachel Saslow

www.wweek.com

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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 6h

“Putting your political opponents in jail because they are your opponents—not because of what they did—is the heart of tyranny. It is an obviously impeachable offense,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the indictment of NY AG Tish James on Trump-ordered charges.

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 6h

“while we cannot accept, it is not too late for them to call for the release of detained Saudi activists,” said Joey Shea, Saudi Arabia researcher at Human Rights Watch.... (good to put the reasons why into perspective like this.)

Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 6h

whew

variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Human Rights Watch ‘Cannot Accept’ Donations From Aziz Ansari and Other Comedians Who Performed at Riyadh Comedy Festival

Human Rights Watch says it 'cannot accept' donations from Aziz Ansari and other comedians who performed at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.

variety.com

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 8h

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

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 9h

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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picayune sasquatch @pettyyeti.bsky.social · 7h

sir, I have been waiting to hear you say this. thank you, keep up the fight, keep calling him out.

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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 7h

This is what tyranny looks like.

Trump has turned the Department of Justice into his personal attack dog to go after his political enemies.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 7h

I can’t adequately express how mystified and nauseated I am by the conversation about Trump receiving a Nobel Peace Prize that corporate media is now leading. But as a journalist, attorney, historian and Trump presidential biographer I’m now obligated to make the case *against* in full.

Here it is:

Media and MAGA Calls for Trump to Catch a Nobel Peace Prize Rather Than An ICC War Crimes Indictment Are Obscene

The second-biggest threat to global peace after Putin has earned a cell for war crimes—not a humanitarian award. That his grotesque and scammy appeal for a Nobel Peace Prize is working is terrifying.

sethabramson.substack.com

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 1d

For 12 years this burned out husk of a building has sat empty due to San Francisco’s screwed up rules & misguided efforts to declare the building “historic.”

An 8-story, 89 unit building is now moving forward using 2 state housing laws, including one I authored.

This is exactly why we do this work

Torched Verdi Building in North Breach targeted for dense housing

A torched Verdi Building has remained vacant for years. The owners hope new state laws could transform it.

sfstandard.com

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picayune sasquatch @pettyyeti.bsky.social · 7h

right? I'm over here in California with my jaw on the floor

picayune sasquatch @pettyyeti.bsky.social · 7h

another way to help Californians recover from disasters is to make sure we have enough housing stock in our urban centers through legislation like SB 79!

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picayune sasquatch @pettyyeti.bsky.social · 7h

the only thing I took away from this nonsense is that in 2020, you could buy a 3 bed in Norfolk, VA for $137K

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