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ElizabethC @econklin44.bsky.social · 15h

The battle of Chicago is under way, w/ 200 soldiers from the TX Natl Guard & 300 from the IL Guard. A Judge is hearing arguments on its legality.

Chicago residents are in the streets pushing back. They have published ICE arrests, & created ICE watch groups.
#ProudBlue www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Chicago puts up a fight against Trump, deployment of National Guard troops

National Guard troops from Illinois and Texas have been tasked with protecting federal government employees such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, and federal property.

www.npr.org

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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 11h

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carolmac80💙🌈☮️🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸🇺🇦🧿🌊 @carolmac80.bsky.social · 13h

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Joel Siegel @joelsiegel.bsky.social · 14h

Oopsie

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 13h

Tish James couldn't have asked for a better political boost than this indictment. 1

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Dave @spaceblatt.bsky.social · 10h

trump told you to your faces: “I don’t care about you, I just want your vote”. You didn’t believe him because you know he always lies and you just thought it was just another lie as a joke.

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Tracy @tracydeepbluesea44.bsky.social · 10h

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 13h

Firing workers in order to fly private. Our modern economy.

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dharmalee3❌👑 @dharmalee3.bsky.social · 10h

ABOLISH ICE!!!

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 14h

Earlier today, DOJ basically told the judge in the Kilmar Abrego case they were going to blow off the vindictive prosecution claim.

His attorneys responded, fine, then the criminal case must be dismissed.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Ultimately, as the defense explained in its Status Report, to the extent the government
maintains its position that it will not produce the relevant discovery, under a claim of privilege or
otherwise, the government cannot rebut Mr. Abrego’s demonstrated, prima facie case of
vindictiveness, making dismissal of this case the only proper remedy. (Dkt. 146 at 3-4).

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ℂ𝕒𝕥𝕞𝕒𝕟ℝ𝕖𝕤𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕤 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ 😸 🌊 @stevefm20.bsky.social · 20h

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🧛‍♀️🎃~Bindi~🎃🧛‍♀️ @bindiatthebeach.bsky.social · 10h

Duffy hints at firing air traffic controller ‘problem children’ amid continuing delays

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy was referring to a rash of air traffic controllers calling out sick from work, which has driven a smattering of flight delays across the country this week.

www.politico.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20h

Rebecca has 92K followers including Gaetz, Loomer, Massie, D’Souza, Sen Schmitt, Rep. Cloud. Broke with Trump over Epstein.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18h

RFK Jr now making a connection between circumcision and autism. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18h

RFK JR: There are many other confirmations -- there are two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It’s highly likely because they are given Tylenol

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 14h

Every word he says here is a lie.
Every word he says here is a lie.
Every word he says here is a lie.
Every word he says here is a lie.
Every word he says here is a lie.
Every word he says here is a lie.
Every word he says here is a lie.
Every word he says here is a lie.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 14h

NOTABLE: Lindsey Halligan requested that a summons be issued for Letitia James to appear in court.

She did not request an arrest warrant.

Criminal cover sheet showing that summons, not arrest warrant, was requested for Tish James

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Angry Blue Man @angryblueman.bsky.social · 19h

Free Texas!

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ᕼᗴᗪᗩ😻🩵 🐶 🇺🇦✌️ @hedahunter.bsky.social · 17h

The person who ordered this is also the same person who MANY PEOPLE think is deserving of the Nobel Prize

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RB @rbisrb.bsky.social · 13h

Hey Evangelicals...

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 10h

“I have stopped another war. We booked the Ghost of Liberace hologram for the Super Bowl halftime show. Get on it, Brendan Carr — or yank their FCC license.” - DJT

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Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 13h

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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 · 14h

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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Angry Donkey News @angrydonkeynews.bsky.social · 10h

Republican C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: " I have two medically fragile children ... If we see a lapse in pay come the 15th, my children do not get the medication that's needed for them to live their life because we live paycheck to paycheck."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h

Somehow we almost missed Ingraham forcing Stephen Miller to watch @aoc.bsky.social humiliate him— then proving her point with 60 seconds of awkward banter (and insisting he’s a towering 5’ 10” 🫠)

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 11h

James is an excellent role model. We all must be fearless

New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 14h

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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