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Madeline Sophia Luther 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇳🇴

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Intermittent Scribbler. Fruitless Cosmopolitan. Transbian-About-Town. A distraction from the issues Americans care about. U.Mich. '23 (Classical Lang. & Lit.). UDM Law '26 🏳️‍⚧️⚢ Engaged to @opheliabelladonna.bsky.social

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Madeline Sophia Luther 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇳🇴 @vinminen.bsky.social · Jun 27

1. Regain control of Congress.
2. Impeach Trump and Vance.
3. Impeach Alito, Thomas, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Barrett.
4. Nullify Trump's official acts and appointments by statute/EO wherever possible.
5. Reparations for victims and families.
6. Nuremberg II.
7. Call a Constitutional Convention.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 12h

i've got over 70k kills in the "meeting buddha on the road" minigame. it's tough at first but once you master the spin kick you can get the hammer you need to break the wheel of samsara pretty quick

Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 13h

”im addicted to this Buddhism game” —things someone who is good at buddhism would say???

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 13h

It’s just example # 486 of “reasonable nuanced critique of liberalism gets flattened to meaninglessness through a game of telephone”. Cogent critiques of aspects of respectability politics get turned into “it makes you a brave revolutionary to be the biggest asshole possible to everyone”

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1d

note that since mid-2010s you can always get a standing ovation in blue social media by denouncing the idea of civility or politeness more broadly. the experiment in how this has worked out keeps on yielding predictably unpleasant results

Ed @ed3d.net · 2d

I lack the words to describe what is wrong with these people.

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 13h

"social engineering" in this sense literally means "the sinister conspiracy for there to be homes that you don't need to be married to afford" because the goal is to make anything other than heterosexuality following on subjugation to one's parents well into adulthood the only option

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Ciattarelli: "We've got a severe overdevelopment crisis in our suburban communities because of the Democrats' idea of social engineering."

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Strahan Cadell 🇨🇦🇻🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @quincunctial.bsky.social · 15h

He actually used a similar model to Uber etc. by giving free cigarettes to thousands of doughboys in WWI as viral marketing, then getting them to pay full price after the war stateside, all while giving the product a badass cachet.

100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 15h

Oct. 10, 1925: James Buchanan Duke, the tobacco magnate who helped get America hooked on cigarettes by mechanizing their production and using the first national ad campaigns to sell them, dies at 68 in New York. The riches he earned from his monopoly founded Duke University.

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 16h

He absolutely would deserve the peace prize if he had half his cabinet shot and then he resigned.

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not an art thief @famousartthief.bsky.social · 1d

i should get to know the name of the person that is beating the shit out of me, i mean that sounds pretty fair

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

MAJOR new restrictions on federal government use of riot control weapons -- and even requiring them to display identification in many circumstances. I expect a very rapid appeal and request for a stay from the 7th Circuit.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

NEW: A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order barring Chicago-area fed agents from several violent actions they’ve taken against journalists, activists and “religious practitioners” protesting ICE — including Rev. Black, a plaintiff in the case. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71559...

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Madeline Sophia Luther 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇳🇴 @vinminen.bsky.social · 14h

I think of this meme every time I come across the stereotype about how British people are extra classy...

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Madeline Sophia Luther 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇳🇴 @vinminen.bsky.social · 15h

Added the Norwegian flag to my handle. Gonna keep adding flags, like NASCAR sponsors every time a new country defies Trump...

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 15h

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When Klein scolds that "we have to live here with each other" he is making a statement about who it is he is getting ready to live with and who he is getting ready to live without, and most gallingly he is ignoring the fact that when it comes to supremacists all of us have been living with them already all along. Nobody is suggesting mass deportation of white supremacists, or the dissolution of straight marriages, or stripping away health care for conservatives. The troops and the cops weren't ever sent down primarily white streets, masked kidnappers aren't terrorizing white churches or corporate courtrooms. These supremacist hatemongers are being criticized, yes, and opposed, yes, and yes the culture of violence they have created sometimes ricochets back on them, but we are living in the country they demanded on having. We are all now experiencing the Republican proposition for humanity. Many of us are demanding they stop pursuing this proposition, and Republicans and other supremacist hatemongers insist this demand represents violence against them. Klein, by drawing the lines where he draws them, is agreeing with Republicans about this.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 15h

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Dark Academia otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 16h

we need to re-ban sports gambling

WIRED @wired.com · 18h

Some sports gamblers are trying to predict WNBA players’ performance—and the outcomes of games—based on the athletes’ periods. One betting content creator has dubbed it “blood money." www.wired.com/story/men-ar...

Men Are Betting on WNBA Players' Menstrual Cycles

Some sports gamblers are trying to predict WNBA players’ performance—and the outcomes of games—based on the athletes’ periods. One betting content creator has dubbed it “blood money."

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 15h

counterpoint: the big metal birb is hungry, and we should let it eat

skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 15h

it's dope as hell that the world builds 100 million cars per year and all that plastic, metal, glass and rubber eventually ends up like this

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 19h

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

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Cranthemius Gilderthorpe (he/him/his) @gilderthorpe.bsky.social · 1d

Michael Barbaro is going to be absolutely flabbergasted to learn how little Amontillado Ross Douthat actually has in his basement.

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

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Madeline Sophia Luther 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇳🇴 @vinminen.bsky.social · 22h

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

/3 Also note that the indictment claims she rented the property but not that she entered into an agreement that REQUIRED her to rent the property, which seems to be what is prohibited by the paraphrased language.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2d

This isn't about honoring them so much as making the title meaningless for previous winners

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d

Trump hints that he's going to give Andy Ngo, Pizzagate Jack, and others at the antifa roundtable the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

"You have been amazing, you have been brave. You are real patriots. At some point, we will look into rewarding you with very important medals and honors."

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Tormented🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social · 1d

I've said it before, but it's remarkable how quickly the feds have managed to piss away the seemingly ironclad presumption of candor & credibility they enjoyed with federal judges.

They've lied so shamelessly, flagrantly, & frequently that judges have decided not to be played for fools any more.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 1d

U.S. District Judge April Perry says it comes down to a "credibility determination."

"I simply cannot credit [the Trump administration's] declarations to the extent they contradict state and local law enforcement. … DHS' perception of events are simply unreliable."

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 1d

#BREAKING A federal judge say she will grant "in part" a request by the state of Illinois for a temporary restraining order against the deployment of National Guard troops into the state.

U.S. District Judge April Perry is still ruling and has not outlined the details of her order.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

Donald Trump is not a king — and his administration is not above the law.

Today, the court confirmed what we all know: there is no credible evidence of a rebellion in the state of Illinois.

And no place for the National Guard in the streets of American cities like Chicago.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1d

9th Circuit just made anti-SLAPP laws (like the good ones in California and Nevada) a lot less effective. This is going to lead to a ton of suppressed speech. Stupid and dangerous. Especially now.

We need a federal anti-SLAPP law now. And we won't get one.

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Sean Satori @seansatori.bsky.social · 1d

As pleaded, this indictment doesn’t even show a crime. Can’t wait for the motion to dismiss.

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 1d

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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Shannon Heffernan @shannonheffernan.bsky.social · 1d

Signs of the times in Chicago today: My daughter's school went on soft lockdown because of reports of ICE. Volunteers showed up at the nearby H.S. to escort people who didn't feel safe. Walking around, I saw lots of orange whistles around people's necks.

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Madeline Sophia Luther 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇳🇴 @vinminen.bsky.social · 23h

Nahh. I think the biggest challenge for both of us, after language, would be our size as well-fed moderns relative to the locals...

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Madeline Sophia Luther 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇳🇴 @vinminen.bsky.social · 23h

(A lot of the pop portrayals of ancient history undersell the degree to which the Greeks were basically the Taliban when it came to women...)

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