Kelly Kinkade (rome of oxtrot)

Somebody wants more attention

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

United States attorneys offices all have prosecutorial guidelines – amounts of financial loss or property damage, etc. below which they won’t bring a case. I’ve never heard of a financial fraud guideline loss threshold anywhere near as low as 18 K, which is the amount of loss in the James case.

so does Trump losing the Nobel Peace Prize to a Venezuelan make it more likely that we invade because he's mad about it or less likely because overthrowing Maduro would help the person who actually won it

The best part is when crime actually does go up as a result, American voters will be like “we need someone tough to handle this crime situation republicans created, let’s elect some more republicans”

the bank was in Indiana

the fact that the property is in Virginia while the borrower is in New York would have put the lender on notice that this might be an investment property

it's far more likely that the lender simply misdocumented the loan and nobody noticed. happens all the time, not a crime

the problem is that payouts on the bets will be only be made in cryptocurrency

Portland's anti-ICE protests have become a magnet for MAGA influencers Right-wing influencers and media figures have flocked to Portland, helping bring national and Trump administration attention to ICE protests in the city.

Portland’s anti-ICE protests have become a magnet for MAGA influencers

Even Portland police say the influencers are acting more like counterprotesters, initiating fights and scuffles.

Trump has praised them, bringing them to the White House and sending them notes.
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Toad nestled into sandy burrow

Unbothered. Moisturized. Burrowed. Unfunded. Still thriving.

No meetings. No C-SPAN. Just a toad being emotionally regulated in a dirt pit.

Nature always inspires.

#BlackHills #NationalGrasslands #ToadMood

Lot of people confidently missing the point in the replies to this: if every cent of Elon musks net wealth was liquid, which it isn’t, that’s not even enough money to run the govt for two weeks. The problem less that they have money, and more how they use that money in destabilizing ways.

I presented DOJ cases to grand juries for 25 years. Cases can be legally -but unethically- influenced by the prosecutor.

Exculpatory info like James telling her loan officer the property will NOT be her primary residence could be withheld. $18K being below pros guidelines would not be disclosed.

sorry, misstated there: once a week or once every other week. in some divisions, the grand jury might only meet once a month

Typically federal grand juries serve for eighteen months at a time, meeting typically once or twice a week.

Only about 15,000 people are selected to serve each year, though; your lifetime odds of being summoned to serve, even once, are about 1 in 400.

The property in question is, apparently, in Virginia.

Prosecutors don't have to give the grand jury a complete picture. It's very easy to, with a sufficiently selective filter, make almost anyone look guilty.

In other news, lying liars that lie continue to lie

The Reichenbach Falls as viewed (zoomed in-camera) from the Hotel Sherlock Holmes, Meiringen, Switzerland

In today’s bizarre software-platform questions: “Correct sky color?” …FFS, Google Photos, *why (on this fabulous [if I do say it myself] shot of the Reichenbach Falls) would I do that?!*” (EYEROLL)

Worth noting that trough demand at night is roughly 70% of peak demand during daylight hours:

It's also about equivalent to the three nuclear power plants that power Chicago (Braidwood, Byron, and LaSalle County, each roughly 2.4 GWe), put together.

PORTLAND: “The frogs are multiplying”

(#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)

And who is the author of this op-ed? The billionaire CEO of an asset management firm who helped author the compact.

Graph from NetBlocks showing network connectivity by region in Ukraine from October 2, 2025, to October 10, 2025. The y-axis represents normalized connectivity, ranging from 0% to 100%, and the x-axis represents the dates. The graph indicates connectivity disruptions in the Ukraine starting on the early morning of October 10. The drop in connectivity aligns with a drone attack from Russia. The minimum and current connectivity levels are indicated as 84% and 86%, respectively.The chart has a dark background and connectivity lines for each region are color-coded. Sumy (67% / 78%), Kirovohrad Oblast (69% / 79%), Poltava Oblast (64% / 82%), Kharkiv (72% / 86%), Kyiv City (84% / 91%), Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (87% / 91%)

⚠️ Update: Metrics show a decline in internet connectivity in multiple regions of #Ukraine, as authorities impose emergency power shutdowns amid Russian shelling targeting energy infrastructure overnight 🔌📉

It's kind of hard to live your dream of being John Wick when the opposition is an inflatable frog.

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

this really is all just about resentment over obama being given the prize

It's unlikely you could actually produce $1T out of liquidating their holdings, as a significant fraction of their claimed wealth is effectively illiquid. Certainly a large portion of Musk's claimed net worth would evaporate if he tried to reduce it to cash or cash-equivalents.

Greenwood has about 25 million unit sales over a career of more than six decades. Bad Bunny has 116 million unit equivalents (four and a half times Greenwood) in just twelve years.

For the people who have guessed that I and @chucktingle.bsky.social are the same person, here are the two of us in the same place at the same time. Two buckaroos proving love is real!