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thedailyshow.com
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
October 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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paleofuture.bsky.social
Okay this is a good headline
October 9, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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andersem.bsky.social
Secret police www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...
October 9, 2025 at 5:35 AM
midwesthedgie.bsky.social
if 6-7 were slang for a giant hole, this would be the perfect tweet
nycsouthpaw.bsky.social southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · Oct 9
I think it’s pretty easy to see the gap in the logical progression between paragraphs 6 and 7 that will doom the case.
joshuajfriedman.com Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · Oct 9
NEW: Here's the two-count indictment against NY AG Letitia James. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
October 10, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
I’ve never seen anything remotely this petty charged as bank fraud.
joshuajfriedman.com Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · Oct 9
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).)
October 9, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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rebeccarhelm.bsky.social
Many sea stars begin life as young fairy-like creature (called a brachiolaria) that float through the open ocean. Eventually, a small star forms within them (here in yellow). The fairy-like brachiolaria sinks under the star’s weight, and the star pops out!
🎥@the_story_of_a_biologist (on Insta)
October 9, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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runwithskizzers.bsky.social
ok this really is awful, and she's going to do catastrophically bad things (srsly tell people now to stop trusting CBS as a news source), but i did laugh very hard at someone comping her to Michael Scott
justinbaragona.bsky.social Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · Oct 3
NEW from me:

Several CBS News staffers and insiders told me that the network "is not a good place now" amid the imminent arrival of Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief, who one source likened to Michael Scott of The Office based on her lack of qualifications.

www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
CBS News staffers are ‘literally freaking out’ about Bari Weiss taking over newsroom
EXCLUSIVE: ‘People are using words like depressing and doomsday – feels like some sort of doomsday,’ one source told The Independent about the mood inside CBS News right now.
www.the-independent.com
October 3, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Trump told NBC on Sunday that he saw some Portland riot footage on Fox and thought it reflected current events.

It didn't. It was 5 years old, from the George Floyd aftermath.

And we learned that due to the diligence of a local TV reporter, who got the transcript.

www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...
Trump referenced a weekend conversation with Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek, and he alluded to being told by Kotek that the reality in Portland is different from what’s being portrayed to him. “I spoke to the governor, she was very nice,” Trump said. “But I said, ‘Well wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what’s happening? My people tell me different.’ They are literally attacking and there are fires all over the place…it looks like terrible.”
October 3, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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jamellebouie.net
a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Oct 2
Bari Weiss is set to be named the editor in chief of CBS News, the New York Post reports
Paramount Skydance is poised to name Bari Weiss as editor in chief of CBS News in the coming days — giving the hard-charging journalist unusual clout to revamp the struggling network as it also acquires her scrappy news site the Free Press, The Post has learned. Weiss — a 41-year-old former New York Times opinion writer who has built the Free Press into a buzzworthy site with a contrarian bent — is expected to be named to the top post in a Monday announcement, although the talks are in flux and the timing could change, a source close to the situation said.
October 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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mrjoncryer.bsky.social
When this ruling came down it was clear, if Trump won, they were handing a deeply vindictive, corrupt criminal the most powerful prosecutorial weapon in the world.
lawrencehurley.bsky.social Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · Sep 22
Reminder that in the Trump immunity ruling, the Supreme Court ruled specifically that the president has total immunity when it comes to his communications with Justice Department officials:
September 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
midwesthedgie.bsky.social
Missouri redistricting at this time would be pure Calvinball
September 22, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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charliesavage.bsky.social
I experienced this last week & refused, saying I had never before been asked to provide the names of any analysts I was planning to quote to get a comment. Spox replied that maybe they were D donors. (In that case, it was 3 retired top military JAG officers.) I guess that was not a weird oneoff.
shannonbond.bsky.social Shannon Bond @shannonbond.bsky.social · Sep 18
we wrote about this WH tactic recently. they’re asking journalists for expert source names and then using them to look up political donations in FEC records to try to discredit those sources as biased.

www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...
amykristinsanders.bsky.social Amy Kristin Sanders @amykristinsanders.bsky.social · Sep 18
I had this exact same experience this morning. Same reporter as Heidi.

This is *not* normal.

I have spoken to the press on these issues for two decades. No government official has ever demanded to know my identity in order to give a comment on a story.
September 19, 2025 at 1:56 PM
midwesthedgie.bsky.social
is it any bit less depressing here?
September 19, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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kenklippenstein.bsky.social
July 9, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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junlper.beer
this is how anti-trans and TERFs act when you are a trans person simply exist. this is how the average conservative wants everyone to treat trans people
June 12, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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faineg.bsky.social
i also assumed the pharmaceutical industry would push back hard against RFK to protect their own naked self-interest, and it is utterly bizarre that they don't seem to be
aliveagain.bsky.social R James Harvey @aliveagain.bsky.social · Jun 11
That's something I got wrong about this moment: I really thought the enormous money of the medical/pharma industries would push back hard against picking RFKJ and Oz, and against the budget cuts to care and insurance. Where are these guys?
June 11, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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keubiko.bsky.social
Malone is a full-bore lunatic. They are burning HHS to the ground.
June 11, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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junlper.beer
if you bravely come out in favor of trans peoples humanity you will be target number 1 and harassed until you give into the virtue signalling cancel culture on the right
June 11, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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acatwithnews.bsky.social
BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.
June 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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bradfordpearson.bsky.social
this truly couldn't have happened to a funnier person
May 28, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
CARNEY: “Seventy-five cents of every (Canadian) dollar of capital spending for defence goes to the United States. That's not smart.” 🇨🇦

www.bbc.com/news/article...
May 28, 2025 at 10:47 PM
midwesthedgie.bsky.social
Sebastiao Salgado was fucking awesome. What a man. What a life. What an inspiration. If you haven't seen it, you gotta see the Wenders documentary of him, Salt of the Earth.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/a...
Sebastião Salgado, Acclaimed Brazilian Photographer, Is Dead at 81
www.nytimes.com
May 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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faineg.bsky.social
The United States travel advisory for South Sudan is a Level 4, and says "Do not travel to South Sudan due to crime, kidnapping, and armed conflict."

travel.state.gov/content/trav...
May 21, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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jamellebouie.net
i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet
May 22, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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drjennings.bsky.social
The US is a deeply sick country. www.news.com.au/travel/trave...
www.news.com.au
May 24, 2025 at 12:43 AM