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Mark Hall
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Husband, father, retired soldier, former USPS carrier, liberal heading towards leftist in a deep red part of Georgia. SF fan (esp. Star Trek), 3D printing, Halloween, and sleep.
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Mark Hall @bobapril.bsky.social · Nov 16
Name your favorites from Star Trek:

Uniform: Strange New Worlds
Spock: Leonard Nimoy
Couple: Winn and Dukat. (Kidding! Rom and Leeta!)
Character: Michael Burnham
Ship: 1960's NCC-1701, my first love
Villain: Dukat
Series: DS9
Captain: Burnham
Movie: Wrath of Khan
Theme: DS9
Guest: Dr. Mae Jemison
drerinmac.bsky.social Erin Macdonald is on a social media break @drerinmac.bsky.social · Nov 15
Name your favorites from Star Trek:

Uniform: Prodigy
Spock: Nimoy
Couple: Garak and Bashir
Character: Elim Garak
Ship: USS Voyager
Villain: Weyoun
Series: DS9
Captain: Janeway
Movie: The One With The Whales
Theme: VOY
Guest: Iggy Pop
bobapril.bsky.social
Living by their oath.
wreg.com
October 15, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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syfysistas.bsky.social
"I have been... and always shall be... your friend."
October 14, 2025 at 3:19 AM
bobapril.bsky.social
Two of the incumbents who approved the last several utility rate hikes are on the ballot. Vote them OUT!
October 14, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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noturtlesoup17.bsky.social
You can just share my video from me instead of sharing a screen recording of my video from a content farm account that isn’t on the scene btw.
noturtlesoup17.bsky.social amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · Oct 12
The inflatables have made it to Broadview.
October 13, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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josie.zone
“Oh and, ah, one more thing: Y’see, I don’t know much when it comes to India. But my wife? She loves the place. Has all the books. And she’s always telling me it’s a good hike east of here…

So — and forgive me, Señor Colón — I have to ask: Where were you on the night of October 12th, 1492?”
October 14, 2024 at 2:05 PM
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skepchick.org
doing my part to help
Texts: Gavin Newsom here, asking if you can reply to a simple question: Can we count on you to vote YES on Prop 50? Just reply Yes, No, or that you're unsure. There will be a volunteer - a real person - waiting for your reply when it comes in. Donald Trump asked Texas to redraw their Congressional maps to find him five seats. It's a deeply unfair attempt to rig the 2026 House election in his favor. California will respond by redrawing our maps, but only if voters like you approve the measure in an election coming up in a few weeks. So, can I count on you to vote YES? Just reply to let me know. - Gavin Paid for by www.stopelectionrigging.com. Top Funder: HMP. Stop to stop. Yesterday 11:37 AM I'm a volunteer with the Yes on 50 campaign. We reached out last month and may have caught you at a busy moment. Can we count on you to vote YES on Prop 50? Just reply Yes, No, or that you're unsure. I'll be here waiting for your reply. Paid for by www.stopelectionrigging.com. Top Funder: HMP for Prop 50. Stop to Stop.
October 12, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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dr-kary.bsky.social
Things have really “blown up” in Portland 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I crack myself up🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 like these protesters.
October 12, 2025 at 7:24 AM
bobapril.bsky.social
Look for the helpers.
unraveledpress.com unraveled @unraveledpress.com · Oct 12
People are spontaneously posting up near any laborers or street vendors they spot. Just saw a rapid responder guarding a man working on a building exterior. Many things are terrible today but lord, this stuff matters.
unraveledpress.com unraveled @unraveledpress.com · Oct 12
There are a tremendous number of ICE watchers out in Rogers Park this afternoon after some early morning abductions.

People are guarding churches and patrolling alleyways. Ran into Alderperson Hadden. First timers tell us they're primed and ready to use their whistles.
October 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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glgehman.bsky.social
All you peacenik liberals wringing hands over what to do: Yes, of course, vote. It's your primary responsibility as a citizen.

But now more than ever, fulfill your second civic responsibility: Serve on juries. Never has it been more imperative to thwart rogue injustice.
October 11, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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majatek.bsky.social
The online about section of the Salvation Army states "The Salvation Army is a Christian movement dedicated to sharing the love of Jesus". It's all you need to know.

My friends were shocked when I told them about this.

Always be wary of organisations and their motives - ESPECIALLY the "kind" ones.
sethanikeem.bsky.social M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · Oct 12
Because it needs to be said:

The Salvation Army does not exist to save you

The Salvation Army exists to convert you

And if they cannot convert you, they will not lift a finger to save you

Do not support those whose “charity“ comes with conditions
unraveledpress.com unraveled @unraveledpress.com · Oct 11
It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.
October 12, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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sunkissedpeaks.bsky.social
It’s me!
October 12, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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stevenbeschloss.bsky.social
Let’s not forget that every single Republican who stands by and enables Donald Trump could stop this recklessness today, tomorrow or any damn day of the week. Their failure—their refusal—to do so makes them complicit in his crimes and the crimes of his corrupt, lawless regime.
October 11, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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tcrg2012.bsky.social
#ONEV1
#Pinks 🌸
#Voices4Victory

HE'S RE-RIGGING IT FOR HIMSELF!
October 11, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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altacadia.bsky.social
We 💯 support Amphifa! Give me ribbety, or give me death. 🐸
A poster for "Amphifa: amphibians against fascism" showing a black and green flag with a green frog Three protestors dressed in inflatable frog costumes holding a sign that says "Portland frog brigade"
October 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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spirk-trek.bsky.social
"For all the words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'It might have been.'"

Nurse Chapel seeing her reflection as "Number One," the role Majel Barrett was initially cast for in the first #StarTrek pilot.

M. Streeter, Phaser #fanzine, 1975 #ZineAppreciation
Vintage fan art done in half tones of Nurse Chapel seeing her reflection as "Number One," the role Majel Barrett was initially cast for in the original Star Trek pilot.
October 11, 2025 at 3:29 PM
bobapril.bsky.social
"Figured it out" meme from The Good Place, with Trump's face pasted over Michael and Stephen Miller's face pasted over Janet. Full caption - "Marjorie Taylor Greene figured it out? Marjorie? This is a real low point. Yeah, this one hurts."
October 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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jbshakerman.bsky.social
As I understand it law is now made when Trump issues a diktat (executive order) that the Roberts Six affirm in a judicial diktat (emergency docket).

This frees up Congress for more important things, like fundraising and making constipated faces in front of TV news cameras.
October 10, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social
sherman, for the love of god!
October 10, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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woodmally1979.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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ryanmarino.bsky.social
ER doc here! There is no such thing as “an ER model” hospital. An ER w/o a hospital is like a bandaid on a bullet hole. What if you need surgery? Cardiac cath? Specialist care? Increased distance means delays, which mean real harms & even deaths. But, also, when hospitals close their ERs close, too…
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Oct 9
SCARBOROUGH: The Nebraska Rural Health Association says at least 6 rural hospitals would have to close bc of the big beautiful bill

FLOOD: Here's the deal: Some hospitals that are rural hospitals are going to eventually have to transition from being acute bed hospitals into being an ER model
October 10, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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heathercherone.bsky.social
Perry: DOJ's definition of rebellion would mean that
"literally all nonviolent protest” could be considered evidence of rebellion. Is that your argument?
Hamilton: The president has determined there is a danger of a rebellion, and you must defer to that finding
October 9, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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lawfaremedia.org
In The Situation, @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org offers three thoughts on former FBI Director James Comey's arraignment—the likes of which he has never seen before.
October 10, 2025 at 12:46 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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sifill.bsky.social
Love this. “NATO for nonprofits.”

www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
'NATO for nonprofits': Groups organize to band together if targeted by Trump
Nonprofit organizations took lessons away from law firms and universities that largely decided to act in isolation after finding themselves in the administration's crosshairs.
www.nbcnews.com
October 9, 2025 at 2:35 AM