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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 1m

The court took judicial notice of the fact that Drake got murdered by Kendrick Lamar, which I feel like is appropriate punishment for filing this SLAPP suit.

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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 27m

It should’ve just put “the laws of Earth”, go big or go home.

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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 34m

Yeah, I actually knew Mizelle at Cornell. I get this recommendation on my LinkedIn every few weeks.

You may know Chad Mizelle. Add to your network.
Lawyer, Entrepreneur, Problem Solver
@ 42 mutual connections
1w

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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 1h

I like that map because in it Louisiana has returned to the sea, where it belongs.

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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 2h

Of course, she could’ve rented it out for the whole time she owned it in 2020, could’ve even had that intent from the start, and still been fine under FNMA rules, as long as she planned to occupy it, and at some point did occupy it, for at least some part of the first 7 months of 2021.

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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 2h

If they were damning, she would’ve been able to find at least one AUSA in EDVA willing to present it to the grand jury.

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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 2h

Ok but did you hear about Cass Sunstein’s Star Wars story with Kissinger? People have two sides.

Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 2h

Well, the thing is, in addition to being a creep, he’s also an insufferable twerp, so that probably plays into it as well.

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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 2h

Ok fair, nothing’s quite as embarrassing as Ben Shapiro.

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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 2h

Ok but Harvard Law is a big school, its JD program has like 3x the students, Cornell Law is a smol bean! We can’t handle this many embarrassing alumni!

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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 2h

Making baguettes is absurd, I do not have room in my kitchen for a pan that is designed for exactly one type of bread.

Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 2h

Also, I missed this story from earlier this year referenced in the article. aApparently Chad Mizelle, who was a year ahead of me at Cornell Law and also disgraces himself in the Trump admin, clashed with Ingrassia earlier this year.

Cornell law is not big enough for this much embarrassment.

The White House intermediary, Paul Ingrassia, complained directly to Trump about Mizelle, the Justice Department's chief of staff, and suggested to the president that Mizelle is hurting Trump's political agenda, sources said. Ingrassia has since been reassigned to work with the Department of Homeland Security, a White House official familiar with the matter told ABC News.

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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 3h

This property was purchased by James outright, this is different than the one she co-signed with her niece on (though they’re both in Norfolk, VA.

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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 3h

And FNMA rules explicitly contemplate *an intent to rent a home purchased as a second home*, noting that it is permissible as long as there is also intent to occasionally occupy and the prospective rent isn’t used as qualifying income.

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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 3h

Paul Ingrassia continuing to make me extremely embarrassed of my law school alma mater.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 3h

Or technically with authorization from the president. The Fed has no discretion here really in any event.

Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 3h

The Exchange Stabilization Fund has its own asset portfolio and the Treasury Secretary’s unilateral discretion to use it like this is pretty unambiguous in the statute so, no, they did not.

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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 3h

Cancelled my subscription today so maybe y’all don’t care what I think now, but Leo is already Pope, they can’t reject his rise, he has … “risen” seems blasphemous… arrived? He’s there. Got the job. No opportunity left really for them to reject.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 11h

As Pope Leo begins to reveal some of his views on divisive issues, some conservative critics of his predecessor are rejecting the possible rise of another “liberal pope.”

As Pope Leo riles conservatives, some say ‘just focus on the church’

Conservatives who hoped that Leo, the first U.S.-born pope, would be more of a traditionalist instead hear echoes of his predecessor, Francis, in his public statements.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 3h

Reminds me of my favorite exchange from the subpar Bond film The World is not Enough:

“You can’t kill me, I’m already dead”

“Not dead enough for me”

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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 4h

Maybe, depends on what they're doing, it was relatively small-dollar for a SFR loan, by then probably under $100k, if she was trying to get a loan for something else, could see a requirement she pay that one off.

Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 4h

Especially since the lead to paragraph 1 states “at all times relevant to this indictment” paragraph 1 states she was a borrower on a FNMA loan for the property address. Which definitely wasn’t true on July 28, 2020, or most of the time referenced in paragraph 17.

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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 4h

Why do you think she still has the mortgage?

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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 4h

That seems to be it, which is both silly and unnecessary.

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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 5h

Yes, and even those are only prohibited for the first year. FNMA rules explicitly allow for renting (and indeed an intent to rent at application) a second home property even in the first year, you just can’t use that prospective rental income to qualify, and must intent to occasionally occupy.

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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 5h

They got the date right, James purchased a different property in Norfolk in 2020 by herself. The allegation is she labeled it a second home rather than an investment property, but then treated it as an investment property (which is often permissible under FNMA rules).

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