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kevinmurphylaw.bsky.social
@kevinmurphylaw.bsky.social
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Board Certified in Construction Law #constructionlaw #Constructiondefect #contracts #transactions #texaslaw #governance #corporate #foodie Mom still thinks I'm a banjo teacher.
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andrewhickey.500songs.com
The latest 500 Songs bonus is now up for paid backers! Terry Gilliam! Vampirism! Brian Eno! Emperor Haile Selassie! Pete Waterman! Linda McCartney! It's the story of Lee "Scratch" Perry "Return of Django" (and not "The Return" as I typoed in the post and so the preview says, even after fixing)
500 Songs Bonus: "The Return of Django" by The Upsetters | Andrew Hickey
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November 29, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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kyledcheney.bsky.social
BREAKING: Magistrate orders DOJ to turn over grand jury materials to Comey, finding real prospect that "government misconduct" may have tainted the case.
November 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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idiotwitchamelia.bsky.social
Megyn Kelly should be fed to a woodchipper for justifying the sexual abuse of minors, we all believe this. Suspend everybody.
self.agency daniel s. @self.agency · 17d
patton oswalt has been suspended from bluesky for saying that megyn kelly should be fed to a woodchipper for justifying the sexual abuse of minors
not found, account has been suspended
November 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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rayosunlong.bsky.social
4 1/2 hours later…
November 13, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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scalzi.com
I mean, who wants to stay in a country actively stripping away your rights and personhood?
melissagiragrant.com Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 18d
"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."
Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.
The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.
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November 13, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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schooley.bsky.social
Writing about Elon Musk’s pay package without leading with this is like profiling John Wayne Gacy’s booming party clown career.
newyorker.com The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 24d
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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unraveledpress.com
Reverend David Black has a Bible open and is preaching to the police now, inviting them to join him in standing with the persecuted inside the detention center.

"Which side do you think Jesus wanted his followers to be on?"
November 1, 2025 at 8:06 PM
kevinmurphylaw.bsky.social
Remembering friends and family and telling their stories today
Remembering friends and family and telling their stories. Collection of photos in an ofrende
November 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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thefarce.org
I've given my new Senator a lot of shit on here. But I don't think anyone with power has laid out the stakes of what we're facing as clearly as she does right here.

And if she's saying this, it's because she feels she must.
November 1, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com
shouldnt be surprised really but still funny to see the East Wing of the White House, built 1941 is actually a reinforced concrete frame? When I first saw it last night I thought it was just the 1970s porte cochère but it seems the whole thing is concrete and rebar
View from behind trees from the adjacent Treasury building of a pair of excavators working on the demolition of the East Wing of the White House. A large amount of the roof has been removed as well as the supporting frame under it, with a mass of rebar revealed as the main frame is demolished. View of the upper part of the structure with the thin white render removed revealing the concrete frame
October 21, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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katmabu.bsky.social
This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton.

I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.
October 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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mmmtexas.bsky.social
Texas Voters starting Monday 10/20 there are 17 Constitutional Amendments on everyone’s ballot! Get out and vote 10/20 to 10/31, Election Day 11/4.
October 17, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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rhashanna.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
We got $20 billion for Argentina though.
October 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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richraho.bsky.social
Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
October 11, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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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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A reminder that A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs is brought to you by the generosity of Patreon backers. If it weren’t for those, no new episodes would exist. Which would be sad.

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October 8, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
Trump’s #MassDeportation agenda just killed good-paying jobs for Tennessee. This is a company Gov. Bill Lee recruited! Are we great now, GUV?

tennesseelookout.com/2025/10/02/e...
October 3, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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katmabu.bsky.social
I said what I said.
briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · Oct 4
IL Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh: "I think Kristi Noem should have consequences. I think she should be tried at The Hague."
October 4, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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New bench slap just dropped. They are coming at a truly astonishing rate.

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October 1, 2025 at 3:00 AM
kevinmurphylaw.bsky.social
www.facebook.com/share/v/1DpL... Pirate Fest with The Traveling Murphys and Blaggards at HSF Biergarten. October 4th.
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September 29, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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howdoyou.guide
Hi @npr.org! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide!

It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers.

It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!
"How Do You Avoid Hitting People With Your Car" pocket guide. Instructs readers to Watch the Road and Slow Down. Further text humorously insists that watching the road and slowing down are indeed important.
September 26, 2025 at 5:21 AM
kevinmurphylaw.bsky.social
This is a wonderful discussion of this film. Great to hear @andrewhickey.500songs.com riffing without a net. Remarkable.
goonpod.bsky.social Goon Pod @goonpod.bsky.social · Sep 24
IT’S TRAD DAD (1962)
With Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com

pod.link/1569929507

Richard Lester was an early collaborator of Sellers & Milligan and this comedy teensploitation musical was a kind of dry run for A Hard Day's Night - innovative & influential!
September 25, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social
It's worth your time to read this short opinion, including the handwritten letters Judge Bibas appends.

The scheme the lawyers came up with is clever in the dumbest possible way.
matthewstiegler.bsky.social Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · Sep 24
"Courts depend on lawyers’ honesty. Lies, misrepresentations, even half-truths corrode the rule of law. So courts may
sanction lawyers who violate their duty of candor."

So begins a new CA3 opinion upholding attorney sanctions for an odd debt-dispute stunt.

www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/242...
www2.ca3.uscourts.gov
September 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
CARTOON OF THE DAY

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September 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM